Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3F54C2F8.2020703@ic.unicamp.br> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:19:04 -0300 From: Thiago Serra Azevedo Silva User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.3-1 References: <20030901182433 DOT 98F6A32A822 AT redhat DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20030901182433.98F6A32A822@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: >I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities >available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. > >This is the first non-test 1.5.x release. This means that the 1.5.x >series of the cygwin DLL will be the default from now on. > >As previously reported here, 1.5.x versions of cygwin1.dll contain major >changes in some APIs such that 64 bit file I/O operations are now >available. This means that some structures such as those found in >'stat' and 'dirent' have changed. This version also supports 32 bit >uids. Older applications will continue to work correctly but DLLs and >libraries which use any structures whose size has changed will need to >be recompiled and relinked. > >There have been two problems with previous 1.5.x releases. One involved >any application that used fdopen and another involved any application >that used -lc on the command line. If you have rebuilt a library or >application for 1.5.0 or 1.5.1 and you used either of these, you will >need to relink your app for 1.5.3. I'm very sorry for the >inconvenience. Executables linked for/with 1.5.2 or 1.3.32 or earlier >should continue to work fine. > >To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on >the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your >system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. > >If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin >mailing list at: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com . > > *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** > >If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look >at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. >Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: > >cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com > >If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: > >http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple > >Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available >starting at this URL. > >Christopher Faylor >Red Hat, Inc. > >Changes since 1.5.2-1: > >- Fix problems where cygwin heap could run into mmapped regions. > (Corinna Vinschen) > >- Allow greater number of recursive signal invocations. (Pierre Humblet) > >- Fix problems using libm.a which resulted in "File truncated" errors > during link. (Christopher Faylor) > >- Check arguments for mount/umount syscalls to avoid crashes. > (Christopher Faylor) > >- Recognize special names with extensions as needing encoding under > managed mode. (Christopher Faylor) > >- Do sanity checking on packages when they are reported by "cygcheck -c". > (Igor Pechtchanski) > >- Implement cygcheck --list-package (-l) option to list all files in an > installed package. (Igor Pechtchanski) > >- Implement cygcheck --find-package (-f) option to find the installed > package associated with a file. (Igor Pechtchanski) > >- Fix possible crash in mmap if file size is less than requested map > length. (Corinna Vinschen) > >- Add a bunch of convenience macros to sys/params.h. (Nicholas Wourms) > >- Return more accurate errnos when reading/writing raw disk and tape > devices. (Corinna Vinschen) > >- Fix problem where some network applications (notably ftp) could crash > on attempts to connect to more than one host. (Christopher Faylor) > >- Try harder to kill a windows process when using the "kill -f" command. > (Christopher Faylor) > >- Use cygserver library when building a cygwin DLL meant to interoperate with > the (experimental) cygserver. (Christopher Faylor) > > >-- >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/ > > -- 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/