Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 12:27:35PM +0200, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps
wrote:
Jon Turney wrote:
On 10/03/2024 16:33, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
+ /bin/bash -c "cd ${top} || exit 1
+${HOMEPAGE+HOMEPAGE=${HOMEPAGE@Q}}
+P=${P@Q}; PF
Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 2024-04-30 15:07, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 2024-04-30 11:45, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
The new script uses the SPDX webpages to create the license file. I
didn't find a usable single
Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 2024-04-30 11:45, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
...
Attached.
The new script uses the SPDX webpages to create the license file. I
didn't find a usable single license list at https://github.com/spdx
What about:
https://spdx.github.io
2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:28:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add check of SPDX expression provided by LICENSE variable
The new script 'tools/spdx-checks' checks a SPDX license expression.
License identifiers are provided by the new file 'spdx-licenses'
which could be created by
Jon Turney wrote:
On 10/03/2024 16:33, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Jon Turney wrote:
On 23/02/2024 11:23, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Christian Franke wrote:
The email generated by the cygport announce command is useful, but
actual use cases are somewhat limited due
ASSI via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps writes:
_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is supported by Cygwin 3.5.0 headers and Cygwin gcc
13.2.1 test release.
Silently falls back to level 2 if level 3 is unsupported (older
headers or gcc) or to level 0 if unsupported at all (C++, clang
J M via Cygwin wrote:
...
Specifically for this problem, I have investigated the problem and can be
related to pipes and antivirus.
Specifically
while true
do
echo ABC | grep AAA
done
It makes the cpu of that antivirus go up.
This is as expected because malware scanners hook into Win32
Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
,,,
BTW, according to the Linux kernel sources, BLKPBSZGET etc return
'unsigned int' and not 'unsigned long' since first appearance in
2.6.32-rc3 (2009?):
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v2.6.32-rc3/source/block/ioctl.c#L276
https://elixir.bootlin.com
Bruce Jerrick via Cygwin wrote:
Downgrading to util-linux-2.33.3-3 does not help. The related code
differs, but has the same problem.
I take that back. The above should read "util-linux-2.33.1-3".
But it was OK in util-linux-2.33.1-3 .
Yes, this is correct. I possibly downgraded
Hi Mark,
Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote:
Hi Christian,
On 3/31/2024 1:11 AM, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
Testcase:
# cygcheck -f /sbin/fdisk.exe
util-linux-2.39.3-1
# /sbin/fdisk.exe -l /dev/sdd
Disk /dev/sdd: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512
Testcase:
# cygcheck -f /sbin/fdisk.exe
util-linux-2.39.3-1
# /sbin/fdisk.exe -l /dev/sdd
Disk /dev/sdd: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 34359738880 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 34359738880
Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
On Mar 23 10:57, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
On Mar 21 16:15, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
On Mar 21 09:58, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
..
I just gave it a try on W11. The results are even more funny than I
anticipated:
...
So, yeah
On Mar 21 16:15, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
On Mar 21 09:58, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
..
I just gave it a try on W11. The results are even more funny than I
anticipated:
...
So, yeah, with your observations especially on older W10 versions and
with 8.1 doing the same thing
Christian Franke wrote:
marco atzeri wrote:
On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 11:26 PM Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
...
Should I also rename libtsk to libtsk19 in the planned sleutkit-*-2
package which will add afflib support ?
yes please
The original package is only a few days old and has
to libtsk19.
The source package supports reproducible builds except for libtsk.dll.a
from the libtsk-devel package.
Regards,
Christian Franke
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signing.
The afflib-tools package contains tools to examine, convert, compare, copy,
encrypt, decrypt and sign AFF files.
https://github.com/sshock/AFFLIBv3
The source package supports reproducible builds except for libafflib.dll.a
from the libafflib-devel package.
Regards,
Christian Franke
On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 23:26:05 +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
Jon Turney wrote:
...
be added only when needed for new not backward compatible releases.
The upstream afflib project is mostly idling, so I don't expect any
new major lib versions in the near future.
