In POSIX, there is the fork() function to create a sub-process. How can I achieve fork()‘s functionality in Windows?
In POSIX, there is the fork() function to create a sub-process. How can I
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In POSIX, there is the fork() function to create a sub-process. How can I achieve fork()‘s functionality in Windows?
There is no direct equivalent of
fork()on Windows.CreateProcess()is the native function that can be used to create a new process (but, again, the semantics are rather different tofork()‘s).To put this another way, on Unix it is possible for a process to cheaply create a clone of itself. There is no inexpensive way to do this on Windows.
If you don’t care about the cloning aspect of
fork(), thenCreateProcess()should do just fine.