Thank you, those of you who have pointed out that _exit() is not
supposed to be doing what I think it is. I will therefore assume this is
either not a bug in my program or otherwise that it is complex enough that I
can't figure it out myself. In either case, I'll be following the bug
report
I have just uploaded a long-overdue update to the Cygwin documentation
package. This package provides man and info pages for cygwin utilities
and *some* of the Cygwin api. It reflects the current state of Cygwin
and newlib as of this date.
Thanks to scripts created by the dearly missed Joshua Fr
> In Cygwin, create a mount entry for the drive and add the "noacl" flag.
> Then set the permissions on the root dir of the drive to full control
> for Everyone and make sure permissions are propagted to child objects.
I did that but I now have many of the following errors when I backup
my files w
Norton Allen writes:
> So what you want setup to do is remember whether a package was
> selected by the user or simply included to satisfy a dependency. Then
> when a package is deselected, the dependencies can be reevaluated.
That's what the Debian package management system has been doing for m
* Angelo Graziosi (Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:36:04 +0200)
> WoW! 'Someone' has changed that 'setup.hint' and, finally, setup.ini
> shows the new binutils packages, so that one can install it! Thnks!
>
> (I would just curiously to know who is 'someone'... ;-) )
God - or cgf (which is more or less t
ERIC HO schrieb:
Just wondering if anyone has successfully installed DBD-DB2-1.78 driver
for Perl V5.10 under CYGWIN 1.7.4 successfully. Please let me know the
changes required to install it. Thanks.
There are still no db2 libs for cygwin by IBM available, only MSVC,
so still you need Gerrits o
On 4/11/2010 10:38 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote:
Switch to NTFS and set the permissions you need where you need them
to the well-known SID of world/Everyone?
I have formatted my disk to ntfs. Then I have removed everybody from
permissions and added only Everyone with total control.
When I create a f
> I have tried that in /etc/fstab:
> f:/ /mnt/f cygdrive noacl,nouser,binary,notexec
> g:/ /mnt/g cygdrive noacl,nouser,binary,notexec
> h:/ /mnt/h cygdrive noacl,nouser,binary,notexec
> i:/ /mnt/i cygdrive noacl,nouser,binary,notexec
OK I found the problem:
1) to reload fstab, close all cygwin pr
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Paul Bibbings wrote:
> Given how the process of updating packages using setup.exe can be
> handled quite automatically - updates are announced, mirrors catch-up,
> and the recent updates can be picked up with a run through setup that
> requires no interaction at al
Il 11/04/2010 18.13, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
setup.exe will install the right version.
It has installed the new 'sed' and 'cpio' packages but not 'binutils'...
The setup.ini on the mirrors still shows 2.19-51-1, and I have just seen
that
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org
> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:29:11 +0100
> From: dave
> To: cygwin
> Subject: Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)
>
> On 11/04/2010 07:26, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> But the thing is, I'm not sure that just adding a drop-down is a useful
>> thing to do.
>
> Well, I am. The problem describe
> In Cygwin, create a mount entry for the drive and add the "noacl" flag.
> Then set the permissions on the root dir of the drive to full control
> for Everyone and make sure permissions are propagted to child objects.
Can I do that only for USB drives whatever the windows letter refering
to it (w
Christopher Faylor wrote:
setup.exe will install the right version.
It has installed the new 'sed' and 'cpio' packages but not 'binutils'...
The setup.ini on the mirrors still shows 2.19-51-1, and I have just seen
that
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/release/binutils/setup.hint
The mingw-xz package provides a version of the xz compression
library and tools built using the standard windows runtime library
and NOT cygwin. It is (or will be) used by setup.exe and is provided
specifically for that purpose. No other uses are supported. However,
for testing purposes it does pr
The xz package is the successor to lzma. Its command-line tools
support both .lzma files and the new .xz format, and it ships with
compatibility links so you don't even need to retrain your fingers:
'lzma', 'lzcat', etc, are all still present. However, you probably
should: .xz files are already be
On Apr 11 17:06, Fr?d?ric Bron wrote:
> I have some USB hard drives. Up to now I used them formatted in fat32.
> Because of the new git version that does not work properly on fat32
> drives, I decided to format my disks in ntfs.
> Following advices on this list, I removed all default users from roo
I have some USB hard drives. Up to now I used them formatted in fat32.
