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Re: Question of the necessity of rebaseall
> Remember, the semantics of fork is that BOTH processes (the parent and
> child) must see the SAME memory, and that includes all shared libraries
> being mapped at the SAME location. ÂBut since Windows doesn't provide a
> native fork, the child must remap everything that the parent had, and hope
> that it lands at the same place. ÂRebasing improves the chance that the
> child will remap, because there are fewer dlls to be remapped in an
> arbitrary order.
Shudder. I wonder whether MS's own POSIX layer, the snappily named
"Services for Unix Applications", has to go through the same
contortions or whether there isn't some hidden fork support somewhere.
Andy
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