If course, I could rename
Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
On Mar 20 12:39, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
You have to create an application with an application manifest not
supporting your OS.
For Cygwin apps, this occured when you built, say, an executable under
Windows 8.1
s-python.
The source package supports reproducible builds.
Regards,
Christian Franke
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Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
On Mar 19 09:18, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 9:01 AM Richard Campbell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 9:04 AM Bill Stewart via Cygwin
wrote:
Can you please clarify the circumstances under which the RtlGetVersion
function "may not
Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
How does cygwin uname -s work, i.e. how does it get the OS version,
revision and build number ('10.0-19045')?
I tried to replicate it via GetVersionEx(), but that is deprecated.
AFAICS, MS does not offer an official way to retrieve the actual Windows
version
. The main
component of the toolset is the mandoc utility program, based on the
libmandoc validating compiler, to format output for UTF-8 and ASCII
terminals, HTML 5, PostScript, and PDF.
https://mandoc.bsd.lv/
The source package supports reproducible builds.
Regards,
Christian Franke
I would like to contribute mandoc. Also present in Debian, Fedora,
Ubuntu, ... and as the default man page formatter on *BSD.
Useful to check man pages for compatibility with *BSD systems.
The build is reproducible without the need to export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
SUMMARY="BSD mandoc compiler
and expressions.
Any interest to add this to cygport and then check LICENSE settings?
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From b08796262308cf1b3a2c063349d024a5ccfd2455 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:12:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add repro-finish command
This command removes
Jon Turney wrote:
On 23/02/2024 11:23, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Christian Franke wrote:
The email generated by the cygport announce command is useful, but
actual use cases are somewhat limited due to the hard-coded email
submission.
The attached patch adds more flexibility
Jon Turney wrote:
On 01/03/2024 13:13, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
It IMO makes sense to compress large and rarely viewed doc files like
change logs. This seems to be common practice on Debian etc.
With current cygport, the following results in ChangeLog and
ChangeLog.gz
Jon Turney wrote:
On 26/02/2024 19:53, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Would it not make more sense to just re-export it if set?
If the cygport file decides to set but not export it, there is
possibly no need to do it. An example is smartmontools.cygport which
passes
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
* bmake-20240301-1
* bmake-extras-20240301-1
bmake is a portable version of the NetBSD make(1) utility. It is similar
to GNU make, even though the syntax for the advanced features supported
in Makefiles is very different.
I would like to contribute bmake. Also present in Debian, Fedora,
FreeBSD, Ubuntu, ...
I occasionally use it to check whether Makefiles are compatible with
non-GNU versions of make.
SUMMARY="Portable version of the NetBSD 'make' utility"
DESCRIPTION="\
bmake is a portable version of the
marco atzeri wrote:
On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 11:26 PM Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Jon Turney wrote:
On 06/03/2024 15:39, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Jon Turney wrote:
Thanks!
libafflib_CONTENTS="
usr/bin/cygafflib-*.dll
Any reason why this package do
Jon Turney wrote:
On 06/03/2024 15:39, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Jon Turney wrote:
Thanks!
libafflib_CONTENTS="
usr/bin/cygafflib-*.dll
Any reason why this package doesn't include the soversion, i.e. why
not libafflib0?
Libtsk and libafflib are my first li
Jon Turney wrote:
Thanks!
libafflib_CONTENTS="
usr/bin/cygafflib-*.dll
Any reason why this package doesn't include the soversion, i.e. why
not libafflib0?
Libtsk and libafflib are my first library packages, so I'm not sure what
the policy is. My recent package libtsk has been
I would like to contribute afflib. Also present in Debian, Fedora,
Ubuntu, ... but package naming differs:
Debian/Ubuntu: afflib-tools, libafflib0v5, libafflib-dev
Fedora: afftools, afflib, afflib-devel
It is indented to enable afflib format support for the next version of
the sleuthkit
files, etc. Many volume and filesystem formats
are supported.
https://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/
The source package supports reproducible builds except for libtsk.dll.a
from the libtsk-devel package.
