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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.6
- From: Bryan Berns <bryan dot berns at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 09:26:16 -0500
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.6
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- References: <announce dot 20141105164319 dot GA31314 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
I haven't tried Cygwin 1.7.33 yet. What would be the expectation of
sidHistory working? In the past, I've had a script to read extra SIDs
out of AD and merge them into passwd.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Hi Cygwin friends and users,
>
>
> I just released a 6th TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release,
> 1.7.33-0.6.
>
> Changes compared to the former test version 1.7.33-0.5:
>
> - The 1.7.33-0.5 version introduced a dependency to a symbol (__dso_handle)
> provided only by GCC versions starting with GCC 4.8.3-3. This results
> in being unable to link executables with GCC 4.8.3-2 and earlier.
> Cygwin 1.7.33-0.6 introduces a fix for this situation by providing its
> own default symbol __dso_handle.
>
>
> If you want to help testing this new release (which I seriously hope
> for), you can find it in your setup-x86.exe or setup-x86_64.exe as
> "test" release.
>
>
> The major change in this new release is the new method to read account
> (passwd and group) information from the Windows user databases directly,
> without the requirement to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to
> generate Unix-like uid and gid.
>
> For your convenience I wrote new documentation. Since this is a TEST
> prerelease, the new documentation is not part of the official docs yet.
> Rather have a look at
>
> https://cygwin.com/preliminary-ntsec.html
>
> If you read it
> (which I seriously hope for) and it's all just incomprehensible
> gobbledygook to you, please say so on the mailing list
>
> cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>
> so we have a chance to improve the documentation.
>
> Please give this TEST release a try.
>
> If you find problems in the new features or regressions compared to the
> current stable release 1.7.32, please report them to the public mailing
> list
>
> cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>
>
> Following is a list of changes in this new release:
>
>
> What's new:
> -----------
>
> - Cygwin can now generate passwd/group entries directly from Windows
> user databases (local SAM or Active Directory), thus allowing to run
> Cygwin without having to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.
> Introduce /etc/nsswitch.conf file to configure passwd/group handling.
>
> For bordercase which require to use /etc/passwd and /etc/group files,
> change mkpasswd/mkgroup to generate passwd/group entries compatible
> with the entries read from SAM/AD.
>
> - Add -b/--remove-all option to setfacl to reduce the ACL to only the
> entries representing POSIX permission bits.
>
> - /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).
>
> - Provide Cygwin documentation (PDFs and HTML) for offline usage in
> /usr/share/doc/cygwin-${version}.
>
>
> What changed:
> -------------
>
> - New internal exception handling based on SEH on 64 bit Cygwin.
>
> - Revamp Solaris ACL implementation to more closely work like POSIX ACLs
> are supposed to work. Finally implement a CLASS_OBJ emulation. Update
> getfacl(1)/setfacl(1) accordingly.
>
> - 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.
>
> - The xdr functions are no longer exported for newly built executables.
> Use libtirpc-devel instead.
>
> - 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).
>
>
> To install 32-bit Cygwin use http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe
> To install 64 bit Cygwin use http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe
>
> If you're already running a 32 bit version of Cygwin on 64 bit Windows
> machines, you can continue to do so. If you're planning a new install
> of Cygwin on a 64 bit Windows machine, consider to use the new 64 bit
> Cygwin version, unless you need certain packages not yet available in
> the 64 bit release.
>
>
> Have fun,
> Corinna
>
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> Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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