On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:27:21PM -0800, Greg Mosier wrote: >P.S. I would have dropped this awhile back with the exception of the cron >application. It appears to fork quite nicely under Win98, my OS. Now maybe >I'm wrong here, but seems to me if one app can fork that surely another >should be able to, no?
Cygwin fork works just fine. It's slow but it should work as well as UNIX fork for a ported application. The only exception that I can think of is if you use dlopen to load a non-cygwin DLL. In that case there is a problem with relocation of the DLL after a fork. If you consider the number of applications that have been ported to cygwin, it would be pretty amazing if there was some basic problem with fork. cgf -- 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/
