On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimpase+...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>> I am afraid I did not explain myself very well in the last emails: ECL
>> does not fix fork() it simply avoids using it in cygwin. This means we have
>> to use system(), which is only useful in some contexts and may even cause
>> some problems with argument parsing.
>>
>
> yes, I understand this. That's exactly what seems to be needed to be done
> by Cython on Cygwin.
>

In ECL this involved no change in the C code. We simply moved from
EXT:RUN-PROGRAM back to EXT:SYSTEM in the compiler. At some point I
seriously considered using Windows's exec function, but there a problem
arises with the translation of paths, so I dropped it. I am afraid I cannot
help you beyond this.

Juanjo

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