Re: Is there "yum" for cygwin?

way to install? setup.exe is the only officially supported installation method. If you want a command line version, try: setup.exe -P maven -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Invoking GUI programs over SSH

hem to check out later in LF format. They won't - they'll come out in > CRLF format again, because of the way git works in Cygwin with > autocrlf=true set. Use cygwin git when using cygwin. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Single quotes inside here document

ly, do this better? This is a known bug in $() parsing in older versions of bash that has since been fixed in newer upstream bash. Try using the experimental bash 4.1.9-1 instead. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Single quotes inside here document

On 01/18/2011 07:54 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: > I wonder about the form: <<'EOF' and similar, > versus:

Re: alias command not effective

into another command, thereby avoiding the subshell that would limit the alias to just the child shell. This is not cygwin-specific. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied

ecial mount options. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error

tar is entirely within its rights to complain (the directory changed while trying to read it, so the tar file may be incomplete). Locking st_size at 0 avoids the issue entirely, whether or not upstream tar agrees that checking changes in st_mtim but ignoring changes in st_size would be a more

Re: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied

f it is a NetApp device, or is it some other file system altogether?) > knel...@cobqdppj1 ~ > $ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/q > Device Type: 7 > Characteristics: 10 > Volume Name: > Serial Number : 125567530 > Max Filenamelength : 1

Re: Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error

s problems with a directory size of 0, should Cygwin > just always set st_size to 0 for directories? Independent of the > underlying FS? Always returning 0 size for all directories, regardless of FS, is certainly the simplest workaround. I'd say go for it. -- Eric Blake ebl...@r

Re: Adding madvise function in cygwin with a #define

V_* constants. That said, since Linux supports madvise and cygwin tries to emulate Linux, a patch to implement madvise() is more than welcome. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied

able inodes. Have you tried the latest cygwin1.dll snapshot, which has some patches to work around at least one additional broken file system beyond what 1.7.7 supported? And if that still causes the warning for you, then we need more details about your file system (/usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdri

Re: New version of w3m 0.5.2 Crashes - GDB help needed (SOLVED)

uot;), "ja", 2) == 0) { Yep, getenv() is allowed to return NULL for unset vars, and strncmp(NULL) is undefined behavior (typically a crash). The fix is to correct the code to check that getenv() returned something before blindly handing it to strncmp. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com

Re: Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error

e behaviour? Giving us more details about your filesystem would help us answer that question. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied

process reads that directories contents; maybe the easiest workaround would be to teach cygwin stat() to always display samba directory sizes as 0 during stat. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: O

Re: What version of cygwin is considered stable on Windows 7?

o help offload the stability issues out of your shop and onto the folks at Red Hat, and where support for prior versions is taken more seriously by nature of the support contract: http://www.redhat.com/services/custom/cygwin/ -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Please don't resolve native symbolic links in cygwin_conv_path

ould add a new CCP_ flag to cygwin_conv_path's what argument that allows the user the choice between following or stopping at native symlinks? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Cygwin-1.7.7: mv appends .exe to directory if matching .exe exists

aries with no extension, just as in Unix, but then native windows apps couldn't easily run them). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Cygwin-1.7.7: mv appends .exe to directory if matching .exe exists

, and trying to be smarter when both directory and .exe executable exist; and the patch may need to be in coreutils rather than in cygwin1.dll (since cp is doing some extra legwork for .exe magic in the first place). Good thing I'm building coreutils 8.9 today :) -- Eric Blake eb

Re: Cygwin 1.7.7 Entry point problems

aving the wrong dll versions installed, but we can't say for sure unless you give us more information to work with: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html such as including 'cygcheck -svr' output for starters. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-268

Re: 'split' Appending Too Many Characters

ive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-12/msg00109.html and will be fixed soon (either by upstream coreutils 8.9, or by back-porting that patch into cygwin coreutils-8.8-2). > > Ideas? Adding '-a2' may serve as a decent workaround in the meantime. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.co

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [experimental] Updated: bash-4.1.9-1

/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin bash maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: = To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, l

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

in the Windows 7 guest at all. > > Can somebody confirm or deny this? Windows does not provide this information, therefore cygwin1.dll cannot provide it in the syscalls that uptime uses to determine this information. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virt

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [experimental] Updated: readline-6.1.2-1, libreadline7-6.1.2-1

== Note that downloads from cygwin.com aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cyg

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tar-1.25-1

that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin tar

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.8-1

that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils

Re: df -l not working on 1.7.7

ng coreutils 8.8 build. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: bug: df -l considers no filesystems local

On 03/31/2010 12:11 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/31/2010 11:59 AM, Erik Inge Bolsø wrote: >> On a fresh cygwin install, df -l returns: >> >> df: no file systems processed > > Thanks for the reminder. This has been previously reported, but I still > haven't

