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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:00:35 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: vfork alternatives?
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Brian Ford wrote:

> We have an application that mmaps a *huge* MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON virtual
> address scratch space.  It also needs to occasionally fork/exec a sub
> process.  Unfortunately, the time and virtual memory required for Cygwin
> to copy this region to the forked child just so it can throw it away and
> do an exec is prohibitive if it's even possible.

How about the the spawn*() family of functions?

Brian


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