Subject: Re: Announcing gnu-win32 beta 17.1
From: [email-masked] (Geoffrey Noer)

11 Dec 1996 19:36:07 -0800
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James Dumser wrote:
> 
> uname -v responds with 17.3 on my system. Is this the "17.0" release or
> the "17.1" release? (echo hi > /dev/null works on my system; I
> downloaded it on 09 Dec.)

You have beta 17.0.  /dev/null works with this version under NT but not
Windows 95 as I understand.

winsup/version.h in the sources explains the significance of the version
numbers.  Briefly, there are three:

1) a registry version number which is only changed when incompatible
changes are made to the way the cygwin.dll uses the registry

2) a major cygwin.dll version number which only changes when changes
to the cygwin.dll invalidate previously compiled applications.  17
is the current major number.

3) a minor cygwin.dll version number which gets incremented whenever
a substantial change is made to winsup.  (This was incremented for
both the 17.0 and 17.1 releases).

So, the 17 in uname output doesn't mean "beta 17" but the 17th major
revision and 4 means the fourth minor revision.

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Geoffrey Noer
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