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| author | Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> | 2020-01-17 10:52:54 -0500 |
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| committer | Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> | 2020-01-20 09:47:41 -0500 |
| commit | 4261a8f5cac478ee299f0feb3ae478dbf287427e (patch) | |
| tree | 4b471bd75bd8bf05b53115fd215d17740ee86a46 /winsup | |
| parent | 352dbd304be48cd47de4f588031b98b8e0202f33 (diff) | |
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Cygwin: document recent changes
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.3 | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/new-features.xml | 15 |
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.3 b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.3 index 4897411..425d8bb 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.3 +++ b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.3 @@ -1,5 +1,18 @@ -Bug Fixes ---------- +What changed: +------------- + +- Allow symlinks to be opened with O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW. + +- Allow the pathname argument to readlinkat(2) to be an empty string, + provided the dirfd argument refers to a symlink opened with + O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW. The readlinkat call then operates on that + symlink. + +- Support the Linux-specific AT_EMPTY_PATH flag for fchownat(2) and + fstatat(2). + +Bug Fixes: +---------- - Define CPU_SETSIZE, as on Linux. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2019-12/msg00248.html @@ -7,6 +20,6 @@ Bug Fixes - Fix the problem which overrides the code page setting. Addresses: https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2019-12/msg00292.html -- Fix a regression that prevents the root of a drive from being the +- Fix a regression that prevented the root of a drive from being the Cygwin installation root. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg00111.html diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml index 65bdc17..967c64a 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml @@ -54,6 +54,21 @@ Allow times(2) to have a NULL argument, as on Linux. Improve /proc/cpuinfo output and align more closely with Linux. </para></listitem> +<listitem><para> +Allow symlinks to be opened with O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW. +</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para> +Allow the pathname argument to readlinkat(2) to be an empty string, +provided the dirfd argument refers to a symlink opened with O_PATH | +O_NOFOLLOW. The readlinkat call then operates on that symlink. +</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para> +Support the Linux-specific AT_EMPTY_PATH flag for fchownat(2) and +fstatat(2). +</para></listitem> + </itemizedlist> </sect2> |