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| author | Michael Haubenwallner <michael.haubenwallner@ssi-schaefer.com> | 2016-12-07 13:58:30 +0300 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2019-02-07 17:58:02 +0300 |
| commit | 6dd415caf569aa49ea11d4ab0e837aa379c130b4 (patch) | |
| tree | e5ada3d0642a106c001211b962abb596fe56db75 /winsup/doc/faq-api.xml | |
| parent | 5a41aa6f4d5eb12a1fc2ef084d98f63d65f5fcc3 (diff) | |
forkables: Document hardlink creation at forktime.
* faq-api.xml: Mention hardlink creation by fork.
* highlights.xml: Describe hardlink creation.
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/doc/faq-api.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/faq-api.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-api.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-api.xml index 6abbbc4b6..a95dbdd31 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-api.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-api.xml @@ -155,6 +155,11 @@ child, releases the mutex the child is waiting on and returns from the fork call. Child wakes from blocking on mutex, recreates any mmapped areas passed to it via shared area and then returns from fork itself. </para> +<para>When the executable or any dll in use by the parent was renamed or +moved into the hidden recycle bin, fork retries with creating hardlinks +for the old executable and any dll into per-user subdirectories in the +/var/run/cygfork/ directory, when that one exists and resides on NTFS. +</para> </answer></qandaentry> <qandaentry id="faq.api.globbing"> |