In article <48ae7b6a$0$6019$ba620dc5@text.nova.planet.nl>,
Erik van der Kouwe wrote:
>This suggests, by the way, that it might work if the data and stack
>segments are separate. There may be a good chance that the data segment
>does not get written to by the child.

The data segment and the stack segment have to be the same (or you need a
C compiler that is segment-aware).

The parent and the child receive different reply messages, so the child's
data segment is already dirty before fork even returns.


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