From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T23:49:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading on Win32 - at an impasse

Ara.T.Howard wrote:

> it does - there is a win32-fork - guess you can't exec then?  i don't 
> really
> know the semantic difference between win fork and nix fork.
> 
> thanks alot for the example - i've faced this same issue before and gave 
> up.
> ;-)
> 
> -a

There is no win32-fork.  There's an implementation of fork in 
win32-process that creatively wraps CreateProcess().  Windows has no 
fork/exec, though it has CreateProcess() and 16 different flavors of 
spawn().

Regards,

Dan