fork + dlls
Jeff Sturm
jsturm@sigma6.com
Fri Aug 21 07:44:00 GMT 1998
Are you using dlopen() or LoadLibrary()? If you use the latter fork()
does not (and probably cannot) preserve dynamic libraries.
Tim Newsham wrote:
> When you manually load a dll, and then perform a fork, the dll
> is not accessible from the child process. When you think about what
> is going on here, it makes sense. My question though is, is this the
> way fork should behave? Or should (could) the fork code reload the
> dll in the child process after a fork? It seems that this would
> more closely follow the expected fork semantics.
--
Jeff Sturm
jsturm@sigma6.com
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