Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/05/14/19:01:42
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:20:58PM -0400, Matt Wozniski wrote:
>On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>According to Lenik on 5/13/2009 7:49 PM:
>>>>You have it backwards. Forking doesn't break the relocation.
>>>>Relocation breaks forking. cygwin1.dll needs to have a very special
>>>>memory layout to implement the fork semantics in Win32. If this memory
>>>>layout is disrupted, fork breaks.
>>>>
>>>Could you explain in more detail? I can't find any document about this
>>>special memory layout.
>>
>>Read the source. ??This link is a bit old, but still captures the
>>essence:
>>http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/how-cygheap-works.txt?rev=1.5&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src
>>
>>Remember, the semantics of fork is that BOTH processes (the parent and
>>child) must see the SAME memory, and that includes all shared libraries
>>being mapped at the SAME location. ??But since Windows doesn't provide
>>a native fork, the child must remap everything that the parent had, and
>>hope that it lands at the same place. ??Rebasing improves the chance
>>that the child will remap, because there are fewer dlls to be remapped
>>in an arbitrary order.
>
>Is this a place where using vfork() instead of fork() helps (where it's
>applicable, of course)? If so, we might be able to reduce the number
>of rebase failures in the future just by trying to push other projects
>to use vfork wherever it's substitutable for fork...
In Cygwin vfork == fork.
cgf
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