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FW: Random fork failures
- From: "Carter, Mark Andrew (Andy)" <andy dot carter at flightsafety dot com>
- To: "cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 08:22:08 -0500
- Subject: FW: Random fork failures
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We are experiencing an increasing frequency of fork failures in moving our 32 bit application to Windows 10. Rebaseall is only a temporary fix. Preliminary unit testing using this "https://github.com/s-u/multicore/blob/master/src/forknt.c" code have been successful. Would it be fruitful to replace the Cygwin fork with this implementation? I do not want to waste my time repeating another's work or pursuing a known dead end.
- Andy Carter