Brian Dessent wrote:
This, however is going to be rather fruitless. The list of mirrors is
already checked frequently (at least daily) by automatic infrastructure
on the cygwin.com machine, and any mirror that is offline or is more
than 24 hours out of sync is automatically removed from the
Was trying to load some new packages in CPAN under perl
in cygwin. I noticed a problem when it asked for prereqs:
It wouldn't accept CR to terminate the input -- only LF.
I tried reloading CPAN -- that pulled up the reconfigure
dialog for some new parameters -- then I find the same
problem in
I went into setup and asked it to install from local directory.
It went past the root dialog, then displayed the local pacakge
directory \\server\share\software\cygwin, hit Next
initializes and starts parsing ini file, then I see
it parsing some package, then a popup dialog that displays
I noticed a minor problem on my machine. I have
a partition that is using an 8K allocation unit.
However, the commands like:
du -s file
-or-
ls -s file
don't show the file's actual allocation size on disk but
seem to use a fixed 1k for size.
I also duplicated the problem on a network
It appears DB_File is installed with cygwin Perl.
I wanted to update it via CPAN.
The build looks for a file db.h in the include directories.
Supposedly, DB_File is buildable by installing the
Berkeley DB Library package.
Cygwin has multiple versions:
db2, db3.1, db4.1, db4.2 db4.3.
I
Brian Dessent wrote:
Headers and import libraries are in the -devel package. The main
package just contains the files necessary at runtime, if you intend to
compile things that use the library you need the -devel package.
Thanks -- looked for a -devel package, but was looking in wrong
Hi Gerrit,
Yeah, for most purposes hitting Enter gives
you what you need, but something was weird was
going on. The problem went away after I - (ug)
rebooted. Have no idea how it happened -- had closed
out the CMD-window and started with fresh windows,
exiting all cygwin programs, but that
I've been trying to install the perl CPAN module File::BOM for
several days, now, and keep running into a hang under Cygwin
(I can install it successfully under linux).
I've tried updating cygwin software as well as, seemingly,
unrelated CPAN modules, but it's still reliably hanging during
the
Hi, I don't claim to know what is going on, but I'm
using a dual-core system and haven't noticed the problems you are having,
but my processors are Intel Dual Core. That shouldn't make a difference
I wouldn't think.
Joseph Kowalski wrote:
1) Windows XP, fully updated; 2) Visual Studio .NET
Joseph Kowalski wrote:
Linda Walsh cygwin at tlinx dot org wrote:
Hi, I don't claim to know what is going on, but I'm
using a dual-core system and haven't noticed the problems you are having,
but my processors are Intel Dual Core. That shouldn't make a difference
I wouldn't think.
Joseph
Mohammed Iqbal.H wrote:
Hi ALL
Can some one tell me how to dd a image onto a USB key.
An image? An image of what? A jpeg image? GIF?
What image are you trying to copy to a USB device? I sorta assume
that when you properly mount / install / insert the USB key under
Windows (XP,
Mohammed Iqbal.H wrote:
its a .dd image,
dd if={.dd image} of=/cygdrive/e
As 'e' is the USB key.
error message:
dd :opening '/cygdrive/e':Is a directory
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On my system:
/dev/sda points to my first hard disk
/dev/sda2 points to my C drive (2nd partition on first hard disk)
my
ilak1008 wrote:
In fact, my script process a file about 5 sec under SFU while under Cygwin,
it takes about 30 sec or longer. I wish to continue using Cygwin.
Therefore, is there a better way to make the processing faster without the
need of optimizing my script?
Strange.
seems like the grep package on http://mirrors.kernel.org appears corrupt
(too short).
Seems fine on another mirror.
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Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
it also periodically gave a message
saying it is no longer in the list of Cygwin mirrors, as report
for mirrors.kernel.org by René Berber.
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Is the message that it is no longer in the list of Cygwin mirrors
from setup.exe? How does it
Pardon me, but I have some questions about libraries under
cygwin if anyone knows... If there's a doc somewhere that
answers these questions, a pointer to it would be appreciated.
Are all dll libraries supposed to be invocable as executables?
What about libraries with .a extensions? I looked on
I was wondering if the following simple example worked for
other people. It works on my linux box, but not on my cygwin
box.
Fails prints usage:
echo 1|sed -r 's/1/2/'
The problem seems to be the extended regular expression switch.
