Re:Ubuntu on Windows
by bpye on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @02:02PM
(#11391508)
http://stackoverflow.com/a/67293/3965517 indicates that NT does support fork properly, just not exposed to usermode normally.
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fork() is exposed to user mode, but it's an undocumented private API. Pass the handle of the parent process as the 4th parameter and TRUE as the 5th parameter to NtCreateProcess: http://undocumented.ntinternals.net/index.html?page=UserMode...
The problem is that the Win32 user mode system will fight you every step of the way: CSRSS will not understand what you just did, for example. It's not generally worth it.