Re: Perl child_info_fork runtime error

2018-06-04 Thread Ulli Horlacher
On Wed 2018-05-30 (21:56), Achim Gratz wrote: > Ulli Horlacher writes: > > > Line 106 in /client/bin/fexsend is: > > That path looks suspiciously like something not properly packaged for > Cygwin. If so, it may use DLL that are not rebased and collide with > Cygwin's. /client/bin is a

Re: Perl child_info_fork runtime error

2018-06-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Ulli Horlacher writes: > /client/bin is a directory which I have created. > It should not collide with anything. So what's in there, is in PATH etc. pp. > The problem is: > > [main] perl 4232 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed by 'Encode.dll' > (0x37) is already occupied > >

Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

2018-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 6/4/2018 4:13 PM, Frank Farance wrote: > Second, as a mailing list admin myself, at some time we're going to have > to deal with spam as some of the members E-mail systems will start > tagging normal cygwin stuff as spam, which is the kind of stuff members > don't have control over in

Re: Help with C clearenv and setenv

2018-06-04 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/31/2018 9:43 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 05/30/2018 09:48 AM, Sam Habiel wrote: I have code for a database I am porting to Cygwin. Part of that code is a clearenv() then a couple of setenvs. There is an ifdef for Cygwin, as it doesn't implement clearenv. It wouldn't be hard to implement

Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

2018-06-04 Thread James Darnley
On 2018-06-04 21:30, Frank Farance wrote: > Hi, I enjoy reading the cygwin E-mails, one of the few E-mail lists I > regularly follow. And I've administered multiple E-mail lists over > two-plus decades. > > I've seen a bunch of spam, and it's continued for a while (beyond my > expectation that

Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

2018-06-04 Thread Frank Farance
On 2018-06-04 15:47, James Darnley wrote: It isn't very nice to put "please email cygwin@cygwin.com" in error and warning messages then deny people the opportunity to send the email. "Please register first" is annoying as shit. I have certainly not reported bugs to lists that make me do

Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

2018-06-04 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jun 4, 2018, at 2:30 PM, Frank Farance wrote: > > I've seen a bunch of spam, and it's continued for a while (beyond my > expectation that it would have already ended). Fortunately, no one's here to meet your expectations. If you have issues with the lists, you should take to the right

Re: Help with C clearenv and setenv

2018-06-04 Thread Sam Habiel
Thank you! On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 3:39 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 5/31/2018 9:43 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> >> On 05/30/2018 09:48 AM, Sam Habiel wrote: >>> >>> I have code for a database I am porting to Cygwin. >>> >>> Part of that code is a clearenv() then a couple of setenvs. There is >>> an

Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

2018-06-04 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 04:26:57PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > > My mail servers regularly categorize cygwin at cygwin.com mail as spam. > > And then there is all of the mail that simply gets rejected because of > DMARC policies applied by the sender's domain. > > > There are other

[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygport 0.31.1-1

2018-06-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * cygport-0.31.1-1 cygport is the standard method for building and maintaining packages for the Cygwin distribution. This release includes only minor improvements. Changes in this release (3): pkg_diff: automatically

[ANNOUNCEMENT] libtool 2.4.6-6

2018-06-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libtool-2.4.6-6 * libltdl7-2.4.6-6 GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. This release was rebuilt for GCC 7.3.0.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] tzcode/tzdata 2018e-1

2018-06-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * tzcode-2018e-1 * tzdata-2018e-1 The Time Zone Database (often called tz or zoneinfo) contains code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe. It is updated

Re: xterm / Windows 10 question

2018-06-04 Thread David Billinghurst
On 2018-06-05 10:47, Matt Nicholas wrote: I recently obtained a Dell Precision laptop running Windows 10. I installed 64-bit Cygwin, including various packages that are not part of the minimal install. The problem I'm having is that when I type single quote or double quote characters in the

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] mesa 18.0.5-1

2018-06-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * dri-drivers-18.0.5-1 * libglapi0-18.0.5-1 * libGL1-18.0.5-1 * libGL-devel-18.0.5-1 * libOSMesa8-18.0.5-1 * libOSMesa-devel-18.0.5-1 * libEGL1-18.0.5-1 * libEGL-devel-18.0.5-1 * libGLESv2_2-18.0.5-1 * libGLESv2-devel-18.0.5-1

Re: xterm / Windows 10 question

2018-06-04 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 6/5/2018 2:51 AM, Matt Nicholas wrote: Sorry, I left out the word "not" in my last message. I meant to say: I've seen various suggestions online stating that I need to change the setting under 'Control Panel, Languages' so that the selected language is "English (United States)", rather than

