Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:50:27 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Johan Venter <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject: Re: X and GNOME ports.
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Johan Venter wrote:

> 1. Does Cygwin not implement all the 'hard' parts of Unix (at least at a very basic
> level), such as fork()?

Cygwin does have a working fork.

> 4. I realise to port something like GNOME, we would need to port the GTK library. Can
> anyone estimate the amount of changes the source would need to be compiled with a
> Unix-layer-emulator like Cygwin?

You seem to assume that the main problem with porting X is the lack of 
true multi-processing (a-la fork/exec) support in DJGPP.  I don't think 
this is the case.  If I'm right, then the Unix compatibility in DJGPP is 
not significantly different from that of Cygwin.  In fact, in some areas 
DJGPP is much better.