What's new: ----------- - Introduce reading passwd/group entries directly from SAM/AD, thus allowing to do without /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Introduce /etc/nsswitch.conf file to configure passwd/group handling. What changed: ------------- - Windows defines the IPV6_TCLASS option, but when using it in setsockopt it returns WSAENOPROTOOPT. Cygwin now ignores this error condition and returns a fake success to the application, just as with IP_TOS for years. - Connect and sendto to the AF_INET and AF_INET6 ANY address is converted to the LOOPBACK address, as on Linux. Addresses: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00510.html Bug Fixes --------- - Workaround a problem following native symlinks. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00384.html - Fix calls to readv/writev/recvmsg/sendmsg with 0 iovlen. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00509.html - Workaround a problem with Mingw64 Winsock headers which lead to an incorrect definition of struct sockaddr_in6, and which in turn broke /proc/net/if_inet6. - Workaround a Winsock bug which neglects to set the SO_ERROR socket option when calling select on a dup'ed socket after an asynchronous connection attempt. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00510.html