Cygwin Subprocesses on XEmacs

Vin Shelton acs@xemacs.org
Thu Jan 29 11:49:00 GMT 2015


On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 28 22:32, Vin Shelton wrote:
>> I think I have verified this behavior - I restored the old sysdep.c
>> module and moved the disconnect_controlling_terminal() call [which
>> calls setsid()] from right after the fork() to just before the exec()
>> call and M-x shell works on Cygwin as it always has on linux.
>
> Good news!  So the XEmacs code is in a state now that Volker can
> start creating a Cygwin package?

Yes, the 21.4 code in the hg repository builds and runs on Cygwin.

Regards,
  Vin



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