Re: OT: Windows (Was: Re: Open Source does not mean easily re-compile-able)

On Sat, 04 Jan 2025 08:31:05 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

For instance, is there any Windows software that
handles a TCP connection in an accept-fork-exec fashion?

Almost certainly not. Because process creation is an expensive operation
on Windows.

Windows NT was masterminded by Dave Cutler, who was previously responsible
for the VMS OS at his previous employer, DEC. He was a Unix-hater, part of
a bunch of them at DEC. They would instinctively turn away from Unix ways
of doing things, like forking multiple processes. So the systems they
created did not encourage such techniques.