Re: Incorrect command line handling when launching Cygwin program from Windows

Am 02.08.2025 um 07:40 schrieb Jeremy Drake via Cygwin: On Sat, 2 Aug 2025, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 15:34:16 + "Old, Oliver" wrote: echo-win32.exe C:\"Program Files"\ echo-win32.exe C:"Program Files\ Is this as you expected? echo.exe C:\"Program Files"\ ec

Re: readdir() returns inaccessible name if file was created with invalid UTF-8

Am 24.07.2025 um 17:35 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: Thomas, On Jul 23 05:44, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 22.07.2025 um 15:05 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: mbrtowc() is inherently a bad idea when it comes to UTF-16. It's a function which only works really correctly for the unicode base

Re: readdir() returns inaccessible name if file was created with invalid UTF-8

Am 24.07.2025 um 16:08 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Jul 24 15:41, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 24.07.2025 um 12:30 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: What does that mean? Consider this UTF8 input string: 0xf0 0x90 0x80 0x2e mbstowcs: returns -1 sys_mbstowcs: f0f0 f090 f080

Re: readdir() returns inaccessible name if file was created with invalid UTF-8

Am 24.07.2025 um 12:30 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: Hi Thomas, hi Christian, On Jul 23 17:50, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 23.07.2025 um 09:53 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Jul 23 05:44, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: What bugs me is that we have the choice between a broken

Re: readdir() returns inaccessible name if file was created with invalid UTF-8

Am 23.07.2025 um 09:53 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Jul 23 05:44, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: OK, suppose I'd consider to switch to mbs[[n]r]towcs, collecting bytes until the function gives me a result. This would work fine as long as I receive only valid sequences. But lo

Re: readdir() returns inaccessible name if file was created with invalid UTF-8

Am 23.07.2025 um 04:25 schrieb Thomas Wolff via Cygwin: Am 22.07.2025 um 17:09 schrieb Thomas Wolff via Cygwin: Am 22.07.2025 um 15:05 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Jul 22 05:38, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 27.06.2025 um 12:30 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Jun 26 19:07

Re: readdir() returns inaccessible name if file was created with invalid UTF-8

Am 22.07.2025 um 17:09 schrieb Thomas Wolff via Cygwin: Am 22.07.2025 um 15:05 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Jul 22 05:38, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 27.06.2025 um 12:30 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Jun 26 19:07, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote: With some trial and

Re: readdir() returns inaccessible name if file was created with invalid UTF-8

Am 22.07.2025 um 15:05 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Jul 22 05:38, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 27.06.2025 um 12:30 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Jun 26 19:07, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote: With some trial and error I found a testcase for this more serious problem

Re: readdir() returns inaccessible name if file was created with invalid UTF-8

Am 27.06.2025 um 12:30 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: Hi Christian, On Jun 26 19:07, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote: Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Jun 25 16:59, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote: On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 19:47:11 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: If a file name con

cygwin 3.6.4 breaks mbrtowc

mbrtowc is broken in 3.6.4 which breaks non-BMP display in mintty. Test case below. Thomas #include #include #include void mb(unsigned char c) {   wchar_t wc;   int ret = mbrtowc(&wc, &c, 1, 0);   printf("%02X -> %04X : %d\n", c, wc, ret); } void main () {   setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "");   mb(0

Re: mintty-bash-ssh weirdness after remote disconnect during vi session

Am 05.07.2025 um 18:17 schrieb Jim Garrison via Cygwin: On 7/4/2025 18:49, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 05.07.2025 um 03:04 schrieb Jim Garrison via Cygwin: I've recently started seeing weirdness in mintty/bash after a connection to a remote system is terminated by the remote.  S

Re: mintty-bash-ssh weirdness after remote disconnect during vi session

Am 05.07.2025 um 03:04 schrieb Jim Garrison via Cygwin: I've recently started seeing weirdness in mintty/bash after a connection to a remote system is terminated by the remote.  So far this seems to happen only if the remote session was interrupted while vi was running. After the session is

Re: cygin 3.6.2-1 under Win11 24H2: Cannot launch: no available terminals

Am 01.06.2025 um 10:02 schrieb Roumen Petrov via Cygwin: Hello, FYI: I have the same issue on the same date. На 28.05.25 г. в 15:52 ч., Robert Fensterman via Cygwin написа: [SNIP] Error: Could not fork child process: There are no available terminals The message is reported by mintty if forkpt

