https://cygwin.com/ now live

2014-05-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
Red Hat (thanks fo Frank Eigler) has activated some certificates for cygwin.com so everyone should be able to access the site via https://cygwin.com now. There will probably be some gotchas to work out for places which refer to http://cygwin.com/ directly. Please send any issues here, as always.

Re: https://cygwin.com/ now live

2014-05-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 05:08:12PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: There will probably be some gotchas to work out for places which refer to http://cygwin.com/ directly. Please send any issues here, as always. It appears it is not forcing

Re: setup-x86.exe has virus and is blocked by Malware Detectors

2014-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
The Malware Detectors are wrong. The program was built on Linux so it isn't likely that a Windows virus crept in. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: setup-x86.exe has virus and is blocked by Malware Detectors

2014-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:25:48PM -0700, Wes Kaefer wrote: I agree, it probably does not have a virus; but it has a virus signature. So your virus detection is issuing a false positive. You need to fix that. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: setup-x86.exe has virus and is blocked by Malware Detectors

2014-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:36:29PM +0100, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:25:48PM -0700, Wes Kaefer wrote: I agree, it probably does not have a virus; but it has a virus signature. This is covered in the FAQ at http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.virus Thanks for pointing that

Re: Debugging sub-processes with gdb

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:10:36PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: I'm trying to debug a problem with xemacs that involves the child process forked when you execute M-x shell. None of the mechanisms in the gdb documentation for choosing to step into the child process (instead of the parent) after

Re: Debugging sub-processes with gdb

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:36:59PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: If you have control over the code you could have it print a pid, wait, and then attach to it with gdb. That works. Understood, will do. I should have mentioned, as an alternative approach, if you're

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 02:15:38PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: snip The 32-bit defines TERMINFO: config.h: /* * Define TERMINFO if your machine emulates the termcap routines * with the terminfo database. * Thus the .screenrc file is parsed for * the command 'terminfo' and not

Re: Default manifest

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 08:07:26PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: Are we close to a resolution of the problems with default manifests? It looks to me like all the pieces are in place, but maybe I've missed something: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-04/msg01387.html

Re: [ITA] pinfo

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 03:03:19PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: I'd like to adopt the pinfo package, since I use it. I have a new build of the latest version, 0.6.10, ready for x86 and x86_64, with a new cygport build script. I'm not sure if there's anything else I need to do. If there's no

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 07:29:10AM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: These are major packages, not just user X favorite package. Several people including myself have offered to update them, only to be met with Sorry, I am maintainer not you. I will do it when I get time. It gets old after a while.

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 09:59:03AM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: I'd rather have a maintainer that insulates me from \r-issues and says no before they hit me, than have a maintainer that don't understand why stripping every \r in sight isn't such a

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 01:00:24PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Funny how you're saying We as if you are actually contributing anything other than criticism. You want me to contribute? Give me maintenance over one of the aforementioned

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 03:29:40PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 01:00:24PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Funny how you're saying We as if you are actually contributing anything other than criticism. You want me

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 06:26:01PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've taken the ball back. We don't need a new maintainer. You clearly do, as I have shown. You are just choosing not to take one on. That is your right of course. Let us

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 04:33:06PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Eric Blake wrote: I haven't relinquished maintainership of this package yet. It's still on my list of things to build, when I get a moment (although free time has been a bit sparse as of late with

Re: strace and sigprocmask

2014-05-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 01:55:51PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: Running on Windows 8.1, with 32-bit Cygwin v1.7.29. I've taken straces of a problematic area of xemacs, tidied them, and am trying to locate significant differences. I'm seeing something I don't understand, which isn't causing a

Re: mysqld no longer starts

2014-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 10:21:39AM -0500, David Blackstone wrote: Since my most recent upgrade, mysqld will not start any more. I get the following errors: $ /usr/sbin/mysqld 140507 9:48:28 [ERROR] Can't find messagefile '/usr/share/mysql/errmsg.sys' 140507 9:48:28 [Warning] Can't create test

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-05-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 07:52:22PM +, Dawid Ferenczy wrote: Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: I duplicated this. The command window that I use doesn't exhibit this behavior. I thought I'd tested pure cmd when making the recent spate of console

Re: stdio.h patches for g++ -std=c++11

2014-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 03:40:17PM +0200, zosrothko wrote: This is a patch for exposing the new stdio functions added by the c++11 standard. Without this patch the snprintf for example is not exposed as Patches for newlib should go to the newlib mailing list at sourceware.org.

