From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-09-20T03:22:57+09:00
Subject: Re: fork not available?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austin Ziegler [mailto:austin@halostatue.ca] 
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:10 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: fork not available?
> 
> 
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:26:15 +0900, walter@mwsewall.com wrote:
> > Ok so I sent this out a bit too early.
> > 
> > 
> > after looking in the archives some more I see that fork and 
> popen("- 
> > ") do not work with Windows.  I see ri does mention that 
> IO.popen is 
> > Not available on all platforms, but it does not mention this for 
> > Kernel.fork.

I'd like to see fork() emulated someday in Ruby on Win32.  Here's a link
from the ActiveState web site that explains how they emulated fork in their
Perl distro:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl/lib/Pod/perlfork.html

Here's a general porting guide from the MSDN web site that discusses (among
other things) how to port fork calls:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnucmg/html
/ucmgch08.asp

Regards,

Dan