Hi all,
I've started trying to port dpkg natively to Windows (as opposed to
using Cygwin).
One area that may cause problems is that Windows doesn't have fork
functionality, so implementing m_fork() will be challenging.
From what I've seen so far, the only time m_fork gets used in the dpkg
source is as part of the process of spawning a child to do some work,
and writing Win32 child-spawning code should be pretty simple.
This is all well and good as long as no other packages are using the
m_fork (and possibly m_pipe/m_dup2) code. So my questions are:
- Are other packages supposed to use m_fork, m_pipe, etc?
- If not, do we know of/care about packages that do use it?
- If so, would breaking API compatability to allow a Win32 port be a
problem.
Please note that my last question is badly phrased... it would _only_ be
the Win32 port that would have a changed API, specifically the functions
that can't be (easily) implemented (m_fork, possibly m_pipe/m_dup2)
would be #ifdef'd out.
Thanks,
Phil
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