<sect2 id="ov-new1.7.2"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.1 to 1.7.2</title>
-<screen>
-- Localization support has been much improved.
-
- - Cygwin now handles locales using the underlying Windows locale support.
- The locale must exists in Windows to be recognized.
-
- - New tool "getlocale" to fetch valid locale values from Windows.
-
- - Default charset for locales without explicit charset is now choosen
- from a list of Linx-compatible charsets. For instance en_US -> ISO-8859-1,
- ja_JP -> EUC-JP.
-
- - Support for the @euro locale modifier to switch to the ISO-8859-15
- charset.
+<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
- - Default charset in the "C" or "POSIX" locale has been changed back from
- UTF-8 to ASCII, to circumvent problems with applications expecting a
- singlebyte charset in the "C"/"POSIX" locale. Still use UTF-8 internally
- for filename conversion in this case.
+<listitem><para>Localization support has been much improved.</para>
- - LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME localization is enabled
- via Windows locale support.
-
- - New strfmon(3) call.
+ <itemizedlist mark="bullet">
-- Support open(2) flags O_CLOEXEC and O_TTY_INIT flags. Support
- fcntl flag F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC. Support socket flags SOCK_CLOEXEC and
- SOCK_NONBLOCK).
+ <listitem><para>
+ Cygwin now handles locales using the underlying Windows locale
+ support. The locale must exists in Windows to be recognized.
+ </para></listitem>
-- Add new Linux-compatible API calls accept4(2), dup3(2), and pipe2(2).
+ <listitem><para>
+ New tool "getlocale" to fetch valid locale values from Windows.
+ </para></listitem>
-- fnmatch(3) call is now multibyte-aware.
-</screen>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-os"><title>OS related changes</title>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Default charset for locales without explicit charset is now choosen
+ from a list of Linux-compatible charsets.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For instance: en_US -> ISO-8859-1, ja_JP -> EUC-JP, zh_TW -> Big5.
+ </para></listitem>
-<screen>
-- Windows 95, 98 and Me are not supported anymore. The new Cygwin 1.7 DLL
- will not run on any of these systems.
-
-- Add support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
-</screen>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-file"><title>File Access related changes</title>
-
-<screen>
-- Mount points are no longer stored in the registry. Use /etc/fstab
- and /etc/fstab.d/$USER instead. Mount points created with mount(1)
- are only local to the current session and disappear when the last
- Cygwin process in the session exits.
+ <listitem><para>
+ Support for the @euro locale modifier to switch to the ISO-8859-15 charset.
+ </para></listitem>
-- Cygwin creates the mount points for /, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib automatically
- from it's own position on the disk. They don't have to be specified in
- /etc/fstab.
+ <listitem><para>
+ Default charset in the "C" or "POSIX" locale has been changed back
+ from UTF-8 to ASCII, to circumvent problems with applications
+ expecting a singlebyte charset in the "C"/"POSIX" locale. Still use
+ UTF-8 internally for filename conversion in this case.
+ </para></listitem>
-- If a filename cannot be represented in the current character set,
- the character will be converted to a sequence Ctrl-X + UTF-8 representation
- of the character. This allows to access all files, even those not
- having a valid representation of their filename in the current character
- set (codepage). To always have a valid string, use the UTF-8 charset
- by setting the environment variable $LANG, $LC_ALL, or $LC_CTYPE to a
- valid POSIX value, for instance in Cygwin.bat like this:
+ <listitem><para>
+ LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME localization is
+ enabled via Windows locale support.
+ </para></listitem>
- set LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
+ <listitem><para>
+ fnmatch(3) call is now multibyte-aware.
+ </para></listitem>
-- PATH_MAX is now 4096. Internally, path names can be as long as the
- underlying OS can handle (32K).
+ <listitem><para>
+ New strfmon(3) call.
+ </para></listitem>
-- struct dirent now supports d_type, filled out with DT_REG or DT_DIR.
- All other file types return as DT_UNKNOWN for performance reasons.
+ </itemizedlist>
-- The CYGWIN environment variable options "ntsec" and "smbntsec" have
- been replaced by the per-mount option "acl"/"noacl".
+</listitem>
-- The CYGWIN environment variable option "ntea" has been removed without
- substitute.
+<listitem><para>
+Support open(2) flags O_CLOEXEC and O_TTY_INIT flags. Support fcntl
+flag F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC. Support socket flags SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK.
+</para></listitem>
-- The CYGWIN environment variable option "check_case" has been removed
- in favor of real case-sensitivity on file systems supporting it.
+<listitem><para>
+Add new Linux-compatible API calls accept4(2), dup3(2), and pipe2(2).
+</para></listitem>
-- Creating filenames with special DOS characters '"', '*', ':', '<',
- '>', '|' is supported.
+<listitem><para>
+Recognize NWFS filesystem and workaround broken OS call.
+</para></listitem>
-- Creating files with special DOS device filename components ("aux",
- "nul", "prn") is supported.
+</itemizedlist>
-- File names are case sensitive if the OS and the underlying file system
- supports it. Works on NTFS and NFS. Does not work on FAT and Samba
- shares. Requires to change a registry key (see the user's guide).
- Can be switched off on a per-mount base.
-
-- Due to the above changes, managed mounts have been removed.
-
-- Incoming DOS paths are always handled case-insensitive and get no POSIX
- permission, as if they are mounted with noacl,posix=0 mount flags.
-
-- unlink(2) and rmdir(2) try very hard to remove files/directories even
- if they are currently accessed or locked. This is done by utilizing
- the hidden recycle bin directories and marking the files for deletion.
-
-- rename(2) rewritten to be more POSIX conformant.
-
-- access(2) now performs checks using the real user ID, as required by
- POSIX; the old behavior of querying based on effective user ID is
- available through the new faccessat(2) and euidaccess(2) APIs.
-
-- Add st_birthtim member to struct stat.
-
-- File locking is now advisory, not mandatory anymore. The fcntl(2) and
- the new lockf(2) APIs create and maintain locks with POSIX semantics,
- the flock(2) API creates and maintains locks with BSD semantics.
- POSIX and BSD locks are independent of each other.
-
-- Implement atomic O_APPEND mode.
-
-- New open(2) flags O_DIRECTORY, O_EXEC and O_SEARCH.
-
-- Make the "plain file with SYSTEM attribute set" style symlink
- default again when creating symlinks. Only create Windows shortcut
- style symlinks if CYGWIN=winsymlinks is set in the environment.
-
-- Symlinks now use UTF-16 encoding for the target filename for
- better internationalization support. Cygwin 1.7 can read all old style
- symlinks, but the new style is not compatible with older Cygwin releases.
-
-- Handle NTFS native symlinks available since Vista/2008 as symlinks
- (but don't create Vista/2008 symlinks due to unfortunate OS restrictions).
+</sect2>
-- Recognize NFS shares and handle them using native mechanisms.
- Recognize and create real symlinks on NFS shares. Get correct
- stat(2) information and set real mode bits on open(2), mkdir(2)
- and chmod(2).
+<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-os"><title>OS related changes</title>
-- Recognize Netapp DataOnTap drives and fix inode number handling.
+<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
-- Recognize Samba version beginning with Samba 3.0.28a using the new
- extended version information negotiated with the Samba developers.
+<listitem><para>
+Windows 95, 98 and Me are not supported anymore. The new Cygwin 1.7 DLL
+will not run on any of these systems.
+</para></listitem>
-- Stop faking hardlinks by copying the file on filesystems which don't
- support hardlinks natively (FAT, FAT32, etc.). Just return an error
- instead, just like Linux.
+<listitem><para>
+Add support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
+</para></listitem>
-- List servers of all accessible domains and workgroups in // instead of
- just the servers in the own domain/workgroup.
+</itemizedlist>
-- Support Linux-like extended attributes ([fl]getxattr, [fl]listxattr,
- [fl]setxattr, [fl]removexattr).
