Hi Cygwin friends and users,
I released a new Cygwin TEST version 2.5.0-0.3.
Apart from a few bugfixes, this new test release introduces a pthread
barrier implementation, courtesy of Václav Haisman. It exports the
following new functions:
- pthread_barrierattr_init, pthread_barrierattr_setpshared,
pthread_barrierattr_getpshared, pthread_barrierattr_destroy,
pthread_barrier_init, pthread_barrier_destroy, pthread_barrier_wait
The other big things are the introduction of a change to chmod, as well
as the introduction of the POSIX.1e ACL API:
- Usually POSIX.1e requires that chmod does not change the group
permissions but the MASK permissions if additional user and group
entries are present. This may result in a confusing behaviour:
$ getfacl -c foo
user::rwx
group::r--
group:blah:r--
mask::r--
other::r--
So the primary group only has read perms. Now let's see what happens
when calling `chmod g+w':
$ ls -l foo
-rwxr--r--+ [...] foo
$ chmod g+w foo
$ ls -l foo
-rwxrw-r--+ [...] foo
Looks good so far, but...
$ getfacl -c foo
user::rwx
group::r-- <-- Still only read perms, no write perms
group:blah:r--
mask::rw- <-- Only the mask has changed
other::r--
So chmod g+w does NOT result in the primary group getting write
permissions if it doesn't already have them. This is one of the
more puzzling aspects of POSIX.1e.
The chmod change in 2.5.0 now handles default Windows ACL with entries
only for the owner, the group, other, SYSTEM and the Administrators
group as if it's a standard POSIX ACL. That is, chmod will not only
influence the POSIX MASK entry, but also the owning group entry. The
result should be more along the lines of Windows user expectations
when calling chmod. Note that this is restricted to *only* the ACLs
described above. Any other group present in the ACL will switch
chmod back to the POSIX.1e behaviour.
- The full set of POSIX.1e functions is now available.
- Most of the libacl extensions are available as well. The only
exceptions right now are the two functions perm_copy_file and
perm_copy_fd. These can be added later. Somebody just has to do it :)
- The <sys/acl.h> header now *only* exposes the POSIX.1e API.
- To get access to the Solaris API, you will have to include
<cygwin/acl.h> now.
- There's a new header <acl/libacl.h> which exposes the libacl extension
functions.
- Fix potential hang when using LoadLibraryEx(LOAD_LIBRARY_SEARCH_SYSTEM32).
Reported and tested via IRC.
- Fix a bug in ACL handling which might result in a spurious extra entry
for the primary group. Self-observed.
- printf(3): Handle multibyte decimal point in field size computation.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-02/msg00014.html
- cygwin_conv_path: Always preserve trailing backslashes in conversion
to POSIX paths.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-01/msg00480.html
Have fun,
Corinna
(*) http://wt.tuxomania.net/publications/posix.1e/
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Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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