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-06-04 Thread L A Walsh
Paul Sheer wrote: Cygwin/X is most definitely being used, and this might help: https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html Being used? I find that very difficult to believe. What type of PC and network do you have? I've been using Cygwin since Windows XP days, and

xterm / Windows 10 question

2018-06-04 Thread Matt Nicholas
Hello, I have a question that I hope someone may be able to help me with. I recently obtained a Dell Precision laptop running Windows 10. I installed 64-bit Cygwin, including various packages that are not part of the minimal install. I start Cygwin/X as follows: (1) open a Cygwin64 Terminal

Re: xterm / Windows 10 question

2018-06-04 Thread Matt Nicholas
Sorry, I left out the word "not" in my last message. I meant to say: I've seen various suggestions online stating that I need to change the setting under 'Control Panel, Languages' so that the selected language is "English (United States)", rather than "English (International)". I did that and it

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AutoSSH problem

2018-06-04 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Thu, May 31, 2018, 4:58 AM Germain Le Chapelain wrote: > > Hi, > > > I am experiencing troubles trying to set up a reverse SSH tunnel: > > I have installed AutoSSH as such: > > cygrunsrv.exe -I AutoSSH -p /bin/autossh -a "-M 2 -R > *:5900:localhost:5900 s...@lanvaux.fr" -y tcpip --type

[PATCH 5/5] Cygwin: Document clearenv

2018-06-04 Thread Ken Brown
--- winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/version.h | 3 ++- winsup/cygwin/release/2.10.1 | 1 + winsup/doc/posix.xml | 1 + 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/version.h b/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/version.h index

[PATCH 3/5] Cygwin: Implement the GNU extension clearenv

2018-06-04 Thread Ken Brown
--- winsup/cygwin/common.din | 1 + winsup/cygwin/environ.cc | 20 winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/stdlib.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/common.din b/winsup/cygwin/common.din index 6e8bf9185..426cf172c 100644

[PATCH 4/5] Cygwin: Remove workaround in environ.cc

2018-06-04 Thread Ken Brown
Commit ebd645e on 2001-10-03 made environ.cc:_addenv() add unneeded space at the end of the environment block to "work around problems with some buggy applications." This clutters the code and is presumably no longer needed. --- winsup/cygwin/environ.cc | 10 -- 1 file changed, 4

[PATCH 2/5] Cygwin: Allow the environment pointer to be NULL

2018-06-04 Thread Ken Brown
Following glibc, interpret this as meaning the environment is empty. --- winsup/cygwin/environ.cc | 29 ++--- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc b/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc index b452d21a5..8e6bbe561 100644 ---

[PATCH 1/5] Cygwin: Clarify some code in environ.cc

2018-06-04 Thread Ken Brown
--- winsup/cygwin/environ.cc | 8 +++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc b/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc index 43225341c..b452d21a5 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc +++ b/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc @@ -545,6 +545,7 @@ _getenv_r (struct _reent

[PATCH 0/5] Implement clearenv

2018-06-04 Thread Ken Brown
This is a followup to https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-05/msg00334.html. In this patch series I attempt to implement the glibc extension clearenv(). I also implement glibc's notion of environ==NULL being shorthand for an empty environment. Two questions: 1. I haven't yet absorbed what SIGFE

Re: [PATCH 2/5] Cygwin: Allow the environment pointer to be NULL

2018-06-04 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/4/2018 3:36 PM, Ken Brown wrote: Following glibc, interpret this as meaning the environment is empty. Sorry, please hold off on reviewing this patch. I just noticed that I missed at least one place (build_env()) where environ==NULL could cause a crash. I need to fix this and try to

cygport 0.31.1-1

2018-06-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * cygport-0.31.1-1 cygport is the standard method for building and maintaining packages for the Cygwin distribution. This release includes only minor improvements. Changes in this release (3): pkg_diff: automatically

libtool 2.4.6-6

2018-06-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libtool-2.4.6-6 * libltdl7-2.4.6-6 GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. This release was rebuilt for GCC 7.3.0.

Re: [PATCH 3/5] Cygwin: Implement the GNU extension clearenv

2018-06-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2018-06-04 14:36, Ken Brown wrote: --- a/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/stdlib.h +++ b/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/stdlib.h @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ void setprogname (const char *); #if __GNU_VISIBLE char *canonicalize_file_name (const char *); +int clearenv (); #endif This should be in

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Implement clearenv

2018-06-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2018-06-04 14:36, Ken Brown wrote: 2. I guarded the declaration of clearenv() with __GNU_VISIBLE, but again I'm not sure about this. On the one hand, clearenv() is a GNU extension, so __GNU_VISIBLE would seem to be the right guard. On the other hand, glibc declares clearenv() if

mesa 18.0.5-1

2018-06-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * dri-drivers-18.0.5-1 * libglapi0-18.0.5-1 * libGL1-18.0.5-1 * libGL-devel-18.0.5-1 * libOSMesa8-18.0.5-1 * libOSMesa-devel-18.0.5-1 * libEGL1-18.0.5-1 * libEGL-devel-18.0.5-1 * libGLESv2_2-18.0.5-1 * libGLESv2-devel-18.0.5-1