On 2015-02-24 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 24 16:16, Lasse Collin wrote: > > I'm going to release xz 5.2.1 in a day or two. Should that release > > have a workaround for this Cygwin bug? The workaround would avoid > > using O_NONBLOCK on stdout. It adds a race condition to signal > > handling in xz but it's usually a very minor issue (xz 5.0.x has > > the race and no one has complained). On the other hand, the fixes > > to the threading bugs are somewhat important for xz too, so maybe I > > should just add a note that xz 5.2.x isn't safe on Cygwin yet but > > will be in the (somewhat) near future? > > Whatever you prefer. I think it's fine to point to using at least > Cygwin 1.7.35, but if you can live with updating to some 5.2.2 after > 1.7.35 comes out, the workaround in 5.2.1 would be nice. > > I'm still working on performance improvements in the account handling, > but when that's settled, I'm going for 1.7.35. Let's say a week or > two.
OK, thanks. I decided to tell people to use 1.7.35 or later. The threading issues are one reason. Another reason is that if the workaround is removed in 5.2.2, 5.2.1 will become a special release that (mostly) worked on older Cygwin versions. I prefer to tell users of old Cygwin version to use xz 5.0.x. -- Lasse Collin | IRC: Larhzu @ IRCnet & Freenode -- 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
