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> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:58:03 +0100
> Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: [experimental] cygwin-1.5.25-11
>
> I've uploaded another test version of the Cygwin DLL and its utilities,
> version 1.5.25-11.
>
> 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.
> The problem has been confirmed to be a missing check in one of the OS
> DLLs.
>
> 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.
>
> The official release is now supposed to happen this weekend, finally.
>
> Changes since version 1.5.25-10:
>
> - Fix non-POSIX handling of ungetc buffer in ftell and fflush.
>
> - Trying to create a directory with open("foo/") failes now with EISDIR.
>
> - Fix a problem with CYGWIN=tty mode introduced in 1.5.25-8.
>
> - Another change in exception handling.
>
Hi All...

ssh localhost from a cmd (bash) window works fine now, but seems a bit slower. Not a very crisp description...I know. I will do some more careful experiments and report back.

Thanks,

...Karl

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