[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.3-1

[Thiago Serra Azevedo Silva]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities
>available for download.  As usual, a list of what has changed is below.
>
>This is the first non-test 1.5.x release.  This means that the 1.5.x
>series of the cygwin DLL will be the default from now on.
>
>As previously reported here, 1.5.x versions of cygwin1.dll contain major
>changes in some APIs such that 64 bit file I/O operations are now
>available.  This means that some structures such as those found in
>'stat' and 'dirent' have changed.  This version also supports 32 bit
>uids.  Older applications will continue to work correctly but DLLs and
>libraries which use any structures whose size has changed will need to
>be recompiled and relinked.
>
>There have been two problems with previous 1.5.x releases.  One involved
>any application that used fdopen and another involved any application
>that used -lc on the command line.  If you have rebuilt a library or
>application for 1.5.0 or 1.5.1 and you used either of these, you will
>need to relink your app for 1.5.3.  I'm very sorry for the
>inconvenience.  Executables linked for/with 1.5.2 or 1.3.32 or earlier
>should continue to work fine.
>
>To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
>the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
>system.  Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.
>
>If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin
>mailing list at: cygwin@cygwin.com .
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>Christopher Faylor
>Red Hat, Inc.
>
>Changes since 1.5.2-1:
>
>- Fix problems where cygwin heap could run into mmapped regions.
>  (Corinna Vinschen)
>
>- Allow greater number of recursive signal invocations.  (Pierre Humblet)
>
>- Fix problems using libm.a which resulted in "File truncated" errors
>  during link.  (Christopher Faylor)
>
>- Check arguments for mount/umount syscalls to avoid crashes.
>  (Christopher Faylor)
>
>- Recognize special names with extensions as needing encoding under
>  managed mode.  (Christopher Faylor)
>
>- Do sanity checking on packages when they are reported by "cygcheck -c".
>  (Igor Pechtchanski)
>
>- Implement cygcheck --list-package (-l) option to list all files in an
>  installed package.  (Igor Pechtchanski)
>
>- Implement cygcheck --find-package (-f) option to find the installed
>  package associated with a file.  (Igor Pechtchanski)
>
>- Fix possible crash in mmap if file size is less than requested map
>  length.  (Corinna Vinschen)
>  
>- Add a bunch of convenience macros to sys/params.h.  (Nicholas Wourms)
>  
>- Return more accurate errnos when reading/writing raw disk and tape
>  devices.  (Corinna Vinschen)
>
>- Fix problem where some network applications (notably ftp) could crash
>  on attempts to connect to more than one host.  (Christopher Faylor)
>
>- Try harder to kill a windows process when using the "kill -f" command.
>  (Christopher Faylor)
>
>- Use cygserver library when building a cygwin DLL meant to interoperate with
>  the (experimental) cygserver.  (Christopher Faylor)
>
>
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