Mounted NAS, net use and shared drive paths... Issues

2014-12-10 Thread Gérard Iglesias
Hi everybody I posted this to an other cygwin mailing list but got no answer, a new attempts here… Well I am using cygwin for my multi platform continuous build/test integration system. And I meet a lot of issues with the use of the mounted NAS under cygwin. Because the behaviours are not r

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-10 Thread Alexey Pavlov
2014-12-10 19:01 GMT+03:00 Corinna Vinschen: > On Dec 10 08:36, Alexey Pavlov wrote: >> [...] >> Our changes to Cygwin runtime as we talk in the past are not >> acceptable to Cygwin upstream because have a different philosophy and >> have break some posix features. About half a year ago we talk abo

Re: mksh 49-1 no longer handles Windows line endings

2014-12-10 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 10, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Ryan Dortmans wrote: > The latest version of mksh no longer handles Windows line endings [snip] > — mksh is currently up for adoption: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Packages-up-for-adoption-td111353.html I briefly considered adopting it, mainly for histor

mksh 49-1 no longer handles Windows line endings

2014-12-10 Thread Ryan Dortmans
Hi, The latest version of mksh no longer handles Windows line endings in ksh scripts when in a text-mode file system. To reproduce: $ mount -o text c:/textmode /textmode (or use an existing text-mode mount) $ echo -e "\necho \"test\"\n" > /textmode/test.ksh $ ksh /textmode/test.ksh : not founds

Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory

2014-12-10 Thread David Stacey
On 10/12/14 20:52, cyg Simple wrote: On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! I'd appreciate if those not shy to install developer snapshots would give this stuff a try in the meantime. I think I'm about to make a script to install snapshots, at this ra

Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory

2014-12-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, cyg Simple! > On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> > I'd appreciate if those not shy to install developer snapshots would > give this stuff a try in the meantime. I think I'm about to make a script to install snapshot

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.9.8-1

2014-12-10 Thread Christian Franke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I just updated the csih service installation helper package to 0.9.8. The patch for csih_create_local_group() from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2014-11/msg00128.html was not fully applied. mkgroup is still called with bogus option -u. Next try attached :-) Christ

Re: fdisk -l is mute

2014-12-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 12/10/2014 10:24 PM, Fergus Daly wrote: If util-linux is installed then $ /usr/sbin/fdisk returns a list of options as expected; but choosing one of them $ /usr/sbin/fdisk -l is mute. In the past this has returned filesystem summaries as expected. Windows 7, all up to date. Anybody else? Fergu

Re: fdisk -l is mute

2014-12-10 Thread Christian Franke
Fergus Daly wrote: If util-linux is installed then $ /usr/sbin/fdisk returns a list of options as expected; but choosing one of them $ /usr/sbin/fdisk -l is mute. In the past this has returned filesystem summaries as expected. Windows 7, all up to date. Anybody else? Could reproduce this. The

fdisk -l is mute

2014-12-10 Thread Fergus Daly
If util-linux is installed then $ /usr/sbin/fdisk returns a list of options as expected; but choosing one of them $ /usr/sbin/fdisk -l is mute. In the past this has returned filesystem summaries as expected. Windows 7, all up to date. Anybody else? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.

Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory

2014-12-10 Thread cyg Simple
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >>> > I'd appreciate if those not shy to install developer snapshots would >>> > give this stuff a try in the meantime. >>> >>> I think I'm about to make a script to install snapshots, at this rate it >>> seems >>

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.9.8-1

2014-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I just updated the csih service installation helper package to 0.9.8. This release drops support for pre-XP Windows versions, add support for post-W8 Windows versions, and adds support for upcoming Cygwin release 1.7.34 to not read from and write to /etc/passwd and /etc/group if not necessary. H

openat fakery is misleading

2014-12-10 Thread Zefram
Cygwin offers openat(2) et al functions, which superficially appear to work, but actually they're fake implementations that use absolute pathnames underneath. This means that they fail in ways that real openat(2) et al cannot fail, as soon as any relevant renaming occurs. This misleads programs in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 10 08:36, Alexey Pavlov wrote: > [...] > Our changes to Cygwin runtime as we talk in the past are not > acceptable to Cygwin upstream because have a different philosophy and > have break some posix features. About half a year ago we talk about > how integrate MSYS functionality into Cygwin u

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 10 17:47, JonY wrote: > On 12/10/2014 07:28, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> How nice. We have all the work and they simple grab it and don't give > >> anything back to their upstream project. > > > > ...the *Dark* side of free (GPL?) software... I guess.. > > > >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 9 15:05, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 9, 2014, at 3:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > > On Dec 8 15:14, Warren Young wrote: > >> On Dec 6, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen > >> wrote: > >> > >>> - Cygwin can now generate passwd/group entries directly from Windows > >> > >> don

Re: Emacs: Warning about accessibility bus

2014-12-10 Thread Peter Hull
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > Fork errors often indicate a need to run rebaseall. Have you tried that? That fixed it, thanks Ken. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: Emacs: Warning about accessibility bus

2014-12-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/10/2014 6:12 AM, Peter Hull wrote: When I start emacs 24.4.1 I see a message in the console: ** (emacs:8264): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.a11y.Bus.Error: Failed to fork (Resource temporarily unavailable) Fork errors often indicate a need to run rebaseall.

Re: select() fails on multi-byte input in cygwin console (since 1.7.10)

2014-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 10 08:03, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Am 09.12.2014 um 12:19 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >Hi Thomas, > > > >On Dec 9 08:02, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>Calling select() to check whether input from the terminal is available > >>fails for all but the first byte in the cygwin console if

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 9 17:18, Michael DePaulo wrote: > On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > For your convenience I wrote new documentation. Since this is a TEST > > prerelease, the new documentation is not part of the official docs yet. > > Rather have a look at > > > > https://cygw

Re: Possible resource leak

2014-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 9 17:06, Tom Honermann wrote: > This sounds like something I diagnosed a while back. I see you have Lenovo > utilities in your PATH. There is a defect in Lenovo's RapidBoot Shield > Version 1.23 that results in process handles (for all processes) not getting > closed. This causes these p

Emacs: Warning about accessibility bus

2014-12-10 Thread Peter Hull
When I start emacs 24.4.1 I see a message in the console: ** (emacs:8264): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.a11y.Bus.Error: Failed to fork (Resource temporarily unavailable) This does not seem to cause any problem that I have seen but it only started appearing recently (I

Re: Possible resource leak

2014-12-10 Thread Petr Titěra
On 9.12.2014 23:06, Tom Honermann wrote: This sounds like something I diagnosed a while back. I see you have Lenovo utilities in your PATH. There is a defect in Lenovo's RapidBoot Shield Version 1.23 that results in process handles (for all processes) not getting closed. This causes these pr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-10 Thread JonY
On 12/10/2014 07:28, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> How nice. We have all the work and they simple grab it and don't give >> anything back to their upstream project. > > ...the *Dark* side of free (GPL?) software... I guess.. > No, this is exactly how GPL is supposed to wor