From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:37:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4F85DD76.8060709@cornell.edu> References: <31890c3c686da18017fafebac19a6529ee09950d.1325166842.git.dancol@dancol.org> <83lim269h3.fsf@gnu.org> <4F8567E2.5000907@cornell.edu> <04D7A5D8308A49989EC5E1DD5979D761@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334173085 15166 80.91.229.3 (11 Apr 2012 19:38:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:38:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10398@debbugs.gnu.org, 'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen' To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 11 21:38:04 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SI3Me-00010F-LX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:38:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55227 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SI3Me-0006Q7-25 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:38:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SI3Mb-0006PV-5C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SI3MZ-0002QQ-9C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:37:56 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:56131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SI3MZ-0002QH-61 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:37:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SI3Ne-0007Rp-Um for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:39:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ken Brown Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:39:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10398 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 10398-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10398.133417312728589 (code B ref 10398); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:39:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10398) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Apr 2012 19:38:47 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52666 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SI3NP-0007R4-4V for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:38:47 -0400 Original-Received: from limestone5.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.165]:62530) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SI3NM-0007Qw-Kk for 10398@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:38:46 -0400 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Original-Received: from soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu (soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.143]) by limestone5.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3BJbZpR004280; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:37:35 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite2.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.142]) by soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3BJbYfP000811; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:37:34 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id q3BJbUHq006592 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:37:30 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 In-Reply-To: <04D7A5D8308A49989EC5E1DD5979D761@us.oracle.com> X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-PMX-Version: 5.5.9.395186, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2012.4.11.192732 X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Wed Apr 11 15:37:31 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:58846 Archived-At: On 4/11/2012 1:48 PM, Drew Adams wrote: >> I think it's a good change. And I don't think we should make >> an effort to support Cygwin versions earlier than 1.7. >> Cygwin 1.5 is no longer supported by Cygwin, so I don't see >> a reason for emacs to try to support it. I suspect there >> have been many emacs changes that are not compatible with >> Cygwin 1.5. > > Dunno what is meant here by "support Cygwin", but FWIW (probably not much) I > still use Cygwin 1.5. I do so because it seems to work OK for my use cases and > because I have come across lots of problems reported here and there wrt later > versions (and Emacs). > > (Yes, I know, you can find whatever problems you want on the Internet, real or > wrong. Still, why upgrade if I don't need to?) > > I do not run Emacs inside Cygwin, but I use Cygwin's `grep' and other commands > from Emacs, and I use Cygwin's bash shell interactively. The change we're talking about here won't affect you. It's only relevant to people working in Cygwin and building the Emacs trunk (for use within Cygwin). Ken