Extend faq.using to discuss fork failures

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 3 21:05:00 GMT 2011


On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 04:35:25PM +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>On 30/08/2011 14:41, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> That sounds reasonable, though I suspect we'd want want to keep the concluding
>> bits in the FAQ as well. Unfortunately, summertime free time has come to an
>> end so I don't know when I'll get to this next. Perhaps a good compromise for
>> now would be for you to post only the first FAQ question? That would at least
>> cut traffic to the cygwin ML a bit.
>
>I've updated Ryan's patch to hopefully address the comments made, polished the 
>language a bit in places, and split it into a patch for the FAQ which just 
>says how to fix problems and a patch for the UG which contains the technical 
>details.

>Index: doc/faq-using.xml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml,v
>retrieving revision 1.35
>diff -u -p -r1.35 faq-using.xml
>--- doc/faq-using.xml	4 Aug 2011 18:25:41 -0000	1.35
>+++ doc/faq-using.xml	3 Nov 2011 16:26:56 -0000
>@@ -1099,7 +1099,7 @@ it.</para>
> IPv6 stack, see the <ulink url="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/ipv6/ipv6faq.mspx">Microsoft TechNet IPv6 FAQ article</ulink>
> </para></answer></qandaentry>
> 
>-<qandaentry id="faq.using.bloda">
>+<qandaentry id="faq.using.bloda" xreflabel="BLODA">
> <question><para>What applications have been found to interfere with Cygwin?</para></question>
> <answer>
> 
>@@ -1199,3 +1199,38 @@ such as virtual memory paging and file c
> </listitem>
> </itemizedlist></para>
> </answer></qandaentry>
>+
>+<qandaentry id='faq.using.fixing-fork-failures'>
>+  <question><para>How do I fix <literal>fork()</literal> failures?</para></question>
>+  <answer>
>+  <para>Unfortunately, Windows can be quite hostile to a

I would still prefer eschewing actively negative words like "hostile" and just
neutrally stating that Windows does not use a fork/exec model and does not offer
any easy way to implement fork.

I'd also like to see specific errors mentioned so that when people are searching for
a solution to the problem they will be able to find it in the FAQ.

cgf



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