Misc #12474
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) almost 8 years ago
## fork(2) Windows already has related features like `CreateProcess`, CreateProcess, but for servers and workers fork is required for source code compatibility of existing scripts, which are written for Unix. ## nonblocking IO * To check socket's availability by `IO#read_nonblock` IO#read_nonblock https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1089 * `O_NONBLOCK` O_NONBLOCK ## tz Get IANA timezone name of current timezone from OS. ## Remove a file which is opened by another process If the process opens the file with `CreateFile` CreateFile with `FILE_SHARE_DELETE` FILE_SHARE_DELETE flag, another process can remove the file. But in that case processes can't remove its parent folder. https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11218 ## symlink Windows has mklink and SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege, but it has some limitations. http://k-takata.o.oo7.jp/diary/2013-04.html#03 https://twitter.com/n0kada/status/570232516545638400 ## fd ### Generic handling of file, pipe, socket by fd ### fd passing to child process other than 0,1,2 ### Get access mode from fd/HANDLE ### System side append mode ## socket `CloseHandle` CloseHandle should work with socket. ## writev(2) https://twitter.com/okuoku/status/670212493134852097 https://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/windows/desktop/aa365749%28v=vs.85%29.aspx ## ANSI color code http://srad.jp/story/16/02/09/0639223/ ## UNIXSocket We can emuate UNIXSocket with named pipe?