Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/09/02/14:32:39
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>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.
>
>This is the first non-test 1.5.x release. This means that the 1.5.x
>series of the cygwin DLL will be the default from now on.
>
>As previously reported here, 1.5.x versions of cygwin1.dll contain major
>changes in some APIs such that 64 bit file I/O operations are now
>available. This means that some structures such as those found in
>'stat' and 'dirent' have changed. This version also supports 32 bit
>uids. Older applications will continue to work correctly but DLLs and
>libraries which use any structures whose size has changed will need to
>be recompiled and relinked.
>
>There have been two problems with previous 1.5.x releases. One involved
>any application that used fdopen and another involved any application
>that used -lc on the command line. If you have rebuilt a library or
>application for 1.5.0 or 1.5.1 and you used either of these, you will
>need to relink your app for 1.5.3. I'm very sorry for the
>inconvenience. Executables linked for/with 1.5.2 or 1.3.32 or earlier
>should continue to work fine.
>
>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 AT cygwin DOT com .
>
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>Christopher Faylor
>Red Hat, Inc.
>
>Changes since 1.5.2-1:
>
>- Fix problems where cygwin heap could run into mmapped regions.
> (Corinna Vinschen)
>
>- Allow greater number of recursive signal invocations. (Pierre Humblet)
>
>- Fix problems using libm.a which resulted in "File truncated" errors
> during link. (Christopher Faylor)
>
>- Check arguments for mount/umount syscalls to avoid crashes.
> (Christopher Faylor)
>
>- Recognize special names with extensions as needing encoding under
> managed mode. (Christopher Faylor)
>
>- Do sanity checking on packages when they are reported by "cygcheck -c".
> (Igor Pechtchanski)
>
>- Implement cygcheck --list-package (-l) option to list all files in an
> installed package. (Igor Pechtchanski)
>
>- Implement cygcheck --find-package (-f) option to find the installed
> package associated with a file. (Igor Pechtchanski)
>
>- Fix possible crash in mmap if file size is less than requested map
> length. (Corinna Vinschen)
>
>- Add a bunch of convenience macros to sys/params.h. (Nicholas Wourms)
>
>- Return more accurate errnos when reading/writing raw disk and tape
> devices. (Corinna Vinschen)
>
>- Fix problem where some network applications (notably ftp) could crash
> on attempts to connect to more than one host. (Christopher Faylor)
>
>- Try harder to kill a windows process when using the "kill -f" command.
> (Christopher Faylor)
>
>- Use cygserver library when building a cygwin DLL meant to interoperate with
> the (experimental) cygserver. (Christopher Faylor)
>
>
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