Regards,
Christian Franke
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I would like to contribute sleuthkit. Also present in Debian, Fedora,
Ubuntu, ...
SUMMARY="Tools for analysis of volume and filesystem data"
DESCRIPTION="The
I would like to contribute sleuthkit. Also present in Debian, Fedora,
Ubuntu, ...
SUMMARY="Tools for analysis of volume and filesystem data"
DESCRIPTION="The Sleuth Kit (TSK) is a collection of command line tools
for disk images. It allows to analyze volume and filesystem data,
examine disk
Christian Franke wrote:
This could be used to check whether a package is possibly
reproducible. Then it could make sense to add a reasonable
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH value to the cygport file.
Example:
$ export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=$(date +%s)
$ cygport project.cygport all repro-check
...
*** Info
e/doc/${PN}/ChangeLog"
}
The attached patch fixes this and also adds some missing documentation.
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From 1934651b93cda92207429ac91b964cff220c76d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 13:56:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] dodoc: Skip a file if a
Hi,
Lavrentiev, Anton wrote
...
For new installations, it'd be great to have the most suitable (in most cases,
the most
recent) version shown as the first selection in all those pulldown version
lists in
the "New" columns. The logical order would be "the preferred (latest) version",
"the
Christian Franke wrote:
Further tests of 'repro-check' patch revealed that the "origsrc/*"
timestamps in patch files contain the local timezone offset.
This would be no longer needed for patch files if "Modify origsrc
timestamp in patch files if SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is used&qu
Found during testing of 'repro-check' patch with getent-2.18.90-5 source
package.
This patch also removes the requirement to set TZ=UTC before patches are
generated.
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From 342ff5113499a83b2ffda441ddc80b4952b400f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date
Hi Corinna,
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Feb 27 13:18, Christian Franke wrote:
...
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/errno.cc b/winsup/cygwin/errno.cc
index 7d58e62ec..d8c057e51 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/errno.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/errno.cc
@@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ const char *_sys_errlist
From f495fb0e7c2bd3a42f16f81af18c64ffaba9a860 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:05:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Cygwin: remove ENOSHARE and ECASECLASH from
_sys_errlist[]
These errno values are no longer used by Cygwin. Also add a
static_assert check
f3ad1912a9c7fa4cd28ade5dc7c95134be759615 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:03:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Cygwin: add compile warning if ENOSHARE or ECASECLASH is
used
These errno values are no longer used by Cygwin.
Signed-off-by: Christian Franke
---
newlib/libc/include
Jon Turney wrote:
On 16/02/2024 12:29, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Fail if it is out of range. Warn if it lies in the future. Inform
whether it is set or set but not exported.
What is the valid range here?
The range accepted by 'date -d @EPOCH ...', later used to adjust
From 66a9c2d35a836017e52c8ce73b76b2070c3b6a95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:15:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Cygwin: errmap[]: update comments using current
winerror.h
Signed-off-by: Christian Franke
---
winsup/cygwin/local_includes/errmap.h
From bebc11c2a9022e61cdc7544ed2cb5101a170ae92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:01:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Cygwin: errmap[]: reduce value size from 32 to 8 bits
Overflow would be detected at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Christian Franke
From 947daa02b0b64131626c2ecedb74ca6893aab6c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 13:37:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Cygwin: introduce constexpr errmap_size and errmap[]
consistency checks
Use constexpr instead of const for errmap[] to allow static_assert
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Feb 25 10:12, Christian Franke wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
So the default was EPERM at first and has been changed to EACCES
because it "is better for the unknown error case".
I'm open to ideas for an improved error mapping.
I have no better
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Feb 23 19:14, Christian Franke wrote:
Experiments with damaged USB flash drives and ddrescue revealed that the
current mapping of these Win32 errors to the fallback EACCES could be
improved.
BTW: I wonder why EACCES was selected as the fallback. Source code control
.
