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Allocating on the cygheap would copy information of the tracker into the child process. A forked child knows the timer id and could simply still access the (free'd but still valid) timer_tracker on the heap, which is dangerous and very certainly doesn't reflect POSIX semantics. Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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