Cygwin: forkables: update doc, add release notes
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@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ What's new:
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- New APIs: signalfd, timerfd_create, timerfd_gettime, timerfd_settime,
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timer_getoverrun.
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- fork(2) now is able to recover from when an in-use executable/dll is
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removed or replaced during process runtime. This feature is disabled by
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default and limited to exes/dlls on the same NTFS partition as the Cygwin
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installation. For more information and how to enable, please refer to
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https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html#ov-hi-process
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What changed:
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@ -202,21 +202,27 @@ While Windows does not allow to remove binaries in use from the file
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system, they still can be renamed or moved into the recycle bin, as
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outlined for unlink(2) in <xref linkend="ov-new1.7-file"></xref>.
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To allow an existing process to fork, the original binary files need to be
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available via their original file names, but they may reside in
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different directories when using the <ulink
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available via their original file names, but they may reside in a
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different directory when using the <ulink
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url="https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/search/en-US?query=dotlocal%20dll%20redirection"
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>DotLocal (.local) Dll Redirection</ulink> feature.
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Since NTFS does support hardlinks, when the fork fails we try again, but
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create a private directory containing hardlinks to the original files as
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well as the .local file now. The private directory for the hardlinks is
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/var/run/cygfork/, which you have to create manually for now if you need to
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protect fork against exe- and dll- updates on your Cygwin instance. As
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hardlinks cannot be used across multiple NTFS file systems, please make sure
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your exe- and dll- replacing operations operate on the same single NTFS file
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system as your Cygwin instance and the /var/run/cygfork/ directory.</para>
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well as the <literal>.local</literal> file now. The base directory for the
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private hardlink directory is <literal>/var/run/cygfork/</literal>, which
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you have to create manually for now if you need to protect fork against
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updates to executables and dlls on your Cygwin instance. As hardlinks
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cannot be used across multiple NTFS file systems, please make sure your
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executable and dll replacing operations operate on the same single NTFS file
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system as your Cygwin instance and the <literal>/var/run/cygfork/</literal>
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directory. Note that this private hardlink directory also does help for
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when a wrong dll is found in the parent process' current working directory.
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To enable creating the hardlinks, you need to stop all currently running
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Cygwin processes after creating this directory, once per Cygwin installation:
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<literallayout>$ mkdir --mode=a=rwxt /var/run/cygfork</literallayout></para>
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<para>We create one directory per user, application and application age,
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and remove it when no more processes use that directory. To indicate
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<para>We create one hardlink directory per user, application and application
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age, and remove it when no more processes use that directory. To indicate
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whether a directory still is in use, we define a mutex name similar to
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the directory name. As mutexes are destroyed when no process holds a
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handle open any more, we can clean up even after power loss or similar:
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@ -107,6 +107,13 @@ Native Windows processes not started by Cygwin processes are mapped
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into the range beyond 65535.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>
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fork(2) now is able to recover from when an in-use executable/dll is
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removed or replaced during process runtime. This feature is disabled by
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default and limited to exes/dlls on the same NTFS partition as the Cygwin
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installation. For more information and how to enable, please refer to
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<xref linkend="ov-hi-process"></xref>.
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</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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