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From: | Matthew Nicholson |
Subject: | Re: [Monotone-devel] Win32 fork() for test suite (was: new test --no-workspace) |
Date: | Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:12:29 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) |
Zack Weinberg wrote:
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Stephen Leake p.s.: legendarily, there *is* an undocumented Win32 system call equivalent to fork(); anyone who wants to find that and use it instead of this rather rube-goldberg mechanism will probably be rewarded with a faster test suite.
A quick google search appears to point to NtCreateProcess as having similar functionality as the unix fork() function.
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Development/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel/2008-04/msg00272.html http://undocumented.ntinternals.net/UserMode/Undocumented%20Functions/NT%20Objects/Process/NtCreateProcess.html -- Matthew Nicholson matt-land.com
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