Re: Somebody having access to a Windows machine with 64 CPUs?

2015-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 10, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: for testing, I need somebody running a small test program on a machine with more than 64 CPUs under Windows 7 or later. I don’t think that’s possible today. Windows 7 Professional is limited to 2 physical

Re: Somebody having access to a Windows machine with 64 CPUs?

2015-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 10, 2015, at 10:23 AM, Warren Young wrote: On Aug 10, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: for testing, I need somebody running a small test program on a machine with more than 64 CPUs under Windows 7 or later. I don’t think that’s possible today.

Re: commands spends time in cygheap_user

2015-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 10 05:00, mku wrote: Oh, sorry. I did a fresh 2.2 install to avoid side effects from my previous updated one and forgot to modify the nsswitch.conf. After correcting it, the result now is the same from the time aspect but loading of the net dlls have now disappeared as expected. +++ 8

Re: X: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

2015-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Markus Hoenicka writes: HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Users\username I don't know if these are relevant if you use roaming profiles though. The path I've shown as $HOME is not arcane at all. You still haven't shown what $HOME is set in Cygwin, only what path it maps to on Windows. windows

Re: X: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

2015-08-10 Thread Markus Hoenicka
At 2015-08-10 18:11, Achim Gratz was heard to say: Markus Hoenicka writes: HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Users\username I don't know if these are relevant if you use roaming profiles though. The path I've shown as $HOME is not arcane at all. You still haven't shown what $HOME is set in Cygwin, only

Re: xorg-server 1.17.2-1 and dexpot - X11 windows disappear

2015-08-10 Thread Nem W Schlecht
I received an e-mail this morning from a gentleman named Joachim König-Baltes concerning this issue. He found an old post in the Dexpot forums with a different issue, but the solution is working for him (and for me) and now the latest version of xorg-server in Cygwin is working with Dexpot again.

Somebody having access to a Windows machine with 64 CPUs?

2015-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi folks, for testing, I need somebody running a small test program on a machine with more than 64 CPUs under Windows 7 or later. In fact, the only thing I'm interested in is the output generated by a certain system call. Ideally the machine has more than 64 logical CPUs, but not exactly a

Re: Somebody having access to a Windows machine with 64 CPUs?

2015-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 10 10:23, Warren Young wrote: On Aug 10, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: for testing, I need somebody running a small test program on a machine with more than 64 CPUs under Windows 7 or later. I don’t think that’s possible today. Windows 7

Re: Somebody having access to a Windows machine with 64 CPUs?

2015-08-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! On Aug 10, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: for testing, I need somebody running a small test program on a machine with more than 64 CPUs under Windows 7 or later. I don’t think that’s possible today. Windows 7 Professional is

Re: Somebody having access to a Windows machine with 64 CPUs?

2015-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: I was referring to Windows 7 because that's the first OS (including it's 2008R2 server version) which supports more than 64 CPUs and the OS calls required to use and fetch info on them, GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx. I think the only practical use of this

Re: xorg-server 1.17.2-1 and dexpot - X11 windows disappear

2015-08-10 Thread Nem W Schlecht
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Nem W Schlecht nem...@gmail.com wrote: In case that forum post goes away, the solution is to create a file name 'myweschsel.ini' in the Dexpot install directory and simply put the following 2 lines in it and restart Dexpot. My sincere apologies for yet

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: poco-1.6.1-1

2015-08-10 Thread David Stacey
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * libpoco-devel-1.6.1-1 * libpoco-doc-1.6.1-1 * libpoco31-1.6.1-1 * poco-1.6.1-1 The POCO C++ Libraries are open source C++ class libraries that simplify and accelerate the development of network-centric, portable applications

vim 7.4 spontaneously changes the working file

2015-08-10 Thread grimpen
i have just done a fresh reinstall of cygwin. now vim is misbehaving: for every file i open with vim, vim usually changes the 1st character of the 1st line to g. more exactly, if the 1st line is empty, vim makes no change, if the 1st line contains only blanks, vim changes the last blank to g if

Re: vim 7.4 spontaneously changes the working file

2015-08-10 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2015-08-10, grimpen wrote: i have just done a fresh reinstall of cygwin. now vim is misbehaving: for every file i open with vim, vim usually changes the 1st character of the 1st line to g. more exactly, if the 1st line is empty, vim makes no change, if the 1st line contains only blanks,

