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Re: Fork and Windows Heap
- From: Bill Zissimopoulos <billziss at navimatics dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:11:51 +0000
- Subject: Re: Fork and Windows Heap
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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