WinAPI spawn() not used by Cygwin posix_spawn()? Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: Add spawn family of functions to docs

2025-02-16 Thread Lionel Cons via Cygwin
On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 at 22:47, Mark Geisert wrote: > > In the doc tree, change the title of section "Other UNIX system > interfaces..." to "Other system interfaces...". Add the spawn family of > functions noting their origin as Windows. re spawn() family: Cygwin posix_spawn() seems to rely on the

bug in strcasecmp and strncasecmp

2025-02-16 Thread Bruno Haible via Cygwin
Per POSIX [1], the functions strcasecmp and strncasecmp should "use the current locale to determine the case of the characters.". [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/strcasecmp.html This is not what Cygwin does: In the fr_FR.ISO8859-1 locale, the characters 0xE9 and 0xC

Re: Cygwin sparse file support: Please support fcntl(..., F_FREESP, ...)

2025-02-16 Thread Sebastian Feld via Cygwin
On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > > Good afternoon! > > Could Cygwin 3.6 please support fcntl(...,F_FREESP,...) and > cntl(...,F_FREESP64,...), as specified in > https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5167/fcntl-2/index.html > > Lots of older software from Solar