1.5 to 1.7 upgrade.

I held off updating two machines from Cygwin 1.5 to 1.7 until this week because they were critical to a product test and release process. These Cygwin installations are nearly vanilla and the upgrades went very smoothly and except for one crucial item everything seems to have worked as expected.

1.5 to 1.7 upgrade.

Slight embarrassment here. Things are not quite as described below but there is a problem. 1. The file systems in F: are indeed writeable, as test with echo builds/test demonstrated. This is what you would expect given the permissions shown by ls despite the question marks in the uid and gid