[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mkvtoolnix-8.0.0-1

2015-06-26 Thread David Stacey
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * mkvtoolnix-8.0.0-1 * mkvtoolnix-gui-8.0.0-1 MKVToolNix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files (*.mkv, *.mka). This is an update to the latest upstream release. With this release, the MKVToolNix develo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: foobillard-3.0a-1

2015-06-26 Thread David Stacey
The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * foobillard-3.0a-1 FooBillard is an OpenGL snooker / pool game. If you find the frame rate too low, you might wish to consider enabling direct hardware-accelerated rendering in the X server, for example: DISPLAY=:0 LIBGL_USE

Re: Problem passing file names with embedded space to Windows executable via bash function

2015-06-26 Thread Ernie Rael
On 6/26/2015 2:27 PM, ncokwq...@sneakemail.com wrote: [ This is meant to be a reply to the response post by Ernie Rael, which I managed to lose so there is no referencing. ] On 6/26/2015 12:50 PM, Ernie Rael wrote: I use something similar to this, perhaps it would meet your needs. You may wan

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

2015-06-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/26/2015 4:05 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [CC Ben, please keep him on the CC in replies. Thank you] Hi Ken, On Jun 26 12:55, Ken Brown wrote: Hi Corinna, On 6/26/2015 11:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Thanks. Another question: How does emacs compute stack_bottom? Very near the beg

Re: Problem passing file names with embedded space to Windows executable via bash function

2015-06-26 Thread ncokwqc02
[ This is meant to be a reply to the response post by Ernie Rael, which I managed to lose so there is no referencing. ] On 6/26/2015 12:50 PM, Ernie Rael wrote: >I use something similar to this, perhaps it would meet your needs. You may >want to use >different option to cygpath. > > #!/usr/bi

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

2015-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
[CC Ben, please keep him on the CC in replies. Thank you] Hi Ken, On Jun 26 12:55, Ken Brown wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > On 6/26/2015 11:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Thanks. Another question: How does emacs compute stack_bottom? > > Very near the beginning of main() it does the following

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

2015-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Ken, On Jun 26 12:55, Ken Brown wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > On 6/26/2015 11:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Thanks. Another question: How does emacs compute stack_bottom? > > Very near the beginning of main() it does the following: > > char stack_bottom_variable; > [...] > /* Record (ap

Re: Problem passing file names with embedded space to Windows executable via bash function

2015-06-26 Thread Ernie Rael
On 6/26/2015 12:06 PM, JJ Ottusch wrote: I am trying to define a function in my '.bash_profile' that takes a file or list of files as an argument and passes the list to a Windows executable after converting all the filenames to full path filenames with 'cygpath'. I use something similar to this

Problem passing file names with embedded space to Windows executable via bash function

2015-06-26 Thread JJ Ottusch
I am trying to define a function in my '.bash_profile' that takes a file or list of files as an argument and passes the list to a Windows executable after converting all the filenames to full path filenames with 'cygpath'. The whole point of the function is to use 'cygpath' to put the filenames

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

2015-06-26 Thread Ken Brown
Hi Corinna, On 6/26/2015 11:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Ken, On Jun 26 10:33, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/26/2015 10:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 26 08:02, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/26/2015 7:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Thank you. I'll try to test this in the next couple of days.

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

2015-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Ken, On Jun 26 10:33, Ken Brown wrote: > On 6/26/2015 10:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 26 08:02, Ken Brown wrote: > >>On 6/26/2015 7:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Thank you. I'll try to test this in the next couple of days. One hint > >and one question: > > > >>The signal handl

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

2015-06-26 Thread Ken Brown
Hi Corinna, On 6/26/2015 10:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Ken, On Jun 26 08:02, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/26/2015 7:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 22 13:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 21 14:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/20/2015 4:55 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: - First cut of an impl

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

2015-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Ken, On Jun 26 08:02, Ken Brown wrote: > On 6/26/2015 7:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 22 13:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>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

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

2015-06-26 Thread Ken Brown
Hi Corinna, On 6/26/2015 7:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Ken, On Jun 22 13:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: 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

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

2015-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Ken, On Jun 22 13:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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