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<sect2 id="ov-new1.7.2"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.1 to 1.7.2</title>
<screen>
- Localization support has been much improved.
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
- Cygwin now handles locales using the underlying Windows locale support.
The locale must exists in Windows to be recognized.
<listitem><para>Localization support has been much improved.</para>
- New tool "getlocale" to fetch valid locale values from Windows.
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
- Default charset for locales without explicit charset is now choosen
from a list of Linx-compatible charsets. For instance en_US -> ISO-8859-1,
ja_JP -> EUC-JP.
<listitem><para>
Cygwin now handles locales using the underlying Windows locale
support. The locale must exists in Windows to be recognized.
</para></listitem>
- Support for the @euro locale modifier to switch to the ISO-8859-15
charset.
<listitem><para>
New tool "getlocale" to fetch valid locale values from Windows.
</para></listitem>
- Default charset in the "C" or "POSIX" locale has been changed back from
UTF-8 to ASCII, to circumvent problems with applications expecting a
singlebyte charset in the "C"/"POSIX" locale. Still use UTF-8 internally
for filename conversion in this case.
<listitem><para>
Default charset for locales without explicit charset is now choosen
from a list of Linux-compatible charsets.
</para>
- LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME localization is enabled
via Windows locale support.
<para>
For instance: en_US -> ISO-8859-1, ja_JP -> EUC-JP, zh_TW -> Big5.
</para></listitem>
- New strfmon(3) call.
<listitem><para>
Support for the @euro locale modifier to switch to the ISO-8859-15 charset.
</para></listitem>
- Support open(2) flags O_CLOEXEC and O_TTY_INIT flags. Support
fcntl flag F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC. Support socket flags SOCK_CLOEXEC and
SOCK_NONBLOCK).
<listitem><para>
Default charset in the "C" or "POSIX" locale has been changed back
from UTF-8 to ASCII, to circumvent problems with applications
expecting a singlebyte charset in the "C"/"POSIX" locale. Still use
UTF-8 internally for filename conversion in this case.
</para></listitem>
- Add new Linux-compatible API calls accept4(2), dup3(2), and pipe2(2).
<listitem><para>
LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME localization is
enabled via Windows locale support.
</para></listitem>
- fnmatch(3) call is now multibyte-aware.
</screen>
<listitem><para>
fnmatch(3) call is now multibyte-aware.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
New strfmon(3) call.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>
Support open(2) flags O_CLOEXEC and O_TTY_INIT flags. Support fcntl
flag F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC. Support socket flags SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Add new Linux-compatible API calls accept4(2), dup3(2), and pipe2(2).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Recognize NWFS filesystem and workaround broken OS call.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-os"><title>OS related changes</title>
<screen>
- Windows 95, 98 and Me are not supported anymore. The new Cygwin 1.7 DLL
will not run on any of these systems.
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
- Add support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
</screen>
<listitem><para>
Windows 95, 98 and Me are not supported anymore. The new Cygwin 1.7 DLL
will not run on any of these systems.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Add support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-file"><title>File Access related changes</title>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
<listitem><para>
Mount points are no longer stored in the registry. Use /etc/fstab and
/etc/fstab.d/$USER instead. Mount points created with mount(1) are only
local to the current session and disappear when the last Cygwin process
in the session exits.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Cygwin creates the mount points for /, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib
automatically from it's own position on the disk. They don't have to be
specified in /etc/fstab.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
If a filename cannot be represented in the current character set, the
character will be converted to a sequence Ctrl-X + UTF-8 representation
of the character. This allows to access all files, even those not
having a valid representation of their filename in the current character
set (codepage). To always have a valid string, use the UTF-8 charset by
setting the environment variable $LANG, $LC_ALL, or $LC_CTYPE to a valid
POSIX value, for instance in Cygwin.bat like this:
</para>
<screen>
- Mount points are no longer stored in the registry. Use /etc/fstab
and /etc/fstab.d/$USER instead. Mount points created with mount(1)
are only local to the current session and disappear when the last
Cygwin process in the session exits.
- Cygwin creates the mount points for /, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib automatically
from it's own position on the disk. They don't have to be specified in
/etc/fstab.
