Re: default high priority for mintty

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 1:38 PM Charles Russell via Cygwin wrote: > > What is the easiest way to open mintty with high priority by default? > Adding /High to the shortcut command string no longer seems to work in > Windows 11. Assuming that you're using the mintty window to run bash, or another

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: How efficient is 'sleep'?

On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 9:37 AM Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > > > the process isn't allocated any CPU time until the timer expires. > > Almost so. But the "sleep" functions are interruptible, so if a process (the > "sleep" command) > is somehow signaled, it will wake up

How efficient is 'sleep'?

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 other OSes that just set a timer flag and the process

Re: inkscape installed but does nothing

I realize that this doesn't solve the problem with the Cygwin version, but there is a Windows version of Inkscape. I don't know if it can do the batch operations you mentioned earlier. I realize that you may already be aware of this version, so I apologize if this is

Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC

On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 12:39 AM Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: > 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

Re: Please support download setup-x86_64.exe on IPv6-only network

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 9:36 PM Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > > On 2023-11-20 17:45, Lee via Cygwin wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 7:13 PM Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 12:41 PM Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > >>

Re: Please support download setup-x86_64.exe on IPv6-only network

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 12:41 PM Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > The whole IP v4 internet is available as a compatibility subnet > :::0:a.b.c.d > on IP v6, so there is no excuse for not supporting interconnection, as it will > be required until the last backbone routers drop IP v4 support.

Re: cygwin.cygwin.narkive.com

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 10:17 PM Glenn Bogdan via Cygwin wrote: > SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM Completely off topic here, but is there an automated way to have the mail server report these spams to the US FTC? Or is it simply not worth the effort? -- Problem reports:

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

On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 4:41 AM Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > Is there anything in /proc which can tell me the current *Windows* > scheduler priority level? Or a command line tool? 'pslist' from Sysinternals (owned by MS) will tell you the Windows priority.

Re: mintty window border?

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 10:54 PM Gary Johnson via Cygwin wrote: > > On 2023-08-25, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: > > > > > > Am 25.08.2023 um 02:41 schrieb Gary Johnson via Cygwin: > > >On 2023-08-24, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: > > >>On Thu, Aug

Re: mintty window border?

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 11:08 AM Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote: > > This is an update to a question I had a couple of years ago > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-April/248367.html > > Windows 11 now has an "accent color" option under > Settings/Personalization/Colors that adds a thin

Re: Test for Windows Administrator permissions from Cygwin terminal|script?

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:01 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: > How can I find out whether the current Cygwin terminal has > Administrator rights? I want to safeguard our admin scripts with a > simple test and bail out with an error if someone wants to do admin > stuff (say: regtool) without

Re: SSH config in /etc/ssh/ rather than /etc?

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 6:28 PM Philippe Cerfon via Cygwin wrote: > I've just wondered whether Cygwin packages could be changed to > place/expect any SSH config files in /etc/ssh, just as virtually any > Linux distribution seems to do? :-) Symlinks are your friend. You can even use real

Re: General scripting issues vs. Linux

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 8:16 AM Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > > On 2023-03-10 06:59, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > On 3/10/2023 8:47 AM, Markus Becker via Cygwin wrote: > >> I am quite an newby in Cygwin scripting and encountered several execution > >> issues with bash scripts. For example,

Re: Setup not working

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:10 PM Backwoods BC wrote: > I suspect that even using a less than optimum ZIP process will still > be size-competitive with the self-extracting version because of not > having to include the overhead of the self-extractor. I had a little too much faith in ZIP,

Re: Setup not working

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 1:16 PM Brian Cowan via Cygwin wrote: > > There is a set of messages from last year or the year before talking about > how the Cygwin setup program is compressed with "upx." When I had this issue, > I had to download UPX on a Linuux host, copy the setup program to that

Re: substitute for xclip?

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 12:27 AM Sam Edge wrote: > On 19/10/2022 23:52, Oliver Schoede wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:58:42 +0200 > > Ulli Horlacher wrote: > >> https://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fop/jFZ6T7wI/X-20221019141237.png > >> > >> I have selected [copy] in the file browser,

Re: substitute for xclip?

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:59 PM Ulli Horlacher wrote: > > With Linux I am using xclip to read the X11 clipboard. > Is there a cygwin equivalent to read the Windows clipboard? There are 2 ways to access the clipboard: 1. The commands 'getclip' and 'putclip' 2. Redirection to/from /dev/clipboard

Re: dumper does not produce core that gdb recognizes?

On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 5:59 PM Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: > > > The latest version of gdb that is not a test version is 11.2. But > > you are using 9.2. > > I am using the older dumper as well, my working cygwin is not cutting edge. > > $ dumper -V > dumper (cygwin)

Re: 1 [main] bash 17336 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com

> https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-find_fast_cwd-warnings I've only been on this list a few months, but I've seen these "find_fast_cwd" questions about twice a month so far. Might I suggest that replacing the "Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com"

Re: Another pipe-related problem?

Please pardon the interjection. I'm a hardware guy and any time a hardware process is in a state where it is waiting for a signal from another process, I put in a timeout mechanism. Shouldn't this be a normal practice for software as well? -- Problem reports: