On Jan 11, 2016, at 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > > Continuing support for XP and Server 2003 is really becoming a > burden. It requires to code and maintain workarounds which are not > required anymore in newer OSes, so I really would like to get rid of > that stuff.
I seem to recall you saying that Vista added a fork-like facility to the kernel which might let Cygwin implement a copy-on-write fork(2). Would dropping XP support allow that? If so, that would probably speed Cygwin up quite a bit in many common use cases: running autoconf configure scripts, Makefiles, etc. -- 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