RE: [FR-devel] freeride and the thread fix

[Rich Kilmer]

We could do such a thing.  I couple of months ago a fella in Japan wrote
a comprehensive patch that would use CreateProcess to simulate fork.
The patch was never accepted...

We should be able to call CreateProcess though.

Trying to fix the databus inspector now...

-rich

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rich Kilmer" <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 11:47 PM
> Subject: [FR-devel] freeride and the thread fix
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> > Now...if I try and open the debugger I get an exception 
> that fork() is 
> > not supported on Win32.  We will need an alternate method 
> of starting 
> > a process.  On win32 although you cannot do popen3 you can 
> do IO.popen 
> > (but can then only capture stdout :-(.
> 
> Hmm... I'm pretty ignorant of the Windows
> stuff, but I've been wondering how hard it
> would be to make a "fake" fork() using 
> CreateProcess or something. We have WIN32OLE
> (not to mention WIN32API) at our disposal.
> And Ruby/DL I guess.
> 
> Hal
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