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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: GNU C and ixemul.library
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- References: <mbs.0xqj@adastra.cvl.va.us> <1992Sep5.025457.19504@bernina.ethz.ch>
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (beta) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
- Date: 5 Sep 92 09:23:20 EDT
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- In article <1992Sep5.025457.19504@bernina.ethz.ch> wild@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Markus Wild) writes:
- > Wrong, sorry Mike;-) I wouldn't have dared to do this, vfork() is *not*
- > fork(), so I have fork fail, and the programmer has to invent his own fork,
- > if he wants the program to work. Pdksh is indeed a nice example of the problems
- > you're faced with if you want to do fork-like stuff with AmigaDOS...
-
- I knew this used to be the case, but so many people were saying they were
- using fork(), and it has been so long since you gave us a source release of
- IxEmul.library that I figured you must have changed it (as I asked in email).
-
- I'm happy to hear it hasn't changed.
-
- But how about that source release? :)
-
- > -Markus
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- // Michael B. Smith
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