This load fixed one of those "strange network problems" for me as well. Name service (gethostbyname) did not work in processes spawned out of CGI scripts running under apache. I was guessing it was something missing in the environment, but could not track it down to SYSTEMROOT.
Now it works again. Thanks! D. Knisely -----Original Message----- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.12-1 Gack. Subject change. Igor On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities > available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. > > To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on > the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your > system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. > > If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin > mailing list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** > > If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look > at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. > Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: > > http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple > > Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available > starting at this URL. > > Christopher Faylor > TimeSys, Inc. > > Changes since 1.5.11-1: > > - Fix problem where stdout was closed when a thread exits. (Christopher Faylor) > > - Fix pipe problems with Windows 95. (Bas van Gompel) > > - Fix race condition in fork which occasionally caused bash to think a forked > process had died prematurely. (Christopher Faylor) > > - Properly deal with CTRL-C while a cygwin process is in startup code. > (Pierre Humblet) > > - Handle RTLD_DEFAULT in dlsym. (Sam Steingold) > > - Don't try to use Windows "delete on close" for files on remote shares. > (Corinna Vinschen) > > - Properly handle trailing dots in windows file names. (Pierre Humblet) > > - Make the default /cygdrive "binary mode". (Christopher Faylor) > > - Add siginterrupt declaration to signal.h. (Christopher Faylor) > > - Use proper wait value for tty reads. (Mark Paulus) > > - Properly reset SIGCHLD blocking after a spawn when there was no previous > signal blocking. (Christopher Faylor) > > - Work hard to ensure that SYSTEMROOT environment variable is always passed > to new processes even when it has ostensibly been deleted. This should > fix some strange network problems. (Corinna Vinschen) > > - Fix network slowdowns experienced by some firewall users. > (Christopher Faylor) > > - Fix return value for unbuffered fread. (Jason Tishler) > > - Properly load registry hives and insure access to system mounts. > (Pierre Humblet) > > - Cleanup cygcheck and getfacl output. (Bas van Gompel) > > - Add cygcheck warning about multiple cygwin DLLs. (Bas van Gompel) -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/