Re: No /usr/bin/perl.exe installed in perl-5.14.4-3

2015-06-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Victor Shih writes: > When updating perl to perl-5.14.4-3, I found that it no longer ran. > Specifically, there was no /usr/bin/perl.exe executable installed. It is in perl_base and cygcheck says your install is missing that file. Since you're also missing a ton of other files related to Perl, it

Re: No /usr/bin/perl.exe installed in perl-5.14.4-3

2015-06-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/22/2015 10:32 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/22/2015 9:06 PM, Victor Shih wrote: When updating perl to perl-5.14.4-3, I found that it no longer ran. Specifically, there was no /usr/bin/perl.exe executable installed. I notice that none is listed here: https://cygwin.com/packages/x86/perl/perl-5

Re: No /usr/bin/perl.exe installed in perl-5.14.4-3

2015-06-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/22/2015 9:06 PM, Victor Shih wrote: When updating perl to perl-5.14.4-3, I found that it no longer ran. Specifically, there was no /usr/bin/perl.exe executable installed. I notice that none is listed here: https://cygwin.com/packages/x86/perl/perl-5.14.4-3 It's now in the perl_base packa

Re: cacls combination problem in 1.7.35, merging privs of existing file & privs of process

2015-06-22 Thread John Ruckstuhl
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:41 AM, John Ruckstuhl wrote: > > I'm noticing this summer, that whenever I try to edit an existing file with > vi for the first time, the file's permissions change. Could this be a > problem with merging permissions of existing file and permissions of the vi > proces

Re: Support for ITIMER_PROF?

2015-06-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/22/2015 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 22 08:05, Ken Brown wrote: According to the Cygwin API documentation (https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/std-notes.html), "getitimer and setitimer only support ITIMER_REAL for now." I'm wondering whether there's any chance that support for ITIMER_

RE: [cygwin] The new permission system and git

2015-06-22 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: Lemke, Michael > Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 11:31 AM > > Sorry to say this but everywhere I use cygwin (work, home) > these days I run into trouble with the new permission system > initially introduced at 1.7.35 IIRC. I just did this: > > $ cd //some/serv

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-gcc-4.9.2-2 (x86/x86_64)

2015-06-22 Thread Achim Gratz
JonY writes: > I have just updated the mingw-w64 cross compilers Cygwin 32bit and > 64bit to mingw64-*-gcc-4.9.2-2. The 32bit gcc-debuginfo archive is truncated. Please re-upload this file. x86/release/mingw64-x86_64-gcc/mingw64-x86_64-gcc-debuginfo/mingw64-x86_64-gcc-debuginfo-4.9.2-2.tar.xz

Re: delay when querying /proc/loadavg

2015-06-22 Thread Vince Rice
On Jun 22, 2015, at 11:14 AM, m0viefreak wrote: > > > Hello, > > I noticed that there is long delay when getting the content of /proc/ladavg: > > $ time cat /proc/loadavg > 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/16 > cat /proc/loadavg 0.01s user 1.47s system 100% cpu 1.480 total > > I am aware that loadavg is not

delay when querying /proc/loadavg

2015-06-22 Thread m0viefreak
Hello, I noticed that there is long delay when getting the content of /proc/ladavg: $ time cat /proc/loadavg 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/16 cat /proc/loadavg 0.01s user 1.47s system 100% cpu 1.480 total I am aware that loadavg is not meaningful on cygwin and always returns "0 0 0", but it is used in many

The new permission system and git

2015-06-22 Thread Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2
Sorry to say this but everywhere I use cygwin (work, home) these days I run into trouble with the new permission system initially introduced at 1.7.35 IIRC. I just did this: $ cd //some/server $ git init . $ git add statistik $ git commit error: invalid object 04 ab9e237892aceba0cb7447b290bd

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.1.0-0.2

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released a second TEST version of Cygwin. The version number is 2.1.0-0.2. This test release is mostly for interested *developers*. The important news which needs some testing is the implementation of sigaltstack(2) and the underlying implementation of running a

Re: Support for ITIMER_PROF?

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 22 08:05, Ken Brown wrote: > According to the Cygwin API documentation > (https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/std-notes.html), "getitimer and setitimer > only support ITIMER_REAL for now." I'm wondering whether there's any chance > that support for ITIMER_PROF might be added. I have no idea what

Support for ITIMER_PROF?

2015-06-22 Thread Ken Brown
According to the Cygwin API documentation (https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/std-notes.html), "getitimer and setitimer only support ITIMER_REAL for now." I'm wondering whether there's any chance that support for ITIMER_PROF might be added. I have no idea what the obstacles are. My reason for ask

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.1.0-0.1

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Ken, On Jun 21 14:47, Ken Brown wrote: > On 6/20/2015 4:55 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >- First cut of an implementation to allow signal handlers running on an > > alternate signal stack. > > > >- New API sigaltstack, plus definitions for SA_ONSTACK, SS_ONSTACK, > >SS_DISABLE, > > MINSIG

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: MIME Applications specification implementation

2015-06-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages (and their respective subpackages) have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * garcon-0.2.1-2 * gnome-menus-3.13.3-3 * lxde-common-0.99.0-4 * mate-menus-1.8.0-2 * mate-session-manager-1.8.1-7 * Thunar-1.6.10-1 * xarchiver-0.5.4-1 * xfce4-session-4.10.1-5 These releases

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: shared-mime-info-1.4-1

2015-06-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: * shared-mime-info-1.4-1 This package provides the FreeDesktop.org MIME type database. This is an update to the latest upstream release: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/commit/?id=Release-1-4 (Note that some o

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-8

2015-06-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * xinit-1.3.4-8 xinit contains commands used for starting X sessions. This release fixes the X session launcher to set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP earlier for the benefit of DBusActivatable applications. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl-7.43.0-1

2015-06-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * curl-7.43.0-1 * libcurl4-7.43.0-1 * libcurl-devel-7.43.0-1 * libcurl-doc-7.43.0-1 cURL is a library and command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols, SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP