From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13389 invoked by alias); 12 Oct 2011 08:27:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 12829 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Oct 2011 08:27:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:26:46 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 5456B2CBDB1; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:26:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:27:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Add support for Windows 8, first step Message-ID: <20111012082643.GA10913@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com References: <4E949B40.20402@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4E949B40.20402@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-patches-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Archive: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-patches-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-q4/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 Hi Teemu, First of all, we need a copyright assignment from you before we can accept non-trivial patches to Cygwin, see http://cygwin.com/contrib.html, the "Before you get started" section. On Oct 11 22:38, Teemu Nätkinniemi wrote: > Hello! > > Here's a small patch that enables Cygwin to run on Windows 8 (tested > on x64 build 8102, the Windows Developer Preview). Windows 8 does > not seem to support FAST_CWD or the current implementation of > FAST_CWD is not compatible with Windows 8 so it is disabled at the > moment. Windows 8 will very likely support the FAST_CWD stuff, the problem is just to find out how to find the global pointer pointing to the current FAST_CWD structure, and then, if the FAST_CWD structure changed. Having this annoying message at startup was intentional, so that we know that there's some work to do yet. However, personally I don't plan to look into W8 so soon. Stuff like that is bound to change this early in the release game anyway. Therefore I don't want to disable this message. If you're interested to get rid of it, it would be most helpful trying to track down how to find the global FAST_CWD pointer in W8. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat