Re: Repairing permissions after windows reinstall

2016-07-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Henry S. Thompson! > Andrey Repin writes: >> Greetings, Henry S. Thompson! >> >>> Good news: My cygwin file tree survived a Windows (10) reinstall >>> Not-so-good news: I have a new SID, so not only do I not own those files >>> any more (that's easily fixed), but I don't have the permi

64 bit Cywgin 2.5.2 on Wine: python fails with sem_init: Invalid argument

2016-07-03 Thread Qian Hong
Hi folks, When compiling 64 bit Cygwin on Wine, I found a python{2,3} failure when building documentation [1]: xmlto --skip-validation --with-dblatex pdf -o cygwin-ug-net/ -m /drone/src/github.com/cygwin/cygwin/winsup/doc/fo.xsl /drone/src/github.com/cygwin/cygwin/winsup/doc/cygwin-ug-net.xml sem

Re: cygstart.exe can't open file:///C:/

2016-07-03 Thread Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez
Even if it's similar to Windows command-line, you are still in a POSIX system, and Cygwin use /cygdrive/ for all the drive letters. So for file:///C:/ you should use file:///cygdrive/c/ On 2016-07-04 at 01:51, Gene Pavlovsky wrote: > cygstart‘s manpage says it’s similar to the Windows command-lin

cygstart.exe can't open file:///C:/

2016-07-03 Thread Gene Pavlovsky
cygstart‘s manpage says it’s similar to the Windows command-line start command. It is indeed able to open http://example.com in the default browser. However, cygstart file:///C:/ results in an error message: Unable to start 'C:\cygwin\c\': The specified file was not found. The Windows start comman

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

2016-07-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/1/2016 7:38 PM, Warren Young wrote: On Jul 1, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Warren Young wrote: I’ve written a script to do that automatically. I’ve improved the script so that it no longer requires any parameters. It finds the last-used setup.ini file and extracts the list of currently-installed

Re: symlinks to unlinked but open files should work

2016-07-03 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 03.07.2016, 13:14 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: You don't even need a symlink. This will show the same result: exec >out1 rm out1 [[ -w /dev/fd/1 ]] || echo /dev/fd/1 not writable 1>&2 I noticed that too meanwhile, but I thought you would not need that information ;) It's only ab

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated/New] Perl distributions

2016-07-03 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version available from CPAN: perl-CPAN-Reporter-1.2018 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-3.0217-1 perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.029 perl-List-AllUtils-0.11 perl-Mojolicious-6.66-1 perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta-1.4421-1 perl-Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.34-1 perl-Test-Sim

Re: symlinks to unlinked but open files should work

2016-07-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 1 22:40, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > Cygwin seems to look up a symlink wrong: > > When the target-file is unlinked while it is used by a process the file > still exists and the symlink should point to that file. > > Test: > > ln -s out1 lout1 > exec >lout1 > rm out1 > [[ -w /dev/fd/1 ]] ||