Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:04:09AM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Instructions on how to check out the source are available at the cygwin web >> site, just like they are at every open source site. Go to the cygwin web >> page and look to t

Re: Request for Junctions be treated consistently

2014-04-08 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: . No, it's not. There's a major difference between mount points and symlinks, which is, mount points are handled inside the kernel, while symlinks are filesystem objects. Reparse points are very certainly filesystem objects. And bind mounts in Cygwin are handled in the

Re: Mercurial 2.8 or 2.9?

2014-04-08 Thread Jari Aalto
2014-04-08 21:20 Ti Strga : | Upstream Mercurial is at 2.9.2, but looking in | http://cygwin.com/packages/x86/mercurial/ there's only 2.5.x | and 2.7.x. later versions are being packaged soon (expect in a week) Jari -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-08 Thread Steven Penny
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Instructions on how to check out the source are available at the cygwin web > site, just like they are at every open source site. Go to the cygwin web > page and look to the left. You'll see "Contributing" and "Source in CVS". > Both le

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 09:20:59PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>It is a little known fact that one of Corinna's early messages was >>actually a suggestion. I suggested to *her* that a patch would be >>considered. She took that as a challe

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-08 Thread Steven Penny
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > It is a little known fact that one of Corinna's early messages was > actually a suggestion. I suggested to *her* that a patch would be > considered. She took that as a challenge and provided a patch. > Apparently Corinna is quite unique

Gold star? Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: base-files 4.2-1

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:37:10PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >Base-files is a set of system configuration and setup files. Thanks for stepping up and adopting this important package Achim. It is much appreciated. I don't know if it is already in the works but this is clearly gold star worthy. In

Re: set Cygwin terminal title

2014-04-08 Thread Duncan Roe
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:55:02PM +0100, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:24:29PM +0100, xmoon 2000 wrote: > > Ho can I set Cygwin termnal title? > > > > I have tried echoing every escape sequence I have found on web. > > > > None seem to work. > > It's reasonably likely your `$P

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: base-files 4.2-1

2014-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Base-files is a set of system configuration and setup files. Maintenance has been taken over from David Sastre Medina. Thanks to David for his work since the 3.0 release. Please report any problems or suggestions on the main Cygwin mailing list. Changes from the last release version: 4.2-1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xmlto-0.0.26-1

2014-04-08 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** xmlto-0.0.26-1 xmlto is a shell-script tool for converting XML files to various formats. At the moment it supports conversion from docbook, xhtml1 and fo format to various output formats. This update fixes various bug

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: swig-2.0.12-1

2014-04-08 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** swig-2.0.12-1 SWIG reads annotated C/C++ header files and creates wrapper code (glue code) in order to make the corresponding C/C++ libraries available to the listed languages, or to extend C/C++ programs with a scripting

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: apache2-2.2.27-1

2014-04-08 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** apache2-2.2.27-1 *** apache2-devel-2.2.27-1 *** apache2-manual-2.2.27-1 The Apache HTTP Server is a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, extensible, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) serve

Re: Possible bug with chere 1.4 when configuring for fish

2014-04-08 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 07/04/2014 23:35, Dave Kilroy wrote: On 07/04/2014 13:02, Ronald Fischer wrote: I have installed fish 2.1.0. Works fine, when invoking a new fish shell manually. However, when doing a chere -ifcm -t mintty -s fish and invoke the new fish shell from the Windows Explorer context menu, I

Mercurial 2.8 or 2.9?

2014-04-08 Thread Ti Strga
Upstream Mercurial is at 2.9.2, but looking in http://cygwin.com/packages/x86/mercurial/ there's only 2.5.x and 2.7.x. Are there plans to package a more recent release? Or alternatively, is there anything in particular holding them back? The only recent hits for mercurial that mnogosearch could

We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 05:59:53PM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >> The whole POINT of this thread was that we want patches. > >You've just killed that point, alright. The change I was about, was >merely a word-long (another keyword to be added), the discussion that >sparkled

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:46:26PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >What he says. > >And just if it's still not clear, despite the fact that WJM, we would >*love* to get more patches. It doesn't mean your patch will go in >without scrutinizing and maybe we ask for changes, but we're always open >to

RE: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> The whole POINT of this thread was that we want patches. You've just killed that point, alright. The change I was about, was merely a word-long (another keyword to be added), the discussion that sparkled was just despicable. The response was so earful, with profanities and teaching me (?) leg

