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Re: wget2 | Background support for Windows (#457)


From: Tim Rühsen
Subject: Re: wget2 | Background support for Windows (#457)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:33:48 +0000



Tim Rühsen commented on a discussion: 
https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/issues/457#note_271450550

Reading the comments in `mswindows.c` leaves me with a `ugh, let's not do it`.

See also 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/985281/what-is-the-closest-thing-windows-has-to-fork/985525#985525

There just is no such thing as fork() on Windows. Even the CygWin 'fake' 
solution is complicated and slow from what I read.

Opinions ?

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