Re: Clipboard paste on SHIFT-INSERT no longer works for me

Am 03.05.2025 um 08:50 schrieb Thomas Wolff via Cygwin: [responding back to cygwin list] Am 02.05.2025 um 18:21 schrieb Soren: Hello! On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote:     Am 01.05.2025 um 18:57 schrieb Soren via Cygwin:     Mintty Options, keyboard tab

Re: Clipboard paste on SHIFT-INSERT no longer works for me

[responding back to cygwin list] Am 02.05.2025 um 18:21 schrieb Soren: Hello! On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 01.05.2025 um 18:57 schrieb Soren via Cygwin: Mintty Options, keyboard tab, first setting in section Shortcuts, should be enabled

Re: Clipboard paste on SHIFT-INSERT no longer works for me

Am 01.05.2025 um 18:57 schrieb Soren via Cygwin: Hello Cygwinstas, Just a brief follow-up. SHIFT-INSERT is still not working for me, but I discovered by accident (like a lucky chimp writing Shakespear) that an alternate-click with the mouse on the minTTY window allows a "paste" option. So thi

Re: Mounted shares not visible in bash "Run as Administrator"

Am 08.04.2025 um 03:04 schrieb Jim Garrison via Cygwin: I just ran across this today.  In a normal session all my remote mounts (NTFS, file server running Win10) are visible.  In a session that is "Run as administrator", none of the mounts are visible. Is there a configuration parameter that w

Re: bash.exe crash

Am 25.03.2025 um 20:22 schrieb David via Cygwin: Bash.exe is crashing on fairly simple commands. For example, declare -r XXX=$(export) Works for me. Maybe your export list ist too long? What's the unwrapped output of `export` for you? There is no error message, bash.exe simply terminates. I

Re: Re Window Closes When Resizing

Am 12.02.2025 um 17:18 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: On 2025-02-11 14:57, tlake--- via Cygwin wrote: Here's the cygcheck file. I'm running 2.932 of the setup program but I don't see where the Cygwin version is listed. The problem happens with any program I compile with the C compiler (gcc

Re: [mintty] Problem of the control key on focus change

Am 28.01.2025 um 09:56 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Jan 28 00:50, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 27.01.2025 um 12:17 schrieb Takashi Yano via Cygwin: Hi Thomas, A few days ago, Corinna asked me to check a problem of TTY. The problem is as follows. Reproduce steps: (1) Open

Re: [mintty] Problem of the control key on focus change

Am 27.01.2025 um 12:17 schrieb Takashi Yano via Cygwin: Hi Thomas, A few days ago, Corinna asked me to check a problem of TTY. The problem is as follows. Reproduce steps: (1) Open mintty. (2) Open another mintty. (3) Place the second mintty window over the first one. (4) Hold ctrl key down. (

Re: Mintty math fonts to render '√π⁷≤∞'

Am 13.01.2025 um 13:39 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: On 2023/10/08, Thomas Wolff wrote about mintty font handling: By the way, as CJK fonts are usually not very suitable for Latin text (mostly not being monowidth in the first place), there is a useful mechanism in mintty that allows you to use

Re: Test: gcc-15.0.1+20250105-0.1

Am 08.01.2025 um 11:24 schrieb ASSI: The native Gcc compilers have been updated to the latest upstream snapshot version of the main development branch: gcc-15.0.1+20250105 gcc -v still says 15.0.0 This build incorporates the experimental v4 patch from T. Yano to use the newlib locale func

Cookies

Sorry, repeating this with a proper subject. https://imgur.com/a/V5KPWmc Please do not use image upload platforms that nerve us with an extremely bothersome cookie menu where you have to scroll down for 6 cookies to click off. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: procps can work

https://imgur.com/a/V5KPWmc Please do not use image upload platforms that nerve us with an extremely bothersome cookie menu where you have to scroll down for 6 cookies to click off. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documen

Re: Test: gcc-14.2.1+20241130-0.1

Am 01.12.2024 um 21:20 schrieb ASSI: The native Gcc compilers have been updated to the latest upstream snapshot version of the gcc-13 branch: gcc-14.2.1+20241130 This build incorporates the experimental v4 patch from T. Yano to use the newlib locale function in libstdc++ so that other locale

Re: Problem with '€' (EURO) symbol in (U)CRT |printf("%S", ...);| ...

