After a bit of searching you will find that windows does not have fork and this is impossible ... after lots messing about I can honestly say the best solution is cygwin. No, I lie, the best solution is to get Linux or a Mac. Justin
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Gerrit Hendrikus van Doorn < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to run BackgroundRB 1.0.4 on windows. I installed win32-process > and windows-pr and it seems to start. However, after about 10 seconds I > notice that the ruby processes exit and leave me with the following error: > > process.rb:302:in `kill': The parameter is incorrect. (Process::Error) > from > C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-process-0.6.1/lib/win32/process.rb:278:in > `each' > from > C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-process-0.6.1/lib/win32/process.rb:278:in > `kill' > from C:/Documents and Settings/me/My Documents/Aptana Studio > Workspace/project/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/lib/backgroundrb/bdr > b_start_stop.rb:20:in `really_running?' > from C:/Documents and Settings/me/My Documents/Aptana Studio > Workspace/project/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/lib/backgroundrb/bdr > b_start_stop.rb:31:in `try_restart' > from C:/Documents and Settings/me/My Documents/Aptana Studio > Workspace/project/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/lib/backgroundrb/bdr > b_start_stop.rb:42:in `start' > from C:/Documents and Settings/me/My Documents/Aptana Studio > Workspace/project/script/backgroundrb:35 > > Is it possible to run Backgroundrb on windows? If so, what am I doing > wrong? > > Thanks, > Gerwin > > -- > [email protected] > +1.510.859.4618 > > _______________________________________________ > Backgroundrb-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/backgroundrb-devel > -- Justin Wood Senior Software Architect New Zealand Office, 57 Wellington Street, Freemans Bay, Auckland, New Zealand M +64 27 225 0749 | P +64 9 370 0168 | F +64 9 361 6504 E [email protected] | Free: 0800 trifecta Skype: nztrifecta www.trifectagis.com
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