Analysis of D GC

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 20/06/2017 12:41 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2017-06-20 06:37, ketmar wrote:
> 
>> it is higly depends of undocumented windows internals, and not 
>> portable between windows versions. more-or-less working 
>> implementations of `fork()` were existed at least since NT3 era, but 
>> nobody considered 'em as more than a PoC, and even next service pack 
>> can break everything.
> 
> I'm wondering what Windows 10 is using to implement "fork" for Windows 
> Subsystem for Linux. If it's using these internal functions or something 
> else.

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that it was a posix layer specific 
syscall, meaning we can't from a native Windows process.