On Mon, 22 Sep 2025, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin wrote: > Greetings! > > Why does Cygwin not use MiCloneProcessAddressSpace() for fork()? That > function was added for the Windows Services for UNIX, and it still > working in Windows 11. > > Mark >
This is a perennial question, and the short answer is that it doesn't play well with win32 dlls. Replies turned up via simple search: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2016-January/225571.html https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2018-January/235767.html -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
