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Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-56
- From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum dot mit dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 09:41:21 -0600
- Subject: Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-56
- References: <20090730202942.GP18621@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090801201043.GA7072@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
Emacs no longer works. It comes back to the prompt, no window.
Using latest X-org and Emacs.
- Jim
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Christopher
Faylor<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> I have uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-56.
>
> This fixes the bug introduced in -53 and -54 which resulted in various
> problems execing programs as seen here:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg01057.html
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg01060.html
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-08/msg00019.html
>
> What's new since 1.7.0-52
> =========================
>
> - Recognize non-NTFS remote filesystems which report to be NTFS as
> ?"cifs" filesystems and avoid to call potentially unsupported NT call
> ?in readdir().
> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-06/msg01008.html
>
> - Made process startup slightly faster.
>
>
> Bugfixes:
> =========
>
> - Don't just return EBUSY when trying to remove shared files on an NFS
> ?share. ?Rather, really try to remove them first.
> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00872.html
>
> - Fix a problem with text mode processing.
>
> - Fix a typo in setlocale() which made the GBK charset disfunctional.
> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00875.html
>
> - Partially fix the FIFO regression reported in
> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00233.html
>
> - Fix a crash when trying to set long console title strings.
> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00893.html
>
> - Lower the memory usage of file descriptor data on the Cygwin heap.
> ?This avoids to allocate 64K chunks per file. ?The new size is about
> ?250 bytes + 4 * path length. ?This should fix the problem reported in
> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00766.html
>
> - Fix a problem in the destructor call order on process exit.
> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-07/msg00000.html
>
> - Fix handling of incomplete UTF-8 sequences and rework UTF-16 surrogate
> ?pair handling in mbrtowc() to be more bullet-proof. ?Check for invalid
> ?Unicode valus beyond 0x10ffff.
> ?http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00941.html
>
>
> FAQ:
> ====
>
> - Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-56?
>
> ?A: cygcheck -c cygwin
>
--
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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