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RE: GNU RCS with MinGW32 or CygWin32
- To: "'Earnie Boyd'" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>
- Subject: RE: GNU RCS with MinGW32 or CygWin32
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at buggy dot prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 11:51:48 +0300
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
Earnie Boyd wrote:
> I've attempted without success, so far, to port bash to Mingw32. I'm
> real interested in getting this accomplished so maybe we can work
> together. The main problems are the fork and wait functions. There are
It's almost impossible to have bash working without fork() call - bash
relies on this call and makes a lot of job in the forked process. Let me
point you to (:-) ash - it's a light-weight bourne shell implementation
(cygwin-compiled executable is only 55K in size) and seems to me a good
candidate for mingw port - it does a little in a forked process and
probably may be rewritten to use spawn() calls instead of fork/exec easy
enough.
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job
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