Re: git over ssh

? I > am ready to help testing... Then please test the snapshot, since there have been fixes put into cygwin1.dll that are supposed to help the behavior. If the snapshot fixes things for you, then next month's cygwin 1.7.8 will be great; if not, then speak up now. -- Eric Blake

Re: Where is 'getconf' utility?

es, POSIX requires getconf(1) to exist. Cygwin isn't (quite) POSIX compliant, yet. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

program_invocation_name

th my time to go ahead and submit a patch to add this? Or is our party line still that as long as you are using non-portable means, you should just continue to use readlink("/proc/self/exe") when porting to cygwin? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtual

Re: findutils 4.5.9-2

t; fine. Is there a problem with "find" in 4.5.9-2 ? Has something changed? Only that it was built against newer cygwin, and possibly against other newer dlls, where you may be suffering from dll version mismatch. What does 'cygcheck /bin/find' say? -- Eric Blake ebl...@

Re: How to specify full path in Makefile?

On 12/16/2010 06:48 PM, gviewer wrote: > Can I replace the relative path "data" with a full > path like > > DATA_DIR ="C:\GeneTagger\data" // or DATA_DIR ="C:/GeneTagger/data" No, because those aren't posix-style paths. But you can use DATA_DIR=&

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git-1.7.3.3-1, git{k,-gui,-completion,-svn}-1.7.3.3-1

andwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- E

Re: Test command giving inconsistent results.

ecking if /bin/test vs. bash's builtin test have different behaviors, since coreutils and bash might be using slightly different syscalls in implementing 'test -r'? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: asciidoc-8.6.3-1

ons. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin asc

Re: Executable named "[.exe" in c:\cygwin\bin?

et again just this year to try and tighten down all the subtleties, it's no wonder that shells vary widely in its implementation. http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#index-g_t_0040command_007bset_007d-1719 http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=52 -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: coreutils 8.5-2: lacks /usr/share/man/man1/[.1.gz

ltins, like shopt.1. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: upper limit to df reported available size?

ously be one of the first apps to recompile with the new sizes, as a good testcase that we got the resizing done correctly. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: 1.7.7: upper limit to df reported available size?

lot of >>> planning to pull off in one go. >> > > Why does sigset_t have to be 64-bits? Real-time signals? Yep - POSIX requires RTSIG_MAX to be a minimum of 8, but on cygwin, it is 1 because we ran out of space in sigset_t. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2

Re: 1.7.7: upper limit to df reported available size?

cts to struct stat, among others). In other words, all good changes, but certainly something that will take a lot of planning to pull off in one go. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

tl -echoke > > Can anyone duplicate this problem with a non-bash shell? And can this possibly be related to the previously reported issue where bash's choice of terminal control functions would cause execution of gitk as a background process to exit bash? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redha

Re: ulimit inconsistency

in the usage. Patches welcome. Bash outputs a hard-coded string which corresponds to the union of all supported options across all architectures, rather than customizing the string to the few settings that can actually be supported on a given architecture. It hasn't bothered me enou

Re: problem with find in newly Updated: findutils-4.5.9-2

icting versions of cygwin1.dll reachable on your PATH. What does 'cygcheck /bin/find' show? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-4.5.9-2

S: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: = To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the &q

Re: Problem with Bash regex test case sensitivity

ash included). Now, what would be really nice is if all implementations treated unspecified behavior for [A-Z] as meaning a sane synonym for [[:upper:]], but that's not going to happen any time soon. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library

Re: Problem with Bash regex test case sensitivity

order :-0 I tried to figure out why the > collating sequence changes with the language settings but didn't get > anywhere beyond the fact that it _does_ change. Oh well.. try, try > again. Read the FAQ. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash/, E9. -- Eric Blake ebl...@r

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [experimental] Updated: findutils-4.5.9-2

make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: = To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " t

Re: 1.7.x: m4 does not show any reaction

27;s the exit status here? I still think you might be suffering from a missing dependency dll. Does running m4.exe under a cmd window give you a popup box about a missing entry point? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Strange System Variable set

se where they negatively affect a child process, then you can use env -u to unset them for the child process. There's no way to unset them in the bash process, but there's also no way for the bash process to misbehave because they are present. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com

Re: 1.7.x: m4 does not show any reaction

. It already is a dependency; I just checked the setup.hint on the cygwin site. Rerun setup.exe, and it should offer to install libsigsegv2-2.8-1 for you; I'm not sure why you missed it when you first installed, unless you chose not to pull in all required dependency packages. Meanwhile

Re: 1.7.x: m4 does not show any reaction

27;re missing a dependent .dll; probably libsigsegv. What does: cygcheck /bin/m4 say? I maintain upstream m4 and build on cygwin all the time, with no problems on my end. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Des

