Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup

2010-12-29 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
When I do an 'ls -al' (or a getfacl) on some files, I get: owner/group = ???/???, implying that the numeric uid/gid are not found in the passwd/group file. This occurs even though I ran: mkpasswd -cl > /etc/passwd mkgroup --local > /etc/group The /owner and /primary gro

Why are some default Windows environment variables not set when logging in via ssh?

2010-12-29 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
When I run a cygwin bash terminal directly from Windows, I get all the standard Windows environment variables properly set. However, when I login in via ssh, some are properly set (e.g., $USERPROFILE, $ALLUSERSPROFILE, $HOMEDRIVE) but others are unset (e.g., $TEMP, $TMP, $APPDATA, $LOCALAPPDAT, PR

privilege problem with permanent virtual drives defined as DOS devices

2010-12-29 Thread Kurt Franke
Hello, a privilege problem occures with permanent virtual drives defined as DOS devices. $> uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0 meow2 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin when have defined dos devices to access a particular path as a permanent virtual drive in each session like the following exam

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [experimental] Updated: readline-6.1.2-1, libreadline7-6.1.2-1

2010-12-29 Thread ERIC HO
FYI. The new readline update has resolved the bash/readline spinout in vi command mode that I reported earlier. Thanks. Eric. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe inf

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [experimental] Updated: readline-6.1.2-1, libreadline7-6.1.2-1

2010-12-29 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release 6.1.2-1 for readline and libreadline7 is now available for testing, while leaving 6.0.3-2 as current. NEWS: = This is a test release of a new upstream release. I'm working on preparing bash 4.1 for cygwin, which requires a newer readline package; once that is working, I will pro

Re: drand48() (and erand48) returns only zeros and pthread application problems

2010-12-29 Thread Jorge Díaz
About drand48() (and erand48) returns only zeros and pthread application problems, I send this mail to both cygwin and newlib mailist. I have compared Cygwin with FreeBSD function implementation: => In Cygwin newlib, srand48 and drand48 use "__rand48_seed" and "__rand48_mult" that are defined

Cygwin 1.7.7 - /bin/ls hangs?

2010-12-29 Thread Jon Egerton-Kemp
Hi all, I recently upgraded to 1.7.7 and a script that I use to set up a lot of environment variables is now hanging. The problem is quite unpredictable and I am struggling to find ways to reliably reproduce or diagnose. I am using csh (tcsh) and 'source'-ing a script but I have seen 'bash' h