Re: AmigaOS fork()

2001-05-31 Thread Lars Hecking
Rüdiger Kuhlmann writes: > [Rüdiger Kuhlmann, please stop mangling the Subject: line. This is highly annoying.]

Re: AmigaOS fork()

2001-05-24 Thread Tim Van Holder
> +/* On AmigaOS, fork() isn't implemented due to missing MP. */ > +int main () > +{ > + if (fork() < 0) > +exit (1); > + exit (0); > +}], > +[ac_cv_func_fork_works=yes], > +[ac_cv_func_fork_works=no], > +[AC_CHECK_FUNC(fork) > +AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_

Re: AmigaOS fork()

2001-05-24 Thread Lars Hecking
> vfork() is normally a very different function than fork(), with > significantly different and much more dangerous behavior if it is not > immediately followed by an exec(). Is that the case on Amiga, or is it > just a misnamed fork()? AmigaOS cannot have fork() due to lack of virtual memory

Re: AmigaOS fork()

2001-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Rüdiger Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since we've autoconf 2.50 now, maybe it's time to come up with some > not-so-important issues. The problem at hand is that under AmigaOS, the > fork() function always returns EONOSYS (IIRC), in other words, there is > no spoon(), due to limitations t