From: sos@buggy.prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: GNU RCS with MinGW32 or CygWin32 14 Feb 1998 02:08:58 -0800 Message-ID: <01BD393E.F641E0B0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> To: "'Earnie Boyd'" Cc: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" Earnie Boyd wrote: > I've attempted without success, so far, to port bash to Mingw32. I'm > real interested in getting this accomplished so maybe we can work > together. The main problems are the fork and wait functions. There are It's almost impossible to have bash working without fork() call - bash relies on this call and makes a lot of job in the forked process. Let me point you to (:-) ash - it's a light-weight bourne shell implementation (cygwin-compiled executable is only 55K in size) and seems to me a good candidate for mingw port - it does a little in a forked process and probably may be rewritten to use spawn() calls instead of fork/exec easy enough. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".