Cygwin/X - Query: why invoking from cmd backgrounds?

2024-01-20 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, I am just wondering if anyone understands why XWin detaches/runs in the background, when launched from Windows Command Prompt. This being different to when run from Mintty. Here's what happens with my Mintty invocation, which stays in the foreground: | $ XWin :1 -nolisten tcp -ac -multiwi

Re: Sparse file support for SMB by default? Re: Comment about "Cygwin: sparse support: enable automatic sparsifying of files on SSDs", extend feature to VMware/qemu disks?

2023-12-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi Corinna, On 6/12/2023 8:38 pm, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: If you want to see if a filesystem supports that flag, just use the /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo tool: $ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo . Device Type: 7 Characteristics: 20020 Volume Name: Serial Num

Re: Command 'net user' outputs error message if PKA is used

2023-11-27 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, On 27/11/2023 7:51 pm, tk--- via Cygwin wrote: Any idea why this is happening ? I suspect the reason is related to this long standing understanding of Cygwin: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00087.html On 03/09/2004 2:13 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Public Key authenti

Re: Cygwin/X - *bizarre discovery* doorknock like behaviour for new windows

2023-10-21 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, On 20/10/2023 12:40 pm, Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin wrote: On 20/10/2023 11:50 am, Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin wrote: What I am seeing is that for Cygwin/X, in multi-window mode (and it just occurred to me it would be helpful to check the behaviour in rooted(? manual page terminology) mode

Re: Cygwin/X - doorknock like behaviour for new windows

2023-10-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
On 20/10/2023 11:50 am, Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin wrote: What I am seeing is that for Cygwin/X, in multi-window mode (and it just occurred to me it would be helpful to check the behaviour in rooted(? manual page terminology) mode. I'll follow-up on this)... in multi-window mode

Cygwin/X - doorknock like behaviour for new windows

2023-10-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, I've now noticed this across two different installations, both Windows 10 and Windows 11. I've refrained from attaching a cygcheck output for the moment, because I'm confident this is reproducible. What I am seeing is that for Cygwin/X, in multi-window mode (and it just occurred to me it wou

Re: sshd_config AllowStreamLocalForwarding *remote not possible* / effectively privsep off

2023-08-07 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, I've just updated the subject line for accuracy. Only remote/reverse unix socket forwarding fails. Further, I have a clarification that might have significance: On 8/08/2023 3:40 am, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > On Aug 7 22:11, Shaddy Baddah via Cygw

Re: sshd_config AllowStreamLocalForwarding perm off / effectively privsep off

2023-08-07 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, On 8/08/2023 3:40 am, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Aug 7 22:11, Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin wrote: .. Yes, the parts of OpenSSH requiring descriptor passing are disabled in OpenSSH. Otherwise, what's the solution? Solution for what? What is it you want to do? Reverse

sshd_config AllowStreamLocalForwarding perm off / effectively privsep off

2023-08-07 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, For the current OpenSSH server (9.3p2), AllowStreamLocalForwarding defaults on. That means both local and remote unix socket port portforwarding are possible. For Cygwin, it appears the remote form of this is not possible. The following message is seen on the client-side, regardless of whet

Re: minor correction: ca-certificates postinstall permission denied error

2022-08-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 26/08/2022 1:22 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: -B, no privelege elevation). Both installs have had an manual manipulation of the directory, or its parents up to /etc. Both installs have *not* had any manual manipulation... -- Regards, Shaddy -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com

Resend: ca-certificates postinstall permission denied error

2022-08-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 26/08/2022 1:10 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, Getting consistent permission denied errors on postinstall of Apologies for the rendering of the original email. Email client did something unexpected with line breaks. I've loopback tested this resend first. Getting consi

ca-certificates postinstall permission denied error

2022-08-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, Getting consistent permission denied errors on postinstall of ca-certificate. It appears to be oversight, out of a well-intentioned attempt to protect script generated reference files. There error as it appears in setup.log.full: 2022/08/26 11:39:07 running: e:\cygwin-x86_64\bin\bash.exe --

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.917)

2022-01-30 Thread Shaddy Baddah
x27;s fixed it. Thank you for your prompt response. -- Regards, Shaddy Baddah -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.917)

2022-01-26 Thread Shaddy Baddah
acted on a hunch. Otherwise, even with -v on command line, there was nothing that could indicate to me what was causing the issue. I'm hoping that this silent exit can be fixed, to at least give an indication, via logging or pop-up or other, of what is blocking the install. -- Regards,

Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?

2021-11-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
erved quite a few corporate Windows installs disable running executables off of removable media. I recall being able to defeat that by avoiding running directly from the Windows shell (explorer.exe), but... your mileage may vary, so to speak. -- Regards, Shaddy Baddah Ph: 0406 753 978 -- Probl

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *resolved. /tmp/cygwin1.dll. Apologies * cpp/gcc

2020-05-07 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 7/5/20 1:44 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Thanks. Yes, I am mapping my directory outside the cygwin directory tree, via /etc/fstab. I will certainly check the perms and see if they make a difference. However, you must admit, it is weird that running as.exe with path /usr/bin/as.exe does not

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *now isolated to /tmp weirdness* cpp/gcc

2020-05-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Doug, On 7/5/20 11:19 am, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: I think this is the essence of your problem. It looks like you are mapping you temporary directory outside the cygwin directory tree, Not sure how you are doing it. For me, I have TMP=/tmp and TEMP=/tmp in my cygwin environment. In

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *now isolated to /tmp weirdness* cpp/gcc

2020-05-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 29/4/20 10:38 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Matches what I see when I ctrl-d the *hung* 64-bit cc1. At this point, I am going to back right off. I am fairly sure now this is some form of BLODA. We do have something installed that logs all commands run. And that is so sacred to our IT

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *now further isolated, back to a fork issue* cpp/gcc

2020-04-29 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 29/4/20 2:06 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi Eliot, On 28/4/20 10:46 pm, Eliot Moss wrote: Could it be a cygwin fork problem?  Definitely possible in a 32-bit environment.  I had to rebase all the time. Now that I'm mostly in the 64-bit environment it's not such an issue. I su

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *now further isolated, potential console issues* cpp/gcc

2020-04-28 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Eliot, On 28/4/20 10:46 pm, Eliot Moss wrote: Could it be a cygwin fork problem?  Definitely possible in a 32-bit environment.  I had to rebase all the time. Now that I'm mostly in the 64-bit environment it's not such an issue. I suspected so and did trigger a rebaseall... it hasn't helped.

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *now isolated somewhat* cpp/gcc

2020-04-27 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 27/4/20 4:54 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Further, doing an strace seems to me to be a little revealing. Whilst I see cc1.exe in taskmgr, I do not see the process in strace. I realise now that I mightn't expect to see the cc1 process by name in the trace. But I have further inform

Odd hang of cc1.exe, when invoking cpp/gcc

2020-04-26 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, First, I want to acknowledge that this could be exclusively a problem with my Windows 10 desktop. The problem I am having is when I run a simple gcc command, say gcc hello.c, the command hangs. In mintty, ctrl-c won't kill it. And I have to carefully kill the gcc process taskmgr, then kill

Re: Possible Cygwin setup regression with --prune-install

2019-08-28 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Achim, On 29/8/19 4:02 pm, Achim Gratz wrote: Shaddy Baddah writes: -Y --prune-install Prune the installation to only the requested packages My reading of that is that this should defeat any packages from being (automatically added). However, even with this option, the base packages are

Possible Cygwin setup regression with --prune-install

2019-08-28 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I have a use-case for Cygwin setup, which I admit will seem strange, whereby I want it to do an "Install" with no packages selected at all. ie., just setup a "skeleton" of a Cygwin install. I value it, because based my own experience with the Cygwin setup code, it seems to "bootstrap" the Cyg

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] screen-4.6.2-3 (test)

2019-04-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 16/4/19 11:40 pm, Andrew Schulman wrote: screen-4.6.2-3 is now available as a test release in Cygwin. This release includes a small change to the default /etc/screenrc, that has been reported to fix a screen corruption problem that some users - okay, Shaddy :) - have reported after detach

Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-09 Thread Shaddy Baddah
On 9/4/19 4:07 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: This helped with screen when using Putty to a Cygwin ssh session. For some reason, it isn't helping for running screen locally in a mintty session. And it's not mintty either, because I can ssh to a Debian stretch server within mintty and I c

