----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tammo Freese <tammo.freese / offis.de>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:54 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:12928] Re: fork problem???


> 
> It is not a bug.
> 
> According to the pickaxe book, the non-block form
> of fork returns twice, once in the parent, and once in
> the child. So Process.wait in your original code
> is also called in the child, there the error is raised.
> And after this the parent finishes its Process.wait.
> 

Of course!

My stupidity again... thanks very much.

Hal