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Re: request for new feature

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:22:33PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess.  We 
>haven't made that decision yet.

Huh.  Seems like a no-brainer to me.  It's a cygwin program so why not
use fork/exec?  Then Xwin will be able to use 'wait()' to wait for
processes.  It will be able to set a process group and kill all programs
in the process group, etc.

cgf
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