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new features in cygwin 1.1.0 -- please review
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: new features in cygwin 1.1.0 -- please review
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 19:27:59 -0400
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
In absolutely no order:
New in Cygwin 1.1.0
- CYGWIN=ntsec turns on improved security on NT.
- Up-to-date gcc compiler
- Up-to-date mingw headers and libraries
- Improved Win32-compatible headers and libraries
- /dev/zero
- strace program replaces CYGWIN=strace
- Improved console I/O.
- Serial I/O now works better.
- Windows disk devices are now addresssible as /cygdrive/x.
- Cygwin version information available by right-clicking on cygwin DLL.
- Improved raw tape handling.
- Improved raw diskette handling.
- Improved handling of ptys.
- Improved handling of dynamically loaded DLLs in forked processes.
- Pipe, serial, console, and tty I/O are all now interruptible by signals.
- UNIX domain sockets.
- Improved handling of time/date.
- Improved stackdump format on program abort.
- Allow accessing more than one com port via com3, com4, com10, etc.
- Cygwin DLL is now thread-safe.