Re: fork: can't reserve memory for parent stack

2015-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 8 12:11, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 05/08/2015 09:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 3 23:37, Marco Atzeri wrote: Testing on 64bit latest pure-ftp, I hit this issue: /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd.exe -d 1 [main] pure-ftpd 8860 E:\cygwin64\usr\sbin\pure-ftpd.exe: *** fatal error in

Re: commands spends time in cygheap_user

2015-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 7 12:51, mku wrote: Dear Corinna, thanks for the tip, but I had done it before (and modified it to my Needs). To be safe, I did a complete fresh Installation and made the passwd and group files as described. But the result is the same as before (a ls command takes 5 to 10 secs to

Re: X: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

2015-08-10 Thread Markus Hoenicka
At 2015-08-07 11:26, Jon TURNEY was heard to say: On 06/08/2015 17:56, Markus Hoenicka wrote: I've upgraded my setup yesterday and ran into a problem running the X server. X ran just fine before the upgrade, just like any X client I threw at it. I'm aware that some defaults have changed in the

Re: X: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

2015-08-10 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/10/2015 3:41 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote: At 2015-08-07 11:26, Jon TURNEY was heard to say: Is there anything unusual about your home directory? Well, we use roaming profiles here at work. This has caused problems before, both in Cygwin and non-Cygwin apps. I've modified

Re: can we see details of dependencies before committing to an install?

2015-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Lester Ingber ingber at alumni.caltech.edu writes: I do not see any way we can see details of dependencies before committing to an install? Patches welcome, I suppose. For example, if I want to install Cygwin Octave, I can click on several packages. When I continue to install, I have a

Re: X: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

2015-08-10 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Am 2015-08-10 15:13, schrieb cyg Simple: On 8/10/2015 3:41 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote: At 2015-08-07 11:26, Jon TURNEY was heard to say: Is there anything unusual about your home directory? Well, we use roaming profiles here at work. This has caused problems before, both in Cygwin and

Re: X: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

2015-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Markus Hoenicka markus.hoenicka at mhoenicka.de writes: I've noticed the discussion about those changes, but I don't fully understand the impact of them (and hopefully I don't have to). But I don't think my problem argues against Corinna's changes because HOME does not exist in my Windows

Re: X: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

2015-08-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, cyg Simple! Is there anything unusual about your home directory? Well, we use roaming profiles here at work. This has caused problems before, both in Cygwin and non-Cygwin apps. I've modified /usr/bin/startxwin like this: $ diff /usr/bin/startxwin.orig /usr/bin/startxwin

Re: commands spends time in cygheap_user

2015-08-10 Thread mku
Oh, sorry. I did a fresh 2.2 install to avoid side effects from my previous updated one and forgot to modify the nsswitch.conf. After correcting it, the result now is the same from the time aspect but loading of the net dlls have now disappeared as expected. +++ 8 - 280 44318 [main] ls

Sun Earth Moon Orbiter Model Made from Brass, type:RZJJBTPRIZ

2015-08-10 Thread lb98534408wengbo8
mechanical solar system model and mechanical sun earth moon system model, mainly made from brass, tracking the solar system. see http://www.orrerystore.com/?q=RZJJBTPRIZ . -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: X: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

2015-08-10 Thread Markus Hoenicka
At 2015-08-10 15:44, Achim Gratz was heard to say: Markus Hoenicka markus.hoenicka at mhoenicka.de writes: I've noticed the discussion about those changes, but I don't fully understand the impact of them (and hopefully I don't have to). But I don't think my problem argues against Corinna's

Re: X: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

2015-08-10 Thread Markus Hoenicka
At 2015-08-10 16:11, Markus Hoenicka erred: And why does it *not* change if I set HOME to a local drive? s/HOME/XAUTHORITY/ -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Warren Young writes: But that’s a side issue, because I don’t see why you think you need Busybox in the first place, unless it is to be able to run postinst scripts. Can’t you just say that that setup-*.tar.xz package never has a postinst script, so that all you need to do is un-tar it? The

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 10, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Warren Young writes: In that sense, setup.exe is already bootstrapped: it has everything within itself to be able to replace itself. I do like the concept of a self-contained executable, but teaching setup.exe new tricks is likely a

