Hi folks,
since we're pretty late already, we would like to start a (hopefully) last round of testing for 1.7.18. Please give the latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots a try. We're concentrating on regressions from 1.7.17. If you don't see any, we're good. Otherwise a description how to reproduce a regression from 1.7.17 with simple tools will help. Neither Chris nor I have a lot of time right now, so we would very much appreciate simple testcases, preferredly in plain C, debugging efforts trying to find the actual cause for a problem, or, ultimately, patches to fix such a cause. Below's a short list of what's new and improved in 1.7.18. If nothing overly serious crops up, we hope to release 1.7.18 early next week. Thanks for your help, Corinna What's new: ----------- - For performance reasons, Cygwin does not try to create sparse files automatically anymore, unless you use the new "sparse" mount option. - Added Windows console cursor appearance support: - Show/Hide Cursor mode (DECTCEM): "ESC[?25h" / "ESC[?25l" - Set cursor style (DECSCUSR): "ESC[n q" (note the space before the q); where n is 0, 1, 2 for block cursor, 3, 4 for underline cursor (all disregarding blinking mode), or > 4 to set the cursor height to a percentage of the cell height. - New API: cfsetspeed. - Changes in cygwin1.dll and gdb-7.5.50-2 now allow gdb to recognize Cygwin-specific signals like "SIGTERM" as well as Windows signals like "SIGSEGV". This feature is still experimental. Bug fixes: ---------- - Fix handle leak in rewinddir(3). This affected Windows 2000 only. - Allow quoted filenames in @ argument expression when called from native processes. Fixes http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-12/msg00276.html - Fix a bug in initializing the stdio settings at process startup, which could result in missing output. Fixes http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-01/msg00008.html - rename("dir1", "dir2") could result in deleting dir2, even if the rename didn't take place, for instance, if dir1 and dir2 were not on the same device. - rename("file1", "file2") would fail in almost all cases on NFS, due to a bug in the NFS driver's implementation of the FileRenameInformation info class. - Fix bug where dup2 segv'ed on negative fd. See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-12/msg00377.html - Work around problem of erratic exit codes caused by a thread exiting while process is shutting down. See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-12/msg00377.html - Always interrupt select() on a signal. See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-01/threads.html#00139 - Fix problem where sigwait() ignored non-thread-specific signals. See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-12/threads.html#00076 - Fix special processing of "cmd /c" so that "/C" is allowed as well. See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-11/msg00286.html - Return 0 rather than -1 when select() times out. See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-11/msg00132.html - Fix some bugs in CTRL-S/CTRL-Q handling in ptys. See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-10/msg00089.html -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
