Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 13 21:02, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > So, barring any catastrophic problems with the current released version
> > of the Cygwin DLL, the last Cygwin version with support for
> > non-Windows-NT class versions of Windows will be 1.5.24-2.
> 
> And approximately what is the timeframe to 1.7.0; weeks, months, next
> year?  Is HEAD stable enough for those not working on cygwin1.dll to be
> testing?

Months.  It's stable enough now but it's constantly changing.  Stability
in snapshots is not guaranteed.

Exciting new stuff so far (IMHO):

- New blocking socket code
- getaddrinfo/getnameinfo/freeaddrinfo
- IPv6 (>= XP, 2K w/ IPv6 Helper Lib)
- POSIX advisory functions (posix_fallocate, posix_fadvise,
  posix_memalign, posix_madvise)
- Treat directory reparse points and native symlinks as symlinks
- Up to 128 SCSI disk block devices
- New setuid method which allows to logon without password and being
  recognized correctly also by native Windows applications
- More POSIXy unlink/rmdir behaviour
- Resolver functions from minires now part of Cygwin
- New struct ifconf, plus /proc/net/if_inet6 using unambiguos interface
  GUID name of Windows (>= XP SP1)
- Multicast support (>= XP SP1)
- POSIX shared memory objects
- POSIX message queues (coming today)

More to come.


Corinna

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