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Re: First version of MinGW octave


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Re: First version of MinGW octave
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:03:22 -0500

On 15-Feb-2006, David Bateman wrote:

| However, fork is but it can be approximated with CreateProcess, though 
| the cost will be higher as I think more of the process table is copied...

I don't think the Cygwin fork does any better.  As far as I know, it
copies the complete parent process when creating the child.

Yes, you could probably implement fork for mingw, but then I think you
would be starting down the path of reinventing Cygwin for mingw.

jwe



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