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Re: fork() for microsoft windows (native but not Cygwin).
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Mike Miller |
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Re: fork() for microsoft windows (native but not Cygwin). |
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Sun, 1 May 2016 22:36:18 -0400 |
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On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 11:25:08 +0900, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> Sorry for confusing writing.
> On octave-4.0.2 windows, from octave prompt
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> >> fork()
> ans = -1
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> fork returns -1 but not say unimplemented
>
> I think that return "-1" is strange but show "unimplemented"
> by
> >> fork()
>
> Am I wrong?
Try using the two-return-value form,
[pid, msg] = fork ()
The msg should say something like "fork: not supported on this system".
It's not raised as an error, it's an optional output argument, I don't
know the reason why, but there it is.
--
mike