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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:01:51 +0100
From: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
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Subject: Multitasking in DJGPP
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Is anyone working on Unix type multitasking in DJGPP?  Particularly
fork and pipes.  I've seen that it's one of the areas to be worked
on in the future, but if no-one else is doing it then I'll have a go
myself (if someone else is doing it then I'd be willing to help).

I ran into it when trying to port tcsh.  For that I'd be satisfied
with a task switcher (i.e. when fork is called it runs the 'child'
to completion and then continues with the 'parent).

As far as I can see it needs replacements for (at least) the startup
code and exit(), and probably for exec* and spawn* as well.  And
the memory handling.  I'd think of doing it a a special library,
something like libcmt.a, with the repl;acement functions in there.

Is there a list of who's working on which bits of DJGPP?

Chris