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Subject: Re: Updated: apr(-util) 0.9.5_2.0.52-1
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 21:41:03 -0000
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fr_awwad_AT_encs.concordia.ca wrote:
> Hello there
>
> Indeed, I am very new with CYGWIN.... The problem is whenever I click to 
> open
> the black window of CYGWIN (seems unix window), it just opens for less 
> than a
> fraction of a second and then it closes down.
> Can you help me to solve this problem..
>
> Thanks
>
> Falah

It is considered rather bad etiquette to reply to an arbitrary post to start 
a completely unrelated topic.

It is *very* *very* bad etiquette to send a "please help me" email to an 
announcements-only mailing list.

Max.


> Quoting Max Bowsher <maxb_AT_ukf.net>:
>
>> APR and APR-util, portability and miscellaneous utility libraries,
>> have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution to version 
>> 0.9.5_2.0.52-1.
>>
>> This version number deserves a bit of explanation:
>>
>> The 0.9.x branch of APR, used by httpd 2.0.x and Subversion 1.x is in an
>> unpleasant limbo between being a subdirectory of the httpd source code, 
>> and
>> an independent project in it's own right. Releases of APR itself have 
>> been
>> annoyingly sporadic, leading to non-httpd clients of the library (such as
>> Subversion) adopting the practice of treating "whatever is in the apache
>> 2.0.XX tarball" as the latest released version. The current apr 0.9.x 
>> branch
>> identifies itself as 0.9.5, presumably working towards an eventual 0.9.5
>> release - if that ever actually happens. Hence, this package identifies
>> itself as "0.9.5_2.0.52", the apr 0.9.5 development version as 
>> snapshotted
>> in the httpd-2.0.52 release.
>>
>> The purpose of this update is to provide anyone working on packaging 
>> Apache
>> 2 with up-to-date apr(-util) libraries. Diffs of the upstream CHANGES 
>> file
>> since the previous Cygwin package are at the bottom of this message, 
>> below
>> the unsubscribe info, if you are particularly curious.
>>
>> Max Bowsher.
>>
>> --
>>
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>> system.  Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.
>>
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>>
>> apr:
>>
>> +  *) Makes the threads to behave like on posix. If the thread is created
>> +     without APR_DETACH expect that the thread_join will be called, so
>> don't
>> +     close the handle in advance, if the thread has already finished.
>> +     [Mladen Turk]
>> +
>> +   *) The apr/test/Makefile.win is missing a target to build a
>> +     readchild.exe that test is depending on but is never built.
>> +     [Mladen Turk]
>> +
>> +  *) Fix build issues in paths containing symlinks.  PR 8867.
>> +     [Joe Orton]
>> +
>> +  *) Update config.{guess,sub} for DragonFly BSD.  PR 29858.
>> +     [Joe Orton]
>> +
>> +  *) Win32: Fix bug in apr_socket_sendfile that interferred with
>> +     Win32 LSPs. Bug is described in Apache 2.0 bugzilla report
>> +     23982 [Jan Bilek, Bill Stoddard]
>> +
>> +  *) apr_proc_create() on Unix: Remove unnecessary check for read
>> +     access to the working directory of the child process.
>> +     PR 30137.  [Jeremy Chadwick <apache jdc.parodius.com>]
>> +
>> +  *) Win32: Fix bug tracking the file pointer on a file opened for
>> +     overlapped/APR_XTHREAD io. [Bill Stoddard]
>> +
>> +  *) Fix FreeBSD atomics.  [Paul Querna <chip force-elite.com>]
>> +
>> +  *) Fix apr_snprintf() to respect precision for small floating point
>> +     numbers.  PR 29621.  [Artur Zaprzala <zybi talex.pl>]
>> +
>> +  *) Add command type APR_SHELLCMD_ENV for creating a process
>> +     which is started by the shell and which inherits the parent's
>> +     environment variables.  [Jeff Trawick]
>> +
>> +  *) Change default inter-process locking mechanisms: POSIX semaphores
>> +     and pthread cross-process mutexes are not used by default; on
>> +     Solaris, fcntl locks are used by default.  [Joe Orton]
>> +
>> +  *) Don't try to enable run-time linking on AIX < 4.2, as this
>> +     results in invalid linker options being used.  PR 29170.
>> +     [Jeff Trawick]
>> +
>>
>> apr-util:
>>
>> +  *) Guarantee and require default address alignment for block offsets
>> +     within segments in the apr_rmm interface.  PR 29873.  [Joe Orton]
>> +
>> +  *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0786 (cve.mitre.org)
>> +     Fix input validation in apr_uri_parse() to avoid passing negative
>> +     length to memcpy for malformed IPv6 literal addresses.
>> +     [Joe Orton]
>> +
>> +  *) Fix build issues in paths containing symlinks.  PR 8867.
>> +     [Joe Orton]
>> + 


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