Re: php_fork();
| From: | Wez Furlong | Date: | Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:25:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php_fork(); | ||
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:05:16 +0200, ilya77@gmail.com <ilya77@gmail.com> wrote:
> My point exactly.
> However, I *know* that perl emulates it using threads.
Which we don't support.
> But, when thinking of it, Cygwin emulates fork() by copying the
> address space of a process to a newly created process. It's a bit
> slow, but at least it works.
and is buggy.
> Guess getting into the kernel mode driver land to create *actual*
> fork() on win32 is a bit beyond php development.
Services for Unix does this kind of thing; it's buggy too.
It would be cool to have better threading support and perhaps emulated
fork (it's not something I would use), but I can't see it happening
without some funding behind it.
--Wez.