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Re: fork2
Jason Zions <jazz@softway.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.
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David Fox http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD
NYU Media Research Lab fox@cat.nyu.edu baL hcraeseR aideM UYN
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