> 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. Coincidentally, I was looking into a similar thing myself. Windows NT has a POSIX subsystem that's capable of doing fork()'s so it is obviously possible. Have you any ideas of the arguments passed to the function or what it returns?
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