On 2/4/19 3:25 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 4 14:19, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: >> On 2/3/19 12:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Jan 31 20:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>> On Jan 31 09:47, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: >>>>> Hi Corinna, >>>>> >>>>> I'm missing that topic/forkables branch in the announcement - is that in? >>>>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2017-q1/msg00053.html >>>> >>>> No, it's not. It hasn't been touched for almost two years so I forgot >>>> about it. >>>> >>>> Does it still apply to current mainline? Will it still work correctly >>>> in conjunction with the Windows 10 1709/1803/1809 changes in terms of >>>> deleting and renaming files? >> >> Are these changes available in Windows Server 2016 as well? > > No, 2016 is equivalent to W10 1607. You need 2019 which is equivalent > to W10 1809. > >>>> More importantly, I'm not confident to maintain this code alone since it >>>> won't be used most of the time and it adds a heck of complexity to >>>> handle a border case. Will you be available to maintain this code for >>>> the forseeable future? If not, the code won't go in, sorry. >> >> Actually I've maintained these patches while waiting for Cygwin 3 already: >> https://dev.gentoo.org/~haubi/cygwin-gentoo/x86_64/ >> >> Because we (the company) really need these patches, there will be someone >> around to fix any breakage, and for 2019 it's confirmed to be myself. > > Ok. I might have another potential user for these changes, so there > is apparently some demand. > >>> I rebased the topic/forkable branch on top of master. There were only >>> some minor conflicts which I have fixed correctly I hope. Please give >>> it a thorough try. >> >> For Gentoo Prefix we recently have set up CI builds in Azure for Linux. >> Are you aware of Windows+Cygwin build pipelines to be possible in Azure? > > Nope, I'm a cloud refusenik ;) > > Are you going to test the patched branch?
Sorry, was indeed unclear: Yes, of course! Will start testing on Server 2012 while setting up a 2019 VM. For now, there's already this one patch I've been using with good success, please add it to topic/forkables - the suspended thing is something different: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2018-q2/msg00039.html Thanks! /haubi/ -- 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
