Jira (PUP-1230) Windows process helper that can be used instead of Ruby fork

[Glenn Pratt (JIRA)]

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Glenn Pratt commented on an issue   Re: Windows process helper that can be used instead of Ruby fork Checkout what rails does: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/isolation.rb Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1230 Windows process helper that can be used instead of Ruby fork There are a number of tests that fork to simulate contention behavior. On Windows however, we punt on these since Ruby's fork is unsupported on Windows. Ruby 1.9.3 added `spawn`, and while this is not the same thing as `fork`, in instances where we need to simulate file locking behavior for the sake of tests, this might be a reasonable substitute. ... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.