Re: Help understanding why a mount command is not working and how to fix it

2024-09-13 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 9/9/2024 4:39 PM, René Berber via Cygwin wrote: On 9/9/2024 12:23 PM, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: Dear Cygwiners -- For convenience, I would like to mount my OneDrive folder under / cygdrive/o. I put this line in my /etc/fstab: c:/Users/Eliot\040Moss/OneDrive /cygdrive/o ntfs binary

Help understanding why a mount command is not working and how to fix it

2024-09-09 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
,posix=0,user "/c/Users/Eliot Moss/OneDrive" /foo results in this output if /foo does not exist: mount: warning - /foo does not exist. mount: /foo: Invalid argument and this output if I do mkdir /foo first: mount: /foo: Invalid argument Using \040 instead of the space for the quoted co

Re: case-insensitive filename comparisons

2024-09-03 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
ename match. See also its -ipath and -iregex operators. Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [Suggestion] Include hstr (shell history suggest box) in Cygwin

2024-08-31 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
it possible to provide this tool officially? You can volunteer to set up the package and become its maintainer ... Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info

Re: A/B install?

2024-08-29 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
ation, and then copy back. This could be delicate because of links and such. Maybe other folks have other suggestions? Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html U

Re: BUG: /usr/bin/uptime always reports 0/0/0 average

2024-08-27 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 8/27/2024 11:31 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote: On 27/08/2024 09:21, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin wrote: Greetings! /usr/bin/uptime always reports 0/0/0 average cpu load: $ uptime   10:09:01 up 15:59,  0 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 is this a known bug? Kind of. Due to windows AP

Re: [EXTERNAL] BUG: /usr/bin/uptime always reports 0/0/0 average

2024-08-27 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
share the version of procps-ng, of cygwin, and your Windows OS? I'm not the maintainer, but I also get the 0's and am curious if I can revert to get the proper behavior back for now. Thanks! Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Need help in getting the Cygwin 2.8.0 and 2.8.1 sources packages

2024-08-27 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
ructions". HTH Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Unable to setup to W7 box

2024-08-23 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 8/23/2024 9:28 AM, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote: Greetings, All! \\DAEMON1.DARKDRAGON.LAN\arc\cygwin\install>setup-x86_64.exe --site http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2024/01/30/231215 --only-site --no-verify --no-warn-deprecated-windows Starting cygwin ins

Re: mbrtoc32 not found following update.

2024-07-31 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
trace got as far as it did. But I suggest reinstalling those two programs. Not sure how those exe's got zapped. Maybe an installation upgrade did not complete properly ... HTH - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/fa

Re: Parse output of "net use", but language varies - force language for "net use"?

2024-07-20 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
an happy to have someone more knowledgeable expand or correct this! Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin/X as Shell replacement?

2024-06-19 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Technical reason why 32bit Cygwin cannot be installed on 64bit Windows?

2024-05-17 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
ime to do more. You are on your own with 32 bit dropped, Does Cygwin 3.6 still compile on 32bit? AFAIK, yes, though most folks don't compile it themselves. I just download things. so ask questions on forums like SO. What is SO? StackOverflow. Cheers - Eliot Moss -- Problem

Re: /usr/bin/sg in Cygwin?

2024-04-21 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 4/21/2024 7:20 PM, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 at 07:39, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: On 2024-04-19 17:47, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 22:25, Dan Shelton wrote: Is there a package which provides /usr/bin/sg (execute shell commands in a diff

Re: cygrunsrv: trailing command line arguyments not allowed

2024-04-20 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
n' instead of -a -n. Perhaps some other variation of quoting will be needed to make clear to cygrunsrv that the -n is for the application, not for cygrunsrv. Best - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq

Re: See repeated /usr/bin in my path

2024-04-18 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
_PATH (upper case variable name). Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Help with use of pgrep or pkill commands with full name options

2024-03-22 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 3/22/2024 11:56 AM, J M via Cygwin wrote: Help with use of pgrep or pkill commands with full name options. I trying to use pgrep or pkill utility commands to find processes but using the full path names, by example, find /usr/bin/bash (package procps-ng): Then, if I use pgrep -f /usr/bin/bas

Re: tried Setup (2.931), but failed

2024-03-10 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
is not different, it will still not rename the .sh to sh.done ... Best wishes - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml

