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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