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Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> writes:

> 	This change again originates from the MinGW port. Since we don't
> 	have fork(2) on Windows, we must run the sideband demultiplexer
> 	in a thread.

If the rationale was "running in a thread is more natural on the
platform", I would understand it.

But "_must_ run because there is no fork(2)" solicits a "Huh?
How does Cygwin does it then?" from me.