The spelled out form was no better.
I'd guess it was not
Was updating my out of date packages. One was perl. Under
newer setup (2.573.2.2) it would get an access violation,
repeatedly, as it was trying to remove perl.
I ran the older setup (2.510.2.2). Worked fine the first time.
There were other packages that were being installed at same
time, so
Christopher Faylor wrote:
You probably have another version of sed in your path then. WJFFM.
cygcheck output would also tell us if you have the right version of sed.
Thanks...found it...
Don't think cygcheck would have told you anything. Does it print
bash aliases? When I tried a 'which',
Dave Korn wrote:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-talk/2007-q1/msg00234.h
That's the slightly out-of-date version that omits embassy trust suite.
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-talk/2007-q1/msg00273.html
Shouldn't that list be kept on the main website
as part of the FAQ? Seems more
Reini,
Reini Urban wrote:
Linda Walsh schrieb:
I'm having problems with perl5.8.8. I tried running it under gdb, but
it won't load:
gdb perl.exe
GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-12-28-cvs (cygwin-special)
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/perl.exe
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault
Brian Dessent wrote:
You're using an outdated version of gdb and you're seeing this phony
SIGSEGV because of it.
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Awesome! Thanks. Not sure why, but 'setup' didn't
think I had gdb installed, so it never offered me a newer
version...weird.
Thanks!
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I've been playing around with xterm. Unlike my last system,
my current system scrolls much faster in an xterm window (before
it was about twice or more slower than a cmd window; now it's about
twice as fast!).
I'm trying to setup defaults for xterm.
I thought I could put resource values in
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Maybe you shouldn't be quite so indignant about the notion of your
setup being broken.
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Eric Blake wrote:
According to Linda Walsh on 7/29/2007 5:49 PM:
could
someone give pointer? (or even to the doc where I *should* have found
the answer I was looking for).
This is an X-specific question. Try asking it on the cygwin-xfree list.
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I looked at the cygwin page on mailing
Eric Blake wrote:
.Xdefaults can also affect non-X usage of rxvt.
Yeah, I have entries for it in my X defaults file, for the non-X
version. For some reason, the font setting, Lucida Console, that works
in the non-X rxvt gives an error under the X version. sigh.
You didn't look
Joe Smith wrote:
When the file's link count becomes 0 and no process has the file open,
the space occupied by the file shall be freed and the file shall no
longer
Could we at least simulate the behavior by moving the file out of the
way (simultaionsly renaming it to something unique),
and
I get two different views of my server's /home directory
depending on if I'm on the server or under cygwin on a client.
On the server, I see things like:
drwsrwsrwt 2 lin users 14 Nov 24 2006 NT_Perflogs/
drwxr-s--- 2 root private 24 Jul 26 2006 archive/
drwsr-s--- 4
Don't know if it is helpful, but from another linux box, mounted with
cifs, I see pretty similar:
drwsrwsrwt 2 linusers0 Nov 24 2006 NT_Perflogs/
drwxr-s--- 2 root private 0 Jul 26 2006 archive/
drwsr-s--- 4 backup backup 0 May 14 13:53 backup/
drwxr-xr-x 4 lindevel
Stephen Quintero wrote:
Using cmd.exe as the login shell, ctrl-c terminates the ssh session (rather
than being propagated to the process on the remote server).
My question is - is there some way to work around this?
For example, running bash as the login shell, and then running cmd.exe,
I've just noticed a bunch to several files owned by group 4294967295
I reran the mkpasswd -ld mkgroup -ld utils to make sure I had the latest
entries in my passwd group files.
Any idea they correspond to? I don't have any known utils that try to
set a group of -1 and the files with the odd
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
But you have the properties dialog in Explorer, or the cacls tool
on the command line to find out. If that's on Vista, it might be
the TrustedInstaller group which is neither a local group nor a
domain group. Don't ask me what the idea behind this group is.
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Linda Walsh wrote:
stem account maybe?
Otherwise, shouldn't it show SYSTEM as the group?
But SYSTEM as a group shows '18' in my /etc/group file, not -1
Seems like some of these files (perhaps the installer is trying to use
the the TrustedInstaller Credentials you mention, but since
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
What you can do is a `strace -o dbg.blurbs ls -l filename'
At some point in the dbg.blurbs file you should find two lines in a
row like these:
get_sids_info: owner SID = S-1-...
get_sids_info: group SID = S-1-...
