[vlc-devel] Re: about minisap Server

[Gildas Bazin]

Clément Stenac wrote:
>
>> sapserver.cpp:246: `daemon' undeclared (first use this function)
>
>Looks like the daemon() function (in unistd.h) is not supported.
>
>Well, to avoid this, we could try to use the fork() function instead 
>of the daemon function. Actually daemon() uses fork() to do its job..
>
>It shouldn't be hard to do and we can expect that it will also work 
>on Windows.
>

No, fork() is not supported by win32.
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore/html/_core_port_from_unix_to_win32.asp)

However, if you use the cygwin posix emulation layer, fork() should work fine.

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