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Re: vfork alternatives?
Brian Ford wrote:
> We have an application that mmaps a *huge* MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON virtual
> address scratch space. It also needs to occasionally fork/exec a sub
> process. Unfortunately, the time and virtual memory required for Cygwin
> to copy this region to the forked child just so it can throw it away and
> do an exec is prohibitive if it's even possible.
How about the the spawn*() family of functions?
Brian
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