Hi Cygwin friends and users,
I just released 1.7.9-1. This is mainly a bug fix release. New since Cygwin 1.7.8: ======================= - New API: strchrnul. Changes since Cygwin 1.7.8: =========================== - Slightly speed up file access when creating new files. - Move the call to _feinitialise from crt0.o to the Cygwin DLL itself. - Add a cheat to mmap to allow a certain autoconf test to succeed on 64 bit Windows systems as well. - Provide a sys/xattr.h header file as on Linux. On Cygwin it just includes the already existing attr/xattr.h. Bugfixes since Cygwin 1.7.8: ============================ - Fix a problem when loading winmm functions on XP and Server 2003. - Fix a bug in the new POSIX compatible strerror_r function. Tweak sys/cdefs.h and string.h headers to make sure linking against strerror_r will correctly pick up the POSIX implementation. - Avoid endless blocking behaviour in mq_timedsend and mq_timedreceive when used with O_NONBLOCK message queues. - Rewrite parts of the /proc/sys implementation to avoid potential crashes with badly written drivers. - Fix a problem to fetch correct file permissions on just created files on XP and Server 2003. - Avoid potential data loss when sending lots of data through a pipe. - Fix inode number handling in stat. - Lower the pressure on the cygheap when using mmap a lot. - Raise the default size of the cygheap to 2 Megs. - Don't use SSE instructions on systems not supporting them (NT4). - Fix return codes and setting of errno in sem_init, sem_destroy, and sem_close functions. Have fun, Corinna 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. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** 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....@cygwin.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 Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
