From: Adam Lauper <adamlauper@gmail.com>
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Subject: ruby fork (thread like) on windows
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Hi All,

I'm trying to upload a number of large files to s3.  I want to do this
in parallel using threads, but it looks like the s3 gems for windows
aren't thread safe.

I then started looking into fork.  Memory/process creation time
aren't a limiting factor.

****
So the question is:  How can I create a thread like experience using
fork
(or something similar).  I want it to run only a subset of the entire
program (ideally what's in the block) and I want to wait for it to
finish.
****

I tried win32/process#fork, but it runs the entire program twice.  And
open("|-", "r") isn't supported on windows either.

Any ideas are appreciated...

Adam

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