Yeah and what if I want to run it on M$ ?
I don't think a fork will do there - spoon would be beter :-)

B.


On 18.01.2001 08:55:00 AM xm wrote:

>Yeah ... learn UNIX. It's fork-exec stuff.
>First, you fork current process which makes a copy of your process in
>memory.
>Then, for one of you processes (for which fork() returned 0), you call exec.
>Also, when using ruby, threads are a more viable option sometimes. They are
>faster to start, and easier to interact and control.
>
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