Re: ioctl crash in mpg123

2014-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 07:16:25PM +0800, JonY wrote: Hi, I am debugging a crash in Cygwin 1.7.29-2 ioctl but I am not familiar with the OSS sounds API. I traced the ioctl calls and made this example, is it supposed to work? If you're asking if Cygwin is supposed to SEGV in certain situations

Re: revise Package Contributor's Guide?

2014-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
Jon, You are now the official maintainer of this page. Congratulations! Go ahead and make whatever changes you see fit to this page. cgf

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 06:10:25PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 05/01/2014 06:13 AM, Maximus5 wrote: Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: I don't see the behavior that you are specifying but I doubt that what you are seeing has anything to do

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 01:33:30AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: I think I understand now. The request if for Cygwin to do nothing when it sees escape sequences since, apparently, ConEmu will handle escape sequences on its own. This is not a bug in Cygwin but, a request for different

Re: sched.h

2014-04-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 07:53:53PM -0400, info wrote: What is the current status of sched_setaffinity() support in sched.h? Thank you! Current status: unimplemented. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: make error: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.‏

2014-04-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 07:09:00PM -0700, Richard H. McCullough wrote: I picked a bad example, since you don't have my source files. The point is this: I've been using Cygwin make for years and never had a problem.  In the last week, make suddenly changed -- it does nothing but stop on every

Re: Ctrl+c signal on Cygwin

2014-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 08:37:32PM -0600, Dean Schulze wrote: The golang code below doesn't detect any signals when run on cygwin and I hit Ctrl+c. When I run it from a DOS shell it does catch a signal when from Ctrl+c. What kind of signal does Cygwin send when Ctrl+c is typed? func main() {

Re: GIT

2014-04-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
Everyone: Maybe it isn't clear but, with the exception of newlib, the rest of the repository in which Cygwin used to reside has moved to git. Cygwin is moving too, soon. I actually had planned on doing this last year before Corinna asked me to stop (it was apparently going to impact the x86_64

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-04-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:36:17PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't see the behavior that you are specifying... I duplicated this. The command window that I use doesn't exhibit this behavior. I thought I'd tested pure cmd when making the recent spate of console handling changes

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-04-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 06:21:55PM +, Dawid Ferenczy wrote: Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: doesn't send ANSI codes to the console doesn't make a lot of sense. Cygwin doesn't send ANSI codes to the windows console since the windows console doesn't

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-04-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 08:16:00PM +, Dawid Ferenczy wrote: Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: Perhaps you aren't a native English speaker and incorrectly took offense at the mild term gobbledegook which was not directed at you. I was referring

Re: [ITA] ping

2014-04-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 06:41:47PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 25 18:32, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 25/04/2014 16:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 24 20:33, Marco Atzeri wrote: just as I built the 64 bit version and it seems to work, with the same limitation of 32 bit counterpart.

Re: Coverity Scan

2014-04-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:35:00AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 25 06:33, David Stacey wrote: Coverity Scan [1] is a commercial (paid for) static analysis tool, but they offer it to Open Source programmes for free. I was having a browse through the list of Open Source programmes using

Re: Coverity Scan

2014-04-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:17:19PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 25 11:10, Jan Nijtmans wrote: 2014-04-25 10:35 GMT+02:00 Corinna Vinschen: Yeah, I'm n ot exactly looking forward to it since I'm very familiar with CVS or SVN, but have nothing but trouble with git. But since

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-04-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 05:20:21PM +, Dawid Ferenczy wrote: Hi, I'm still having issues with applications which use alternative screen for output (LESS, MAN). When I exit that application, its output stays on screen, prompt is displayed over it. My system is as follows: OS: Windows 7 Home

Re: 64-bit vs. 32-bit

2014-04-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:26:22PM -0400, Tom Szczesny wrote: I have a 64-bit Windows laptop, and installed Cygwin several years ago. I wish to verify that I did install the 64-bit installation. I get the following results: cygcheck -V cygcheck (cygwin) 1.7.15 uname CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 If I did

Re: 64-bit vs. 32-bit

2014-04-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 08:21:57PM +0200, Erwin Waterlander wrote: Op 25-4-2014 20:13 Tom Szczesny schreef: result from uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 Toshiba 1.7.17(0.262/5/3) 2012-10-19 14:39 i686 Cygwin uname -a on 64 bit cygwin should say something like: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 PC2 1.7.28(0.271/5/3)

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 05:56:16PM +, KARR, DAVID wrote: (I really do dislike the spam filter on this list. Failing because of cygwin at cygwin.com in the body is really annoying.) If you were replying to email rather than forwarding it you wouldn't have an issue. We don't need to see the

Re: Cygwin's writev() non-standard behavior

2014-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 05:48:25PM +0200, qq qq wrote: I applied a patch to CVS. Thanks.  Although I could not see it in ViewVC -- the page stops loading at the configure script. Yeah. It does seem screwed up. One more reason to move to git as soon as I'm over the flu. cgf -- Problem

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 07:11:02PM +, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 11:42 AM Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 05:56:16PM +, KARR, DAVID wrote: (I really do

Re: [PATCH setup 3/3] Add the last element of URL path to site chooser, if interesting.

