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. Thanks, Bence -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
