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Piru wrote:
I have to agree with Cymric in most points (however semi-working libpthreads does exist at least). fork() will never work on AmigaOS or compatibles.

I still don't get the point of fork(), is it just a quick and simple way to get a small part of your code executing as a separate thread which can do a function and die...?hmmm... putting it like that it seems really usefull :-D

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Piru wrote:

I still don't get the point of fork(), is it just a quick and simple way to get a small part of your code executing as a separate thread which can do a function and die...?

No. It splits the current process in two, the only difference being the return code of fork() call. Everything else is 100% the same, addressing, fhs, etc.

AmigaOS or compatibles will never be able to implement fork().

Yup, I know what it does, but I find it hard to see the point :-)

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Piru wrote:

I find it hard to see the point :-)

It's for lazy coders so that they don't need to write proper asynchronous I/O in their apps. :-)

Ha! That's what it looked like (which is what I was hinting at earlier) :-D

But there must be some feature of using it that is not "doable" in a formal way, otherwise it would not have been included in the POSIX spec... would it?