RE: how to detect whether a laptop is docked

2015-08-27 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Yaakov Selkowitz On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 19:27 +, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: I am looking for a method by which I can determine within a shell script whether my laptop is docked or not. Google provided some answers for Linux and Windows users, but the several ways I tried did not work

Updated: coreutils-8.24-3

2015-08-27 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of coreutils, 8.24-3, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This leaves 8.23-4 as the previous version, and drops the broken 8.24-[12] releases. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For upstream details, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.24-3

2015-08-27 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of coreutils, 8.24-3, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This leaves 8.23-4 as the previous version, and drops the broken 8.24-[12] releases. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For upstream details, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS.

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2015-08-27 Thread Sous Lesquels
Thanks cyg Simple. It depends on the level of support you want from this list In this case, if Cygwin is supposed to work with the regular windows console? If mintty was created due to Cygwin *not working as expected* on default windows console, that's a good answer, as long as it's correct. If

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2015-08-27 Thread Sous Lesquels
Thanks Andrey. You're misunderstanding Cygwin, if you are asking such questions. Care to clarify how am I misunderstanding Cygwin? If you could convince ConEmu developers to provide adequate TTY functionality, You mean Microsoft? You can reproduce the exact same issue with the native windows

Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2

2015-08-27 Thread Sam Edge
On 27/08/2015 00:28, Eric Blake wrote: On 08/26/2015 04:50 PM, Fergus wrote: .. No, you're the first to report it (so 8.24-2 has the same issue), but now that I know about it, it will get fixed soon. Spot the bugs: int cygwin_spelling (char const *path) { ... int len; ... if (!

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-27 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, AC wrote: Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:30:27 -0700 From: AC Subject: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support On 2015-08-26 06:56, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 26 August 2015 at 07:42, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Stephen

Re: Subversion crashes

2015-08-27 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Op Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:15:11 -0700 schreef David Rothenberger daver...@acm.org: My apologies. I interpreted his statement to mean that he successfully checked out to a local filesystem, not that he was encountering the error while checking out to a local filesystem. Sorry if I wasn't clear. I

Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2

2015-08-27 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 27.08.2015, 21:26 Uhr, schrieb Peter Rosin: Seems like a fast way to not get a compiler warning if you do happen to use a variable that would be used uninitialized if it were not for an ugly pointless initializer. Sorry if I added the wrong number of negations in there, but you get my

Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2

2015-08-27 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2015-08-27 21:47, Sam Edge wrote: One might add, Always, always initialize automatic variables. This ensures deterministic behaviour. The compiler will optimise out the redundant ones. Seems like a fast way to not get a compiler warning if you do happen to use a variable that would be used

Updated: Perl distributions

2015-08-27 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to the latest version available on CPAN: perl-Archive-Zip-1.50-1 perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.018-1 perl-Mozilla-CA-20150826-1 (using the ca-bundle package) perl-Pod-Simple-3.31-1 perl-Proc-ProcessTable-0.53-1 -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2015-08-27 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to the latest version available on CPAN: perl-Archive-Zip-1.50-1 perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.018-1 perl-Mozilla-CA-20150826-1 (using the ca-bundle package) perl-Pod-Simple-3.31-1 perl-Proc-ProcessTable-0.53-1 -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE

New: perl-OpenGL-0.6704-2

2015-08-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * perl-OpenGL-0.6704-2 This Perl module provides bindings for the OpenGL, GLU, and GLUT APIs. -- Yaakov

Updated: cairo-1.14.2-1

2015-08-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: * libcairo2-1.14.2-1 * libcairo-devel-1.14.2-1 * libcairo-doc-1.14.2-1 Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System (via both Xlib and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: putty-0.65-1

2015-08-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * putty-0.65-1 PuTTY provides both command-line and graphical (X11) management of Telnet, SSH, and serial connections, along with an xterm terminal emulator. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2

2015-08-27 Thread Sam Edge
On 27/08/2015 21:33, Helmut Karlowski wrote: Did you mean: The compiler-warning would inform you that the value is not set in a code-path? I'd agree if I was always in the position of starting projects from scratch. All compiler warnings should be errors and disabling a compiler warning has to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cairo-1.14.2-1

2015-08-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: * libcairo2-1.14.2-1 * libcairo-devel-1.14.2-1 * libcairo-doc-1.14.2-1 Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System (via both Xlib and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: perl-OpenGL-0.6704-2

2015-08-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * perl-OpenGL-0.6704-2 This Perl module provides bindings for the OpenGL, GLU, and GLUT APIs. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Ruby on Rails 4.2.4

2015-08-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * ruby-actionmailer-4.2.4-1 * ruby-actionpack-4.2.4-1 * ruby-actionview-4.2.4-1 * ruby-activejob-4.2.4-1 * ruby-activemodel-4.2.4-1 * ruby-activerecord-4.2.4-1 * ruby-activesupport-4.2.4-1 * ruby-rails-4.2.4-1 *

New: putty-0.65-1

2015-08-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * putty-0.65-1 PuTTY provides both command-line and graphical (X11) management of Telnet, SSH, and serial connections, along with an xterm terminal emulator. -- Yaakov

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: zathura-0.3.3-1

2015-08-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * libgirara-gtk3_2-0.2.4-1 * libgirara-common-0.2.4-1 * libgirara-devel-0.2.4-1 * zathura-0.3.3-1 * zathura-devel-0.3.3-1 * zathura-cb-0.1.4-1 * zathura-djvu-0.2.4-1 * zathura-pdf-poppler-0.2.5-2 * zathura-ps-0.2.2-3 zathura is a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! That doesn't solve the hotkeys bound at driver levels, unfortunately. Half of my keyboard dead now thanks to the move to Win7. I don't understand this one. Quick explanation, please, even if it's OT? I was using Win+Arrows to switch between virtual

Re: Subversion crashes

2015-08-27 Thread David Rothenberger
Sam Geeraerts wrote: Cygcheck output attached. Slightly edited because this is on my work pc and sysadmins don't like sharing much specifics. I can replicate the error if I set HOME to a share like //xxx/yyy, such as yours is set. If I use a local path, or mount the share to a local path and

From: Chiedu Oranye

2015-08-27 Thread Chiedu Oranye
Salutations cygwin http://infernoduolabel.ca/appear.php?brown=ryzcwudpgfdnbqk96h7b6 Chiedu Oranye Sent from my iPhone -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-27 Thread Bryan Berns
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Andrey Repin anrdae...@yandex.ru wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is on the way. From what I've seen and heard W10, while mostly stable, still

[newlib-cygwin] Implement POSIX_MADV_WILLNEED/POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED for newer OSes

2015-08-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=35d5d87540c3262c341c35e974d0d3a53ce30684 commit 35d5d87540c3262c341c35e974d0d3a53ce30684 Author: Corinna Vinschen cori...@vinschen.de Date: Thu Aug 27 13:34:10 2015 +0200 Implement POSIX_MADV_WILLNEED/POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED for newer

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 27 02:42, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! On Aug 26 15:23, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is on the way. From what

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2015-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/27/2015 11:39 AM, Sous Lesquels wrote: Thanks cyg Simple. It depends on the level of support you want from this list In this case, if Cygwin is supposed to work with the regular windows console? If mintty was created due to Cygwin *not working as expected* on default windows console,