Fork() on windows?

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Susan Baker - 29 Jun 2005 11:38 GMT

Hi,

I'm converting some Unix code to Windows. I need to fork() in a section
in my code. Nearest Windows functionality is CreateProcess().

Any ideas or guidelines (gotchas) on best practices/how to procedd?

Thanks

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Mihajlo Cvetanović - 29 Jun 2005 12:30 GMT

> I'm converting some Unix code to Windows. I need to fork() in a section
> in my code. Nearest Windows functionality is CreateProcess().
>
> Any ideas or guidelines (gotchas) on best practices/how to procedd?

Depending on what you actually need the nearest Windows functionality
may be even threads (_beginthreadex()) or fibers (CreateFiber()). Unix
processes aren't always translated into Windows processes. Can't help
you more without further details on relation between old and new unix
process.

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