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 08:35:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4F857A76.9040208@cornell.edu> References: <31890c3c686da18017fafebac19a6529ee09950d.1325166842.git.dancol@dancol.org> <83lim269h3.fsf@gnu.org> <4F8567E2.5000907@cornell.edu> <83d37e5wgv.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1334148132 30396 80.91.229.3 (11 Apr 2012 12:42:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10398@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 11 14:42:10 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 1SHwsB-0007gu-Ry for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:42:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49574 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHwsB-0004BR-7b for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:42:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48846) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHws5-0003qA-QB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:42:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHwmB-00066W-SO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:36:00 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHwmB-00066S-Or for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:35:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SHwnG-0001N3-1c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:37:02 -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 12:37:02 +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=B10398.13341477935231 (code B ref 10398); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:37:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10398) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Apr 2012 12:36:33 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50631 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SHwmi-0001MF-UY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from limestone5.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.165]:55406) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SHwmc-0001M5-Tr for 10398@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:36:26 -0400 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Original-Received: from orchid.mail.cornell.edu (orchid.mail.cornell.edu [132.236.56.61]) by limestone5.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3BCZ9Es015861; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:35:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite2.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.142]) by orchid.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3BCZ6Ed008660; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:35:06 -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 q3BCZ63e024690 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:35:06 -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: <83d37e5wgv.fsf@gnu.org> X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-PMX-Version: 5.5.9.395186, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2012.4.11.122415 X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Wed Apr 11 08:35:07 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:58791 Archived-At: On 4/11/2012 7:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:15:46 -0400 >> From: Ken Brown >> CC: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, dancol@dancol.org, >> 10398@debbugs.gnu.org, Chong Yidong >> >> 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. > > Fair enough, but then perhaps the configure script should at least > warn, or maybe even refuse to continue, if it sees an older version? A warning would be fine, but I would suggest waiting until someone reports an actual problem. My guess is that no one running Cygwin 1.5 will ever try to build the emacs trunk. But if someone does try and runs into problems, we can take the appropriate action. If you disagree, I have no objection to inserting a warning now. Ken