On Thu, 30 May 2024, Jon Turney wrote:
On 23/05/2024 15:13, Niklas Edmundsson via Cygwin wrote:
File archive host name:
Official name changes from ftp.acc.umu.se to mirror.accum.se. The old
host name will continue to work for quite some time (years), but new
deployments should move to usin
On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 15:37, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote:
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> On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 8:29 PM Dan Shelton wrote:
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> Just a couple of ideas:
> > - Native Windows doesn't have an easy way to list group memberships
> > for the current user, so a WinSG -l to list available groups would be
> > good
On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 15:41, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote:
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> On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM Dan Shelton wrote:
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> > Does anyone know how to run Windows explorer.exe with Cygwin
> > /bin/newgrp, so all new files created by explorer.exe use that new
> > primary group, and all programs launch
On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 15:41, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote:
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> On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM Dan Shelton wrote:
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> > Does anyone know how to run Windows explorer.exe with Cygwin
> > /bin/newgrp, so all new files created by explorer.exe use that new
> > primary group, and all programs launch
On 5/30/2024 3:39 PM, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
On 27/05/2024 16:14, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
On 5/27/2024 5:17 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
On Sun, 26 May 2024 18:02:54 -0400, Ken Brown via Cygwin
Here is a log from gdb. Will it help?
run
info threads
info stack
list
On 27/05/2024 16:14, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
On 5/27/2024 5:17 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
On Sun, 26 May 2024 18:02:54 -0400, Ken Brown via Cygwin
Here is a log from gdb. Will it help?
run
info threads
info stack
list
$ HOME=/tmp gdb --args asy -vv -f pdf test
[...]
On 23/05/2024 15:13, Niklas Edmundsson via Cygwin wrote:
Hi!
The contact information, and preferably the host/mirror name, for the
mirror provided by Academic Computer Club (ACC) needs to be changed as
ACC is moving to a new domain. To verify the validity of this
message, point a web browser to
On 2024-05-29 02:53, Bruno Haible via Cygwin wrote:
Brian Inglis wrote:
Ran playground local and CI builds of these packages at v0.0.8 successfully:
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?srcpkg=mingw64-x86_64-win-iconv
and https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?srcpkg=mingw64-i686-wi
Noel Grandin wrote:
> > Still: Does ReleaseSRWLockExclusive notify other threads?
> >
>
> Of course? How else would a lock work, it must release other waiters?
>
> It might not be a fair lock though, which is not a problem for this
> situation, which does not require fair locking.
>
>
> > Fun
Takashi Yano wrote in cygwin-patches:
> With v3 patch:
> int
> pthread::once (pthread_once_t *once_control, void (*init_routine) (void))
> {
> /* Sign bit of once_control->state is used as done flag */
> if (once_control->state & INT_MIN)
> return 0;
>
> /* The type of &once_control->sta
On 22/05/2024 00:30, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
Hello!
Can Cygwin gcc or clang be used to use ucrt instead of cygwin.dll/mingw.dll?
We provide a cross-compiler targeting the Win32 API, but this only
support msvcrt currently.
[1] https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programming.win32-no-cygwi
On 25/05/2024 22:55, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
Hello,
Does Cygwin or Win32 have something like LD_PRELOAD, so I can
override/substitute functions in a DLL or EXE, like it is common for
UNIX/Linux ELF shared libraries?
This is not generally available on Win32, due to limitations of the PE
On 5/30/2024 11:15 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Still: Does ReleaseSRWLockExclusive notify other threads?
Of course? How else would a lock work, it must release other waiters?
It might not be a fair lock though, which is not a problem for this situation,
which does not require fair locking.
Takashi Yano wrote in cygwin-patches:
> int
> pthread::once (pthread_once_t *once_control, void (*init_routine) (void))
> {
> - // already done ?
> - if (once_control->state)
> + /* Sign bit of once_control->state is used as done flag */
> + if (once_control->state & INT_MIN)
> return 0
Noel Grandin wrote:
> > SRW locks are spin-locks. Since they are only pointer-sized,
> > ReleaseSRWLockExclusive cannot notify other threads — unlike
> > CRITICAL_SECTION.
> > Therefore, AcquireSRWLockExclusive must busy-loop when the lock is already
> > held.
> >
>
> No, they only spin briefly,
On 5/30/2024 10:47 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
SRW locks are spin-locks. Since they are only pointer-sized,
ReleaseSRWLockExclusive cannot notify other threads — unlike CRITICAL_SECTION.
Therefore, AcquireSRWLockExclusive must busy-loop when the lock is already
held.
No, they only spin briefly,
Noel Grandin wrote in cygwin-patches:
> Pardon my ignorance, but why not rather use the Windows SRWLock functionality?
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sync/slim-reader-writer--srw--locks
>
> SRW locks are very fast, only require a single pointer-sized storage area,
> can be stat
Hello,
there are 3 coreutils versions in cygwin: 8.26, 8.32 and 9.0.
8.32 has a big bug on "cp" that leaks file descriptors. Copying many
files it dies with Too many open files.
9.0 has a bug that makes any chmod fail silently if it is applied to
symlink.
Both bugs have the impact that we are s
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