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. - /proc/cygdrive is a new symlink pointing to the current cygdrive prefix. This can be utilized in scripts to access paths via cygdrive prefix, even if the cygdrive prefix has been changed by the user. - /proc/partitions now prints the windows mount points the device is mounted on. This allows to recognize the underlying Windows devices of the Cygwin raw device names. - New API: quotactl, designed after the Linux/BSD function, but severly restricted: Windows only supports user block quotas on NTFS, no group quotas, no inode quotas, no time constraints. - New APIs: ffsl, ffsll (Linux extensions). What changed: ------------- - New internal exception handling based on SEH on 64 bit Cygwin. - Revamp Solaris ACL implementation to more closely work like POSIX ACLs are supposed to work. Finally implement a CLASS_OBJ emulation. Update getfacl(1)/setfacl(1) accordingly. - Drop the current working directory from the default DLL search path in favor of Cygwin's /bin dir. - Improve various header files for C++- and standards-compliance. - Doug Lea malloc implementation update from 2.8.3 to the latest 2.8.6. Bug Fixes --------- - Per POSIX, dirfd(3) now returns EINVAL rather than EBADF on invalid directory stream. - Fix a resource leak in rmdir(2). - Fix fchmod(2)/fchown(2)/fsetxattr(2) in case the file got renamed after open and before calling one of the affected functions. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-08/msg00517.html - Handle Netapp-specific problem in statvfs(2)/fstatvfs(2). Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-06/msg00425.html - Fix chown(2) on ptys in a corner case. - Generate correct error when a path is inaccessible due to missing permissions. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2014-10/msg00010.html - Don't hang in accept calls if socket is no listener. Set errno to EINVAL instead. Don't hang in read/recv/recvfrom/recvmsg calls if socket is connection oriented and not connected. Set errno to ENOTCONN instead. - Don't allow seeking on serial lines and sockets. Set errno to ESPIPE instead. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-08/msg00319.html - Fix output of /proc//statm. - Fix a SEGV in cygcheck if the environment variable COMSPEC is not, or incorrectly set. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-10/msg00292.html