Re: Can I move trunk revision 111670?

[Daniel Colascione]

On 2/3/13 5:58 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Daniel Colascione wrote:
> 
>> -            execv (argv[0], argv);
>> +            execvp (argv[0], argv);
> 
> Why does cygw32 needs this, but plain cygwin and every other platform
> (apparently) not?

Cygw32 and the NS toolkit both require that Emacs exec after fork if
the child is to use any GUI code. NS has the same bug; I just
imagine that relative few people handle it because argv[0] happens
to more often be an absolute path there.

> 
>> Can I move it to the release branch?
> 
> As always, it would have been better to install it there in the first
> place, 


> if that turns out to be where it needs to be.

Sure, but I wanted to make the fix available in the trunk first
regardless of whether it was being moved for

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