> > Actually, I just noticed this remark: > > "In summary, current Windows implementations make it > impossible to implement a perfectly reliable fork, and occasional > fork failures are inevitable." > > in winsup/doc/overview2.sgml in the source tree. Does that mean that, even > with the improvements mentioned above, we cannot expect important Cygwin > apps/scripts to always work reliably in a post-WinXP world? My company has > been moving from Win2K/XP to Win7, so this would be important info for us. > > So how serious is the above remark? I don't see anything quite that > strongly-phrased in the FAQ. Maybe it should be mentioned there? >
I would assume that "current Windows implementations" means XP and above. I have found it to be quite stable on Windows 7 once a rebase is done. I also believe that the possibility of "fork" failing has always been there - even in Cygwin 1.5. So, maybe the remark is not quite as scary as it might at first appear. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
