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Re: Fork and Windows Heap


Hi, Corinna:

> You are correct.  Cygwin fork only clones the datastructures explicitely
> set up by Cygwin and stuff allocated using Cygwin's POSIX API.
>
> You can't simply clone a Windows heap for various reasons...

Thank you for your detailed response and explanation.

Bill


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