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From: maurycy AT ifi DOT uio DOT no (Maurycy Szmurlo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: fork()/join()
Date: 2 Jun 1995 10:54:35 +0200
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
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In article <3qi56g$cg0 AT mark DOT ucdavis DOT edu>, slouken AT cs DOT ucdavis DOT edu (Sam Oscar Lantinga) writes:
> Joel Hunter (jhunter AT kendaco DOT telebyte DOT com) wrote:
> :   Will DJGPP EVER support these functions?  Does anyone care but me
> : whether it does or not?  We've got the hardware, so why not do it?
> 
> 	Well, in addition to hardware, the operating system also
> has to support these functions.
> 
> 	DOS just doesn't do it yet.
> 
> See ya,
> 
> 	-Sam
> 

I have been following your discussion about multi-processing with
fork() and the alike. True, dos is only a mono-process OS, and therefore
will not support calls to fork(), etc. If ever djgpp supports these
calls, it will be by some tricks in the extender, I suppose, but this
may be dangerous for, for ex, memory protection.

If you really nead multi-processing, what about os/2 with emx gcc, or 
even better, Linux with native gcc?

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