A related comment from CGF added August 2000 persists until today :-)
/* FIXME: what's so special about EACCESS? */
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Christian
From 8aa19c7fd13dc3790dc271dede8954539bffcd4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:01:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Cygwin
Harmless bug ...
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From b1074f4cfe549c852be7fa59d85d312c9579cf0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 13:04:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix variable expansion in error message of embedded SMTP perl
script
---
lib/pkg_upload.cygpart | 2
Christian Franke wrote:
The email generated by the cygport announce command is useful, but
actual use cases are somewhat limited due to the hard-coded email
submission.
The attached patch adds more flexibility. The patch is on top of the
"Use correct wording if only one package is anno
Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 2024-02-21 07:25, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Change variable name from $s to $has or $s_have as variable $s usually
implies only the plural letter s or nothing; e.g.
...
+ local has="s have"
+
+ [ $pkg_count != 1 ] ||
quot;1,/^\$/d" "$1" >$PF-announcement.txt &&
echo "Announcement placed here: $(pwd)/$PF-announcement.txt"
'
ANNOUNCE_TO_CMD='
/usr/local/sbin/custom-mailer \
--sender="$SMTP_SENDER" \
--smarthost="$SMTP_SERVER" \
...more...options... \
cygwin-a
Only cosmetic ...
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From f1381ebc872f3b099c257677e2b8d5bf2451bb23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:35:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Use correct wording if only one package is announced
---
lib/pkg_upload.cygpart | 5 -
1 file
flict resolution due to the then missing 'else' branch.
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From e9553d8541f9fb2fd4a4e49a488dfc8511fb9c8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:32:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Set TZ=UTC if SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is used
---
bin/cygport.in | 4 +++
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
* ddrescue-1.28-2
GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from
one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying
hard to rescue data in case of read errors. Ddrescue does not
truncate the
17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:33:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add repro-check command
This command checks for reproducibility of distribution packages.
The source package from the dist directory is unpacked to the
temp directory. A nested rebuild of the packages
I would like to contribute f3. Also present in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, ...
SUMMARY="Test real flash memory capacity"
DESCRIPTION="f3 is a simple tool that tests flash cards capacity and
performance to see if they live up to claimed specifications.
It fills the device with pseudorandom data and
From b04c8f5e9becd6e91095e2add551f72870c9e869 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:16:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add more checks of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
Fail if it is out of range. Warn if it lies in the future.
Inform whether it is set or set but not exported
Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
On 13/02/2024 13:02, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
On 12/02/2024 16:49, ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
Christian Franke via Cygwin writes:
This requires that always the same build directory is used.
Would that be solvable by using
Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
On 13/02/2024 13:02, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
On 12/02/2024 16:49, ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
Christian Franke via Cygwin writes:
This requires that always the same build directory is used.
Would that be solvable by using
Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
On 12/02/2024 16:49, ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
Christian Franke via Cygwin writes:
This requires that always the same build directory is used.
Would that be solvable by using -ffile-prefix-map or is there more to
it?
That should now be used in 0.36.8, so something
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
* busybox-1.36.1-2
* busybox-standalone-1.36.1-2
* busybox-doc-1.36.1-2
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many (un)common utilities into a
single executable. It is still smaller than bash.
https://busybox.net/about.html
Jon Turney wrote on cygwin-announce list:
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
* cygport-0.36.8-1
cygport is the standard method for building and maintaining packages
for the Cygwin distribution.
...
Add initial support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
This is not a binutils regression: A build from cygwin 3.5.0-1 src
package or current newlib-cygwin git main (bfb68a9) with new
binutils-2.42-1 fails with:
"
In file included from ../../../../winsup/utils/dumper.cc:23:
/usr/include/bfd.h:2748:1: error: expected initializer before
if the kernel caches all the writes.
* Option '-t, --show-status' of ddrescuelog now shows the mapfile
names at verbosity level 0 if more than one mapfile is specified.
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Jon Turney wrote:
On 02/02/2024 16:13, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is supported by Cygwin 3.5.0 headers and Cygwin gcc
13.2.1 test release.
