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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST: Cygwin 3.0.0-0.7
On 2/8/19 2:28 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> I pushed your forkable branch to master, btw. Would you mind to do the
> honors in the ;rease notes at cygwin/release/3.0 and doc/new-features.xml?
Do you mean like this?
/haubi/
>From 0461e0a552caf0c58ab7999cfd2849c7180f7d30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Haubenwallner <michael.haubenwallner@ssi-schaefer.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:38:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] forkables: add release notes
---
winsup/cygwin/release/3.0 | 10 ++++++++++
winsup/doc/new-features.xml | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.0 b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.0
index 4cd422a56..ef45e9f9d 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.0
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.0
@@ -66,6 +66,16 @@ What changed:
Native Windows processes not started by Cygwin processes are mapped
into the range beyond 65535.
+- Limited to executables and dlls located on the very same NTFS partition
+ as the Cygwin installation itself, and disabled by default, fork(2) now
+ is able to recover from when the executable or any dll required to load
+ into the new child process was removed or replaced since being loaded
+ into the parent process, or a dll with different content is found in the
+ parent process' current directory. To enable this recovery feature, the
+ following command has to be executed once per Cygwin installation, with
+ subsequent shutdown of all Cygwin processes (or reboot), so the first
+ Cygwin process does find this directory existing:
+ $ mkdir --mode=a=rwxt /var/run/cygfork
Bug Fixes
---------
diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
index 6801e3eeb..316a7446a 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
@@ -107,6 +107,18 @@ Native Windows processes not started by Cygwin processes are mapped
into the range beyond 65535.
</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>
+Limited to executables and dlls located on the very same NTFS partition
+as the Cygwin installation itself, and disabled by default, fork(2) now
+is able to recover from when the executable or any dll required to load
+into the new child process was removed or replaced since being loaded
+into the parent process, or a dll with different content is found in the
+parent process' current directory. To enable this recovery feature, the
+following command has to be executed once per Cygwin installation, with
+subsequent shutdown of all Cygwin processes (or reboot), so the first
+Cygwin process does find this directory existing:
+$ mkdir --mode=a=rwxt /var/run/cygfork
+</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
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