From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: fork() fails for network-mounted executables 25 Jan 1997 10:44:51 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC0B00.29F2BA10.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Shankar Unni'" Original-Cc: "noer@cygnus.com" Encoding: 14 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Shankar Unni wrote: > On Windows 95, if an executable calling fork() lives in a > network-mounted directory, the fork() fails with errno = 13 (EACCES - > Permission denied). > > Here's a simple example. If you put this executable on a network-mounted > drive, it will fail. If it is on a local drive, it will succeed: > I just tried this program on NT 4.0. No problems. -- Sergey Okhapkin Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".