X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:28:19 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: [experimental] cygwin-1.5.25-8 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.74 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 I've uploaded a test version of the Cygwin DLL and its utilities, version 1.5.25-8. The main purpose of this update is to allow Cygwin to run correctly on Windows 2008 Server. A change in the exception handling in Windows 2008 Server requires to change the exception handling in the Cygwin DLL as well, otherwise an exception in a Cygwin process results in an endless loop in the OS, taking 100% CPU. I reported this problem upstream. Apart from that, this new release contains a couple of additional fixes which cropped up in the last two months. Please give it a test. Baring any solution for the exception handling problem in Windows 2008 Server from Microsoft which would allow to revert to the old behaviour, and if we find nothing else serious in this test release, I plan to make this the official release end of next week. Changes since version 1.5.25-7: - Allow cygcheck to run on Windows 9x again. - Fix testing for Samba shares to use more reliable test available with upcoming versions of Samba (3.0.28a, 3.2.0). - Change exception handling to run under Windows 2008 Server. - Fix a crash when creating stackdumps on Windows XP x64 Edition and Windows 2003 Server x64 Edition. - Fix pthread_kill to deal with signal 0 as per POSIX. - Fix ambiguity in thread signal mask handling. - Try harder to make a pipe into a full-cygwin device. - Fix strtod to handle incomplete hex strings correctly. 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 'cygwin' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). You will need to use the 'Exp' radio button to get the test version. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list. See http://cygwin.com/lists.html for details. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from 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. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. Corinna Vinschen Red Hat -- 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/