From: "Sean Eby" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Fork Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:43:36 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <3d15c022$0$26988$9b622d9e AT news DOT freenet DOT de> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.a5.77.39 X-Server-Date: 24 Jun 2002 01:43:33 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "deckerben" wrote in message news:3d15c022$0$26988$9b622d9e AT news DOT freenet DOT de... > Are there any fork() libraries for DJGPP that I could try? Every time I > build an app that calls for fork(), I run out of memory. I read a FAQ that > said that fork() is not implemented in DJGPP. So it could be that > .configure think that there is fork, but there really isn't. This could also > be the cause that Python is running out of memory when it is trying to start > GCC from inside a setup.py script. > > Just a hunch. > > Ben > > Haven't looked at it myself, but you could try Bob Stout's snippets collection. I recall seeing a fork()-like implementation provided in his collection. However, I have no idea what it is or is not capable of, whether it even works, or how portable it is. However, his collection appears to be geared primarily at x86 C programmers using most ANSI-compatible compilers. Give it a try here: http://www.snippets.org Sean Eby