From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor) Subject: Re: On the subtleties of using _beginthread to implement fork 14 Nov 1997 20:19:29 -0800 Message-ID: References: <199711130033 DOT AAA13154 AT out1 DOT ibm DOT net> Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In article <346CD0DA DOT 3574 AT switch DOT rockwell DOT com>, Bartlee A. Anderson wrote: >As I'm a not quite yet a beginning programmer ;) >Could you esplain thum of those missing functions and exaxtly >what they would have to do, so that this may be implemented and tested. >Rather than left as a trivial exercise for the reader. Could I explain them? No. Sorry. Once I realized how brilliant my fork implementation was, I sent it off to the patent office. They immediately sent it to the FTC who forwarded it to the Defense Department. I'm afraid that my algorithm is now classified as "munitions" and as such must be considered highly explosive. For safety's sake you all should probably remove yourselves to approximately 300 meters from any computer which has received my previous email. The National Guard may be required to remove my fork implementation from your machine. Thank you for your understanding. >[remaining message snipped for the sake of national security] -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf AT bbc DOT com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be." - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".