Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST: Cygwin 3.0.0-0.4

2019-02-06 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Hi Andrey, while not being involved with this change, I may provide some background though: On 2/6/19 1:36 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >> Changes from 3.0.0-0.3: > >> - Cygwin PIDs have been decoupled from Windows PID. Cygwin PIDs are >> now incrementally dealt i

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST: Cygwin 3.0.0-0.4

2019-02-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 6 03:36, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > Changes from 3.0.0-0.3: > > > - Cygwin PIDs have been decoupled from Windows PID. Cygwin PIDs are > > now incrementally dealt in the range from 2 up to 65535, POSIX-like. > > I don't quite get it. > What's the rationale

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST: Cygwin 3.0.0-0.4

2019-02-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > Changes from 3.0.0-0.3: > - Cygwin PIDs have been decoupled from Windows PID. Cygwin PIDs are > now incrementally dealt in the range from 2 up to 65535, POSIX-like. I don't quite get it. What's the rationale? Why not just use system PID's? -- With best regard

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST: Cygwin 3.0.0-0.4

2019-02-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi folks, I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 3.0.0-0.4 This release comes with a couple of new features and some interesting bug fixes. It also changes the output of uname(2) for newly built applications. Applications built so far (that includes uname(1) from coreutils) will still print the o