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Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Typically in a multithreaded environment vfork is mapped to fork anyway.

...which is what I don't understand about this whole thread.  It seems
Dave is seeing some strange behavior in Cygwin, but Cygwin's vfork =
fork, there is no difference.  There used to be a vfork specialization
in Cygwin, but it is broken and has not been enabled in quite a long
time.

Brian