go/doc
qmuntal 7986e26a39 os: don't treat mount points as symbolic links
This CL changes the behavior of os.Lstat to stop setting the
os.ModeSymlink type mode bit for mount points on Windows. As a result,
filepath.EvalSymlinks no longer evaluates mount points, which was the
cause of many inconsistencies and bugs.

Additionally, os.Lstat starts setting the os.ModeIrregular type mode bit
for all reparse tags on Windows, except for those that are explicitly
supported by the os package, which, since this CL, doesn't include mount
points. This helps to identify files that need special handling outside
of the os package.

This behavior is controlled by the `winsymlink` GODEBUG setting.
For Go 1.23, it defaults to `winsymlink=1`.
Previous versions default to `winsymlink=0`.

Fixes #39786
Fixes #40176
Fixes #61893
Updates #63703
Updates #40180
Updates #63429

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Change-Id: I2e7372ab8862f5062667d30db6958d972bce5407
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/565136
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2024-03-04 18:59:50 +00:00
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initial doc/initial: initial contents of release notes 2024-01-22 18:07:49 +00:00
next os: don't treat mount points as symbolic links 2024-03-04 18:59:50 +00:00
asm.html doc: document PCALIGN directive 2023-11-28 19:15:27 +00:00
go1.17_spec.html doc: in pre-generic spec, be explicit that it is not the current spec 2023-12-13 20:38:46 +00:00
go_mem.html doc: close HTML tags 2024-03-04 15:54:42 +00:00
go_spec.html doc: close HTML tags 2024-03-04 15:54:42 +00:00
godebug.md os: don't treat mount points as symbolic links 2024-03-04 18:59:50 +00:00
README.md doc/README: clarify instructions 2024-01-30 20:08:43 +00:00

Release Notes

The initial and next subdirectories of this directory are for release notes.

For developers

Release notes should be added to next by editing existing files or creating new files.

At the end of the development cycle, the files will be merged by being concatenated in sorted order by pathname. Files in the directory matching the glob "*stdlib/*minor" are treated specially. They should be in subdirectories corresponding to standard library package paths, and headings for those package paths will be generated automatically.

Files in this repo's api/next directory must have corresponding files in doc/next/*stdlib/*minor. The files should be in the subdirectory for the package with the new API, and should be named after the issue number of the API proposal. For example, if the directory 6-stdlib/99-minor is present, then an api/next file with the line

pkg net/http, function F #12345

should have a corresponding file named doc/next/6-stdlib/99-minor/net/http/12345.md. At a minimum, that file should contain either a full sentence or a TODO, ideally referring to a person with the responsibility to complete the note.

Use the following forms in your markdown:

[`http.Request`](/pkg/net/http#Request)         # symbol documentation
[#12345](/issue/12345)                          # GitHub issues
[CL 6789](/cl/6789)                             # Gerrit changelists

For the release team

At the start of a release development cycle, the contents of next should be deleted and replaced with those of initial. From the repo root:

> cd doc
> rm -r next/*
> cp -r initial/* next

Then edit next/1-intro.md to refer to the next version.

To prepare the release notes for a release, run golang.org/x/build/cmd/relnote generate. That will merge the .md files in next into a single file.