The SIDs should help to find out what group this is.
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
The startxwin.sh script works, but startxwin.bat does not work if
your Cygwin installation isn't in the default location.
You could use mount -p (presuming your cygwin\bin is in your windows
path, as mine is).
If not, need to look
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
The startxwin.sh script works, but startxwin.bat does not work if
your Cygwin installation isn't in the default location.
You could use mount -p (presuming your cygwin\bin is in your
windows path
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Linda, you've been around this list long enough to understand how to
handle them. Please, if you want to berate someone for answering
your posts, do it on one list only.
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That wasn't my intent in my original response. I originally
only wanted to report
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
What do you think?
Actually, this has been discussed already and has been resolved by
having 1.7's 'setup.exe' putting the Cygwin root installation directory
in... the registry! See HKLM/Software/Cygwin/setup, the rootdir
value.
I know, it's not in the
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Tim McDaniel wrote:
You did mention
] HKLM/Software/Cygwin/setup, the rootdir value.
But you noted that that is in version 1.7.
This would work for 1.5 as well if someone back-ported the 1.7 change.
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Several shell scripts are called by setup, but I'm
Dave Korn wrote:
And then, in order to comply with my GPL obligations, I uploaded a copy of
the source, which you can get from
http://rapidshare.com/files/196432438/setup-2.573.2.3.tar.bz2
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Not to cause problems or anything and not anything would likely
come of it anyway, but I
Eric Blake wrote:
For example, it may just be a matter of figuring out which scripts
have DOS line endings but reside on binary mounts.
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Having this issue surprise me, recently, on an upgrade of
Bash, I wasn't sure why it had worked before and was not working
now.
I've never used text
Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
We're you the one who brought up Unicode earlier? Besides,
there are numerous situations where files get transferred
with CRLF without needing to involve Windows, so stray
CR characters occasionally show up here and there. I'm
sure many of us would like support
Eric Blake wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
According to Ben Wing on 10/21/2006 5:37 PM:
I am using zsh on the latest cygwin and the first time I load it up and
try to do tab completion on e.g. /mnt/g/download/TAB, it spends an
inordinate amount of time grinding the disk
Joey Officer wrote:
I have a script that I run, the script is:
findme.bash:
#!/bin/bash
for i in $( ls *.gz ); do
echo Searching $i
zcat -c $i | grep $1 searchresults.txt
echo Finsihed searching $i , moving on to the next file...
done
I was messing with my theme libs and noted the following differences in
how CYGWIN displays the attributes and Groups:
-rwx--+ 1 Administrators None 214K Aug 7 2004 uxtheme.dll*
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators SYSTEM 214K Aug 4 2004
uxtheme.dll-old*
-rwxrwx---+ 1
by, perhaps, storing the info in an ACL...?
I'm not able to find a reference to a file's groupid via google,
but I may not know the correct search terms. Is there a reference
to the group field on MS's tech pages somewhere?
thanks,
Linda
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 29 15:55, Linda Walsh
I was doing a find of my root NTFS dir along the lines of :
find / -xdev -size +1G
It outputs an error:
find: Filesystem loop detected;
`/Home/law/Documents/Microsoft/win/registry2/reg
tweaks/KXP_Tweaks/www.gabrieleponti.com/images' is part of the same
filesystem
loop as
I'm curious -- I thought exec was supposed to replace the currently
running executing image with the new image.
When I do an exec in bash, it leaves the original bash.exe
in memory -- but only if the parent is at the top of its tree.
I.e. -- I can exec multiple bash's, but only the initial and
I was running some network bandwidth tests using dd (WinXP2/Cygwin)
I was timing copies of a 300MB file from local disk to a remote
server. The local computer has enough memory to hold the file
in the memory cache once it is loaded.
I ran through increasing power-of-two block sizes from
512
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 9 00:56, Linda Walsh wrote:
I was running some network bandwidth tests using dd (WinXP2/Cygwin)
I was timing copies of a 300MB file from local disk to a remote
server. The local computer has enough memory to hold the file
in the memory cache once
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 9 00:56, Linda Walsh wrote:
I was running some network bandwidth tests using dd (WinXP2/Cygwin)
I was timing copies of a 300MB file from local disk to a remote
server. The local computer has enough memory to hold the file
in the memory cache once
After some time debugging I figured out a way to add a prompt option
to the right-click menu on directories and drives that works for
my alternate drives and network directories. I think it should be
able to be generalized for other shells, but I use Bash.
