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Re: [MiNT] fVDI issues



>>> Btw. this is an interesting question in general. What is the right
>>> behaviour if an AES process fork? And is an AES process allowed to
>>> fork?
>>
>> Yes and no, I suppose. AFAIK fork() is allowed for any process,
>> regardless of what libraries or system functions it uses. At the
>> other hand, Atari programmers, while designing their multitasking
>> AES 4.0 probably didn't think/know, that MultiTOS is supposed to
>> have Pfork().
>
> And what do you think is the right behaviour?

The right behaviour is as in the first case.

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Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz, http://draco.atari.org

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