Re: Wikipedia entry - AmigaOS port - error?

--- On Thu, 1/4/10, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> > But I do remember there was a set of libs called
> ixemul (http://aminet.net/package/dev/gg/ixemul-bin) that a lot
> of people used to port unix apps to the Amiga with, probably
> not enough to port postgres though.
>
> Ah, I wondered if there might not be such a thing. 
> However, according
> to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixemul.library it doesn't
> have support
> for fork(), which would have been a complete showstopper
> back in the day
> (though since the Windows port in 8.0 we can live without
> it).  So that
> pretty much kills any thought that it might've once worked
> and we just
> forgot.
>

And now you mention it, I remember that was exactly the reason why the last version of perl for Amiga was 5.7.2, it says there was support for vfork() but not fork()

http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/pod/perlamiga.html#perl_5_8_0_broken_in_amigaos

Glyn