Question about slow access to file information

2023-01-13 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
Dear Cygwin'ers - I have a separate drive mounted this way: d:/ /cygdrive/d ntfs binary,posix=0,user,noacl,auto 0 0 One thing I use it for is to store backup files. These tend to be 2 Gb chunks, and there can be hundreds of them in the backup directory. (The drive is 5Tb.) The Windows Disk M

Re: newlib-cygwin.git repository: Switching "master" to "main"

2023-01-13 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 1/14/2023 7:16 AM, Dave McGuire via Cygwin wrote: On 1/13/23 14:57, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 02:23:44PM -0500, Mike Frysinger via Cygwin wrote: thanks for doing this! -mike Seconded!  This clearly isn't going to solve racism in a single step, but making our community t

Re: newlib-cygwin.git repository: Switching "master" to "main"

2023-01-13 Thread Dave McGuire via Cygwin
On 1/13/23 14:57, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 02:23:44PM -0500, Mike Frysinger via Cygwin wrote: thanks for doing this! -mike Seconded! This clearly isn't going to solve racism in a single step, but making our community that bit more welcoming -- particularly when the cost o

Re: newlib-cygwin.git repository: Switching "master" to "main"

2023-01-13 Thread Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin
On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 02:23:44PM -0500, Mike Frysinger via Cygwin wrote: > thanks for doing this! > -mike Seconded! This clearly isn't going to solve racism in a single step, but making our community that bit more welcoming -- particularly when the cost of the change is essentially zero -- has

Re: newlib-cygwin.git repository: Switching "master" to "main"

2023-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger via Cygwin
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Re: [clisp-list] FYI: Cygwin package is crippled: no FFI.

2023-01-13 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
[Redirecting from the clisp list.] On 1/12/2023 3:03 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote: Hi All, Just a heads up that whoever is maintaining the CLISP package for Cygwin seems not to have built it with FFI support. The FFI package doesn't exist. I'm trying to use an old program of mine, and oops! I'm Cy

Re: newlib-cygwin.git repository: Switching "master" to "main"

2023-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Jan 13 14:20, Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote: > On 13/01/2023 11:55, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > In the light of recent discussions, and following other projects already > > having done this step, we changed the name of the "master" branch in > > the newlib-cygwin.git up

Re: newlib-cygwin.git repository: Switching "master" to "main"

2023-01-13 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
On 13/01/2023 11:55, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > Hey folks, > > In the light of recent discussions, and following other projects already > having done this step, we changed the name of the "master" branch in > the newlib-cygwin.git upstream repository to "main". > > If you fetched from up

Re: newlib-cygwin.git repository: Switching "master" to "main"

2023-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Jan 13 12:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hey folks, > > In the light of recent discussions, and following other projects already > having done this step, we changed the name of the "master" branch in > the newlib-cygwin.git upstream repository to "main". > > If you fetched from upstream in the

newlib-cygwin.git repository: Switching "master" to "main"

2023-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
Hey folks, In the light of recent discussions, and following other projects already having done this step, we changed the name of the "master" branch in the newlib-cygwin.git upstream repository to "main". If you fetched from upstream in the last two days, you might already have noticed that an "

[ANNOUNCEMENT] rebase 4.6.2-2

2023-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * rebase-4.6.2-2 This package contains the Cygwin rebase utilities. Use rebase for specific DLLs or rebaseall for all DLLs installed by Cygwin's setup.exe. This is a minor bug fix release, fixing a confusing warning in peflag

[ANNOUNCEMENT] cpio 2.13-13

2023-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * cpio-2.13-13 GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. Archives are files which contain a collection of other files plus information about them, such as their file name, owner, timestamps, and access permis