From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Fork Speedup? 2 Feb 1998 00:57:14 -0800 Message-ID: <01BD2FCE.E270E5A0.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Reply-To: gnu-win32-developers AT cygnus DOT com To: "'cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com'" Christopher Faylor wrote: > It just occurred to me that fork might be a little faster if the > sequence of events was something like: > I've tried this some time ago and had a lot of troubles with cygwin.dll initialization sequence (mainly with u->self pointer). Probably, with your new u->self initialization method it will be much easier now if this initialization will be moved from pinfo_init() to some earlier place. But we shouldn't change fork mechanism now till dllinit patch will be applied. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job.