Re: [Monotone-devel] Win32 fork() for test suite (was: new test --no-workspace)

[Matthew Nicholson]

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

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