Cygwin User's Guide

Cygwin User's Guide

Cygwin User’s Guide Cygwin User’s Guide ii Copyright © Cygwin authors Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this documentation provided the copyright notice and this per- mission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this documentation under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this documentation into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation. Cygwin User’s Guide iii Contents 1 Cygwin Overview 1 1.1 What is it? . .1 1.2 Quick Start Guide for those more experienced with Windows . .1 1.3 Quick Start Guide for those more experienced with UNIX . .1 1.4 Are the Cygwin tools free software? . .2 1.5 A brief history of the Cygwin project . .2 1.6 Highlights of Cygwin Functionality . .3 1.6.1 Introduction . .3 1.6.2 Permissions and Security . .3 1.6.3 File Access . .3 1.6.4 Text Mode vs. Binary Mode . .4 1.6.5 ANSI C Library . .4 1.6.6 Process Creation . .5 1.6.6.1 Problems with process creation . .5 1.6.7 Signals . .6 1.6.8 Sockets . .6 1.6.9 Select . .7 1.7 What’s new and what changed in Cygwin . .7 1.7.1 What’s new and what changed in 3.2 . .7 1.7.2 What’s new and what changed in 3.1 . .8 1.7.3 What’s new and what changed in 3.0 . .8 1.7.4 What’s new and what changed in 2.11 . .9 1.7.5 What’s new and what changed in 2.10 . 10 1.7.6 What’s new and what changed in 2.9 . 10 1.7.7 What’s new and what changed in 2.8 . 10 1.7.8 What’s new and what changed in 2.7 . 10 1.7.9 What’s new and what changed in 2.6 . 11 1.7.10 What’s new and what changed in 2.5 . 11 1.7.11 What’s new and what changed in 2.4 . 12 1.7.12 What’s new and what changed in 2.3 . 12 Cygwin User’s Guide iv 1.7.13 What’s new and what changed in 2.2 . 12 1.7.14 What’s new and what changed in 2.1 . 13 1.7.15 What’s new and what changed in 2.0 . 13 1.7.16 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.35 . 13 1.7.17 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.34 . 13 1.7.18 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.33 . 14 1.7.19 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.32 . 14 1.7.20 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.31 . 15 1.7.21 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.29 . 15 1.7.22 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.28 . 15 1.7.23 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.27 . 15 1.7.24 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.26 . 15 1.7.25 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.25 . 15 1.7.26 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.24 . 16 1.7.27 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.23 . 16 1.7.28 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.22 . 16 1.7.29 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.21 . 16 1.7.30 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.19 . 16 1.7.31 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.18 . 16 1.7.32 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.17 . 16 1.7.33 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.16 . 17 1.7.34 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.15 . 17 1.7.35 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.14 . 17 1.7.36 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.13 . 17 1.7.37 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.12 . 17 1.7.38 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.11 . 17 1.7.39 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.10 . 18 1.7.40 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.9 . 18 1.7.41 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.8 . 19 1.7.42 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.7 . 19 1.7.43 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.6 . 19 1.7.44 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.5 . 20 1.7.45 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.3 . 20 1.7.46 What’s new and what changed in 1.7.2 . 20 1.7.47 What’s new and what changed from 1.5 to 1.7 . 21 1.7.47.1 OS related changes . 21 1.7.47.2 File Access related changes . 21 1.7.47.3 Network related changes . 23 1.7.47.4 Device related changes . 23 1.7.47.5 Other POSIX related changes . 24 1.7.47.6 Security related changes . 24 1.7.47.7 Miscellaneous . 24 Cygwin User’s Guide v 2 Setting Up Cygwin 26 2.1 Internet Setup . 26 2.1.1 Download Source . 26 2.1.2 Selecting an Install Directory . 27 2.1.3 Local Package Directory . 27 2.1.4 Connection Method . ..

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