Hi folks,
I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.13.
Interesting changes in this test release:
- Add missing prototype for strerror_l.
- Fix feature tests for str{n}casecmp_l prototypes.
- Fix a thinko and unify the underlying handling of the pointer used in
ctype macros. This is supposed to fix the crash reported in
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg00472.html
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The 2.6.0 release is going to introducing the locale_t datatype, as well
as all functions related to locale_t locales and per-thread locales per
POSIX-1.2008.
So, rather than just providing a single, per-process locale, you can now
create new locales ("newlocale") and set it as locale for the current
thread ("uselocale") or use it directly with one of the new functions
taking a locale_t as parameter (i.e. isalpha_l).
Since this is brand-new code, this code *will* have bugs.
It would be very helpful if interested developers and Cygwin package
maintainers could give this new stuff some good testing.
Other than that:
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What's new:
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- Support for POSIX-1.2008 locale objects and per-thread locales.
New API per POSIX-1.2008: newlocale, freelocale, duplocale, uselocale,
nl_langinfo_l, isalnum_l, isalpha_l, isblank_l, iscntrl_l, isdigit_l,
isgraph_l, islower_l, isprint_l, ispunct_l, isspace_l, isupper_l, iswalnum_l,
iswalpha_l, iswblank_l, iswcntrl_l, iswctype_l, iswdigit_l, iswgraph_l,
iswlower_l, iswprint_l, iswpunct_l, iswspace_l, iswupper_l, iswxdigit_l,
isxdigit_l, tolower_l, toupper_l, towctrans_l, towlower_l, towupper_l,
wctrans_l, wctype_l, strcasecmp_l, strcoll_l, strerror_l, strfmon_l,
strftime_l, strncasecmp_l, strxfrm_l, wcscasecmp_l, wcscoll_l,
wcstrncasecmp_l, wcstrxfrm_l.
New API, GNU extensions: isascii_l, toascii_l, strptime_l, strtod_l,
strtof_l, strtol_l, strtold_l, strtoll_l, strtoul_l, strtoull_l, wcsftime_l,
wcstod_l, wcstof_l, wcstol_l, wcstold_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l, wcstoull_l.
- locale(1) now supports a -i/--input option to fetch the current input
locale (this is basically equivalent to the current keyboard layout setting).
- New API: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np.
What changed:
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- Drop support for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003/2003 R2.
- Drop support for very old SUNWNFS filesystem.
- Further header file improvements in terms of feature test macros.
- Raise number of supported partitions per disk (for raw access) to 63.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-06/msg00136.html
- Add a workaround for filesystems not supporting the FileAllInformation
info class.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00350.html
- Support AzureAD accounts.
- "nobody" account support for WinFSP.
Bug Fixes
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- Try to avoid spurious DENY ACEs when creating files in directories
with non-POSIX-like (rather: Windows-like) permissions.
Addresses: Report and reproducer on IRC.
- Make sure ldd(1) does not exit prematurely when enumerating DLLs.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-05/msg00185.html
- Fix strace timer output in child process.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00067.html
- Change blkcnt_t to signed type per POSIX.
- Fix definition of SSIZE_MAX on 32-bit systems.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00179.html
- Fix transposing invalid chars in Windows filenames on relative paths.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00193.html
- Don't raise SIGTTIN from select(2)/poll(2).
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2016-07/msg00004.html
- Fix truncl which was using the wrong FPU rounding mode.
Addresses: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128665
- Fix a regression in ioctl(fd, FIONREAD, ...) introduced in Cygwin 2.5.0.
This only affects 64 bit Cygwin.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00001.html
- Handle "clear screen" escpae sequence in console window more reliable.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00310.html
- Allow kill(pid, <anysig>) on zombies to return successfully, rather than
only kill(pid, 0), to align behaviour with POSIX requirements.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg00188.html
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Thanks,
Corinna
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