Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/11/01/16:41:51
fr_awwad_AT_encs.concordia.ca wrote:
> Hello there
>
> Indeed, I am very new with CYGWIN.... The problem is whenever I click to
> open
> the black window of CYGWIN (seems unix window), it just opens for less
> than a
> fraction of a second and then it closes down.
> Can you help me to solve this problem..
>
> Thanks
>
> Falah
It is considered rather bad etiquette to reply to an arbitrary post to start
a completely unrelated topic.
It is *very* *very* bad etiquette to send a "please help me" email to an
announcements-only mailing list.
Max.
> Quoting Max Bowsher <maxb_AT_ukf.net>:
>
>> APR and APR-util, portability and miscellaneous utility libraries,
>> have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution to version
>> 0.9.5_2.0.52-1.
>>
>> This version number deserves a bit of explanation:
>>
>> The 0.9.x branch of APR, used by httpd 2.0.x and Subversion 1.x is in an
>> unpleasant limbo between being a subdirectory of the httpd source code,
>> and
>> an independent project in it's own right. Releases of APR itself have
>> been
>> annoyingly sporadic, leading to non-httpd clients of the library (such as
>> Subversion) adopting the practice of treating "whatever is in the apache
>> 2.0.XX tarball" as the latest released version. The current apr 0.9.x
>> branch
>> identifies itself as 0.9.5, presumably working towards an eventual 0.9.5
>> release - if that ever actually happens. Hence, this package identifies
>> itself as "0.9.5_2.0.52", the apr 0.9.5 development version as
>> snapshotted
>> in the httpd-2.0.52 release.
>>
>> The purpose of this update is to provide anyone working on packaging
>> Apache
>> 2 with up-to-date apr(-util) libraries. Diffs of the upstream CHANGES
>> file
>> since the previous Cygwin package are at the bottom of this message,
>> below
>> the unsubscribe info, if you are particularly curious.
>>
>> Max Bowsher.
>>
>> --
>>
>> 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.
>>
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>>
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>>
>> apr:
>>
>> + *) Makes the threads to behave like on posix. If the thread is created
>> + without APR_DETACH expect that the thread_join will be called, so
>> don't
>> + close the handle in advance, if the thread has already finished.
>> + [Mladen Turk]
>> +
>> + *) The apr/test/Makefile.win is missing a target to build a
>> + readchild.exe that test is depending on but is never built.
>> + [Mladen Turk]
>> +
>> + *) Fix build issues in paths containing symlinks. PR 8867.
>> + [Joe Orton]
>> +
>> + *) Update config.{guess,sub} for DragonFly BSD. PR 29858.
>> + [Joe Orton]
>> +
>> + *) Win32: Fix bug in apr_socket_sendfile that interferred with
>> + Win32 LSPs. Bug is described in Apache 2.0 bugzilla report
>> + 23982 [Jan Bilek, Bill Stoddard]
>> +
>> + *) apr_proc_create() on Unix: Remove unnecessary check for read
>> + access to the working directory of the child process.
>> + PR 30137. [Jeremy Chadwick <apache jdc.parodius.com>]
>> +
>> + *) Win32: Fix bug tracking the file pointer on a file opened for
>> + overlapped/APR_XTHREAD io. [Bill Stoddard]
>> +
>> + *) Fix FreeBSD atomics. [Paul Querna <chip force-elite.com>]
>> +
>> + *) Fix apr_snprintf() to respect precision for small floating point
>> + numbers. PR 29621. [Artur Zaprzala <zybi talex.pl>]
>> +
>> + *) Add command type APR_SHELLCMD_ENV for creating a process
>> + which is started by the shell and which inherits the parent's
>> + environment variables. [Jeff Trawick]
>> +
>> + *) Change default inter-process locking mechanisms: POSIX semaphores
>> + and pthread cross-process mutexes are not used by default; on
>> + Solaris, fcntl locks are used by default. [Joe Orton]
>> +
>> + *) Don't try to enable run-time linking on AIX < 4.2, as this
>> + results in invalid linker options being used. PR 29170.
>> + [Jeff Trawick]
>> +
>>
>> apr-util:
>>
>> + *) Guarantee and require default address alignment for block offsets
>> + within segments in the apr_rmm interface. PR 29873. [Joe Orton]
>> +
>> + *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0786 (cve.mitre.org)
>> + Fix input validation in apr_uri_parse() to avoid passing negative
>> + length to memcpy for malformed IPv6 literal addresses.
>> + [Joe Orton]
>> +
>> + *) Fix build issues in paths containing symlinks. PR 8867.
>> + [Joe Orton]
>> +
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