On 25 Jul 2002 at 17:27, Renaud Deraison wrote: > Now, cygwin does have a fork() function. "So what's the deal" you may > ask ? Well, they implemented fork() in an ingenious yet totally > slow way - basically, it copies the whole amount of memory (5mb at each > fork() call). That's slow. Horribly slow.
:) Yes I'm all too familiar with this problem. It's the road-block that I hit on my afformentioned programming tool. Acutally I ran into the road-block that a fork() doesn't exist or is a royal pain to implement (correctly/safely) if you aren't using cygwin (I was using mingw for the project as the target users have an aversion to unix inside windows environments). > Honnestly, I'm not sure this is a good thing. I'm having a hard time > with "unix users" already (for what is worth, I receive so many > requests that I sometimes forget that my mailbox may receive > personal messages too. And of course, people refer to Nessus as > "your software" which make this kind of mail impossible to filter > properly). The Windows user base is too large for me to handle. > > > So the bottom line is: no windows support at this time. No no no no. Understandable. What if someone else stepped up to the plate and handled the Windows support/users and 'proxied' for them? I understand the it's slow and I don't like giving that impression (what would we have if not for a pride in our work?) -- George Boutwell, Programmer II - Valley Hope Association [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body. * To subscribe again, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "subscribe nessus" in the body
