Cygwin is a DLL which provides a Unix emulation environment for Windows. The Cygwin environment provides a complete port of such development utilities as gcc, binutils, gdb, make, etc., as well as a vast number of useful utilities.
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This release fixes some problems with operation on Windows 9x, adds /proc/cpuinfo, fixes some problems with files receiving incorrect permissions by default, and allows setsid() to work correctly on Windows consoles.
