On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 04:35:25PM +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote: >On 30/08/2011 14:41, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> That sounds reasonable, though I suspect we'd want want to keep the >> concluding >> bits in the FAQ as well. Unfortunately, summertime free time has come to an >> end so I don't know when I'll get to this next. Perhaps a good compromise for >> now would be for you to post only the first FAQ question? That would at least >> cut traffic to the cygwin ML a bit. > >I've updated Ryan's patch to hopefully address the comments made, polished the >language a bit in places, and split it into a patch for the FAQ which just >says how to fix problems and a patch for the UG which contains the technical >details.
>Index: doc/faq-using.xml >=================================================================== >RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml,v >retrieving revision 1.35 >diff -u -p -r1.35 faq-using.xml >--- doc/faq-using.xml 4 Aug 2011 18:25:41 -0000 1.35 >+++ doc/faq-using.xml 3 Nov 2011 16:26:56 -0000 >@@ -1099,7 +1099,7 @@ it.</para> > IPv6 stack, see the <ulink > url="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/ipv6/ipv6faq.mspx";>Microsoft > TechNet IPv6 FAQ article</ulink> > </para></answer></qandaentry> > >-<qandaentry id="faq.using.bloda"> >+<qandaentry id="faq.using.bloda" xreflabel="BLODA"> > <question><para>What applications have been found to interfere with > Cygwin?</para></question> > <answer> > >@@ -1199,3 +1199,38 @@ such as virtual memory paging and file c > </listitem> > </itemizedlist></para> > </answer></qandaentry> >+ >+<qandaentry id='faq.using.fixing-fork-failures'> >+ <question><para>How do I fix <literal>fork()</literal> >failures?</para></question> >+ <answer> >+ <para>Unfortunately, Windows can be quite hostile to a I would still prefer eschewing actively negative words like "hostile" and just neutrally stating that Windows does not use a fork/exec model and does not offer any easy way to implement fork. I'd also like to see specific errors mentioned so that when people are searching for a solution to the problem they will be able to find it in the FAQ. cgf
