Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:30:34 -0800 From: "Zack Weinberg" To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Problems with Cygwin mmap/munmap (mmap.cc) Message-ID: <20001129013034.M472@wolery.stanford.edu> References: <200011281912.eASJCmf13405@plmlir5.mail.eds.com> <20001128114558.R2285@wolery.stanford.edu> <20001128225259.B11647@redhat.com> <20001128202753.I472@wolery.stanford.edu> <20001128233630.A12353@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001128233630.A12353@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:36:30PM -0500 On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:36:30PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:27:53PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote: > >[cgf - I'm cc:ing you despite the Reply-To: because when I last tried > >to send mail to the cygwin list it bounced with a "You're not a > >subscriber" message.] > > ??? Hopefully you were sending email to cygwin-developers not cygwin. > cygwin-developers is subscribe only but I'll add you to the "allow to > post list", in case you do want to send something there. This > discussion is actually more appropriate for that list. Yeah, it was probably that. I wasn't paying really close attention. > >> The problem, I think, is that VirtualAlloc space is not inherited. We > >> could kludge around this, like we do with fork, by copying the regions > >> but that could slow down things a lot. > > > >Hm, is there any way cc1 can tell cygwin that it promises never to use > >fork? > > Not currently, no. > > Maybe we need to implement a valloc that is not wasteful of memory? If you implement it, we'll use it. :) zw -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com