Re: Fork and Windows Heap

2016-06-15 Thread Bill Zissimopoulos
Renà Berber wrote: > On 6/15/2016 7:42 PM, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: > > (1) Is my assumption that Windows heaps are not properly cloned after a > > fork correct? A 2011 post [2] seems to suggest so. > > (2) Is there any workaround that the WinFsp DLL can use to get around >this > > limitation an

Re: Fork and Windows Heap

2016-06-15 Thread René Berber
On 6/15/2016 7:42 PM, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: [snip] > WinFsp consists of an FSD (file system driver) and a DLL component. The > WinFsp DLL uses the Windows heap functions to manage memory > (HeapAlloc/HeapFree). It seems that the Windows heap is not properly > cloned after a fork, which leads t

Fork and Windows Heap

2016-06-15 Thread Bill Zissimopoulos
I am the creator of WinFsp [1], a user mode file system solution for Windows (i.e. FUSE for Windows). WinFsp has its own API, but I have been working on adding a FUSE (high-level) API using SSHFS as my primary test case. This has proven to work very well, except for one important problem which is t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Re: [Updated] Perl distributions

2016-06-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > Due to a problem during upload, these packages have been re-released as > *-2 and the previous *-1 release has been removed: > > perl-Business-ISBN-2.011-2 > perl-Mojolicious-6.64-2 > perl-Regexp-Common-2016060801-2 > perl-XML-LibXML-2.0125-2 Also affected by this problem and