What's new: ----------- - Support the "e" flag to fopen(3). This is a Glibc extension which allows to fopen the file with the O_CLOEXEC flag set. - Support the "x" flag to fopen(3). This is a Glibc/C11 extension which allows to open the file with the O_EXCL flag set. Bug fixes: ---------- - Prevent CTRL-S hang. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-10/threads.html#00089 - Revamp signals so that signals-to-threads more closely mimic Linux operation. First step of fix for: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00186.html as well as observed Linux behavior. - Revert to only creating a new session leader when we know that a console process is started in the background. Should fix: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-08/threads.html#00062 - Fix mysterious crashes when accessing /etc. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/threads.html#00613 and others. - Fix a potential race condition starting multiple "first" Cygwin processes concurrently. Should fix: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/msg00531.html - Fix a bug in unlink/rmdir which could result in removing non-empty directories on network drives. Also fix problems trying to rename files under newer Samba versions. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/threads.html#00477 - Prefer to call WSARecvMsg from recvmsg if possible. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/msg00662.html - Correct hang typified by running "procps" after Cygwin has started a Windows process. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/threads.html#00349