On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:06:33PM -0500, Sean Daley wrote: >As part of an application we're developing, we use >CreateFileMapping/MapViewOfFile to be able to share information among >processes. I noticed today that if I try to reference the map >immediately after calling fork() but before calling exec, that my >application will crash. > >I should be able to resolve this in my app but I was just curious if >this was unexpected behavior or not.
No. It is not unexpected. Cygwin is intended to emulate linux. CreateFileMapping is not a linux function. If you want to use Windows functions for this type of thing you probably shouldn't be using Cygwin. Maybe you really want to use MinGW (http://mingw.org). Either that or you should be using linux/unix alike functions like mmap(). -- 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/
