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? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer
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