Re: Ada support in gcc-core 11.4.0-1 package

2023-09-07 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 9/7/2023 7:00 PM, Harry Rockefeller via Cygwin wrote: The message I get when trying to install gcc-ada 11.4.0-1 doesn't make sense. It says "installed package gcc-core obsoletes gcc-ada (of same version number) do not ask to install" When I run cygcheck on this package: with -c it says it is

Re: Faster rsync?

2023-08-29 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 8/29/2023 9:43 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: On 8/29/2023 9:17 AM, Mario Emmenlauer via Cygwin wrote: On 29.08.23 14:32, Adam Kessel via Cygwin wrote: I've found rsync to be painfully slow on large folders -- hours to sync thousands of files, even when they already match size and --size-only is

Re: Cant install Cygwin Virt-manager that asks for library that asks for python2

2023-11-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 11/6/2023 11:11 AM, Jānis Ķengurs via Cygwin wrote: On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 5:50 PM Brian Inglis wrote: On 2023-10-31 16:58, Jānis Ķengurs via Cygwin wrote: I wanted to use some KVM or Qemu or something on linux and windows that can fast open iso files for testing Downloaded on Windows

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 10/11/2023 6:36 PM, Hendrickson, Eric D wrote: Hi Eliot, Thanks for responding. That makes total sense. Totally taking into account the all volunteer nature of Cygwin, would it make sense to defer on further non-emergency releases of Cygwin until all packages that are EOL have been

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 10/11/2023 12:37 PM, Hendrickson, Eric D via Cygwin wrote: Hello all, As a ~25 year user and sometime contributor to Cygwin, I support Cygwin here at my place of work. Does anyone know why we are deploying Ruby 2.6 which EOL about 18 months ago?

Re: Run a Cygwin process with "higher" scheduler priority

2023-10-14 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 10/14/2023 7:39 AM, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 at 19:14, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2023-08-11 09:44, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: How can we set the scheduler priority for a Cygwin process to "higher" than normal on start? Basically we want a Cygwin

Re: Faster rsync?

2023-08-29 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 8/29/2023 9:17 AM, Mario Emmenlauer via Cygwin wrote: On 29.08.23 14:32, Adam Kessel via Cygwin wrote: I've found rsync to be painfully slow on large folders -- hours to sync thousands of files, even when they already match size and --size-only is used. It's much faster between native Linux

Re: Creating the sqlite3.exe stand-alone w/o cygwin dependency

2022-12-09 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 12/9/2022 4:34 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote: This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but I wonder about search paths and find the DLL when trying to start the program. Is the necessary directory on the search path available to Windows and/or passed to the sqlite3 executable as an

Re: Creating the sqlite3.exe stand-alone w/o cygwin dependency

2022-12-10 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 12/9/2022 9:43 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: On Friday, December 9, 2022 6:33 PM, Eliot Moss expressed: On 12/9/2022 4:34 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote: This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but I wonder about search paths and find the DLL when trying to start the program. Is

Question about slow access to file information

2023-01-13 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
Dear Cygwin'ers - I have a separate drive mounted this way: d:/ /cygdrive/d ntfs binary,posix=0,user,noacl,auto 0 0 One thing I use it for is to store backup files. These tend to be 2 Gb chunks, and there can be hundreds of them in the backup directory. (The drive is 5Tb.) The Windows Disk

Re: newlib-cygwin.git repository: Switching "master" to "main"

2023-01-13 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 1/14/2023 7:16 AM, Dave McGuire via Cygwin wrote: On 1/13/23 14:57, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 02:23:44PM -0500, Mike Frysinger via Cygwin wrote: thanks for doing this! -mike Seconded!  This clearly isn't going to solve racism in a single step, but making our community

Re: Question about slow access to file information

2023-01-14 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 1/15/2023 3:38 AM, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote: Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: I have a separate drive mounted this way: d:/ /cygdrive/d ntfs binary,posix=0,user,noacl,auto 0 0 One thing I use it for is to store backup files.  These tend to be 2 Gb chunks, and there can be hundreds

Re: ioperm / iopl / pciutils

2023-01-29 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 1/30/2023 4:22 AM, Franz Fehringer via Cygwin wrote: Hi all, Is there any Cygwin package providing the iopl et al. routines? Google uncovers an ioperm package but that seems to be nothing current. My goal is to compile https://github.com/pciutils/pciutils with Cygwin. The package claims to

Re: exe in path directory, "command not found"

2023-03-14 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 3/14/2023 11:00 PM, WyntrHeart via Cygwin wrote: I've added /cygdrive/c/program\ files/notepad++ to my path in .bash_profile, double checking with echo to make sure that the directory is in the path. But when I type "notepad++.exe" or "notepad++" I get "bash: notepad++: command not found".

Re: OSError: Unsupported platform 'CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044'

2023-02-21 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/22/2023 7:03 AM, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote: On February 21, 2023 2:52 AM, Csaba Raduly expressed: Because you're not on Windows. You're on Cygwin, which acts as a POSIX (Unix-like) system. Wow! Thanks for that deep thought. :-) I knew that. :-) I have been using Cygwin

Re: OSError: Unsupported platform 'CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044'

2023-02-20 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
If you will be running X (and Cygwin supports, but does not require that), then the xorg backend (meaning: not the Windows one) with pynput (note, that package has no "i" in its name) may achieve your goal. Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Nano fails to open file "~/.bashrc".

2023-03-03 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 3/3/2023 10:37 AM, Kirill Frolov via Cygwin wrote: On 03.03.2023 18:31, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Kirill Frolov! Please avoid top-posting in this list. On 03.03.2023 15:47, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Kirill Frolov! When i run nano ~/.bashrc nano opens with   [ Directory

Re: (No Subject)

2023-02-23 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/24/2023 2:07 PM, chrstfer via Cygwin wrote: Moss, Have you made any major changes to your cygwin X server settings? I tried this with a fresh install of the cygwin Xserver suite, first thing i did, but was unable to get it to work. I assume you are using Docker Desktop? Do you have it

Re: (No Subject)

2023-02-23 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/24/2023 1:51 PM, chrstfer via Cygwin wrote: Hi all, First mail, so while I'm fairly sure it's on topic please forgive me if it isn't. Has anyone tried to get a docker container with an X app in it to connect to the cygwin x server? When I run startxwin after starting the wslg container

Re: Permissions question / issue

2023-04-14 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 4/14/2023 3:43 PM, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: On 4/14/2023 3:11 PM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Apr 13 23:03, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: Dear cygwin'ers - I seem to be caught in a bind with the Cygwin permissions setup. ssh insists that ~/.ssh/config have permissions no less

Re: Permissions question / issue

2023-04-14 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 4/14/2023 3:11 PM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Apr 13 23:03, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: Dear cygwin'ers - I seem to be caught in a bind with the Cygwin permissions setup. ssh insists that ~/.ssh/config have permissions no less permissive than rw--- (600). Huh

Re: posix_spawn_file_actions_add[f]chdir_np

2023-04-19 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
A wondering in all this ... Does having more spawn support imply that bash (for example) may end up doing faster process spawning, skipping some of high overhead we've lived with for a long time because of the Windows process spawning model? Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports:

Re: Permissions question / issue

2023-04-14 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 4/13/2023 11:03 PM, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: Dear cygwin'ers - I seem to be caught in a bind with the Cygwin permissions setup. ssh insists that ~/.ssh/config have permissions no less permissive than rw--- (600). ---> should have read no *more* permissive (sent too late at ni

Re: Cygwin starts take long since march. Three minutes to prompt.

2023-04-03 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 4/3/2023 10:38 AM, Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin wrote: Hi! Cygwin shell takes about three minutes until the prompt is shown. Any idea how to find out the cause? I think the most common thing in the past had to do with probing remote mounts. You could try pruning paths and see what

Permissions question / issue

2023-04-13 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
Dear cygwin'ers - I seem to be caught in a bind with the Cygwin permissions setup. ssh insists that ~/.ssh/config have permissions no less permissive than rw--- (600). However, my backup program runs as SYSTEM and needs access. I tried to provide that access by adding an ACL

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/7/2023 7:25 AM, Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin wrote: Hi, I would like to report an issue with Cygwin 3.4.2 on Windows. It doesn't seem to be able to work with  fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE macros. The code is in italics. The filename was selectStdIn.c. The terminal command used was "gcc

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/7/2023 11:34 AM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 7:27 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 10:03 AM, Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2023 4:59 am, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 04:33:53AM +0800, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: I updated Cygwin to 3.4.5-1.x86_64. $

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/7/2023 10:03 AM, Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2023 4:59 am, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 04:33:53AM +0800, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: I updated Cygwin to 3.4.5-1.x86_64. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19045 DESKTOP-P3E71RB 3.4.5-1.x86_64 2023-01-19 19:09 UTC

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/7/2023 10:48 AM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 7:27 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 10:03 AM, Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2023 4:59 am, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 04:33:53AM +0800, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: I updated Cygwin to 3.4.5-1.x86_64. $

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/7/2023 11:21 AM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 7:50 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 10:48 AM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 7:27 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 10:03 AM, Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2023 4:59 am, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2023

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/7/2023 3:28 PM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 9:54 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 11:34 AM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 7:27 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 10:03 AM, Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2023 4:59 am, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2023

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/7/2023 2:56 PM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 9:54 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 11:34 AM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 7:27 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 10:03 AM, Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2023 4:59 am, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2023

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
Ok ... assuming the "Modern C" is more or less POSIX based and does not use things outside the realm of what cygwin supplies, I think the answer is straightforward: Make sure you install every program and every library that the book uses. There's not really such a thing as a "full install" for

Re: vfork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2023-07-09 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 7/9/2023 11:56 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 7/8/2023 9:37 PM, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: Dear cygwin-ers -- I'm running 64-bit cygwin 3.4.7-1 and lately I've been getting these vfork errors from emacs-gtk when I try to run dired on a directory. I believe this tries to fork ls

Re: vfork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2023-07-09 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
Digging a little further ... The conflicting dll was /bin/cygpng16-16.dll. rebase display it with a * indicating that there was a space conflict for it. So I did a rebase-trigger full and ran setup again. Now these two dlls share the same spot: /usr/bin/cygp11-kit-0.dll

Re: Getting return code "127" after execution of program

2023-06-02 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 6/2/2023 5:58 AM, rajesh kesavan via Cygwin wrote: Hi, We are Trying to execute a program like ./sample.exe on 64 bit Cygwin. This executable is built with CMake on Cygwin 64 bit. The Program is not throwing any error or success details. it simply comes out from the running screen without

Re: Probable bug

2023-07-30 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 7/30/2023 5:38 AM, natan_b--- via Cygwin wrote: Hi Guys very short. prog.c #include int main() { float a=1.283; while(1) printf( "%f", a ); } run with $ ./prog.exe >/dev/null in windows monitor process the process increase it's memory it arrive to many Gb. It's not a machine

Re: [QUAR] Accessing outside datasets?

2023-05-07 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 5/6/2023 11:44 PM, Bernard Rich via Cygwin wrote: Hello, I have read the introductory advice but still do not understand how to access datasets stored on *C:* or on flash drives. Can you please point me to the correct reference or email me the instructions? You can give a full path

Re: How efficient is 'sleep'?

2023-12-15 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 12/15/2023 4:55 PM, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: I have quite a few "service-like" scripts that I put into the background and then have them wake up on a regular basis to do something. I use 'sleep' for the timing of the wakeup periods. My question is: How efficient is 'sleep'? I know of

Re: Cygwin is not passing arguments to Windows apps

2023-12-17 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 12/16/2023 10:55 PM, Karl Crary via Cygwin wrote: Dear all, I am encountering a bug wherein Cygwin is not passing arguments to most Windows programs (although Cygwin programs are doing fine). For example, the following command ought to be dumping a lot of usage information, but instead it

Re: /dev/u?random implementation

2023-12-20 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 12/20/2023 7:32 PM, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote: I dug around in the Cygwin doc looking for details on how /dev/random and /dev/urandom are implemented, but came up empty.  Is this documented anywhere? Writing a simple program and then watching where reading /dev/random goes using gdb

Re: Cygwin vim + Github Copilot

2024-01-11 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 1/11/2024 8:53 PM, Kevin Schnitzius via Cygwin wrote: Anyone ever get his working? I have it working with the win32 version of vim, so I am guessing that the forward slash path might might be breaking calls to node.js. Error I get is: Copilot: Something unexpected went wrong spawning the

