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From: | Paul Kienzle |
Subject: | Re: First version of MinGW octave |
Date: | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:07:56 -0500 |
On Feb 15, 2006, at 10:46 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
On 15-Feb-2006, Shai Ayal wrote: | Can sockets and fork be implemented in mingw or do I have to write a | nigw specific version to handle this using windows calls? Umm, isn't that what Cygwin provides? I don't see the point of reinvinting the "missing" parts of Cygwin for MinGW.
Cygwin goes to considerable efforts to match posix semantics for things like fork and signals. We don't need posix semantics necessarily, and we can adjust the system abstraction layer to have semantics which is easy to implement on either Windows or Unix. - Paul
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