- If a filename cannot be represented in the current character set,
the character will be converted to a sequence Ctrl-X + UTF-8 representation
of the character. This allows to access all files, even those not
having a valid representation of their filename in the current character
set (codepage). To always have a valid string, use the UTF-8 charset
by setting the environment variable $LANG, $LC_ALL, or $LC_CTYPE to a
valid POSIX value, for instance in Cygwin.bat like this:
set LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
- PATH_MAX is now 4096. Internally, path names can be as long as the
underlying OS can handle (32K).
- struct dirent now supports d_type, filled out with DT_REG or DT_DIR.
All other file types return as DT_UNKNOWN for performance reasons.
- The CYGWIN environment variable options "ntsec" and "smbntsec" have
been replaced by the per-mount option "acl"/"noacl".
- The CYGWIN environment variable option "ntea" has been removed without
substitute.
- The CYGWIN environment variable option "check_case" has been removed
in favor of real case-sensitivity on file systems supporting it.
- Creating filenames with special DOS characters '"', '*', ':', '&lt;',
'&gt;', '|' is supported.
- Creating files with special DOS device filename components ("aux",
"nul", "prn") is supported.
- File names are case sensitive if the OS and the underlying file system
supports it. Works on NTFS and NFS. Does not work on FAT and Samba
shares. Requires to change a registry key (see the user's guide).
Can be switched off on a per-mount base.
- Due to the above changes, managed mounts have been removed.
- Incoming DOS paths are always handled case-insensitive and get no POSIX
permission, as if they are mounted with noacl,posix=0 mount flags.
- unlink(2) and rmdir(2) try very hard to remove files/directories even
if they are currently accessed or locked. This is done by utilizing
the hidden recycle bin directories and marking the files for deletion.
- rename(2) rewritten to be more POSIX conformant.
- access(2) now performs checks using the real user ID, as required by
POSIX; the old behavior of querying based on effective user ID is
available through the new faccessat(2) and euidaccess(2) APIs.
- Add st_birthtim member to struct stat.
- File locking is now advisory, not mandatory anymore. The fcntl(2) and
the new lockf(2) APIs create and maintain locks with POSIX semantics,
the flock(2) API creates and maintains locks with BSD semantics.
POSIX and BSD locks are independent of each other.
- Implement atomic O_APPEND mode.
- New open(2) flags O_DIRECTORY, O_EXEC and O_SEARCH.
- Make the "plain file with SYSTEM attribute set" style symlink
default again when creating symlinks. Only create Windows shortcut
style symlinks if CYGWIN=winsymlinks is set in the environment.
- Symlinks now use UTF-16 encoding for the target filename for
better internationalization support. Cygwin 1.7 can read all old style
symlinks, but the new style is not compatible with older Cygwin releases.
- Handle NTFS native symlinks available since Vista/2008 as symlinks
(but don't create Vista/2008 symlinks due to unfortunate OS restrictions).
- Recognize NFS shares and handle them using native mechanisms.
Recognize and create real symlinks on NFS shares. Get correct
stat(2) information and set real mode bits on open(2), mkdir(2)
and chmod(2).
- Recognize Netapp DataOnTap drives and fix inode number handling.
- Recognize Samba version beginning with Samba 3.0.28a using the new
extended version information negotiated with the Samba developers.
- Stop faking hardlinks by copying the file on filesystems which don't
support hardlinks natively (FAT, FAT32, etc.). Just return an error
instead, just like Linux.
- List servers of all accessible domains and workgroups in // instead of
just the servers in the own domain/workgroup.
- Support Linux-like extended attributes ([fl]getxattr, [fl]listxattr,
[fl]setxattr, [fl]removexattr).
- New file conversion API for conversion from Win32 to POSIX path and
vice versa (cygwin_conv_path, cygwin_create_path, cygwin_conv_path_list).
- New openat family of functions: openat, faccessat, fchmodat, fchownat,
fstatat, futimesat, linkat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat, readlinkat, renameat,
symlinkat, unlinkat.
- Other new APIs: posix_fadvise, posix_fallocate, funopen, fopencookie,
open_memstream, open_wmemstream, fmemopen, fdopendir, fpurge,
mkstemps, eaccess, euidaccess, canonicalize_file_name, fexecve, execvpe.
set LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
</screen>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>
PATH_MAX is now 4096. Internally, path names can be as long as the
underlying OS can handle (32K).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
struct dirent now supports d_type, filled out with DT_REG or DT_DIR.
