From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-09-22T22:31:42+09:00
Subject: Re: fork not available?

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:49:44 +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> "Austin Ziegler" <austin@halostatue.ca> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>> I believe that Windows doesn't support fork().
> I know there's a problem with popen() but AFAIK fork() does work on
> Windows.  The attached script produced expected output with ruby on
> cygwin:

Cygwin isn't standard Windows. fork() is not available unless you use 
cygwin, which requires that your programs be GPL-compatible. I don't 
consider cygwin an acceptable requirement.

-austin
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