Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/02/14/05:55:22
Corinna Vinschen skrev:
> On Feb 13 21:02, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> So, barring any catastrophic problems with the current released version
>>> of the Cygwin DLL, the last Cygwin version with support for
>>> non-Windows-NT class versions of Windows will be 1.5.24-2.
>> And approximately what is the timeframe to 1.7.0; weeks, months, next
>> year? Is HEAD stable enough for those not working on cygwin1.dll to be
>> testing?
>
> Months. It's stable enough now but it's constantly changing. Stability
> in snapshots is not guaranteed.
>
> Exciting new stuff so far (IMHO):
>
> - New blocking socket code
> - getaddrinfo/getnameinfo/freeaddrinfo
> - IPv6 (>= XP, 2K w/ IPv6 Helper Lib)
> - POSIX advisory functions (posix_fallocate, posix_fadvise,
> posix_memalign, posix_madvise)
> - Treat directory reparse points and native symlinks as symlinks
> - Up to 128 SCSI disk block devices
> - New setuid method which allows to logon without password and being
> recognized correctly also by native Windows applications
> - More POSIXy unlink/rmdir behaviour
> - Resolver functions from minires now part of Cygwin
> - New struct ifconf, plus /proc/net/if_inet6 using unambiguos interface
> GUID name of Windows (>= XP SP1)
> - Multicast support (>= XP SP1)
> - POSIX shared memory objects
> - POSIX message queues (coming today)
>
> More to come.
>
>
> Corinna
>
Corinna, I love you! I'm so excited about these changes!
- Eric
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