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From: "Richard Stanton" <stanton AT Haas DOT Berkeley DOT EDU>
To: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: Updated: Cygwin DLL 1.1.3
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:25:26 -0700
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I just ran setup, asking it to install from the Internet. It installed some,
but not all, of the packages (though there was no error message that I could
see). I just started it again, and it's picked up with fileutils, flex, gcc,
...

Richard Stanton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-announce-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-announce-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Chris
> Faylor
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:03 PM
> To: cygwin-announce AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: Updated: Cygwin DLL 1.1.3
>
>
> I've updated the version of the cygwin DLL in cygwin/latest to 1.1.3.
>
> A partial, unordered list of what's changed is below.  If anyone who has
> submitted changes that are not mentioned below wants to chime in, please
> feel free.
>
> To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
> the http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin web page.  This downloads setup.exe
> to your system.
>
> Run setup and answer all of the questions.  PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
> choose a mirror site for your download.  The 'sources.redhat.com' site
> is badly overloaded.  The mirrors below have the latest version of
> this package:
>
> ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/pub/cygwin/ (US)
> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/cygwin/ (Austria)
> ftp://sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/ (UK)
>
> Note that if this is the first time that you've run the new GUI version
> of setup, it will currently download the whole cygwin net release again.
> After this point it will only download what is needed.
>
> If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin
> mailing list at:  cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com .  I would appreciate
> if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly.
> This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin
> in general.
>
> If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is
> the appropriate place.
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> Christopher Faylor
> GDB/Cygwin Engineering Manager
> Red Hat, Inc.
>
> Fixes:
>
> - The find command should no longer report 'File not found' for valid
>   paths.
>
> - Command slowdown should be eliminated.
>
> - Memory page checking should prevent cygwin from core dumping when it
>   should be returning an EFAULT due to invalid addresses passed to cygwin
>   functions.
>
> - binmode.o and textmode.o files are now available for linking with an
>   application to force an application to open files in binmode or
>   textmode by default.
>
> - The first steps towards internationalization have been taken.  Some
>   functions are slightly more friendly toward non-US characters.
>
> - Stack dumps should now more accurately report return addresses.
>
> - New API function: poll() -- emulates standard UNIX function of the
>   same name.  New header files poll.h and sys/poll.h.
>
> - New API function: chroot() -- note that this is a cygwin-only version
>   of this function which means that it is easily bypassed by running a
>   windows native program.
>
> - Rectify problem where Explorer quoted argv[0] causing cygwin to become
>   confused as to the name of the file.
>
> - Rectify problem caused by execing a process after all handles have
>   been closed.
>
> - Support for tapes with variable blocksize has been implemented.
>
> - Correct exit status is now reported when a process exits due to a
>   signal.
>
> - The "disappearing cursor" problem has been solved.
>
> - getpwnam/getpwuid functions report NULL instead of a fallback entry if
>   /etc/passwd exist and the user name or uid is not found in the file.
>
> - /dev/urandom uses a pseudo random entropy source if it can't connect
>   to the system entropy source. So /dev/urandom works now for a plain
>   W95 system as well. /dev/random fails in that case.
>   Entropy in both devices can be initialized by writing to the device.
>
> - New header files netinet/in_systm.h and cygwin/in_systm.h.
>
> - ntsec: Command startup is noticable accelerated since ntsec tries to
>   get all user related information through inheritance or from the
>   environment and the local system first.
>
> - ntsec: Rectify problem when access is called for files with `.exe'
>   suffix.
>
> - ntsec: Two new functions (prototypes in sys/cygwin.h)
>     cygwin_logon_user()
>     cygwin_set_impersonation_token()
>   which are used to allow further calls to setuid/seteuid to change the
>   user context on NT/W2K. Further calls to `execXX' don't have to be
>   substituted by `sexecXX' anymore.
>
> - ntsec: Concept of real vs. effective uid/gid is supported (slightly
>   restricted by NT/W2K security). Together with the aforementioned two
>   new functions, the porting of setuid applications is simplified.
>
> - ntsec: When changing the user context on creating a new process,
>   Cygwin tries to load the local copy of the users registry hive.
>   It neither tries to load server based hives nor does it save hives
>   back.
>


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