All other file types return as DT_UNKNOWN for performance reasons.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
The CYGWIN environment variable options "ntsec" and "smbntsec" have been
replaced by the per-mount option "acl"/"noacl".
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
The CYGWIN environment variable option "ntea" has been removed without
substitute.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
The CYGWIN environment variable option "check_case" has been removed in
favor of real case-sensitivity on file systems supporting it.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Creating filenames with special DOS characters '"', '*', ':', '&lt;',
'&gt;', '|' is supported.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Creating files with special DOS device filename components ("aux",
"nul", "prn") is supported.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
File names are case sensitive if the OS and the underlying file system
supports it. Works on NTFS and NFS. Does not work on FAT and Samba
shares. Requires to change a registry key (see the user's guide). Can
be switched off on a per-mount base.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Due to the above changes, managed mounts have been removed.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Incoming DOS paths are always handled case-insensitive and get no POSIX
permission, as if they are mounted with noacl,posix=0 mount flags.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
unlink(2) and rmdir(2) try very hard to remove files/directories even if
they are currently accessed or locked. This is done by utilizing the
hidden recycle bin directories and marking the files for deletion.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
rename(2) rewritten to be more POSIX conformant.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
access(2) now performs checks using the real user ID, as required by
POSIX; the old behavior of querying based on effective user ID is
available through the new faccessat(2) and euidaccess(2) APIs.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Add st_birthtim member to struct stat.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
File locking is now advisory, not mandatory anymore. The fcntl(2) and
the new lockf(2) APIs create and maintain locks with POSIX semantics,
the flock(2) API creates and maintains locks with BSD semantics. POSIX
and BSD locks are independent of each other.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Implement atomic O_APPEND mode.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
New open(2) flags O_DIRECTORY, O_EXEC and O_SEARCH.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Make the "plain file with SYSTEM attribute set" style symlink default
again when creating symlinks. Only create Windows shortcut style
symlinks if CYGWIN=winsymlinks is set in the environment.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Symlinks now use UTF-16 encoding for the target filename for better
internationalization support. Cygwin 1.7 can read all old style
symlinks, but the new style is not compatible with older Cygwin
releases.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Handle NTFS native symlinks available since Vista/2008 as symlinks (but
don't create Vista/2008 symlinks due to unfortunate OS restrictions).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Recognize NFS shares and handle them using native mechanisms. Recognize
and create real symlinks on NFS shares. Get correct stat(2) information
and set real mode bits on open(2), mkdir(2) and chmod(2).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Recognize MVFS and workaround problems manipulating metadata and handling
DOS attributes.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Recognize Netapp DataOnTap drives and fix inode number handling.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Recognize Samba version beginning with Samba 3.0.28a using the new
extended version information negotiated with the Samba developers.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Stop faking hardlinks by copying the file on filesystems which don't
support hardlinks natively (FAT, FAT32, etc.). Just return an error
instead, just like Linux.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
List servers of all accessible domains and workgroups in // instead of
just the servers in the own domain/workgroup.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Support Linux-like extended attributes ([fl]getxattr, [fl]listxattr,
[fl]setxattr, [fl]removexattr).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
New file conversion API for conversion from Win32 to POSIX path and vice
versa (cygwin_conv_path, cygwin_create_path, cygwin_conv_path_list).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
New openat family of functions: openat, faccessat, fchmodat, fchownat,
fstatat, futimesat, linkat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat, readlinkat,
renameat, symlinkat, unlinkat.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Other new APIs: posix_fadvise, posix_fallocate, funopen, fopencookie,
open_memstream, open_wmemstream, fmemopen, fdopendir, fpurge, mkstemps,
eaccess, euidaccess, canonicalize_file_name, fexecve, execvpe.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-net"><title>Network related changes</title>
<screen>
- New implementation for blocking sockets and select on sockets which
is supposed to allow POSIX-compatible sharing of sockets between
threads and processes.
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
- send/sendto/sendmsg now send data in 64K chunks to circumvent an
internal buffer problem in WinSock (KB 201213).
<listitem><para>
New implementation for blocking sockets and select on sockets which is
supposed to allow POSIX-compatible sharing of sockets between threads
and processes.
</para></listitem>
- New send/recv option MSG_DONTWAIT.
<listitem><para>
send/sendto/sendmsg now send data in 64K chunks to circumvent an
internal buffer problem in WinSock (KB 201213).
