[ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.6 due soon

Vasya Pupkin burning.shadow@gmail.com
Fri Jun 25 13:06:00 GMT 2010


I'm just wondering, will setup.exe honor new mount options, or it will
still mess up NTFS permissions?

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> A lot of changes and fixes have been made in Cygwin since 1.7.5 has
> been released, so we're looking forward to release Cygwin 1.7.6 soon.
>
> Please test the latest developer snapshots at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> which should have "Release Candidate" quality.
>
> Please report bugs to the cygwin at cygwin dot com mailing list.
> Please follow the guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> Be aware that we're mainly focusing on regressions from 1.7.5.
>
> What's new:
>
> - Add new mount options "dos" and "ihash" to allow overriding Cygwin
>  default behaviour on broken filesystems not recognized by Cygwin.
>
> - A new mechanism is used to propagate pty handles safely to other
>  processes, which does not require to use Cygserver.
>
> - Pass on coresize settings made with setrlimit(2).  This allows
>  shells to disable creating stackdump files in child processes via
>  `ulimit -c 0' in bash or `limit coredumpsize 0' in tcsh.
>
> - Locale categories contain all localization strings additionally as
>  wide-char strings.  locale(1) prints these values just as on Linux.
>  nl_langinfo(3) allows to fetch them.
>
> Fixes:
>
> - Fix problem where pseudo-relocs were getting applied twice, resulting
>  in a crash.
>
> - Fix a crash when accessing /proc/registry*
>
> - Avoid that connect on a not yet established AF_LOCAL/AF_UNIX
>  socket misinterprets the socket file as non-socket.
>
> - Fix stdin/out/err handle permissions when called from a non-Cygwin
>  process.
>
> - Fix codeset problem in internal handling of process name.
>
> - Fix abbreviated month names for japanese and korean locale.
>
> - Fix calls to gettimeofday after call to settimeofday.
>
> - Fix REG_MULTI_SZ handling in /proc/registry*
>
> - Honor cygwin username even if it only differs by case from Windows
>  username.
>
> - Fix potential memory leak when accessing // or //server directories.
>
> - Fix using a wrong handle when cehcking for files inaccessible to
>  current user.
>
> - Fix erroneous handling of devices in path checking.
>
> - Fix potential crash in exec(2) if parent uses file locking.
>
> Other changes:
>
> - Change the way a process is made process group leader in case
>  we're started from a non-Cygwin process.  This isn't foolproof
>  and may need more work.
>
> - Workaround BLODA problem in rename(2) which otherwise results
>  in annoying errors.
>
> - Improve error output in strace.
>
> - Add more workarounds for broken filesystems which either don't grok
>  reopening a file by handle (NWFS) or which are not capable of
>  handling filenames with leading spaces or trailing dots or spaces
>  (NWFS, Netapp).
>
> - Don't try to evaluate reparse points (junctions) on remote
>  filesystems as symlinks.
>
> - Improve performance of stat and a few other functions.  ls(1) should
>  be up to 30% faster on some drives.
>
>
> Corinna
>
>
> 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.
>
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