[Mailman-Users] Mailman on Windows

[David Ornstein]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
> [mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Ivan Van Laningham
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 9:48 PM
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Windows
>
>
> Hi All--
>
> David Ornstein wrote:
> >
>
> [bobbit]
>
> > > Its definitely possible.  I doubt its worthwhile.  Mailman was not
> > > designed with portability in mind, and so assumes things like a Unix
> > > process model and such forth.
> >
> > In what way do you think the Unix process model substantially
> differs from
> > the Windows one?  And I mean NT/Windows 200, here, not that
> crappy DOS-based
> > Windows 9x series.
> >
>
> Does Windows 200* support fork and exec?  If so, there might be
> something to discuss.

I belive the process model supports these basic operations, but I suppose
it'd be a matter of having a library that mapped the basic OS capabilities
to the exact semantics of fork() and exec() on Unix.  Maybe the cygwin
stuff?  I'm not sure...

David




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> y'rs,
> Ivan
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