Am 02.12.2024 um 18:01 schrieb Roland Mainz via Cygwin: On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 1:49 AM Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: On 2024-11-26 17:08, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote: Cygwin 3.5.4/Win10/64bit, the following program prints a '?' where I would expect a '€' (EURO) symbol: snip prin

Re: /bin/ls -l cannot handle printable Unicode characters outside the BMP ...

Am 23.11.2024 um 15:01 schrieb Christian Franke via Cygwin: Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 at 11:44, Cedric Blancher wrote: Good morning! /bin/ls -l cannot handle printable Unicode characters outside the BMP Example using '𝒯' bash -c 'printf "\U0001D4AF\n"' # MATHEMAT

Re: Cygwin zh_CN.GB18030 locale?

Am 21.11.2024 um 06:55 schrieb Dan Shelton via Cygwin: ... What do I have to install and do to get a single MinTTY running with bash with a GB18030 locale, while the rest of the Windows session remains English? You can use the different locale categories, e.g. LC_MESSAGES=en_GB LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.G

Re: Cygwin zh_CN.GB18030 locale?

Am 21.11.2024 um 00:16 schrieb Dan Shelton via Cygwin: Hello! Does Cygwin have a zh_CN.GB18030 locale? >  LC_ALL=zh_CN.GB18030 locale charmap GB18030 since 3.5 Dan -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: same problem, reported 5 Nov 2024

Am 12.11.2024 um 18:04 schrieb Brian.Inglis--- via Cygwin: On 2024-11-12 07:46, Lester Ingber wrote: I think this is gobbledegook for "I do not know"! Your subject month was out by 2! By default, position and title are dynamically set, so anything you use to read them are likely to change th

Re: Test: gcc-14.2.1+20241102-0.1

Am 04.11.2024 um 21:26 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: On 2024-11-04 12:00, ASSI wrote: The native Gcc compilers have been updated to the latest upstream snapshot version of the gcc-13 branch:   gcc-14.2.1+20241102 This build incorporates the experimental v4 patch from T. Yano to use the new

Re: Is this correct behaviour for 'rev'?

Am 04.11.2024 um 12:10 schrieb Backwoods BC via Cygwin: On Sun, Nov 3, 2024 at 11:42 PM Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 04.11.2024 um 05:56 schrieb Backwoods BC via Cygwin: On Sun, Nov 3, 2024 at 1:49 AM Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote: Continuing my monologue, with due consideration of

Re: Is this correct behaviour for 'rev'?

Am 04.11.2024 um 05:56 schrieb Backwoods BC via Cygwin: On Sun, Nov 3, 2024 at 1:49 AM Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote: Continuing my monologue, with due consideration of comments posted, ... On 10/23/2024 10:01 PM, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote: Replying to myself, I continue... On 10/22/20

Re: Is this correct behaviour for 'rev'?

Am 24.10.2024 um 15:56 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: On 2024-10-24 02:37, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 24.10.2024 um 07:01 schrieb Mark Geisert via Cygwin: Replying to myself, I continue... On 10/22/2024 10:33 PM, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote: On 10/22/2024 8:00 PM, Backwoods BC

Re: Is this correct behaviour for 'rev'?

Am 24.10.2024 um 07:01 schrieb Mark Geisert via Cygwin: Replying to myself, I continue... On 10/22/2024 10:33 PM, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote: On 10/22/2024 8:00 PM, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: It appears that 'rev' is choking on any character \x80 or higher, but is OK with those \x1f or

Re: Updated: mintty 3.7.5

Am 23.09.2024 um 08:15 schrieb Takashi Yano via Cygwin: Hi Thomas, On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:06:36 +0200 Thomas Wolff wrote: I have uploaded mintty 3.7.5 with the following changes: Highlights   * Box Drawing characters (U+2500..U+257F) are self-drawn (#935, #1119).   * Tabs can be reordered

Re: readdir() returns inaccessible name if file was created with invalid UTF-8

Am 15.09.2024 um 20:15 schrieb Thomas Wolff via Cygwin: Am 15.09.2024 um 19:47 schrieb Christian Franke via Cygwin: If a file name contains an invalid (truncated) UTF-8 sequence, open() does not refuse to create the file. Later readdir() returns a different name which could not be used to

Re: readdir() returns inaccessible name if file was created with invalid UTF-8

Am 15.09.2024 um 19:47 schrieb Christian Franke via Cygwin: If a file name contains an invalid (truncated) UTF-8 sequence, open() does not refuse to create the file. Later readdir() returns a different name which could not be used to access the file. Testcase with U+1F321 (Thermometer): $ uname

Re: ZDI-CAN-24744: Mintty Path Conversion Improper Input Validation Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Am 16.08.2024 um 16:25 schrieb zdi-disclosures--- via Cygwin: The attachment could not be scanned for viruses because it is a password protected file. ZDI-CAN-24744: Mintty Path Conversion Improper Input Validation Information Disclosure Vulnerability ??? -- CVSS ---

Re: Parse output of "net use", but language varies - force language for "net use"?

Am 21.07.2024 um 01:54 schrieb Takashi Yano via Cygwin: On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 15:44:17 +0200 Mark Liam Brown wrote: I am trying to parse the output of "net use" in a bash script, but hit a roadblock: The output of "net use" changes with the language of the system (English, Danish, French, ...),

Re: No Native Language Support in browser started from shell prompt

Am 14.06.2024 um 09:37 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: With qutebrowser and Microsoft Edge started from a cygwin shell prompt, there is no Native Language Support. Started from a cmd prompt, "c:\Program Files\qutebrowser\qutebrowser.exe" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%

Re: Bug: bash redirect "magic" variable content to input of command hangs (upstream of https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5001)

Am 10.06.2024 um 13:12 schrieb Holger Klene via Cygwin: Hi Cygwin, On reading a magic value back from a bash variable, the involved command (wc, grep, cat, ...) hangs indefinitely and has to be stopped by Ctrl+C Editing it's content by deleting lines, the "magic" goes away. Also as demonstr

Re: pagefile.sys is reported as being a directory

Am 03.05.2024 um 01:40 schrieb Bruno Haible via Cygwin: Hi, Ken Brown noticed this: pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys are being reported by Cygwin 3.5.3 as being directories. Cygwin 3.5.3 on Windows 10: $ ls -ld /proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.* drwxr-x--- 17664 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 Jan 1 1

Re: Change for the initial installation of Cygwin to set the default terminal terminal 256 color

Am 12.04.2024 um 11:18 schrieb Lee via Cygwin: On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 4:05 AM J M wrote: Some examples that I view that can do Cygwin better by default: tput colors 8 echo $TERM xterm I made my mintty changes by point & click experimentation - if you want to make system-wide changes the p

Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

Am 08.03.2024 um 11:37 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: Hi Jeffrey, On Mar 6 13:55, Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin wrote: On 3/6/2024 12:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: We can add an explicit call to RtlSetProcessPlaceholderCompatibilityMode (PHCM_EXPOSE_PLACEHOLDERS); [...]

Re: Desktop partially inert with mintty running

Am 15.02.2024 um 09:23 schrieb Bruce Jerrick via Cygwin: Has anyone had this happen: Sometimes when I have a mintty running, the upper-left quandrant of the desktop becomes inert to the mouse -- icons do not respond to hovers or clicks, and the desktop background does not respond to a right-cli

Re: mintty ^H weirdness with ssh to one specific Debian 11 system

Am 18.01.2024 um 14:08 schrieb Andrey Repin via Cygwin: Greetings, Jim Garrison via Cygwin! Details I have mintty set to term type "mintty" Don't do that. $TERM is not a random made-up string. It should be supported by appropriate terminfo(5) entry on the system. If an entry is not found, i

Re: mintty ^H weirdness with ssh to one specific Debian 11 system

Am 16.01.2024 um 22:38 schrieb Jim Garrison via Cygwin: TL;DR New laptop, setting up mintty configuration identical to working desktop system.  When connected to one specific Debian 11 (Bullseye) system (to which I connect often from the desktop with no issues), backspace appears to send ^H,

Re: Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

Am 15.12.2023 um 18:07 schrieb Mainz, Roland via Cygwin: Hi! Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a CI (Continuous integration) build environment ? Bye, Roland Appveyor

Re: Cygwin api to punch a hole into a file?

Am 05/12/2023 um 15:40 schrieb Thomas Wolff via Cygwin: Am 05/12/2023 um 14:53 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Dec  5 07:36, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 01.12.2023 um 12:02 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Dec  1 11:22, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: Not all

Re: Cygwin api to punch a hole into a file?