Re: *spoke to soon to a* Workaround to screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 9/4/19 3:37 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I confirmed this by turning off the default "login" mode for a new session, which averted attempts to manage utmp entries, and therefore avoided the "utmp slot not found" message. I did this by launching a session via: screen -

Workaround to screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, So I've had an issue with screen for some years now. I do remember noticing its introduction, but I no longer can remember when that actually happened. As per the subject, I find that when I detach or exit a screen session the cursor ends up part way up the restored buffer, intermingled with

Re: cygwin.com is down

2018-12-13 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 14/12/18 1:11 pm, Andy Li wrote: Looks like the website is down :( Not down for me. Not down according to: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/cygwin.com -- Regards, Shaddy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documen

Re: [bug: csih] Setting privileged rights to cyg_server fails on Windows 7.

2018-06-13 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 14/06/18 07:22, Takashi Yano wrote: Hi Corinna, On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:14:07 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: There's something fishy in your environment. The variable LOGONSERVER is always set in Windows NT, at least since NT4. For standalone machines LOGONSERVER is set to "\\". You sh

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] freerdp 2.0.0-0.6.rc2

2018-05-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Yaakov, On 17/04/18 18:05, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * freerdp-2.0.0-0.6.rc2 * libfreerdp2_2-2.0.0-0.6.rc2 * libfreerdp2-devel-2.0.0-0.6.rc2 * libwinpr2_2-2.0.0-0.6.rc2 * libwinpr2-devel-2.0.0-0.6.rc2 FreeRDP is a successor

Resolved: Re: setup stuck on cygwin.ldif

2017-10-11 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 12/10/17 06:15, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/8/2017 9:46 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, I have a weird problem happening... so I have tried to update a 64-bit Cygwin installation on Windows 10 Pro. I closed all Cygwin processes, and a ps -ef is showing only the ps process itself. In anycase

Re: setup stuck on cygwin.ldif

2017-10-10 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 10/10/17 17:59, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 09/10/17 04:16, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-10-08 07:46, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I have a weird problem happening... so I have tried to update a 64-bit Cygwin installation on Windows 10 Pro. I closed all Cygwin processes, and a ps -ef is

Re: setup stuck on cygwin.ldif

2017-10-10 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 09/10/17 04:16, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-10-08 07:46, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I have a weird problem happening... so I have tried to update a 64-bit Cygwin installation on Windows 10 Pro. I closed all Cygwin processes, and a ps -ef is showing only the ps process itself. In anycase

setup stuck on cygwin.ldif

2017-10-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I have a weird problem happening... so I have tried to update a 64-bit Cygwin installation on Windows 10 Pro. I closed all Cygwin processes, and a ps -ef is showing only the ps process itself. In anycase, during the install I was prompted that the file /usr/share/cygwin/cygwin.ldif was busy.

Missing announcements for screen?

2017-05-02 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, So I noticed my recent fresh install of Cygwin has screen 4.5.1-1 installed. And the most recent release is 4.5.2-1. I've been afflicted by a screen bug that popped up some releases ago say about 1.5 year ago. Basically, after detach, the restored screen buffer is mildly corrupted. And the c

Re: cygwinports.org: determine what in your install is now EOL

2017-03-27 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Yaakov, On 2017-03-28 16:51+1100, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2017-03-28 00:48, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I was hoping you could give some advise however. Is there a quick way to find which packages are installed, which are now no longer being maintained. ie. no longer available, because

cygwinports.org: determine what in your install is now EOL

2017-03-27 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Yaakov, I received the notification that cygwinports.org was closing immediately. This email is not complain about that. I want to thank you for running it so long with such quality over the years. I was hoping you could give some advise however. Is there a quick way to find which packages ar

Re: ssh-host-config: patch fix debug option + broken for me on Vista (non-domain)

2017-01-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 20/01/17 05:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 19 22:26, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 19/01/17 21:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 18 14:34, Shaddy Baddah wrote: ... And I'm sure the problem is that this well-intended change to the script fails on the assumption that LOGONS

Re: ssh-host-config: patch fix debug option + broken for me on Vista (non-domain)

2017-01-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 19/01/17 21:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 18 14:34, Shaddy Baddah wrote: ... And I'm sure the problem is that this well-intended change to the script fails on the assumption that LOGONSERVER is always populated. It isn't for me on Vista. cygwin-service-installation

