On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:54:19PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > The unix "fork", "execvp" pair doesn't exist on Windows. We can launch a > child process well enough by using "spawnvp", but then the unix > "waitpid(..., NOHANG)" doesn't exist on Windows either, so LyX will never > be informed when the process has ended. Re-write using the native API > needed.
With all this platform dependend stuff I wonder whether we shouldn't simply use Qt for QProcess, QSetting etc even with the xforms frontend. So we'd still get a reasonably slim and fast binary, yet do not have to re-invent the wheel. [I am not sure whether this is a goo/feasible idea myself] Andre'
