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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-03-26 21:14:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-03-26 21:14:54 +0100 |
| commit | 3268d34951db85a913d227b637759c57e6d13f37 (patch) | |
| tree | 77d1285b96539d1e5aaad002bcac2ab1d4c36944 | |
| parent | 4f90536eeffb05781f7f33c153f17041eeeeb482 (diff) | |
open_issues/performance/fork: Suggest some reading about Windows / Cygwin issues.
| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/performance/fork.mdwn | 23 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/open_issues/performance/fork.mdwn b/open_issues/performance/fork.mdwn index 2748be53..5ceb6455 100644 --- a/open_issues/performance/fork.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/performance/fork.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -14,3 +14,24 @@ Our [[`fork` implementation|glibc/fork]] is nontrivial. To do: hard numbers. [[Microbenchmarks]]? + + +# Windows / Cygwin + + * <http://www.google.com/search?q=cygwin+fork> + + * <http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/cygnus/cygnus_cygwin/architecture.html> + + In particular, *5.6. Process Creation*. + + * <http://archive.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=360290> + + * <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/how-cygheap-works.txt?cvsroot=src> + + > Cygwin has recently adopted something called the "cygwin heap". This is + > an internal heap that is inherited by forked/execed children. It + > consists of process specific information that should be inherited. So + > things like the file descriptor table, the current working directory, and + > the chroot value live there. + + * <http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=588994> |