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From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: Fork Speedup?
2 Feb 1998 06:14:30 -0800 :
Message-ID: <Enr8EH.1t9.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@bbc.com>
References: <01BD2FCE DOT E270E5A0 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>
Reply-To: gnu-win32-developers AT cygnus DOT com
To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

In article <01BD2FCE DOT E270E5A0 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>,
Sergey Okhapkin  <gnu-win32-developers AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> It just occurred to me that fork might be a little faster if the
>> sequence of events was something like:
>>
>
>I've tried this some time ago and had a lot of troubles with cygwin.dll 
>initialization sequence (mainly with u->self pointer). Probably, with your 
>new u->self initialization method it will be much easier now if this 
>initialization will be moved from pinfo_init() to some earlier place. But 
>we shouldn't change fork mechanism now till dllinit patch will be applied.

That's what got me thinking, actually.  I know that your new mechanism
changes things in the fork code.  The last time I looked, it actually had
a few more "sychronization events" between parent and child than previously.
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