Hi Corinna,
Sorry for the delay getting back to you. I tested out the cygpath binary from
the latest snapshot and confirmed that it fixes my issue. Thank for you making
the change!
[~/Downloads/cygwin-inst-20160109]$ cygpath -W -u
/C/Windows
[~/Downloads/cygwin-inst-20160109]$ cygpath-old -W -u
I've been using cygwin on XP (SP2 and then SP3), both 32 bit and 64 bit,
for ages now. I actually tried upgrading once, but had to go back to what I
am currently running because cron was broken. It refused to start, no matter
what. After returning to the previous install, it started right up.
T
No software version can live forever, specially if it is a security
programs (OpenSSL, LibreSSL, GnuPG, ...) or programs and applications
that need the first ones, and that includes Operative Systems and Kernel.
And that's not a Microsoft thing, Linux as well has it.
Linux Kernel LTS support is 2
Hello -
I am also new to the LINUX world and would like very much to see XP
"live forever".
I still use XP as my main "go to" machine.
But ... Microsoft's continuing "march to bigger and better" and my
reluctance to be forced to repeatedly buy new bigger and faster
machinery to accommodate
Peter Binney writes:
> I am running the latest version (which I downloaded after the problem
> started in case there was a fix already). uname -a reports:
>
> CYGWIN_NT-10.0 JCPR-Dell-3 2.3.1(0.291/5/3) 2015-11-14 12:44 x86_64 Cygwin
You'll want to install the latest test version (2.4.0-0.17).
htt
After Windows 10 upgraded itself from 10.0 (Build 10240) to 1511
(Build 10586) shell scripts fail with fork errors.
This can be demonstrated from a Cygwin64 Terminal window by running a
trivial pair of commands. Create these two files in a folder:
1. win1511.pl containing the three lines:
my
Hi,
i have read that beginning this month Cygwin wants to drop support
for Windows XP. Though the home page and FAQ entry 12 do not talk
about this. Are they out of date or is WinXP still supported?
Although there are better OSes now, WinXP is still a good OS.
Especially for virtual machines, b
Brian Inglis SystematicSw.ab.ca> writes:
> Running whois utcd.org replies normally; whois, traceroute/tracert, and ping
> all fail on the name and address as there is host at that address.
Running whois utcd.org replies normally; whois, traceroute/tracert, and ping
all fail on the name and addre
Andy Hall comcast.net> writes:
>> On Jan 8 13:44, cyg Simple wrote:
>>> On 1/8/2016 6:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
$ ./gai leapsecond.utcd.org
ret = 11004
I have no idea why Windows' getaddrinfo chokes on leapsecond.utcd.org
at all.
>>> utcd.org doesn't resolve for me. So g
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