bug#10398: [PATCH] Use real vfork under Cygwin: it's fine these days

[Ken Brown]

On 4/11/2012 1:48 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
> > I think it's a good change.  And I don't think we should make
> > an effort to support Cygwin versions earlier than 1.7.
> > Cygwin 1.5 is no longer supported by Cygwin, so I don't see
> > a reason for emacs to try to support it.  I suspect there
> > have been many emacs changes that are not compatible with
> > Cygwin 1.5.
>
> Dunno what is meant here by "support Cygwin", but FWIW (probably not much) I
> still use Cygwin 1.5.  I do so because it seems to work OK for my use cases and
> because I have come across lots of problems reported here and there wrt later
> versions (and Emacs).
>
> (Yes, I know, you can find whatever problems you want on the Internet, real or
> wrong.  Still, why upgrade if I don't need to?)
>
> I do not run Emacs inside Cygwin, but I use Cygwin's `grep' and other commands
> from Emacs, and I use Cygwin's bash shell interactively.

The change we're talking about here won't affect you.  It's only 
relevant to people working in Cygwin and building the Emacs trunk (for 
use within Cygwin).

Ken