[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-4.3.1-2

2006-11-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of findutils, 4.3.1-2, is available, replacing 4.3.1-1 as current. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release. It adds a proposed patch being discussed upstream that fixes behavior with 'find -prune' that works with /bin/oldfind but was

Re: Mapping of \device\harddisk12 and beyond

2006-11-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Loh, Joe on 11/2/2006 5:29 PM: > Really appreaciate the recommendation that Dave Korn suggested. We went > ahead and modified the cygwin1.dll for version 1.5.19-4, which is the > one we have installed for testing. In the event of checkin

Re: Bash 3.1.9 and 3.2.4: igncr setting not effective for 'source'd files

2006-11-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Matthew Woehlke on 11/2/2006 2:23 PM: > Eric Blake wrote: >> And while I'm at it, maybe I will figure out how to name my release >> bash-3.1.3- >> 5, so that the bash patchlevel is included in the cygwin release number. > > I thought that

Re: find 4.3.0 + 4.3.1: find -path '*/.*' -prune excludes too many files

2006-11-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Howard Mak on 11/2/2006 12:31 PM: > Using "-path '*/.*' -prune" prunes too many files from find output when files > to prune actually exists. > > Problem occurs in both version 4.3.0 + 4.3.1 of find. > Problem does *not* occur in version

Re: Please test the latest developer's snapshot

2006-11-02 Thread Champ Mendis
- Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:48 AM Subject: Please test the latest developer's snapshot Hi, The latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ contains a couple of patches which are supposed to ge

RE: Mapping of \device\harddisk12 and beyond

2006-11-02 Thread Loh, Joe
Really appreaciate the recommendation that Dave Korn suggested. We went ahead and modified the cygwin1.dll for version 1.5.19-4, which is the one we have installed for testing. In the event of checking out our change we found a bug in the current SCSI device handling of major number 65, i.e. any

Please test the latest developer's snapshot

2006-11-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi, The latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ contains a couple of patches which are supposed to get Cygwin running better on the upcoming Windows Vista. The important change here is a slightly different memory allocation scheme. I'd like to hear if this version still runs

Re: Bash 3.1.9 and 3.2.4: igncr setting not effective for 'source'd files

2006-11-02 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Eric Blake wrote: And while I'm at it, maybe I will figure out how to name my release bash-3.1.3- 5, so that the bash patchlevel is included in the cygwin release number. I thought that was just a matter of what appears in setup.ini? (But maybe I am wrong...) -- Matthew $ kill bill kill: can

Re: Cygwin NTFS permission listing oddness.

2006-11-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 2 10:56, Linda Walsh wrote: > You somewhat answered my question, indirectly. > I wasn't aware windows had a "group" security descriptor > in addition to the user-owner-creator field. > Where does it store the information? In the security descriptor. There's no such thing as a "group se

Re: Cygwin NTFS permission listing oddness.

2006-11-02 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 11/2/06, Linda Walsh <> wrote: You somewhat answered my question, indirectly. I wasn't aware windows had a "group" security descriptor in addition to the user-owner-creator field. Where does it store the information? Dave Roth has a pretty good description of the various ACLs that Windows us

Re: bash CR and backquotes trouble

2006-11-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/02/2006, Nicolas Roche wrote: Will try Dan solution with the new version of bash. As I said in my previous mail, if you are interesting in the results I will send them. Why not. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 8

find 4.3.0 + 4.3.1: find -path '*/.*' -prune excludes too many files

2006-11-02 Thread Howard Mak
Using "-path '*/.*' -prune" prunes too many files from find output when files to prune actually exists. Problem occurs in both version 4.3.0 + 4.3.1 of find. Problem does *not* occur in version 4.2.27. Is this problem related to the following bug? http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-07

Re: Bash 3.1.9 and 3.2.4: igncr setting not effective for 'source'd files

2006-11-02 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > According to David Picton on 10/31/2006 1:12 PM: > > Unfortunately I have to report that both versions of bash don't > > implement the igncr setting if > > commands are read from a sourced file. > > Thanks for the report. I'll investigate it, and hopefully bash-3.2

Re: Cygwin NTFS permission listing oddness.

2006-11-02 Thread Linda Walsh
You somewhat answered my question, indirectly. I wasn't aware windows had a "group" security descriptor in addition to the user-owner-creator field. Where does it store the information? It seems odd to have a Windows group field that no Windows utils would be able to set (or view). Is the win

Re: bash CR and backquotes trouble

2006-11-02 Thread Nicolas Roche
Larry Hall (Cygwin) a écrit : Nicolas Roche wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) a écrit : On 11/02/2006, Nicolas Roche wrote: I am using bash version: 3.1.17(9) I have tried to use shopt -s igncr but I have an issue with the following shell construct: t=`gcc --print-multi-lib` where gcc is a mingw

Re: bash CR and backquotes trouble

2006-11-02 Thread Nicolas Roche
Wilks, Dan a écrit : So you could give the new experimental version of Bash a try Thanks for your answer. Will make a try. Should I send my results ? I tried to found the answer by myself but this change has generated so much discussion, mostly concerning running scripts containing CR/LF whi

Re: bash CR and backquotes trouble

2006-11-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Nicolas Roche wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) a écrit : On 11/02/2006, Nicolas Roche wrote: I am using bash version: 3.1.17(9) I have tried to use shopt -s igncr but I have an issue with the following shell construct: t=`gcc --print-multi-lib` where gcc is a mingw gcc. As my gcc is a mingw prog

RE: bash CR and backquotes trouble

2006-11-02 Thread Wilks, Dan
Nicolas Roche wrote: > t=`gcc --print-multi-lib` where gcc is a mingw gcc. > > As my gcc is a mingw program, it outputs CR/LFs. In previous versions > bash used to ignore the CR, so t variable was not containing any CR. > Now this is no more the case and this is causing some troubles Looking back

Re: bash CR and backquotes trouble

2006-11-02 Thread Nicolas Roche
Larry Hall (Cygwin) a écrit : On 11/02/2006, Nicolas Roche wrote: I am using bash version: 3.1.17(9) I have tried to use shopt -s igncr but I have an issue with the following shell construct: t=`gcc --print-multi-lib` where gcc is a mingw gcc. As my gcc is a mingw program, it outputs CR/LFs

Re: bash CR and backquotes trouble

2006-11-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/02/2006, Nicolas Roche wrote: I am using bash version: 3.1.17(9) I have tried to use shopt -s igncr but I have an issue with the following shell construct: t=`gcc --print-multi-lib` where gcc is a mingw gcc. As my gcc is a mingw program, it outputs CR/LFs. In previous versions bash us

bash CR and backquotes trouble

2006-11-02 Thread Nicolas Roche
Hi, I saw that there was some changes in bash concerning handling of CR (that raise a lot of discussion :-)) I am using bash version: 3.1.17(9) I have tried to use shopt -s igncr but I have an issue with the following shell construct: t=`gcc --print-multi-lib` where gcc is a mingw gcc. As