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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:33:20 +0000
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Subject: Re: libbsd 0.12.2-5: promote from test to current?
To: Christian Franke via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On 27/10/2025 09:50, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> Current libbsd 0.11.7-3 breaks setproctitle() because it provides its 
> own generic implementation which does not work on Cygwin. It also 
> prevents that the cygwin1.dll implementations of some other functions 
> (arc4random(), strlcat/cpy(), wcslcat/cpy(), ...) are used.
> 
> The runtime from libbsd0 0.12.2-5 still exports these symbols for 
> backward compatibility but the import library from libbsd-devel does not 
> longer offer these.
> 
> Related thread:
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2025-February/257407.html
> 
> Could libbsd 0.12.2-5 please be promoted to current?

Thanks for pointing out this oversight!

I have promoted 0.12.2-5 to current (on behalf of Corinna).


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