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From: "Barubary" <barubary AT cox DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: A real fork() on NT
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:50:45 -0800
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Do you have any idea how to compile a program for the win32 POSIX system?
If we could reverse engineer a win32 POSIX program that uses fork(), we
could see the raw NT commands to do it.

-- Barubary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher January" <ccj00 AT doc DOT ic DOT ac DOT uk>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: A real fork() on NT


> Coincidentally, I was looking into a similar thing myself. Windows NT has
a
> POSIX subsystem that's capable of doing fork()'s so it is obviously
possible.
> Have you any ideas of the arguments passed to the function or what it
returns?



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