Serial Port communication issues in Cygwin

2015-07-15 Thread J Kohn
Hello, I am trying to use Cygwin to automate some testing of an external device. The external device communicates to the PC running Cygwin over a serial cable at 115200 baud. I have been able to manually send and receive data from the external device using PuTTY, Teraterm, and Powershell, but I am

Re: ACL Hell

2015-07-15 Thread Duane Ellis
> I'm using cygwin for years already. > I didn't use to have this problem in the past. It's something > relatively new, that became way more intense in the past few months > where I both re-installed windows at home, and got a fresh PC at work. I had similar problems - and to fix them I did this:

Re: ACL Hell

2015-07-15 Thread Sky Diver
To Larry Hall: 1. I'd love to reply to your post, but I'm new to this mailing-list concept so I neglected to subscribe to the mailing list (yeah, I'm an old fashioned kinda guy, work only with thread-level google-groups / StackOverflow forum types ;) TBH: If Andrey wouldn't have CC'ed me on his re

startx-xwin seg fault, signal 11

2015-07-15 Thread Bob Goldberg
I've been running cygwin/x (x86) under xp pro for YEARS, with it working perfectly. The last update to 1.17 has been a disaster. I've read about using -listen tcp, and DISPLAY=:0.0 ; however, nothing I've tried resolves the seg fault error i'm getting. using 1.17.1-5; have also tried 1.17.2-0 to

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.1.0-0.4

2015-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 09:08, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/15/2015 08:24 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > >> Got it. What's needed is a Cygwin-specific fault-*.h file which exposes > >> how to fetch the stack pointer register from mcontext_t. As you can see > >> from the plethora of fault-*.h files in the src subdir, this

Re: ACL Hell

2015-07-15 Thread Sky Diver
Hey Andrey, > Are you running with superadmin credentials? > Unlike Linux, Windows doesn't let regular users make symlinks. I'm using cygwin for years already. I didn't use to have this problem in the past. It's something relatively new, that became way more intense in the past few months where I

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.1.0-0.4

2015-07-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/15/2015 08:24 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >> Got it. What's needed is a Cygwin-specific fault-*.h file which exposes >> how to fetch the stack pointer register from mcontext_t. As you can see >> from the plethora of fault-*.h files in the src subdir, this is highly >> system-specific anyway. >> >>

Re: ACL Hell

2015-07-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 07/15/2015 04:32 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Sky Diver! Hi, in the past several months or so, cygwin started giving me ACL pain in small surges which are gradually growing.. Here's a basic scenario that is slowly, but surely, driving me NUTZ: $ ln -s /cygdrive/c/tmp /tmp ln: fai

Re: SIGINT generated by Control-C, is not delivered in mintty

2015-07-15 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 15.07.2015 10:46, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 7/14/2015 9:44 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote: Using Cygwin 64 on Windows 7: In a bash or zsh running inside mintty, pressing Control-C has no effect. In a bash or zsh running in a Windows Console, it works fine. This can be verified in two ways: (1) Usi

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.1.0-0.4

2015-07-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/15/2015 8:44 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 15 09:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi guys, On Jul 14 22:07, Ken Brown wrote: Entering directory '/home/kbrown/src/cyglibsigsegv/libsigsegv-2.10-1.x86_64/build/tests' Test passed. PASS: sigsegv1.exe Test passed. PASS: sigsegv2.exe Doing SIGSE

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.1.0-1

2015-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released another version of Cygwin. The version number is 2.1.0-1. What's new: --- - Handle pthread stacksizes as in GLibc: Default to RLIMIT_STACK resource. Allow to set RLIMIT_STACK via setrlimit. Default RLIMIT_STACK to value from executable hea

Re: SIGSEGV before main ? and gcc-debuginfo

2015-07-15 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 7/15/2015 3:11 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Marco, I seem to have missed this... On Jul 11 09:22, Marco Atzeri wrote: trying to debug latest release candidate of netcdf I hit this SIGSEGV before reaching main $ gdb .libs/ctest.exe GNU gdb (GDB) Cygwin 7.9.1-1 . Reading symbols from

Re: SIGSEGV before main ? and gcc-debuginfo

2015-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Marco, I seem to have missed this... On Jul 11 09:22, Marco Atzeri wrote: > trying to debug latest release candidate of netcdf > I hit this SIGSEGV before reaching main > > $ gdb .libs/ctest.exe > GNU gdb (GDB) Cygwin 7.9.1-1 > . > Reading symbols from .libs/ctest.exe...done. > (gdb) bre

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.1.0-0.4

2015-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 09:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi guys, > > On Jul 14 22:07, Ken Brown wrote: > > Entering directory > > '/home/kbrown/src/cyglibsigsegv/libsigsegv-2.10-1.x86_64/build/tests' > > Test passed. > > PASS: sigsegv1.exe > > Test passed. > > PASS: sigsegv2.exe > > Doing SIGSEGV pass 1. > > S

Re: SIGINT generated by Control-C, is not delivered in mintty

2015-07-15 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 7/14/2015 9:44 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote: Using Cygwin 64 on Windows 7: In a bash or zsh running inside mintty, pressing Control-C has no effect. In a bash or zsh running in a Windows Console, it works fine. This can be verified in two ways: (1) Using 'trap': In the shell, we do a trap

Re: ACL Hell

2015-07-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Sky Diver! > Hi, in the past several months or so, cygwin started giving me ACL > pain in small surges which are gradually growing.. > Here's a basic scenario that is slowly, but surely, driving me NUTZ: > $ ln -s /cygdrive/c/tmp /tmp > ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/tmp’: Opera

Re: SIGINT generated by Control-C, is not delivered in mintty

2015-07-15 Thread Ronald Fischer
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015, at 11:27, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ronald Fischer mm.st> writes: > > Using Cygwin 64 on Windows 7: > > > > In a bash or zsh running inside mintty, pressing Control-C has no > > effect. In a bash or zsh running in a Windows Console, it works fine. > > > > This can be verified i

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.1.0-0.4

2015-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi guys, On Jul 14 22:07, Ken Brown wrote: > On 7/14/2015 6:03 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > >On 07/08/2015 01:39 PM, Warren Young wrote: > >>A search for "sigaltstack” on code.openhub.net found only 95 projects with > >>this string in their source code, almost entirely consisting of *receivers* > >>o

Mintty 32bit: False Positive

2015-07-15 Thread Marco Atzeri
All, for your info Regards Marco Forwarded Message Subject: [No Reply] False Positive Submission [3822135] Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 06:49:33 +0100 From: Symantec FP Incident Response To: marco.atz...@gmail.com In relation to submission [3822135]. Upon further analysis and inves