questions from configure

2004-04-30 Thread Joel Rees
Okay, one more that had me curious, from the configure script -- vfork() found. Perl can only use a vfork() that doesn't suffer from strict restrictions on calling functions or modifying global data in the child. For example, glibc-2.1 contains such a vfork() that is unsuitable

Re: questions from configure

2004-04-30 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Apr 30, 2004, at 7:29 AM, Joel Rees wrote: Okay, one more that had me curious, from the configure script -- vfork() found. Do you still want to use vfork()? [y] Do I take this to mean that Mac OS X (10.2.8) still doesn't have a proper fork for Perl's purposes? (for Perl 5.8.4) Dunno. I