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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 18:18:34 EDT
From: dave AT babel DOT ho DOT att DOT com (Dave Hayden)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: fork()
Cc: walizer AT zansiii DOT millersv DOT edu

S. Walizer writes:

		Just a curiosity question: are there any future plans to
	incorporate a functional fork() into djgpp? Maybe in 2.0? It seems to
	me the necessary features could be incorporated into go32. I would
	attempt it myself, but I know my skills and time are not up to the
	task.

Perhaps we have different ideas of what a "functional fork()" is.  On
UNIX, fork() creates a copy of the running process.  Since DOS is not
a multitasking OS, I don't see how this could be done for DJGPP.

Dave

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