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diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.10 b/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.10 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..33a2f20dd --- /dev/null +++ b/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.10 @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +What's new: +----------- + +- New getconf tool for querying confstr(3), pathconf(3), sysconf(3), and + limits.h configuration. + +- New tzset utility to generate a POSIX-compatible TZ environment + variable from the Windows timezone settings. + +- The passwd tool now allows an administrator to use the -R command for + other user accounts: passwd -R username. + +- Experimental: Change the way sockets are created so that Cygwin always + circumvents so-called "layered service providers" (LSPs) starting with + Windows Vista. + +- signal handler functions are now dispatched in threads other than the + main thread. + +- Support NcFsd filesystem. + +- clock_gettime(3) and clock_getres(3) accept per-process and per-thread + CPU-time clocks, including CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID and + CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID. + +- New pthread functions: + + - Spin Locks: pthread_spin_destroy, pthread_spin_init, pthread_spin_lock, + pthread_spin_trylock, pthread_spin_unlock. + + - Stack management: pthread_attr_getstack, pthread_attr_getstackaddr, + pthread_attr_getguardsize, pthread_attr_setstack, pthread_attr_setstackaddr, + pthread_attr_setguardsize, pthread_getattr_np. + + - Clock Selection: pthread_getcpuclockid, pthread_condattr_getclock, + pthread_condattr_setclock. + + - Scheduling: pthread_setschedprio. + + - Signalling: pthread_sigqueue. + +- Add /proc/devices, /proc/misc, /proc/sysvipc, /proc/swaps. + +- Make various system functions thread cancelation points per POSIX. + +- Add ioctl FIONREAD handling for non-sockets. + +- dlopen now supports the Glibc-specific RTLD_NODELETE and RTLD_NOOPEN flags. + +- The printf and wprintf families of functions now support the %m conversion + flag. + +- Execed processes now inherit the children of their predecessor. + +- Fifos have been rewritten and should now be more reliable. + +- GNU/glibc error.h error reporting functions: error, error_at_line, + error_message_count, error_one_per_line, error_print_progname. + +- C99 <tgmath.h> type-generic macros. + +- Other new API: clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep, clock_settime, __fpurge, + get_current_dir_name, getgrouplist, getpt, ppoll, psiginfo, psignal, + ptsname_r, sys_siglist, sysinfo. + +- cygwin_conv_path_list finally supports CCP_WIN_W_TO_POSIX and + CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_W conversions. + + +What changed: +------------- + +- Drop support for Windows NT4. + +- The CYGWIN=tty mode using pipes to communicate with the console in a pseudo + tty-like mode has been removed. Either just use the normal Windows console + as is, or use a terminal application like mintty. + +- The CYGWIN environment variable options "envcache", "strip_title", "title", + "tty", and "upcaseenv" have been removed. + +- New heap management. Drop registry setting "heap_chunk_in_mb" in favor of + a new per-executable setting in the executable file header which can be set + using the peflags tool. Drop registry setting "heap_slop_in_mb" entirely. + +- Revamp console and pseudo tty handling. Rename /dev/ttyX to /dev/consX, + /dev/ttyX to /dev/ptyX. + +- Improve fork/exec performance on 64 bit systems. + +- Improve Ctrl-C handling in console. + +- Try harder to let fork not fail if DLLs are moved in memory which should, + in some cases, minimize the need for rebaseall. + +- Try harder to send SIGHUP to children when process group leader fails. + +- Deal with Windows problem where non-blocking pipe I/O was not flushed + properly on close. + +- Attempt to regularize most syscall-related strace output. + +- Improve behavior of Cygwin when started from a 64-bit process, especially + under Windows 2003. + +- Improve multi-thread/reentrancy safety with syscalls that deal with fds. + +- dlopen can now find "cygFOO.dll", even if the caller specified "libFOO.so". + This is supposed to support applications which are no aware of Windows DLLs. + +- Make accept(2), poll(2) and shutdown(2) behave more like on Linux. + +- Raise max number of mount points from 30 to 64. + +- Output of /proc/maps is closer to what Linux prints and much more useful to + examine process VM layout. + +- /proc/loadavg now shows the number of currently running processes and the + total number of processes. + +- /proc/version now shows the username of whomever compiled the Cygwin DLL + as well as the version of GCC used when compiling. + +- Various assorted bugfixes and improvements. + +- Preliminary, no guarantee, may be broken in subtle ways, Windows 8 support. |