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 7 15:05, Warren Young wrote: You’d have to couple this either with a MoveFileEx(…, MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT) call or a background task that replaces /bin/setup.exe with %LOCALAPPDATA%/Temp/setup-v$next.exe. Why? I was assuming a world where setup.exe lives in /bin and you can

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: Link? I'd think Jon needs to give his OK for me to post it or he should post it himself. I'm using setup with the -m option exclusively so I'm mostly interested that this still works. That's pretty extensively tested by now since that is what I use for the

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Warren Young writes: Isn’t the whole point of this discussion that setup.exe already knows all the tricks it needs to in order to do what we want here, except for the “replace setup.exe in place” issue I’ve brought up separately? Well, setup.exe today has a lot of probably bitrotted features

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 10, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: There have been a bunch of attempts in the past at replacing setup.exe. At least 3, that I can think of. All have fizzled. These were? The Debian and Red Hat packaging systems have both been ported to Cygwin. Those could be used along

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Warren Young writes: Replacing core infrastructure like this almost never works out smoothly, and usually fails outright. It’s far better to remediate the code base in-place, if at all possible. That's my sentiment as well, but that doesn't preclude the exploration of alternatives. There

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 10, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Warren Young writes: Isn’t the whole point of this discussion that setup.exe already knows all the tricks it needs to in order to do what we want here, except for the “replace setup.exe in place” issue I’ve brought up separately? Well,

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 7, 2015, at 11:22 PM, Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de wrote: a minimal Cygwin install system w/ busybox Busybox isn’t going to be usable in its normal sense without cygwin1.dll to map symlinks to argv[0] so that Busybox can tell how it was called, and thus which function to provide.

Poco: Please remove empty directories

2015-08-10 Thread David Stacey
With the release of poco-1.6.1, I've decided to do some housekeeping and remove some of the earlier versions. I've managed to do this, but it has left some empty directories lying around. Please could some kind soul remove the following: x86_64/release/poco/libpoco16/

Re: Poco: Please remove empty directories

2015-08-10 Thread David Stacey
On 10/08/15 22:49, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 22:29 +0100, David Stacey wrote: With the release of poco-1.6.1, I've decided to do some housekeeping and remove some of the earlier versions. I've managed to do this, but it has left some empty directories lying around. Please

Updated: poco-1.6.1-1

2015-08-10 Thread David Stacey
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * libpoco-devel-1.6.1-1 * libpoco-doc-1.6.1-1 * libpoco31-1.6.1-1 * poco-1.6.1-1 The POCO C++ Libraries are open source C++ class libraries that simplify and accelerate the development of network-centric, portable applications

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 7 15:05, Warren Young wrote: On Aug 7, 2015, at 1:47 PM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: On Aug 6 17:57, Achim Gratz wrote: I would consider this a release candidate. Some more testing with interactive and ad-hoc installs would be useful, though. I

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 8 07:22, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: I would consider this a release candidate. Some more testing with interactive and ad-hoc installs would be useful, though. How do you want to handle this? We don't have real provisions for setup.exe release candidates.

Re: Adding a subpackage

2015-08-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 19:39 +0100, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On 08/08/2015 06:31, Achim Gratz wrote: Adam Dinwoodie writes: I've discovered a neat Git tool -- git subtree -- which is part of Git's contrib directory and isn't something we currently distribute as part of any of the

[newlib-cygwin] Revert to leaving $HOME alone

2015-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=1641a85e8ffe8a3565fef6ce37502b6b5fb4ee9c commit 1641a85e8ffe8a3565fef6ce37502b6b5fb4ee9c Author: Corinna Vinschen cori...@vinschen.de Date: Mon Aug 10 12:00:12 2015 +0200 Revert to leaving $HOME alone * uinfo.cc

[newlib-cygwin] miscfuncs.cc: Fix comment preceeding x86_64 memset and friends.

2015-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=1e15b467379bccd7a2810dc786fdd23cc056da06 commit 1e15b467379bccd7a2810dc786fdd23cc056da06 Author: Corinna Vinschen cori...@vinschen.de Date: Mon Aug 10 12:07:22 2015 +0200 miscfuncs.cc: Fix comment preceeding x86_64 memset and