On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:22:33PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess. We haven't made that decision yet.
Huh. Seems like a no-brainer to me. It's a cygwin program so why not use fork/exec? Then Xwin will be able to use 'wait()' to wait for processes. It will be able to set a process group and kill all programs in the process group, etc.
We have discussed this before. I want to minimize the dependencies on Cygwin because I intend to eventually introduce a version that compiles without it, based on the work that Suhaib started. It is in my best interests to try to do things with the Win32 API so that I have to change a minimum number of things.
We have already discussed the merits of doing this and I think everyone already knows how everyone else feels on the subject, so I think we can leave it at that.
Harold
