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Re: moving towards 1.5.10?
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:12:03PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On May 3 23:06, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I think it's time for a new release. I haven't been involved much in cygwin
>> development lately, so I don't know if this is a good time or not, though.
>>
>> Corinna, what do you think? Are all of the kinks out of the NtCreateFile stuff?
>> Should "we" issue a general "Please try a snapshot" in the cygwin mailing list?
>
>Yes. I'll prepare a posting to the cygwin ML asking for testing the
>new stuff and the part which I screwed up so diligently.
>
>I tried to come up with a list of changes for 1.5.10. I'd like especially
>Gerd to add words about what he did to the sound capabilitites since I'm
>not quite sure if I can get that right.
>
>Did I miss something?
Here's a revised list.
Changes since 1.5.9-1:
- Improve cygheap debugging, Fix heap size problems in child processes
(Christopher Faylor)
- Add sound recording capabilities. General improvements to audio
code (Gerd Spalink)
- Simplify and speed up path handling (Pierre Humblet)
- Fix SIGCHLD handling (Christopher Faylor)
- Fix semget and shmat (Corinna Vinschen)
- Improve thread safety of newlib's file I/O functions (Thomas Pfaff)
- Rewrite tape code to operate like Linux SCSI tape driver (Corinna Vinschen)
- Add SIGPIPE handling to sendmsg (Corinna Vinschen)
- Allow successful socket send/recv even after signal has arrived
(Patrick Samson)
- Add libtextreadmode.a to allow setting only file input to O_TEXT by default
(Corinna Vinschen)
- Speed up stat-like file operations. Minimize file open/close calls
in NT (Corinna Vinschen)
- Fix lseek return code in case of error (Corinna Vinschen)
- 16 byte align thread stacks to allow SSE operations (DJ Delorie)
- Ensure that newly created threads are always ready to receive a
signal. (Christopher Faylor)
- Fix race with multithreaded programs using sockets. (Christopher Faylor)
- Ensure that correct errno is set for failing opens. (Christopher Faylor)
- Fix so that cygwin works correctly on Windows 95. (Pierre Humblet)