class Fibril::FFuture

Public Class Methods

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A Forked future. Fulfils the same future api as Fibril::Future but runs the block inside a new fork instead of a new thread..

# File lib/fibril/ffuture.rb, line 9
def initialize(&blk)
  read, write = IO.pipe
  pid = fork do
    result = blk[]
    read.close
    Marshal.dump(result, write)
  end
  write.close
  result = nil
  self.future_thread = Thread.new do
    result = read.read
    Process.wait(pid)
    Marshal.load(result)
  end
end