On Tue, 29 Jul 2025, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> Good moring!
>
> Could the posix_spawn() work (branch heads/topic/posix_spawn) be
> merged now, but the new version kept off by default unless an option
> in the CYGWIN env var is set?
>
> That would make testing IMO much easier...
It coul
On Fri, 11 Jul 2025, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2025, Jon Turney wrote:
>
> > On 08/07/2025 20:02, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> > > I've run into an odd issue with exec and kill in winsup/testsuite that
> > &
On Fri, 11 Jul 2025, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 08/07/2025 20:02, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> > I've run into an odd issue with exec and kill in winsup/testsuite that
> > doesn't happen in a more normal configuration. What I'm doing is getting
>
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I've run into an odd issue with exec and kill in winsup/testsuite that
doesn't happen in a more normal configuration. What I'm doing is getting
the pid via getpid (), then forking. In the forked child, I can call kill
(pid, SIGUSR1) without issue, but if instead I call execv (passing the
pid as a
On Thu, 26 Jun 2025, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2025, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Jun 25 16:15, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> > > This turned out to be more complicated than I expected,
> > > GetFileInformationByHand
On Thu, 26 Jun 2025, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 25 16:15, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> > This turned out to be more complicated than I expected,
> > GetFileInformationByHandleEx(FileNameInfo) sucks badly, and seems to only
> > actually work for regul
On Wed, 25 Jun 2025, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 25/06/2025 20:52, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> > I would like to add tests of invoking non-Cygwin processes using
> > posix_spawn and making sure their stdin/out/err and cwd are as expected.
> > I see that there is
I would like to add tests of invoking non-Cygwin processes using
posix_spawn and making sure their stdin/out/err and cwd are as expected.
I see that there is a mingw directory for building with the cross-mingw
compiler, and I could make a test child process built through that which
uses GetFileInfo
On Sun, 15 Jun 2025, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 14/06/2025 06:14, Jeremy Drake wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Jun 2025, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> >
> > > I got permission denied trying to push to a new branch.
>
> You have been granted additional permissions
On Fri, 13 Jun 2025, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> I got permission denied trying to push to a new branch.
> I'm working on posix_spawn tests on github, since that's where the actions
> would run, and also locally and on Linux.
>
> https://github.com/jerem
On Fri, 30 May 2025, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 30/05/2025 00:22, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 May 2025, Jon Turney wrote:
> >
> > > Please, feel free to push additional tests there, (ideally after or
> > > simultaneously wit
On Thu, 29 May 2025, Jon Turney wrote:
> Please, feel free to push additional tests there, (ideally after or
> simultaneously with a fix, so we don't get failures :))
>
> (or to suggest additional regression tests, if you don't have push rights)
Would that be as user cyg...@cygwin.com like cygwin
On Tue, 18 Mar 2025, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> If you have other ideas what could be helpful for Cygwin, don't be shy
> to add it to this thread. Ideally with the intention to look into
> implementing it by yourself, but at least a certain willingness to look
> into the source code and discuss po
On Tue, 18 Mar 2025, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> One of the biggies here is the way descriptor passing works in Cygwin.
>
> We're coming from a historical API model which didn't know the
> STARTUPINFOEX datatype, nor the UpdateProcThreadAttribute function
> and PROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_HANDLE_LIST. Th
On Tue, 18 Mar 2025, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Fodder for future Cygwin development:
>
> If you have other ideas what could be helpful for Cygwin, don't be shy
> to add it to this thread. Ideally with the intention to look into
> implementing it by yourself, but at least a certain willingness to
On Mon, 20 May 2024, Jeremy Drake wrote:
> Today, I was attempting to look at the TerminateThread situation. The
> call in question comes from the attempt to terminate the wait_thread of a
> chld_procs entry. I noticed elsewhere in cygwin code (flock.cc) that
> CancelSynchronousIo was being call
On Wed, 8 May 2024, Jeremy Drake wrote:
> (this is the same issue discussed in
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2024q1/012621.html)
>
> On MSYS2, running on Windows on ARM64 only, we've been plagued by issues
> with processes hanging up. Usually pacman, when it is trying to validate
(this is the same issue discussed in
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2024q1/012621.html)
On MSYS2, running on Windows on ARM64 only, we've been plagued by issues
with processes hanging up. Usually pacman, when it is trying to validate
signatures with gpgme. When a process is hung in
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