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List: freedesktop-dbus
Subject: Re: RFC: adding fd-passing to win32
From: Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker () freenet ! de>
Date: 2022-08-22 12:53:09
Message-ID: 215cded8-bd3b-f99f-3612-39c07556e12f () freenet ! de
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Am 22.08.22 um 12:48 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
> That is a fundamental limitation of Windows, which Cygwin manages to
> paper over. Since Cygwin gets rid of the extra effort necessary to
> support the peculiarities of your platform, it seems like a win-win
> scenario to take advantage of that.
But it adds an additional layer of problems, as described at
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html.
> In summary, current Windows implementations make it impossible to
implement a perfectly reliable fork, and occasional fork failures are
inevitable.
This was the decisive reason why
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_on_Cygwin was discontinued.
Ralf
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