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Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?
- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 23:19:09 -0700
- Subject: Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?
- References: <4485E5F3.7010700@tlinx.org> <4485EB68.9F685880@dessent.net>
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:54:00PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Linda W wrote:
>
> > Windows just doesn't support forking at all, as far as I know.
> > activeperl emulates forking using win32 threads. I don'tknow how cygwin
> > handles it, but my guess is that it's not very well :-(
>
> This smells like total FUD. This person that admittedly does not use
> Cygwin nor obviously know anything about Cygwin says that it's a fork
> problem and that's that? Fork may be a problem for Activestate but
> Cygwin fully emulates fork just fine, as does Cygwin's perl. The Cygwin
> DLL goes to extreme lengths to make sure this work.
Debatably, not as extreme as the lengths AS Perl goes to :)