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffstat-1.54-1

choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin diffstat maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: = To

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: asciidoc-8.6.2-1

ons. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin asc

Re: Executable bit check

no common document to point to when describing how they should work. There are at least 5 known variations of OS interfaces to acls covered in the gnulib code that underlies coreutils' efforts to preserve ACLs when using cp -p. Cygwin's version borrowed more from Solaris' heritage than Linux. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Harddisks and Patitions - Mappings: Win <-> Cygwin

cgi?id=649310 cygwin 1.7.8 (and current snapshots) add the ability to do tricks like: > $ cygpath -w /dev/sda1 > \\.\C: > $ cygpath -w /proc/sys/Device/CdRom0 > \\.\D: as a way of validating that you have selected the correct raw device. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com

Re: [patch 8/8] Convert between Windows and Unix paths directly on command line

cs_ctlx_keymap); > +#endif I'm not so convinced about this one, particularly about the fact that it consumes a default binding rather than requiring explicit effort to enable. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [patch 7/8] Backport shellword movement functions from bash 4.1

_shellword, -1); > + rl_add_defun ("shell-backward-kill-word", bash_backward_kill_shellword, > -1); Hmm, here, it probably makes more sense for me to bite the bullet and port my cygwin-specific stuff from bash 3.2 into bash 4.1, rather than trying to backport bash 4.1 stuff into my cygwi

Re: [patch 6/8] Document completion_strip_exe in bash

ense (and even if you do, it is such a fundamental operation and certainly seems more efficient to build in below the compgen layer than making all compgen clients have to do it themselves). I guess I really need to find time and start testing this, to push out a new cygwin bash build. -- Eric Bla

Re: localtime and TZ

ation used by ctime , localtime , mktime , and strftime . If TZ is absent from the environment, implementation-defined default timezone information shall be used. But not the best of design, so a patch to fix cygwin to copy Linux' behavior is probably appreciated. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: localtime and TZ

On 10/29/2010 03:54 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/29/2010 03:44 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> While trying to debug a timezone problem in the Cygwin build of emacs, I've >> come across a difference between Cygwin and Linux in the behavior of >> localtime with respect to T

Re: localtime and TZ

gt; printf ("TZ unset; hour = %d\n", localtime (&now)->tm_hour); > putenv ("TZ=PST8"); > printf ("TZ=PST8; hour = %d\n", localtime (&now)->tm_hour); > unset_TZ (); > printf ("TZ unset again; hour = %d\n", localtime (&now)->tm_hour); > } If properly using unsetenv("TZ") still causes problems, then we should investigate further. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: libiconv

riting the real that is included by installing the libiconv package? If so, rerun setup.exe and reinstall libiconv. It's a known issue that installing a self-built cygwin version installs too many files, including clobbering when it shouldn't. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-8

Re: Bash problems, strace, performance, etc.

omatic enabling if you install the package, so that's the direction I'm leaning in). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cyg

Re: peflags and STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

the program once it is executed. > Does anybody know how can I solve this problem? Thanks, Run it under gdb, and figure out where your bad code is. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports:

Re: screen 4.0.3-5 does not respect $SHELL

On 10/13/2010 09:29 AM, Eric Blake wrote: (3) teach upstream screen that it should use getpwent() and honor the pw_shell entry for the user, rather than relying on $SHELL (4) Use $SHELL if it is in the environment, otherwise, use getpwent() and honor pw_shell rather than hard-coding /bin/sh

Re: screen 4.0.3-5 does not respect $SHELL

is the default shell for Cygwin. Users who wanted to use a different shell could override it in their .screenrc files. (3) teach upstream screen that it should use getpwent() and honor the pw_shell entry for the user, rather than relying on $SHELL -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com

Re: x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ can't find -ldl

ables, not cygwin executables. And mingw lacks dlopen. You'll never get this to work. If you want to compile 64-bit cygwin apps, then help us develop a 64-bit cygwin dll first. But for now, ALL cygwin apps are 32-bit, because cygwin has not yet been ported to 64-bit execution. -- E

Re: Which CHOST?

latest and greatest config.guess program that should be shared by all GNU software. And while not all packages ported to cygwin are GNU software, there is a large number of non-GNU packages that also uses GNU config.guess and friends to base decisions on. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-80

Re: Which CHOST?

and while those programs should probably be fixed upstream, they at least have the justification that they match the current config.guess program output, and that you probably shouldn't have supplied a triplet that wasn't documented in config.guess in the first place. -- Eric Blake ebl...

