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RE: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed


A cvs pull of wxWindows configured and built fine here.

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Gary R. Van Sickle
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:13 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed
> 
> The latest snapshot is chock full of developer goodness and 
> needs to be tested.
> 
> Both Corinna and I spent a lot of time trying to track down 
> the reported
> fork() problems.  We didn't fix them* but this snapshot 
> contains better fork error reporting.
> 
> This snapshot also contains a rewrite of cygwin's method for 
> interprocess communication.  This means that /proc/NNN stuff 
> (where NNN is a pid) and fifos could be affected.  procps 
> seems to work for me and my simple fifo tests show that they 
> are working as well as they ever did (which means that they 
> aren't fully implemented) but please report any new problems there.
> 
> There is also a fix for LD_PRELOAD.  A problem crept in when 
> I introduced the ability for cygwin to detect when it is 
> running a non-cygwin process.
> 
> Corinna revamped cygwin's "raw device" handling, so reading 
> from raw hard drives and floppies should be improved.  She 
> cleaned up POSIX semaphore handling a little and fixed the 
> creation of some of cygwin's shared memory regions so that 
> they are globablly accessible.  She also finally added a 
> WinMainCRTStartup entry point to cygwin after eight years.
> 
> I took a stab at speeding up fork slightly by eliminating 
> some expensive calls to the OS.
> 
> Yitzchak Scott-Thoeness introduced the ability to use 
> 'siginfo' style signal handlers.
> 
> Oh, and Corinna also fixed the rmdir foo/. (and similar 
> mkdir) problem although there are still other interesting 
> problems with paths that end in /. or /..
> 
> So, once again, I'd like to finally release this thing and so 
> I'm asking for testing help.  You all should know the drill 
> by now but, just in case you don't:
> 
>                           * * *
> 
> I'm asking, once again, for people to test the latest cygwin snapshot.
> The snapshot that is currently available should be very close 
> to an official release of cygwin version 1.5.19.
> 
> Please report success or failure to this thread.  Please 
> don't change the subject.  Please don't start a new 
> discussion.  If you have a problem please report it using the 
> guidelines found at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
>  
> If you think you've found an error, please indicate whether 
> this is a regression from 1.5.18 and, if possible, indicate 
> regressions from previous snapshots.  Regression from other 
> past versions are worth reporting, but are only mildly 
> useful.  There are no guarantees that we will fix a problem 
> for 1.5.19 unless it is a regression from 1.5.18.
> 
> In general, just remember that we need *details*.  So, when 
> reporting a problem, report the exact steps that you took to 
> cause the problem to occur.  If there is anything "unusual" 
> about your environment (firewalls, virus checkers, etc.) 
> please report that too.
> 
> Snapshots are located here: <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> cgf
> 
> *http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html
> 
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