Replace fork with try_fork in testsuite?

[Mark Mitchell]

Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
> 
>>Sure, we could invent and use dg-require-fork and dg-require-mkfifo.
>>These would either dynamically probe the system, or just check $target
>>against known non-POSIXy triplets.  I could do that instead, if you'd
>>rather.
> 
> 
> In my opinion, that would be great! Even greater ;) if we could extend
> it somehow to locales: if you can only suggest a viable approach I will
> implement it.

I think the locale work is more than I want to commit to at this point, 
but I would be happy to give hints.  Let's see what I can come up with 
for fork/fifo, and then we'll go from there.

Thanks,

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