win32 testers? [Re: child watch source (was: exception trap in key snooper callback)]

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Aug 26, 2008, at 8:29 PM, Kevin Ryde wrote:

> Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> writes:
> > The docs say that on win32, GPid is typedef'd to some kind of  
> > process handle,
> > i.e. a pointer.
>
> Inflicting the incapacities of non-free on the free software world :-(
>
> > So I think the cast to int is not correct, at least on some
> > architectures.
>
> Without the g_spawn funcs the int is all is for now, I believe.   
> Ints of
> course will, with a little luck, inter-operate with native forking,  
> and
> at least a couple of the job-starting modules on cpan.
>
> > Also, can you write a unit test for this?
>
> Below, with a couple of lines to hopefully skip if fork() isn't a real
> fork, but I've got no way to try that.

Any win32 users willing to try out this patchset?


> <GMainLoop.xs.child-watch-2.diff><9.t.child-watch-2.diff>



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