From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16827 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2015 17:52:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 16788 invoked by uid 89); 27 Feb 2015 17:52:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-HELO: localhost.localdomain Received: from localhost (HELO localhost.localdomain) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:52:50 +0000 Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,EXECUTABLE_URI,KAM_EXEURI,SPAM_BODY1 autolearn=no version=3.3.2 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:06:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] (last?) TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.5 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2015-02/txt/msg00918.txt.bz2 Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release. If all is well, I hope this is the final test version before going full ninja. Apart from a few bug fixes, this release introduces the following changes in terms of chmod and ACL handling. - Change handling of group permissions if owner SID == group SID. Now the group permissions don't mirror the user permissions anymore, thus leading to less hassle with security-conscious applications. - Allow group SID to be the same as owner SID for "Microsoft Accounts". Those have the group in their user token set to the owner SID by default. Drop the workaround to change their primary group to "Users". It's not required anymore due to the aforementioned change. These changes correspond with the change in 1.7.35-0.4, which is the major change driving the above ones: - Since Cygwin 1.7.34, chmod does not always affect the POSIX permission mask as returned by stat(2) or printed by ls(1), due to the improved POSIX ACL handling. As a temporary workaround, chmod now checks if secondary groups and users in the ACL have more permissions than the primary group. If so, the permissions of the secondary users and groups will be reduced according to the mask given by the new primary group permissions. I.e, chmod 600 will remove all permissions from the primary group as well as all secondary user and group entries in the ACL. Please report back your experience, especially if you're still suffering from "slow startup" problems. ==================================================================== If you're not familiar with the new account information handling introduced in Cygwin 1.7.34, I suggest to read the new documentation at https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping ==================================================================== Please also note this change of the default settings for db_home, db_shell, and db_gecos since 1.7.35-0.3: db_home: /home/%U db_shell: /bin/bash db_gecos: This means, if you don't set these values in /etc/nsswitch.conf, there's no reason for Cygwin to access the DC via LDAP. Other changes in this release: ============================== - New APIs: cabsl, cimagl, creall, finitel, hypotl, sqrtl. - Performance improvements of the new account DB handling. - Fix /proc/cpuinfo multicore info on Intel CPUs. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-02/msg00077.html - Generate unique inode number for /dev/tty under all circumstances. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00211.html - Fix handling of PATH search in execlp and other calls to honor mount flags. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00119.html - Remove a debug message accidentally printed to the terminal window if an application calls fcntl(F_SETFL) erroneously. - Two regressions in 1.7.34 acl(SETACL, ...): - SETACL overwrote the incoming acltent_t array for bookkeeping purposes while iterating over its entries. This broke reusing the acl in the calling application (e.g. setfacl). Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00304.html - SETACL accidentally missed to grant owner FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES access. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00457.html - Keep SETACL from duplicating user/group deny/allow ACEs if owner SID is the same as group SID. - When creating directories, keep permissions inherited from parent directory inheritable, per POSIX 1003.1e. - 64 bit: Export forgotten symbol __mempcpy. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00394.html - 64 bit: Avoid misbehaviour in signal mask computation. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00665.html - Avoid data loss on non-blocking pipes after switching back to blocking. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00575.html - Fix a potential heap corruption in mkgroup and mkpasswd when enumerating Unix users. - Regression in 1.7.34: A patch to the pty handling fixing the problem reported in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2014-11/msg00000.html was incomplete and lead to undesired buffering in non-canonical mode. This should be fixed now. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00608.html - Fix signal handling in a few functions. Partially addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00762.html To install 32-bit Cygwin use https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe To install 64 bit Cygwin use https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe If you're already running a 32 bit version of Cygwin on 64 bit Windows machines, you can continue to do so. If you're planning a new install of Cygwin on a 64 bit Windows machine, consider to use the new 64 bit Cygwin version, unless you need certain packages not yet available in the 64 bit release. Have fun, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple