> I would certainly agree with you about that, but the fact remains, a lot > of code, that cygwin exists to ease the porting of, uses it. If the work > was done on fork itself, it would help speed-up a lot more that just > configure (or similar) scripts. > > Stephano Mariani
The thing is, a lot of work *has* been done to make fork as efficient as possible. But there's a limit on how fast you can create a new process and duplicate the current one into it. And Windows doesn't go out of its way to help. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- 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/