Re: cygsshd fails due to bad ownership or modes of /cygdrive/c/Users

2024-02-05 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
the concept of root in POSIX. SYSTEM (in my experience) is used for things like backup tools that needs access to almost every file. Administrators is for system administration. I don't have deep knowledge of all of this - others can give a deeper / more nuanced answer. Eliot Moss -- Prob

Re: Cygwin vim + Github Copilot

2024-01-11 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
ck up of a POSIX universe. Using cygwin programs to call Windows based tools can quickly get problematic. A *potential* solution for you is to find and use a Windows vim to talk with Windows based programs. Maybe other people have specific knowledge / fixes for you ... Eliot Moss -- Pr

Re: /dev/u?random implementation

2023-12-20 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 12/20/2023 7:32 PM, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote: I dug around in the Cygwin doc looking for details on how /dev/random and /dev/urandom are implemented, but came up empty.  Is this documented anywhere? Writing a simple program and then watching where reading /dev/random goes using gdb sugg

Re: Cygwin is not passing arguments to Windows apps

2023-12-17 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
folder: lrwxrwxrwx 1 moss Eliot Moss 11 Aug 26 2022 c -> /cygdrive/c lrwxrwxrwx 1 moss Eliot Moss 11 Aug 26 2022 d -> /cygdrive/d lrwxrwxrwx 1 moss Eliot Moss 11 Oct 6 12:53 o -> /cygdrive/o These allow me to write /c/ instead of the longer /cygdrive/c/, etc. This arrang

Re: Cygwin is not passing arguments to Windows apps

2023-12-17 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 12/16/2023 10:55 PM, Karl Crary via Cygwin wrote: Dear all, I am encountering a bug wherein Cygwin is not passing arguments to most Windows programs (although Cygwin programs are doing fine). For example, the following command ought to be dumping a lot of usage information, but instead it

Re: How efficient is 'sleep'?

2023-12-15 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
erflow.com/questions/645992/sleep-until-a-specific-time-date Cheers - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin 3.4.9 - how to install ssh-keygen

2023-11-29 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 11/29/2023 4:13 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote: On Monday, November 27, 2023 02:46 AM, Matthias--- expressed: Am Sonntag, dem 26.11.2023 um 12:21 -0700 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: On 2023-11-26 10:12, Matthias--- via Cygwin wrote: Am Samstag, dem 25.11.2023 um 19:45 +0100 sc

Re: Python C Extension Module loading issue on Cygwin

2023-11-27 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
they are. Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC

2023-11-23 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 11/22/2023 4:38 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: On Wednesday, November 22, 2023 11:15 AM, Eliot Moss expressed: On 11/22/2023 10:43 AM, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 7:53 AM Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: [clip] >> desktop. No Cygwin nor Cygwin-X folders wer

Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC

2023-11-22 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 11/22/2023 10:43 AM, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 7:53 AM Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: I have a new Win11 PC, and I wanted to capture the same Cygwin setup that I have in another Win10 PC. I copied the C:\cygwin64 folder from the Win10 pc to the Win11 pc, then I downl

Re: Cant install Cygwin Virt-manager that asks for library that asks for python2

2023-11-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
ISO files under Windows. Once the ISO drive is mounted, it should be visible to Cygwin as an ordinary drive under /cygdrive according to its drive letter. This does not make virt-manager work; instead it avoids the need for it. Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/pr

Re: Run a Cygwin process with "higher" scheduler priority

2023-10-14 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 10/14/2023 7:39 AM, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 at 19:14, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2023-08-11 09:44, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: How can we set the scheduler priority for a Cygwin process to "higher" than normal on start? Basically we want a Cygwin compatible

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
updated? Since this is the case with ruby, I am guessing it's likely the case with other packages in Cygwin too. Is there a backlog for Cygwin somewhere, so that I can investigate this myself if I have time this winter? Thank you and all the best, Eric -Original Message- From: Eliot

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
eer and is behind, or fell off the radar." Someone else will know how to look up if there is a currently registered volunteer for Ruby ... Eliot Moss This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity

Re: Ada support in gcc-core 11.4.0-1 package

2023-09-07 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
under Cygwin, gnu-ada is not being distributed. I suggest you search the mail archives for details. Best - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Faster rsync?

2023-08-29 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 8/29/2023 9:43 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: On 8/29/2023 9:17 AM, Mario Emmenlauer via Cygwin wrote: On 29.08.23 14:32, Adam Kessel via Cygwin wrote: I've found rsync to be painfully slow on large folders -- hours to sync thousands of files, even when they already match size and --size-on

Re: Faster rsync?

