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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 14:50:23 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de>
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To: Ulf Holm Nielsen <doktor AT dyregod DOT dk>
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Subject: Re: Using fork in jni
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i wonder what fork() does, when it is called by a library a app uses.

i think the app is forked too, so you would fork the JVM which is a 
thing that you must not do.

in addition the JVM is threaded! so fork() is the wrong thing here - 
even under Linux i think.

Ulf Holm Nielsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use fork under jni but my program crashes, i searched the 
> archives and found that this might be related to some hack to load 
> cygwin from non-cygwin apps. But is there any way i can get this to work?
> 
> I'm compiling my dll with:
> 
> gcc -Ic:/j2sdk1.4.0/include -Ic:/j2sdk1.4.0/include/win32 
> -Wl,--add-stdcall-alias -shared -s -o mydll.dll
> 
> regards
> 
> Ulf Holm Nielsen
> 
> 
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