Re: sshd buildup of CLOSE_WAIT leading to unable to function

2014-04-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 8 09:06, Joshua Hudson wrote: > Sorry took so long to reply. Only reply was set to the mailing list > but not to me. That's the normal thing on mailing lists. > > BLODA? > > No listed BLODA installed. > > CLOSE_WAIT entries do not appear to build up from normal ssh use via > the cygwin

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 8 12:49, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 12:27:26PM -0400, Tim Prince wrote: > > > >On 4/8/2014 11:21 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> Non-sarcastic translation: Don't expect us to know about your s**t. We > >> have standard expectations for this free software project

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 12:27:26PM -0400, Tim Prince wrote: > >On 4/8/2014 11:21 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Non-sarcastic translation: Don't expect us to know about your s**t. We >> have standard expectations for this free software project and the >> expectations are do not include keeping

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Tim Prince
On 4/8/2014 11:21 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Non-sarcastic translation: Don't expect us to know about your s**t. We have standard expectations for this free software project and the expectations are do not include keeping a mental map of the rules of every email domain that sends messages h

RE: set Cygwin terminal title

2014-04-08 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: xmoon 2000 > Ho can I set Cygwin termnal title? > > I have tried echoing every escape sequence I have found on web. > > None seem to work. This works with mintty and bash: printf "\e]2;%s\a" "your message here" --Ken Nellis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 05:50:26PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 8 16:44, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 01:34:21PM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) >> [C] wrote: >> > > He's a contractor for the US Government. That makes things complicated >> > > and sometimes

Re: sshd buildup of CLOSE_WAIT leading to unable to function

2014-04-08 Thread Joshua Hudson
Sorry took so long to reply. Only reply was set to the mailing list but not to me. > BLODA? No listed BLODA installed. CLOSE_WAIT entries do not appear to build up from normal ssh use via the cygwin ssh client. All CLOSE_WAIT entries show IP addresses not ours. (Port is open on a public IP addre

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 8 16:44, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 01:34:21PM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) > [C] wrote: > > > He's a contractor for the US Government. That makes things complicated > > > and sometimes seemingly nonsensical. > > > > Thanks, Barry. > > > > A patch (howev

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 01:34:21PM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > > He's a contractor for the US Government. That makes things complicated and > > sometimes seemingly nonsensical. > > Thanks, Barry. > > A patch (however small) means code, all my code must under the Public

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 01:34:21PM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >>He's a contractor for the US Government. That makes things complicated >>and sometimes seemingly nonsensical. > >A patch (however small) means code, all my code must under the Public >Domain Notice (and which

Re: set Cygwin terminal title

2014-04-08 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:24:29PM +0100, xmoon 2000 wrote: > Ho can I set Cygwin termnal title? > > I have tried echoing every escape sequence I have found on web. > > None seem to work. It's reasonably likely your `$PS1` includes a line to set the terminal title; I think the default Cygwin Bas

set Cygwin terminal title

2014-04-08 Thread xmoon 2000
Ho can I set Cygwin termnal title? I have tried echoing every escape sequence I have found on web. None seem to work. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

RE: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> He's a contractor for the US Government. That makes things complicated and > sometimes seemingly nonsensical. Thanks, Barry. A patch (however small) means code, all my code must under the Public Domain Notice (and which can't be GPL'd). Thus, our legal office does not allow us contributing

RE: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, April 08, 2014 5:01 AM >On Apr 8 03:30, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >>> I cannot supply patches for you guys because of the GPL. > >What on earth keeps you from sending patches to a GPLed project while at >the same time using it is no

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl-1.0.1g-1

2014-04-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of OpenSSL to 1.0.1g-1. This is an upstream security release. The Cygwin release is build from the vanilla sources with just two patches for path handling and support of 64 bit Cygwin. Here's security advisory: ---

Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 8 03:30, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > > Nah. Maybe we'll have something when the Singularity finally occurs. > > I cannot supply patches for you guys because of the GPL. What on earth keeps you from sending patches to a GPLed project while at the same time using it is no

Re: long_int vs int byte sizes

2014-04-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 8 11:41, Ross Smith wrote: > On 2014-04-08 03:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Apr 7 09:39, Eric Blake wrote: > >> > >>C99 5.2.4.2.1 Sizes of integer types > >> > >>requires CHAR_BIT to be 8 or larger, UCHAR_MAX to be 255 or larger, > >>USHRT_MAX to be 65535 or larger (oh, so I was wrong

Re: Request for Junctions be treated consistently

2014-04-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 7 22:04, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > >> I don't think your original concern is as big a problem as you > >> think, as is indicated by the above setup on linux. > >> > >> I.e. is there some other reason to not treat "linkd" mounts > >> the same as "mountvol" moun