From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-10-20T09:55:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: rjava

> Hi Hans,
>
> Everything installed OK on my Windows 2000 box here at work, but when I
> run any of the samples, I get the following error:
>
> d:/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/java.rb:29:in `fork': The fork() function
> is unimp lemented on this machine (NotImplementedError)
>         from d:/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/java.rb:29:in `start_tcp'
> from hello.rb:5
>
> Have you tried rjava on Windows?  Ie, does it currently only work on
> Unix (in which case, I'll play with it at home), or should I persevere
> trying to work out why Ruby's fork() doesn't work on Windows (maybe it
> never has, and I've just never tried it before)?

Fork is a unix system call which is not implemented in Windows.  It is
implemented in Cygwin.  I doubt there's an easy workaround.

> Cheers,
>
> Harry O.

Gavin