[Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Possible GCL 2.6.7 for axiom

[Mike Thomas]

Hi Camm.

| Thanks!  Had forgotten there was so much difference with mingw here,
| but at least this appears to imply that there is some windows version
| of fork() :-).

Not mingw, rather Windows.  Also definitely not fork() per se - just the
ability to spawn a separate process with stdio redirected via CreateProcess
() per the Unix fork()/exec() idiom.

|  At some point, perhaps we can boil the ifdefs down to
| a minimal set of primitives.

There certainly is some room for that yet to be done quite trivially.

Cheers

Mike Thomas.