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--- Ven 25/6/10, Corinna Vinschen  ha scritto:

> A lot of changes and fixes have been
> made in Cygwin since 1.7.5 has
> been released, so we're looking forward to release Cygwin
> 1.7.6 soon.
>=20
> Please test the latest developer snapshots at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> which should have "Release Candidate" quality.
>=20
> Please report bugs to the cygwin at cygwin dot com mailing
> list.
> Please follow the guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> Be aware that we're mainly focusing on regressions from
> 1.7.5.
>=20
> What's new:
>=20
> - Add new mount options "dos" and "ihash" to allow
> overriding Cygwin
> =A0 default behaviour on broken filesystems not
> recognized by Cygwin.
>=20
> - A new mechanism is used to propagate pty handles safely
> to other
> =A0 processes, which does not require to use Cygserver.
>=20
> - Pass on coresize settings made with setrlimit(2).=A0
> This allows
> =A0 shells to disable creating stackdump files in child
> processes via
> =A0 `ulimit -c 0' in bash or `limit coredumpsize 0' in
> tcsh.
>=20
> - Locale categories contain all localization strings
> additionally as
> =A0 wide-char strings.=A0 locale(1) prints these
> values just as on Linux.
> =A0 nl_langinfo(3) allows to fetch them.
>=20
> Fixes:
>=20
> - Fix problem where pseudo-relocs were getting applied
> twice, resulting
> =A0 in a crash.
>=20
> - Fix a crash when accessing /proc/registry*
>=20
> - Avoid that connect on a not yet established
> AF_LOCAL/AF_UNIX
> =A0 socket misinterprets the socket file as non-socket.
>=20
> - Fix stdin/out/err handle permissions when called from a
> non-Cygwin
> =A0 process.
>=20
> - Fix codeset problem in internal handling of process
> name.
>=20
> - Fix abbreviated month names for japanese and korean
> locale.
>=20
> - Fix calls to gettimeofday after call to settimeofday.
>=20
> - Fix REG_MULTI_SZ handling in /proc/registry*
>=20
> - Honor cygwin username even if it only differs by case
> from Windows
> =A0 username.
>=20
> - Fix potential memory leak when accessing // or //server
> directories.
>=20
> - Fix using a wrong handle when cehcking for files
> inaccessible to
> =A0 current user.
>=20
> - Fix erroneous handling of devices in path checking.
>=20
> - Fix potential crash in exec(2) if parent uses file
> locking.
>=20
> Other changes:
>=20
> - Change the way a process is made process group leader in
> case
> =A0 we're started from a non-Cygwin process.=A0 This
> isn't foolproof
> =A0 and may need more work.
>=20
> - Workaround BLODA problem in rename(2) which otherwise
> results
> =A0 in annoying errors.
>=20
> - Improve error output in strace.
>=20
> - Add more workarounds for broken filesystems which either
> don't grok
> =A0 reopening a file by handle (NWFS) or which are not
> capable of
> =A0 handling filenames with leading spaces or trailing
> dots or spaces
> =A0 (NWFS, Netapp).
>=20
> - Don't try to evaluate reparse points (junctions) on
> remote
> =A0 filesystems as symlinks.
>=20
> - Improve performance of stat and a few other
> functions.=A0 ls(1) should
> =A0 be up to 30% faster on some drives.
>=20
>=20
> Corinna
>=20

Hi Corinna,
is something changed in the file open interface ?

On latest snaphots, but not on 1.7.5-1, I got unexpected
results on hdf5-1.8.5 build checks, when testing=20
if a file is already there.

Testing  -- Low-Level File I/O (file)
*** UNEXPECTED VALUE from H5Fcreate should be -1, but is 16777217 at line  =
149 in /pub/cygports/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.5-1/src/hdf5-1.8.5/test/tfile.c
*** UNEXPECTED VALUE from H5Fclose should be -1, but is 0 at line  158 in /=
pub/cygports/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.5-1/src/hdf5-1.8.5/test/tfile.c

Of course it is possible that hdf5 is wrongly assuming
something and it is not a snapshot fault.

Marco





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