From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject: Re: fork + dlls
21 Aug 1998 01:31:39 GMT
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References: <m0z9Gp9-0010zOC DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT malasada DOT lava DOT net>
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In article <m0z9Gp9-0010zOC DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT malasada DOT lava DOT net>,
Tim Newsham <newsham AT lava DOT net> 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.

If you use UNIX semantics (dlopen) to load the .dll then the .dll
should be automatically loaded on a fork.
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