Andreas Schwab wrote: > Typically in a multithreaded environment vfork is mapped to fork anyway.
...which is what I don't understand about this whole thread. It seems Dave is seeing some strange behavior in Cygwin, but Cygwin's vfork = fork, there is no difference. There used to be a vfork specialization in Cygwin, but it is broken and has not been enabled in quite a long time. Brian