2023-08-29 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
tools. As a separate example, try to download the boost source code, and extract the archive. I can do the extraction in way under a minute on Linux, but have to wait many many minutes on a similarly equipped Windows machine. Just my two cents.     Mario Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem re

Re: Probable bug

2023-07-30 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 7/30/2023 5:38 AM, natan_b--- via Cygwin wrote: Hi Guys very short. prog.c #include int main() { float a=1.283; while(1) printf( "%f", a ); } run with $ ./prog.exe >/dev/null in windows monitor process the process increase it's memory it arrive to many Gb. It's not a machine p

Re: vfork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2023-07-09 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
Digging a little further ... The conflicting dll was /bin/cygpng16-16.dll. rebase display it with a * indicating that there was a space conflict for it. So I did a rebase-trigger full and ran setup again. Now these two dlls share the same spot: /usr/bin/cygp11-kit-0.dll /usr/lib/p11-kit-proxy

Re: vfork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2023-07-09 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 7/9/2023 11:56 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 7/8/2023 9:37 PM, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: Dear cygwin-ers -- I'm running 64-bit cygwin 3.4.7-1 and lately I've been getting these vfork errors from emacs-gtk when I try to run dired on a directory. I believe this tries to

Re: Getting return code "127" after execution of program

2023-06-02 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
post; cygwin@cygwin.com would be enough for now, so I have trimmed other lists from my response.) Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [QUAR] Accessing outside datasets?

2023-05-07 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 5/6/2023 11:44 PM, Bernard Rich via Cygwin wrote: Hello, I have read the introductory advice but still do not understand how to access datasets stored on *C:* or on flash drives. Can you please point me to the correct reference or email me the instructions? You can give a full path startin

Re: posix_spawn_file_actions_add[f]chdir_np

2023-04-19 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
A wondering in all this ... Does having more spawn support imply that bash (for example) may end up doing faster process spawning, skipping some of high overhead we've lived with for a long time because of the Windows process spawning model? Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports:

Re: Permissions question / issue

2023-04-14 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 4/14/2023 3:43 PM, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: On 4/14/2023 3:11 PM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Apr 13 23:03, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: Dear cygwin'ers - I seem to be caught in a bind with the Cygwin permissions setup. ssh insists that ~/.ssh/config have permissions no

Re: Permissions question / issue

2023-04-14 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 4/14/2023 3:11 PM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Apr 13 23:03, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: Dear cygwin'ers - I seem to be caught in a bind with the Cygwin permissions setup. ssh insists that ~/.ssh/config have permissions no less permissive than rw--- (600). Huh? N

Re: Permissions question / issue

2023-04-14 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 4/13/2023 11:03 PM, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: Dear cygwin'ers - I seem to be caught in a bind with the Cygwin permissions setup. ssh insists that ~/.ssh/config have permissions no less permissive than rw--- (600). ---> should have read no *more* permissive (sent too late

Permissions question / issue

2023-04-13 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
emembering the solution to the conundrum? Note: I have Administrator privilege on my machine, but that doesn't help, since the backup tool runs under SYSTEM, a different account. Best wishes - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https:/

Re: Cygwin starts take long since march. Three minutes to prompt.

2023-04-03 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
, or adjusting mount parameters. Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: exe in path directory, "command not found"

2023-03-14 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
r* that contains notepad++.exe ... Note that path (written PATH, and generally exported) contains folder names separated by colons. To add to the end you can do: export PATH="$PATH:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/notepad++" Note: no \ in front of space inside the quotes. Best - Eliot Moss --

Re: Nano fails to open file "~/.bashrc".

2023-03-03 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
gpath -wa ~/.bashrc) Personally, I'd go with the first option, since CYgwin nano is more likely to play nicely with Cygwin files ... Best wishes - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cyg

Re: (No Subject)

2023-02-23 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/24/2023 2:07 PM, chrstfer via Cygwin wrote: Moss, Have you made any major changes to your cygwin X server settings? I tried this with a fresh install of the cygwin Xserver suite, first thing i did, but was unable to get it to work. I assume you are using Docker Desktop? Do you have it in

Re: (No Subject)

2023-02-23 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
pite being a microsoft project) If it's of any help in understanding this, in wsl I set DISPLAY=:0 and can start X apps that connect to the Cygwin X server. I wonder if there are issues trying to run two X servers at the same time ... Best - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: ht

