From: frederij@sqlg.co.uk (Frederick Jowett) Subject: MSVC++, fork() and cygwin.dll 20 Feb 1997 03:49:22 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'GnuWin Mailing List'" X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.993.5 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Hi folks, I'm porting some code from UNIX (developed on Solaris 2.5) to NT (4.0 workstation), and my biggest bugbear at the moment is the inclusion of fork() calls within the code. Since the Cygwin library (using beta 17) provides fork functionality, I've been experimenting with a couple of very simple C programs to basically demonstrate the forking process. I can build such a program using gcc, and it seems to work fine. However, when I try the same with Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2, the code builds ok, but crashes upon execution of the fork() call (with an "Access Violation"). Does anyone know how to build such a program with MSVC? (I'm assuming it's some kind of linking problem). Thanks, Fred Jowett The SQL Group frederij@sqlg.co.uk - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".