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Bash on Windows. Repeat, Microsoft demos Bash on Windows

patrickstar

Windows has it already, since many moons ago.

See ntos\mm\forksup.c in the Windows kernel source: "This module contains the routines which support the POSIX fork operation."

Though as someone else mentioned already, it's a poor fit performance-wise for the Windows way of doing process-y memory management-y things.

Reusing the address space of an existing process is definitely supported however, though not exposed by the Win32 API AFAIK.

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