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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:48:14 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:13:36AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>On Win32, the original state of the memory is treated as genuin state for
>>each process.  Therefore child processes don't inherit the changes from
>>their parent processes but instead they begin with a fresh unchanged memory
>>as it was before the first process wrote to it.
>
>Right.  I played around with various uses of VirtualProtect to try to
>work around this with no luck.  It was almost like Microsoft was purposely
>twarting what seems like a reasonable use of memory mapping.

Make that "thwarting".  Stupid keyboard.

cgf

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