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Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:13:36AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>On Win32, the original state of the memory is treated as genuin state for
>>each process. Therefore child processes don't inherit the changes from
>>their parent processes but instead they begin with a fresh unchanged memory
>>as it was before the first process wrote to it.
>
>Right. I played around with various uses of VirtualProtect to try to
>work around this with no luck. It was almost like Microsoft was purposely
>twarting what seems like a reasonable use of memory mapping.
Make that "thwarting". Stupid keyboard.
cgf
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