I've uploaded a test version of the Cygwin DLL and its
utilities,
version 1.5.25-8.
The main purpose of this update is to allow Cygwin to run
correctly on
Windows 2008 Server. A change in the exception handling in
Windows 2008
Server requires to change the exception handling in the
Cygwin DLL as
well, otherwise an exception in a Cygwin process results in
an endless
loop in the OS, taking 100% CPU. I reported this problem
upstream.
Apart from that, this new release contains a couple of
additional fixes
which cropped up in the last two months.
Please give it a test.
Baring any solution for the exception handling problem in
Windows 2008
Server from Microsoft which would allow to revert to the old
behaviour,
and if we find nothing else serious in this test release, I
plan to
make this the official release end of next week.
Changes since version 1.5.25-7:
- Allow cygcheck to run on Windows 9x again.
- Fix testing for Samba shares to use more reliable test
available with
upcoming versions of Samba (3.0.28a, 3.2.0).
- Change exception handling to run under Windows 2008
Server.
- Fix a crash when creating stackdumps on Windows XP x64
Edition and
Windows 2003 Server x64 Edition.
- Fix pthread_kill to deal with signal 0 as per POSIX.
- Fix ambiguity in thread signal mask handling.
- Try harder to make a pipe into a full-cygwin device.
- Fix strtod to handle incomplete hex strings correctly.
To update your installation, click on the "Install
Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web
page. This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions, then
look for
'cygwin' in the 'Base' category (it should already be
selected). You
will need to use the 'Exp' radio button to get the test
version.
If you have questions or comments, please send them to the
Cygwin
mailing list. See http://cygwin.com/lists.
html for details.
*** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO ***
If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing
list, look
at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email
header of this message.
Send email to the address specified there. It will be in
the format:
cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com cygwin.com
If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading
here:
h
ttp://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple
Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that
is available
starting at this URL.
Corinna Vinschen
Red Hat
|