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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:30:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Barry Drake <bldrake AT adaptcs DOT com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.6-1
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I followed the installation instructions here, but the
cygwin1.dll file does not update.  Just the packages
are updated.  The date on cygwin1.dll is 2003-09-20,
obviously not the newest.

Is there something else I need to do to make sure the
dll gets updated?

Thanks.
Barry Drake

--- Christopher Faylor
<cgf-nopersonal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com> 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.
> 
> I'd like to send a special thanks to Thomas Pfaff
> who is stepping down
> as the cygwin pthreads maintainer.  His efforts in
> improving pthreads
> functionality were greatly appreciated.
> 
> 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 .
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> 
> Changes since 1.5.5-1:
> 
> - Implement mknod.  (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Renumber many major/minor device numbers to be
> more like linux.
> (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Revamp signal processing to allow beginnings of
> ability to send
> signals to threads.  (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Create shared memory regions in appropriate name
> space and
> with ACLs explicitly including their owner. (Pierre
> Humblet)
> 
> - Protect tty access from unauthorized users. 
> (Pierre Humblet,
> Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Add some missing entries to /usr/include/paths.h.
> (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Add some missing entries to /usr/include/tzfile.h.
> (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Fix problems with failing exec in a vfork. 
> (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Set errno to E2BIG if command line is longer than
> the CreateProcess limit.
> (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - mmap fixes.  (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Implement TIOCLINUX ioctl.  (Pavel Tsekov)
> 
> - Fix problem with TIOCGWINSZ.  (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Reimplement sched_rr_get_interval for NT systems. 
> (Vaclav Haisman)
> 
> - Fix some thread initialization races for stdio. 
> (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Correctly define MAP_FAILED as void *.  (Yitzchak
> Scott-Thoennes)
> 
> - Fix problems programs which need a console
> available when running on a
> pty.  (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Don't send SIGHUP on CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT to
> processes running in
> invisible Windows stations (like services). 
> (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Add escape sequences for codepage ansi <-> oem
> switching for ncurses
> frame drawing capabilities.  (Micha Nelissen,
> Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Implement System V shm, sem, msg handling in
> cygserver.  (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Fix return value from FIONBIO ioctl.  (Christopher
> Faylor)
> 
> - Don't clobber O_APPEND when both
> O_NONBLOCK/O_NDELAY are set for
> F_SETFL.  (Brian Ford)
> 
> - Disallow filenames consisting entirely of three or
> more dots.
> (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Encode filenames consisting of more than two dots
> for managed mode.
> (Igor Pechtchanski)
> 
> - Make tmpfile 64-bit aware.  (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Correctly define *64_MAX.  (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Fix Windows 95 handling of some network functions.
>  (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Don't open a directory which lacks read
> privileges.  (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Implement vwarnx, vwarn, warn, warnx, verr, verrx,
> err, errx.
> (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Fix handling of freerange cygthreads which caused
> occasional hangs.
> (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Fix utmp handling so that login/logout are
> correctly recorded.
> (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Implement getprogname, setprogname.  (Corinna
> Vinschen)
> 
> - Raise SIGSYS if cygserver is not running for some
> cygserver-specific
> calls.  (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Default to always checking for cygserver. 
> (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Add installation instructions for cygserver. 
> (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Correct api major version check so that newer dlls
> will work with
> older apps but not vice versa.  (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Implement sigwait.  (Christopher Faylor)
> 
> - Implement flock. (Nicholas Wourms)
> 
> - Make fcntl 64-bit aware.  (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Remove polling loop for serial tcflush which
> caused "hangs".
> (Brian Ford)
> 
> - Allow multiple pathnames on the cygpath command
> line.  (Mark Blackburn)
> 
> - Add ipcrm and ipcs to cygwin distribution. 
> (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Change mkgroup to print "root" group with local
> admins group sid
> and gid 0.  (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Implement new options for passwd(1):
>   -c/-C   User must not/may change password.
>   -e/-E   User's password never expires/expires
> according to aging rules.
>   -p/-P   Password not required/is required for
> user.
> (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Implement missing POSIX SEM calls sem_open,
> sem_close, sem_timedwait
> and sem_getvalue. (Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> - Thread safe inserts/deletes for pthread object
> lists.  (Thomas Pfaff)
> 
> 
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