On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 13:20, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Windows does not supply the POSIX-functions fork(), setuuid(), setgid(),
> setsid() and initgroups(). Disable support for --user, --group and
> --detach on platforms lacking _POSIX_VERSION.
FWIW I checked if Perl's fork() emulation with threads on Windows
could emulate this, but no:
perl -E '
if (my $pid = fork()) {
say "$$: child running as $pid"
} else {
sleep 1;
say "$$: running in the background"
}'
On Unix that would detach the process from the terminal, but on
Windows with threads the original process only returns after the child
has finished.
I didn't expect it to act differently, but I thought I'd note it here
in case anyone had it in mind to implement --detach on Windows.
> This might be a bit controversial; does anyone know of any systems that
> implements fork(), setuuid(), setgid() and setsid() but does not define
> _POSIX_VERSION? Perhaps we should have a separate makefile-switch instead?
Even if it's defined it's more self-documenting to have our own
HAVE_POSIX_GOODIES (or something like that) instead.
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