Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?

Brian Dessent wrote: Linda W wrote: Windows just doesn't support forking at all, as far as I know. activeperl emulates forking using win32 threads. I don'tknow how cygwin handles it, but my guess is that it's not very well :-( This smells like total FUD. This person that admittedly

Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:30:43PM -0700, Linda W wrote: > A problem I reported in trying to install "File::BOM" (module to handle > files with Unicode Byte-Order-Marks) under CPAN originally here: > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00238.html last February > is still a problem. I bounc

Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?

Linda W wrote: > Windows just doesn't support forking at all, as far as I know. > activeperl emulates forking using win32 threads. I don'tknow how cygwin > handles it, but my guess is that it's not very well :-( This smells like total FUD. This person that admittedly does not use Cygwin nor obvi

cygwin fork problem maybe?

A problem I reported in trying to install "File::BOM" (module to handle files with Unicode Byte-Order-Marks) under CPAN originally here: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00238.html last February is still a problem. I bounced it off of the module maintainer, and he believes the problem