Mail Archives: cygwin/2011/12/06/09:40:15
On 12/6/2011 10:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> A lot of changes and fixes have been made in Cygwin since 1.7.9 has
> been released, so we're looking forward to release Cygwin 1.7.10 soon.
>
> Please test the latest developer snapshots at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> which should have "Release Candidate" quality.
>
> A very noticable change is that for this release we dropped support for
> Windows NT4 entirely. Cygwin 1.7.10 won't start on NT4 machines anymore.
> Nor will Cygwin and the Cygwin utilities know about NT4 domains. Domain
> support requires at least a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain now.
>
> In 1.7.10 a few internals have changed, which influence the way some of
> the Cygwin tools work. For instance, the Cygwin ps tool from 1.7.9 will
> show weird tty numbers for processes running in a console window, while
> the new ps knows how to handle the new values.
>
> So, ideally for testing you don't just exchange the Cygwin DLL, but also
> the tools and, if you want to test some of the new API, the include
> files and link libs.
>
> 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 1.7.9.
>
> What's new:
> -----------
>
> - New getconf tool for querying confstr(3), pathconf(3), sysconf(3), and
> limits.h configuration.
>
> - The passwd tool now allows an administrator to use the -R command for
> other user accounts: passwd -R username.
>
> - Experimental: Change the way sockets are created so that Cygwin always
> circumvents so-called "layered service providers" (LSPs) starting with
> Windows Vista.
>
> - signal handler functions are now dispatched in threads other than the
> main thread.
>
> - Support NcFsd filesystem.
>
> - clock_gettime(3) and clock_getres(3) accept per-process and per-thread
> CPU-time clocks, including CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID and
> CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID.
>
> - New pthread functions:
>
> - Spin Locks: pthread_spin_destroy, pthread_spin_init, pthread_spin_lock,
> pthread_spin_trylock, pthread_spin_unlock.
>
> - Stack management: pthread_attr_getstack, pthread_attr_getstackaddr,
> pthread_attr_getguardsize, pthread_attr_setstack, pthread_attr_setstackaddr,
> pthread_attr_setguardsize, pthread_getattr_np.
>
> - Clock Selection: pthread_getcpuclockid, pthread_condattr_getclock,
> pthread_condattr_setclock.
>
> - Scheduling: pthread_setschedprio.
>
> - Add /proc/devices, /proc/misc, /proc/sysvipc, /proc/swaps.
>
> - Make various system functions thread cancelation points per POSIX.
>
> - Add ioctl FIONREAD handling for non-sockets.
>
> - dlopen now supports the Glibc-specific RTLD_NODELETE and RTLD_NOOPEN flags.
>
> - Execed processes now inherit the children of their predecessor.
>
> - Fifos have been rewritten and should now be more reliable.
>
> - GNU/glibc error.h error reporting functions: error, error_at_line,
> error_message_count, error_one_per_line, error_print_progname.
>
> - Other new API: clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep, clock_settime, __fpurge,
> getgrouplist, ppoll, psiginfo, psignal, ptsname_r, sys_siglist, sysinfo.
>
> - cygwin_conv_path_list finally supports CCP_WIN_W_TO_POSIX and
> CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_W conversions.
>
>
> What changed:
> -------------
>
> - Drop support for Windows NT4.
>
> - The CYGWIN environment variable options "envcache", "strip_title", "title",
> "tty", and "upcaseenv" have been removed.
>
> - Revamp console and pseudo tty handling. Rename /dev/ttyX to /dev/consX,
> /dev/ttyX to /dev/ptyX.
>
> - The CYGWIN=tty mode using pipes to communicate with the console in a pseudo
> tty-like mode has been removed. Either just use the normal Windows console
> as is, or use a terminal application like mintty.
>
> - Improve fork/exec performance on 64 bit systems.
>
> - Improve Ctrl-C handling in console.
>
> - Try harder to let fork not fail if DLLs are moved in memory which should,
> in some cases, minimize the need for rebaseall.
>
> - New heap management. Drop registry setting "heap_chunk_in_mb" in favor of
> a new per-executable setting in the executable file header which can be set
> using the peflags tool. Drop registry setting "heap_slop_in_mb" entirely.
>
> - dlopen can now find "cygFOO.dll", even if the caller specified "libFOO.so".
> This is supposed to support applications which are no aware of Windows DLLs.
>
> - Make accept(2), poll(2) and shutdown(2) behave more like on Linux.
>
> - Raise max number of mount points from 30 to 64.
>
> - Output of /proc/maps is closer to what Linux prints and much more useful to
> examine process VM layout.
>
> - /proc/loadavg now shows the number of currently running processes and the
> total number of processes.
>
> - /proc/version now shows the username of whomever compiled the Cygwin DLL
> as well as the version of GCC used when compiling.
>
> - cygwin_conv_path and cygwin_conv_path_list: In CCP_WIN_A_TO_POSIX and
> CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_A conversions, use the current Windows ANSI or OEM
> charset, depending on the return value of AreFileApisANSI. Up to Cygwin
> 1.7.9, both conversions used the current Cygwin charset for the conversion.
>
> - Various assorted bugfixes and improvements.
>
> - Preliminary, no guarantee, may be broken in subtil ways, Windows 8 support.
>
>
> Corinna
>
Hi Corinna,
I have the impression that 20111124 is working better than 20111129,
and that 20111204 and 05 have some additional problems.
On 20111129, building atlas on W7/x64 I see the custom config spinning
and never ending, while on 20111124 is goes smooth.
On 20111204 and 05, I see forking problems on octave with
some puzzling message about fifo issues. Rebaseall is ineffective.
I will look to build some simple test case for both problems.
Regards
Marco
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