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Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:39:18 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.9-1
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Hi Cygwin friends and users,


I just released 1.7.9-1.  This is mainly a bug fix release.


New since Cygwin 1.7.8:
=======================

- New API: strchrnul.


Changes since Cygwin 1.7.8:
===========================

- Slightly speed up file access when creating new files.

- Move the call to _feinitialise from crt0.o to the Cygwin DLL itself.

- Add a cheat to mmap to allow a certain autoconf test to succeed on
  64 bit Windows systems as well.

- Provide a sys/xattr.h header file as on Linux.  On Cygwin it just
  includes the already existing attr/xattr.h.


Bugfixes since Cygwin 1.7.8:
============================

- Fix a problem when loading winmm functions on XP and Server 2003.

- Fix a bug in the new POSIX compatible strerror_r function.  Tweak
  sys/cdefs.h and string.h headers to make sure linking against strerror_r
  will correctly pick up the POSIX implementation.

- Avoid endless blocking behaviour in mq_timedsend and mq_timedreceive
  when used with O_NONBLOCK message queues.

- Rewrite parts of the /proc/sys implementation to avoid potential
  crashes with badly written drivers.

- Fix a problem to fetch correct file permissions on just created
  files on XP and Server 2003.

- Avoid potential data loss when sending lots of data through a pipe.

- Fix inode number handling in stat.

- Lower the pressure on the cygheap when using mmap a lot.

- Raise the default size of the cygheap to 2 Megs.

- Don't use SSE instructions on systems not supporting them (NT4).

- Fix return codes and setting of errno in sem_init, sem_destroy, and
  sem_close functions.


Have fun,
Corinna


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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