[Qemu-devel] Re: Re: SAMBA support in QEMU

[Ronald <look@reply.to>]

Le Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:37:56 +0200, Johannes Schindelin a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Ronald wrote:
>> No, the whole thing don't work, although the build goes fine and qemu
>> don't crash, the process is not launched when using slirp_add_exec,
>> something related to unimplemented fork_exec for win32? So I've just put
>> some #ifndef around the smb related parts in vl.c to build latest cvs.
> 
> You are building with MinGW? 

Yes, I am building on a linux box.

>I don't know if qemu compiles using cygwin:
> fork() is POSIX, which win32 doesn't comply to, so cygwin implements it.
> AFAIK MinGW doesn't do that.
> 

The closest to fork function I have found for the win32api is
CreateProcess, but I am afraid it's beyond my current abilities to
do a minimal windows version of fork_exec (if this is really this
function which is responsible for the child process not running).