Re: xdvipdfmx:fatal: This font using the "seac" command for accented, characters...

2016-06-18 Thread Mark
Dear Ken: Thanks for the notice! Btw., recently I experienced xpdf failing to start due to rebasement errors similar to what a few people reported here months ago, and the xpdf version from your repository worked for me. So I'd be happy to see your xpdf compilation in the standard cygwin dist

Re: FUSE for Cygwin - was: Re: Fork and Windows Heap

2016-06-18 Thread Bill Zissimopoulos
Hello, Jeffrey: On 6/18/16, 1:19 PM, "Jeffrey Altman" wrote: >On 6/18/2016 4:03 PM, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: >> * A directory cannot be renamed if it or any of its subdirectories >> contains a file that has open handles (except in the batch-oplock case >> described earlier). >> >> >> In part

Re: FUSE for Cygwin - was: Re: Fork and Windows Heap

2016-06-18 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 6/18/2016 4:03 PM, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: > * A directory cannot be renamed if it or any of its subdirectories > contains a file that has open handles (except in the batch-oplock case > described earlier). > > > In particular the third bullet point mandates that the FSD keeps > information

Re: FUSE for Cygwin - was: Re: Fork and Windows Heap

2016-06-18 Thread Bill Zissimopoulos
On 6/18/16, 1:02 AM, "Corinna Vinschen" wrote: >>but I eventually had to change it for a number of issues (notably Rename >> support). > >For rename support you can use the index number as well, usually, >since you can open a file by index number. At least on NTFS. Unfortunately it is not as s

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-5.4.0-1 (x86/x86_64)

2016-06-18 Thread JonY
gcc-5.4.0-1 has been uploaded for 32bit and 64bit Cygwin and marked as stable. This version has been built with --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible so it should remain compatible to GCC 4 C++ ABI. Note that C11 with gnu extensions is now default for C. See https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/porti

Re: xdvipdfmx:fatal: This font using the "seac" command for accented characters...

2016-06-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/17/2016 5:54 PM, Mark McGregor wrote: Ken wrote: No, I don't think XeTeX is dying. A look at its git repository shows lots of commits from Jonathan Kew and Arthur Reutenauer in the last few months. The last commit was over 1 month ago: a 1-line change from JK. I'm not overly opti

Re: FUSE for Cygwin - was: Re: Fork and Windows Heap

2016-06-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Bill, On Jun 17 19:48, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: > Hi, Corinna: > > On Jun 17 07:25, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: > > > Windows hard links are rather un-POSIX like and rarely used on Windows. > > > After considering the required changes on the FSD for a feature that is > > > so rarely used I opte