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Re: request for new feature


Christopher Faylor wrote:

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.

We have discussed this before. I want to minimize the dependencies on Cygwin because I intend to eventually introduce a version that compiles without it, based on the work that Suhaib started. It is in my best interests to try to do things with the Win32 API so that I have to change a minimum number of things.


We have already discussed the merits of doing this and I think everyone already knows how everyone else feels on the subject, so I think we can leave it at that.

Harold


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