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* cygserver.sgml: Note the fact that slave tty/pty handle dispersal is 

unsed as of Cygwin 1.7.6.
	* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.6): New section.  Add tty/pty and
	setrlimit changes.
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2010-04-22 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* cygserver.sgml: Note the fact that slave tty/pty handle dispersal is
unsed as of Cygwin 1.7.6.
* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.6): New section. Add tty/pty and
setrlimit changes.
2010-04-11 Christopher Faylor <me+cygwin@cgf.cx>
* cygwin.dsl: Remove comments.

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The implemented services so far are:
</para>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
<listitem><para>Control slave tty/pty handle dispersal from tty owner to other
processes without compromising the owner processes' security.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>XSI IPC Message Queues.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>XSI IPC Semaphores.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>XSI IPC Shared Memory.</para></listitem>
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passwords in <command>set(e)uid</command> does not require running
Cygserver. For details, see <xref linkend="ntsec-setuid-overview"></xref>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>This functionality is no longer used since Cygwin 1.7.6,
but the interface is still available: Control slave tty/pty handle dispersal
from tty owner to other processes without compromising the owner processes'
security. Starting with Cygwin 1.7.6 another safe mechanism to share tty/pty
handles is used.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>

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<sect1 id="ov-new1.7"><title>What's new and what changed in Cygwin 1.7</title>
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7.6"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.5 to 1.7.6</title>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
<listitem><para>
Ttys and ptys are handled as securable objects using file-like permissions
and owner/group information. <command>chmod</command> and
<command>chown</command> now work on ttys/ptys. A new mechanism is used
to propagate pty handles safely to other processes, which does not require
to use Cygserver.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Pass on coresize settings made with setrlimit(2). This allows shells to
disable creating stackdump files in child processes via
<screen>ulimit -c 0</screen> in bash or <screen>limit coredumpsize 0</screen>
in tcsh.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7.5"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.3 to 1.7.5</title>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">