Re: Cygwin is not passing arguments to Windows apps

2023-12-17 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 12/17/2023 8:45 AM, Karl Crary wrote: Thank you, but I guess I posted a bad example then. latex --version This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.25 (MiKTeX 23.10.12) (preloaded fomat=latex.fmt)  restricted \write18 enabled. ** It should print version information, but instead that

Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC

2023-11-23 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 11/22/2023 4:38 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: On Wednesday, November 22, 2023 11:15 AM, Eliot Moss expressed: On 11/22/2023 10:43 AM, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 7:53 AM Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: [clip] >> desktop. No Cygwin nor Cygwin-X folders were created

Re: Cygwin 3.4.9 - how to install ssh-keygen

2023-11-29 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 11/29/2023 4:13 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote: On Monday, November 27, 2023 02:46 AM, Matthias--- expressed: Am Sonntag, dem 26.11.2023 um 12:21 -0700 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: On 2023-11-26 10:12, Matthias--- via Cygwin wrote: Am Samstag, dem 25.11.2023 um 19:45 +0100

Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC

2023-11-22 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 11/22/2023 10:43 AM, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 7:53 AM Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: I have a new Win11 PC, and I wanted to capture the same Cygwin setup that I have in another Win10 PC. I copied the C:\cygwin64 folder from the Win10 pc to the Win11 pc, then I

Re: Python C Extension Module loading issue on Cygwin

2023-11-27 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 11/27/2023 12:49 PM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 22.09.2023 08:39, Mesibo Technical via Cygwin wrote: This issue is about Python on Cygwin not using the recommended module extension. [cut] Any idea why Cygwin is using the .dll extension instead of the .pyd extension as recommended by

Re: cygsshd fails due to bad ownership or modes of /cygdrive/c/Users

2024-02-05 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/5/2024 8:28 PM, Frank-Ulrich Sommer via Cygwin wrote: Looking at the OpenSSH source code (on Github, not from Cygwin) I found a function "safe_path" that checks that the ownership and access modes for all path components are correct.  This relies on "platform_sys_dir_uid" which checks if a

Re: See repeated /usr/bin in my path

2024-04-18 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 4/18/2024 12:41 PM, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote: Greetings, J M! Isn't it better that original_path be removed all startwith $mycygwin_homepath? $original_path is stored once when you first run Cygwin with empty home profile, IIRC. And not used anywhere. That seems to be ORIGINAL_PATH

Re: cygrunsrv: trailing command line arguyments not allowed

2024-04-20 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 4/20/2024 8:12 AM, enrique--- via Cygwin wrote: Hello, I am trying to install a service manually in an attempt to understand why cron-config did not work for me. So, I did this: $ net stop cron Tjenesten Cron daemon stopper . Tjenesten Cron daemon ble stoppet. $ cygrunsrv -R cron $

Re: /usr/bin/sg in Cygwin?

2024-04-21 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 4/21/2024 7:20 PM, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 at 07:39, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: On 2024-04-19 17:47, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 22:25, Dan Shelton wrote: Is there a package which provides /usr/bin/sg (execute shell commands in a

Re: tried Setup (2.931), but failed

2024-03-10 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 3/10/2024 2:52 PM, Lester Ingber via Cygwin wrote: After mv ca-certificates.sh ca-certificates.sh.done I did a reinstall and now everything looked fine. Will that persist? I would think so. A reinstall will first remove the old .done file then run the scripts. If the underlying behavior

Re: Help with use of pgrep or pkill commands with full name options

2024-03-22 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 3/22/2024 11:56 AM, J M via Cygwin wrote: Help with use of pgrep or pkill commands with full name options. I trying to use pgrep or pkill utility commands to find processes but using the full path names, by example, find /usr/bin/bash (package procps-ng): Then, if I use pgrep -f

Re: Technical reason why 32bit Cygwin cannot be installed on 64bit Windows?

2024-05-17 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 5/17/2024 11:21 AM, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2024 at 16:50, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: On 2024-05-17 01:48, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: Is there a technical reason why 32bit Cygwin cannot be installed on 64bit Windows? We like to create a CI build