I'm just wondering, will setup.exe honor new mount options, or it will still mess up NTFS permissions?
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > A lot of changes and fixes have been made in Cygwin since 1.7.5 has > been released, so we're looking forward to release Cygwin 1.7.6 soon. > > Please test the latest developer snapshots at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > which should have "Release Candidate" quality. > > Please report bugs to the cygwin at cygwin dot com mailing list. > Please follow the guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Be aware that we're mainly focusing on regressions from 1.7.5. > > What's new: > > - Add new mount options "dos" and "ihash" to allow overriding Cygwin > default behaviour on broken filesystems not recognized by Cygwin. > > - A new mechanism is used to propagate pty handles safely to other > processes, which does not require to use Cygserver. > > - Pass on coresize settings made with setrlimit(2). This allows > shells to disable creating stackdump files in child processes via > `ulimit -c 0' in bash or `limit coredumpsize 0' in tcsh. > > - Locale categories contain all localization strings additionally as > wide-char strings. locale(1) prints these values just as on Linux. > nl_langinfo(3) allows to fetch them. > > Fixes: > > - Fix problem where pseudo-relocs were getting applied twice, resulting > in a crash. > > - Fix a crash when accessing /proc/registry* > > - Avoid that connect on a not yet established AF_LOCAL/AF_UNIX > socket misinterprets the socket file as non-socket. > > - Fix stdin/out/err handle permissions when called from a non-Cygwin > process. > > - Fix codeset problem in internal handling of process name. > > - Fix abbreviated month names for japanese and korean locale. > > - Fix calls to gettimeofday after call to settimeofday. > > - Fix REG_MULTI_SZ handling in /proc/registry* > > - Honor cygwin username even if it only differs by case from Windows > username. > > - Fix potential memory leak when accessing // or //server directories. > > - Fix using a wrong handle when cehcking for files inaccessible to > current user. > > - Fix erroneous handling of devices in path checking. > > - Fix potential crash in exec(2) if parent uses file locking. > > Other changes: > > - Change the way a process is made process group leader in case > we're started from a non-Cygwin process. This isn't foolproof > and may need more work. > > - Workaround BLODA problem in rename(2) which otherwise results > in annoying errors. > > - Improve error output in strace. > > - Add more workarounds for broken filesystems which either don't grok > reopening a file by handle (NWFS) or which are not capable of > handling filenames with leading spaces or trailing dots or spaces > (NWFS, Netapp). > > - Don't try to evaluate reparse points (junctions) on remote > filesystems as symlinks. > > - Improve performance of stat and a few other functions. ls(1) should > be up to 30% faster on some drives. > > > 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 Project Co-Leader 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 > > -- 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