</para></listitem>
- IPv6 support. New API getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, freeaddrinfo,
gai_strerror, in6addr_any, in6addr_loopback. On IPv6-less systems,
replacement functions are available for IPv4. On systems with IPv6
enabled, the underlying WinSock functions are used. While I tried
hard to get the functionality as POSIXy as possible, keep in mind that
a *fully* conformant implementation of getaddrinfo and other stuff is
only available starting with Windows Vista/2008.
<listitem><para>
New send/recv option MSG_DONTWAIT.
</para></listitem>
- Resolver functions (res_init, res_query, res_search, res_querydomain,
res_mkquery, res_send, dn_comp, dn_expand) are now part of Cygwin.
Applications don't have to link against minires anymore. Actually,
this *is* the former libminires.a.
<listitem><para>
IPv6 support. New API getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, freeaddrinfo,
gai_strerror, in6addr_any, in6addr_loopback. On IPv6-less systems,
replacement functions are available for IPv4. On systems with IPv6
enabled, the underlying WinSock functions are used. While I tried hard
to get the functionality as POSIXy as possible, keep in mind that a
*fully* conformant implementation of getaddrinfo and other stuff is only
available starting with Windows Vista/2008.
</para></listitem>
- rcmd is now implemented inside of Cygwin, instead of calling the
WinSock function. This allows rsh(1) usage on Vista/2008 and later,
which dropped this function from WinSock.
<listitem><para>
Resolver functions (res_init, res_query, res_search, res_querydomain,
res_mkquery, res_send, dn_comp, dn_expand) are now part of Cygwin.
Applications don't have to link against minires anymore. Actually, this
*is* the former libminires.a.
</para></listitem>
- Define multicast structures in netinet/in.h. Note that fully
conformant multicast support is only available beginning with Vista/2008.
<listitem><para>
rcmd is now implemented inside of Cygwin, instead of calling the WinSock
function. This allows rsh(1) usage on Vista/2008 and later, which
dropped this function from WinSock.
</para></listitem>
- Improve get_ifconf. Redefine struct ifreq and subsequent datastructures
to be able to keep more information. Support SIOCGIFINDEX, SIOCGIFDSTADDR
and the Cygwin specific SIOCGIFFRNDLYNAM. Support real interface flags
on systems supporting them.
<listitem><para>
Define multicast structures in netinet/in.h. Note that fully conformant
multicast support is only available beginning with Vista/2008.
</para></listitem>
- Other new APIs: bindresvport, bindresvport_sa, gethostbyname2, iruserok_sa,
rcmd_af, rresvport_af. getifaddrs, freeifaddrs, if_nametoindex,
if_indextoname, if_nameindex, if_freenameindex.
<listitem><para>
Improve get_ifconf. Redefine struct ifreq and subsequent datastructures
to be able to keep more information. Support SIOCGIFINDEX,
SIOCGIFDSTADDR and the Cygwin specific SIOCGIFFRNDLYNAM. Support real
interface flags on systems supporting them.
</para></listitem>
- Add /proc/net/if_inet6.
</screen>
<listitem><para>
Other new APIs: bindresvport, bindresvport_sa, gethostbyname2,
iruserok_sa, rcmd_af, rresvport_af. getifaddrs, freeifaddrs,
if_nametoindex, if_indextoname, if_nameindex, if_freenameindex.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Add /proc/net/if_inet6.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-device"><title>Device related changes</title>
<screen>
- Reworked pipe implementation which uses overlapped IO to create
more reliable interruptible pipes and fifos.
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
- The CYGWIN environment variable option "binmode" has been removed.
<listitem><para>
Reworked pipe implementation which uses overlapped IO to create more
reliable interruptible pipes and fifos.
</para></listitem>
- Improved fifo handling by using native Windows named pipes.
<listitem><para>
The CYGWIN environment variable option "binmode" has been removed.
</para></listitem>
- Detect when a stdin/stdout which looks like a pipe is really a tty.
Among other things, this allows a debugged application to recognize that
it is using the same tty as the debugger.
<listitem><para>
Improved fifo handling by using native Windows named pipes.
</para></listitem>
- Support UTF-8 in console window.
<listitem><para>
Detect when a stdin/stdout which looks like a pipe is really a tty.
Among other things, this allows a debugged application to recognize that
it is using the same tty as the debugger.
