A real fork() on NT
Christopher January
ccj00@doc.ic.ac.uk
Mon Feb 4 07:12:00 GMT 2002
> >I've got the book; I have a DLL that exports a function called fork and
> >I'm seeing what can be done to get it to work with kdeinit. A lot of
> >programs do: if (fork() == 0) exec(...) and this could be replaced by
> >spawn(...) anyway, but kdeinit does a bit more work.
>
> So, use vfork(). We already have an implementation that does the right
> thing in that case.
That wouldn't work.
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