Re: [MacPerl] MacOS FORK Alternative?

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 11:39 -0400 1999.08.19, Bill Jones wrote:
>Not to revive the Multi Platform Script issue, but...
>
>I was looking for information concerning this error:
>
># The Unsupported function fork function is unimplemented.
>File 'MacOS:Desktop Folder:InFolder:overcr-1.49.07 Folder:collector.pl';

>I am working on a platform independent 'status' server and would like to
>have the same code base for each platform: WinNT, MacOS, Unix, BeOS, etc.

There is no real fork alternative.  Sorry.

fork() may be implemented in a near-future version of MacPerl, using the
Microsoft-funded work being done to implement an in-process fork using
threads and multiplicity in Perl for Win32 (which currently also does not
have fork).  Currently, only Unix and most of its derivatives have fork().
VMS, Win32, and Mac OS do not.  Be may support it now.  In perl 5.6, Win32
may.  Mac OS and VMS may follow.

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