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RE: Two fixup routines in fork_child seem misplaced (Corinna, Robert)
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:34:38 +1100
- Subject: RE: Two fixup routines in fork_child seem misplaced (Corinna, Robert)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:23 AM
> There is obviously no shm usage these days. I didn't look
> closely enough to see if the regions that are being mapped
> are coming from the parent. Maybe they're just coming from
> the server, now that I think about it. That would make more sense.
IIRC (I'm 75% through a PC rebuild) the shm doesn't need any data from
the parent. All it does it walk the local cache of shm entries, and
syncronise with the server for required handles. I will check in the
next day or two however.
Rob