Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated/New] Perl distributions

2016-08-25 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > x86/x86_64 > -- > perl-DBD-mysql-4.036-1 I tested that on 2 of my x86_64 setups and it fails to load. Here's the output of "perl -MDBD::mysql -e 1" on one of them: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/x86_64-cygwin-threads/a

Re: The Cygwin User Guide on path names

2016-08-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Linda Walsh! > Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Ken Brown! >> >>> The documentation also says, "The usage of Win32 paths, though possible, >>> is deprecated" I wonder if this should be strengthened to say >>> something like, "The usage of Win32 paths, though possible, is strongl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grep-2.25-1

2016-08-25 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of grep, 2.25-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 2.24-1. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or

postgresql: missing catalog/genbki.h server header

2016-08-25 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
Marco, Just ran into the following on both arches: In file included from qt-x11-free-3.3.8b/src/sql/drivers/psql/qsql_psql.cpp:61:0: /usr/include/postgresql/server/catalog/pg_type.h:22:28: fatal error: catalog/genbki.h: No such file or directory Looks like this header needs to be moved from

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.11

2016-08-25 Thread Eliot Moss
It seems that git send-email is in the git-email package, not installed by default when installing git ... Regards - EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: FUSE, symbolic links and special files

2016-08-25 Thread Bill Zissimopoulos
On 8/25/16, 3:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 25 11:46, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: >>In the following OP is the originating process, CW is the Cygwin >> layer, WL is the WinFsp layer and FL is the FUSE layer. >> >> OP: mkfifo("myfifo") >> CW: NtCreateFile, NtDeviceIoControlFile(FSCTL_SET_RE

Re: FUSE, symbolic links and special files

2016-08-25 Thread Bill Zissimopoulos
On 8/25/16, 5:46 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: >The only file system for which this tag is known to be interpreted is >the Microsoft NFS provider that will report its > > FILE_REMOTE_PROTOCOL_INFORMATION.Protocol > >value as > > #define WNNC_NET_MS_NFS 0x0042 I missed this. Jeffrey do

Re: FUSE, symbolic links and special files

2016-08-25 Thread Bill Zissimopoulos
On 8/25/16, 7:14 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: >On 8/25/2016 11:21 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>Granted, it *could* be used by Cygwin on NTFS to indicate Cygwin's own >> implementations of AF_LOCAL sockets or fifos. Or even for symlinks. >> But that would only introduce YA symlink type which would b

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffutils-3.5-1

2016-08-25 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of diffutils, 3.5-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 3.3-3. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Notably, upstream introduced support for colorized output. DESCRIPTION: Diffutils includes four utilities: d

Re: FUSE, symbolic links and special files

2016-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 8/25/2016 11:21 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 25 10:46, Jeffrey Altman wrote: >> On 8/25/2016 9:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Aug 25 09:04, Jeffrey Altman wrote: On 8/25/2016 8:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Since when is this RP method available? Unfortunately the abo

Re: The Cygwin User Guide on path names

2016-08-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Ken Brown! The documentation also says, "The usage of Win32 paths, though possible, is deprecated" I wonder if this should be strengthened to say something like, "The usage of Win32 paths, though possible, is strongly deprecated and may be removed in a futu

Re: File create problem

2016-08-25 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi again! Ok, I "solved it" by reinstalling AVG. No idea why that helped... Buggy PoS. Cheers, Peter On 2016-08-25 15:54, Peter Rosin wrote: > Hi! > > I have the strangest of problems. Freshly downloaded setup-x86_64.exe > fails to create some files, e.g. bash.exe, with access denied. So, I >

Re: FUSE, symbolic links and special files

2016-08-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 25 10:46, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > On 8/25/2016 9:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 25 09:04, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > >> On 8/25/2016 8:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>> Since when is this RP method available? Unfortunately the above MSDN > >>> page doesn't tell... Was it already

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.11

2016-08-25 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-08-25 08:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 25 08:38, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2016-08-25 02:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You don't need mailx, btw. After you created your patch with `git format-patch', you can send it with `git send-email' :) Looked for that, and everything there, but:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.11

2016-08-25 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/25/2016 09:38 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: >> You don't need mailx, btw. After you created your patch with >> `git format-patch', you can send it with `git send-email' :) > > Looked for that, and everything there, but: > > $ uname -srvmo > CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.5.2(0.297/5/3) 2016-06-23 14:29 x86_64

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.11

2016-08-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 25 08:38, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2016-08-25 02:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > You don't need mailx, btw. After you created your patch with > > `git format-patch', you can send it with `git send-email' :) > > Looked for that, and everything there, but: > > $ uname -srvmo > CYGWIN_NT-10.

Re: File create problem

2016-08-25 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: > Creating other files in the C:\cygwin64\bin folder works just fine, > e.g. C:\cygwin64\bin\bach.exe. > > There is no existing C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe that has permissions > that can be examined, so the only permissions that can reasonably > ha

Re: FUSE, symbolic links and special files

2016-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 8/25/2016 9:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 25 09:04, Jeffrey Altman wrote: >> On 8/25/2016 8:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> Since when is this RP method available? Unfortunately the above MSDN >>> page doesn't tell... Was it already available with Vista? Does anybody >>> know? >>

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.11

2016-08-25 Thread Eliot Moss
I agree -- my git has no "send-email" command. The "format-patch" commands looks useful in this context, however. (My git is cygwin got, by the way!) Cheers -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: File create problem

2016-08-25 Thread Tobias Zawada
Hello Peter, > > Trying to create bash.exe (with any random content) by other means > also fails. > > Creating other files in the C:\cygwin64\bin folder works just fine, > e.g. C:\cygwin64\bin\bach.exe. > > There is no existing C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe that has permissions > that can be examined

Re: File create problem

2016-08-25 Thread Eliot Moss
On 8/25/2016 10:18 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Peter Rosin! AVG Disabling is often not enough. If you have the ability, try doing the same in a VM to eliminate the possible interference. Here's another wondering: Is there a file/directory with the name "bash" (no .exe)? That could b

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.11

2016-08-25 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-08-25 02:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 24 14:47, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2016-08-24 12:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 24 11:30, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2016-08-24 02:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 23 23:36, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2016-08-23 22:15, Brian Inglis wrote: On

Re: File create problem

2016-08-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Peter Rosin! > AVG Disabling is often not enough. If you have the ability, try doing the same in a VM to eliminate the possible interference. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, August 25, 2016 17:17:13 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cy

File create problem

2016-08-25 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! I have the strangest of problems. Freshly downloaded setup-x86_64.exe fails to create some files, e.g. bash.exe, with access denied. So, I started digging. Trying to create bash.exe (with any random content) by other means also fails. Creating other files in the C:\cygwin64\bin folder works

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.13

2016-08-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi folks, I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.13. Interesting changes in this test release: - Add missing prototype for strerror_l. - Fix feature tests for str{n}casecmp_l prototypes. - Fix a thinko and unify the underlying handling of the pointer used in ctype macros. This is sup

Re: FUSE, symbolic links and special files

2016-08-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 25 09:04, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > On 8/25/2016 8:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Since when is this RP method available? Unfortunately the above MSDN > > page doesn't tell... Was it already available with Vista? Does anybody > > know? > > #define IO_REPARSE_TAG_NFS > > was added in t

Re: FUSE, symbolic links and special files

2016-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 8/25/2016 8:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Since when is this RP method available? Unfortunately the above MSDN > page doesn't tell... Was it already available with Vista? Does anybody > know? #define IO_REPARSE_TAG_NFS was added in the Windows 8.0 DDK. Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Descr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.12

2016-08-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Denis, On Aug 25 12:03, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > > On 2016-08-24 19:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > Thanks for the report and especially for providing a testcase! > > > Hello Corinna, > > Please find hereafter another testcase (from file-5.28). > > Of course, if the uselocale() funct

Re: FUSE, symbolic links and special files

2016-08-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 25 11:46, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: > Turns out that Microsoft already has a solution for special files on NFS: > > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn617178.aspx > > I see no reason that the same solution cannot be used for FUSE for Cygwin > as well. On NFS Cygwin utilizes the in

FUSE, symbolic links and special files

2016-08-25 Thread Bill Zissimopoulos
While on vacation I have been (slowly) working to add reparse point and symbolic link support for WinFsp and FUSE for Cygwin. This work is mostly complete and is currently being tested. I am writing to the Cygwin list because I want to resolve a problem that Herbert Stocker originally brought up:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.12

2016-08-25 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2016-08-24 19:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Thanks for the report and especially for providing a testcase! > Hello Corinna, Please find hereafter another testcase (from file-5.28). Of course, if the uselocale() function is not used, everything is ok. The problem seems to occur because o

mingw64-sqlite3 3.8.11.1

2016-08-25 Thread Jan Nijtmans
Hi all, Noticing the packages mingw64-i686-sqlite3 and mingw64-x86_64-sqlite3 still being at version 3.8.11.1 (which is just more than 1 year old), is there any plan to upgrade that to 3.14.1? I just tried to compile it using the patch below (changing the version number and the year), and it stil

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.11

2016-08-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 24 14:47, Brian Inglis wrote: > > On 2016-08-24 12:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 24 11:30, Brian Inglis wrote: > > > On 2016-08-24 02:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > On Aug 23 23:36, Brian Inglis wrote: > > > > > On 2016-08-23 22:15, Brian Inglis wrote: > > > > > > On 2016-08-2

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated/New] Perl distributions

2016-08-25 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version available from CPAN: x86/x86_64 -- perl-DBD-mysql-4.036-1 perl-Net-SSLeay-1.78-1 perl-Socket-2.024-1 noarch -- perl-Archive-Zip-1.59-1 perl-Business-ISBN-3.002-1 perl-CPAN-Meta-2.150010-1 perl-Config-Perl-V-0.