From: Alan Davies <NOSPAMcs96and@...>
Date: 2003-09-24T00:14:00+09:00
Subject: Re: fork not available?

Austin Ziegler wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:49:44 +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
>>"Austin Ziegler" <austin@halostatue.ca> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>>
>>>I believe that Windows doesn't support fork().
>>
>>I know there's a problem with popen() but AFAIK fork() does work on
>>Windows.  The attached script produced expected output with ruby on
>>cygwin:
> 
> 
> Cygwin isn't standard Windows. fork() is not available unless you use 
> cygwin, which requires that your programs be GPL-compatible. I don't 
> consider cygwin an acceptable requirement.
> 
> -austin
> --
> austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
> software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.09.22
>                                          * 09.30.36
> 
> 
> 
If cygwin can emulate fork() under windows then why can't ruby?