Re: [Chicken-users] posix unit on windows

[Felix Winkelmann]

Sergey Khorev wrote:
> > perhaps I get around implementing
> > all the missing functionality at some stage.
>
>
> IMHO there is no need to implement _all_ the functionality: you'll
> simply get Cygwin, written in Scheme ;))) Especially 'fork',
> uid/gid-functionality and 'select' for file handles.

Oh, I meant the missing functionality in chicken-setup, not in
posixwin.scm.

> The most accessible and useful features may be as follows:
> 1) creating process with redirected I/O, waiting for process, 'sleep'-ing
> 2) 'uname' analogue
> 3) 'mmap'
> 4) locking record
>
> I'll try to implement them.

That would be cool. Please drop me a note once you have updated
stuff.


cheers,
felix