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Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?


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 :)


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