Nigel Sandever wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:57:30 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Wall) wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:04:30PM +0300, Gaal Yahas wrote:
: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:29:33PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: To take a notorious example, you mentioned fork() -- if this event manager
: becomes part of Perl6, does that mean we're required to emulate fork()
: on win32?
Perl 5 manages it, and Perl 6 is expected to emulate Perl 5 when fed
Perl 5 code. It's one of the reasons Parrot is aiming to support an
ithreads model in some fashion or other, I expect. But it's okay if
the Pugs interpreter punts on this for now.
If the only reason for using the ithreads model is to allow fork() to be
emulated using the same mechanism as is used in P5 -- please don't.
I'll second that. While each version of p5 makes progress towards fork()
on Win32 being moderately useful, I still find that only reliable way to
do automated multi-processing is to whip out Win32::Process and start a
new interpreter with special "I'm a child process" arguments.
-- Rod Adams
