Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 92 11:48:18 EST
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To:	soyata AT phi DOT ece DOT jhu DOT edu
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	fork, pipe
Status:	O

>Does DJGPP support fork(), pipe() and other multi-processing stuff?
>I could not compile a program which used these. Even though these functions
>have prototypes in <std.h>, they are not supported. Any hope for the
>future???

DOS is not multitasking, so adding fork() and pipe() (etc) means
writing a complete operating system, which others have already done.

It's called Unix.

DJ
dj AT ctron DOT com
Life is a banana.

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