Because of the new git version that does not work properly on fat32
drives, I decided to format my disks in ntfs.
Following advices on this list, I removed all default users from root
dir of the USB drives and left only Everyone
On Apr 11 14:52, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As some may recall from a previous thread of mine, i turned on
> case-sensitivity in Windows + cygwin, as per:
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
> [...]
> 2. I also found that the ssh-host-config scr
Hi,
As some may recall from a previous thread of mine, i turned on
case-sensitivity in Windows + cygwin, as per:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
I encountered two issues, for which i have provided the attached patches:
1. I found that there wer
Andrew Schulman wrote:
> It sounds as though no change is required in screen for this.
Correct.
> screen is an ancient program from the dim mists of early terminal days, so I'm
> not surprised that it has some problems of this kind.
Don't worry, screen isn't doing anything wrong here. Setting th
Corinna Vinschen:
> I think I see what you mean now. The c_cc[VERASE] value is the one
> which is expected for the VERASE functionality (unless it's set to
> 0 == _POSIX_VDISABLE), but it has nothing to do with the actual setting
> of the backspace key in the terminal. So, actually the key value
> So, what we really need to implement is what you proposed.
It sounds as though no change is required in screen for this. I trust someone
will let me know if it turns out otherwise.
screen is an ancient program from the dim mists of early terminal days, so I'm
not surprised that it has some pro
> Switch to NTFS and set the permissions you need where you need them
> to the well-known SID of world/Everyone?
I have formatted my disk to ntfs. Then I have removed everybody from
permissions and added only Everyone with total control.
When I create a file in windows on this drive : permissions
I've just updated the version of cpio to the latest upstream
release 2.11.
The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla sources.
To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Then, run setup an
I've just updated the Cygwin version of sed to the latest upstream
releasae 4.2.1.
The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla sources.
To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Then, run
On 11/04/2010 00:24, Rurik Christiansen wrote:
On 10/04/2010 12:11 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
On 05.04.2010 09:46, Rurik Christiansen wrote:
On 5/04/2010 5:59 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
Rurik Christiansen wrote:
Is there a way to have something similar to Xcompose for utf8 input
?
You can have actu
I've just upgraded to 1.7.4 and found that gitk does not work:
---
Error in Wish
---
Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
C:/Cygwin/share/tcl8.4 C:/Cygwin/share/tcl8.4 C:/Cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4
C:/share/tcl8.4 C:/Cygwin/l
On Apr 11 12:48, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 11/04/2010 07:29, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 01:48:51AM -0400, tmhik...@gmail wrote:
>
> >> establishes a tcp connection in the parent,
>
> > your conclusions about the problem. For instance, what does "stays
> > connected" mean?
On Apr 11 11:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 10 22:09, Andy Koppe wrote:
> > Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > The problem is that screen explicitly sets VERASE to 0. I believe that
> > > it does that to mean "there is really no erase character since I'm
> > > handling that".
> >
> > You're ri
Given how the process of updating packages using setup.exe can be
handled quite automatically - updates are announced, mirrors catch-up,
and the recent updates can be picked up with a run through setup that
requires no interaction at all except to cycle through the `next's - I'm
wondering how it mi
On 11/04/2010 07:29, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 01:48:51AM -0400, tmhik...@gmail wrote:
>> establishes a tcp connection in the parent,
> your conclusions about the problem. For instance, what does "stays
> connected" mean? Are you using sockets, pipes, a file, shared m
On 11/04/2010 07:26, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> But the thing is, I'm not sure that just adding a drop-down is a useful
> thing to do.
Well, I am. The problem described by the title of the this thread is that
you can't uninstall a bunch of stuff easily, because as you click your way
through
Dave Korn writes:
> On 11/04/2010 04:21, Paul Bibbings wrote:
>
>> For
>> instance, if I click on the view button and select `Not installed',
>> suppose I select a package that I don't have - for example (I'm trying
>> this now), aspell-dev 0.60.5-1. Then, suppose I merely cycle through
>> the
On Apr 10 22:09, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > I'm not 100% sure that this is the right fix but the new snapshot at
> > least works around the problem.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > The problem is that screen explicitly sets VERASE to 0. I believe that
> > it does that to mean "there is
ini doesn't: it
still points to 2.19-51-1 and its time-stamp is 20100411 02:20:00.
We will wait...
Ciao,
Angelo.
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