Greetings, Bence Szépkúti! > Hello,
> I was poking around in the fork() code in Cygwin, and was wondering if > someone could explain to me / point me to a discussion of why the NEWVFORK > code was abandoned. > I realise that this code had been disabled as "not working" since 2008, > however I am interested in why this was the case. Was the concept behind > "short-circuiting" vfork itself unfeasible in the context of Cygwin? Was a > compatible implementation too complex / too slow to be worth it compared to > a regular fork? > Any insight is appreciated. I could be wrong, but it may be due to a more reliable ways to implement forking that became available in Win7+. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, July 27, 2019 13:34:49 Sorry for my terrible english...
