On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:00 AM, <andreas....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure do what degree we can replicate on Windows what we do on FFOS to
> launch content processes.


The Cygwin people have looked into fork() in Windows a bit. Some links:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2011-04/msg00036.html
https://github.com/kaniini/win32-fork/blob/master/fork.c
It doesn't look promising. Maybe if would work if we ever get to the point
where a content process doesn't need to use any Win32 APIs.

We might be able to do something Nuwa-like where Gecko subsystems use an
explicit shared data segment which is a copy-on-write view of a file.

Rob
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