</para></listitem>
- In the console window the backspace key now emits DEL (0x7f) instead
of BS (0x08), Alt-Backspace emits ESC-DEL (0x1b,0x7f) instead of DEL
(0x7f), same as the Linux console and xterm.
Control-Space now emits an ASCII NUL (0x0) character.
<listitem><para>
Support UTF-8 in console window.
</para></listitem>
- Support up to 64 serial interfaces using /dev/ttyS0 - /dev/ttyS63.
<listitem><para>
In the console window the backspace key now emits DEL (0x7f) instead of
BS (0x08), Alt-Backspace emits ESC-DEL (0x1b,0x7f) instead of DEL
(0x7f), same as the Linux console and xterm. Control-Space now emits an
ASCII NUL (0x0) character.
</para></listitem>
- Support up to 128 raw disk drives /dev/sda - /dev/sddx.
<listitem><para>
Support up to 64 serial interfaces using /dev/ttyS0 - /dev/ttyS63.
</para></listitem>
- New API: cfmakeraw, get_avphys_pages, get_nprocs, get_nprocs_conf,
get_phys_pages, posix_openpt.
</screen>
<listitem><para>
Support up to 128 raw disk drives /dev/sda - /dev/sddx.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
New API: cfmakeraw, get_avphys_pages, get_nprocs, get_nprocs_conf,
get_phys_pages, posix_openpt.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-posix"><title>Other POSIX related changes</title>
<screen>
- A lot of character sets are supported now via a call to setlocale().
The setting of the environment variables $LANG, $LC_ALL or $LC_CTYPE will
be used. For instance, setting $LANG to "de_DE.ISO-8859-15" before
starting a Cygwin session will use the ISO-8859-15 character set in
the entire session. The default charset is "UTF-8", even in the
default locale "C". The default locale in the absence of one of the
aforementioned environment variables is "C.UTF-8".
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
The full list of supported character sets: "ASCII", "ISO-8859-x" with x
in 1-16, except 12, "UTF-8", Windows codepages "CPxxx", with xxx in
(437, 720, 737, 775, 850, 852, 855, 857, 858, 862, 866, 874, 1125,
1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1256, 1257, 1258), "KOI8-R", "KOI8-U",
"SJIS", "GBK", "eucJP", "eucKR", and "Big5". The leading language and
territory part (en_US, for instance) is not used by Cygwin yet, but is
required for POSIX compatibility.
<listitem><para>
A lot of character sets are supported now via a call to setlocale().
The setting of the environment variables $LANG, $LC_ALL or $LC_CTYPE
will be used. For instance, setting $LANG to "de_DE.ISO-8859-15" before
starting a Cygwin session will use the ISO-8859-15 character set in the
entire session. The default charset is "UTF-8", even in the default
locale "C". The default locale in the absence of one of the
aforementioned environment variables is "C.UTF-8".
</para>
- Allow multiple concurrent read locks per thread for pthread_rwlock_t.
<para>
The full list of supported character sets: "ASCII", "ISO-8859-x" with x
in 1-16, except 12, "UTF-8", Windows codepages "CPxxx", with xxx in
(437, 720, 737, 775, 850, 852, 855, 857, 858, 862, 866, 874, 1125, 1250,
1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1256, 1257, 1258), "KOI8-R", "KOI8-U",
"SJIS", "GBK", "eucJP", "eucKR", and "Big5". The leading language and
territory part (en_US, for instance) is not used by Cygwin yet, but is
required for POSIX compatibility.
</para>
- Implement pthread_kill(thread, 0) as per POSIX.
</listitem>
- New API for POSIX IPC:
Named semaphores: sem_open, sem_close, sem_unlink.
Message queues: mq_open, mq_getattr, mq_setattr, mq_notify, mq_send,
mq_timedsend, mq_receive, mq_timedreceive, mq_close, mq_unlink.
Shared memory: shm_open, shm_unlink.
<listitem><para>
Allow multiple concurrent read locks per thread for pthread_rwlock_t.
</para></listitem>
- Only declare expected functions in &lt;strings.h&gt;, don't include
&lt;string.h&gt; from here.
<listitem><para>
Implement pthread_kill(thread, 0) as per POSIX.
</para></listitem>
- Support for WCONTINUED, WIFCONTINUED() added to waitpid and wait4.
