From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:47:02 +0800 Message-ID: <87sjga934p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <31890c3c686da18017fafebac19a6529ee09950d.1325166842.git.dancol@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334126896 31270 80.91.229.3 (11 Apr 2012 06:48:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:48:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , 10398@debbugs.gnu.org To: Ken Brown Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 11 08:48:14 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 1SHrLc-0007T6-RH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:48:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHrLc-0006Ix-9f for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39427) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHrLV-0006Iq-NR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:48:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHrLQ-0006dV-Qi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53657) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHrLQ-0006dK-NH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:47:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SHrMT-0003QI-JY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:49:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:49:01 +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=B10398.133412690713102 (code B ref 10398); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:49:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10398) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Apr 2012 06:48:27 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50195 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SHrLs-0003PD-Dq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:48:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:54745) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SHrLm-0003Ou-4u for 10398@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:48:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [155.69.16.95] (port=49388 helo=ulysses) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHrKg-0006Vv-73; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:47:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:26:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.95 (gnu/linux) 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:58753 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Daniel Colascione 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?