Subject: RE: fork() fails for network-mounted executables
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

25 Jan 1997 10:44:51 -0800
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        "'Shankar Unni'"
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Shankar Unni wrote:
> On Windows 95, if an executable calling fork() lives in a
> network-mounted directory, the fork() fails with errno = 13 (EACCES -
> Permission denied).
> 
> Here's a simple example. If you put this executable on a network-mounted
> drive, it will fail. If it is on a local drive, it will succeed:
> 

I just tried this program on NT 4.0. No problems.
-- 
Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
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