fork not available?

W

walter

I am running windows 2000 using the PragProgs install.

I have tried fork but get an unimplemented on this machine error. I
have tried this on multiple windows 2000 machines and get the same
error.

I have tried IO.popen("-") but just get an error stating that "-" is
not recognized.

I am trying to get a long running program to use 2 separate
processors. I have tried using Ruby's threads but the code is very
database intensive and appears to block a lot so I do not see a speed
improvement. The code is separated enough that I should be able to
cut the overall time significantly if I can get the 2 parts to run on
separate processors.

I am missing something stupid? Any thoughts?


Thanks,

Walt
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