+</sect2>
-- New file conversion API for conversion from Win32 to POSIX path and
- vice versa (cygwin_conv_path, cygwin_create_path, cygwin_conv_path_list).
+<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-file"><title>File Access related changes</title>
-- New openat family of functions: openat, faccessat, fchmodat, fchownat,
- fstatat, futimesat, linkat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat, readlinkat, renameat,
- symlinkat, unlinkat.
+<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
+
+<listitem><para>
+Mount points are no longer stored in the registry. Use /etc/fstab and
+/etc/fstab.d/$USER instead. Mount points created with mount(1) are only
+local to the current session and disappear when the last Cygwin process
+in the session exits.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Cygwin creates the mount points for /, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib
+automatically from it's own position on the disk. They don't have to be
+specified in /etc/fstab.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+If a filename cannot be represented in the current character set, the
+character will be converted to a sequence Ctrl-X + UTF-8 representation
+of the character. This allows to access all files, even those not
+having a valid representation of their filename in the current character
+set (codepage). To always have a valid string, use the UTF-8 charset by
+setting the environment variable $LANG, $LC_ALL, or $LC_CTYPE to a valid
+POSIX value, for instance in Cygwin.bat like this:
+</para>
-- Other new APIs: posix_fadvise, posix_fallocate, funopen, fopencookie,
- open_memstream, open_wmemstream, fmemopen, fdopendir, fpurge,
- mkstemps, eaccess, euidaccess, canonicalize_file_name, fexecve, execvpe.
+<screen>
+set LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
</screen>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+PATH_MAX is now 4096. Internally, path names can be as long as the
+underlying OS can handle (32K).
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+struct dirent now supports d_type, filled out with DT_REG or DT_DIR.
+All other file types return as DT_UNKNOWN for performance reasons.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+The CYGWIN environment variable options "ntsec" and "smbntsec" have been
+replaced by the per-mount option "acl"/"noacl".
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+The CYGWIN environment variable option "ntea" has been removed without
+substitute.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+The CYGWIN environment variable option "check_case" has been removed in
+favor of real case-sensitivity on file systems supporting it.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Creating filenames with special DOS characters '"', '*', ':', '<',
+'>', '|' is supported.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Creating files with special DOS device filename components ("aux",
+"nul", "prn") is supported.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+File names are case sensitive if the OS and the underlying file system
+supports it. Works on NTFS and NFS. Does not work on FAT and Samba
+shares. Requires to change a registry key (see the user's guide). Can
+be switched off on a per-mount base.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Due to the above changes, managed mounts have been removed.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Incoming DOS paths are always handled case-insensitive and get no POSIX
+permission, as if they are mounted with noacl,posix=0 mount flags.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+unlink(2) and rmdir(2) try very hard to remove files/directories even if
+they are currently accessed or locked. This is done by utilizing the
+hidden recycle bin directories and marking the files for deletion.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+rename(2) rewritten to be more POSIX conformant.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+access(2) now performs checks using the real user ID, as required by
+POSIX; the old behavior of querying based on effective user ID is
+available through the new faccessat(2) and euidaccess(2) APIs.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Add st_birthtim member to struct stat.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+File locking is now advisory, not mandatory anymore. The fcntl(2) and
+the new lockf(2) APIs create and maintain locks with POSIX semantics,
+the flock(2) API creates and maintains locks with BSD semantics. POSIX
+and BSD locks are independent of each other.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Implement atomic O_APPEND mode.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+New open(2) flags O_DIRECTORY, O_EXEC and O_SEARCH.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Make the "plain file with SYSTEM attribute set" style symlink default
+again when creating symlinks. Only create Windows shortcut style
+symlinks if CYGWIN=winsymlinks is set in the environment.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Symlinks now use UTF-16 encoding for the target filename for better
+internationalization support. Cygwin 1.7 can read all old style
+symlinks, but the new style is not compatible with older Cygwin
+releases.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Handle NTFS native symlinks available since Vista/2008 as symlinks (but
+don't create Vista/2008 symlinks due to unfortunate OS restrictions).
