[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated for 32-bit, new for 64-bit: libsigsegv-2.10-2

2015-07-17 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of libsigsegv, 2.10-2, will soon be available for download from your favorite mirror. On 32-bit cygwin, this leaves 2.10-1 as previous; on 64-bit cygwin, it is a new port of the package, made possible for the first time by new sigaltstack() code in cygwin 2.1.0. NEWS: = This is

Re: bat files not automatically assumed to be executable

2015-07-17 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 7/17/2015 10:00 PM, schilpfamily wrote: the bat file is located outside of cygwin root. i've tried adding noacl to the fstab and this creates other problems... rather frustrating... I understand, but that does not allow us to help you. What about stating from here: Problem reports:

Re: bat files not automatically assumed to be executable

2015-07-17 Thread schilpfamily
the bat file is located outside of cygwin root. i've tried adding noacl to the fstab and this creates other problems... rather frustrating... On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, schilpfamily! > >> i updated my cygwin area recently and now windows bat files will not

Re: bat files not automatically assumed to be executable

2015-07-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, schilpfamily! > i updated my cygwin area recently and now windows bat files will not > execute with "Permission denied" error message. in addition the bat > file has permission 644. > previous to updating cygwin, all bat files had the execute bit set and > were always executable. on th

w32api-headers update?

2015-07-17 Thread Ken Brown
JonY, Could we get an update of w32api-headers? There's a bug in shlobj.h, as illustrated by the following: $ cat test.c #include $ gcc -c test.c In file included from test.c:1:0: /usr/include/w32api/shlobj.h:37:3: error: unknown type name ‘EXTERN_C’ SHFOLDERAPI SHGetFolderPathW (HWND hw

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffstat-1.60-1

2015-07-17 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of diffstat, 1.60-1, is available for download, leaving 1.59-1 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Upstream changes are mentioned below. See also /usr/share/doc/diffstat/. 2015/07/07 (diffstat 1.60) + add configure option --with-man2html

bat files not automatically assumed to be executable

2015-07-17 Thread schilpfamily
i updated my cygwin area recently and now windows bat files will not execute with "Permission denied" error message. in addition the bat file has permission 644. previous to updating cygwin, all bat files had the execute bit set and were always executable. on the documentation for cygwin, it expli

Re: Updated: xorg-server-1.17.2-1 (TEST)

2015-07-17 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > > The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: > > *** xorg-server-*1.17.2-1 > > These packages contain XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. > > In addition to upstream fixes [1], the following cygwin-specific changes >

Re: --line-regexp option with null data

2015-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/16/2015 08:04 PM, John Hein wrote: > > printf 'alpha\0bravo\0charlie\0' | grep --line-regexp --quiet bravo > > > > My thinking tells me that because I have not used `--null-data`, grep > should see > > 1 or even 0 lines separated by newline, and fail to match a `bravo` > followed b

Re: ACL Hell

2015-07-17 Thread Kurt Franke
Sky Diver gmail.com> writes: ... > > Still, how can I get a normal behavior (i.e. normal Windows symlinks > as produces in winsymlinks:nativestrict mode) in a regular session w/o > elevation? > You could grant the necessary privilege to your account or to the group Users editrights -u sky -a