Hello,
I can confirm the bugfix works and that arc4random now functions
correctly in Cygwin 3.5 after fork().
- Johnothan King
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Good day -
I represent a logistics team of users of CYGWIN freeware for a government
contract. In my role I am responsible for tracking support and end of life for
software assets.
In the before mentioned effort mentioned above I have a general question.
Do CYGWIN freeware developers or
Thank you, Corinna and Anton for your replies. I downloaded procps, and it
worked exactly as you described. I understand this approach is a non-portable
hack and to the extent that it matters at all, I'd like to +1 the
suggestion/request of picking up support for setproctitle(3) in the next
The script /etc/postinstall/zp_octave_finish.dash from octave-8.4.0-1.tar.bz2
fails during Cygwin update because that script expects the directory
/usr/share/octave/packages to exist. Creating that directory fixes this error.
CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19045 Windows-10-Laptop
I keep getting errors when trying to install Perl packages using CPAN. I
can see some quite old discussions that appear to say that the problem
is solved by mounting the .cpan directory in binmode, but the options in
that solution given to the mount command are not accepted. I have
deleted my
Hi,
Since some time ago (perhaps a week or two), "pip install" occassionally hangs.
Ctrl+C does not work. I have to kill the process via the task manager. I can
reproduce the problem somewhat reliably by running:
pip install --force jenkins_job_builder==5.0.4
This is the last thing printed
> It used to work in the past, for sure, and was used in some code over here...
And yes, like Corinna said, you have to use procps to actually see the changes.
Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI
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> Can you see what I'm doing wrong?
It used to work in the past, for sure, and was used in some code over here...
Since it was an ad-hoc thing, the behavior might have changed -- I haven't
checked it lately.
To make the full disclosure, we reassign the entire __argv here from the linear
On 29/01/2024 07:41, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm finally getting around to setting up the centralized git
repositories for the packages I maintain.
There is currently no history for the cygutils package. Could I please
have its history imported with ctm2git?
Thanks
Hi Johnothan,
On Jan 26 22:06, Johnothan King via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While testing ksh93u+m's recently added SRANDOM variable[1], I have
> discovered a bug in Cygwin's arc4random function. After using fork(),
> arc4random does not reseed itself, which causes the results to become
>
On Jan 27 15:12, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 26/01/2024 11:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > - Create a named mutex with a reproducible name (no need to use
> > >the name as parameter) and immediately grab it.
> > > - Call CreateProcess to start the debugger with CREATE_SUSPENDED
> > >flag.
> >
On Jan 27 10:27, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 29/11/2023 15:08, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce wrote:
> > The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
> >
> > * cygwin-3.4.10-1
> > * cygwin-devel-3.4.10-1
> > * cygwin-doc-3.4.10-1
> >
>
> just for me
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 09:33, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
>
> On 2024-01-28 23:44, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> > rm -f myfile
> > touch myfile
> > /usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l myfile takes forever with latest Cygwin 3.5
>
> It takes much longer without Cygwin 3.5!
>
> Your fallocate(1)
On Jan 26 18:35, Steve Beck via Cygwin wrote:
> Thanks so much for the reply, Anton! Really appreciate it.
>
> I tried what you proposed. Here is the code trying both ways
> (overwriting what is referenced by __argv[0] and then reassigning the
> reference). I compile this code (foo.c) simply
On 1/28/2024 11:56 PM, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote:
On 1/28/2024 10:44 PM, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
Good morning!
rm -f myfile
touch myfile
/usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l myfile takes forever with latest Cygwin 3.5
^ length goes here, before filename
I
On 2024-01-28 23:44, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
rm -f myfile
touch myfile
/usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l myfile takes forever with latest Cygwin 3.5
It takes much longer without Cygwin 3.5!
Your fallocate(1) option -l has no length numeric argument and no -o offset
numeric argument to
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