Re: ssh-host-config: patch fix debug option + broken for me on Vista (non-domain)

2017-01-17 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 18/01/17 14:34, Shaddy Baddah wrote: First please find attached a simple patch that fixes a problem I encountered running ssh-host-config with the --debug option. Also, it'd be nice if an enhancement was made to protect the privacy of silly people. -- Regards, Silly p

ssh-host-config: patch fix debug option + broken for me on Vista (non-domain)

2017-01-17 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, First please find attached a simple patch that fixes a problem I encountered running ssh-host-config with the --debug option. Pretty simple. Without redirecting the output of csih_stacktrace() to stderr, then (3.5.4) Command Substitution of functions that call it will run into problems. And

Re: setup.exe to have Install button

2016-09-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 08/09/16 22:59, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: Just in case anyone's collecting change requests against Setup.exe, here's a simple one that I'd like to see: All screens until the final screen display a "Next>" button. Typically, after launching, I just click this button until I get to the list o

Mcafee e'prise false positive on (x86) texlive-collection-fontsrecommended?

2015-07-28 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, My companies locked down desktop environment forces a weekly virus scan. Yesterday's (Mon 27/07) scan deleted (without recourse unfortunately) files from the texlive-collection-fontsrecommended, claiming they were infected(??) with CVE-2015-2426 (http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?n

Re: addr2line not returning anything useful (maybe just for me?)

2014-11-20 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 20/11/14 21:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 20 17:35, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, I can't get addr2line to give me anything useful on any stackdump files. I haven't used it for a while, so perhaps the following snippet will show my incorrect use? $ cat > /tmp/foo.c <

addr2line not returning anything useful (maybe just for me?)

2014-11-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I can't get addr2line to give me anything useful on any stackdump files. I haven't used it for a while, so perhaps the following snippet will show my incorrect use? $ cat > /tmp/foo.c << EOF > int main() { ((void (*)(void))0)(); } > EOF $ gcc -g -o /tmp/foo2 /tmp/foo2.c $ /tmp/foo2 Segment

Re: rebase db perms seem too restrictive

2014-11-17 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 17/11/14 20:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 17 14:14, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, I expect that there wasn't any explicit reasoning behind this, but rebase creates a db with permissions that are too restrictive. To me anyway, as I cannot see any danger in the db being readable b

rebase db perms seem too restrictive

2014-11-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I expect that there wasn't any explicit reasoning behind this, but rebase creates a db with permissions that are too restrictive. To me anyway, as I cannot see any danger in the db being readable by all. This snippet describes it: $ whoami sbaddah $ od -c /etc/rebase.db.x86_64 od: /etc/reb

Re: /usr/local, /var and */tmp in c:\Users\Public

2014-11-13 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 14/11/14 08:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 13 14:09, Warren Young wrote: On Nov 13, 2014, at 2:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 12 17:19, Warren Young wrote: I’m not advocating that step so early, but maybe if this breakup does happen, a few years later setup.exe can start

Re: Problems installing man-db

2014-06-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 19/06/14 22:44, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Chris J. Breisch wrote: > Hmmm...well, that's not good. Can you run /usr/bin/mandb -c yourself > from the command line? It will take a while and may generate several > warnings, such as what you see above. I did this: $ /usr/bin/mandb -c and it

Re: squid 64-bit is Aborting sporadically

2014-05-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2014-05-20 10:28+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I haven't really taken careful note of every crash, bit it seems that most of the aborts happen after my laptop comes out of a sleep. It's not a big problem. The crashes aren't too frequent. But thought it might help to have

squid 64-bit is Aborting sporadically

2014-05-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I run squid as a non-daemon process, with the following command-line: /usr/sbin/squid -f ~/etc/squid/squid3_sbaddah.conf -N -u 0 Sporadically I find squid aborting with; Aborted (core dumped). I've attached the last stackdump for this. Running addr2line against both cygwin1.dll and squid.e

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 2014-05-15 17:17+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Nice detective work, really. The goldstar is well deservered :) On May 15 04:00, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I quickly worked out that the code has a bug for "%i". At some point the code was changed to push and pop the

