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bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days
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Chong Yidong |
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bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:47:02 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.95 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
>
>> In Cygwin 1.7, vfork is an alias for fork. The vfork the #define in
>> cygwin.h was protecting against is gone. It's better to use vfork now
>> so that when Cygwin gains a new, working vfork, we use it
>> automatically.
>
> [...]
>
>> -/* vfork() interacts badly with setsid(), causing ptys to fail to
>> - change their controlling terminal */
>> -#define vfork fork
>
> Sounds sensible to me, but I'm no exactly (ahem) a Cygwin expert.
>
> Eli, what do you think?
Ken Brown is the Emacs maintainer for Cygwin.
Ken, any objection to the above proposed change?
- bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2012/04/10
- bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days,
Chong Yidong <=
- bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/04/11
- bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days, Ken Brown, 2012/04/11
- bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/04/11
- bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days, Ken Brown, 2012/04/11
- bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/04/11
- bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days, Ken Brown, 2012/04/11
- bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days, Glenn Morris, 2012/04/12
- bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/04/12
- bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days, Andreas Schwab, 2012/04/12
- bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days, Ken Brown, 2012/04/12