Fork(), etc on Windows

[Derek Atkins]

A bunch of us have been discussing it on IRC.   There's a g_spawn API
that we could use, but there's not been consensus on the right way
to use it.  I.e., what code should get re-written and how (in particular
in the price quotes subsystem).

-derek

Quoting Andrew Wood <andrew at gn.apc.org>:

> Hi,
>
> Is anyone actively working on fork()/pipe()/gzip problem for GNUCash on
> Windows? If not then I thought I might see how far I can get in trying
> to fix it.
>
> My first thought was to see what other projects had done about this
> problem, as it can't be too uncommon. I wondered about using libraries
> from UWIN which has an implementation of fork(), etc on Windows. That
> does seem too easy though (assuming it works)! Before I start on
> investigating it can anyone think of a reason not to follow this?
> Details of UWIN at http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
>
> It's a while since I undertook software development but this particular
> problem seems like something of value to work on, but it might take me a
> while to set up the environment and tools, etc.
>
> Andrew
>
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