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Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?


On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Win32, the original state of the memory is treated as genuin state for
>each process.  Therefore child processes don't inherit the changes from
>their parent processes but instead they begin with a fresh unchanged memory
>as it was before the first process wrote to it.

Right.  I played around with various uses of VirtualProtect to try to
work around this with no luck.  It was almost like Microsoft was purposely
twarting what seems like a reasonable use of memory mapping.

cgf

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