Re: fork

On 2009-02-08, William Ahern <william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I haven't voluntarily used a Windows computer since 3.11. But Vista and
Windows 7 finally have fork(), and though I won't switch, whenever somebody
tells me they don't like Vista, I exclaim, "but it has fork!" Of course, I
get confused looks, but they're intrigued by my enthusiasm.

[off topic]

Does it?! I've been coerced in the past to write cross-platform programs
that'll work on windows, and something like that would really help!

Since I've read your post, I've been skimming through the MSDN process
section and can't find something relevant, can you elaborate? Is it a
new system call, something like _fork (tough chance) or is it a new
parameter for CreateProcess?

Now if only the win32 PE linker/loader/whatever supported leaving symbols
unresolved in DLLs to be resolved at load time using symbols in the
process that loads them (like -rdynamic), I'd be on easy street :)

[/off topic]


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