From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)
Date: 2004-02-20T20:22:46+09:00
Subject: [ANN] win32-process 0.1.0 (or, fork for Windows)

Hi all,

I am very pleased to announce the release of win32-process 0.1.0. 
Many thanks go to Park Heesob for his work on this one.

What is it?
===========
This package provides fork, wait, wait2, waitpid and waitpid2 for
Win32 systems.  It also provides an alternative kill method.

How was this accomplished?
==========================
See the docs and code for more details.  Short answer:
CreateProcess("ruby $0")

Where can I get it?
===================
It's on the RAA.  You can also find it on the project page at
http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils.

Quick Example:
==============
require 'win32/process'
include Win32

# In the child, using block form
Win32::Process.fork do
   7.times { |i|
      puts "Child: #{i}"
      sleep 1
   }
end

# Back in the parent
4.times{ |i|
   puts "Parent: #{i}"
   sleep 1
}

Win32::Process.wait

puts "Continuing on..."

Feedback welcome.

Enjoy!

The Win32 Utils Team