[newlib-cygwin/main] Cygwin: doc: add missing change to posix_spawnp

Corinna Vinschen corinna@sourceware.org
Thu Nov 30 21:40:20 GMT 2023


https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=cb21f8bc56c20f57ade4ba94f2b09a457acb8b2d

commit cb21f8bc56c20f57ade4ba94f2b09a457acb8b2d
Author:     Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
AuthorDate: Thu Nov 30 22:38:59 2023 +0100
Commit:     Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
CommitDate: Thu Nov 30 22:38:59 2023 +0100

    Cygwin: doc: add missing change to posix_spawnp
    
    Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>

Diff:
---
 winsup/doc/new-features.xml | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
index 56509bdc38cf..bd856525e3b5 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
@@ -78,6 +78,12 @@ New API calls: c8rtomb, c16rtomb, c32rtomb, mbrtoc8, mbrtoc16, mbrtoc32.
 New API call: fallocate (Linux-specific).
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>
+posix_spawnp no longer falls back to starting the shell for unrecognized
+files as execvp.  For the reasoning, see
+https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1674
+</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>
 FIFOs now also work over NFS.
 </para></listitem>


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