> Not at all - it's entirely a technical thing. MSYS, which is a fork of > cygwin, is an environment to provide a full POSIX (i.e. unix) environment > on top of Windows, which involves a lot of trickery to make system calls > like fork() work on top of a OS that doesn't provide that.
But that's exactly what Cygwin provides, no? I was also under the impression That one could not ship cygwin1.dll without Red Hat's blessing. FWIW, Windows now has RtlCloneUserProcess() functionality, so implementations of fork() can be much simpler. They also added pseudo-console support a few years back. Progress! 😊 --Zem _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".