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Re: readpipe patch again
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: readpipe patch again |
Date: |
07 May 2002 11:19:37 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) |
| Using `fork' will be deadly for dos/windows. Please try to avoid it
| if possible. I would like to suggest two alternatives at least for
| dos/djgpp:
|
| - the use of popen/pclose.
| - the use of posix_spawn* family of functions.
|
| Information about posix_spawn* family of functions are available
| from http://www.opengroup.org/
|
| Both alternatives are available for DJGPP and would make
| the bison code be compilable out-of-the-box.
My reading of the situation is that we will welcome patch to implement
alternative means to invoke M4. But I concur with Paul: fighting for
portability to poor systems is really a nightmare that anyway is best
solved by its users. We will leave this task to the DOS user.