[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin 3.0.1-1

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Feb 20 16:28:00 GMT 2019


Hi folks,


I uploaded a new Cygwin release 3.0.1-1.

THis is mainly a bugfix release.

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What's new:
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- New API: secure_getenv.


Bug Fixes
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- Relax fork child permissions to avoid a potential fork failure.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2019-02/msg00234.html

- Fix Command-line argument handling of kill(1) in terms of negative PID.
  Addresses: report on IRC

- Fix an accidentally introduced O_TEXT handling of pipes inherited
  from native Windows processes.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2019-02/msg00246.html

- Re-enable creating user token from scratch in seteuid to allow
  user context switch on old systems not supporting MsV1_0S4ULogon.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2019-02/msg00277.html

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Have fun,
Corinna

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