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2014-05-15 04:15+1000, Andrew Schulman wrote: I can't understand why the ./conftest.exe differ. Trying to emulate by hand, I cannot reproduce it. But it is now very late here, and I can't debug anymore. I'm hoping that I've provided enough of a lead for someone of authority to decid

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
H, On 2014-05-15 02:46+0100, Andrew Schulman wrote: The problem only occurs with screen on 64-bit Cygwin. The 32-bit appears to work correctly. The problem is that when screen is run in mintty, it seems to exclude the bottom line, reducing the actual size of the buffer. Further, something goes

screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-12 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, This is a problem that I noticed some time last year, so I apologise for sitting on it for so long. I actually started drafting a number of emails to report but never committed. The problem only occurs with screen on 64-bit Cygwin. The 32-bit appears to work correctly. The problem is that wh

Re: Baffled: is it Cygwin (64-bits) or Windows that causes the invocation of regedit (from bash) to fail?

2014-05-12 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2014-05-12 22:50+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 12 14:20, Houder wrote: Of course, it is not really a problem, that regedit cannot be invoked from Cygwin, as it can be invoked from the Windows interface ... However, in some of the "harder" cases of using Gygwin, one needs to have

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.29-2

2014-04-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 2014-04-14 18:05+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 14 17:02, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 2014-04-07 22:00+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I just released Cygwin 1.7.29-2. This is a bugfix release. I looked to see if this had been asked, but couldn't see anything

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.29-2

2014-04-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2014-04-07 22:00+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I just released Cygwin 1.7.29-2. This is a bugfix release. I looked to see if this had been asked, but couldn't see anything. I'm curious as to why this is a -2 release? Accident? -- Regards, Shaddy -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

Re: Running getent in a certain way grows it in memory in critical way.

2014-02-26 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 2014/02/26 23:33+1100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 26 22:28, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Not believing what I had seen, I downloaded the code and checked it. I inspected more_help() function, and suspecting the for loop my have runaway, I eyed it over. It looks fine to me. I did

Re: Running getent in a certain way grows it in memory in critical way.

2014-02-26 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2014/02/26 22:28+1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I need to recompile -O2 -> -O0 as the integer counters were optimised out. Then single-stepping through, run --help succeed. But an attempt to run ./getent --help on this non-optimised build encountered the same problem. I had to hard reset

How should I report a critical type of Cygwin bug?

2014-02-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, Risking the wrath that I should just report the bug, I would like to just get some advice on how to go about it. I'm encountering a problem with a rather new Cygwin package/feature that if reproducible, has serious consequence on the hosting Windows platform. My concern is that if I list th

Re: How about a 64-bit installer that doesn't require UAC?

2013-11-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 04/11/13 22:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 3 14:13, Bill Welch wrote: My apologies for the snark. The list archive ends at the same message as the top of the second page of the nabble rendering and I didn't immediately see the additional messages in nabble that include a workaround.

Re: Building a snapshot ("Not an ELF file" error)

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On Nov 07 00:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 06 02:37, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: It'd still be very interesting to know an opinion of the CYGWIN gurus about this trouble that I asked yesterday (thanks to Marco, I now know that the original ELF error is benign): make[3

Re: Building a snapshot ("Not an ELF file" error)

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On Nov 06 02:37, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: It'd still be very interesting to know an opinion of the CYGWIN gurus about this trouble that I asked yesterday (thanks to Marco, I now know that the original ELF error is benign): make[3]: Entering directory `/home/lavr/cygwin-s

Re: curl on 64bit always includes headers

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 16 Aug 2013 20:46+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 16 18:39, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I think this is some sort of regression best demonstrated with copy/paste: Any chance you have a .curlrc file with an "include" line? Sorry for the noise. As per http://cyg

Re: emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi again, On 16 Aug 2013 22:46+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On 16 Aug 2013 22:39+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On 16 Aug 2013 22:14+1000, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/16/2013 3:40 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: When I run emacs-w32, I do not see the emacs tray icon as I did with 32bit Cygwin. Instead I see

Re: emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Ken, On 16 Aug 2013 22:39+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On 16 Aug 2013 22:14+1000, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/16/2013 3:40 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: When I run emacs-w32, I do not see the emacs tray icon as I did with 32bit Cygwin. Instead I see the generic "Windows Program" icon. I