Silently falls back to level 2 if level 3 is unsupported (older
headers or gcc) or to level 0 if unsupported at all (C
Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 17:00:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Increase _FORTIFY_SOURCE level from 2 to 3 in CFLAGS
This enables buffer overflow checks if the buffer size is non-const
but known during runtime and GCC 12.0 or later is used.
---
lib
Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
On Jan 22 16:47, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
Busybox does not build OOTB on Cygwin due to the addition of itoa/utoa() to
newlib in 2014:
https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=32c96dd
This is because Busybox use local functions
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
* smartmontools-7.4-1
smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd)
to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis
and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most ATA/SATA,
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 15 13:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Sorry Christian, but..
I was just going to push this patch when I realized that we now have
two lines of debug output per affected file descriptor:
On Jan 15 12:19, Christian Franke wrote:
+ for (unsigned int i = firstfd; i
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi Christian,
On Jan 15 09:56, Christian Franke wrote:
Christian Franke wrote:
Jon Turney wrote:
On 14/01/2024 16:07, Christian Franke wrote:
Recently I learned about the existence and usefulness of close_range():
https://github.com/smartmontools/smartmontools/issues
Christian Franke wrote:
Jon Turney wrote:
On 14/01/2024 16:07, Christian Franke wrote:
Recently I learned about the existence and usefulness of close_range():
https://github.com/smartmontools/smartmontools/issues/235
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=close_range=2
https://man7.org
Jon Turney wrote:
On 14/01/2024 16:07, Christian Franke wrote:
Recently I learned about the existence and usefulness of close_range():
https://github.com/smartmontools/smartmontools/issues/235
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=close_range=2
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2
his :-)
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From 2393e82a62e19e29e61ef3253e227c19ae7222eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 16:54:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Cygwin: introduce close_range
This function closes or sets the close-on-exec flag for a specified
range of file descripto
matth...@gmx.li wrote:
fdisk reports the same partition type as sfdisk. It report "Microsoft basic
data" for NTFS as well
as for FAT32 partitions.
That is as expected and differs from MBR disks. The same GPT partition
GUID is used for NTFS and the various FAT filesystem types.
Matthias--- via Cygwin wrote:
I'm using sfdisk for analysing partitions on msdos partition tables.
Unfortunately it don't support
GPT tables.
Is there another tool, like parted, what can be used?
/sbin/fdisk from package util-linux-2.33.1-2 supports GPT.
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Hi Corinna,
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi Christian,
On second thought...
I had a bad night tonight and was thinking a long time about this and
that. It suddenly occured to me that there might be another problem
with this approach, attaching ordinals to the label name.
Assuming you have a
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi Christian,
Looks good, but I just realized that I was already wondering about the
sanitization and forgot to talk about it:
On Nov 21 12:24, Christian Franke wrote:
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/dev_disk.cc
b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/dev_disk.cc
index c5d72816f
Christian Franke wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 20 10:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi Christian,
This puzzles me:
On Nov 17 21:25, Christian Franke wrote:
@@ -610,7 +607,7 @@ get_by_id_table (by_id_entry * ,
fhandler_dev_disk::dev_disk_location loc)
if (!table)
return
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 20 10:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi Christian,
This puzzles me:
On Nov 17 21:25, Christian Franke wrote:
@@ -610,7 +607,7 @@ get_by_id_table (by_id_entry * ,
fhandler_dev_disk::dev_disk_location loc)
if (!table)
return (errno_set ? -1 : 0
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 17 18:53, Christian Franke wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
...
I see. Admittedly, I don't know how Linux handles this either.
