Re: 1.7.2 release?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:02:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>I think we could release 1.7.2 really soon now.  I was hoping for end
>of next week.  However, at least the following points are still open:
>
>- The AFS FS access problem.  I'm working on that one.
>
>- Discussion: Linux or Windows default charsets as Cygwin default charsets
>  in locales without explicit charset?
>
>  My POV: I'm interested in POSIX/Linux interoperability in the first
>  place.  Native Windows interop is nice, but second.  And eventually
>  there is a workaround:  LANG="foo_BAR.CHARSET".
>
>- Multiple reports of git+ssh interoperability.  I was hoping that
>  Eric would have a look into that...
>
>- $ echo LOG:bananas | tee >(grep "^LOG:" > file.txt)
>  LOG:bananas
>  tee: /dev/fd/63: Bad file descriptor
>
>  Is that a fifo problem?  If so, it might not be overly pressing since
>  it would be an extension rather than a fix, wouldn't it?
>
>Anything else?

I have been tinkering with the fifo problems.  There is a select()
problem right now that I haven't been able to fix.

I completely redesigned it a couple of weekends ago and made it much
much worse.  So I'm making progress.

If it comes down to it, I guess this wouldn't be a regression but it
would be nice to have the fifo stuff working better.  I'm beginning to
think that equating named pipes with fifos might not have been a good
idea.  It seems like there's obvious linkage between the two but the
underlying model really is different.

cgf