On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:58:50PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: >I can't prove a fact, that forking is the most anonying problem and there were >some initial work from some people (I remember Chris Faylor, Chris January and >other) to identify the problems and to implement a new copy-on-write semantic, >which will be much faster,
You misremember. I did hobble together a copy-on-write implementation and found that it was actually slower. The generic win32 implementation of copy-on-write isn't powerful enough to completely implement fork anyway. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/