Treating Junctions consistently, as "normal dirs" as w/linux "bind"-type mount

Didn't see a response to this, so reposting, as this would provide a needed vol and subdir mount facility as exists on linux... Especially, since there was a misunderstanding of what was needed or wanted w/regards to the JUNCTION file-system mounts in Windows. Didn't need mount table updated,

Cygwin Git cannot create Windows native symlinks

Cygwin can easily create Windows native symlinks: touch alfa.txt CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native ln -s alfa.txt bravo.txt However Cygwin Git seems to have no way to create Windows native symlinks: CYGWIN=winsymlinks:lnk git clone git://github.com/stedolan/jq creates README as a Shortcut

git push fork for pack-objects fails, and takes more than 10 minutes to fail!

User@DESKTOP /cygdrive/z/mykif/sumo $ time git push Username for 'https://github.com': Password for 'https://u...@github.com': 0 [main] git 8936 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid 10664, Win32 error 0 105 [main] git 8936 fork: child -1 - forked process 10664 died unexpectedly, retry 0,

Re: pthread_create() slowdown with concurrent sched_yield()

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Thanks for the thorough analysis and especially the testcase! > > I applied a fix for this problem and uploaded new developer snapshots > to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > Please give them a try. Hi

git commit can't fork for vi, and takes over 10 minutes to fail!

User@DESKTOP /cygdrive/z/mykif/sumo $ time git commit -a 0 [main] git 3576 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid 6788, Win32 error 0 96 [main] git 3576 fork: child -1 - forked process 6788 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0x1D29857, errno 11 error: cannot fork() for vi: Resource

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.8.19-1

Version mc-4.8.19-1 of Midnight Commander has been uploaded for cygwin CHANGES This is a upstream bugfix release https://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.19 DESCRIPTION GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager. It's a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you

[newlib-cygwin] Implement dladdr() (partially)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=c8432a01c8401c121940c806a9d868c4adc4cefd commit c8432a01c8401c121940c806a9d868c4adc4cefd Author: Jon Turney Date: Mon Mar 6 18:30:45 2017 + Implement dladdr() (partially) Note that this

Re: pthread_create() slowdown with concurrent sched_yield()

On Mar 7 16:19, Dan Bonachea wrote: > I suspect I may have discovered a corner-case performance bug in > Cygwin's pthread_create() implementation. The problem arises when a > call to pthread_create() is made concurrently with multiple pthreads > in the same process spinning on calls to

[newlib-cygwin] Cygwin: Emit correct errno EAGAIN if we can't create another thread

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=994a4b7dccabb706c9dca2cd43c37e87f2cfe665 commit 994a4b7dccabb706c9dca2cd43c37e87f2cfe665 Author: Corinna Vinschen Date: Wed Mar 8 17:43:23 2017 +0100 Cygwin: Emit correct errno EAGAIN if we can't create

[newlib-cygwin] yield: Don't lower thread priority, it leads to starvation

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=51a993c266581ba41f1622abd274d9848a37cf1d commit 51a993c266581ba41f1622abd274d9848a37cf1d Author: Corinna Vinschen Date: Wed Mar 8 17:44:15 2017 +0100 yield: Don't lower thread priority, it leads to starvation

Re: [PATCH] Implement dladdr() (partially)

On Mar 8 14:24, Jon Turney wrote: > Note that this always returns with dli_sname and dli_saddr set to NULL, > indicating no symbol matching addr could be found. > > Signed-off-by: Jon Turney > --- > > Notes: > Mesa 17.1 will want to use dladdr() in order to use

Re: [PATCH] Export timingsafe_bcmp and timingsafe_memcmp

On 07/03/2017 12:38, Jon Turney wrote: --- winsup/cygwin/common.din | 2 ++ winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/version.h | 3 ++- winsup/cygwin/release/2.7.2| 12 winsup/doc/posix.xml | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Re: Profile XXXXX failed to execute.

On 08/03/2017 10:46, Nilesh Shedge wrote: Hello Team, I Haven't heard anything from you. Regards, Nilesh S. This is a mailing list not an help desk for third part "broken" software. If you have problem with "Profile FileServer ", what ever it is, ask who distribute it to update the

RE: Profile XXXXX failed to execute.

Hello Team, I Haven't heard anything from you. Regards, Nilesh S. -Original Message- From: Nilesh Shedge [mailto:nilesh.she...@gsgtelco.com] Sent: Monday, March 6, 2017 4:42 PM To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' Subject: RE: Profile X failed to execute. Can you please

Re: getent hosts exit code 2 for all names in /etc/hosts

On Mar 7 14:05, Brian Inglis wrote: > With current Cygwin 64 getent hosts returns exit code 2 > for all names in /etc/hosts, addresses still work fine, > while getent ahosts returns the expected results for all > names in /etc/hosts. > In previous releases getent hosts and getent ahosts both

Re: Strange errors running gcc tests on Cygwin

On 2017-03-07 22:18, Daniel Santos wrote: > On 03/07/2017 06:36 PM, David Billinghurst wrote: >> On 8/03/2017 10:25, Daniel Santos wrote: >>> My concern is with the dynamic portion of this behavior -- what >>> is affected by environment variables. >> Many years ago I ran a nightly build/test of