Updated: cygwin-1.5.11-1

Updated: cygwin-1.5.11-1

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities
available for download.  As usual, a list of what has changed is below.

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.

If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin
mailing list at: cygwin@cygwin.com .

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Changes since 1.5.11-1:

- Fix problem where stdout was closed when a thread exits.  (Christopher Faylor)

- Fix pipe problems with Windows 95.  (Bas van Gompel)

- Fix race condition in fork which occasionally caused bash to think a forked
  process had died prematurely.  (Christopher Faylor)

- Properly deal with CTRL-C while a cygwin process is in startup code.
  (Pierre Humblet)

- Handle RTLD_DEFAULT in dlsym.  (Sam Steingold)

- Don't try to use Windows "delete on close" for files on remote shares.
  (Corinna Vinschen)

- Properly handle trailing dots in windows file names.  (Pierre Humblet)

- Make the default /cygdrive "binary mode".  (Christopher Faylor)

- Add siginterrupt declaration to signal.h.  (Christopher Faylor)

- Use proper wait value for tty reads.  (Mark Paulus)

- Properly reset SIGCHLD blocking after a spawn when there was no previous
  signal blocking.  (Christopher Faylor)

- Work hard to ensure that SYSTEMROOT environment variable is always passed
  to new processes even when it has ostensibly been deleted.  This should
  fix some strange network problems.  (Corinna Vinschen)

- Fix network slowdowns experienced by some firewall users.
  (Christopher Faylor)

- Fix return value for unbuffered fread.  (Jason Tishler)

- Properly load registry hives and insure access to system mounts.
  (Pierre Humblet)

- Cleanup cygcheck and getfacl output. (Bas van Gompel)

- Add cygcheck warning about multiple cygwin DLLs.  (Bas van Gompel)

Re: Updated: cygwin-1.5.*12*-1

[Christopher Faylor]

Sorry.  That previous announcement was obviously for cygwin-1.5.12-1
*not* the already-released cygwin-1.5.11-1.

cgf

Updated: cygwin-1.5.11-1

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities
available for download.  As usual, a list of what has changed is below.

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.

If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin
mailing list at: cygwin@cygwin.com .

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Red Hat, Inc.

Changes since 1.5.10-3:

- Fix various reported cygserver problems.  (Corinna Vinschen)

- Add -g/--group option to mkgroup (q.v.) (Igor Pechtchanski)

- Fix some problems with rsync hangs on Windows NT class systems.  (Bob Byrnes)

- Fix mysterious configure script premature exit.  (Pierre Humblet)

- Properly zero fill file on windows 9x when file is extended.  (Pierre Humblet)

- Regularize errno text output.  (Corinna Vinschen)

- Fix handling of audio fds when duped.  (Pierre Humblet)

- Report correct processor-specific flags in /proc/cpuinfo.
  (Christopher January, Tomas Ukkonen)

- Add workaround to get Cygwin working on 64-bit systems.
  (Corinna Vinschen, Christopher Faylor)

- Fix handling of chdir with windows paths.  (Pierre Humblet)

- Make path handling and error checking for mount more robust.
  (Pierre Humblet)

- Add minor speedup to spawn/exec processing.  (Christophe Jaillet)

- Fix shmget handling.  (Corinna Vinschen)

- Don't create filenames, on disk, which normal Windows interprets as
  "special".  (Pierre Humblet, David Fritz, Christopher Faylor)

- Make IPC_INFO visible only for ipc system utilities, to make it
  consistent with declaration of struct seminfo.  (Egor Duda)

- Fix usage message in ssp.  (John Paul Wallington)