X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Eric Lilja Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:54:45 +0100 Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <45D27BD7.4040304@users.sourceforge.net> <20070214093556.GA16654@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: <20070214093556.GA16654@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Corinna Vinschen skrev: > 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, I love you! I'm so excited about these changes! - Eric -- 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/