Re: [FR-devel] freeride and the thread fix

[Hal E. Fulton]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Kilmer" <address@hidden>
To: "FreeRIDE" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 11:47 PM
Subject: [FR-devel] freeride and the thread fix


> Now...if I try and open the debugger I get an exception that fork() is
> not supported on Win32.  We will need an alternate method of starting a
> process.  On win32 although you cannot do popen3 you can do IO.popen
> (but can then only capture stdout :-(.

Hmm... I'm pretty ignorant of the Windows
stuff, but I've been wondering how hard it
would be to make a "fake" fork() using 
CreateProcess or something. We have WIN32OLE
(not to mention WIN32API) at our disposal.
And Ruby/DL I guess.

Hal