[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-62

[Paul McFerrin]

What does all of these means for users converting from cygwin 1.5?  Do 
we have to change anything we are doing today?  I live in the good-ole 
US, speak/understanding english.  Did my ancesters get on the wrong boat?

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-62.
>
> Apart from bugfixes, this patch contains a change to the
> internationalization efforts in Cygwin which cristalized out of a couple
> of longish discussions on the cygwin and cygwin-developer lists.
>
> Here's how it's supposed to work in future:
>
> - UTF-8 rules.
>
> - System objects will always be *initially* translated using UTF-8. This
>   includes file names, user names, and initial environment variables.
>   This is also the rule for the consile window.
>
> - By setting the locale environ variables you can switch the charset
>   used in subsequent child processes in the console, as well as to
>   translate filenames and other system objects.  The conversions in
>   the current process are not affected by this.  Only the setting at
>   process startup are binding.
>
>   This is only a stop-gap measure, to allow to re-use old archives
>   or scripts.  Those should be converted to UTF-8 ASAP!
>
> - Consequentially, setlocale() calls in a process have only an effect on
>   the process code itself, not on the system object conversions within
>   Cygwin and in the console window.
>
> - The "C" locale's default charset is UTF-8.
>
> - Additionally there are now language-neutral "C.<charset>" locales
>   ("C.CP1252", "C.EUCJP", etc).
>
> - The user's ANSI codepage remain the default charset for
>   "language" and "language_TERRITORY" locales.
>
> - Due to potential collision problems, the special filename conversion
>   of characters which are not available in the current character set
>   is now prepended with a Ctrl-X character, rather than Ctrl-N.
>
> I fixed the documentation in the user's guide accordingly:
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-unusual
>
>
> Other changes:
> =============
>
> - Stop faking hardlinks on filesystems not supporting them (FAT, FAT32)
>   by copying the file.  Instead, the link(2) function returns EPERM,
>   just as on Linux.
>
> - Improve multibyte to widechar conversion and vice versa.
>
>
> Bugfixes:
> =========
>
> - Fix a typo in the extended attributes handling to support the setxattr
>   call not only on Samba.
>
> - Fix a few problems in signal handling.
>
> - More workaround an issue with crashes due to invalid references to
>   malloc functions when loading DLLs built against test versions of
>   Cygwin between 1.7.0-49 and 1.7.0-57.
>
> - Fix error handling in a couple of file-related functions.
>
> - Avoid a failing recv function when trying to receive data on a socket
>   connected via a child process.  This works around a WinSock bug.
>
> - Fix a bug which disallowed to mq_open the smae message queue in different
>   processes.
>
> - Declare getpagesize correctly as int per POSIX.
>
>
> FAQ:
> ====
>
> - Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-62?
>
>   A: The `uname -v' command prints "2009-10-03 14:33"
>
>
> Have fun,
> Corinna
>
>
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