From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 41799 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2016 16:25:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 41789 invoked by uid 89); 11 Jan 2016 16:25:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:sk:56924AB, facility, recall, H*r:envelope-sender X-HELO: etr-usa.com Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:25:44 +0000 Received: (qmail 71513 invoked by uid 13447); 11 Jan 2016 16:25:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO polypore.west.etr-usa.com) ([73.26.17.49]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 11 Jan 2016 16:25:42 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Subject: Re: Windows XP Support From: Warren Young In-Reply-To: <20160111115221.GC32610@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:05:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <970602BE-CBDF-4191-9CF1-11C855CDCAFE@etr-usa.com> References: <56924AB1.1070903@gmx.de> <20160111115221.GC32610@calimero.vinschen.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00117.txt.bz2 On Jan 11, 2016, at 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen w= rote: >=20 > Continuing support for XP and Server 2003 is really becoming a > burden. It requires to code and maintain workarounds which are not > required anymore in newer OSes, so I really would like to get rid of > that stuff. I seem to recall you saying that Vista added a fork-like facility to the ke= rnel which might let Cygwin implement a copy-on-write fork(2). Would dropp= ing XP support allow that? If so, that would probably speed Cygwin up quite a bit in many common use c= ases: running autoconf configure scripts, Makefiles, etc. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple