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From: Christopher January <ccj00 AT doc DOT ic DOT ac DOT uk>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: A real fork() on NT
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 15:12:32 +0000
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> >I've got the book; I have a DLL that exports a function called fork and
> >I'm seeing what can be done to get it to work with kdeinit.  A lot of
> >programs do: if (fork() == 0) exec(...) and this could be replaced by
> >spawn(...) anyway, but kdeinit does a bit more work.
>
> So, use vfork().  We already have an implementation that does the right
> thing in that case.
That wouldn't work.

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