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

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 9.42 -0400 1999.06.16, Richard Gordon wrote:
>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?

It already is, in Mac OS X Server and Darwin, and will be there in Mac OS
X, too.


>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.

Nope.  MacPerl will not be rewritten for Mac OS X, per se.  Perl already
runs under Mac OS X.  I believe MacPerl might be rewritten to Carbon, so it
can run in the Yellow Box or Blue Box, but perl already runs in the BSD
layer of Mac OS X.  So it doesn't make much sense to rewrite a port of perl
to run where perl runs natively, especially since it would no longer run
where it doesn't.

MacPerl is Perl for Mac OS.  Mac OS X is a different beast altogether.  It
isn't Mac OS.

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