On Apr 23, 5:10 pm, Thomas Enebo <Thomas.En... / Sun.COM> wrote: > The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 0.9.9. <snip> > Please take JRuby 0.9.9 for a spin and help us root out the last issues > before our 1.0 release! Great work! That being said, you can't avoid JNI forever. In my humble opinion, a 1.0 release should support the POSIX functions you've been avoiding. Regards, Dan