From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-09-20T07:00:29+09:00
Subject: Re: fork not available?

Hi,

<walter@mwsewall.com> wrote in message
> 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 basically have some setup code,  then would like two separate
> threads (real threads or processes, unless someone can point me in a
> way to get around the blocking issues), and then join and perform
> some finishing code.

You may want to take a look at the Windows version of popen3 on RAA:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=win32_popen

It is still in its beta version, but I can tell you from my personal
experience
that the author of this package (Park Heesob) is very responsive and
will be willing to work with you through bugs and all.

 (Park, I know I have spoken on your behalf ...please excuse me if  I have
overstated and encroached on your busy schedule)

-- shanko