X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :references:to; q=dns; s=default; b=fTg2Nl/zkxz6rRJWsLsgRny8wEcp WnG8UtUe1J9HdZlk99W1mGVpHaERrjziMEUKUFqsg8Sr+kCZweZr7jt7o+nUCOIg OZ5oz0iT0mgfP18f2NxphUEqhSUegePunKJu7/xz1KFEJpqdA3N4e3TdvfC0iDb2 nzoIXmqTX1MKKA4= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :references:to; s=default; bh=vZOzb/H2f3h8MBHZpJPV/TDV5Rg=; b=F9 mGa8mWAHj/i97dJAtIHpD2E/CdCHL+vDXIh9xQ0eBMJ5IIcCor3XpMKI9OXe6dy5 19rNiXLjZjoYjQw+PD5jKH0VsZs4pasb6wNXVEzSCerPAhuXws8dsV6GVB/W+NsQ B1qRgtvDc1+0gDSp/wBGiL0K9GQw2kdWFjpmZ2BfM= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:sk:56924AB, facility, recall, H*r:envelope-sender X-HELO: etr-usa.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Subject: Re: Windows XP Support From: Warren Young In-Reply-To: <20160111115221.GC32610@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:25:36 -0700 Message-Id: <970602BE-CBDF-4191-9CF1-11C855CDCAFE@etr-usa.com> References: <56924AB1 DOT 1070903 AT gmx DOT de> <20160111115221 DOT GC32610 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id u0BGPsGs025793 On Jan 11, 2016, at 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen 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