With the 20120523 snapshot, if a process attempts to fork/exec another
program which depends on a DLL which is missing, the PID created by
fork() spins:
* in taskmgr, the forked process is listed as an instance of the program
which called fork() (as usual);
* this PID ties up one CPU core (e.g. 25% CPU usage on a quad-core machine);
* in ps(1), the same PID is displayed as the program which was attempted
to be execed;
* /bin/kill does not work on this PID, even with -f.
This is on Win7 x64.
Yaakov
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