comp.lang.ruby

Alan Davies

9/23/2003 2:56:00 PM

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?