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Recognize NFS shares and handle them using native mechanisms. Recognize
+and create real symlinks on NFS shares. Get correct stat(2) information
+and set real mode bits on open(2), mkdir(2) and chmod(2).
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Recognize MVFS and workaround problems manipulating metadata and handling
+DOS attributes.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Recognize Netapp DataOnTap drives and fix inode number handling.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Recognize Samba version beginning with Samba 3.0.28a using the new
+extended version information negotiated with the Samba developers.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Stop faking hardlinks by copying the file on filesystems which don't
+support hardlinks natively (FAT, FAT32, etc.). Just return an error
+instead, just like Linux.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+List servers of all accessible domains and workgroups in // instead of
+just the servers in the own domain/workgroup.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Support Linux-like extended attributes ([fl]getxattr, [fl]listxattr,
+[fl]setxattr, [fl]removexattr).
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+New file conversion API for conversion from Win32 to POSIX path and vice
+versa (cygwin_conv_path, cygwin_create_path, cygwin_conv_path_list).
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+New openat family of functions: openat, faccessat, fchmodat, fchownat,
+fstatat, futimesat, linkat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat, readlinkat,
+renameat, symlinkat, unlinkat.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Other new APIs: posix_fadvise, posix_fallocate, funopen, fopencookie,
+open_memstream, open_wmemstream, fmemopen, fdopendir, fpurge, mkstemps,
+eaccess, euidaccess, canonicalize_file_name, fexecve, execvpe.
+</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-net"><title>Network related changes</title>
-<screen>
-- New implementation for blocking sockets and select on sockets which
- is supposed to allow POSIX-compatible sharing of sockets between
- threads and processes.
-
-- send/sendto/sendmsg now send data in 64K chunks to circumvent an
- internal buffer problem in WinSock (KB 201213).
-
-- New send/recv option MSG_DONTWAIT.
-
-- IPv6 support. New API getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, freeaddrinfo,
- gai_strerror, in6addr_any, in6addr_loopback. On IPv6-less systems,
- replacement functions are available for IPv4. On systems with IPv6
- enabled, the underlying WinSock functions are used. While I tried
- hard to get the functionality as POSIXy as possible, keep in mind that
- a *fully* conformant implementation of getaddrinfo and other stuff is
- only available starting with Windows Vista/2008.
-
-- Resolver functions (res_init, res_query, res_search, res_querydomain,
- res_mkquery, res_send, dn_comp, dn_expand) are now part of Cygwin.
- Applications don't have to link against minires anymore. Actually,
- this *is* the former libminires.a.
-
-- rcmd is now implemented inside of Cygwin, instead of calling the
- WinSock function. This allows rsh(1) usage on Vista/2008 and later,
- which dropped this function from WinSock.
-
-- Define multicast structures in netinet/in.h. Note that fully
- conformant multicast support is only available beginning with Vista/2008.
-
-- Improve get_ifconf. Redefine struct ifreq and subsequent datastructures
- to be able to keep more information. Support SIOCGIFINDEX, SIOCGIFDSTADDR
- and the Cygwin specific SIOCGIFFRNDLYNAM. Support real interface flags
- on systems supporting them.
-
-- Other new APIs: bindresvport, bindresvport_sa, gethostbyname2, iruserok_sa,
- rcmd_af, rresvport_af. getifaddrs, freeifaddrs, if_nametoindex,
- if_indextoname, if_nameindex, if_freenameindex.
-
-- Add /proc/net/if_inet6.
-</screen>
+<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
+
+<listitem><para>
+New implementation for blocking sockets and select on sockets which is
+supposed to allow POSIX-compatible sharing of sockets between threads
+and processes.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+send/sendto/sendmsg now send data in 64K chunks to circumvent an
+internal buffer problem in WinSock (KB 201213).