The reg-entry for directories is:
,
Just a quick note. In the setup programme, there is an option to have
'Open Bash Prompt Here' context menu added to the right-click menu.
Hugh
On 11/11/06, Linda Walsh wrote:
After some time debugging I figured out a way to add a prompt option
to the right-click menu on directories
Frank Fesevur wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
Yes...it requires installing a separate executable program.
This add bash prompt requires no 3rd party binary and
uses programs already included in the cygwin base package.
The installable program also has a bug in that it invokes each
shell window
Right now, to convert an NT text file in UCS-2 format, in bash,
I use:
mode.com codepage select=65001
reg export hklm\\software hklm-sw.reg5
cmd /c type hklm-sw.reg5 hklm-sw-utf8.txt
It isn't perfect -- any UCS-2 entries that are not valid UTF-16
won't get converted properly (since they don't
I tried your program as is:
~/test cygthrash
0.000 Before std
0.781 After std
0.828 Result: Tue Nov 14 20:51:52 PST 2006
0.828 After close std
0.000 Before new
0.015 After new
0.062 Result: Tue Nov 14 20:51:52 PST 2006
0.062 After close new
0.000 Before std
0.766 After std
0.797
Brian Dessent wrote:
Yuck. Why don't you just use iconv instead?
Cuz, I thought it was only a library? :-?
Cuz I already know windows starts in UCS-2 and know the codepage
for UTF-8 (65001). With iconv, I don't know off the top of my head
where to look for what document that specifies the
Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
This is curious - how do you find out fragmentation of ext3 file ? I do not
know of a utility to tell me that.
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There's a debugfs for ext2/ext3 that allows you to dump all of the
segments associated with an inode. ls -i dumps the inode number.
A quick hack
Christopher Faylor wrote:
I was hoping that this discussion about ext3 would die a natural death but
it looks like I have to make the observation that this really has nothing
to do with Cygwin
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Don't know what cygwin you are talking about, but the one I
download from cygwin.com seems to
I'm not saying all the pieces of this puzzle are in place yet, but
supporting it could be done in a way as to minimize impact to
existing dumb apps, and future extended-attribute-aware apps.
I'm not suggesting anyone run off and implement this immediately, though
that could be done and
Igor Peshansky wrote:
The former is true, the latter is half-true. Cygwin works with the
default codepage when the Windows locale settings are set correctly. You
cannot *switch* locales programmatically from within Cygwin, but it can
handle the full 8-bit charset just fine.
Not sure what ANSI
Eric Blake wrote:
According to Charli Li on 12/24/2006 1:39 PM:
Fishy enough, the new dlls had a filename extension of .dll.new
Which means Windows is scheduled to rename it automatically at the next
reboot, since it was in use at the time you ran setup.exe. Didn't you
read the
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
What the file is named is insignificant. When the file is already in
use,
you will run into the situation where the newly installed file is not
moved
into place for use immediately .
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That is current cygwin behavior. It isn't required to be that way
on NT.
Igor Peshansky wrote:
And that is exactly the problem -- not the .new suffixes. The way Cygwin
is designed, you cannot have two versions of the Cygwin DLL (think of it
as the kernel) in use at the same time, no matter what the name is. In
Linux, you expect to reboot when upgrading the kernel
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 12/25/2006, Linda Walsh wrote:
FWIW, I have replaced the libs like cygwin1.dll, cygintl?.dll...
and such while cygwin is running and not had a catastrophe as one
might have
trying to overwrite/update the memory image of a kernel dynamically,
so I
don't
Max Bowsher wrote:
I believe there is a critical element you have missed.
In order to perform the rather miraculous emulation of fork(), Cygwin
needs to reload all the same DLLs that are operating in one process into
another newly created process. Updating the DLL files on disk whilst
processes
characterized as a Cygwin
or setup limitation.
--
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 10:01:53AM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
Some people asked me for a patch. I find that laughable -- I'm sure
it would go the way of the UTF-8 patch that was proposed with code
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
This can be true. However, to do this effectively, one has to listen and
learn as well. Simply restating a point you've made before, if it hasn't
already been agreed to, does less to convince and more to polarize. If
your points aren't agreed upon by the people
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
This can be true. However, to do this effectively, one has to listen and
learn as well. Simply restating a point you've made before, if it hasn't
already been agreed to, does less to convince and more to polarize. If
your points aren't agreed upon by the people
(Response:)
Not that this is a cygwin-specific problem, but CPAN works fine
behind a proxy/firewall.
Add this to ~/.wgetrc:
http_proxy=my-web-proxy.internal.mydomain:8080
ftp_proxy=my-web-proxy.internal.mydomain:8080
use_proxy = on
Also, some programs use the env vars (so add them to your
Besides not being a cygwin util (as others have mentioned), whenever
I see someone posting an unsolicited, out-of-any-context
advertisement (spam) like this, my first thought is that someone is
trying to induce me to install their new trojan (or keylogger,
bot-sw, etc).
Of course if they post
$a=a; (uses 2 Bytes)
$a=a * 100Meg; (uses 200MB)
$b=b * 100Meg;
...
I may be reading this incorrectly, but I don't think the question
is why storage for the separate strings $a, $b isn't freed, but
why would perl use 2 bytes/character? I thought perl used UTF-8
internally(?).
I'm trying to see if I'm able to checkout and build
setup.exe
The instructions say to load three -devel required
packages. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be in
setup's list of packages. Are they missing or are
the instructions out of date or what?
Missing packages:
- autoconf-devel
-
Hi all,
I've run into some weird behavior from the file-utils (grep, file) but I
believe they may all be caused by the same root problem.
The /prog/registry filesystem doesn't return the length of the 'default'
value (often a string).
Under /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/
I was grep'ing
Taylor wrote:
Hmmm. I can't post a response to my own post.
Well, here's a new thread as a response to my previous thread.
Looking one last time, I found the answer:
to launch a cmd.exe window: cmd /c start cmd
to launch a bash.exe window: cmd /c /start bash
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Didn't see your
Dave Tang wrote:
Hello,
I have cygwin installed on Windows XP and for some reason my .bashrc
file isn't loaded on startup. I read the FAQ Why doesn't bash read my
.bashrc file on startup? but my HOME environment variable is set up
i.e. when I echo $HOME it is correct. I actually copied my
Yanroy wrote:
Hi all... the subject line pretty much says it all. I've installed Cygwin
and Cygwin/X. The X server appears to work correctly. XTerm runs fine.
All the command-line apps work great. When I launch gvim, it spins for a
moment and then crashes with an access violation.
---
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jun 28 20:25, Linda Walsh wrote:
Known bug? Is it in the queue to be fixed someday? :-)
Works in Cygwin 1.7
Hmmm...its still in testing? How stable is it?
Am I going to inflict, upon myself, more pain than I gain? :-)
And BTW, what
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
Linda Walsh sent the following at Monday, June 29, 2009 2:12 AM
Any reason not to run the Win32-Gvim native client
Linda (or anyone who has an answer):
Do you have any suggestions for commands that should be put in _vimrc
so using cygwin
marian wrote:
This problem has already been reported on 7/22/2009 9:37 PM, but I
think to have found the reason for it.
assertion ent-fts_info == FTS_NSOK || state.type != 0 failed: file
/usr/src/findutils-4.5.4-1/src/findutils-4.5.4/find/ftsfind.c, line
475, function: consider_visiting.
I
I have two accounts on my client machine. One is m...@workstation,
the other is m...@domain. They are both me and I need to have them
be able access each other's files mostly transparently.
As a result, in windows, I setup a group (megroup) that contains both
me and me!
Consistent with unix names, where we use forward slash
instead of backslash (both in file and registry names),
why do I get an error when I try to use domain/user as
a user arg when domain\\user is allows? Should I get a
warning about using a Windows style identifier by using
backslash? I
Eric Blake wrote:
Isn't this inconsistent? Any plans to fix this?
---
Given the difficulting in building the cygin
executable, I doubt it.
Most projects, I get the tarball, or check it out.
Do a configure, or run the bootstrap.sh/autogen.sh script, then configure,
then make --
Is there a way to get back the previous 'ln' behavior and have
it create a NTFS hard link? The new behavior -- having it create
a hardlink that works only in cygwin is less than useful to me, since
I use cygwin to maintain windows.
Is there an environment variable for this?
I believe this also
Eric Blake wrote:
As is, your question didn't make much sense to me; please
show a transcript of exact command line sequences showing what you
are trying to accomplish and why you think that cygwin isn't
doing the right thing, rather than just describing it in words.
---
Will do --- I may have
How many different versions of 'man' are there, anyway?
I've always wondered why cygwin's was so different from the few
linux versions I've seen -- bug especially in this sense.
How is it that cygwin's manpages are case sensitive? Aren't they
stored in files on a case-insensitive file system
On 7/30/2010 6:33 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 7/30/2010 3:14 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
This is still a problem.
/bin mkpasswd
SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19::
NetworkService:*:20:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService,S-1-5-20
When I log in, I seem to be placed in
/Users/law.Bliss
IF I type cd and hit return, then I'm in
//Bliss/law
My home vars:
//Bliss/law printenv|grep HOME
HOMEPATH=\
HOME=//Bliss/law
HOMEDRIVE=i:
HOMESHARE=\\BLISS\law
My /etc/password, for user Bliss\law (why \ and not /?)
has //Bliss/law
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
It's possible, sure. I expect it's pretty obvious where you might want to
make such a change in mkpasswd.c if you're so inclined.
---
Inclined is FAR from the issue.
I've tried to build cygwin at least 3 times and never been able to get it to
make.
It's a
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 8/4/2010 4:22 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
When I log in, I seem to be placed in /Users/law.Bliss.
IF I type cd and hit return, then I'm in //Bliss/law.
In other words, the value of HOME is
[My home vars:]
HOME='//Bliss/law'
HOMEPATH='\'HOMEDRIVE='i
Normally I don't bother with cmd, and only run bash at the
command prompt, but I ran into a problem on my system.
To possibly fix some problem it was suggested I try the
'winmgmt' command with 2 different switches, Thing
is, it fails when I run it from bash, but works fine when I run
it from
I got a minor surprise when looking for screen savers
on my system using 'locate .scr'...
It returned 9 files under /Windows/System32 and
the same 9 under /Windows/SysWOW64.
Turns out that for 32bit processes system32 points to syswow64 (and all of my
graphics heavy, OpenGL screen savers are
Andy Koppe wrote:
Yep: /Windows/Sysnative
For some reason it doesn't appear when listing the Windows directory,
which is why updatedb wouldn't have seen it, but it really is there.
Cool!
Is that just true for windows/system32? or are there other dirs with
similar 32bit-remappings?
I
I'm trying to copy NTFS file permisions to a SMB share with ACLS and extended
attributes on top of XFS.
However the local rsync was build without the external attribute support.
I am not sure why -- I was going to use teh --fake-super to store the NT ACL's
on the target file system, but due to
when I create my password and group files with mkpasswd and mkgroup,
they put me in a group 513 -- and call it group 'None'. Yet I am
in Users, and Admins -- and have no group none listed in my group list.
However, I've just recently noticed that 513 is the end of the well known
SID (RID?)
Lapo Luchini wrote:
Lapo Luchini wrote:
Dave Korn wrote:
It appears that cygwin has the xattr functions implemented and exported
Of course I'd like to; I didn't hope it could be as easy as that. =)
Yes, it seems it was as easy as that.
% rsync-3.0.6-1/inst/usr/bin/rsync.exe --version
Vincent R. wrote:
Hi,
Is there any good reason to force user to use /cygdrive/ before accessing
a drive ?
I am asking it because I regularly switch from cygwin to mingw and some
simple script needs
to be adapted every time.
Wouldn't be easier to access directly to a drive without entering
Andy Koppe wrote:
2009/9/17 Christopher Faylor:
My real gripe is with setup telling me off about putting Cygwin in the
root dir ON EVERY SINGLE UPDATE.
My real gripe is people who COMPLAIN ABOUT FREE SOFTWARE where they
HAVE THE SOURCE CODE.
Ah, that old lazy chestnut. Feedback not
Shaddy Baddah wrote:
In this case, although cygwin has a package management system, it is
not going to manage the non-cygwin stuff dropped into c:/bin,lib,
etc. And that means if a user goes and installs something like msys
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I knew I had a good reason for thinking it would cause
Harald Joerg wrote:
Linda Walsh writes:
[...] OTOH, at least the defaults are pretty sensible ...
Pretty sensible, indeed. I love /cygdrive as just another example of a
pretty sensible default.
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Well, MS, put their unix in /unix. Wouldn't it make sense to put
a cygwin
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