Re: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012

2012-05-27 Thread Linda Walsh
Daniel Colascione wrote: On 5/26/12 4:40 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Compiling for 64-bit is about memory alignment and native instruction set/word size execution. The alignment will likely cause runtime memory usage to grow somewhat, but it shouldn't be significant in most case So the x32

Re: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012

2012-05-27 Thread Linda Walsh
Tim Prince wrote: CPUs have been adding microcode continually for better optimization of the gcc -m32 string moves, even though new CPUs are designed primarily for 64-bit OS. - It's not the OS, machine and the width of the data path. If you are operating in 32 bit mode, you are

Re: i686-pc-mingw32-gcc 4.5.2 and static linking libstdc++-6?

2012-06-05 Thread Linda Walsh
Had to look up that acronym, and saw this one right above it: TMTOWTDI Oh the irony ;-) Earnie Boyd wrote: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Dennis Isenhour wrote: Can someone tell me, is static linking of libstdc++(-6 ?) not currently supported in cygwin using the mingw compiler?

Re: Windows Guest Account Locked SSH

2012-07-07 Thread Linda Walsh
George Luiz Bittencourt wrote: Hello, We are facing an issue where our guest domain account is getting locked during the SSH logon process and we Also, does your guest account have a password? Some of the newer versions of windows get picky about allowing remote logins with blank

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-22 Thread Linda Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Linda Walsh! I sometimes use rmdir * to clean up empty dir's. There's a known issue about difference in Windows and *NIX handling of directory removal in many cases. I would say, you drop such practice and be more explicit in your actions. You

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-24 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: The only problem is that: Even though I see how I could potentially enforce the situation, I fail to reproduce it. Can you explicitely show an ls of the dir and an strace of an rmdir which succeeded to rename the dir? I'll might send you a test DLL via PM at one point,

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Anyway, I have a fix for that. You didn't explicitely allow to send a test DLL, so I just applied the patch to CVS. Please test the next developer snapshot. Sorry, I thought it would be implicit that I gave you everything you asked for -- not that I

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Just try the latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ It contains the patch. --- In running the rd * in bot of my Doc and Pictures dir, no dirs were renamed or deleted ... (FWIW, I have a recycle bin setup on my samba server, so the

Re: App runs 8x slower on dual core machine (with test case to replicate issue)

2012-08-09 Thread Linda Walsh
Zach Saw wrote: Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: Thanks for the testcase, but... would you mind to change it to take the boost lib out of the picture, by using just plain pthread functions, if possible in plain C? Apparently someone else has already encountered similar

Re: Question about UAC and bash/cygwin

2012-08-16 Thread Linda Walsh
Lord Laraby wrote: I'll give that a go as a start. But, I would still like to see by Cygwin uid shown as 0 when I am elevated. Because it's the same as the windows equivalent of su. --- I think where you are confused is that cygwin's shell is elevated all the time if you are running as

Re: Stop with the automatic updates

2012-08-19 Thread Linda Walsh
Filipp Gunbin wrote: On 17/08/2012 14:46, Herbert Stocker wrote: Or am i misunderstanding the radio buttons for keep, cur and exp? From Cygwin UG: All packages can be set to stay at the installed version by pressing the Keep button in the top right part of the chooser window.. Why don't you

Re: BUG: /sbin in util-linux package

2006-04-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Igor Peshansky wrote: I'm sure Yaakov meant that he'll patch it when he next gets around to it, but in the meantime felt compelled to explain where the current directory structure came from. --- Why fix it if it isn't broken? It's that way on linux. All of the mkfs extensions and fsck

Sorry multiple posting: virus reject messages: (was datapoint; cygwin_setup-2.510.2.2 crash)

2006-05-21 Thread Linda Walsh
I kept getting bounce messages on this d*mn message, only to discover that some of the postings were getting through and some of the bounce messages were coming from someone's broken virus filter that doesn't know enough to not bounce list email...Grrr*sigh* First: cygwin@cygwin.com:

Re: Trying to run VBScript from Cygwin

2006-06-06 Thread Linda Walsh
Dean Steve wrote: I'm also opening a ssh connection from a Linux box to a Windows machine to run a Windows process using CreateObject within VBScript. I have been able to replicate the problem using Excel so I know it's not my other program that is causing the problem. When I run the script,

Re: UTF-8 Cygwin

2006-06-06 Thread Linda Walsh
When will we see this in the main-stream cygwin? Soon? :-) linda SUZUKI Hisao wrote: I made a patch to cygwin1.dll to support UTF-8. It allows you to use all of characters and file (or path) names allowed in Windows, while keeping binary-compatibility with the current Cygwin. It is fairly

Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?

2006-06-08 Thread Linda Walsh
Brian Dessent wrote: Linda W wrote: Windows just doesn't support forking at all, as far as I know. activeperl emulates forking using win32 threads. I don'tknow how cygwin handles it, but my guess is that it's not very well :-( This smells like total FUD. This person that

Re: cygwin non-posix problems

2006-06-08 Thread Linda Walsh
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Can he or you reduce the problem to a non-File::BOM dependent test script What part of the perl module File::BOM should I throw out before it's no longer File::BOM? It's just perl code. It's freely downloadable through CPAN, so I can't make it too much more

Re: cygwin non-posix problems

2006-06-09 Thread Linda Walsh
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 05:11:29PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: The point would be to reduce the amount of code that might need to be inspected to find the underlying problem. Nothing to do with publicly available. --- Would that it was always

RPM's (was Re: unix 'at' command implementation)

2006-06-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Eric Blake wrote: I have cygwin install but I can not find the implementation of Unix 'at' command. Because no one has ported an open source version of it to cygwin yet. Some packages might be more easily ported if RPM's became a common way to package cygwin packages. Much of

Re: RPM's require to much knowledge of setup to port easily

2006-06-11 Thread Linda Walsh
Igor Peshansky wrote: Do you mean that you used Cygwin's rpm package to produce that RPM? yes. I'm sure there's some good reason for converting all packages to yet another installer, but I'm not sure I know what they are. One side effect, though -- it can put a damper on porting

Re: RPM's require to much knowledge of setup to port easily

2006-06-12 Thread Linda Walsh
Christopher Faylor wrote: There is no one-to-one equivalent to rpm -qi but rpm -qf is equivalent to cygcheck -f and cygcheck -c packagename will give you the package --- That's part of the problem. There may or may not be a 1:1 equivalent for whatever option I'm used to with rpm. I

Cygwin fread on Write-Only File Descriptor returns undefined state

2006-06-13 Thread Linda Walsh
I think I've run into a problem involving fread. I open a test file (fopen) with Write-Only access (w), immediately after that, I do an fread on the file handle of some number of bytes. I expect fread to return an error. But it doesn't. It returns 0 as the number of bytes read, and the error

Re: Reading a write-only file doesn't set error condition (was Re: Cygwin fread on Write-Only File Descriptor returns undefined state)

2006-06-14 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: In addition to fread not setting the error value, a value of zero is returned. Zero is to be returned, *only* on end-of-file or error. However, in the test case, neither That's not correct. Any value less than size*nitems indicates either EOF or an error. The

random fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2006-06-15 Thread Linda Walsh
I've not seen this message except when I've had to rapidly press ^C to break out of a loop shell script. Today, I've seen it twice when there was virtually no cpu load on the system, about 50% virtual memory committed, and 40 processes. Once, was with an ls command, the other happened as my

Re: RPM's require to much knowledge of setup to port easily

2006-06-15 Thread Linda Walsh
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Ah, the lack of a Windows RPM port was *exactly* the reason setup.exe was created. The simplest way to port RPM was to use Cygwin, which then leads to a chicken/egg problem. Most linux distributions have solved this issue. When one goes to do an install

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Brian Dessent wrote: Science Guy wrote: This problem has been noted before by someone else, http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg37532.html but I followed the threads and can find no resolution. When I fire-up a cygwin bash window, everything is fine for a few minutes.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.017-1

2006-06-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.0.017-1. This is the long awaited vim 7.0, latest patchlevel 17. Cygwin Vim still builds from the vanilla sources. --- Vim 7 seems to still have a few kinks to work out and doesn't seem nearly as stable as

Re: vim 7 gives error when editing /etc/hosts

2006-06-19 Thread Linda Walsh
Harig, Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Fesevur Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 5:35 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: vim 7 gives error when editing /etc/hosts Hi, When I try to edit /etc/hosts with vim7, it gives

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

2006-06-19 Thread Linda Walsh
Brian Dessent wrote: The last release of Cygwin was 1.5.19-4 on 2006-01-20, so unless you have a time machine, a fix made on 2006-05-17 will not be included. Besides, using the latest snapshot should always be the first thing you try when encountering a problem before reporting it to the

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

2006-06-22 Thread Linda Walsh
Perhaps, but you are assuming one's primary Windows machine is capable of being virtually subdivided. I run windows on a laptop (external keyb, mouse, screen). While it was a good laptop new, it's a bit long in tooth. Jim Drash wrote: Not everyone has a spare test machine. I can never

CygPerl hangs opening FIFO after fork (in both parentchild)

2006-06-22 Thread Linda Walsh
The attached test case is simple and fairly short. It does not depend on File::BOM (and has none of the code from it). It's only dependency (other than perl) is the POSIX module, where, from, the fifo command is taken. Conceptually, it is simple: - Create fifo (works) - Fork(works) -

Re: UTF-8 Cygwin

2006-06-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:24:29PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: SUZUKI Hisao wrote: I made a patch to cygwin1.dll to support UTF-8. It allows you to use all of characters and file (or path) names allowed in Windows, while keeping binary-compatibility

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

2006-06-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Really? a 6 y/o, 800MHz Celeron w/512M, 4MB video taken out of main memory? You have alot more patience than me. -l Jim Drash wrote: I run VMWare on on just such a configuration. On 6/22/06, Linda Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps, but you are assuming one's primary Windows machine

Re: snapshots: first resort, or last resort?

2006-06-26 Thread Linda Walsh
mwoehlke wrote: Science Guy wrote: In http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00434.html, Brian said using the latest snapshot should always be the first thing you try when encountering a problem before reporting it to the list. However, the instructions for installing snapshots at

rsync thinking a local transfer is remote

2006-06-26 Thread Linda Walsh
I've got a weird situation with rsync. I'm trying to transfer some files from a network share mounted as B:\. I'm copying the files to corresponding locations under C:\. I've done many transfers from B-C, entire directories, but now In a particular instance, rsync tries to transfer via the

Re: snapshots: first resort, or last resort?

2006-06-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Igor Peshansky wrote: What is the difference between installing a test release of Cygwin and installing a snapshot of Cygwin --- I would hope it is the difference between daily work and something that is of Beta quality -- i.e. something that seems to work and should work for most

Bug list posted on alpha centauri for 50 years!

2006-07-07 Thread Linda Walsh
Dave Korn wrote: That's a false positive and you're about the fifteenth person this month to report it to the list without having bothered to search the archives first. --- Yeah -- the buglist has been clearly posted on Alpha Centauri for the past 50 years. There's no reason why

Re: Using du.exe to calculate disk usage on a Microsoft cluster server

2006-07-07 Thread Linda Walsh
Dave Korn wrote: Still lacking in useful information. You *still* haven't told us HOW on earth you managed to get impossibly long file names, you *still* haven't shown us the names of any directories that have failed. --- It is quite trivial. He's prepending either S:/ or

pathnames 255 characters: supported by NT, not cygwin...

2006-07-15 Thread Linda Walsh
Linda Walsh wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Still lacking in useful information. You *still* haven't told us HOW on earth you managed to get impossibly long file names, you *still* haven't shown us the names of any directories that have failed. --- (from: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320081

Re: Can NTFS junctions be listed?

2006-07-23 Thread Linda Walsh
Be sure to report the details to Mark (@sysinternals) -- he's usually pretty good about fixes (at least he used to be before he worked for _Microsoft_)...:-) -linda John and Holly Klug wrote: Is there a utility for cygwin that can list NTFS junction points? Perhaps an option for find? I am

Re: Cgywin filename with 255 character

2006-07-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Jörg Schaible wrote: Is there any pointer at MS, where this is described exaclty? I was only able to find some entries in the knowledge base that describe applications that are affected by this limit, but nowhere an explanation under what circumstances a process/application is hit by this

tar, win-path conversion bug

2006-07-25 Thread Linda Walsh
I think I've run into a bug concerning tar and the use of windows format paths. It's not a bug that is difficult to work around, but it still seems as though it is a bug that someone may wish to address (in their spare time, of course :-). I wanted to save a list of files into a tar archive

Re: Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied

2006-08-11 Thread Linda Walsh
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:53:55PM +1200, Steve Keate wrote: Are there any useful resources on finding out exactly what security mode to choose when using Cygwin, also, are there any resources on how to use mkpasswd and what arguments to use. I have scoured

group name for numberic value 2**32-1?

2006-08-11 Thread Linda Walsh
I ran into a weird symptom -- not a bug in anything as near as I can tell, just a weirdness. Everyone once in a while, when I do an ls -l on some groups of files, I'll see a group of ??. With ls -ln, I see the group has a value 4294967295. Would it be misleading or incorrect to insert an

Re: Win PTY library.

2012-09-22 Thread Linda Walsh
Václav Zeman wrote: I think that the difference is that PTY is a stream of commands that get interpreted, OTOH, polled Windows console can provide only a snapshot at some point in time. It seems that it would be hard to produce faithful stream of commands from this console snapshot. Because

Re: No support for sharing unnamed semaphores between processes through shared memory?

2012-09-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Matt Sexton wrote: Hello, I am attempting to port to Cygwin an application that synchronizes between processes using unnamed semaphores in shared memory. Both processes have mapped the shared memory region, one process initialize There's a cygwin process that you have to have

Re: [BUG] Cygwin default mounts in 1.7

2012-09-27 Thread Linda Walsh
Jiri Engelthaler wrote: 2012/9/23 marco atzeri marco.atz...@gmail.com: And if I'm looking a way how to avoid this ...buggy feature..., my answer is yes. If someone can help me with how to run gcc compiler (see first post) which looks in ../libexec/.. for cc1.exe, I'll be happy. My question

Re: [BUG] Cygwin default mounts in 1.7

2012-09-27 Thread Linda Walsh
Earnie Boyd wrote: Not in total. /usr/bin would only be available if the working device is the same as the device containing the link. ??? I think you are confusing junctions with symlinks. symlinks can point to another device (including network shares). Note, you may have to enable

Re: [BUG] Cygwin default mounts in 1.7

2012-09-29 Thread Linda Walsh
Earnie Boyd wrote: It doesn't matter. If the working drive is E: and the symlink is on C: then /usr/bin doesn't exist on E: and /usr/bin/ls or any other binary will not work. Ah... this sounds like a different problem than I understood it to be. Let me relate an example and see if it

minor bug in cygports 'Terminal' package -- don't install a link for 'terminal-Terminal

2012-10-09 Thread Linda Walsh
It prevents Terminal from loading when you type Terminal (or terminal). terminal points to 'Terminal' which doesn't exist -- maybe it needs to point to Terminal.exe? But it's not needed for many of us who don't enable case confusion -- terminal/Terminal being a prime example. If you have to

Re: minor bug in cygports 'Terminal' package -- don't install a link for 'terminal-Terminal

2012-10-09 Thread Linda Walsh
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/9/2012 5:50 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: It prevents Terminal from loading when you type Terminal (or terminal). snip Discussion of a Cygwin Ports package should be done on the Cygwin Ports mailing list. There's a separate cygports mailing list? Fortunately

Re: How to rsh in windows using cygwin

2013-01-16 Thread Linda Walsh
Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/16/2013 07:24 AM, Tim Prince wrote: I still remember the occasion 15 years ago when I entered rsh tim and found myself logged in as the head of corporate IT with root privilege. Did you do rm -rf /? I remember going to Frys and seeing a mac with a bash shell

openssh maintainer?

2013-01-29 Thread Linda Walsh
Who is the person who ports/packages openssh for cygwin? I was wondering if they could include the HPN patches (High Performance Networking) http://www.psc.edu/index.php/component/remository/HPN-SSH/OpenSSH-6.0-Patches/ specifically: these two should apply w/no build probs. HPN SSH Dynamic

Re: Search feature does not work

2013-01-30 Thread Linda Walsh
Chloe wrote: The mailing list search feature does not work. For example, this link http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?wm=wrdform=extendedm=alls=Dq=rubyul=%2Fml%2Fcygwin%2F2013-01%2F%25 Did not find these posts: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-01/msg00355.html

Re: parentheses in environment variable name

2013-05-09 Thread Linda Walsh
BJ Quinn wrote: Anyway, at least one suggestion I found was that my problem may be caused by the CommonProgramFiles(x86) environment variable needing to be set to 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files'. So, can anyone suggest how to set an environment variable whose VARIABLE NAME (not just

Re: Cygwin manpages clobbered

2013-05-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Warren Young wrote: On 5/9/2013 22:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: I haven't tried digging further to figure out how these man pages were http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/doc/test/ccp.3 http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/doc/test/ccp.pdf I think these outputs look pretty good, myself. The HTML is the

Re: mbuffer or similar app?

2013-05-20 Thread Linda Walsh
David Balažic wrote: Hi! Is there a port of mbuffer or a similar tool to cygwin? --- pv? (pipeview)? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: GCC and symlink are incompatibility on 64-bit windows

2013-06-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Lu Sheng wrote: E:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe -mcygwin -mdll -O -Wall -Ic:\users\it-04\appdata\local\tem p\pip-build-IT-04\lxml\src\lxml\includes -IC:\Python27\include -IC:\Python27\PC -c src\lxml\lxml.etree.c -o build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\src\lxml\lxml.etree .o when this command run, I will

Re: Using 'test' fails when referencing home '~' from bash loop

2013-06-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Steven Penny wrote: From: Matt D. The following never exits the loop: until test -f ~/file.txt; do sleep 1 echo sleep; done; echo done This is not an error, or even Cygwin related. With Bash you must now quote ~ if you want it to expand. Do this [ -f ~/file.txt ] or this [ -f

Re: GCC and symlink are incompatibility on 64-bit windows

2013-06-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Lu Sheng wrote: how can I use cygwin tools, if I want to compile the object file in cygwin and invoke it in windows python? If you compile under cygwin, you are designing it to run under posix (linux like environment) -- not under windows. If you want it to run under window you need to

Re: pasting several lines into the shell -- change from bash3-bash4

2013-07-31 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I can reproduce the effect, and it looks like this is the result of an accidental checkin. Thanks for the hint. ??? Is it? AFAIK, you can no longer safely paste code into the bash command line because the TAB char is the default completion character. If your

having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...)

2013-07-31 Thread Linda Walsh
Warren Young wrote: On 7/26/2013 23:44, marco atzeri wrote: Il 7/27/2013 7:17 AM, Kenneth Wolcott ha scritto: I guess I will somehow modify my PATH so that I have /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/usr/bin and /cygdrive/c/cygwin32/usr/bin mixing will not work as the dll's are called in the same way

Re: ssh login no longer allowed by local accounts other than main administrator account after taking machine off domain

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Yuki Ishibashi wrote: Hi all, Recently I've been tasked with taking a Win7 machine that was running Cygwin and sshd off of my company's old Active Directory domain... --- Have you ever heard of Process Monitor http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645 It can allow you to

Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...)

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Warren Young wrote: then maybe in your bashrc have it do a cygmount or create a softlinke from /bin32 - /bin or /bin64-/bin (and same for lib)? You can't just merge the two bin/lib dirs. The executable names conflict. My solution involving a cygwin2.dll is the only solution I see. And

Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...)

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Earnie Boyd wrote: On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: Hello Linda, It seems to be the only reliable 32-bit redirection -- and MS chose to put it in the /windows dir... so they must want customers to put anything needing that feature in that dir...right?? ;-) Oi

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Shaddy Baddah wrote: This is the output for L: drive, which is not a physical but logical volume formatted EXFAT. Hopefully it doesn't alter the characteristics/attributes. With a bit of extra effort, I could try with a physical device (format a spare USB stick EXFAT through Windows): $

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Shaddy Baddah wrote: To be honest, my bug bear with NTFS has been the file/folder ownership. But I think noacl's is probably the best compromise for general NTFS ACL issues. You realize you can change the ownership of files in cygwin, no? chmod username.groupname -R . in your home

Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...)

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Earnie Boyd wrote: On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Earnie Boyd wrote: However you the user have a choice of where to put things. Frankly, I would use /cygwin and /cygwin32 And how does that get you the autoredirection I suggested with the links in Windows

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-04 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 3 19:42, Linda Walsh wrote: Shaddy Baddah wrote: This is the output for L: drive, which is not a physical but logical volume formatted EXFAT. Hopefully it doesn't alter the characteristics/attributes. With a bit of extra effort, I could try with a physical

Re: compress / ncompress package for Cygwin

2013-09-02 Thread Linda Walsh
Hubert Garavel wrote: For porting legacy software to Cygwin, the absence of compress is just annoying. Why? If gzip can uncompress it, you should switch to gzip or xz anyway, because computers that you release software to are less likely to have compress because 1) it was encumbered 2)

why do psutils libtool packages need ~25+MB of latex (was Re: setup.ini dependency graph?)

2013-10-26 Thread Linda Walsh
On 10/25/2013 5:29 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/10/2013 12:12 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: Does anybody have a script or a tool that can parse a setup.ini and generate a dependency graph? I'm using pmcyg to create a stripped-down standalone installation CD and it's too big, so I'm trying to

setup(32)-2.830 catching which processes are still running (neat, but...misses services)

2013-10-29 Thread Linda Walsh
New version of setup shows me which processes are running and offers to stop them.. neat. I stopped them manually as needed to make sure work was saved. Tried again... this time it said it was still in use: turns out it seems to miss all of the processes running as services.

Re: Is there a way to acess expanded value of REG_EXPAND_SZ ?

2013-11-05 Thread Linda Walsh
On 11/4/2013 9:57 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, All! Started to write scripts, that rely on registry, and hit a nail right off the bat. I need to access expanded value of REG_EXPAND_SZ type. Reading documentation doesn't help. Is this possible? Or should I go through a loop of calling

Re: Windows 8 group won't respect /etc/passwd or /etc/group

2014-01-10 Thread Linda Walsh
John Smith wrote: Well, actually, I take that back. Today I'm still having the same issue. :frustrated: Can't say I immediately know the answer to your prob, BUT, if you have a spare computer you could run samba as a domain server for windows. Then you can set your group and see a

How to create hard-dir links that cygwin won't bother?

2014-01-12 Thread Linda Walsh
I've tried using mklink /d target source in cmd I'm wondering if i'd have any better success with junctions or linkd (2 pre-win7 ways of doing directory linking/mounting in Windows). I have a dual install of cygwin-x86 xygwin-x86-64 existing mostly side by side in root -- but some programs

problem -- cygwin doesn't allow remounting of root; running 32-bit progs from 64-bit cygwin

2014-01-13 Thread Linda Walsh
I normally run with cygwin in my root dir -- doing otherwise causes problems when programs are started from windows. I installed cygwin64 the other day and it overwrote links I had to separate cyg64 cyg32.. Setup wants to install things in separate dirs .. ok fine... but some dirs have shared

Re: problem -- cygwin doesn't allow remounting of root; running 32-bit progs from 64-bit cygwin

2014-01-14 Thread Linda Walsh
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 1/13/2014 9:04 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: So how can can I get mount to allow me to remount root -- i.e.: /usr/bin mount C:\\ / mount: warning: couldn't determine mount type. mount: /: Operation not permitted Have you referred to the Users Guide on this topic? http

Re: Problem w/ gcc: sensitive to path it was invoked on...

