[newlib-cygwin] Cygwin: add "app execution aliases" treatment to release notes
Corinna Vinschen
corinna@sourceware.org
Tue Mar 23 15:58:56 GMT 2021
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=f578883232d578bd83132f1f94a7f6826a74048e
commit f578883232d578bd83132f1f94a7f6826a74048e
Author: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Date: Tue Mar 23 16:54:23 2021 +0100
Cygwin: add "app execution aliases" treatment to release notes
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Diff:
---
winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0 | 4 ++++
winsup/doc/new-features.xml | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
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>
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