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diff --git a/README.cygwin b/README.cygwin index 796197afad..baa4fe157a 100644 --- a/README.cygwin +++ b/README.cygwin @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ about this project can be found at: A recent net or commercial release of Cygwin is required. -At the time this document was last updated, Cygwin 1.3.9 was current. +At the time this document was last updated, Cygwin 1.3.10 was current. =head2 Cygwin Configuration @@ -153,7 +153,12 @@ C<d_semctl_semun> is undefined because it fails a Configure test and on Win9x the I<shm*()> functions seem to hang. It also creates a compile time dependency because F<perl.h> includes F<<sys/ipc.h>> and F<<sys/sem.h>> (which will be required in the future when compiling -CPAN modules). +CPAN modules). NO LONGER SUPPORTED! + +=item * C<-lutil> + +Included with the standard Cygwin netrelease is the inetutils package +which includes libutil.a. =back @@ -317,7 +322,7 @@ always readable and executable). On WinNT with the I<ntea> C<CYGWIN> setting, the additional mode bits are stored as extended file attributes. On WinNT with the I<ntsec> C<CYGWIN> setting, permissions use the standard WinNT security descriptors and access control lists. Without one of -these options, these tests will fail: +these options, these tests will fail (listing not updated yet): Failed Test List of failed ------------------------------------ @@ -396,6 +401,9 @@ Win9x can not rename() an open file (although WinNT can). The Cygwin chroot() implementation has holes (it can not restrict file access by native Win32 programs). +Inplace editing ( perl -i ) of files doesn't work without doing a backup +of the file being edited ( perl -i.bak ). + =back =head1 INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN @@ -418,7 +426,7 @@ found in the F<INSTALL> document. These are the files in the Perl release that contain references to Cygwin. These very brief notes attempt to explain the reason for all conditional code. Hopefully, keeping this up to date will allow the Cygwin port to -be kept as clean as possible. +be kept as clean as possible (listing not updated yet). =over 4 |