From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29267 invoked by alias); 30 Sep 2005 02:43:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 29243 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Sep 2005 02:43:41 -0000 Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net (HELO mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net) (204.127.131.116) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 02:43:41 +0000 Received: from dfw5rb41 (h-72-244-124-131.chcgilgm.dynamic.covad.net[72.244.124.131]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12) with SMTP id <2005093002433911200fejvhe>; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 02:43:39 +0000 From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: Subject: RE: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 03:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: <003101c5c568$c2ffecb0$020aa8c0@DFW5RB41> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050929231320.GA13715@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg01025.txt.bz2 A cvs pull of wxWindows configured and built fine here. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:13 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed > > The latest snapshot is chock full of developer goodness and > needs to be tested. > > Both Corinna and I spent a lot of time trying to track down > the reported > fork() problems. We didn't fix them* but this snapshot > contains better fork error reporting. > > This snapshot also contains a rewrite of cygwin's method for > interprocess communication. This means that /proc/NNN stuff > (where NNN is a pid) and fifos could be affected. procps > seems to work for me and my simple fifo tests show that they > are working as well as they ever did (which means that they > aren't fully implemented) but please report any new problems there. > > There is also a fix for LD_PRELOAD. A problem crept in when > I introduced the ability for cygwin to detect when it is > running a non-cygwin process. > > Corinna revamped cygwin's "raw device" handling, so reading > from raw hard drives and floppies should be improved. She > cleaned up POSIX semaphore handling a little and fixed the > creation of some of cygwin's shared memory regions so that > they are globablly accessible. She also finally added a > WinMainCRTStartup entry point to cygwin after eight years. > > I took a stab at speeding up fork slightly by eliminating > some expensive calls to the OS. > > Yitzchak Scott-Thoeness introduced the ability to use > 'siginfo' style signal handlers. > > Oh, and Corinna also fixed the rmdir foo/. (and similar > mkdir) problem although there are still other interesting > problems with paths that end in /. or /.. > > So, once again, I'd like to finally release this thing and so > I'm asking for testing help. You all should know the drill > by now but, just in case you don't: > > * * * > > I'm asking, once again, for people to test the latest cygwin snapshot. > The snapshot that is currently available should be very close > to an official release of cygwin version 1.5.19. > > Please report success or failure to this thread. Please > don't change the subject. Please don't start a new > discussion. If you have a problem please report it using the > guidelines found at . > > If you think you've found an error, please indicate whether > this is a regression from 1.5.18 and, if possible, indicate > regressions from previous snapshots. Regression from other > past versions are worth reporting, but are only mildly > useful. There are no guarantees that we will fix a problem > for 1.5.19 unless it is a regression from 1.5.18. > > In general, just remember that we need *details*. So, when > reporting a problem, report the exact steps that you took to > cause the problem to occur. If there is anything "unusual" > about your environment (firewalls, virus checkers, etc.) > please report that too. > > Snapshots are located here: . > > Thanks. > > cgf > > *http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/