Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 11:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 21 10:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 21 02:45, Andrey Repin wrote: The setup: A Win7 machine - member of a NT4-style domain. (No AD yet.) [...] I'm wondering if that's a side effect of using a NT4 domain. This isn't supported in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 10:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 21 02:45, Andrey Repin wrote: Sorry for the holdup, I was trying to crack it by myself. But I was unsuccessful, and have to reach for help. Even the most striped down configuration doesn't produce visible improvements. The setup: A

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 02:45, Andrey Repin wrote: Sorry for the holdup, I was trying to crack it by myself. But I was unsuccessful, and have to reach for help. Even the most striped down configuration doesn't produce visible improvements. The setup: A Win7 machine - member of a NT4-style domain. (No AD

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to do now is something like: db_home: /%H/cygwin I've used db_home: %H/cygwin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: I uploaded a snapshot and I'm going to release another test release. The snapshot and the test release are the same thing at the moment? Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 14 13:19, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: I uploaded a snapshot and I'm going to release another test release. The snapshot and the test release are the same thing at the moment? Yes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 14:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 13 13:31, Achim Gratz wrote: Would it be possible to give the homeDirectory preference over homeDrive? This order would be more useful for Cygwin since Cygwin doesn't map the drive when the user logs in. The idea of the windows scheme and

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 14:12, cyg Simple wrote: From: Corinna Vinschen On Jan 13 09:37, cyg Simple wrote: user's Windows default environment at the time of a user context switch (for instance, logon via ssh). In that case, leaving it as is today would mean to *drop* TMP/TEMP from the environment,

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread cyg Simple
From: Corinna Vinschen On Jan 13 09:37, cyg Simple wrote: -Original Message- From: Achim Gratz Corinna Vinschen writes: Which means what for the Cygwin DLL? Dropping TMP/TEMP from the merged Windows env? It makes sense, I think. Of course, there will be

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 06:53, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to do now is something like: db_home: /%H/cygwin I've used

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: Which means what for the Cygwin DLL? Dropping TMP/TEMP from the merged Windows env? It makes sense, I think. Of course, there will be others... Just for this question: if the Cygwin DLL always handles it no matter what, then I think

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread cyg Simple
-Original Message- From: Achim Gratz Corinna Vinschen writes: Which means what for the Cygwin DLL? Dropping TMP/TEMP from the merged Windows env? It makes sense, I think. Of course, there will be others... My process is dependent on the fact that TMP/TEMP have in/out

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 12:02, Achim Gratz wrote: [using the 20150113 snapshot already] Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: The leading slash is in integral part of the path scheme, The above is not recognized as valid entry at all. It doesn't work differently now that I've added

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Achim Gratz
[using the 20150113 snapshot already] Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: The leading slash is in integral part of the path scheme, The above is not recognized as valid entry at all. It doesn't work differently now that I've added the slash, though. To solve the problems

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: No. How often do you change such a central setting as the db_home setting for all users? Almost never. But testing gets more involved in this way. I thought it's clear how Cygwin does it. Here it is: Is homeDrive non-empty? If

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 13:31, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: No. How often do you change such a central setting as the db_home setting for all users? Almost never. But testing gets more involved in this way. I thought it's clear how Cygwin does it. Here

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 09:37, cyg Simple wrote: -Original Message- From: Achim Gratz Corinna Vinschen writes: Which means what for the Cygwin DLL? Dropping TMP/TEMP from the merged Windows env? It makes sense, I think. Of course, there will be others... My process is dependent

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to do now is something like: db_home: /%H/cygwin I've used db_home: %H/cygwin Meep! Did you read the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 15:50, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to do now is something like: db_home: /%H/cygwin I've used

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 10 21:44, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to do now is something like: db_home: /%H/cygwin I've used db_home: %H/cygwin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to do now is something like: db_home: /%H/cygwin I've used db_home: %H/cygwin Meep! Did you read

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to do now is something like: db_home: /%H/cygwin I've used db_home: %H/cygwin instead. That works, sort of. The windows

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 18:41, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: but that would produce some rather unwieldy and long paths for certain users. So, instead of specifying the users' home directory directly I would like to mount or auto-mount /home/≤user to the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 18:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 20 19:19, Achim Gratz wrote: Another thing is that the Cygwin home directory is always a sub-directory of the windows home in our environment, so it would be useful if there was a placeholder for the windows home directory (%H or some such)

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-07 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: but that would produce some rather unwieldy and long paths for certain users. So, instead of specifying the users' home directory directly I would like to mount or auto-mount /home/≤user to the actual (network) home directory. Hmm.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 20 19:19, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: The major change in this new release will be the new method to read account (passwd and group) information from the Windows user databases directly, without the requirement to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-27 Thread Bryan Berns
Finally had a chance to test out the new release, albeit in a very limited fashion. On our multi-domain forest with SID-History enabled, running 'ls -l' was able to lookup account names for groups and users on files. Some ACEs had SIDs that would only be in present SID-History and those worked

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bryan Berns! It would be nice if the names presented would be in what Microsoft calls the NameSamCompatible format instead of DOMAIN+USERNAME If you mean DOMAIN\USER scheme, it would not work for obvious reasons. I.e., you can't have a file name with [back]slash. format. I see

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-27 Thread Bryan Berns
Thanks for the reply, Andrey. I'll take a look at the archives for February. I'm not sure how it'd be obvious given that's it's just descriptive metadata for the SID, but I'll try to educate myself before rehashing a previous discussion. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bryan Berns! I'll take a look at the archives for February. I'm not sure how it'd be obvious given that's it's just descriptive metadata for the SID, but I'll try to educate myself before rehashing a previous discussion. This is where POSIX is different from Windows. What is

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: The major change in this new release will be the new method to read account (passwd and group) information from the Windows user databases directly, without the requirement to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to generate Unix-like uid and gid. I've just set

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release. The version number is 1.7.34-003. This is the Christmas/New Year release and the last one for 2014. Not much has changed compared to 1.7.34-002. A few minor bugfixes and the new