Re: Running 4096 parallel cat processes on remote share results in only 1018 succeeding

2014-10-09 Thread Linda Walsh
Nathan Fairchild wrote: When I run a script like so: cat: /u/pe/env_files/transpath.map: No such file or directory ./run_many.sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable ./run_many.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable $ grep -l PATH out* | wc -l 1018 I think I'm probably hitti

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-09 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 09/10/2014 18:26, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Andrew Schulman! Bad news: the PATH problem is back. When I run C:\cygwin64\bin\fish.exe -l I get the same error messages as before on startup, and PATH doesn't include /bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin. How are /bin /usr/bin etc. normally added

Re: fish PATH problem [ping Konrad]

2014-10-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> So I just re-tested starting a fish login shell after updating cygwin64. > As I suspected, fish has not been updated since the thread I quoted (Apr > 2014), and the issue remains (with my install). Google doesn't show the > maintainer on list since the announcement (Oct 2013), and his e-mail

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andrew Schulman! > Bad news: the PATH problem is back. When I run > C:\cygwin64\bin\fish.exe -l > I get the same error messages as before on startup, and PATH doesn't > include /bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin. > How are /bin /usr/bin etc. normally added to the PATH? I don't see any

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Greetings, Andrew Schulman! > > >> Andrew: appreciated if you can confirm whether simply invoking as a > >> login shell works for you. > > > It sort of works. When I change my shell to /usr/bin/fish in /etc/passwd > > and run > > > C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe - > > > I don't get any error me

Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-10-09 Thread tednolan
In message <20141009162906.ga25...@calimero.vinschen.de>you write: > >Any other idea what *might* be broken if we remove CWD from the >DLL search path? > > >Corinna > I'm pretty sure I've got some programs loading Tcl extensions that cd into the directory with the extension dlls, load the extensio

Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-10-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 9 08:25, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/09/2014 04:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Ok. Or... hmm. The fact that using SetDllDirectory disallows searching > > the CWD got me thinking twice. Security-wise it would really be the > > right thing to do. Usually DLLs are in defined search pa

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andrew Schulman! >> Andrew: appreciated if you can confirm whether simply invoking as a >> login shell works for you. > It sort of works. When I change my shell to /usr/bin/fish in /etc/passwd > and run > C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe - > I don't get any error messages, as I first rep

Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-10-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/09/2014 04:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Ok. Or... hmm. The fact that using SetDllDirectory disallows searching > the CWD got me thinking twice. Security-wise it would really be the > right thing to do. Usually DLLs are in defined search paths: > > - Application dir > - Application d

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On 08/10/2014 18:36, Alive4Ever wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 08, 2014 11:08:43 AM you wrote: > >> Does that work. It seemed to have the same issue as noted in the > >> following thread https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00111.html > >> > > It should work, although I don't recommend runni

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2014-10-09 Thread Claudio Tamietto
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Re: fish prompt oddity

2014-10-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> In fish, I like to set the prompt to print a blank line before the prompt > text. No > problem: I just add an "echo" statement at the beginning of the fish_prompt > function. In fish in Linux that works fine: > > === > andrex@helium ~> pwd > /home/andrex > > andrex@helium ~> > === > > But

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-09 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 08/10/2014 18:36, Alive4Ever wrote: On Wednesday, October 08, 2014 11:08:43 AM you wrote: Does that work. It seemed to have the same issue as noted in the following thread https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00111.html Dave. It should work, although I don't recommend running cygwin apps

Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-10-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 8 19:15, Christian Franke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Sep 15 16:35, Christian Franke wrote: > >>... > >I'm somewhat reluctant to add a call to SetDllDirectory to the Cygwin > >DLL for two reasons. > > > >- Calling SetDllDirectory with an explicit dir doesn't just add this dir > >