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From: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer AT sanwaint DOT com>
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Subject: RE: problem with fork/exec in Cygwin DLL called from non-Cygwin E
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:26:00 -0000 
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"Chris Faylor" writes:
>Since fork/exec are not aware of LoadLibrary calls, I am surprised that you
>would see any success anywhere.  dlopen() may work better.

I was using LoadLibrary in an attempt to emulate whatever
Excel is doing.  The real goal is to be able to use 
fork/exec/etc from Cygwin-capable DLLs called from Excel.

>It doesn't know about
>your use of LoadLibrary so it doesn't duplicate it.  Then, the code tries
to
>jump into func() which doesn't exist.

Hmm ...

Do you think adding a cygwin_record_dll() hook would be
too ugly?

Thanks.

Eric Fifer