Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/11/12/08:38:57
This load fixed one of those "strange network problems" for me as well.
Name service (gethostbyname) did not work in processes spawned out of CGI
scripts running under apache. I was guessing it was something missing in
the environment, but could not track it down to SYSTEMROOT.
Now it works again. Thanks!
D. Knisely
-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:00 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.12-1
Gack. Subject change.
Igor
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, 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.
>
> 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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> Christopher Faylor
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>
> Changes since 1.5.11-1:
>
> - Fix problem where stdout was closed when a thread exits. (Christopher
Faylor)
>
> - Fix pipe problems with Windows 95. (Bas van Gompel)
>
> - Fix race condition in fork which occasionally caused bash to think a
forked
> process had died prematurely. (Christopher Faylor)
>
> - Properly deal with CTRL-C while a cygwin process is in startup code.
> (Pierre Humblet)
>
> - Handle RTLD_DEFAULT in dlsym. (Sam Steingold)
>
> - Don't try to use Windows "delete on close" for files on remote shares.
> (Corinna Vinschen)
>
> - Properly handle trailing dots in windows file names. (Pierre Humblet)
>
> - Make the default /cygdrive "binary mode". (Christopher Faylor)
>
> - Add siginterrupt declaration to signal.h. (Christopher Faylor)
>
> - Use proper wait value for tty reads. (Mark Paulus)
>
> - Properly reset SIGCHLD blocking after a spawn when there was no previous
> signal blocking. (Christopher Faylor)
>
> - Work hard to ensure that SYSTEMROOT environment variable is always
passed
> to new processes even when it has ostensibly been deleted. This should
> fix some strange network problems. (Corinna Vinschen)
>
> - Fix network slowdowns experienced by some firewall users.
> (Christopher Faylor)
>
> - Fix return value for unbuffered fread. (Jason Tishler)
>
> - Properly load registry hives and insure access to system mounts.
> (Pierre Humblet)
>
> - Cleanup cygcheck and getfacl output. (Bas van Gompel)
>
> - Add cygcheck warning about multiple cygwin DLLs. (Bas van Gompel)
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