From 0461e0a552caf0c58ab7999cfd2849c7180f7d30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Haubenwallner 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. + +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 + -- 2.17.0