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author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2018-12-26 13:36:22 +0300 |
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committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2018-12-26 13:36:22 +0300 |
commit | 4cd209e921ceab5cf5a5cc5abc3ff62ecc462d33 (patch) | |
tree | 7f4ece700d71df50b7eecceaf7617d3d07df449e | |
parent | 66cd1cbaf81bf3d87067ebf721d843ffe719badf (diff) |
Cygwin: Add Christmas hacking release notes
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
-rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/release/2.12.0 | 22 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/new-features.xml | 30 |
2 files changed, 52 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/release/2.12.0 b/winsup/cygwin/release/2.12.0 index 4e97f2a42..65868adb7 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/release/2.12.0 +++ b/winsup/cygwin/release/2.12.0 @@ -4,6 +4,22 @@ What's new: - Support for CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE, CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, CLOCK_BOOTTIME clocks. +- Support for case sensitive directories. mkdir(2) automatically + creates directories within the Cygwin installation dir as case + sensitive now. + + This feature requires Windows 10 1803 or later and WSL installed! + +- New file ioctls's FS_IOC_GETFLAGS and FS_IOC_SETFLAGS. The actual + inode flags are Cygwin-specific. This allows to set or reset + DOS attributes, file sparseness, FS level encryption and compression, + as well as directory case sensitivity programatically. + +- New tools chattr(1) and lsattr(1) to utilize setting and viewing the + aforementioned new ioctl's on the command line. + +- Support for exFAT. + What changed: ------------- @@ -13,6 +29,10 @@ What changed: - clock_setres is a no-op now. +- Use the new POSIX unlink semantics on NTFS starting with Windows 10 1709. + Deleting an in-use file now actually removes the file, rather than moving + it to the recycler bin. + Bug Fixes --------- @@ -22,3 +42,5 @@ Bug Fixes - Fix early timeout from pthread_cond_timedwait. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-11/msg00171.html + +- Fix a bug in recognizing remote FAT/FAT32/exFAT correctly. diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml index 7cc449764..4750c0e9a 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml @@ -14,6 +14,30 @@ CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, CLOCK_BOOTTIME clocks. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> +Support for case sensitive directories. mkdir(2) automatically creates +directories within the Cygwin installation dir as case sensitive +now.</para> + +<para>This feature requires Windows 10 1803 or later and WSL installed! +</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para> +New file ioctls's FS_IOC_GETFLAGS and FS_IOC_SETFLAGS. The actual inode +flags are Cygwin-specific. This allows to set or reset DOS attributes, +file sparseness, FS level encryption and compression, as well as +directory case sensitivity programatically. +</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para> +New tools chattr(1) and lsattr(1) to utilize setting and viewing the +aforementioned new ioctl's on the command line. +</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para> +Support for exFAT. +</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para> clock_nanosleep, pthread_condattr_setclock and timer_create now support all clocks, except CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID and CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID. </para></listitem> @@ -22,6 +46,12 @@ all clocks, except CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID and CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID. clock_setres is a no-op now. </para></listitem> +<listitem><para> +Use the new POSIX unlink semantics on NTFS starting with Windows 10 +1709. Deleting an in-use file now actually removes the file, rather +than moving it to the recycler bin. +</para></listitem> + </itemizedlist> </sect2> |