28131: update MACHINES entry for Cygwin

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Peter Stephenson 2010-08-06 15:27:09 +00:00
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* 28131: MACHINES: latest status on Cygwin.
* users/15232: Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files: somehow
this didn't get completed.
2010-08-05 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
* users/15232: Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files: another
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* This is used by the shell to define $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL
* $Revision: 1.5048 $
* $Revision: 1.5050 $
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`binmode'). There are various issues with Cygwin versions before
1.3.2 - you are adviced to update to the latest release.
Dynamic loading works as of cygwin-1.1.3 and binutils-20000722-1.
It was not tested for earlier versions. This does not imply
that every module will work. New completion and in
particular zsh/zftp and zsh/mathfunc are known to work.
Process substitution using <(...), >(...), =(...) may be
problematic. Different versions of zsh and Cygwin have
a different mix of issues.
Problems handling subprocesses have been reported with Cygwin
1.7.5. It is not currently known how the problems split between
Cygwin and zsh.
Some of the tests in the Test subdirectory are known to fail:
this is because the UNIX environment is not completely implemented.