Am 21.01.2018 um 11:56 schrieb Marco Atzeri: > On 21/01/2018 16:32, Jay K wrote: >>>> I have some desire to discuss fork. >> I know it is an old and difficult topic. >>>> I found this: >>>> Â Â "Cygwin fork and RtlCloneUserProcess" >> Â Â https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/afdf1b68-1f3e-47f5-94cf-51e397afe073/cygwin-fork-and-rtlcloneuserprocess?forum=windowsgeneraldevelopmentissues >>>> NT has had fork since v1. >> The Posix subsystem used it. >> If you look at the several Corinna's tentatives of having any info > on the Microsoft forum the problem is the lack of official documentation > of the details. >> Without details no solution can be implemented that is guaranteed > to work on all existing and hopefully future version of Windows. >> Cygwin can only use official external API and not hidden internal one. There was this mail from Microsoft, offering support in case Windows 10 would raise console problems with cygwin: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-04/msg00623.html While this was particularly about the console, maybe this offer could be used for a request to provide official documentation of that system call, so it could then be used? Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple