[PATCH] Introduce the 'usertemp' filesystem type

* mount.cc (mount_info::from_fstab_line): support mounting the current user's temp folder as /tmp/. This is particularly useful a feature when Cygwin's own files are write-protected. * pathnames.xml: document the new usertemp file system type Detailed explanation:

[PATCH] Allow overriding the home directory via the HOME variable

* uinfo.cc (cygheap_pwdgrp::get_home): Offer an option in nsswitch.conf that let's the environment variable HOME (or HOMEDRIVE & HOMEPATH, or USERPROFILE) define the home directory. * ntsec.xml: Document the `env` schema. Detailed comments: In the context

Re: Error accessing mapped drive >2TB?

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Sep 15, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Nem W Schlecht wrote: >> >> I'm going to be spinning up an Ubuntu box in the next few days that >> will have a 5TB drive in it as well, so I'll be able to test to see if >> the

Unable to send e-Mail from crontab in Cygwin

Hi, I have set up cygwin in my Windows Vista machine and have configured cron by running the cygrunsrv command. I am trying to send an automated mail everyday with cron but it is not working out. Could you help me with this? #Borrowed from anacron SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

Missing 'Luxi Sans' font

Following a request earlier in the year, I rebuilt mscgen with freetype support. mscgen required a default font that was scalable, and as Cygwin had a fairly limited selection of scalable fonts back then, I opted for 'Luxi Sans' from the 'font-bh-ttf' package. In the recent font

x3270 post install script fails

The x3270 package performs the following in its post install script: FONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts ENCODINGSDIR=$FONTDIR/encodings MKFONTDIR=/usr/bin/mkfontdir $MKFONTDIR -e $ENCODINGSDIR $FONTDIR/misc This fails because the directory '/usr/share/fonts/encodings' no longer exists.

Re: x3270 post install script fails

On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, David Stacey wrote: Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:17:10 +0100 From: David Stacey Subject: x3270 post install script fails Greetings, David, The x3270 package performs the following in its post install script: FONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts ENCODINGSDIR=$FONTDIR/encodings

Re: Error accessing mapped drive >2TB?

On Sep 16, 2015, at 7:39 AM, Nem W Schlecht wrote: > > I would think if it was an issue with Mac's SMB implementation, then > *Windows* would also have some sort of issues with it. But it shows > up fine on Windows, I would assume it should show fine in Cygwin as > well. More

Re: Following update to XWin or xorg-server: changed syntax to get a xterm terminal window

Michael DePaulo gmail.com> writes: |On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Fergus Daly | frontier-science.co.uk> wrote: |> For ages I used |> XWin -nolock -nolisten local -multiwindow & |> xterm -display localhost:0.0 |> to get a xterm terminal. |> Following recent updates I get a fatal error:

xpdf zoom-in/out ("-"/"+") doesn't work after "z"/"w"

After I press "z" to fit the page to the window, or "w" to fit the page width within the window, I'm finding that "-" & "+" is unresponsive. I can get it responding again by first pression "0" to zoom to 125%, but I really hope that this is not necessary. Is anyone else experiencing this? I