Re: emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Ken, On 16 Aug 2013 22:14+1000, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/16/2013 3:40 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: When I run emacs-w32, I do not see the emacs tray icon as I did with 32bit Cygwin. Instead I see the generic "Windows Program" icon. I can take a screenshot of that if required. I fixed t

Re: emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Ken, On 16 Aug 2013 22:14+1000, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/16/2013 3:40 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: When I run emacs-w32, I do not see the emacs tray icon as I did with 32bit Cygwin. Instead I see the generic "Windows Program" icon. I can take a screenshot of that if required. I fixed t

curl on 64bit always includes headers

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I think this is some sort of regression best demonstrated with copy/paste: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 AUD-CYGHOST 1.7.22(0.268/5/3) 2013-07-22 17:06 i686 Cygwin $ curl 'http://www.google.com/' content="text/html;charset=utf-8">302 Moved302 MovedThe document has moved HREF="http://www

emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I've recently made the switch to 64bit Cygwin for my day-to-day use. I've already encountered a few (about four) minor issues. However once they become repeatable I'll follow reporting guidelines and report. This one though is a simple one that hopefully is easily verifiable. When I run em

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-02 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 02 Aug 2013 20:29+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 2 19:05, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 02 Aug 2013 18:31+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Correction, not only NTFS. Here's the source code comment: Sorry, yes I forgot that it was coded to let Windows make the dec

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-02 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 02 Aug 2013 18:31+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Correction, not only NTFS. Here's the source code comment: Sorry, yes I forgot that it was coded to let Windows make the decision. Unfortunately, in providing EXFAT, Microsoft has not seen fit to carry over the same handling in the kern

Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-01 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, As per: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive Cygwin act on filenames on NTFS in with case preservation/sensitivity. As this was a feature configured in the Windows kernel, the pre-existing limitation whereby the same case sensitivity was not avail

Re: Error building cygwin-1_7_18-release from cvs

2013-07-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2013-07-08 17:51+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I am encountering an error build cygwin-1_7_18-release from CVS. Before I plunge into that, it might be wise to address why I would want to do that in the first place. I apply a local patch for my own use to the DLL to enable sharing of the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.19

2013-06-05 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 2013-06-05 19:39+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I just released Cygwin 1.7.19. What's new: === - Drop support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP pre-SP3. I find this change interesting. In no way am I complaining about this, releases matching the above are well past end-o

Re: possible libtool bug blocking builds of Cygwin setup.exe

2013-04-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Peter, On Apr 13, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2013-04-13 02:31, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi Peter, On 13/04/13 09:15, Peter Rosin wrote: Have I stumbled on a real problem? This all sounds suspiciously like libtool bug 14022, where the reporter had confused --build and --host. How did you run

Re: possible libtool bug blocking builds of Cygwin setup.exe

2013-04-12 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Peter, On 13/04/13 09:15, Peter Rosin wrote: Have I stumbled on a real problem? This all sounds suspiciously like libtool bug 14022, where the reporter had confused --build and --host. How did you run configure? I'm emulating what is in setup/bootstrap.sh: $ ../cygwin-setup/configure

Re: squid command doesn't do anything

2013-02-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 31 Jan 2013 14:21, Leo wrote: I installed the binary release of squid 2.7, but calling squid doesn't do anything. Even squid -h or squid -v just returns without any message. Any suggestion? I have found that the squid version in Cygwin does not support Windows 7 and above. I actua

Re: stat() and tilde prefix (was bad bash tab completion)

2013-02-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 15 Jan 2013 23:33, Shaddy Baddah wrote: From what I make of it, there needs to be a patch that, although can work generically, adds checks only required for Cygwin. And therefore is specific to the Cygwin package. The check would be an extension of the file_exists() function, perhaps

Re: stat() and tilde prefix (was bad bash tab completion)

2013-01-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 15 Jan 2013 03:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It seems to me then that a patch to bash may be in order? I can see how the bash check is the right thing to do. It doesn't want the special tilde expansion to mask and disallow referencing of real tilde prefixed paths. So the stat() check is the

Re: stat() and tilde prefix (was bad bash tab completion)

2013-01-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 14/01/13 21:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 14 01:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 04:21:25PM +1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: In investigating this, I believe the issue I am having is due to how stat() handles tilde prefixed paths. On linux we see: linux$ $ python

stat() and tilde prefix (was bad bash tab completion)

