Re: cygpath -w converts relative paths to absolute windows paths

2017-02-08 Thread Roger Qiu
maybe there's some backwards compatibility issues, then perhaps a flag that can be set to mean `--really-relative`. Thanks, Roger On 8/02/2017 2:30 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Roger Qiu! Hi, I've found that `cygpath --windows '../` will give back an absolute windows path. I thought th

cygpath -w converts relative paths to absolute windows paths

2017-02-06 Thread Roger Qiu
Hi, I've found that `cygpath --windows '../` will give back an absolute windows path. I thought this would only happen if you provide the `--absolute` flag, or when the path is a special cygwin path. But this occurs just for normal directories. I have come across a situation where I need

Mosh connection errors

2017-01-29 Thread Roger Qiu
Hi Everybody, Upon trying to execute mosh 1.2.5 from the official packages, it gives back this: ``` mosh root@host bash: No such file or directory write: Broken pipe /usr/bin/mosh: Did not find remote IP address (is SSH ProxyCommand disabled?). ``` No idea what could be causing, but

Issues with PHP PCRE and with libass4 vs libass5

2017-01-13 Thread Roger Qiu
Hi All, I was struggling to get the new PHP version working in cygwin until I found this: https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-11/msg00336.html Is it a good idea to make `pcre.jit=0;` to be false for php-pcre package? Otherwise there's no other information as to why PHP7 fails now for many

man segmentation fault

2015-06-01 Thread Roger Qiu
Hi, I just discovered recently that `man *` where * is anything results in a segmentation fault. The stackdump is: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at rip=0018017855D rax=766972646779632F rbx=000100418290 rcx=000600049E30 rdx= rsi=000100418280