From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Heap split - cannot fork:-)
25 Mar 1998 23:31:00 -0800
Message-ID: <01BD589F.06258B10.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
To: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'Christopher Faylor'" <cgf AT bbc DOT com>

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I guess the correct solution is to copy a split heap correctly on fork.
> It shouldn't be *that* hard.
>

Not the best solution too :-( If an application provides its own malloc, 
this malloc may fail with a splitted heap. We need a continous heap.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia