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Sprout from cygwin-1_7_29-release-branchpoint 2014-02-18 19:58:40 UTC cvs2svn 'This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create branch 'cygwin-1_7_29' Cherrypick from master 2014-02-08 22:25:11 UTC Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> 'Fix ChangeLog': winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog winsup/cygwin/miscfuncs.cc winsup/cygwin/miscfuncs.h winsup/cygwin/mount.cc Delete: winsup/COPYING winsup/CYGWIN_LICENSE winsup/ChangeLog winsup/Makefile.common winsup/Makefile.in winsup/README winsup/acinclude.m4 winsup/aclocal.m4 winsup/autogen.sh winsup/c++wrap winsup/ccwrap winsup/config.guess winsup/config.sub winsup/configure winsup/configure.ac winsup/configure.cygwin winsup/cygserver/ChangeLog winsup/cygserver/ChangeLog.64bit winsup/cygserver/Makefile.in winsup/cygserver/README winsup/cygserver/aclocal.m4 winsup/cygserver/autogen.sh winsup/cygserver/bsd_helper.cc winsup/cygserver/bsd_helper.h winsup/cygserver/bsd_log.cc winsup/cygserver/bsd_log.h winsup/cygserver/bsd_mutex.cc winsup/cygserver/bsd_mutex.h 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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding='UTF-8'?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.5//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
-
-<chapter id="overview" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
-<title>Cygwin Overview</title>
-
-<sect1 id="what-is-it"><title>What is it?</title>
-
-<para>
-Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of a DLL
-(<filename>cygwin1.dll</filename>), which acts as an emulation layer
-providing substantial <ulink url="http://www.pasc.org/#POSIX">POSIX</ulink>
-(Portable Operating System Interface) system call functionality, and a
-collection of tools, which provide a Linux look and feel. The Cygwin DLL
-works with all x86 and AMD64 versions of Windows NT since Windows XP SP3.
-The API follows the
-<ulink url="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/nfindex.html">Single
-Unix Specification</ulink> as much as possible, and then Linux practice.
-The major differences between Cygwin and Linux is the C library
-(<literal>newlib</literal> instead of <literal>glibc</literal>).
-</para>
-<para>
-With Cygwin installed, users have access to many standard UNIX
-utilities. They can be used from one of the provided shells such
-as <command>bash</command> or from the Windows Command Prompt.
-Additionally, programmers may write Win32 console or GUI applications
-that make use of the standard Microsoft Win32 API and/or the Cygwin API.
-As a result, it is possible to easily port many significant UNIX
-programs without the need for extensive changes to the source code.
-This includes configuring and building most of the available GNU
-software (including the development tools included with the Cygwin
-distribution).
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<xi:include href="ov-ex-win.xml"/>
-<xi:include href="ov-ex-unix.xml"/>
-
-<sect1 id="are-free"><title>Are the Cygwin tools free software?</title>
-
-<para>Yes. Parts are <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</ulink> software
-(<command>gcc</command>, <command>gas</command>, <command>ld</command>, etc.),
-parts are covered by the standard
-<ulink url="http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html">X11 license</ulink>,
-some of it is public domain, some of it was written by Red Hat and placed under
-the <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU General Public
-License</ulink> (GPL). None of it is shareware. You don't have to pay anyone to
-use it but you should be sure to read the copyright section of the FAQ for more
-information on how the GNU GPL may affect your use of these
-tools. If you intend to port a proprietary application using the Cygwin
-library, you may want the Cygwin proprietary-use license.
-For more information about the proprietary-use license, please go to
-<ulink url="http://www.redhat.com/services/custom/cygwin/">http://www.redhat.com/services/custom/cygwin/</ulink>.
-Customers of the native Win32 GNUPro should feel free to submit bug
-reports and ask questions through Red Hat channels. All other
-questions should be sent to the project mailing list
-<email>cygwin@cygwin.com</email>.</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="brief-history"><title>A brief history of the Cygwin project</title>
-
-<note>
-<para>
-A historical look into the first years of Cygwin development is
-Geoffrey J. Noer's 1998 paper, "Cygwin32: A Free Win32 Porting Layer for
-UNIX&reg; Applications" which can be found at the <ulink
-url="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt98/technical.html">
-2nd USENIX Windows NT Symposium Online Proceedings</ulink>.
-</para>
-</note>
-<para>
-Cygwin began development in 1995 at Cygnus Solutions (now part of Red Hat,
-Inc.). The first thing done was to enhance the development tools
-(<command>gcc</command>, <command>gdb</command>, <command>gas</command>,
-etc.) so that they could generate and interpret Win32 native
-object files.
-The next task was to port the tools to Win NT/9x. We could have
-done this by rewriting large portions of the source to work within the
-context of the Win32 API. But this would have meant spending a huge
-amount of time on each and every tool. Instead, we took a
-substantially different approach by writing a shared library
-(the Cygwin DLL) that adds the necessary UNIX-like functionality
-missing from the Win32 API (<function>fork</function>,
-<function>spawn</function>, <function>signals</function>,
-<function>select</function>, <function>sockets</function>, etc.). We call this
-new interface the Cygwin API. Once written, it was possible to build working
-Win32 tools using UNIX-hosted cross-compilers, linking against this
-library.</para>
-
-<para>From this point, we pursued the goal of producing Windows-hosted tools
-capable of rebuilding themselves under Windows 9x and NT (this is
-often called self-hosting). Since neither OS ships with standard UNIX
-user tools (fileutils, textutils, bash, etc...), we had to get the GNU
-equivalents working with the Cygwin API. Many of these tools were
-previously only built natively so we had to modify their configure
-scripts to be compatible with cross-compilation. Other than the
-configuration changes, very few source-level changes had to be
-made since Cygwin provided a UNIX-like API. Running bash with the development tools and user tools in place,
-Windows 9x and NT looked like a flavor of UNIX from the perspective of
-the GNU configure mechanism. Self hosting was achieved as of the beta
-17.1 release in October 1996.</para>
-
-<para>
-The entire Cygwin toolset was available as a monolithic install. In
-April 2000, the project announced a
-<ulink url="http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-04/msg00269.html">
-New Cygwin Net Release</ulink> which provided the native non-Cygwin Win32 program
-<command>setup.exe</command> to install and upgrade each package
-separately. Since then, the Cygwin DLL and <command>setup.exe</command>
-have seen continuous development.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The biggest major improvement in this development is the 1.7 release in
-2009, which dropped Windows 95/98/Me support in favor of using Windows
-NT features more extensively. It adds a lot of new features like
-case-sensitive filenames, NFS interoperability, IPv6 support and much
-more.</para>
-
-<para>The latest big improvement is the 64 bit Cygwin DLL which
-allows to run natively on AMD64 Windows machines. The first release
-available in a 64 bit version is 1.7.19.</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<xi:include href="highlights.xml"/>
-<xi:include href="new-features.xml"/>
-
-</chapter>