Re: A walking "bug" on Cygwin home page

2013-08-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-08-17 12:05-0400 Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 01:13:14PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Have you noticed the walking "bug" appeared today on the Cygwin Home Page (http://www.cygwin.com). I initially thought that it was a real insect inside my PC monitor, but then I

Re: emacs-nox hogs CPU if backgrounded during compile

2013-08-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 02:41:32PM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: >The following STC causes emacs-nox to peg a CPU indefinitely. Emacs >remains responsive, but C-c C-k doesn't kill the compile; you have to >exit emacs to remove the "Compiling" status. Killing the buffer or >starting a new compile of

emacs-nox hogs CPU if backgrounded during compile

2013-08-17 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, The following STC causes emacs-nox to peg a CPU indefinitely. Emacs remains responsive, but C-c C-k doesn't kill the compile; you have to exit emacs to remove the "Compiling" status. Killing the buffer or starting a new compile offers to kill the offending process, but doesn't. Attac

mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives

2013-08-17 Thread bartels
Hello People, I have here two SAS connected LTO-5 drives: one IBM and one HP. Both drives work work fine, but sadly mt does not. The size reported by mt is a meager 35 GB, instead of the expected 1.5TB I have tried both an older 32 bit and the 'current' 64 bit cygwin: same result. Writing to t

Re: binutils feature request: ld --disable-large-address-aware [PATCH]

2013-08-17 Thread Christian Franke
Christian Franke wrote: A few programs are not compatible with --large-address-aware which is enabled by default in current x86 ld. For example cdrkit, dvd+rw-tools and smartmontools use IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT which apparently requires user buffers below 2GiB. Using "LDFLAGS=-Wl,--dis

Re: A walking "bug" on Cygwin home page

2013-08-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 01:13:14PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >Have you noticed the walking "bug" appeared today on the Cygwin Home >Page (http://www.cygwin.com). > >I initially thought that it was a real insect inside my PC monitor, but >then I realized it was a "graphical" bug walking on the s

A walking "bug" on Cygwin home page

2013-08-17 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Have you noticed the walking "bug" appeared today on the Cygwin Home Page (http://www.cygwin.com). I initially thought that it was a real insect inside my PC monitor, but then I realized it was a "graphical" bug walking on the same path, an horizontal "8". I wonder if it doesn't hide some new m