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+New send/recv option MSG_DONTWAIT.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+IPv6 support. New API getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, freeaddrinfo,
+gai_strerror, in6addr_any, in6addr_loopback. On IPv6-less systems,
+replacement functions are available for IPv4. On systems with IPv6
+enabled, the underlying WinSock functions are used. While I tried hard
+to get the functionality as POSIXy as possible, keep in mind that a
+*fully* conformant implementation of getaddrinfo and other stuff is only
+available starting with Windows Vista/2008.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Resolver functions (res_init, res_query, res_search, res_querydomain,
+res_mkquery, res_send, dn_comp, dn_expand) are now part of Cygwin.
+Applications don't have to link against minires anymore. Actually, this
+*is* the former libminires.a.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+rcmd is now implemented inside of Cygwin, instead of calling the WinSock
+function. This allows rsh(1) usage on Vista/2008 and later, which
+dropped this function from WinSock.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Define multicast structures in netinet/in.h. Note that fully conformant
+multicast support is only available beginning with Vista/2008.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Improve get_ifconf. Redefine struct ifreq and subsequent datastructures
+to be able to keep more information. Support SIOCGIFINDEX,
+SIOCGIFDSTADDR and the Cygwin specific SIOCGIFFRNDLYNAM. Support real
+interface flags on systems supporting them.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Other new APIs: bindresvport, bindresvport_sa, gethostbyname2,
+iruserok_sa, rcmd_af, rresvport_af. getifaddrs, freeifaddrs,
+if_nametoindex, if_indextoname, if_nameindex, if_freenameindex.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Add /proc/net/if_inet6.
+</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-device"><title>Device related changes</title>
-<screen>
-- Reworked pipe implementation which uses overlapped IO to create
- more reliable interruptible pipes and fifos.
+<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
-- The CYGWIN environment variable option "binmode" has been removed.
+<listitem><para>
+Reworked pipe implementation which uses overlapped IO to create more
+reliable interruptible pipes and fifos.
+</para></listitem>
-- Improved fifo handling by using native Windows named pipes.
+<listitem><para>
+The CYGWIN environment variable option "binmode" has been removed.
+</para></listitem>
-- Detect when a stdin/stdout which looks like a pipe is really a tty.
- Among other things, this allows a debugged application to recognize that
- it is using the same tty as the debugger.
+<listitem><para>
+Improved fifo handling by using native Windows named pipes.
+</para></listitem>
-- Support UTF-8 in console window.
+<listitem><para>
+Detect when a stdin/stdout which looks like a pipe is really a tty.
+Among other things, this allows a debugged application to recognize that
+it is using the same tty as the debugger.
+</para></listitem>
-- In the console window the backspace key now emits DEL (0x7f) instead
- of BS (0x08), Alt-Backspace emits ESC-DEL (0x1b,0x7f) instead of DEL
- (0x7f), same as the Linux console and xterm.
- Control-Space now emits an ASCII NUL (0x0) character.
+<listitem><para>
+Support UTF-8 in console window.
+</para></listitem>
-- Support up to 64 serial interfaces using /dev/ttyS0 - /dev/ttyS63.
+<listitem><para>
+In the console window the backspace key now emits DEL (0x7f) instead of
+BS (0x08), Alt-Backspace emits ESC-DEL (0x1b,0x7f) instead of DEL
+(0x7f), same as the Linux console and xterm. Control-Space now emits an
+ASCII NUL (0x0) character.
+</para></listitem>
-- Support up to 128 raw disk drives /dev/sda - /dev/sddx.
+<listitem><para>
+Support up to 64 serial interfaces using /dev/ttyS0 - /dev/ttyS63.
+</para></listitem>
-- New API: cfmakeraw, get_avphys_pages, get_nprocs, get_nprocs_conf,
- get_phys_pages, posix_openpt.
-</screen>
+<listitem><para>
+Support up to 128 raw disk drives /dev/sda - /dev/sddx.
