>   "how important is the lack of a True Fork"
> 
> Chris
>
It depends on what the "false" fork is supposed to do.
Don't you think that this issue could be solved if Ruby's fork was implemented with a user level thread library, so that , as long as this library is multi-platform, the fork implementation also will be ?

Regards, 
F.Deweerdt

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