DLL loading

[Ryan Johnson]

On 24/05/2011 3:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 02:43:23PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> But...if one were inclined to go that direction, then I like Ryan's
>> alternate idea of using a dummy "stub" executable -- with no deps other
>> than cygwin1.dll -- to manage setting up the child's memory map and
>> loading (real, actual, pei-386) dlls, before handing off to the "real"
>> .exe.  That way, little changes except inside the cgywin1.dll (I assume
>> the "stub" exe would be a single, unique exe that cygwin1.dll uses to
>> manage fork() regardless of the exe of the actual forker or eventual
>> forkee()/exec().
> For the record, the idea of using a dummy stub for fork/exec was first
> floated in a Cygwin team meeting at Cygnus more than ten years ago.
What killed it?

Ryan