+</para></listitem>
-</sect2>
+<listitem><para>
+New API: cfmakeraw, get_avphys_pages, get_nprocs, get_nprocs_conf,
+get_phys_pages, posix_openpt.
+</para></listitem>
-<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-posix"><title>Other POSIX related changes</title>
-
-<screen>
-- A lot of character sets are supported now via a call to setlocale().
- The setting of the environment variables $LANG, $LC_ALL or $LC_CTYPE will
- be used. For instance, setting $LANG to "de_DE.ISO-8859-15" before
- starting a Cygwin session will use the ISO-8859-15 character set in
- the entire session. The default charset is "UTF-8", even in the
- default locale "C". The default locale in the absence of one of the
- aforementioned environment variables is "C.UTF-8".
-
- The full list of supported character sets: "ASCII", "ISO-8859-x" with x
- in 1-16, except 12, "UTF-8", Windows codepages "CPxxx", with xxx in
- (437, 720, 737, 775, 850, 852, 855, 857, 858, 862, 866, 874, 1125,
- 1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1256, 1257, 1258), "KOI8-R", "KOI8-U",
- "SJIS", "GBK", "eucJP", "eucKR", and "Big5". The leading language and
- territory part (en_US, for instance) is not used by Cygwin yet, but is
- required for POSIX compatibility.
-
-- Allow multiple concurrent read locks per thread for pthread_rwlock_t.
-
-- Implement pthread_kill(thread, 0) as per POSIX.
-
-- New API for POSIX IPC:
- Named semaphores: sem_open, sem_close, sem_unlink.
- Message queues: mq_open, mq_getattr, mq_setattr, mq_notify, mq_send,
- mq_timedsend, mq_receive, mq_timedreceive, mq_close, mq_unlink.
- Shared memory: shm_open, shm_unlink.
-
-- Only declare expected functions in <strings.h>, don't include
- <string.h> from here.
-
-- Support for WCONTINUED, WIFCONTINUED() added to waitpid and wait4.
-
-- New APIs: _Exit, confstr, insque, remque, sys_sigabbrev,
- posix_madvise, posix_memalign, reallocf,
- exp10, exp10f, pow10, pow10f, lrint, lrintf, rint, rintf, llrint, llrintf,
- llrintl, lrintl, rintl,
- mbsnrtowcs, strcasestr, stpcpy, stpncpy, wcpcpy, wcpncpy, wcsnlen,
- wcsnrtombs, wcsftime, wcstod, wcstof, wcstoimax, wcstok, wcstol, wcstoll,
- wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstoumax, wcsxfrm, wcscasecmp, wcsncasecmp,
- fgetwc, fgetws, fputwc, fputws, fwide, getwc, getwchar, putwc, putwchar,
- ungetwc, asnprintf, dprintf, vasnprintf, vdprintf,
- wprintf, fwprintf, swprintf, vwprintf, vfwprintf, vswprintf,
- wscanf, fwscanf, swscanf, vwscanf, vfwscanf, vswscanf.
-</screen>
+</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
-<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-sec"><title>Security related changes</title>
+<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-posix"><title>Other POSIX related changes</title>
-<screen>
-- Getting a domain user's groups is hopefully more bulletproof now.
-
-- Cygwin now comes with a real LSA authentication package. This must
- be manually installed by a privileged user using the /bin/cyglsa-config
- script. The advantages and disadvantages are noted in
- http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2006-11/msg00000.html
-
-- Cygwin now allows storage and use of user passwords in a hidden area of
- the registry. This is tried first when Cygwin is called by privileged
- processes to switch the user context. This allows, for instance,
- ssh public key sessions with full network credentials to access shares
- on other machines.
-
-- New options have been added to the mkpasswd and mkgroup tools to
- ease use in multi-machine and multi-domain environments. The existing
- options have a slightly changed behaviour.
-</screen>
+<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
+
+<listitem><para>
+A lot of character sets are supported now via a call to setlocale().
