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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Copy-on-write fork
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:35:03 -0500
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cgf wrote:

> I assume that one possible reason is that the copy-on-write fork may be
> somehow bypassing normal in-memory sharing of text segments but I never
> knew for sure.
>

Have either of you tried this comparison on XP, to see if it's any different
there?  I'm running XP here, if Chris J. wants to put the c-o-w DLL up somewhere
so I can download it and try it.

--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.


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