2013-01-13 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 10 Aug 2012 17:14, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I've been having this problem with bash for about half a year now. I can't remember the specific upgrade that caused it, but that's around the time frame. So the issue is with tab completion, and looks something like this: sn

bad bash tab completion

2012-08-10 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I've been having this problem with bash for about half a year now. I can't remember the specific upgrade that caused it, but that's around the time frame. So the issue is with tab completion, and looks something like this: snapshot 1: $ cd ~/../ snapshot 2 (after tab-tab): $ cd \~/../ s

Re: Snapshot 2012-03-09 breaks emacs -nw

2012-03-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On Mar 14 19:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 14 09:24, marco atzeri wrote: On 3/14/2012 8:53 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I've noticed that snapshot 2012-03-09 has broken calls to emacs -nw. Specifically, it breaks emacs-X11 -nw. Attempting to run from a standard mintty/bash terminal

Re: Snapshot 2012-03-09 breaks emacs -nw

2012-03-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Marco, On 14/03/12 19:24, marco atzeri wrote: I've noticed that snapshot 2012-03-09 has broken calls to emacs -nw. Specifically, it breaks emacs-X11 -nw. Attempting to run from a standard mintty/bash terminal, the execution just "no-ops" back to the prompt. Running emacs-nox works fine. Also

Snapshot 2012-03-09 breaks emacs -nw

2012-03-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I've noticed that snapshot 2012-03-09 has broken calls to emacs -nw. Specifically, it breaks emacs-X11 -nw. Attempting to run from a standard mintty/bash terminal, the execution just "no-ops" back to the prompt. Running emacs-nox works fine. Also, attempting to run emacs-X11 -nw under strace

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 23/01/12 06:33, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:11:18PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: On 1/22/2012 5:57 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:30:23AM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: I saw the problem in erratic way also before running updatedb. But it

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 22/01/12 21:33, Shaddy Baddah wrote: You are right about the stack trace, as it is from the "first known bad" snapshot, 2011-12-17. And it was wrong of me to use that snapshot, as the "Bad address" errors don't occur with the latest snapshot, 2012-01-11. It se

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 22/01/12 16:53, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:47:19AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 01:07:45PM +1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 22/01/12 05:18, Christopher Faylor wrote: Thanks for the positive feedback. It looks like if we can fix

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-21 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 22/01/12 05:18, Christopher Faylor wrote: Thanks for the positive feedback. It looks like if we can fix Yaakov's problem we may be ready to ship. I have one more problem to report. I tracked this problem as being introduced in the 2011-12-17 00:14:25 UTC snapshot, including the latest

Re: sftp-server -h succeeds on cmd, fails on mintty

2011-12-27 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 23/12/11 15:47, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Also, there is a twist. Running under strace alters the > behaviour. Although I'm not totally surprised by this because I've > seen that strace alters tty I/O when I was debugging a problem a > couple years back > (http:/

Re: sftp-server -h succeeds on cmd, fails on mintty

2011-12-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 22/12/11 13:38, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 12/21/2011 9:10 PM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >> Hi Larry, >> >> On 22/12/11 12:25, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> On 12/21/2011 8:17 PM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I&

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 23/12/11 11:18, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > On 23/12/11 02:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Dec 23 01:47, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >>> On 23/12/11 01:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>> Other than that I might have a solution. I applied a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 23/12/11 02:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 23 01:47, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >> On 23/12/11 01:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> Other than that I might have a solution. I applied a patch which only >>> adds the CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB flag if th

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
On 23/12/11 01:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 23 00:07, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >> On 22/12/11 22:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Dec 22 22:11, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >>>>69 126706 [main] sh 3824 build_env: envp 0x61266AB4, envc 47 >>>>37 12

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 22/12/11 22:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 22 22:11, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >> On 22/12/11 21:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> Does it really work if you replace the DLL with 1.7.9 again? If so, >>> you could try to find out which snapshot int

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 22/12/11 21:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 22 21:12, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >> On 22/12/11 20:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Dec 22 18:09, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >>>> On 06/12/11 20:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>>> A lot of cha

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 22/12/11 20:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 22 18:09, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 06/12/11 20:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> A lot of changes and fixes have been made in Cygwin since 1.7.9 has >>> been released, so we're l

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