Re: libdpkg: m_fork and friends

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

Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Phil Lello schrieb:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've started trying to port dpkg natively to Windows (as opposed to 
> > using Cygwin).
> >
> > One area that may cause problems is that Windows doesn't have fork 
> > functionality, so implementing m_fork() will be challenging.
> You could try using glib for that. 
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/2.14/glib-Spawning-Processes.html
It might be worth using glib to spawn child processes, to reduce 
os-specific code in dpkg, however this does mean introducing glib as a 
dependency, which may or may not be desirable.

I'll move this conversation over to the dpkg list, as this seems more of 
a general dpkg design issue than a Win32 specific one.

Phil