TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.17

Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released TEST version 2.4.0-0.17 of Cygwin. This fixes a few problems reported over the holidays. What's new: --- - New, unified implementation of POSIX permission and ACL handling. The new ACLs now store the POSIX ACL MASK/CLASS_OBJ permission mask,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.17

Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released TEST version 2.4.0-0.17 of Cygwin. This fixes a few problems reported over the holidays. What's new: --- - New, unified implementation of POSIX permission and ACL handling. The new ACLs now store the POSIX ACL MASK/CLASS_OBJ permission mask,

Re: Cannot Run Executable Files

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 2:11 AM, Zac G. Al Wakeel wrote: >> For the archives, would you say which software was causing the problem? > > I was using Avast, free software. A user of a compiled Perl program I wrote (ActiveState) also had problems running it with Avast. So I am not surprised. --

[newlib-cygwin] select: Don't timeout without setting descriptor arrays to all zero

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=3069a93fbebce17159bf964a148c1b07221293ba commit 3069a93fbebce17159bf964a148c1b07221293ba Author: Corinna Vinschen Date: Sat Jan 9 14:53:06 2016 +0100 select: Don't timeout without setting descriptor arrays to

[newlib-cygwin] Add release message for previous commit

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=e3b230b04375164631a04c6ba49978ead3581353 commit e3b230b04375164631a04c6ba49978ead3581353 Author: Corinna Vinschen Date: Sat Jan 9 15:05:21 2016 +0100 Add release message for previous commit

Re: [PATCH setup 0/3] Drop Windows 9x-related code

On Jan 8 14:32, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > Yaakov Selkowitz (3): > propsheet: drop support for Common Controls v4 > nio-ie5: drop unnecessary LoadLibrary call > Use Winsock 2 throughout > > Makefile.am | 2 +- > nio-ftp.cc | 2 +- > nio-http.cc | 2 +- > nio-ie5.cc | 7 --- >

Re: cygwin.dll: bug with select on Windows console

On Jan 8 15:58, john hood wrote: > On 1/8/16 11:29 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 7 13:18, John Hood wrote: > >> Sorry about forgetting the testcase (which was good, actually, that > >> version had a bug). I've attached it here. This takes a single > >> argument, the timeout value for

Re: cygwin.dll: bug with select on Windows console

On Jan 9 15:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 8 15:58, john hood wrote: > > On 1/8/16 11:29 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Jan 7 13:18, John Hood wrote: > > >> Sorry about forgetting the testcase (which was good, actually, that > > >> version had a bug). I've attached it here. This

Re: cygwin.dll: bug with select on Windows console

On 1/9/2016 9:41 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I fixed the code and took the opportunity to clean it up a little using >basically the (fixed) patch I proposed two days ago. > >I've just uploaded new developer snapshots tohttps://cygwin.com/snapshots/ >and a new test release 2.4.0-0.17 which