2.7.0.1 Mar 2014

• Bundled with GHC 7.8.1

• Handle EROFS and ETXTBSY as (non-exceptional) permission denied in fileAccess

• Fix getFileStatus to retry stat(2) when it returns EAGAIN (this can happen on Solaris)

2.7.0.0 Nov 2013

• New forkProcessWithUnmask function in the style of forkIOWithUnmask

• Change forkProcess to inherit the exception masking state of its caller

• Add new Bool flag to ProcessStatus(Terminated) constructor indicating whether a core dump occured

• New functions in System.Posix.Files{,.ByteString} for operating on high resolution file timestamps:

  setFdTimesHiRes :: Fd -> POSIXTime -> POSIXTime -> IO ()
  setFileTimesHiRes :: FilePath -> POSIXTime -> POSIXTime -> IO ()
  setSymbolicLinkTimesHiRes :: FilePath -> POSIXTime -> POSIXTime -> IO ()
  touchFd :: Fd -> IO ()
  touchSymbolicLink :: FilePath -> IO ()
  

• Export SignalInfo(..) and SignalSpecificInfo(..) as well as the two Handler constructors CatchInfo and CatchInfoOnce from System.Posix.Signals

• Don't export seekDirStream and tellDirStream if the underlying seekdir(3)/telldir(3) system calls are not available (as on Android)

• Fix library detection of shm* on openSUSE (#8350)

• Minor documentation fixes/updates

• Update package to cabal-version >= 1.10 format

2.6.0.1 Jan 2013

• Bundled with GHC 7.6.2
• Fix memory corruption issue in putEnv
• Use pthread_kill(3) instead of raise(2) on OS X too

2.6.0.0 Sep 2012

• Bundled with GHC 7.6.1
• New functions mkdtemp and mkstemps in System.Posix.Temp
• New functions setEnvironment and cleanEnv
• New functions accessTimeHiRes, modificationTimeHiRes, and statusChangeTimeHiRes for accessing high resolution timestamps