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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:53:24 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: PLEASE TEST: Latest Cygwin snapshot == 1.5.10 alpha
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Hi,

since we're heading with big steps towards Cygwin version 1.5.10, I'd
like to encourage as many of you as possible to give the latest developer
snapshot a test.

  http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Many bugfixes and some interesting changes have been made and some new
functionality have been added.  The most important patches are listed below.

As usual, send bug reports to cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, see

  http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Send bug fixes to cygwin-patches AT cygwin DOT com.


Thanks,
Corinna


Changes since 1.5.9-1:

- Improve cygheap debugging, Fix heap size problems in child processes.
  (Christopher Faylor)

- Add sound recording capabilities and most Open Sound System (OSS)
  compliant ioctls.  Perform general improvements to audio code.
  (Gerd Spalink)

- Simplify and speed up path handling. (Pierre Humblet)

- Fix SIGCHLD handling. (Christopher Faylor)

- Fix shmat to succeed also for valid shmids not get by calling shmget.
  (Corinna Vinschen)

- Improve thread safety of newlib's file I/O functions. (Thomas Pfaff)

- Rewrite tape code to operate like Linux SCSI tape driver.  Documentation
  in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/mt.README from the latest mt package.
  (Corinna Vinschen)

- Add SIGPIPE handling to sendmsg. (Corinna Vinschen)

- Change socket send/recv to asynchronouos socket I/O to solve signal handling
  problems in blocking socket calls.  (Corinna Vinschen)

- Add libtextreadmode.a to allow setting only file input to O_TEXT by default.
  (Corinna Vinschen)

- Speed up stat-like file operations. Minimize file open/close calls.
  in NT. (Corinna Vinschen)

- Fix lseek return code in case of error. (Corinna Vinschen)

- 16 byte align stacks to allow SSE operations.  (DJ Delorie)

- Ensure that newly created threads are always ready to receive a signal. 
  (Christopher Faylor)

- Fix two races with multithreaded programs which use sockets. 
  (Christopher Faylor)

- Ensure that correct errno is set for failing opens.  (Christopher Faylor)

- Fix so that cygwin works correctly on Windows 95.  (Pierre Humblet)

- Make lstat return the correct size for symbolic links. (Pierre Humblet)

- Make /dev/mem access work again.  (Corinna Vinschen)

- Fix problems with "find /".  (Pierre Humblet)

- Fix problem where simultaneous attempts to open new ptys could lead to the
  same pty being opened multiple times.  (Christopher Faylor)

- Implement flockfile, ftrylockfile, funlockfile, getgrgid_r, getgrnam_r and
  getlogin_r.  (Corinna Vinschen)

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