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Re: would appreciate help with anon-mmap replacement
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: would appreciate help with anon-mmap replacement
- From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:56:23 -0500
- CC: Zack Weinberg <zackw at stanford dot edu>, cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20010109220149.J2032@wolery.stanford.edu> <3A5C794F.407322D6@yahoo.com>
Earnie -
Apparently Zack tried to get something like this pushed into the
kernel, but for esoteric reasons beyond my ken the fix required by gcc
will break cygwin's fork(). That's why Zack is trying to roll his own
for gcc; gcc doesn't use fork().
See:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/msg01475.html
and thread.
--Chuck
Earnie Boyd wrote:
> This approach causes everyone to have to figure out what to do and may
> possibly break with newer versions of the runtime. Please reconsider
> where your patches should be applied and help with fixing the runtime
> library. Once it is fixed in the runtime then others don't have to
> think about it.
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