<listitem><para>
New API for POSIX IPC: Named semaphores: sem_open, sem_close,
sem_unlink. Message queues: mq_open, mq_getattr, mq_setattr, mq_notify,
mq_send, mq_timedsend, mq_receive, mq_timedreceive, mq_close, mq_unlink.
Shared memory: shm_open, shm_unlink.
</para></listitem>
- New APIs: _Exit, confstr, insque, remque, sys_sigabbrev,
posix_madvise, posix_memalign, reallocf,
exp10, exp10f, pow10, pow10f, lrint, lrintf, rint, rintf, llrint, llrintf,
llrintl, lrintl, rintl,
mbsnrtowcs, strcasestr, stpcpy, stpncpy, wcpcpy, wcpncpy, wcsnlen,
wcsnrtombs, wcsftime, wcstod, wcstof, wcstoimax, wcstok, wcstol, wcstoll,
wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstoumax, wcsxfrm, wcscasecmp, wcsncasecmp,
fgetwc, fgetws, fputwc, fputws, fwide, getwc, getwchar, putwc, putwchar,
ungetwc, asnprintf, dprintf, vasnprintf, vdprintf,
wprintf, fwprintf, swprintf, vwprintf, vfwprintf, vswprintf,
wscanf, fwscanf, swscanf, vwscanf, vfwscanf, vswscanf.
</screen>
<listitem><para>
Only declare expected functions in &lt;strings.h&gt;, don't include
&lt;string.h&gt; from here.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Support for WCONTINUED, WIFCONTINUED() added to waitpid and wait4.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
New APIs: _Exit, confstr, insque, remque, sys_sigabbrev, posix_madvise,
posix_memalign, reallocf, exp10, exp10f, pow10, pow10f, lrint, lrintf,
rint, rintf, llrint, llrintf, llrintl, lrintl, rintl, mbsnrtowcs,
strcasestr, stpcpy, stpncpy, wcpcpy, wcpncpy, wcsnlen, wcsnrtombs,
wcsftime, wcstod, wcstof, wcstoimax, wcstok, wcstol, wcstoll, wcstoul,
wcstoull, wcstoumax, wcsxfrm, wcscasecmp, wcsncasecmp, fgetwc, fgetws,
fputwc, fputws, fwide, getwc, getwchar, putwc, putwchar, ungetwc,
asnprintf, dprintf, vasnprintf, vdprintf, wprintf, fwprintf, swprintf,
vwprintf, vfwprintf, vswprintf, wscanf, fwscanf, swscanf, vwscanf,
vfwscanf, vswscanf.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-sec"><title>Security related changes</title>
<screen>
- Getting a domain user's groups is hopefully more bulletproof now.
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
- Cygwin now comes with a real LSA authentication package. This must
be manually installed by a privileged user using the /bin/cyglsa-config
script. The advantages and disadvantages are noted in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2006-11/msg00000.html
<listitem><para>
Getting a domain user's groups is hopefully more bulletproof now.
</para></listitem>
- Cygwin now allows storage and use of user passwords in a hidden area of
the registry. This is tried first when Cygwin is called by privileged
processes to switch the user context. This allows, for instance,
ssh public key sessions with full network credentials to access shares
on other machines.
<listitem><para>
Cygwin now comes with a real LSA authentication package. This must be
manually installed by a privileged user using the /bin/cyglsa-config
script. The advantages and disadvantages are noted in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2006-11/msg00000.html
</para></listitem>
- New options have been added to the mkpasswd and mkgroup tools to
ease use in multi-machine and multi-domain environments. The existing
options have a slightly changed behaviour.
</screen>
<listitem><para>
Cygwin now allows storage and use of user passwords in a hidden area of
the registry. This is tried first when Cygwin is called by privileged
processes to switch the user context. This allows, for instance, ssh
public key sessions with full network credentials to access shares on
other machines.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
New options have been added to the mkpasswd and mkgroup tools to ease
use in multi-machine and multi-domain environments. The existing
options have a slightly changed behaviour.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-misc"><title>Miscellaneous</title>
<screen>
- New ldd utility, similar to Linux.
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
- New link libraries libdl.a, libresolve.a, librt.a.
<listitem><para>
New ldd utility, similar to Linux.
</para></listitem>
- Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is
longer than 260 bytes, or if the current working directory is a virtual
path (like /proc, /cygdrive, //server), don't call native Win32 programs
since they don't understand these paths.
