Hi folks,
I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.7.
The new locale stuff has been folded into the master branch. This
version adds the GNU-specific locale functions for converting strings to
numbers.
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The 2.6.0 release is going to introducing the locale_t datatype, as well
as all functions related to locale_t locales and per-thread locales per
POSIX-1.2008.
So, rather than just providing a single, per-process locale, you can now
create new locales ("newlocale") and set it as locale for the current
thread ("uselocale") or use it directly with one of the new functions
taking a locale_t as parameter (i.e. isalpha_l).
The full list of new interfaces is:
newlocale, freelocale, duplocale, uselocale
isalnum_l, isalpha_l, isascii_l, isblank_l, iscntrl_l, isdigit_l,
isgraph_l, islower_l, isprint_l, ispunct_l, isspace_l, isupper_l,
iswalnum_l, iswalpha_l, iswblank_l, iswcntrl_l, iswctype_l,
iswdigit_l, iswgraph_l, iswlower_l, iswprint_l, iswpunct_l,
iswspace_l, iswupper_l, iswxdigit_l, isxdigit_l
toascii_l, tolower_l, toupper_l, towctrans_l, towlower_l, towupper_l,
wctrans_l, wctype_l
strcasecmp_l, strcoll_l, strncasecmp_l, strxfrm_l
wcscasecmp_l, wcscoll_l, wcstrncasecmp_l, wcstrxfrm_l
strfmon_l, strftime_l
strtol_l, stroll_l, strtoul_l, strtoull_l
strtod_l, strtofl, strtold_l
wcstol_l, wcsoll_l, wcstoul_l, wcstoull_l
wcstod_l, wcstofl, wcstold_l
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Since this is brand-new code, this code *will* have bugs.
It would be very helpful if interested developers and Cygwin package
maintainers could give this new stuff some good testing.
Other than that:
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What changed:
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- Drop support for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003/2003 R2.
- Drop support for very old SUNWNFS filesystem.
- Further header file improvements in terms of feature test macros.
- Raise number of supported partitions per disk (for raw access) to 63.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-06/msg00136.html
- Add a workaround for filesystems not supporting the FileAllInformation
info class.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00350.html
- "nobody" account support for WinFSP.
Bug Fixes
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- Make sure ldd(1) does not exit prematurely when enumerating DLLs.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-05/msg00185.html
- Fix strace timer output in child process.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00067.html
- Change blkcnt_t to signed type per POSIX.
- Fix definition of SSIZE_MAX on 32-bit systems.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00179.html
- Fix transposing invalid chars in Windows filenames on relative paths.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00193.html
- Don't raise SIGTTIN from select(2)/poll(2).
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2016-07/msg00004.html
- Fix truncl which was using the wrong FPU rounding mode.
Addresses: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128665
- Fix a regression in ioctl(fd, FIONREAD, ...) introduced in Cygwin 2.5.0.
This only affects 64 bit Cygwin.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00001.html
- Handle "clear screen" escpae sequence in console window more reliable.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00310.html
- Allow kill(pid, <anysig>) on zombies to return successfully, rather than
only kill(pid, 0), to align behaviour with POSIX requirements.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg00188.html
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Thanks,
Corinna
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Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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