Re: [MacPerl] Re: fork (was: Microsoft funds Perl)

[Richard Gordon <maccgi@bellsouth.net>]

At 19:52 -0400 6/15/1999, Chris Nandor wrote:
>The idea indeed is that the work being done for NT to get fork running may
>be applicable to MacPerl (and VMS) in the future.  Maybe.  Matthias might
>have more to say, but I doubt anyone will have more to say of substance
>until Sarathy et al finish it for NT.

Wouldn't all of this stuff become available under OS X without 
getting involved in emulation schemes? My assumption is that if 
MacPerl undergoes a rewrite for OS X, it would take advantage of any 
native features of the OS and I further assume that fork() etc are 
native features of OS X.


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