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A real fork() on NT


When looking at XP's CreateProcessW (or rather, CreateProcessInternalW) I
noticed something strange about the way it creates a process.  It seems that
NT is sort of capable of a fork() command.  The function NtCreateProcess
appears to create a "blank" process, into which you can put anything you
want.  After NtCreateProcess, kernel32 maps the EXE into that new process's
memory space, creates a thread, and finally calls NtResumeThread to start
its execution.

If this long, nasty, scattered function could be reverse engineered, it
should be possible to create a true fork() for NT, instead of doing the
normal cygwin "hack" method.

-- Barubary


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