2014-04-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:53:15AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 21 19:12, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 21/04/2014 15:10, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:16:27PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: If I add the site http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwinports

Re: [PATCH setup 3/3] Add the last element of URL path to site chooser, if interesting.

2014-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:16:27PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: If I add the site http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwinports/ to setup's mirror list, using the GUI or --site option, I get two indistinguishable entries named http://mirrors.kernel.org in the mirror list box. So, to make

Re: [PATCH] minidumper patches

2014-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 06:02:19PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: Attached are a couple of patches for the minidumper utility which could probably use some review. This is your utility so, as far as I'm concerned, you have carte blanche to check things in, i.e., you don't need any approval. I didn't

Re: dos telnet.exe not showing up with cygwin ls

2014-04-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 03:35:28AM +, Andy wrote: I'm using telnet to log in to my modem for certain actions that can't be done via its web interface. The thread at http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg00124.html indicates that telnet is normally in Inetutils, and if I don't see

Re: Web page describing upload procedure

2014-04-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 07:20:38PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: On 10/23/2013 12:46 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-upload.html Can we get a link to this page listed on the older contribution guide: cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint That isn't a contribution guide

Re: SSH key for upload access

2014-04-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 07:23:38PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: Name: Eric Blake Package: m4 BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY Comment: 4096-bit RSA, converted by eblake@home from OpenSSH B3NzaC1yc2EDAQABAAACAQDahsY06ilBIRHkSiXtTxF01fLt6WSaIOL+hNqPLf

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 08:39:54PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: KARR, DAVID writes: I just saw it die, and this is the bt I get: Try thread apply all bt. gdb should have stopped in the offending thread. Given where it stopped, it looks like the culprit is wait_proc not being a valid pointer. cgf

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 04:46:24PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 11 13:09, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 02:10:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 11 09:01, Peter Rosin wrote: The newlib license is liberal enough for RedHat to relicense it under their own

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 02:45:06AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! As for new functionality and non-trivial patches, I'm sorry but we still need the copyright assignment in this case. I know that people are shying away from it, so I hope there still some who don't...

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 02:10:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 11 09:01, Peter Rosin wrote: The newlib license is liberal enough for RedHat to relicense it under their own terms? That's it, more or less. I have never seen how you can have it both ways, legally speaking. I was told not

Re: inetutils upset messages

2014-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 07:38:08AM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:28:25PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: It appears that the new setup.ini is generated before any file removals have happened, but after the copies have been done. No, that is not right

Re: inetutils upset messages

2014-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 01:17:20PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 07:38:08AM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:28:25PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: It appears that the new setup.ini is generated before any file removals have

Re: inetutils upset messages

2014-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 08:23:04PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: After sleeping on this, I see what happened now. I'll fix this in upset ASAP. Should be fixed. Thank you very much for your patience. I'll keep my paws from this for a while, though

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 01:15:12AM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2014-04-09 19:05, Christopher Faylor wrote: And, this gives me the opportunity to say a belated thank-you to you and other people who have managed, despite all odds, to contribute. Here's a knocked together list from the last 13

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 07:39:49PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: So, like Andy, pardon me if I'm not moved to tears by your difficulties submitting patches. So, again, pardon me if I'm not moved to tears by your difficulties. Oops, sorry

Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

2014-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 04:30:36PM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: PEBCAK. Totally my fault. Nothing to do with Cygwin. Cygwin snapshot is doing fine for me. Sorry for all the noise. Been there many times. Thanks for your unflagging persistence in dealing with these issues. cgf -- Problem

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
perspective. Christopher Faylor is an invaluable part of this project, but his complaining about lack of developers adds no value. Actually, it was Corinna who first complained about the lack of contributions. My original contribution to this thread noting that a person who found the source could provide

Re: inetutils upset messages

2014-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:28:25PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: Nevermind. Stupid coding error. It appears that the new setup.ini is generated before any file removals have happened, but after the copies have been done. No, that is not right. The setup.ini is created

Re: inetutils upset messages

2014-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:32:59AM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Achim Gratz writes: Christopher Faylor writes: Nevermind. Stupid coding error. It appears that the new setup.ini is generated before any file removals have happened, but after the copies have been done. I don't know

