On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 12:25:52AM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
> Wait a second, there are numerous packages on msys2/mingw64
> that uses fork and pty, how does that happen?
IIUC msys uses (or maybe re-implements) Cygwin emulation
of fork and pty. Fork is emulated in rather crude way
and tends to fail from time to time. I did not look
how pty emulation works.
My point was that we can with moderate effort avoid
use of fork. ATM avoidning pty would be much more tricky.
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