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The same way that Cygwin implements fork (the msys2-runtime is a very light fork of Cygwin):

https://www.cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.api.fork

The packages in the msys2 repository (which, if they link to msys-2.0.dll are all GPL licensed) only really exist to aid building the packages in the mingw32 and mingw64 repositories which don't implement fork() at all and are the real purpose of MSYS2, i.e. providing normal Windows software.

If you want a POSIX-y system, please use Cygwin.



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