<listitem><para>
New link libraries libdl.a, libresolve.a, librt.a.
</para></listitem>
- On the first usage of a DOS path (C:\foo, \\foo\bar), the Cygwin DLL
emits a scary warning that DOS paths shouldn't be used. This warning
may be disabled via the new CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning setting.
<listitem><para>
Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is
longer than 260 bytes, or if the current working directory is a virtual
path (like /proc, /cygdrive, //server), don't call native Win32 programs
since they don't understand these paths.
</para></listitem>
- The CYGWIN environment variable option "server" has been removed.
Cygwin automatically uses cygserver if it's available.
<listitem><para>
On the first usage of a DOS path (C:\foo, \\foo\bar), the Cygwin DLL
emits a scary warning that DOS paths shouldn't be used. This warning
may be disabled via the new CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning setting.
</para></listitem>
- Allow environment of arbitrary size instead of a maximum of 32K.
<listitem><para>
The CYGWIN environment variable option "server" has been removed.
Cygwin automatically uses cygserver if it's available.
</para></listitem>
- Don't force uppercase environment when started from a non-Cygwin process.
Except for certain Windows and POSIX variables which are always uppercased,
preserve environment case. Switch back to old behaviour with the new
CYGWIN=upcaseenv setting.
<listitem><para>
Allow environment of arbitrary size instead of a maximum of 32K.
</para></listitem>
- Detect and report a missing DLL on process startup.
<listitem><para>
Don't force uppercase environment when started from a non-Cygwin
process. Except for certain Windows and POSIX variables which are
always uppercased, preserve environment case. Switch back to old
behaviour with the new CYGWIN=upcaseenv setting.
</para></listitem>
- Add /proc/registry32 and /proc/registry64 paths to access 32 bit and
64 bit registry on 64 bit systems.
<listitem><para>
Detect and report a missing DLL on process startup.
</para></listitem>
- Add the ability to distinguish registry keys and registry values with the
same name in the same registry subtree. The key is called "foo" and the
value will be called "foo%val" in this case.
<listitem><para>
Add /proc/registry32 and /proc/registry64 paths to access 32 bit and 64
bit registry on 64 bit systems.
</para></listitem>
- Align /proc/cpuinfo more closly to Linux content.
<listitem><para>
Add the ability to distinguish registry keys and registry values with
the same name in the same registry subtree. The key is called "foo" and
the value will be called "foo%val" in this case.
</para></listitem>
- Add /proc/$PID/mounts entries and a symlink /proc/mounts pointing to
/proc/self/mounts as on Linux.
<listitem><para>
Align /proc/cpuinfo more closly to Linux content.
</para></listitem>
- Optimized strstr and memmem implementation.
<listitem><para>
Add /proc/$PID/mounts entries and a symlink /proc/mounts pointing to
/proc/self/mounts as on Linux.
</para></listitem>
- Remove backwards compatibility with old signal masks. (Some *very* old
programs which use signal masks may no longer work correctly).
<listitem><para>
Optimized strstr and memmem implementation.
</para></listitem>
- Cygwin now exports wrapper functions for libstdc++ operators new and
delete, to support the toolchain in implementing full C++ standards
conformance when working with shared libraries.
<listitem><para>
Remove backwards compatibility with old signal masks. (Some *very* old
programs which use signal masks may no longer work correctly).
</para></listitem>
- Different Cygwin installations in different paths can be run in parallel
without knowing of each other. The path of the Cygwin DLL used in a
process is a key used when creating IPC objects. So different Cygwin
DLLs are running in different namespaces.
<listitem><para>
Cygwin now exports wrapper functions for libstdc++ operators new and
delete, to support the toolchain in implementing full C++ standards
conformance when working with shared libraries.
</para></listitem>
- Each Cygwin DLL stores its path and installation key in the registry.
This allows troubleshooting of problems which could be a result of having
multiple concurrent Cygwin installations.
</screen>
<listitem><para>
Different Cygwin installations in different paths can be run in parallel
without knowing of each other. The path of the Cygwin DLL used in a
process is a key used when creating IPC objects. So different Cygwin
DLLs are running in different namespaces.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Each Cygwin DLL stores its path and installation key in the registry.
This allows troubleshooting of problems which could be a result of
having multiple concurrent Cygwin installations.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>