cygcheck doesn't handle the "max arg length" as shown by "xargs"...
I.e. -
cygcheck -f /bin/*
bash: /usr/bin/cygcheck: Argument list too long
echo /bin/*|xargs cygcheck -f
xargs: cygcheck: Argument list too long
#Note:
cygcheck /bin/[a-r]* # works (wc -wc = 1780 32365)
cygcheck /bin/[a-s
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
A new release of tar, 1.19.90-1, is available, replacing 1.19-1 as the
current version.
NEWS:
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This is a new upstream release. It is marked beta upstream, but fixes
several bugs, and adds a new --lzma feature that can be used to achieve
better
Kostya Altukhov wrote:
I've actually looked in setup.exe source and I found this piece of code:
if (installed
|| categories.find ("Base") != categories.end ()
|| categories.find ("Misc") != categories.end ())
{
desired = default_version;
So by default setup attem
On 2008-02-28, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Gary Johnson wrote:
>
> > I'm running some tests of a radio modem where I need to bring up the
> > Windows Connect Dial-up Connection dialog (Start -> Settings [->
> > Control Panel] -> Network Connections -> Dial-up Connection) and
> > click the Dial button o
Hi -
I know this is a long shot but I like to throw it out
to see if anyone can help. I have C/C++ programs
which printed the following characters via printf
(which looks like terminal control):
^[[?1;2c
Does anyone know what that means and how I can spot
them from the source code?
Thanks
Hi,
I have a linux serial port problem compiled by Cygwin on window, it
runs fine if it connects a 9-pin serial cable and the device name is
/dev/ttyS0 (it does not work with com1, I have to translate it to
/dev/ttyS0). The problem is when I run the program in a PC without a
physical 9-pin serial
Gary Johnson wrote:
> I'm running some tests of a radio modem where I need to bring up the
> Windows Connect Dial-up Connection dialog (Start -> Settings [->
> Control Panel] -> Network Connections -> Dial-up Connection) and
> click the Dial button on a Windows box that's inconvenient to get
> to.
I'm running some tests of a radio modem where I need to bring up the
Windows Connect Dial-up Connection dialog (Start -> Settings [->
Control Panel] -> Network Connections -> Dial-up Connection) and
click the Dial button on a Windows box that's inconvenient to get
to. It would be much easier i
Kostya Altukhov gmail.com> writes:
> Looks like the "category" field in setup.hint has uppercase "C". This
> might cause it to be ignored by the script - please change it to
> lowercase "c".
Bingo. That was it. Now you can wait for the fixed setup.ini to propagate to
a mirror near you. And w
Dang, Robin wrote:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00820.html
I am having the same problems as in the discussion and would appreciate
any help to resolve it. After I log into a ssh session, the drives are not
automatically mapped and typing 'net use' gives me unavailable. I can map
them m
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00820.html
I am having the same problems as in the discussion and would appreciate any
help to resolve it. After I log into a ssh session, the drives are not
automatically mapped and typing 'net use' gives me unavailable. I can map them
manually, but I nee
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> No, all I did was touch the file on cygwin.com a couple of hours ago, hoping
> that it would be enough to trigger a setup.ini regeneration. But before I
> touched the file, it _already_ was in Utils (in fact, in the original ITP,
> the
> se
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:36:38PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> Not in the main distribution, but in the past I got both
> http://www.hoopyfrood.net/DevEject and
> http://www.heise.de/ct/03/16/links/208.shtml to work with minor
> modifications... I've been meaning to package them, but haven't
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Tom Hall wrote:
> Is there a cygwin command line utility that will perform the function
> that Windows does when you "safely remove hardware" - like before
> unplugging a USB drive ?
Not in the main distribution, but in the past I got both
http://www.hoopyfrood.net/DevEject a
On 28 February 2008 17:01, Eric Blake wrote:
> (unless I
> misunderstand how frequently setup.ini is regenerated).
Every ten minutes, regardless of timestamps, IIUIC.
cheers,
DaveK
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Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes:
> It's in "Utils" now. Somebody already changed that on cygwin.com
> a couple of hours ago.
No, all I did was touch the file on cygwin.com a couple of hours ago, hoping
that it would be enough to trigger a setup.ini regeneration. But before I
touched the
Is there a cygwin command line utility that will perform the function that
Windows does when you "safely remove hardware" - like before unplugging
a USB drive ?
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On Feb 28 18:31, Kostya Altukhov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
> > > My problem is that colordiff requires Perl, and I build my own version
> > > of Perl and don't want it downloaded via setup.exe. Hence why I
> > > brought it up.
> >
> > Oh, ouch. Maybe until we
> Nobody's quite sure where exactly the bug is yet, but how
> it's /supposed/ to work is that everything in the "Base"
> category is mandatory, and everything else is optional.
I notice that for colordiff the category is Misc, and there
are no other modules for that category. Shouldn't the
catego
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
> > My problem is that colordiff requires Perl, and I build my own version
> > of Perl and don't want it downloaded via setup.exe. Hence why I
> > brought it up.
>
> Oh, ouch. Maybe until we get this sorted out we should remove the
> depende
On Feb 28 14:55, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 28 February 2008 14:45, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
>
> > But then why does it works if I create dummy user in /etc/passwd.
>
> Because cygwin relies on the contents of /etc/passwd to be accurate. Cygwin
> cannot in general know what SIDs exist out there in a
On 28 February 2008 15:05, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
>> It's a minor bug, there is no workaround at the moment apart from to
>> manually set the package to "Skip" in the chooser. Frankly it's a hundred
>> times quicker and easier to just let it install, the package is tiny.
>
> My problem is th
> It's a minor bug, there is no workaround at the moment apart from to
> manually set the package to "Skip" in the chooser. Frankly it's a hundred
> times quicker and easier to just let it install, the package is tiny.
My problem is that colordiff requires Perl, and I build my own version
of
On 28 February 2008 14:45, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> But then why does it works if I create dummy user in /etc/passwd.
Because cygwin relies on the contents of /etc/passwd to be accurate. Cygwin
cannot in general know what SIDs exist out there in a domain (or even on a
local machine), it treats
Hi,
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes:
>
>
> Because it has to emulate unix perms by relating uid/gid to windows RIDs,
which are owned, allocated and
> controlled by the system, and not under the arbitrary choice of the user, so
the semantics wouldn't be the
> same even if we did create ACLs with
On 28 February 2008 14:35, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
> Why does setup insist on trying to install colordiff? How
> can this be turned off (without installing colordiff, of
> course)?
It's a minor bug, there is no workaround at the moment apart from to
manually set the package to "Skip" in the cho
Why does setup insist on trying to install colordiff? How
can this be turned off (without installing colordiff, of
course)?
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On 28 February 2008 13:59, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder why on cygwin we can't use chown with numeric id that don't exist
> in /etc/passwd, /etc/group [1] ?
Because it has to emulate unix perms by relating uid/gid to windows RIDs,
which are owned, allocated and controlled by the
Hi,
I wonder why on cygwin we can't use chown with numeric id that don't exist in
/etc/passwd, /etc/group [1] ?
On linux this works perfectly [2]
Matthieu
[1]
$ touch /tmp/toto
$ chown 12345:12346 /tmp/toto
chown: changing ownership of `/tmp/toto': Invalid argument
[2]
$ touch /tmp/toto
$ sudo
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION
===
Homepage: http://packages.debian.org/iprint
License : GPL
A simple utility to print out the decimal, octal, hexadecimal, and
binary or ascii values of the characters fed to it on the command
line.
CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE
==
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