Maybe Vince could set up a Win32 porting project page, and since we now seem
to have a few interested parties willing to code on a native Win32 version,
they should have their own project page. This could make communication
easier for them and make sure the project doesn't die...
Chris
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> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Joerg
> Hessdoerfer
> Sent: Friday, 17 May 2002 4:36 AM
> To: Magnus Naeslund(f)
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] WIN32 native ... lets start?!?
>
>
> On Thursday 16 May 2002 22:10, you wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > What is the biggest problem here?
> > The Shmem/IPC stuff, or the fork() stuff?
> > I'm think that we could do a fork() implementation in usermode
> by copying
> > the memory allocations. How fast that would be regarding the context
> > switches, i don't know, but i'm willing to experiment some to see how
> > feesible this is...
> >
> > Anyone tried this before?
> >
> > Magnus
> >
> >
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> The problem is not the fork() call itself, this has been done (MinGW and
> cygwin I know of, possibly others) but the speed of fork() on
> windows, it's
> creepingly slow (due to usermode copy, I assume ;-).
>
> IPC needs to be done, I'm just about to start...
>
> Greetings,
> Joerg
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