("Leif", not "Lief".)
My point wasn't really that fork() was a part of unix whether one likes it or not, but rather that fork() was a perfectly good API to process creation _for an operating system_. It doesn't follow from this that the operating system API must be literally reflected in the API of a programming language; especially not a programming language for portable script-like application, rather than low-level system-specific programs.
It might be nice to provide access to the operating system functions generally, so that people who really need them to do lower-level things can do so. But in my opinion, that's not a high priority for a language like Pike.
/ Leif Stensson, Lysator
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2002-09-03 17:50: Subject: argv[0]?
What about people other than "we"? As Lief (I think) stated fork() is at the base of any *nix system whether one likes it or not - as such, it is very useful since pike runs on many *nix systems...
/ Marek Habersack (Grendel)