From: dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: RE: DLL Data and Copy-on-write (was RE: Why is cygwin.dll?)
20 Jan 1997 21:24:24 -0800
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Original-To: colin@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp
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Hi, you wrote:

: NT does copy on write. When calling VirtualAlloc:
[...]

I'd also like to see COW used by fork().
[Reminds me about system() and [v]fork(), you'll read that soon!]

After all, modern unixes don't have it just for fun,
it results in better performance and response time and lower resource
usage, as only a small portion might be actually modified.
But I can understand if implementing it has lower priority...


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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