X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:35:56 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me Message-ID: <20070214093556.GA16654@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <45D27BD7.4040304@users.sourceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45D27BD7.4040304@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/