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@ 2021-03-23 15:58 Corinna Vinschen
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From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2021-03-23 15:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
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https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=f578883232d578bd83132f1f94a7f6826a74048e

commit f578883232d578bd83132f1f94a7f6826a74048e
Author: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Date:   Tue Mar 23 16:54:23 2021 +0100

    Cygwin: add "app execution aliases" treatment to release notes
    
    Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>

Diff:
---
 winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0 | 4 ++++
 winsup/doc/new-features.xml | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0 b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0
index 421b94a98..828ef5610 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ What changed:
 
 - facl(2) now fails with EBADF on a file opened with O_PATH.
 
+- Allow to start Windows Store executables via their "app execution
+  aliases".  Handle these aliases (which are special reparse points)
+  as symlinks to the actual executables.
+
 
 Bug Fixes
 ---------
diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
index d59fc12c4..5ec36e409 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ work.
 facl(2) now fails with EBADF on a file opened with O_PATH.
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>
+- Allow to start Windows Store executables via their "app execution
+  aliases".  Handle these aliases (which are special reparse points)
+  as symlinks to the actual executables.
+</para></listitem>
+
 </itemizedlist>
 
 </sect2>


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