Subject: RE: fork + dlls
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

21 Aug 1998 14:26:28 -0700
Message-ID: <01BDCCE1.270615A0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>,
        "'Tim Newsham'"
	 <[email-masked]>

Tim Newsham wrote:
>     When you manually load a dll, and then perform a fork, the dll
> is not accessible from the child process.  When you think about what
> is going on here, it makes sense.  My question though is, is this the
> way fork should behave?  Or should (could) the fork code reload the
> dll in the child process after a fork?  It seems that this would
> more closely follow the expected fork semantics.
>

The dll will be reloaded on fork, if dll's startup code performs neccessary 
initialization. See http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/dl-docs.html for 
details.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia

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