From: fox@cat.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: Re: fork2 16 Nov 1997 05:04:48 -0800 Message-ID: References: To: Jason Zions Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Jason Zions writes: > > There is no free lunch. If you want only NT, you will have to accept that > > fork() is NOT there. > > Or you could use OpenNT from Softway Systems which gives you a real, > honest, fully-conforming, fork(). Not to mention the rest of POSIX.1, > POSIX.2, sockets, shared memory, semaphores, ttys and ptys, X11, etc. > that Unix programs and programmers expect. It appears to me that using OpenNT will add upwards of $1000 to the price of each copy of the resulting shrink-wrapped application. This doesn't seem like a viable option for the typical Windows application. -- David Fox http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD NYU Media Research Lab fox@cat.nyu.edu baL hcraeseR aideM UYN - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".