[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.33-1

Thu Nov 13 17:17:00 GMT 2014

On 11/13/2014 11:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Cygwin friends and users,
>>> I just released Cygwin 1.7.33-1.
>> This release comes with a bunch of changes and bugfixes collected
> since 1.7.32-1.
>> It does NOT come with the account handling changes originally planned
> for 1.7.33 since there are still a couple of problems to solve before
> this can be officially released. These changes will hopefully make it
> into 1.7.34.
>> Here's the list of changes for 1.7.33-1:
>>> What's new:
> -----------
>> - /proc/cygdrive is a new symlink pointing to the current cygdrive prefix.
> This can be utilized in scripts to access paths via cygdrive prefix, even
> if the cygdrive prefix has been changed by the user.
>> - /proc/partitions now prints the windows mount points the device is mounted
> on. This allows to recognize the underlying Windows devices of the Cygwin
> raw device names.
>> - New API: quotactl, designed after the Linux/BSD function, but severely
> restricted: Windows only supports user block quotas on NTFS, no group
> quotas, no inode quotas, no time constraints.
>> - New APIs: ffsl, ffsll (glibc extensions).
>> - New API: stime (SVr4).
>>> What changed:
> -------------
>> - New internal exception handling based on SEH on 64 bit Cygwin.
>> - When exec'ing applications, check if $PATH exists and is non-empty. If not,
> add PATH variable with Cygwin installation directory as content to Windows
> environment to allow loading of Cygwin system DLLs.
>> - Disable CYGWIN "dosfilewarning" option by default.
>> - Improve various header files for C++- and standards-compliance.
>> - Doug Lea malloc implementation update from 2.8.3 to the latest 2.8.6.
>> - atexit is now exported as statically linked function from libcygwin.a.
> This allows reliable access to the DSO handle of the caller for newly
> built executables. The former atexit entry point into the DLL remains
> for backward compatibility only.
>>> Bug Fixes
> ---------
>> - Per POSIX, dirfd(3) now returns EINVAL rather than EBADF on invalid
> directory stream.
>> - Fix a resource leak in rmdir(2).
>> - Fix fchmod(2)/fchown(2)/fsetxattr(2) in case the file got renamed after
> open and before calling one of the affected functions.
> Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-08/msg00517.html
>> - Handle Netapp-specific problem in statvfs(2)/fstatvfs(2).
> Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-06/msg00425.html
>> - Fix chown(2) on ptys in a corner case.
>> - Generate correct error when a path is inaccessible due to missing permissions.
> Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2014-10/msg00010.html
>> - Don't hang in accept calls if socket is no listener. Set errno to EINVAL
> instead.
>> - Don't allow seeking on serial lines and sockets. Set errno to ESPIPE
> instead.
> Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-08/msg00319.html
>> - Fix output of /proc/<PID>/statm.
>> - Fix a SEGV in cygcheck if the environment variable COMSPEC is not, or
> incorrectly set.
> Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-10/msg00292.html
>> - Fix a SEGV in some 64 bit applications explicitely dlclosing DLLs.
> Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-10/msg00402.html
>> - Fix -fuse-cxa-atexit handling where dlclose fails to trigger calling
> global dtors in dynamically loaded modules in C++ applications (and
> thus another potential SEGV).

You forgot to mention the signal-handling bug that was causing corruption of the 
flags register.
Ken
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