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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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