2014-01-15 Thread Linda Walsh
Mark Geisert wrote: Linda Walsh writes: Can't believe doesn't work for anyone. For me, I've tried multiple c progs (simple ones), You don't supply any example that shows your attempt and the resulting error message(s). So maybe it (whatever *it* is) is working for everybody else? Um

Re: Problem w/ gcc: error: spawn: No such file or directory; cygcheck.out attached.

2014-01-15 Thread Linda Walsh
Mark Geisert wrote: There was some discussion recently, --- *Thanks*... at least I know where to report the bug (in gcc): on linux -- did a similar test -- mounted /usr/bin on /bin and changed my path to have /bin first: Ishtar:law/bin PATH=/bin:$PATH Ishtar:law/bin gcc hello.c gcc: error

Re: Corrupted tar-ball in Cygwin-x86_64

2014-01-19 Thread Linda Walsh
Marco Atzeri wrote: On 18/01/2014 13:43, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 18/01/2014 13:01, Angelo Graziosi wrote: When I try to update my Cygwin64 installation (on a virtualBox Win7-64 installation) I get an error about the cygwin32-1.7.27-1.tar.xz package which seems corrupted. This is confirmed

Re: tar enhancements in 't' 'x' (was Corrupted tar-ball in Cygwin-x86_64)

2014-01-19 Thread Linda Walsh
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Il 18/01/2014 13.01, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: When I try to update my Cygwin64 installation (on a virtualBox Win7-64 installation) I get an error about the cygwin32-1.7.27-1.tar.xz package which seems corrupted. This is confirmed from command line on which i get: $

Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?

2014-02-04 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 4 02:22, Andrey Repin wrote: Cygwin will read the unixHomeDirectory entry (AD), --- I assume this will work without AD? //ishtar/law/Bliss mkpasswd -D -o 0|sort -t: -n -k3 SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT

Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?

2014-02-04 Thread Linda Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Linda Walsh! 11612288(High Mandatory Level) The security levels are mostly for informational / interest purposes... Maybe they might be added to cygwin if it is going to substitute it's own internal DB? As I understand it, these groups/names

Re: Executing a perl script from Windows 7

2014-03-19 Thread Linda Walsh
Peter Holsberg wrote: Hi, I have a perl script that I would like to execute simply by double-clicking on its name from a Windows filemanager window. I tried using this: #!C:\cygwin64\bin\perl.exe as the first line in the script but when I double-click the script, Windows opens it in a text

Re: LPR problem ?

2014-03-21 Thread Linda Walsh
David Masterson wrote: Anyone have ideas on how to debug this?? Have you tried the -D switch with lpr to enable debugging output? Are you sure you are correctly specifying the device name? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Getting groups you belong to in perl

2014-03-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! Don't know if this list is more appropriate than the Perl one but my question is actually about porting a Perl script to Cygwin. I need to check if the current user running the script belongs to a pre-defined group. FWIW, I run a bash

Does shared memory support work on cyg64?

2014-03-21 Thread Linda Walsh
When I run the Xwin server, it says shared memory isn't available. I thought running the cygserver took care of this? Does this not work on cyg64? Besides the Xwin server, When I try initialize pulseaudio, it tries to use shared memory as well, but fails to load (no reason why -- just

acls on a windows system prevent pulse audio from running?

2014-03-21 Thread Linda Walsh
I tried doing an strace of pulse audio... it seemed to fail here: 43 1284946 [main] pulseaudio 6776 path_conv::check: this-path(C:\usr\share\locale\en\LC_MESSAGES\pulseaudio.mo), has_acls(1) 49 1284995 [main] pulseaudio 6776 build_fh_pc: fh 0x1802E0568, dev 00C3 37 1285032 [main]

Re: Does shared memory support work on cyg64?

