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Re: Pfork()

Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu> writes:

|> I guess this is a stupid question, but if it's so that Pfork gives the new
|> process a *copy* of the DATA and BSS segments, why doesn't the
|> AES/VDI-bindings get a new copy of their global arrays?

They do, but the AES/VDI still does not know anything about the split.
Thus they will behave as if the two forked processes are one and the same.

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