Brian Ford wrote: > We have an application that mmaps a *huge* MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON virtual > address scratch space. It also needs to occasionally fork/exec a sub > process. Unfortunately, the time and virtual memory required for Cygwin > to copy this region to the forked child just so it can throw it away and > do an exec is prohibitive if it's even possible.
How about the the spawn*() family of functions? Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/