Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 12:31:59 +0900
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: juels AT kom DOT auc DOT dk
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: fork()/join()

juels AT kom DOT auc DOT dk (Soeren Juelsgaard) wrote, and I just *hadda* comment:

   In article <3qlh05$kcn AT odin DOT diku DOT dk> terra AT diku DOT dk (Morten
   Welinder) writes:

   >> Joel Hunter (jhunter AT kendaco DOT telebyte DOT com) wrote: : Will DJGPP EVER
   >> support these functions?  Does anyone care but me : whether it does
   >> or not?  We've got the hardware, so why not do it?

   Morten> Excuse me first for being a little direct: have you
   Morten> contributed to djgpp lately?  Why don't you grab the latest
   Morten> djgpp alpha test and add fork()?  [join???]  Next week is
   Morten> fine.

You're excused.  I see your fingerprints on all sorts of software. :)

   Morten> csaldanh AT mae DOT carleton DOT ca (Chris Saldanha) writes:
   >> fork() is not a function, but a system call from the OS.
   >> MSDOS does not support any advanced systems calls like fork(),
   >> because of its antiquated architecture. DJGPP is not an operating
   >> system, only a development environment... :(

   Morten> Hasn't stopped us before.

[finally, here's Soeren]

   Well Morten theres no idea of inventing the wheel again, and you can
   allready get OS's running GCC/G++ on Intel platforms, there will
   support system calls like exec and fork. Both OS/2 and Linux will do
   this and there's multithreaded librarys for them as well, giving you
   all the joy you can think of :-)

No.  It does not allow you to develop multi-threaded applications for
the DOS and Windowze environments.  Much as you (and I) may personally
dislike those environments, they aren't going to go away soon.  OS/2
may be a reasonable upgrade path, but Linux is not for many
non-programmer users.

Remember, the reason we're here is to provide support to the lowest
(reasonable, sorry, 80286 and 8088 programmers!) common denominator of
Intel box.  Do we now need to newgroup alt.djgpp.flame?

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