On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:52:46PM -0000, Chris January wrote: >>What proof of concept? The book has a "proof of concept". It's the >>niggling details that are the problem. >> >>You'd need a real implementation to prove that it is workable. >> >>Why do I get the feeling that no one is interested in actually looking >>at the working code from the referenced book? > >I've got the book; I have a DLL that exports a function called fork and >I'm seeing what can be done to get it to work with kdeinit. A lot of >programs do: if (fork() == 0) exec(...) and this could be replaced by >spawn(...) anyway, but kdeinit does a bit more work.
So, use vfork(). We already have an implementation that does the right thing in that case. 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/