From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-11-06T06:43:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32 support issues

Rich Kilmer wrote:

> I don't think its 'fork' the command, but fork-like behavior.  Its weird
> that on win32 you can use win32ole to start and drive any COM/OLE
> component (word, IE, excel) but you cannot start another command-line
> executable and drive its behavior (through stdin/out/err).  This would
> be enabled by open3/popen3 (which under unix is implemented via fork).

My understanding was that the main difference between fork() and the 
Win32 function CreateProcess() is that fork() makes a copy of the entire 
process image, whereas CreateProcess() does not. Are there some other 
significant differences that you're seeing?