cygwin 3.5.6-1

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun Jan 26 20:00:31 GMT 2025


The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:

* cygwin-3.5.6-1
* cygwin-devel-3.5.6-1
* cygwin-doc-3.5.6-1

Fixes:
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- Fix a regression in 3.5.5 when checking for execute permissions in
  execve(2) and access(2).
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-December/256972.html

- Fix a regression since 3.5.0 which fails to use POSIX semantics in
  unlink/rename on NTFS.

- Add fd validation where needed in mq_* functions.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2025-January/257090.html

- Fix regression in 3.5.5 which causes process hangs.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-December/256954.html
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-December/256971.html
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2025-January/257058.html
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-December/256987.html

- Minor updates to load average calculations.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-August/256361.html

- Fix mq_unlink().
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2025-January/257119.html


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