Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

[Matthias Andree]

Am 26.11.2009, 16:58 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen  
:




  This circumvents a few installation problems and decouples the Cygwin
  homedir by default from the Windows profile directory, which
  especially starting with Vista results in performance problems due to
  the new Explorer behaviour concerning "shared" files.  If you want to
  use the Windows profile dir as home dir, set $HOME or tweak your
  /etc/passwd entry accordingly.


Hi Corinna,

Thanks for showing this to me again, I'd probably let it pass by since  
Windows 7 wasn't on my screen back then.


Fair enough. A couple of hardlinks should then sort out the few cases  
where I can share a configuration between $HOME and $USERPROFILE when  
running both a Cygwin and a native Win32 version of the same application.


Good speed with the official 1.7!

Best regards

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 26 15:38, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 25.11.2009, 14:05 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen
> :
> 
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >
> >I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-66.
> >
> >If this doesn't introduce any new regressions, this will (probably)
> >be the last test release.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> after having played with Cygwin 1.5 on XP SP3 for a long while, for
> so long that I forgot what I initially changed,
> I've now tried a fresh install of Cygwin on 1.7 (still with
> 1.7.0-65) on a fresh Windows 7 Professional 32-bit install.
> 
> The one thing that got me wondering is that /etc/passwd uses
> /home/$LOGNAME (/home/hans for instance), rather than $USERPROFILE
> (/cygdrive/C/Users/hans), for the home directory.
> 
> Is it intentional that Cygwin creates a second home for users?

Quote from the announcement for 1.7.0-46, back in May:

What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-46
===

- Never use HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH to construct a default home directory for
  the current user.  The mechanism to evaluate the pathname is now:

  - If $HOME is already set in the envirnment, use it.
  - Otherwise, if /etc/passwd contains a non-empty homedir for the
current user, use it.
  - Otherwise, default to /home/.

  This circumvents a few installation problems and decouples the Cygwin
  homedir by default from the Windows profile directory, which
  especially starting with Vista results in performance problems due to
  the new Explorer behaviour concerning "shared" files.  If you want to
  use the Windows profile dir as home dir, set $HOME or tweak your
  /etc/passwd entry accordingly.


Corinna

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

[Matthias Andree]

Am 25.11.2009, 14:05 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen  
:



Hi folks,


I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-66.

If this doesn't introduce any new regressions, this will (probably)
be the last test release.


Greetings,

after having played with Cygwin 1.5 on XP SP3 for a long while, for so  
long that I forgot what I initially changed,
I've now tried a fresh install of Cygwin on 1.7 (still with 1.7.0-65) on a  
fresh Windows 7 Professional 32-bit install.


The one thing that got me wondering is that /etc/passwd uses  
/home/$LOGNAME (/home/hans for instance), rather than $USERPROFILE  
(/cygdrive/C/Users/hans), for the home directory.


Is it intentional that Cygwin creates a second home for users?

Thanks.

Best regards

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

[Paul McFerrin]

I understand completely now that I know the mirrors operate in "pull" mode.

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

On 11/25/2009 04:30 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:42:45PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote:

I just downloaded cygwin 1.7 and received version -65 instead from
mirror.nyi.net (http).  What is wrong?

.$ uname -v
2009-11-19 10:07

Did I catch the download in the middle of a critical update?


Huh?  No.  Mirrors use a pull mechanism, not a push mechanism.  If the
mirror doesn't have the latest version of cygwin that means it hasn't
pulled it from cygwin.com yet.


Chris, you just beat me to this. :-)  The only thing I'd add is you 
need to
either be more patient 
()

or more vigilant/exhaustive in your search.  In the vigilant/exhaustive
category, you would have found what you were looking for with this mirror
.  Of course, I'm not saying this 
mirror will

always be the most up-to-date.  That's where the "exhaustive" part comes
in. ;-)



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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 11/25/2009 04:30 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:42:45PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote:

I just downloaded cygwin 1.7 and received version -65 instead from
mirror.nyi.net (http).  What is wrong?

.$ uname -v
2009-11-19 10:07

Did I catch the download in the middle of a critical update?


Huh?  No.  Mirrors use a pull mechanism, not a push mechanism.  If the
mirror doesn't have the latest version of cygwin that means it hasn't
pulled it from cygwin.com yet.


Chris, you just beat me to this. :-)  The only thing I'd add is you need to
either be more patient ()
or more vigilant/exhaustive in your search.  In the vigilant/exhaustive
category, you would have found what you were looking for with this mirror
.  Of course, I'm not saying this mirror will
always be the most up-to-date.  That's where the "exhaustive" part comes
in. ;-)

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:42:45PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote:
>I just downloaded cygwin 1.7 and received version -65 instead from 
>mirror.nyi.net (http).  What is wrong?
>
>.$ uname -v
>2009-11-19 10:07
>
>Did I catch the download in the middle of a critical update?

Huh?  No.  Mirrors use a pull mechanism, not a push mechanism.  If the
mirror doesn't have the latest version of cygwin that means it hasn't
pulled it from cygwin.com yet.

cgf

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

[Paul McFerrin]

I just downloaded cygwin 1.7 and received version -65 instead from 
mirror.nyi.net (http).  What is wrong?


.$ uname -v
2009-11-19 10:07

Did I catch the download in the middle of a critical update?

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

Hi folks,


I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-66.

If this doesn't introduce any new regressions, this will (probably)
be the last test release.


Bugfixes in relation to 1.7.0-65:


- Fix the problem that 64 bit DLLs are accidentally getting a ".exe"
  suffix when renaming them.

- Fix two potential socket handle leaks introduced in -64.

- Fix security vulnerability in gdtoa:
  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0689

The next bugfix had been applied to 1.7.0-65 already.  I just forgot
to mention it:

- Fix a bug in the fast math tan() implementation for x87 FPUs.


FAQ:


- Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-66?

  A: The `uname -v' command prints "2009-11-25 13:41"


Have fun,
Corinna


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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:26:37AM -0500, Eliot Moss wrote:
>Maybe I'm being impatient (entirely possible), but I'm not seeing this
>yet ...

Yes, you're being impatient.  It really is there.

cgf

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

[Eliot Moss]

Maybe I'm being impatient (entirely possible),
but I'm not seeing this yet ...

Best wishes -- Eliot

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

[Corinna Vinschen]

Hi folks,


I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-66.

If this doesn't introduce any new regressions, this will (probably)
be the last test release.


Bugfixes in relation to 1.7.0-65:


- Fix the problem that 64 bit DLLs are accidentally getting a ".exe"
  suffix when renaming them.

- Fix two potential socket handle leaks introduced in -64.

- Fix security vulnerability in gdtoa:
  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0689

The next bugfix had been applied to 1.7.0-65 already.  I just forgot
to mention it:

- Fix a bug in the fast math tan() implementation for x87 FPUs.


FAQ:


- Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-66?

  A: The `uname -v' command prints "2009-11-25 13:41"


Have fun,
Corinna


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