rebase problem for cygcurl-2.dll still existing?!

[Nicholas Wourms]

Robert Collins wrote:

>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com 
>>[mailto:cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Nicholas Wourms
>>Sent: Wednesday, 17 July 2002 10:09 PM
>>To: Jason Tishler
>>Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
>>Subject: Re: rebase problem for cygcurl-2.dll still existing?!
>>
>>
>>Jason Tishler wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Is that a deficiency of cygwin as a whole, or just related 
>>>>
>>to the way
>>
>>>>my DLL was built?)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Cygwin's fork() attempts to load DLLs in the child in the 
>>>
>>same location
>>
>>>as in the parent.  If it fails, then the child aborts.
>>>
>>>
>>Other than the lack of someone writing the code, is there any 
>>reason why 
>>fork() can't automagically try another location?  Is this 
>>even possible? 
>> Or does it go against the way Cygwin/Windows works?
>>
>
>It goes against the way fork works. 
>
>Take a pointer foo with value bar. After fork, *foo must equal *foo
>before the fork. If bar points into a dll, and the dll is mapped
>somewhere else, then after fork *foo != *foo before the fork.
>
Thank you, Rob.  That clears things up for me.  :-)

Cheers,
Nicholas