comp.lang.ruby

John Stoffel

2/17/2009 4:30:00 PM

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> SYNOPSIS
>
> the Slave class forks a process and starts a drb server in the child
> using
> any object as the server. the process is detached so it is not
> required
> (nor possible) to wait on the child pid. a Heartbeat is set up
> between the
> parent and child processes so that the child will exit of the parent
> exits
> for any reason - preventing orphaned slaves from running
> indefinitely. the
> purpose of Slaves is to be able to easily set up a collection of
> objects
> communicating via drb protocols instead of having to use IPC.


Is this being maintained any more? Should I be using some other module
for the same functionality in the future? It's a nice tool to use, but
I'm going insane trying to debug issues and warnings with the code in my
Recursive Parallel directory descent tool.

Thanks,
John
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