From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 41308 invoked by alias); 22 Oct 2015 16:34:35 -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 41233 invoked by uid 89); 22 Oct 2015 16:34:34 -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; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:34:34 +0000 Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,KAM_ASCII_DIVIDERS,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 01:52:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.3.0-0.4 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: 2015-10/txt/msg00377.txt.bz2 Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released a new TEST version of Cygwin, 2.3.0-0.4. This test release contains all Cygwin-related patches applied during and after my vacation. Other than that, the original intention, testing the "new POSIX ACL handling reloaded" code, still applies. This is the "new POSIX ACL handling reloaded" release. In local testing I successfully integrated AuthZ into the current Cygwin code to generate more correct user permissions by being able to generate effective permissions for arbitrary users. This success convinced me that it might be possible to pick up the POSIX permission rewrite originally targeted for the 2.0.0 release and try to update it using AuthZ and generally revamp it to reflect effective permissions better. My local testing looks good, but this is a major change, so this code really needs a lot more testing in various scenarios. Especially some Windows ACLs created in corporate environments are often a hard nut to crack, and the example from https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-04/msg00513.html which was the ultimate downfall of the original implementation is the stuff which needs some good testing. There's, as usual, a downside: AuthZ leans a bit to the slow side. Cygwin caches information already gathered once on a per-process basis, but in locally crafted worst case scenarios (`ls' on lots of file owned by lots of different users and groups) the slowdown may be up to 25%. But that's really just a worst case, in the usual scenarios the slowdown should be mostly unnoticable. To alleviate the problem, the AuthZ code is fortunately only called for non-Cygwin ACLs and Cygwin ACLs created before this release. Within a pure Cygwin environment (e.g., some build directory only used with Cygwin tools) AuthZ should be practically unused. Apart from the aforementioned code changes to "just do it right", there are two additional changes I implemented for this new POSIX ACL revamp release: - I reverted the questionable change I added to 2.0.0-0.7 in terms of chmod group permission handling. The original description of this change was: If you have a non-trivial ACL with secondary accounts and thus a mask value, chmod is supposed to change only the mask, not the permissions of the primary group. However, if the primary group has few permissions to begin with, the result is really surprising. ls -l would, e.g., show read/write perms for the group, but the group might still have only read perms. Personally I find this chmod behaviour really, really bad, so I took the liberty to change it in a way which gives a much less surprising result: If you call chmod on a non-trivial ACL, the group permissions will be used for the primary group and the mask. - setfacl(1) now accepts the combination of the -b and -k options, just as on Linux (here's looking at you Achim ;)). As for the description what this implementation strives for, please see http://linux.die.net/man/5/acl All changes in this release so far: ============================================================================ What's new: ----------- - posix_madvise(POSIX_MADV_WILLNEED) now utilizes OS functionality available starting with Windows 8/Server 2012. Still a no-op on older systems. - posix_madvise(POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED) now utilizes OS functionality available starting with Windows 8.1/Server 2012R2. Still a no-op on older systems. - sysconf() now supports returning CPU cache information: _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE, _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_ASSOC, _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE, _SC_LEVEL1_DCACHE_SIZE, _SC_LEVEL1_DCACHE_ASSOC, _SC_LEVEL1_DCACHE_LINESIZE, _SC_LEVEL2_CACHE_SIZE, _SC_LEVEL2_CACHE_ASSOC, _SC_LEVEL2_CACHE_LINESIZE, _SC_LEVEL3_CACHE_SIZE, _SC_LEVEL3_CACHE_ASSOC, _SC_LEVEL3_CACHE_LINESIZE, _SC_LEVEL4_CACHE_SIZE, _SC_LEVEL4_CACHE_ASSOC, _SC_LEVEL4_CACHE_LINESIZE - New API: aligned_alloc, at_quick_exit, quick_exit. What changed: ------------- - setfacl(1) now allows to use the -b and -k option combined to allow reducing an ACL to only reflect standard POSIX permissions. Bug Fixes --------- - Fix a hang when stracing a forking or spawning process without activating stracing of child processes. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-08/msg00390.html - Fix long-standing potential SEGV on 32 bit Cygwin when the dynamic loader for OS functions fails to load a function on Windows 7 or later. Addresses: No actual bug report known. - sysconf _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN now handle more than 64 CPUs on Windows 7 and later. - Fix a potential crash in advisory file locking due to usage of stack space out of scope. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-09/msg00079.html - Fix EIO error accessing certain (OS X SMB?) drives Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-09/msg00229.html - Fix memory leak in calls to pthread_getattr_np. - Fix output of /proc//winexename. - Avoid SEGV when handling SIDs with 0 subauthorities. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-10/msg00141.html ============================================================================ 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