[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.1.5-1
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Jun 1 09:46:30 GMT 2020
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
* cygwin-3.1.5-1
* cygwin-devel-3.1.5-1
* cygwin-doc-3.1.5-1
This is a bugfix release, including a couple of nice to have changes
on top.
What changed:
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- Support WSL symlinks. Create those by default now.
- FIFOs can now be opened multiple times for reading.
Bug Fixes:
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- Fix accidental evaluation of NUL (\0) characters in xterm console output.
Don't move cursor to the right in case of a NUL character in the console
output stream, this is not backed by terminfo.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-02/msg00162.html
- Fix a segfault when starting, e.g., mintty from a bash in a console
running xterm emulation.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-02/msg00197.html
- Fix TIOCINQ to always return number of inbound chars if available.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-02/msg00258.html
- Fix error handling in raw disk writes and allow full disk writes
including necessary locking on floppies as well.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-April/244610.html
- Fix several FIFO bugs.
Addresses: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2020-March/000206.html
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2020-April/244518.html
- Make sure pseudo tty doesn't hang if cygwin-console-helper.exe is
non-functional.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2020q2/010191.html
- Fix a bug causing FIFOs to have incorrect permissions.
Addresses: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2020-May/245031.html
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