+The setting of the environment variables $LANG, $LC_ALL or $LC_CTYPE
+will be used. For instance, setting $LANG to "de_DE.ISO-8859-15" before
+starting a Cygwin session will use the ISO-8859-15 character set in the
+entire session. The default charset is "UTF-8", even in the default
+locale "C". The default locale in the absence of one of the
+aforementioned environment variables is "C.UTF-8".
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The full list of supported character sets: "ASCII", "ISO-8859-x" with x
+in 1-16, except 12, "UTF-8", Windows codepages "CPxxx", with xxx in
+(437, 720, 737, 775, 850, 852, 855, 857, 858, 862, 866, 874, 1125, 1250,
+1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1256, 1257, 1258), "KOI8-R", "KOI8-U",
+"SJIS", "GBK", "eucJP", "eucKR", and "Big5". The leading language and
+territory part (en_US, for instance) is not used by Cygwin yet, but is
+required for POSIX compatibility.
+</para>
+
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Allow multiple concurrent read locks per thread for pthread_rwlock_t.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Implement pthread_kill(thread, 0) as per POSIX.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+New API for POSIX IPC: Named semaphores: sem_open, sem_close,
+sem_unlink. Message queues: mq_open, mq_getattr, mq_setattr, mq_notify,
+mq_send, mq_timedsend, mq_receive, mq_timedreceive, mq_close, mq_unlink.
+Shared memory: shm_open, shm_unlink.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Only declare expected functions in <strings.h>, don't include
+<string.h> from here.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Support for WCONTINUED, WIFCONTINUED() added to waitpid and wait4.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+New APIs: _Exit, confstr, insque, remque, sys_sigabbrev, posix_madvise,
+posix_memalign, reallocf, exp10, exp10f, pow10, pow10f, lrint, lrintf,
+rint, rintf, llrint, llrintf, llrintl, lrintl, rintl, mbsnrtowcs,
+strcasestr, stpcpy, stpncpy, wcpcpy, wcpncpy, wcsnlen, wcsnrtombs,
+wcsftime, wcstod, wcstof, wcstoimax, wcstok, wcstol, wcstoll, wcstoul,
+wcstoull, wcstoumax, wcsxfrm, wcscasecmp, wcsncasecmp, fgetwc, fgetws,
+fputwc, fputws, fwide, getwc, getwchar, putwc, putwchar, ungetwc,
+asnprintf, dprintf, vasnprintf, vdprintf, wprintf, fwprintf, swprintf,
+vwprintf, vfwprintf, vswprintf, wscanf, fwscanf, swscanf, vwscanf,
+vfwscanf, vswscanf.
+</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
-<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-misc"><title>Miscellaneous</title>
-
-<screen>
-- New ldd utility, similar to Linux.
-
-- New link libraries libdl.a, libresolve.a, librt.a.
-
-- Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is
- longer than 260 bytes, or if the current working directory is a virtual
- path (like /proc, /cygdrive, //server), don't call native Win32 programs
- since they don't understand these paths.
-
-- On the first usage of a DOS path (C:\foo, \\foo\bar), the Cygwin DLL
- emits a scary warning that DOS paths shouldn't be used. This warning
- may be disabled via the new CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning setting.
-
-- The CYGWIN environment variable option "server" has been removed.
- Cygwin automatically uses cygserver if it's available.
-
-- Allow environment of arbitrary size instead of a maximum of 32K.
-
-- Don't force uppercase environment when started from a non-Cygwin process.
- Except for certain Windows and POSIX variables which are always uppercased,
- preserve environment case. Switch back to old behaviour with the new
- CYGWIN=upcaseenv setting.
-
-- Detect and report a missing DLL on process startup.
+<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-sec"><title>Security related changes</title>
-- Add /proc/registry32 and /proc/registry64 paths to access 32 bit and
- 64 bit registry on 64 bit systems.
+<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
-- Add the ability to distinguish registry keys and registry values with the
- same name in the same registry subtree. The key is called "foo" and the
- value will be called "foo%val" in this case.
