From: Ziemowit Laski <zlaski@ziemas.net>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mswindres: Use '-' instead of '/' for rc.exe options
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 05:17:53 +0000
Message-ID: <BYAPR12MB323833835EFC0487E1711932A4DD9@BYAPR12MB3238.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bac6311-d03c-d20-f1f1-ecb3c5b937af@martin.st>
> Not at all - it's entirely a technical thing. MSYS, which is a fork of
> cygwin, is an environment to provide a full POSIX (i.e. unix) environment
> on top of Windows, which involves a lot of trickery to make system calls
> like fork() work on top of a OS that doesn't provide that.
But that's exactly what Cygwin provides, no? I was also under the impression
That one could not ship cygwin1.dll without Red Hat's blessing.
FWIW, Windows now has RtlCloneUserProcess() functionality, so implementations
of fork() can be much simpler. They also added pseudo-console support a few
years back. Progress! 😊
--Zem
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-13 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-04 19:52 Ziemowit Laski
2023-02-09 11:08 ` Martin Storsjö
2023-02-09 21:01 ` Ziemowit Laski
2023-02-09 21:59 ` Hendrik Leppkes
2023-02-09 22:14 ` Martin Storsjö
2023-02-10 1:47 ` Ziemowit Laski
2023-02-10 22:22 ` Martin Storsjö
2023-02-11 0:13 ` Ziemowit Laski
2023-02-12 22:25 ` Martin Storsjö
2023-02-13 5:17 ` Ziemowit Laski [this message]
2023-02-13 7:36 ` Martin Storsjö
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