Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST: Cygwin 3.0.0-0.7

[Michael Haubenwallner <michael.haubenwallner@ssi-schaefer.com>]

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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/

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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
 
 Bug Fixes
 ---------
diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
index 6801e3eeb..316a7446a 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
@@ -107,6 +107,18 @@ Native Windows processes not started by Cygwin processes are mapped
 into the range beyond 65535.
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>
+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
+</para></listitem>
 </itemizedlist>
 
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2.17.0



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