Something is very wrong with bash. If I redirect the output of xcopy or icacls into a bash variable, like stdout="$(icacls "$(cygpath -w "$PWD")")", then sometimes I get only a letter in the middle. Very strange
Lionel On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 at 10:37, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > > [I sent this on 2024-02-14 to the cygwin-announce mailing list, > but forgot to CC the cygwin mailing list. Doing it now...] > > > Hi folks, > > we're planning the next major release in the next few (hopefully > not more than two) weeks. > > We're looking forward to more people giving the latest test release > of Cygwin a try! > > The most recent test release, which you can easily install from Cygwin > Setup, is cygwin-3.6.0-0.374.g4dd859d01c22. Of course, as time goes by, > there may be more 3.6.0 test release prior to the official release. > > If you're unsure how to install a test release, please have a look > at https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.testrels > > At this point, we're most interested if the test release introduces > regressions compared to 3.5.7! > > There's a whole bunch of new features and a few behavioral changes > compared to 3.5, but it's not so much testing the new functionality > we're after, but to test if everything still runs as in 3.5.7 or > even... better! > > If you see a change in the test release which breaks something for > you running fine in 3.5.7, please send a mail, ideally with a short > and simple testcase, to the cygwin@cygwin.com mailing list. > > Below you'll find a list of changes compared to the 3.5 series. > > > Thanks a lot, > Corinna > > > What's new: > ----------- > > - New API call: getlocalename_l. > > - New API calls: fdclosedir, posix_getdents. > > - New API call: setproctitle. > > - New API call: timespec_get. > > - New API calls: tcgetwinsize, tcsetwinsize. > > - New POSIX-defined entry points posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir and > posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir. These are the same as the already > exported posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and > posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np. > > - Add FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS FS_PINNED_FL and FS_UNPINNED_FL flags to handle > Windows attributes FILE_ATTRIBUTE_PINNED and FILE_ATTRIBUTE_UNPINNED. > Add matching 'p' and 'u' mode bits in chattr(1) and lsattr(1). > > - New libaio.a provided for projects checking for POSIX aio support > by looking for this library at configure time. > > - cygpath -r option allows to generate all Windows paths with root-local > path prefix \\?\. > > > What changed: > ------------- > > - ps -f now prints the commandline rather than the full path to the > executable. > > - Drop support for NT4 and Samba < 3.0.22. > > - Now that SMBv1 is ultimately deprecated and not installed by default > on latest Windows versions, use Network Discovery (i. e. WSD, "Web > Service Discovery") for enumerating network servers in //, just like > Windows Explorer. > > - If "server" is given as FQDN, and if "server" is an NFS server, > ls //server now also enumerates NFS shares. If "server" is given > as a flat name, only SMB shares are enumerated. > > - Expose //tsclient (Microsoft Terminal Services) shares as well as > //wsl$ (Plan 9 Network Provider) shares, i. e., WSL installation > root dirs. > > - Redesign pipe handling to minimize toggling blocking mode. > The query_hdl stuff is no longer needed in new implementation. > > - Now using AVX/AVX2/AVX-512 instructions in signal handler does not > break their context. > > - nice(2), setpriority(2) and sched_setparam(2) now fail with EACCES > or EPERM if Windows would silently set a lower priority > (HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS instead of REALTIME_PRIORITY_CLASS) due to > missing administrator privileges. > > - nice(2) now returns the new nice value instead of 0 on success > and sets errno to EPERM instead of EACCES on failure. This confirms > to POSIX and Linux (glibc >= 2.2.4) behavior. > > - sched_setscheduler(2) now emulates changes between SCHED_OTHER, > SCHED_BATCH, SCHED_IDLE, SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR. If SCHED_OTHER or > SCHED_BATCH is selected, the Windows priority is set according to the > nice value where SCHED_BATCH sets a one step lower priority. If > SCHED_IDLE is selected, the nice value is preserved and the Windows > priority is set to IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS. If SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR is > selected, the nice value is preserved and the Windows priority is set > according to the realtime priority. > If the SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK flag is set, SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR are > reset to SCHED_OTHER and negative nice values are reset to zero in > each child process created with fork(2). > Note: Windows does not offer alternative scheduling policies so > this could only emulate API behavior. > > - If SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR is selected, the /proc/<PID>/stat field > '(18) priority' is now set to the negated sched_policy minus one. > If SCHED_IDLE is selected, this field is set to 39. The '(19) nice' > field is now set to the originally requested nice value. > > - Raise maximum pid from 65536 to 4194304 to account for scenarios > with lots of CPUs and lots of tasks. > Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-December/256927.html > > - Allow mmap with MAP_FIXED to succeed on an address range contained > in the chunk of an existing anonymous mapping, provided the > MAP_SHARED/MAP_PRIVATE flags agree and MAP_NORESERVE is not set for > either mapping. > Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-December/256901.html > > - Fix a long-standing hang issue when running on ARM64 under emulation. > This was due to a thread being terminated while the emulation was > holding an internal lock. > Addresses: > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-developers/2024-May/012694.html > > - Add a host machine tag to uname(2)'s sysname field. This echoes what > used to be done with -WOW64 (when that was supported), but now with > -ARM64 when running on an ARM64 host under emulation. The Cygwin DLL's > own architecture continues to be reported in the machine field. > > - Escape special characters in /proc/<PID>/mount*. This allows the > contents to be parsed consistently, and matches what is done on Linux. > Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-June/256082.html > > - Expose all Windows volume mount points via getmntent(3). This also > exposes them via /proc/<PID>/mount*. A change in behavior from > previous Cygwin versions is that volumes whose root is mounted > explicitly in Cygwin will now also show up as mounted under the > cygdrive prefix, whereas before that entry would have been suppressed. > Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-June/256081.html > > > Fixes: > ------ > > - Fix an off-by-one bug in lseek(2)'s SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE handling on > filesystem-compressed files, potentially triggering a hang in cp(1). > Addresses: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2025-January/257082.html > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2025-February/257326.html > -- > *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** > > The easiest way to unsubscribe is to visit > <https://cygwin.com/mailman/options/cygwin-announce>, and click 'Unsubscribe'. > > If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: > <https://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe>. > > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Lionel -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
