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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Copy-on-write fork
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:41:36 +0100
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> > 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.
Please do - I would be interested to see how it runs on XP - you can
download a static library containing just fork() here:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/atomice.net/show.cgi?article=1019312635446.68
4814058244

Regards
Chris



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