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Re: PATCH: Guard uses of fork


On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:44:24PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:29:23 -0500
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> > 
> > > I left the CANT_FORK define in place because that's defined by
> > > defs.h in the case __MSDOS__, and Dan says that configure isn't
> > > run in that case.
> 
> Dan was wrong: the DJGPP (a.k.a. MSDOS) build does run the configure
> script, albeit slightly edited (see config/djgpp/djconfig.sh for the
> gory details).
> 
> The reason why defs.h defines CANT_FORK for the __MSDOS__ build is
> that the DJGPP library does have `fork', but it's a stub that always
> fails, and I don't want to depend on the configure script to get this
> right.

Thanks for checking!  Looks like Mark's patch should be OK for DJGPP
then.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC


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