Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 25/11/2011 10:47 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Hello, * On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 07:59:58PM -0500 Ryan Johnson wrote: Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 machine causes it to become sluggish or even unresponsive. I have seen very similar effects on my Win7-64 b

RE: Cygwin slow on x64 systems?

2011-12-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Tim McDaniel sent the following at Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:59 AM > >BLODA is the Big List Of Dodgy Apps, apparently from >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda > 44. What applications have been found to interfere with Cygwin? > >Unless someone has another suggestion, maybe

RE: Will win32 style paths ever work in mksh on cygwin?

2011-12-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Chris Sutcliffe sent the following at Thursday, December 01, 2011 2:17 PM >Fundamentally, Cygwin has been pushing the use of POSIX paths for quite >some time (in fact it warns you when it encounters a DOS / Windows >path). As has been pointed out, many Cygwin utilities support DOS / >Windows paths

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.7-1

2011-12-03 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
The package dash has been upgraded to 0.5.7-1, leaving 0.5.6.1-2 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Among other upstream changes, dash now uses faccessat, so that the built-in 'test' now honors ACLs, making rebaseall easier to run. For now, there are no immediate plans of r

Re: gnome-keyring bug in snapshots

2011-12-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 3 16:30, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:44:59PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:19:10PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > >>For some time now, snapshots have displayed a bug wrt gnome-keyring, > >>namely that passwords don't "register"

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: dash-0.5.5.1-2; Obsolete: ash

2011-12-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/05/2010 10:20 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Rounding out a (super-old) thread on my dash todo list... >>> $ dash >>> $ cd /c >>> $ ls -d W* >>> WINDOWS >>> $ cd c:/WINDOWS >>> cd: 3: can't cd to c:/WINDOWS >> >> Let's rule out bash vs. dash complexities, and first focus on whether >> cygwin1.

Re: ash is wrong about [ -w Temp ], so rebaseall fails

2011-12-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/30/2011 03:45 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Known limitation in dash - it is going off of just st_mode bits instead > of using faccessat() and honoring ACLs. > > I've been meaning to do a new build of dash (aka ash), and to force the > use of faccessat as part of that build; I just haven't had t

Re: gnome-keyring bug in snapshots

2011-12-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:44:59PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:19:10PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >>For some time now, snapshots have displayed a bug wrt gnome-keyring, >>namely that passwords don't "register" when entered. This wreaks >>havoc on the GNOME des

Cygwin and setup.exe -K

2011-12-03 Thread nyc4bos
Hi, How do you specify multiple .gpg files from the command-line? I tried: setup -K http://cygwin-1.org/key1.gpg -K http://cygwin-2.org/key2.gpg But it doesn't work. Thanks. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Redirecting output from running proc doesn't modify the "last modified time" field for target file

2011-12-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 09:36:56PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Dec 2 13:04, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 12/02/2011 11:50 AM, Jon Clugston wrote: >> > While this loop is running, the timestamp on "x.log" doesn't change >> > (whereas on Linux it changes every 10 seconds). It sure looks to me >>

Re: Redirecting output from running proc doesn't modify the "last modified time" field for target file

2011-12-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 2 13:04, Eric Blake wrote: > On 12/02/2011 11:50 AM, Jon Clugston wrote: > > While this loop is running, the timestamp on "x.log" doesn't change > > (whereas on Linux it changes every 10 seconds). It sure looks to me > > that Windows just doesn't bother updating the file timestamp while it

Re: Understanding versions of apps in cygwin suite

2011-12-03 Thread Andrew Hancock
marco atzeri gmail.com> writes: | | On 12/3/2011 4:26 PM, Andrew Hancock wrote: || marco atzeri gmail.com> writes: ||| On 12/3/2011 5:26 AM, Andrew Hancock wrote: According to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=30309 , a bug with octave's wavread function was f

Re: Understanding versions of apps in cygwin suite

2011-12-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 07:33:29PM +, Andrew Hancock wrote: >Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: >> >> On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 03:26:38PM +, Andrew Hancock wrote: >>> >>>Thanks, Marco. I posted on another thread asking whether it was >>>wise to update Octave without updating the cygwi

Re: Understanding versions of apps in cygwin suite

2011-12-03 Thread Andrew Hancock
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 03:26:38PM +, Andrew Hancock wrote: >> >>Thanks, Marco. I posted on another thread asking whether it was >>wise to update Octave without updating the cygwin DLL. Updating the >>cygwin DLL using Setup is actually downgrading,

Re: gnome-keyring bug in snapshots

2011-12-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:19:10PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >For some time now, snapshots have displayed a bug wrt gnome-keyring, >namely that passwords don't "register" when entered. This wreaks >havoc on the GNOME desktop where so many programs rely on >gnome-keyring. > >This is easy to r

Re: Understanding versions of apps in cygwin suite

2011-12-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 03:26:38PM +, Andrew Hancock wrote: >Thanks, Marco. I posted on another thread asking whether it was wise to update >Octave without updating the cygwin DLL. Updating the cygwin DLL using Setup is >actually downgrading, since I currently use a snapshot of the cygwin DLL

Re: Understanding versions of apps in cygwin suite

2011-12-03 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/3/2011 4:26 PM, Andrew Hancock wrote: marco atzeri gmail.com> writes: On 12/3/2011 5:26 AM, Andrew Hancock wrote: According to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=30309 , a bug with octave's wavread function was fixed in octave 3.2.3. My "cygcheck -cvs" shows an octav

Re: Understanding versions of apps in cygwin suite

2011-12-03 Thread Andrew Hancock
marco atzeri gmail.com> writes: > On 12/3/2011 5:26 AM, Andrew Hancock wrote: >> According to >> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=30309 , a bug >> with octave's wavread function was fixed in octave 3.2.3. My >> "cygcheck -cvs" shows an octave of 3.4.2, but I still get the bug

Re: Understanding versions of apps in cygwin suite

2011-12-03 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/3/2011 5:26 AM, Andrew Hancock wrote: According to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=30309 , a bug with octave's wavread function was fixed in octave 3.2.3. My "cygcheck -cvs" shows an octave of 3.4.2, but I still get the bug. I was wondering if it is wise to assume th