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:55:51AM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Except for the lack of an advertised bugzilla link at the Cygwin web page, Cygwin is like every one of the other projects hosted at sourceware.org/gcc.gnu.org. This includes

Re: Problem with default manifest when application provides its own

2014-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:24:03AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: I don't know if this report belongs here or if I should report a binutils bug, but I'll start here. When building emacs-w32.exe with the current binutils, I end up with an executable that won't run after it's stripped (at least on

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:37:10PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'll see what I can do about upgrading to using a more modern view which allows search. I assume that the contribution floodgate will open. Actually, I guess I won't. Here's what the web browsing software has to say about

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:50:20AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: I say all of this as one who has expressed a wish for Cygwin to move to a better VCS at least once in the past; probably more than once. The need to use CVS did not stop me from contributing a few small patches over the years. It

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:02:46PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'll once again point out that gdb, binutils, and gcc seem to get by just fine without this. And, maybe I missed something, but I don't see search on sourceforge.net either

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:43:25PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: It's possible that a site like github has more bandwidth and compute power than sourceware.org and doesn't have to worry about bogging down the system with malicious search

Re: [ITA] base-files

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:05:39PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: Package updates happen every five minutes so you were probably only a minute or so from having inetutils upload privileges. I've seen that and almost put the update out, but I have one question: I gave

Re: [ITA] base-files

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:30:02PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: That's very thoughtful of you but I think I'd rather not experiment with version number ordering. I think you should just bump the -N part to the next higher number and let Chuck deal with bumping his

inetutils upset messages

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
upset: *** /var/ftp/pub/cygwin/x86_64/setup.ini: warning - package inetutils-server refers to nonexistent external-source: inetutils This is a valid error since there was no inetutils-1.9.1-2-src.tar.xz I fixed that but I don't understand is how this ended up in the release area in that state.

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 01:34:21PM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: He's a contractor for the US Government. That makes things complicated and sometimes seemingly nonsensical. A patch (however small) means code, all my code must under the Public Domain Notice (and which can't

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 05:50:26PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 8 16:44, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 01:34:21PM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: He's a contractor for the US Government. That makes things complicated and sometimes seemingly

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 12:27:26PM -0400, Tim Prince wrote: On 4/8/2014 11:21 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Non-sarcastic translation: Don't expect us to know about your s**t. We have standard expectations for this free software project and the expectations are do not include keeping

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:46:26PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: What he says. And just if it's still not clear, despite the fact that WJM, we would *love* to get more patches. It doesn't mean your patch will go in without scrutinizing and maybe we ask for changes, but we're always open to bug

We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 05:59:53PM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: The whole POINT of this thread was that we want patches. You've just killed that point, alright. The change I was about, was merely a word-long (another keyword to be added), the discussion that sparkled was

Gold star? Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: base-files 4.2-1

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:37:10PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Base-files is a set of system configuration and setup files. Thanks for stepping up and adopting this important package Achim. It is much appreciated. I don't know if it is already in the works but this is clearly gold star worthy. In

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 09:20:59PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: It is a little known fact that one of Corinna's early messages was actually a suggestion. I suggested to *her* that a patch would be considered. She took that as a challenge

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:04:09AM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Instructions on how to check out the source are available at the cygwin web site, just like they are at every open source site. Go to the cygwin web page and look

Re: [ITA] base-files

2014-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:19:10PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:08:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 5 12:20, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: FYI, I contacted Chuck off-list 6 days ago but he didn't reply yet. Same here. I hope Chuck

Re: [ITA] base-files

2014-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 7 14:20, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:19:10PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:08:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 5 12:20, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna

Re: [ITA] base-files

2014-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:39:46PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: Done. Achim, if you would be so kind... I'll do it tomorrow evening as the latest update of the !package file hasn't picked it up yet. I have an early morning meeting tomorrow and need to fetch some sleep, so

Re: Trouble with running cygwin dll on Vortex86MX+ CPU

2014-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:28:29PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 4/7/2014 6:41 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote: snip Geetings, Larry, Some comments about this (sorry if this is off-tipic): Since you're providing this Cygwin service, I don't consider information about this service to be

Re: Request for Junctions be treated consistently

2014-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 09:52:02AM +1000, Duncan Roe wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:34:02AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Look, directory reparse points are, by and large, symlinks to another, real directory entry. The directory has a primary path, which is its own path

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:01:18AM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Hello, It looks like in order to effectively kill the process by Windows means (i.e. what Cygwin kill -f is supposed to do), the process handle must be obtained with the SYNCHRONIZE right (in addition to

