Forum: IronRuby Plans for Kernel.fork (even a stub) ?

Hi,

just curious as I'm going to patch an existing MRI lib around that and
willing to ensure IronRuby support is baked in.

What are the plans around Kernel.fork ?

It looks like the method is not currently available (I'm going to check 
for
this method existence in my case)

Based on some code I read, I think Kernel.fork could just raise a
NonImplementedError.

what do you think ?

-- Thibaut

I think we should match MRI's error.

JD

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Subject: [Ironruby-core] Plans for Kernel.fork (even a stub) ?

Hi,

just curious as I'm going to patch an existing MRI lib around that and 
willing to ensure IronRuby support is baked in.

What are the plans around Kernel.fork ?

It looks like the method is not currently available (I'm going to check 
for this method existence in my case)

Based on some code I read, I think Kernel.fork could just raise a 
NonImplementedError.

what do you think ?

-- Thibaut

>
> I think we should match MRI’s error.
>
Just tested - it looks like MRI raises NotImplementedError on Windows 
(just
like in the code I was reading expected it to).

Should I create an issue for this to get tracking ? (Nothing urgent in 
my
case, I'll patch the code to check Kernel.methods.include?('fork'))

-- Thibaut

>
> I think we should match MRI’s error.
>>
> Just tested - it looks like MRI raises NotImplementedError on Windows (just
> like in the code I was reading expected it to).
>

Meanwhile here is a patch that works in my situation:

http://gist.github.com/286052

I guess Mono would probably behave differently :)

-- Thibaut