+<listitem><para>
+Getting a domain user's groups is hopefully more bulletproof now.
+</para></listitem>
-- Align /proc/cpuinfo more closly to Linux content.
+<listitem><para>
+Cygwin now comes with a real LSA authentication package. This must be
+manually installed by a privileged user using the /bin/cyglsa-config
+script. The advantages and disadvantages are noted in
+http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2006-11/msg00000.html
+</para></listitem>
-- Add /proc/$PID/mounts entries and a symlink /proc/mounts pointing to
- /proc/self/mounts as on Linux.
+<listitem><para>
+Cygwin now allows storage and use of user passwords in a hidden area of
+the registry. This is tried first when Cygwin is called by privileged
+processes to switch the user context. This allows, for instance, ssh
+public key sessions with full network credentials to access shares on
+other machines.
+</para></listitem>
-- Optimized strstr and memmem implementation.
+<listitem><para>
+New options have been added to the mkpasswd and mkgroup tools to ease
+use in multi-machine and multi-domain environments. The existing
+options have a slightly changed behaviour.
+</para></listitem>
-- Remove backwards compatibility with old signal masks. (Some *very* old
- programs which use signal masks may no longer work correctly).
+</itemizedlist>
-- Cygwin now exports wrapper functions for libstdc++ operators new and
- delete, to support the toolchain in implementing full C++ standards
- conformance when working with shared libraries.
+</sect2>
-- Different Cygwin installations in different paths can be run in parallel
- without knowing of each other. The path of the Cygwin DLL used in a
- process is a key used when creating IPC objects. So different Cygwin
- DLLs are running in different namespaces.
+<sect2 id="ov-new1.7-misc"><title>Miscellaneous</title>
-- Each Cygwin DLL stores its path and installation key in the registry.
- This allows troubleshooting of problems which could be a result of having
- multiple concurrent Cygwin installations.
-</screen>
+<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
+
+<listitem><para>
+New ldd utility, similar to Linux.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+New link libraries libdl.a, libresolve.a, librt.a.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is
+longer than 260 bytes, or if the current working directory is a virtual
+path (like /proc, /cygdrive, //server), don't call native Win32 programs
+since they don't understand these paths.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+On the first usage of a DOS path (C:\foo, \\foo\bar), the Cygwin DLL
+emits a scary warning that DOS paths shouldn't be used. This warning
+may be disabled via the new CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning setting.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+The CYGWIN environment variable option "server" has been removed.
+Cygwin automatically uses cygserver if it's available.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Allow environment of arbitrary size instead of a maximum of 32K.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Don't force uppercase environment when started from a non-Cygwin
+process. Except for certain Windows and POSIX variables which are
+always uppercased, preserve environment case. Switch back to old
+behaviour with the new CYGWIN=upcaseenv setting.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Detect and report a missing DLL on process startup.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Add /proc/registry32 and /proc/registry64 paths to access 32 bit and 64
+bit registry on 64 bit systems.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Add the ability to distinguish registry keys and registry values with
+the same name in the same registry subtree. The key is called "foo" and
+the value will be called "foo%val" in this case.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Align /proc/cpuinfo more closly to Linux content.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Add /proc/$PID/mounts entries and a symlink /proc/mounts pointing to
+/proc/self/mounts as on Linux.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Optimized strstr and memmem implementation.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Remove backwards compatibility with old signal masks. (Some *very* old
+programs which use signal masks may no longer work correctly).
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Cygwin now exports wrapper functions for libstdc++ operators new and
+delete, to support the toolchain in implementing full C++ standards
+conformance when working with shared libraries.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Different Cygwin installations in different paths can be run in parallel
+without knowing of each other. The path of the Cygwin DLL used in a
+process is a key used when creating IPC objects. So different Cygwin
+DLLs are running in different namespaces.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Each Cygwin DLL stores its path and installation key in the registry.
+This allows troubleshooting of problems which could be a result of
+having multiple concurrent Cygwin installations.
+</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
</sect2>