Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?

[Linda Walsh <cygwin at tlinx dot org>]

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? 
=====
   They don't have a windows machine to test with, but they
are trying to help pinpoint a problem that works under linux
and ActiveState, which seems like the most useful response
to date.  I can't give them a Windows machine or a cygwin
install to test with.  I can run the programs and report on
the results, and I can get a copy of the source to you that
fails.  Is there anything else I could do to be helpful?

:-)
Linda


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