Re: Yes, it's time for 1.5.4-1

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

- Make cygcheck not report empty packages as "Incomplete" (Igor Pechtchanski)
- Remove cygcheck dependence on an external gzip program (Christopher Faylor)

	Igor

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> We've amassed an impressive list of fixes and improvements since 1.5.3
> and I actually at least one of the changes here to build gcc 3.3.1.
>
> So, please improve the text below.  I suspect that the usual suspects,
> Pierre and Corinna, need to add some more words.  I know for a fact that
> Corinna needs to fill in my memory block below.
>
> I hope to release 1.5.4 over the weekend.
>
> Oh, and it won't have my signal revamp in it.  I'm not that brave.
>
> cgf
>
> From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com
> Subject: Updated: cygwin-1.5.4-1
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> I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities
> available for download.  As usual, a list of what has changed is below.
>
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> Changes since 1.5.3-1:
>
> - Shared memory security fixes.  (Pierre Humblet)
>
> - Signal handler tweaks.  (Christopher Faylor)
>
> - Fix crash when resizing a console window.  (Christopher Faylor)
>
> - mmap fixes to avoid memory corruption caused by mmap table management.
>   (Corinna Vinschen)
>
> - Fix problem where misbehaving program (like tee.exe) could trash its
>   command line and, cause a crash when queried by procps.  (Christopher Faylor)
>
> - Make sleep, nanosleep properly return correctly rounded amount of time left
>   to sleep.  (Pierre Humblet)
>
> - Avoid defining IPv6 stuff in cygwin headers since it really isn't available
>   and could confuse some programs that check for it (like libjava).
>   (Christopher Faylor)
>
> - Fill in '.' and '..' fields for directories which lack them.
>   (Christopher Faylor)
>
> - Export argz* and envz* functions from newlib.  (Nicholas Wourms)
>
> - Implement endusershell, getusershell and setusershell.  (Corinna Vinschen)
>
> - Initialize pw_comment field in passwd fields parsed by cygwin (apparently
>   helps perl).  (Christopher Faylor)
>
> - Implement many new functions from ***mental blank***.  (Corinna Vinschem)
>
> - *Finally* move getopt function into the cygwin DLL.  (Corinna Vinschen)
>
> - Fix "find won't recurse into last N directories in a drive root (like
>   c:\) where N == 1 || N == 2" problem.  (Christopher Faylor)

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