fork/socket, gethostnamebyaddress, wait3

Tim Newsham newsham@aloha.net
Sun Jun 22 15:40:00 GMT 1997


> 1) fork/socket: An Unix child process inherits all open file descriptors,
>    including any socket descriptor. In the gnuwin32 environment the socket 
>    descriptors in the child process,i.e. after a fork are  NOT available.
>    Socket descriptors are NOT inherited.

I tested this out under NT and it worked properly.  I do have
Sergie's updates applied.

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> Delft University of Technology 	   email: rene@cas.et.tudelft.nl
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