From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Heap split - cannot fork:-)
24 Mar 1998 07:57:27 -0800
Message-ID: <01BD5723.EB8CB160.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
To: "'cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>Here is the temporary fix - reserve a large amount of memory for heap to avoid fork problem. >The fix doesn't affect performance.

A small test suite - look at values returned by malloc with and without the fix:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main ()
{
        int i;
        for (i=0; i<20; i++)
	       	printf ("%p\n", malloc(1024*1024*1));
}

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