newlib-cygwin/winsup/cygwin/release/3.5.0

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What's new:
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- Drop support for Windows 7, Windows 8, Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012.
- The console device gets accessible from other terminals such as other
consoles and ptys. Thanks to this new feature, GNU screen and tmux
now work in the console.
- newgrp(1) tool.
- cygcheck has new options searching for available packages in the
cygwin distro, as well as getting extended info on available and
installed packages.
- fnmatch(3) and glob(3) now support named character classes, equivalence
class expressions, and collating symbols in the search pattern, i.e.,
[:alnum:], [=a=], [.aa.].
- Introduce /dev/disk directory with subdirectories by-id and by-partuuid.
The by-id directory provides symlinks for each disk and its partitions:
BUSTYPE-[VENDOR_]PRODUCT_[SERIAL|HASH][-partN] -> ../../sdX[N].
The by-partuuid directory provides symlinks for each MBR and GPT disk
partition: MBR_SERIAL-OFFSET -> ../../sdXN, GPT_GUID -> ../../sdXN.
- Introduce /proc/codesets and /proc/locales with information on
supported codesets and locales for all interested parties. Locale(1)
opens these files and uses the info for printing locale info like any
other process could do.
- Add support for GB18030 codeset.
- Add support for lseek flags SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE, a GNU extension.
- New API calls: posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np.
- New API calls: c8rtomb, c16rtomb, c32rtomb, mbrtoc8, mbrtoc16, mbrtoc32.
- Implement OSS-based sound mixer device (/dev/mixer).
What changed:
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- posix_spawnp no longer falls back to starting the shell for unrecognized
files as execvp. For the reasoning, see
https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1674
- FIFOs now also work over NFS.