[1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-54

Jim Reisert AD1C jjreisert@alum.mit.edu
Fri Jul 31 02:59:00 GMT 2009


Hi Corinna,

Something still not 100% correct with 1.7.0-54

startxwin.bat gives me this error:

xterm: Can't execvp /usr/bin/tcsh: Invalid argument
xterm: Could not exec /bin/bash: Invalid argument

I can start both shells in a DOS window, however.

- Jim

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Corinna
Vinschen<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-54.
>
> This fixes the bug I introduced in -53 which resulted in a non-functional
> Cygwin DLL when building optimized code.  Sorry, guys.
>
> Since that's otherwise identical to -53, I kept the remainder
> of the -53 release announcement untouched.
>
>
> What's new in contrast to 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
>
>
> 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 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 1.7.0-54?
>
>  A: The `uname -v' command prints "2009-07-30 22:25"
>
>
> Have fun,
> Corinna
>
>
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