From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2003-10-20T10:04:17+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: rjava

Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> Fork is a unix system call which is not implemented in Windows.

I knew that much :-).  I just didn't know whether Ruby "faked" it on Windows, as it does with its own threading.

> It is
> implemented in Cygwin.  I doubt there's an easy workaround.

The easiest workaround I could imagine would be to make the library a client for a separate server.  Not the neatest thing, but at least it would work.

That is probably do-able, since (if I read the doco for rjava correctly) it uses TCP/IP to talk to the JVM.

Anyway, I'm not overly fussed, since I'm more likely to use something like rjava on Linux or Solaris.  I just happen to sit in front of one of Bill's boxes here at work.

Harry O.