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Re: fork + dlls
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- Subject: Re: fork + dlls
- From: cgf at cygnus dot com (Christopher G. Faylor)
- Date: 21 Aug 1998 01:31:39 GMT
- Newsgroups: cygnus.gnu-win32
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <m0z9Gp9-0010zOC.cygnus.gnu-win32@malasada.lava.net>
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In article <m0z9Gp9-0010zOC.cygnus.gnu-win32@malasada.lava.net>,
Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net> 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.
If you use UNIX semantics (dlopen) to load the .dll then the .dll
should be automatically loaded on a fork.
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