Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:59:38 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Shaun Jackman <sjackman AT home DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Multitasking in BASH
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On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Shaun Jackman wrote:

> Are there any plans to implement the multitasking functions of BASH?

There's no shortage of plans; what we need are volunteers who could
carry those plans out. ;-)

Implementing multi-processing under DPMI is a notoriously difficult
task, since DPMI spec doesn't allow you to task-switch from within a
hardware interrupt handler (such as a timer tick).  Several ideas were
discussed over the years to work around this limitation, but no ready
solutions are available yet (AFAIK).