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Re: Forking Win32 process?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:15:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: Forking Win32 process?
- References: <90823c940801270243j4c4f9c46i3f1645b97a224105@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:43:13PM +0300, Dmitry Bely wrote:
>Ah, is it up-to-date info and fork() really doesn't work with the
>current cygwin? If so, why this is not mentioned in the docs or
>somewhere?
Because of our motto: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM.
>Is it really impossible from the technical point of view?
Of course it is not impossible. I doubt that anyone would be interested
in implementing this however. The main focus of the project is to make
things work for the standard case of linking cygwin1.dll into a program
and creating a "cygwin program". Getting things like fork() working
with MSVC or MinGW programs is not something that anyone really wants to
do.
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