request for new feature

[Harold L Hunt II]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:22:33PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
>>Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess.  We 
>>haven't made that decision yet.
> 
> 
> Huh.  Seems like a no-brainer to me.  It's a cygwin program so why not
> use fork/exec?  Then Xwin will be able to use 'wait()' to wait for
> processes.  It will be able to set a process group and kill all programs
> in the process group, etc.

We have discussed this before.  I want to minimize the dependencies on 
Cygwin because I intend to eventually introduce a version that compiles 
without it, based on the work that Suhaib started.  It is in my best 
interests to try to do things with the Win32 API so that I have to 
change a minimum number of things.

We have already discussed the merits of doing this and I think everyone 
already knows how everyone else feels on the subject, so I think we can 
leave it at that.

Harold