----- Original Message -----
From: "Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz / ruby-lang.org>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 1:43 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:18617] Re: IO.popen


> Hi,
>
> In message "[ruby-talk:18616] IO.popen"
>     on 01/07/27, "Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov" <xm / w3d.ru> writes:
>
> |        Recently when working with Apache (1.3.20), mod_ruby (0.9.0) and
> |ruby (1.7.1) on Linux (2.2.19 kernel, Slackware 8.0), I discovered the
> |following nasty bug (feature? ;).
>
> <snip>
>
> Should I replace "vfork" by "fork"?  I don't have enough knowledge to
> decide.   Any OS guru?

I'm just not sure why this happens ... thish seemed to help but I changed a
lot of other things (including IO.popen usage), so meybe the vfork is not a
problem.

Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov, Lead Programmer, W3D Group
http://www.w3d.ru /// xm / w3d.ru /// ICQ UIN 36987938