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[cdt-dev] Re: Eclipse CDT Bug "Make" sometimes doesn't start in Win98
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> Hello Alain!
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Bonjour,
> I searched for a bug in CDT in Win98, i have the same problems
> described in bugreport
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36688 from List
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&order=map_assigned_to.login_name,bugs.bug_id,
> i have visited this page frequently but finally nothing changes for
> a couple of months. Do you know if there is a perspective for
> Win98 users?
Good question, I will put this to the cdt-dev mailing list(CC: to the mailing list).
is Win98 a supported platform ?
The problem, java.lang.Process is limited:
- On windows with the jdk-1.3.x
* everytime java.lang.Process is executed a dos terminal appears, very annoying.
* java.lang.Process does not have IPC, like signal. This needed by the debugger
to suspend a running process.
- Solution was to provide a JNI glue, libspawner.so, feature:
* the debugger could use it to send a signal to suspend an appliction (SIGINT).
* suppress the dos terminal.
* use also for other dependent stuff like getting the PID list etc ..
- caveat
* Win98 API is different then the rest of WinXXX
So spawner is not working properly on this platform.
- Possible solutions
* make Win98 unsupported.
* fallback to java.lang.Process for this platform with the problems enumerate above.
Feedback please, would like resolve this for 1.2