Re: php_fork();

Heh, ActiveState did it after they received funding from Microsoft. Guess that's not gonna happen with PHP. Ever. On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:25:09 -0500, Wez Furlong <kingwez@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >