From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: fork + dlls 21 Aug 1998 14:26:28 -0700 Message-ID: <01BDCCE1.270615A0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" , "'Tim Newsham'" 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. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".