Re: libdpkg: m_fork and friends

[Phil Lello <phil.lello@googlemail.com>]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> Phil Lello writes ("libdpkg: m_fork and friends"):
>   
> > I've started trying to port dpkg natively to Windows (as opposed to 
> > using Cygwin).
> >     
> dpkg is not going to work properly when given a filesystem which does
> not have proper Unix semantics.  Ie, it will not work correctly on
> Windows.  It doesn't even work properly on NFS so I think you are
> doomed.  (Although Windows users are already used to random lossage so
> perhaps the occasional failures may be tolerable.)
>   
This is a pretty broad-sweeping statement, but I'm willing to be 
convinced. What file-system semantics are you thinking of?

Bear in mind that a package intended for a windows target will, by its 
very nature, be using a win32-compatable filesystem layout.