Re: OSError: Unsupported platform 'CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044'

2023-02-21 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/22/2023 7:03 AM, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote: On February 21, 2023 2:52 AM, Csaba Raduly expressed: Because you're not on Windows. You're on Cygwin, which acts as a POSIX (Unix-like) system. Wow! Thanks for that deep thought. :-) I knew that. :-) I have been using Cygwin sinc

Re: OSError: Unsupported platform 'CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044'

2023-02-20 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
If you will be running X (and Cygwin supports, but does not require that), then the xorg backend (meaning: not the Windows one) with pynput (note, that package has no "i" in its name) may achieve your goal. Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problem

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
Ok ... assuming the "Modern C" is more or less POSIX based and does not use things outside the realm of what cygwin supplies, I think the answer is straightforward: Make sure you install every program and every library that the book uses. There's not really such a thing as a "full install" for C

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/7/2023 3:28 PM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 9:54 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 11:34 AM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 7:27 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 10:03 AM, Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2023 4:59 am, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2023

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/7/2023 2:56 PM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 9:54 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 11:34 AM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 7:27 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 10:03 AM, Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2023 4:59 am, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2023

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/7/2023 11:34 AM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 7:27 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 10:03 AM, Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2023 4:59 am, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 04:33:53AM +0800, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: I updated Cygwin to 3.4.5-1.x86_64

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/7/2023 11:21 AM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 7:50 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 10:48 AM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 7:27 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 10:03 AM, Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2023 4:59 am, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2023

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/7/2023 10:48 AM, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: On 7/2/2023 7:27 am, Eliot Moss wrote: On 2/7/2023 10:03 AM, Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2023 4:59 am, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 04:33:53AM +0800, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: I updated Cygwin to 3.4.5-1.x86_64

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 2/7/2023 10:03 AM, Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2023 4:59 am, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 04:33:53AM +0800, Yeo Kai Wei wrote: I updated Cygwin to 3.4.5-1.x86_64. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19045 DESKTOP-P3E71RB 3.4.5-1.x86_64 2023-01-19 19:09 UTC x8

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-06 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
"gcc -o selectStdIn selectStdIn.c" Thank you. My guess is that those fd set things aren't POSIX, and cygwin tries to model POSIX. Comments at the top of /usr/include/sys/select.h suggest that. -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: ioperm / iopl / pciutils

2023-01-29 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
be available under CYGWIN [sic]. What issue(s) are you having? Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Question about slow access to file information

2023-01-14 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 1/15/2023 3:38 AM, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote: Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: I have a separate drive mounted this way: d:/ /cygdrive/d ntfs binary,posix=0,user,noacl,auto 0 0 One thing I use it for is to store backup files.  These tend to be 2 Gb chunks, and there can be hundreds of

Question about slow access to file information

2023-01-13 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
em to suffer this delay. Any notion as to what is happening and what I might do to ameliorate it? If it matters, the drive is removable (an external WD MyPassport hard drive). Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.co

Re: newlib-cygwin.git repository: Switching "master" to "main"

2023-01-13 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
ually unconscious or subconscious, and it does not cost us much to do it. Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

Re: Creating the sqlite3.exe stand-alone w/o cygwin dependency

2022-12-10 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 12/9/2022 9:43 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: On Friday, December 9, 2022 6:33 PM, Eliot Moss expressed: On 12/9/2022 4:34 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote: This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but I wonder about search paths and find the DLL when trying to start the program. Is

Re: Creating the sqlite3.exe stand-alone w/o cygwin dependency

2022-12-09 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
environment variable? Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: New Windows open behind current ones rather than in front

2022-10-30 Thread Eliot Moss
On 10/30/2022 8:21 AM, Jon Turney wrote: On 14/10/2022 16:58, Eliot Moss wrote: Dear Cygwiners - I am having an issue under Windows 11 where new windows, when spawned from the command line of (say) Cygwin bash or WSL2 bash come up *behind* current Windows.  This behavior seems new to Windows

New Windows open behind current ones rather than in front

2022-10-14 Thread Eliot Moss
: - Spawn Word from Cygwin bash - Spawn okular from WSL 2 If I spawn xterm from Cygwin bash, it comes up in front, but from WSL2 bash, it comes up behind. My X server is the Cygwin one. Happy to provide more details if this is not enough. Best - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https

