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
>
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