PE> The really shitty thing about Posix is that they put in fork(), making
PE> it virtually impossible to implement on anything besides Unix.

db> fork() has been implemented under OS/2 (EMX) and Windows NT - I'd suggest 
db> VMS and other time-sharing systems, too.

PE> So you normally don't find that implemented.  BFN.

db> Could otherwise be painful, anyway.

Ok, and when it is implemented, it's really slow compared to Unix. It
should never have been done.  Most people who call fork() follow with an
exec(), ie they should have just created a spawn().  BFN.  Paul. 
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