2014-03-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Marco Atzeri wrote: for my test, it works of course you need to put care to avoid collision between 32 bit and 64 bit if you have both installed. testing on 64bit Xwin with cygserver running I see [ 13438.222] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM Hmmm... Did you have to do anything

Re: Does shared memory support work on cyg64?

2014-03-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Marco Atzeri wrote: as the script creates a service called cygserver running both the 32bit and the 64 bit scripts causes the second to overwrite/overlap the first. On my system I manually renamed the 64 one to avoid collision and to allow to start them separately Ahh...I see.. In my

Re: Does shared memory support work on cyg64?

2014-03-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Marco Atzeri wrote: $ cygrunsrv -LV --- FWIW, when I type that, I see: cygrunsrv -LV Service : cygserver (Installation path: C:\cygwin64) Display name: CYGWIN cygserver Current State : Running Controls Accepted : Stop Command :

Re: Does shared memory support work on cyg64?

2014-03-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Marco Atzeri wrote: No installation path, so same path/root of cygrunsrv command So... just from the above -- it looks like your 32bit and 64-bit are running the same binary -- i.e. from the view of cygrunsrvam I missing something? the base path/root for the two installations is

Bingo... cygserver-config script installed inconsistent path in registry.

2014-03-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Finally tracked this down. when I ran the cygserver-config, it installed a different path for cygserver-config than what everything else thinks it is running under... I.e. even though my shell and the dbus server, both think they are running under C:/bin (which is a symlink - cygwin64/bin,

Re: Does shared memory support work on cyg64?

2014-03-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Marco Atzeri wrote: the base path/root for the two installations is different (it wasn't supposed to be, in mine It seems to be a config script problem... everything else was running off of C:\bin, but the config script installed cygrunsrv to run from the C:\cygwin64\bin path instead of

Re: usefulness of symlinks (was: cygserver-config script installed inconsistent path in registry)

2014-03-24 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 21 16:03, Linda Walsh wrote: both think they are running under C:/bin (which is a symlink - cygwin64/bin, through C:\windows\system32\cygwin) Why did you mess around with the install paths that badly? Don't install anything Cygwin into C:\windows

Re: bash adds dot to $PATH

2014-03-24 Thread Linda Walsh
Robert Klemme wrote: So it could be an OS feature but I could not find any documentation about this. And it is still totally unclear to me what the criterion might be as bash suffers from this but all other shells do not. This is weird. I don't think BASH sets the path... it adds to the

Re: usefulness of symlinks

2014-03-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Jon TURNEY wrote: This really reads like you've tried one GLX client (glxgears), seen that it apparently isn't working, and decided that GLX doesn't work at all. This is not true. Please stop spreading misinformation. - I'd like to see if there is ANY GLX program that works. I was under

remote desktop /session bus woes...(was Re: problem with opengl (glxgears) running on cygwin ....)

2014-03-27 Thread Linda Walsh
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2014-03-25 09:05, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 20/03/2014 08:41, Linda Walsh wrote: When I try to run glxgears locally, it displays the initial gears, but now they are just frozen. It doesn't work remotely, either, which was what I tried initially. It *used* to work

Request for Junctions be treated consistently

2014-03-29 Thread Linda Walsh
If you use the 'mountvol' you a *local* root folder mounted at some drive letter that can be maintained over boots. is listed as a JUNCTION and treated by cygwin as a regular dir. For some reason the other type of directory hookup made by linkd which also created a JUNKTION vs. (mklink creating

Re: Request for Junctions be treated consistently

2014-03-29 Thread Linda Walsh
Linda Walsh wrote: If you use the 'mountvol' you a *local* root folder mounted at some drive letter that can be maintained over boots. is listed as a JUNCTION and treated by cygwin as a regular dir. For some reason the other type of directory hookup made by linkd which also created a JUNKTION

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