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RE: How about a _beginthread implementation of fork?


vischne@ibm.net wrote:
> This is probably a naive approach, but is the following code an accurate
> representation of how to implement fork() using the Windows 95 RTL C
> library?  If so, how much effort would be needed to redo cygwin.dll so as
> to make fork() _not_ do anything to the cygwin environment?

Two threads will use _one common_ data segment. Forked processes should have separated data areas.

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