On Saturday 09 November 2002 08:33 pm, Steven Edwards wrote:
+void RPCSS_Spork() +{
- /* Because we are a wine app, we can't fork. This is
a trick to invoke ourselves, so we can provide asimilar effect of creating a "background" process */I was wondering about this but have been busy with other things. In shelllink.c we call fork and waitpid for shell32. Shouldnt this code be removed and reimplemented like in rpcss? When I am trying to build shell32 under windows I still get this
shelllink.o(.text+0x4161):shelllink.c: undefined reference to `fork' shelllink.o(.text+0x43fa):shelllink.c: undefined reference to `waitpid'
Can someone give a example of how to work around waitpid and maybe I can adapt Gregs Spork code. Thanks Steven
I think what you are looking for is here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/bas...
beware, however, that the "Spork" function and fork() are more-or-less completely different. That spork code is just a cheap-and-dirty way to invoke yourself. This means that:
o spork only returns once o the child process doesn't inherit state from the parent process o it will only work for processes for which you control the source; dll's can't do it this way.
I think, long ago, I saw seen some clever folks attempt to implement fork() like behavior for windows; if you need the "real deal," you might be able to find this with some googling, or maybe cygwin has ideas you could borrow.