On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Irek Szczesniak <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:07 PM, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Subject: Re: Re: [uwin-users] uwin-users Digest, Vol 98, Issue 5
>> --------
>>
>>> my guess is the uwin fork/exec code would run afoul of wine's emulation
>>> that itself probably uses fork/exec and stands on its head trying to hide 
>>> that
>>
>> I don't know why this would be a problem assuming that the WINE
>> emulation of CreateProcess() doesn't randomly lay out the address space.
>> That means that two calls to CreateProcess() with the same arguments
>> should put shared libraries at the same address.
>>
>> UWIN uses only WIN32 calls so that if WINE implements WIN32 faithfully,
>> then in theory UWIN would work on WINE.
>
> Does posix.dll implement posix_spawn()? IMO a native posix_spawn()
> implementation would avoid the trouble of a fork(), exec() sequence

Glenn?

Irek
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