On 03/30/2016 08:55 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: > > > On 03/30/2016 11:53 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> this is the updated and split series of patches to use hardlinks >> for creating the child process by fork(), in reply to >> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2016-01/msg00002.html >> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2016-03/msg00005.html >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.devel/1378 >> >> Thanks for review! >> /haubi/ >> >> > > Creating a new process now requires a write operation on the filesystem > hosting the binary? Seriously? I don't think that's worth it no matter > the other benefits. >
Only if the original binaries necessary to create the new child process by fork() are not available any more - and the /var/run/cygfork/ directory does exist and is on NTFS. I do prefer a working fork() even when updating dlls and executables while the parent process is running. /haubi/