Re: Frequent Warning messages using gv

2022-10-08 Thread Eliot Moss
7;t own, or buy copies of the relevant Helvetica typefaces. Something I might try first is researching how fontconfig can allow you to set up substitutions. Cheers - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] emacs 28.2-2 (64-bit only, TEST)

2022-09-17 Thread Eliot Moss
code. When the native code is ready, it is swapped in, replacing the interpreted byte code. So, if your system has multiple cores (like mine) and is not overloaded, you may not see slow down - only eventual speed up. Thank you for this, Ken! Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com

Re: How to get setup to *re*install a package from the command line

2022-09-08 Thread Eliot Moss
On 9/8/2022 2:00 AM, Christian Franke wrote: Eliot Moss wrote: If data in /etc/setup is still intact, a quick way with the GUI should be run to the recent 2.921 RC release of setup, select the "Up To Date" view and then press and hold Ctrl+R. https://sourceware.org/pipermail/c

How to get setup to *re*install a package from the command line

2022-09-07 Thread Eliot Moss
Dear Cygwiners - I've not been able to find a way to get setup, when used from the command line, to *re*install an existing package, so as to repair any brokenness. For context, I had my disk get trashed and restored from a cloud backup. However, that tool is not entirely competent about everyth

Re: Running cygwin from python

2022-08-31 Thread Eliot Moss
On 8/31/2022 4:40 PM, René Berber wrote: On 8/31/2022 1:39 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: On 8/31/2022 1:41 PM, Toyoshima Denis wrote: Hi there, how are you? I’d like to know if there’s any possibility of running simple commands inside Cygwin through Python code

Re: Running cygwin from python

2022-08-31 Thread Eliot Moss
me/moss I could also do: C:\cygwin64\bin\ls.exe /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/home/moss You could also go through two steps, using the cygpath program to convert paths to the desired form for a Cygwin program to obtain a Cygwin form name to pass to a Cygwin program. HTH - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports:

Re: Problem with grow.exe demo test file for SLEUTH Urban growth model

2022-07-28 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/28/2022 11:20 PM, Krishnaveni K S wrote: Dear Yano, Thank you so much for the support. I have use 64 bit download from cygwin and used the demo files for test run. Haven't used 32 bit.. Can you please suggest how to solve this? With regards Krishnaveni What is grow? Where is it coming fr

Re: I got a '~' showing up as the Title of my Window

2022-07-15 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/15/2022 12:44 PM, Kevin M. Wilson via Cygwin wrote: Greetings,    Well, I've gone and done something, and I don't know how to fix it...Please help! I start a terminal window on my windows machine, ssh'g to my Linux box. At the top lefthand corner of that window is a tilde, "~bash". The wor

Re: chmod g+s ineffective

2022-07-10 Thread Eliot Moss
m/tool reorder the DACLs! It will break the Cygwin functionality, and the Cygwin order does not break Windows functionality. Best - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/do

Re: Bug in Control-d handling?

2022-06-20 Thread Eliot Moss
On 6/20/2022 9:24 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 6/20/2022 6:22 AM, Takashi Yano wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:59:35 +0900 >> Takashi Yano wrote: >>> Isn't this a bug of newlib? Try following code. >>> >>> #include >>> >>> int main() >>> { >>> printf("%d\n", getchar()); >>> printf("%d\n", f

Re: unzip failure with files that contain colons

2022-06-16 Thread Eliot Moss
On 6/16/2022 11:29 AM, Takashi Yano wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 06:22:38 +0200 Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 15.06.2022 um 20:30 schrieb Adam Dinwoodie: Cygwin generally handles filenames with colons just fine, by mapping the character to some higher Unicode character and remapping on the fly. However

Re: Download link broken

2022-06-09 Thread Eliot Moss
X applications you like. Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: possible grep V3.7 issue

2022-06-06 Thread Eliot Moss
e the new version triggers some anti-virus activity or something like that. Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Readline not working correctly with cygwin1.dll in same directory

2022-06-05 Thread Eliot Moss
e to be necessary to include terminfo. Takashi may know more on this point, of course ... Best - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: h

Re: Need Assistance Installing GDB in Cygwin for Windows 10

2022-05-19 Thread Eliot Moss
se to install GDB debugger? Please, help. First, you don't need source for a fully functional gdb. Just select gdb and possibly choose which version. If you want source, check the Src? box. Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [QUAR] execfuse

2022-05-06 Thread Eliot Moss
in yourself or convince someone to do it. Best - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: A Question about Cygwin

2022-04-26 Thread Eliot Moss
ote disk drive, and you have Cygwin interact with files on that drive. But it's not like a web browser and web pages that send tracking info to servers behind your back, etc. It's pretty much like Linux. Best - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/prob

Re: Possible xpdf packaging error?

