Re: First version of MinGW octave

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 15-Feb-2006, Shai Ayal wrote:
>
> | Can sockets and fork be implemented in mingw or do I have to write a
> | nigw specific version to handle this using windows calls?
>
> Umm, isn't that what Cygwin provides?  I don't see the point of
> reinvinting the "missing" parts of Cygwin for MinGW.
>
> jwe
There are sockets in Windows (cf winsock.h) so that isn't an issue. 
However, fork is but it can be approximated with CreateProcess, though 
the cost will be higher as I think more of the process table is copied...

D.

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