Re: 1.7.28: Ctrl-C not working reliably

2014-04-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 04:43:27PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 4/4/2014 3:35 PM, Ivan Todoroski wrote: Cygwin DLL 1.7.28 32-bit Windows 8.1 64-bit (build 6.3.9600) *Steps to reproduce* 1) Open Cygwin bash prompt 2) Type: ssh blargh # or any non-existent host 3) Press Ctrl-C

Re: NOT WORKED AROUND Re: No I/O redirection under GDB

2014-04-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 08:23:37PM +1100, Duncan Roe wrote: Sorry for the noise everyone. I started to compose the last mail thinking set inferior-tty would solve my problem. Then on further testing, I found it didn't. I'm still up for fixing gdb to do the job properly - or can someone on this

Re: Tons of cygserver errors

2014-04-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 02:35:59AM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: I can’t push this through your list spam filter. Another attempt... I was trying a few times, and finally deleted the strace attachment. Let's see if this will go through. Excuse me for being a bit

Re: Tons of cygserver errors

2014-04-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:33:18AM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: cgf wrote: You seem to have no problem asking for help with cygserver without insulting cygserver in the process. Possibly you're even interested in improving cygserver. I was trying to submit a bug report in

Re: SSH key for upload access

2014-04-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:04:28PM +0400, Pavel Fedin wrote: Name: Pavel Fedin Package: onc-rpc-devel BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ssh-rsa

Latest snapshot will become Cygwin 1.7.29

2014-03-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
Unless there is an identified regression, the latest snapshot is very close to becoming Cygwin version 1.7.29. FYI. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: subversion silently fails

2014-03-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 09:11:36PM +0400, jaakov jaakov wrote: As a stab in the dark, can you try running `rebaseall` per the instructions in /usr/share/doc/rebase/README? Did not help either. It might have even slightly worsened the installation, since before having rebased, the command

Re: Public key authorization problem with latest snapshot

2014-03-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:25:07PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/20/2014 11:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 20 01:58, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! The code is now practically equivalent to what is in 1.7.28. Only the VectoredContinueHandler, which was the reason

Re: Public key authorization problem with latest snapshot

2014-03-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 09:08:35PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/29/2014 3:29 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I helped too, of course, by offering important I don't like that implementation style feedback. It was one of those 50/50 collaborations where one person does all the work

Re: [ITP] onc-rpc-devel-2_19_20140211-1

2014-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:02:37AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 24 17:14, Pavel Fedin wrote: Hello! So why not just provide a single onc-rpc-devel, that should be entirely sufficent. onc-rpc-headers is obsolete, ignore it. The idea of creating onc-rpc-devel came to me in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.24.51-2 (x86/x86_64)

2014-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 09:55:39AM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: CGF wrote I don't support those packages so there is no need to pollute the thread with pointless observations It was just to remember thet Cygwin distro needs alsot those upgrades... I suppose that JonY reads also this thread..

Re: Question about the ps command, missing option -o to format the output

2014-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:18:28PM +0100, m0viefreak wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:59:04AM +, Holger Dietze wrote: I have searched the man page and the Cygwin projects, but did not found a way to get this working. Cygwin uses a custom ps program that can also handle windows processes but

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.24.51-2 (x86/x86_64)

2014-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This is a refresh against the official git repository. The binutils package contains the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities. It is available in the Devel category under Cygwin's setup. This update contains a few bug fixes.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.24.51-2 (x86/x86_64)

2014-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:16:44AM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: CGF wrote: This update contains a few bug fixes. Specifically it should address: [...] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-03/threads.html#00317 [...] Indeed.. but only for x86_64-pc-cygwin.. We need a similar binutils upgrade

Updated: binutils-2.24.51-2 (x86/x86_64)

2014-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This is a refresh against the official git repository. The binutils package contains the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities. It is available in the Devel category under Cygwin's setup. This update contains a few bug fixes.

Re: thanks to a great support team

2014-03-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:25:03PM -0400, Steven Bardwell wrote: We have successfully ported our software to Cygwin -- in the past we have ported this source code to SFU/SUA, Linux, AIX, HPUX, SCO, iSeries PASE, and OSX. The Cygwin port was no harder than any other port, and the result is working

Re: patch for command line containing equals sign

2014-03-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 09:10:05PM +, Weber, Mark wrote: See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2014-q1/msg00017.html and related. Thanks for posting how the new behavior is different from the old. I am having a related issue, with C++ code that parses the command line. The command line we

Re: sox - package is broken

2014-03-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 08:14:16PM +, David Stacey wrote: On 18/03/2014 23:16, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 03:32:18PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Ok. I see a SEGV with cat . Investigating. Should be fixed in the current snapshot. Thank you for taking another

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