From: fox AT cat DOT nyu DOT edu (David Fox)
Subject: Re: fork2
16 Nov 1997 05:04:48 -0800
Message-ID: <y5a90upatto.fsf.cygnus.gnu-win32@graphics.cat.nyu.edu>
References: <m0xWe3j-000AL8C AT jacob DOT remcomp DOT fr>
To: Jason Zions <jazz AT softway DOT com>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Jason Zions <jazz AT softway DOT com> 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 AT cat DOT nyu DOT edu    baL hcraeseR aideM UYN
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