Re: Strange errors running gcc tests on Cygwin

Thanks for the help Brian. On 03/09/2017 05:51 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: Windows DLLs updated or added could increase in size and overlap Cygwin's assumed address space allocated by rebase. Mingw has no problem as native Windows programs, but Cygwin emulates how Unix uses shared libraries

Re: bash -l not sourcing /etc/profile? (minor annoyance)

First off, thanks for your response and I apologize for my late reply. On 03/09/2017 06:21 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-03-09 15:58, Daniel Santos wrote: This is just a minor annoyance. When I start a mintty session and even if I type bash -l or basy -li, I don't get my /etc/profile sourced

Re: Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks

cyg Simple wrote: On 3/10/2017 4:01 PM, L A Walsh wrote: I want to be able to mount other areas of other file systems onto directories. Symlinks are destroyed by Cygwin's SETUP.EXE and the install process For example. I have a smallish "/usr" partition, but a large "/Users" partition.

Re: Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks

Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, L A Walsh! You say that throwing out the MS-designed ability to mount a filesystem subtree and treat them the same as another feature they added, "symlinks", is a benefit? Where did I said that? --- Are you not suggesting treating JUNCTIONs the same

dd -- bs>=2G, error writing to /dev/null - possible bug? (win7; coreutils 8.26)

Dear all, dd utility has problems to write to /dev/null with bs>=2^31, while bs<2^31 is ok. Increasing bs further to 2^33 leads to extended error message For description see below jf Steps to reproduce: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=2147483647 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.5

I have uploaded mintty 2.7.5. Highlights: Font handling / Text rendering * Changing default FontRender=uniscribe. * Several special character rendering improvements. Terminal * Fixed Wraparound and Backspace compliance with xterm and terminfo. * Changed Reverse Wraparound default to

Updated: mintty 2.7.5

I have uploaded mintty 2.7.5. Highlights: Font handling / Text rendering * Changing default FontRender=uniscribe. * Several special character rendering improvements. Terminal * Fixed Wraparound and Backspace compliance with xterm and terminfo. * Changed Reverse Wraparound default to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: icoutils-0.31.3-1

The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * icoutils-0.31.3-1 The icoutils are a set of programs for extracting and converting images in Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. This is an update to the latest upstream release. Dave. -- Problem reports:

Updated: icoutils-0.31.3-1

The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * icoutils-0.31.3-1 The icoutils are a set of programs for extracting and converting images in Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. This is an update to the latest upstream release. Dave.

Re: Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks

Greetings, cyg Simple! >>Same problem under "/opt" under linux. "/opt" is >> a directory on my root partition. When I wanted to >> install "VirtualBox" (which lives under "/opt/VirtualBox" it >> refused to run from a path that had a symlink in it. How >> would you solve that? >> >>I

Re: Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks

unt' > feature (called 'junction' in MS-speak). Because > junctions are meant to be a way of splicing part of > one file system into another at a specific path. Cygwin is not Linux. I don't see why you're operating Linux arguments in the native Windows area. >> >> P

Re: Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks

On 3/10/2017 4:01 PM, L A Walsh wrote: >I want to be able to mount other areas of other file > systems onto directories. Symlinks are destroyed by Cygwin's > SETUP.EXE and the install process For example. I have > a smallish "/usr" partition, but a large "/Users" partition. > "/usr/share"

[newlib-cygwin] getrandom: it's MIN, not MAX

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=6c420fa49455a7f743c01190e1d23b0749e20fa6 commit 6c420fa49455a7f743c01190e1d23b0749e20fa6 Author: Yaakov Selkowitz Date: Sat Mar 11 10:01:47 2017 +0100 getrandom: it's MIN, not MAX Signed-off-by: