Hello Bastien,
> I do not know how to replace the fork() on windows.
It's replaced by doing a spawn to a separate program. Take for example the
files
modules/nonblocking-pipe-tests
tests/test-nonblocking-pipe.sh
tests/test-nonblocking-pipe-main.c
tests/test-nonblocking-pipe-child.c
that were committed in gnulib two days ago. The essential points are:
- Use a separate program for the child process(es).
- Use posix_spawnp on Unix, spawnvpe on native Windows to spawn the child
process. (Our posix_spawnp does not yet work on mingw.)
- You can pass command-line options and stdin, stdout to the child process;
file descriptors > 2 cannot be passed to child processes on Windows, I
think.
Bruno
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