When looking at XP's CreateProcessW (or rather, CreateProcessInternalW) I noticed something strange about the way it creates a process. It seems that NT is sort of capable of a fork() command. The function NtCreateProcess appears to create a "blank" process, into which you can put anything you want. After NtCreateProcess, kernel32 maps the EXE into that new process's memory space, creates a thread, and finally calls NtResumeThread to start its execution.
If this long, nasty, scattered function could be reverse engineered, it should be possible to create a true fork() for NT, instead of doing the normal cygwin "hack" method. -- Barubary -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
