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Subject: Re: Why does Cygwin not use MiCloneProcessAddressSpace() for fork()
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM Mark Liam Brown
<brownmarkliam@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Greetings!
>
> Why does Cygwin not use MiCloneProcessAddressSpace() for fork()? That
> function was added for the Windows Services for UNIX, and it still
> working in Windows 11.

This is exposed to the userspace as NtCreateProcessEx() as documented
in https://github.com/huntandhackett/process-cloning

Mark
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