On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Win32, the original state of the memory is treated as genuin state for >each process. Therefore child processes don't inherit the changes from >their parent processes but instead they begin with a fresh unchanged memory >as it was before the first process wrote to it.
Right. I played around with various uses of VirtualProtect to try to work around this with no luck. It was almost like Microsoft was purposely twarting what seems like a reasonable use of memory mapping. 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/
