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authorCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2021-03-23 18:54:23 +0300
committerCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2021-03-23 18:54:41 +0300
commitf578883232d578bd83132f1f94a7f6826a74048e (patch)
tree19adaaa9702a1339d0979bbd4b9e91f4540ff519
parent0631c6644e6398c051dcda1a53c0fc0e40c814a3 (diff)
Cygwin: add "app execution aliases" treatment to release notescygwin-3_2_0-release
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.04
-rw-r--r--winsup/doc/new-features.xml6
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0 b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0
index 421b94a98..828ef5610 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ What changed:
- facl(2) now fails with EBADF on a file opened with O_PATH.
+- Allow to start Windows Store executables via their "app execution
+ aliases". Handle these aliases (which are special reparse points)
+ as symlinks to the actual executables.
+
Bug Fixes
---------
diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
index d59fc12c4..5ec36e409 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ work.
facl(2) now fails with EBADF on a file opened with O_PATH.
</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>
+- Allow to start Windows Store executables via their "app execution
+ aliases". Handle these aliases (which are special reparse points)
+ as symlinks to the actual executables.
+</para></listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>