Re: awk porting for platform without fork?

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:31 PM, Alvis Koon wrote:
> I would like to port awk to an environment without fork.
>
> Is it possible?  And how much work is required.
>
> Why awk use fork?  Can awk run without fork support?

I haven't the foggiest idea of why GNU awk would use fork (if it  
does, but I'll take your word for it barring other feedback :-); this  
being said, the original "one-true-awk" originally written by Aho,  
Weinberger, and Kernighan (IIRC) does not use fork:

  http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/

There's even a precompiled awk binary for Win32 platforms there.
What platform were you trying to port awk to, anyway...?

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-Chuck