That sounds good to me. Just let me/us know if you want that Kernel#system patch (it's ugly but it works) or if you have any questions about JRuby internals. It's still a bit of a maze, but it's improving rapidly.

On 3/23/06, Marc Hadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello again Marc! I assume you were finally able to get into
> SourceForge's
> flaky anon CVS server. Kudos!
>
Thanks, persistence paid off in the end !

> - Many ruby scripts launch other scripts using Kernel#system. For
> us, this
> is very bad since it tries to launch another JVM. I have previously
> hacked
> Kernel#system to check if the command being run was the ruby or jruby
> executable, so we could launch the script in-process with a new
> runtime.
> What I have works, but could be cleaner/more reliable. I can send
> the patch
> I made if you like.
> - Many Ruby IO operations would be vastly improved with a move to
> NIO. Some
> operations we don't yet support would also be possible. This is a bit
> deeper, but you might be able to do some analysis of what we have.
> - Well I thought about proposing 1121928 since it is working with
> fixing a method implementation.  It may be a little challenging
> though.
>
Thanks for the suggestions, the three above all look like nice self
contained pieces of work  so I'll look into those. I'll start with
1121928 since that will give me an opportunity to learn how Ruby
objects and blocks are managed in the code.

Marc.

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