At 10:39 AM 11/7/2003, Jeff Trawick wrote:
>William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
>
>>At 09:23 AM 11/7/2003, Jeff Trawick wrote:
>>
>>>see patch... seems simple enough, but perhaps somebody knows some
>>>showstoppers that would prevent this from being implemented on some platform?
>>
>>No, but the code's behavior is definitely not portable, and will make the
>>user's
>>code very buggy...
>
>well, this is what I was fishing for... what isn't portable? can a program
>not check to see if some unrelated process is still alive on
>{win32,netware,os/2,whatever}?
Yes, I like the idea :) Yes I'll implement Win32.
I'm only concerned that it blends harmlessly into otherchild and our existing
API - almost worth a writeup on portable processing using APR to check if
everyone is coming from the same place.
Bill
