> On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 13:47, Joerg Hessdoerfer wrote: > > So, my route would be to get it to run *somehow* without paying > > attention to speed and not to change much of the existing code, > > THEN see how we could get rid of fork() on windows. > What is the biggest problem here? The Shmem/IPC stuff, or the fork() stuff? I'm think that we could do a fork() implementation in usermode by copying the memory allocations. How fast that would be regarding the context switches, i don't know, but i'm willing to experiment some to see how feesible this is... Anyone tried this before? Magnus
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