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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/