Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 01:14:00PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > I was more thinking of all those loadable modules.  Without FDPIC-ELF
> > there's no dlopen() and no (useful) shared libs.
> 
> Hmm, FDPIC ELF sounds a lot more useful than FLAT.  I wonder if it would
> be possible to add FDPIC support to m68k at all.

Yes, definitely.  It's not particularly hard but you do need to be
happy making changes to GCC, Binutils and uClibc/Glibc.

> > Well, yes, but fork is typically invoked from a script interpreter if
> > you actually call fork() or system() or `backquotes` from your script.
> > You could just not do that.  I believe even Python has rudimentary
> > thread support :-)
> 
> I would have thought system and backquotes worked fine.

If they use the libc calls system() and popen() you may be right.

-- Jamie
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