running cygwin apps(gcc etc.) under wine

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at baikal.ru
Wed Dec 18 00:19:55 CST 2002


"Chris Morgan" <cmorgan at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:

> Ahh, very cool.  Is there anything we can do to keep cygwin from replacing 
> wines/libc's fork with its own and presumably fix this problem?

I'm afraid it's impossible to replace cygwin's fork by an one from libc.
Cygwin makes some assumptions about "environment" where it runs and
accordingly patches virtual memory of a newly created process to mimic
fork behaviour.

-- 
Dmitry.






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