Re: Subversion 0.19.1 released.

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 mbk@boredom.org wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:04:07AM -0800, rbb@rkbloom.net wrote:
> > to work with fork(). Obviously, no native DLLs are. This is why cygwin
> > can work, they don't have to deal with native DLLs.
> >
>
> The last time I looked at the cygwin source, which was several years ago,
> they accomplished fork by doing, IIRC:
>
> p=CreateProcess(this exe,NO_THREAD)
> for (my entire address space) {
> WriteProcessMem(p,ReadProcessMem(me));
> }
> t=CreateThread(other process);
>
>
> IOW, not COW. I don't know if this has been fixed but lack of COW
> semantics makes simulated-fork a non-starter.

I haven't looked at the code (don't want to contaminate myself with GPL
code), but according to their docs they have fixed this.

Ryan

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Received on Thu Mar 13 20:03:01 2003