Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-56

[Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum dot mit dot edu>]

It's worse than that.

In an xterm, the first "ls" works (I get output) but then nothing
works after that.  Just get command prompt returned.

- Jim

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C<jjreisert@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Emacs no longer works. ?It comes back to the prompt, no window.
>
> Using latest X-org and Emacs.
>
> - Jim
>
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Christopher
> Faylor<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> I have uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-56.
>>
>> This fixes the bug introduced in -53 and -54 which resulted in various
>> problems execing programs as seen here:
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg01057.html
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg01060.html
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-08/msg00019.html
>>
>> What's new since 1.7.0-52
>> =========================
>>
>> - Recognize non-NTFS remote filesystems which report to be NTFS as
>> ?"cifs" filesystems and avoid to call potentially unsupported NT call
>> ?in readdir().
>> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-06/msg01008.html
>>
>> - Made process startup slightly faster.
>>
>>
>> Bugfixes:
>> =========
>>
>> - Don't just return EBUSY when trying to remove shared files on an NFS
>> ?share. ?Rather, really try to remove them first.
>> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00872.html
>>
>> - Fix a problem with text mode processing.
>>
>> - Fix a typo in setlocale() which made the GBK charset disfunctional.
>> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00875.html
>>
>> - Partially fix the FIFO regression reported in
>> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00233.html
>>
>> - Fix a crash when trying to set long console title strings.
>> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00893.html
>>
>> - Lower the memory usage of file descriptor data on the Cygwin heap.
>> ?This avoids to allocate 64K chunks per file. ?The new size is about
>> ?250 bytes + 4 * path length. ?This should fix the problem reported in
>> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00766.html
>>
>> - Fix a problem in the destructor call order on process exit.
>> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-07/msg00000.html
>>
>> - Fix handling of incomplete UTF-8 sequences and rework UTF-16 surrogate
>> ?pair handling in mbrtowc() to be more bullet-proof. ?Check for invalid
>> ?Unicode valus beyond 0x10ffff.
>> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00941.html
>>
>>
>> FAQ:
>> ====
>>
>> - Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-56?
>>
>> ?A: cygcheck -c cygwin



-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us

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