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 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A5C9797.F63F1DAD@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:10:47 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Charles S. Wilson" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com, Zack Weinberg Subject: Re: would appreciate help with anon-mmap replacement References: <20010109220149.J2032@wolery.stanford.edu> <3A5C794F.407322D6@yahoo.com> <3A5C8627.56D727B6@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Charles S. Wilson" wrote: > > Earnie - > Apparently Zack tried to get something like this pushed into the > kernel, but for esoteric reasons beyond my ken the fix required by gcc > will break cygwin's fork(). That's why Zack is trying to roll his own > for gcc; gcc doesn't use fork(). > > See: > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/msg01475.html > and thread. > I'm sorry, I don't see where that message says that modifying mmap/munmap would break fork. The reference to fork was as an example of how it might be done. I appreciate the fact that Zack has looked at the Cygwin source, I still say that the effort would be best spent in the runtime, not a package workaround that may break in future runtime changes. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple