[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.3.0-0.1.9814cfd8f693 (TEST)

[Ken Brown]

On 9/18/2021 3:03 PM, Chris Roehrig wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure how to try out a test release without risking destabilizing my system, but I re-cloned and rebuilt the master branch and installed just the cygwin1.dll and all looks good to me so far.   No issues with any of my script pipes or fifos and I am getting full gigabit speeds with rsync.
> 
> I too have been following all the pipe rework on Cygwin-developers and want to express my appreciation for Takashi, Ken and Corinna for tackling this.    You folks have made Cygwin so much more usable for a lot of applications!

Thanks for the feedback.  Just FYI, I don't think you've increased the stability 
of your system by just installing cygwin1.dll rather than the test cygwin 
package.  Here's a list of the files contained in the latter:

$ cygcheck -l cygwin
/etc/defaults/etc/cygserver.conf
/usr/bin/chattr.exe
/usr/bin/cygcheck.exe
/usr/bin/cygpath.exe
/usr/bin/cygserver-config
/usr/bin/cygwin-console-helper.exe
/usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
/usr/bin/dumper.exe
/usr/bin/gencat.exe
/usr/bin/getconf.exe
/usr/bin/getfacl.exe
/usr/bin/gmondump.exe
/usr/bin/kill.exe
/usr/bin/ldd.exe
/usr/bin/ldh.exe
/usr/bin/locale.exe
/usr/bin/lsattr.exe
/usr/bin/minidumper.exe
/usr/bin/mkgroup.exe
/usr/bin/mkpasswd.exe
/usr/bin/mount.exe
/usr/bin/passwd.exe
/usr/bin/pldd.exe
/usr/bin/profiler.exe
/usr/bin/ps.exe
/usr/bin/regtool.exe
/usr/bin/setfacl.exe
/usr/bin/setmetamode.exe
/usr/bin/ssp.exe
/usr/bin/strace.exe
/usr/bin/tzset.exe
/usr/bin/umount.exe
/usr/sbin/cygserver.exe
/usr/share/cygwin/cygwin.ldif
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygserver.README
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/CYGWIN_LICENSE

Ken