A quick test on Debian 12 with by-label suggests that the last duplicate
wins. Also not very sophisticated :-)
Given this is all
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 17 17:45, Christian Franke wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 17 15:39, Christian Franke wrote:
The last two /dev/disk subdirectories :-)
Note a minor difference: On Linux, empty /dev/disk subdirectories apparently
never appear. A subdirectory is not listed
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 17 15:39, Christian Franke wrote:
The last two /dev/disk subdirectories :-)
Note a minor difference: On Linux, empty /dev/disk subdirectories apparently
never appear. A subdirectory is not listed in /dev/disk if it would be
empty. Not worth the effort to emulate
27f4a10431aacbdc9725571f4ad34732081fb63a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:22:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Cygwin: Add /dev/disk/by-label and /dev/disk/by-uuid symlinks
The new directories '/dev/disk/by-label' and '/dev/disk/by-uuid'
provide symlinks for each disk related volume label
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 16 12:50, Christian Franke wrote:
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I also tried an NTFS partition and the output looks like this:
0FD4F62866CFBF09 -> ../../sdc1
This is the 64 bit volume serial number as returned by
DeviceIoControl(FSCTL_GET_NTFS_VOLUME_DATA)(*).
Wouldn't that be w
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi Christian,
On Nov 15 18:23, Christian Franke wrote:
This is the next (and possibly last for now) extension to the /dev/disk
directory. Limited to disk related entries which allowed a straightforward
extension of the existing code.
My original idea was to add also
tian
From 1dc3d3a8378ab2aeff766ea2d211750079fd27f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:54:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Cygwin: Add /dev/disk/by-drive and /dev/disk/by-uuid symlinks
The new directory '/dev/disk/by-drive' provides symlinks for each
disk related drive
Minor improvement, avoids "/dev/disk/by-id/sata-VENDOR_MODEL___SERIAL".
--
Regards,
Christian
From 9927cd46435da97d234b0c7e97b5fc2a9b7632d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 17:03:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Cygwin: /dev/disk/by-id: Remove lead
b07de21461207a2b57465d3dd8f7db2b36d886c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 15:25:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Cygwin: Document /dev/disk/by-id and /dev/disk/by-partuuid
Signed-off-by: Christian Franke
---
winsup/cygwin/release/3.5.0 | 6 ++
winsup/doc/new
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi Christian,
On Nov 5 16:45, Christian Franke wrote:
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Old IOCTL dropped and code simplified.
Great. I pushed your patch.
Thanks.
...
Last, but not least, do you see a chance to add any other /dev/disk
subdir? by-partuuid, perhaps?
Possibly, but not very
ive (Cygwin specific: drive letter -> volume)
c -> ../by-uuid/UUID (if UUID available)
x -> /proc/sys/DosDevices/X: (others, e.g. Network, "mounted" Volume
Shadow Copy)
Christian
From aa8c35e041ffe5a4b06104c122d9ba1fdc492683 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Franke
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 4 10:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 3 18:54, Christian Franke wrote:
...
Conclusion: The behavior of the current patch is compatible with Linux :-)
Ok, but with the DUID we have a workaround which makes it work even
better than on Linux, so it would
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 4 10:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 3 18:54, Christian Franke wrote:
...
MSDN claims:
If the storage device is SCSI-compliant, the port driver attempts to
extract the serial number from the optional Unit Serial Number page
(page 0x80
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 3 17:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 3 17:09, Christian Franke wrote:
Unlike (S)ATA and NVMe, the serial number
is not available for free in the device identify data block but requires an
extra command (SCSI INQUIRY of VPD page 0x80). This might
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 3 12:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 3 11:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 3 10:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 3 14:39, Christian Franke wrote:
According to NtQueryObject(., ObjectBasicInformation, ...), using
NtOpenFile(., MAXIMUM_ALLOWED
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 3 10:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi Christian,
On Oct 3 14:39, Christian Franke wrote:
Christian Franke wrote:
This is a first attempt to partly emulate the Linux directory
/dev/disk/by-id. Useful to make sure the correct device is accessed in
conjunction
Jon Turney wrote:
On 28/08/2023 16:12, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Christian Franke wrote:
A small step towards reproducible packaging...
Thanks very much for this. Sorry for taking so long to look at it.
No problem.
A few questions and suggestions interspersed
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