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 Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:13:21 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed Message-ID: <20050929231320.GA13715@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i The latest snapshot is chock full of developer goodness and needs to be tested. Both Corinna and I spent a lot of time trying to track down the reported fork() problems. We didn't fix them* but this snapshot contains better fork error reporting. This snapshot also contains a rewrite of cygwin's method for interprocess communication. This means that /proc/NNN stuff (where NNN is a pid) and fifos could be affected. procps seems to work for me and my simple fifo tests show that they are working as well as they ever did (which means that they aren't fully implemented) but please report any new problems there. There is also a fix for LD_PRELOAD. A problem crept in when I introduced the ability for cygwin to detect when it is running a non-cygwin process. Corinna revamped cygwin's "raw device" handling, so reading from raw hard drives and floppies should be improved. She cleaned up POSIX semaphore handling a little and fixed the creation of some of cygwin's shared memory regions so that they are globablly accessible. She also finally added a WinMainCRTStartup entry point to cygwin after eight years. I took a stab at speeding up fork slightly by eliminating some expensive calls to the OS. Yitzchak Scott-Thoeness introduced the ability to use 'siginfo' style signal handlers. Oh, and Corinna also fixed the rmdir foo/. (and similar mkdir) problem although there are still other interesting problems with paths that end in /. or /.. So, once again, I'd like to finally release this thing and so I'm asking for testing help. You all should know the drill by now but, just in case you don't: * * * I'm asking, once again, for people to test the latest cygwin snapshot. The snapshot that is currently available should be very close to an official release of cygwin version 1.5.19. Please report success or failure to this thread. Please don't change the subject. Please don't start a new discussion. If you have a problem please report it using the guidelines found at . If you think you've found an error, please indicate whether this is a regression from 1.5.18 and, if possible, indicate regressions from previous snapshots. Regression from other past versions are worth reporting, but are only mildly useful. There are no guarantees that we will fix a problem for 1.5.19 unless it is a regression from 1.5.18. In general, just remember that we need *details*. So, when reporting a problem, report the exact steps that you took to cause the problem to occur. If there is anything "unusual" about your environment (firewalls, virus checkers, etc.) please report that too. Snapshots are located here: . Thanks. cgf *http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html -- 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/