Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 08:14:12 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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	Drees on Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:08:40 -0600)
Subject: Re: function fork()
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> From: Paul Alexander Drees <pad53945 AT sci DOT tamucc DOT edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:08:40 -0600
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > If someone writes support for fork()-ing on these systems, I'm sure the
> > patches to DJGPP library will be gratefully accepted.
> Why can't it be implemented with one of those preemptive multithreading
> libraries in the v2tk/ folder? 

Because `fork' is about starting another _program_, not another
_thread_ in the same program.