2022-04-07 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/7/2022 11:13 AM, airplanemath via Cygwin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07 2022, Eliot Moss wrote: > >> Dear Cygwin-ers -- >> >> Today I had use for pdftotext. It man page is installed, but the program >> itself is missing. On Ubuntu (etc.) it is part of the xpdf pac

Possible xpdf packaging error?

2022-04-07 Thread Eliot Moss
though this worth asking about. Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: 1 [main] bash 17336 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com

2022-04-02 Thread Eliot Moss
s the fact that their version is old and should be updated. This often happens because someone bundled Cygwin with something else and is not updating the Cygwin version. Modern versions no longer generate the message. In sum, the auto-responder is the best thing we can do about it. At least we don&#x

Re: Running a command in a specific directory

2022-03-22 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/22/2022 6:35 PM, Piotr Gliźniewicz wrote: Hi, I'm trying to run a command at a specific "Windows" path. Basically something similar to what chere does for bash, but I want to execute ls in bash for a specific directory. I've tried variations of what chere leaves in the registry: C:\cygw

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/19/2022 5:51 PM, Clayton Cramer wrote: I installed everything, but that does not seem to include bc. So you went through and explicitly asked for each package? If you did, then that would include bc, since it is one of the packages. I'm now confused. How did you request "everything"? Re

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/19/2022 2:33 PM, Clayton Cramer wrote: Cygwin Setup - Select Packages says there are no packages to install or update.  No is there a bc executable under \cygwin You have to select packages explicitly. It does not just blindly install all of them - that's a lot of stuff, and for various r

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Eliot Moss
recompiled for Cygwin (often with patches to make them compile properly under Cygwin). bc is (logically enough) in the bc package. Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com

Re: emacs-everywhere

2022-03-08 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/8/2022 4:49 AM, Russell VT wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 7:33 PM Eliot Moss mailto:m...@cs.umass.edu>> wrote: > > On 3/6/2022 9:00 PM, Russell VT wrote: > > Are you running Thunderbird under Cygwin (ie. in an "X" environment?), or are you running it

Re: emacs-everywhere

2022-03-06 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/6/2022 9:00 PM, Russell VT wrote: Eliot - Are you running Thunderbird under Cygwin (ie. in an "X" environment?), or are you running it directly from Windows? Thanks for responding, Russell. Directly under Windows. Can it run under Cygwin? I am running Cygwin/X with emacs, xterm, okular

emacs-everywhere

2022-03-06 Thread Eliot Moss
many keystrokes / mouse actions) way to get stuff from Thunderbird, edit, and get it back into TBird? This is why I am still on Thunderbird 68.12 (!). Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Renaming (with 'mv') very large files is SLOW

2022-01-31 Thread Eliot Moss
b solid state drive! Actually, those speeds may be reasonable depending on the nature of your system.) If the two locations are on different drives, there's no real avoiding this. Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://c

Re: [QUAR] ls -C broken

2022-01-28 Thread Eliot Moss
On 1/28/2022 10:46 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: If I redirect output of `ls -C` (file / pipe), it used to produce well-formatted output in columns. Suddenly it produces garbage formatting instead. As `ls` itself is not new, maybe it's some library that breaks behaviour? Or even pty code?? Works on

Re: Does cygwin have an 'autorun' utility/package?

2022-01-16 Thread Eliot Moss
seems to build and work reasonably well. Another angle is this Qt library (though I am not sure if it works under Cygwin): https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qfilesystemwatcher.html Best - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq

Re: proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe 0x0, Win32 error 6

2022-01-13 Thread Eliot Moss
On 1/13/2022 1:40 AM, Jay K wrote: I don't know why I didn't get the reply in email, but this is representative of the real world code.  - Jay From: Jay K Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 6:27 AM To: cyg...@sourceware.org Subject: Re: proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe 0x0, Win

Re: ExitProcess does not work in Cygwin?

2022-01-13 Thread Eliot Moss
X-like interface, not a Windows-like one. However, if ExitProcess is a Windows function, there is probably a library you can use to obtain it in Cygwin (maybe the winsup (Windows support) library). Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

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