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From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Fork
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-: > 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.

For some applications, it may be sufficient to emulate the call to
fork/waitpid with a call to spawn, e.g., replace

foo(); fork(); waitpid(); bar();

with

foo(); spawn(); bar();

This suggestion is due to Alain Magloire; see the thread "`void main' in
Gnu packages---?!" (2000 Jan 13).

I don't know enough about this, but perhaps this simple idiom would be
better that just the nop for djgpp fork?