Re: hostname command

Bash does not have a builtin hostname. When you type hostname in bash, you ARE using /bin/hostname, which is currently from coreutils. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

Re: trouble posting to cygwin-apps

s within big companies where everybody _must_ use Windows and those disclaimers are always attached to outgoing mail. No one said you had to use your company's outgoing mail. gmane provides a relatively decent web-based interface for posting to this list sans company disclaimer. -- Eri

Re: mintty postinstall failure - attn: cygutils maintainer

On 10/06/2010 06:28 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 6 October 2010 12:54, Eric Blake wrote: Any reason why with my setup, mintty.sh exits with status 3 when run by setup.exe, but with status 0 when I run it by hand? /var/log/setup.log.full doesn't give any hints; what else can I try to debug the

mintty postinstall failure

Any reason why with my setup, mintty.sh exits with status 3 when run by setup.exe, but with status 0 when I run it by hand? /var/log/setup.log.full doesn't give any hints; what else can I try to debug the issue? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualiz

Re: for Cygwin?

but cygwin doesn't yet implement C99. Patches welcome. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: ht

Re: assertion

sion of cygwin1.dll is 1.7.7), the bug will be gone. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.co

Re: backtics

er 'set -vx' may be informative. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Un

Re: [bulk] - R: /dev/ttys* under cygwin problem

is in itself a bit misleading. But it has to, because of devices which can be added and removed on the fly, whereas the script creating the placeholder files is only run once. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem re

Re: how to enable the very convenient copy/paste editing method in Cgywin?

how I can get back this beloved feature. Any advices are greatly appreciated! Use mintty or rxvt instead of the windows console. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

Re: Unacceptable behavior -- slowing down script execution

sensitivity (which _I_ do), then bash-completion is a must. If you don't mind losing out on the extra context sensitivity and want bash to use less resources, then avoid bash-completion. It's up to you. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization li

Re: awk gsub problem

the traditional behavior of just the 26 lowercase letters. If you can convince the glibc folks that [a-z] should have the traditional behavior, more power to you. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2010-09/msg00030.html -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt v

Re: where was mention of what creates NUL files?

ther than lower-level NT API), including your file Explorer, have a hard time figuring out what cygwin did. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: htt

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git-1.7.2.3-1, git{k,-gui,-completion,-svn}-1.7.2.3-1

andwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- E

Re: 1.7.7 ln & .exe magic

.exe suffix would break that attempt). So the .exe magic is more than just when listing a file. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:/

Re: AW: [bulk] - Re: Some manpages are missing

someone rewrite them ?? Or take existing man pages from somewhere else, and modify them appropriately. Same difference. See the list archives for other discussions of this issue. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: Some manpages are missing

On 09/15/2010 08:20 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: Hi, it seems to me that some manpages are missing: Yep. No one has volunteered to write them yet. Do someone know what's going on ?? Would you like to volunteer? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Li

Re: incredibly slow file listing script on windoze 7 pro 4 core 64 bit

e stat information just to be thrown away by the caller. [1]version 6 of that kernel patch is still being debated; as recently as http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1008.2/00274.html -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://l

Re: How does one change the default shell?

t that /bin/sh defaults to bash in cygwin). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.ht

Re: How 'exec 1<&-; exec 2<&-' work?

e same effect without the 'exec'. And none of this is cygwin-specific. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentati

Re: How does one change the default shell?

ders that form threading. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: How does one change the default shell?

e the ksh language and features Every time that I write a script, I have to remember to put in the shebang line (#!/bin/pdksh) or half the time my scripts won't work. By the way, please don't commandeer threads. Start a new thread for a new topic. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com

Re: How does one change the default shell?

preferred shell (some tools, like mintty, honor that setting). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: simulating console input

already-established non-working 'echo Y | program'. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: .exe magic in Cygwin

ly via the supported mechanism). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe i

Re: .exe magic in Cygwin

implement that magic in this extend into every package that I would like to run on Cygwin or is this rather special in the case of coreutils? Coreutils tends to be an exception, because it is so core to the system. Other tools that I also maintain, like m4 or findutils, port with 0 patches. --

Re: Windows-style pathname does not work as command - why?

Or is it some known irregularity (resulting from trying to handle both Windows- and Unix-style pathnames) that couldn't be resolved? Oh, I'm sure that bash could be patched to be smarter about DOS-style pathnames. But no one has been bothered by it enough to write a patch y

Re: can't compile setup.exe

32api-3.14. Would an appropriate set of 'using' directives help? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentatio

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sharutils-4.10-2

make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin sharutils maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: = To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " t

Re: libc and libm info files

ion in the info file(s), for instance read the last page of the sed man page. I think she meant the info dir of the cygwin package (which was duplicated with cygwin-doc), and not the info dir of all packages. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization li

Re: bash igncr documentation - where?

gwin/bash.README, are the definitive sources of all documentation to cygwin-specific patches to bash (of which igncr is one). [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2010-08/msg00015.html -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Pr

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems

describes how to form a proper patch submission (and it doesn't go to this list, either). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.co

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