X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:20:00 -0600 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: coreutils-5.94-5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.74 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 5.94-5, is available for experimental use. NEWS: ===== This is a test release designed to exercise the latest cygwin snapshots, as well as to field test a change in how file names printed to the terminal are handled. I have previously released, unannounced, 5.94-[2-4] with the same intentions of testing cygwin snapshots. This release relies on features added since cygwin-1.5.19, such as the behavior of freopen(NULL), so you MUST have snapshot 20060329 or later installed to use it (or wait for cygwin 1.5.20 to come out). If you are not sure what this means, then stick with the stable 5.94-1. Cygwin-specific changes in this release, as compared to the stable 5.94-1, include the following: + Cripple pwd to always use readdir instead of getcwd, in order to stress test d_ino in the snapshots. This crippling will be reverted when cygwin 1.5.20 is final. + Optimize ls -i to use d_ino and avoid stat when possible. + Fix dd regression on text mounts - when iflag=O_TEXT is not specified, default to binary mode. + Stress test new freopen(NULL) semantics in many apps. + Backport CVS patch that makes df display sane values instead of huge negative disk sizes when quotas make statfs return weird values. + Treat 8-bit characters as printable when quoting a filename in an interactive or error message, such as for rm -i or cp -v. Also, there are reports of cp reporting error messages such as "replaced while being copied", caused by older versions of Samba. This is not a coreutils bug, but a side-effect of how cygwin handles Samba drives. If you are affected by this error message, please read the various threads on the main cygwin list and help us figure out how we can make cygwin distinguish older buggy Samba versions from current ones that have correct inodes. DESCRIPTION: ============ GNU coreutils provides a collection of commonly used utilities essential to a standard POSIX environment. It comprises the former textutils, sh-utils, and fileutils packages. The following executables are included: [ basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold gkill groups head hostid hostname id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nice nl nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir seq sha1sum shred sleep sort split stat stty su sum sync tac tail tee test touch tr true tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes UPDATE: ======= 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. Save it and run setup, answer the questions, then look for 'coreutils' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). Because this is an experimental version, you will have to first install a snapshot and use the 'Exp' radio button. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to 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. 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