[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST: Cygwin 3.0.0-0.7
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Feb 8 17:00:00 GMT 2019
On Feb 8 17:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 8 17:35, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> It's not bad but for release notes it's rather long. Any chance to get
> a more compact text? Also, please add a "Cygwin: " prefix to the log
> message summary. I'd like to distinguish CYgwin-only changes from
> newlib changes.
OTOH, if you want to extend the documentation, feel free...
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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