From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-09-23T06:09:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Pty for Windows (win32utils?)

In article <200409220743.i8M7hbLh018282@sharui.nakada.niregi.kanuma.tochigi.jp>,
 <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>At Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:54:42 +0900,
>Phil Tomson wrote in [ruby-talk:113045]:
>> There doesn't seem to be a Pty package for Windows.
>
>Windows doesn't provide pty feature.

I suspected as much...

>
>> I suspect that 'fork' is needed to do Pty.  
>> 
>> Now that Win32Utils includes process (and as I recall, a 'fork' 
>> implementation), what would be involved in porting Pty to Windows?
>
>It's not the main problem.
>

What I'm wondering is if we can emulate it on Windows similar to how 
'fork' is emulated in Win32Utils?

Phil