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1.5.14 release notes
- From: Christopher Faylor <me at cgf dot cx>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:00:01 -0500
- Subject: 1.5.14 release notes
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
Comments?
cgf
Changes since 1.5.13-1:
- cgf: Fix utimes() on non-NTFS.
- cgf: Restore signals after a system() call.
- cgf: Maintain floating point precision over calls to winsock.
- cgf: Do more thread cleanup when a thread exits.
- corinna: Export utmpxname.
- cgf: Fix some clipboard problems when the clipboard contains non-text.
- cgf: Fix some problems with special names in managed mode.
- ptsekov: Fix inability to set /cygdrive in user-specific mode.
- corinna: Implement mmap(MAP_AUTOGROW).
- cgf: Right shift exit code by eight when not started in a cygwin environment.
- cgf: Detect bad symlinks on network shares.
- cgf: Reduce size of dll slightly by avoiding needless duplication brought about
by auto-loaded functions.
- corinna: Don't reference floppies when iterating over the mount table.
- cgf: Fix problem where "." and ".." would show up more than once in a directory
listing after a seekdir().
- corinna: Rework credential passing in unix domain sockets to make things faster
and less racy.
- cgf: Take a preliminary stab at getting the DLL to build with gcc 4.x. Not
there yet, unfortunately.
- cgf: Implement LD_PRELOAD handling similar to glibc.
- cgf: Implement CW_HOOK functionality to allow cygwin functions to be overridden.
- cgf: Export lsearch and lfind.
- pierre.humblet: Implement timer_gettime. Rework getitimer, setitimer, ualarm, alarm
to avoid the need for an "invisible" window.
- cgf: Fix when "cygpath --help" was specified.
- cgf: Make "kill -NNN", where NNN is a signal name, operational again.
- Brian Dessent: When searching for the cygwin DLL in cygcheck, avoid reporting on the
current directory.