Am 05/12/2023 um 14:53 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Dec 5 07:36, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 01.12.2023 um 12:02 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Dec 1 11:22, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: Not all filesystems have a 128k block/stripe size, and certainly most

Re: Cygwin api to punch a hole into a file?

Am 01.12.2023 um 12:02 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Dec 1 11:22, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: Not all filesystems have a 128k block/stripe size, and certainly most filesystems have smaller minimum hole sizes than 128k (e.g. 512bytes is common, ref pathconf _PC_MIN_HOLE_SIZE).

Re: Cygwin tool to differ junctions from soft links?

Am 16.11.2023 um 21:30 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: On 2023-11-16 11:55, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: On Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 03:50:24 AM EST, Andrey Repin wrote: Does Cygwin have a command line tool (Scriptable!) which can be used to differ between soft links and Windows j

Re: sqlite3 outdate

Am 13.10.2023 um 02:41 schrieb xvac--- via Cygwin: zig lang nim lang rust lang also should add to cygwin official repo. The Rust project does not support build on cygwin (see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/79854). Never heard of zig or nim. Oct 13, 2023, 08:39 by x...@tuta.io:

Re: half- and full-width CJK characters

Am 08/10/2023 um 14:55 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: On Sat, 07 Oct 2023, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 07/10/2023 um 14:47 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: On Sat, 07 Oct 2023, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 07/10/2023 um 10:23 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: I am memorializing this for my

Re: half- and full-width CJK characters

Am 07/10/2023 um 14:47 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: On Sat, 07 Oct 2023, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 07/10/2023 um 10:23 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: I am memorializing this for my own benefit here. Benefitting fromhttps://eng-blog.iij.ad.jp/archives/12576 I see that I don't ne

Re: half- and full-width CJK characters

Am 07/10/2023 um 10:23 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: I am memorializing this for my own benefit here. Benefitting from https://eng-blog.iij.ad.jp/archives/12576 I see that I don't need to change any envars, but only fonts. The default Lucida Console font renders CJK as half-width chars, on this

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.6.5

I have uploaded mintty 3.6.5 with the following changes: Pathname handling   * Fix file link detection (#1208), tweak URL detection (#1209).   * Restore opening of Windows path names (#1219; broken since 2.8.1). Terminal features   * Fix setup of initial status line if monitor DPI is 96.   * ESC

Re: mintty window border?

Am 25.08.2023 um 02:41 schrieb Gary Johnson via Cygwin: On 2023-08-24, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 11:08 AM Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote: This is an update to a question I had a couple of years ago https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-April/248367.html Window

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.4.8-1

Am 17.08.2023 um 19:59 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin: The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * cygwin-3.4.8-1 * cygwin-devel-3.4.8-1 * cygwin-doc-3.4.8-1 Bug Fixes - - Make safe for c89 compilations. Addresses: https://cyg

Re: Cygwin console: Different default background color when terminal runs as Admin?

Am 18.08.2023 um 10:11 schrieb Christian Franke via Cygwin: Jonathon Merz via Cygwin wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:13 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: Just an idea: Could the default background color of the Cygwin console be changed from black to grey (or RED) if the terminal has been s

Re: Persistent and same Cygwin session for Windows login and ssh login?

Am 18.08.2023 um 10:47 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Aug 17 19:30, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: Good evening! How can I get a Cygwin session for one Windows login, and get the same Cygwin session when I log into the same Windows machine via ssh? You can't. Windows isolates s

Re: Entering Cygwin command line (bash login) from Windows cmd.exe ?

Am 07.08.2023 um 06:02 schrieb Roland Mainz via Cygwin: On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 6:18 AM Roland Mainz wrote: Is there an official way to enter the Cygwin command line (e.g. bash login) from Windows cmd.exe, e.g. if someone ssh's into a Windows machine he/she ends/up in a cmd.exe and not bash..

Rare character glitch in pty?

There was a report that on switching terminal windows with the mouse, focus event reports (as enabled with ESC[?1004h) would sometimes get mangled. This is further described in issue reports to mintty/wsltty (https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/issues/335) and also to tmux (https://github.com/tmux

Re: mintty 3.6.4 status line problem

Am 18.06.2023 um 22:00 schrieb Ross Boulet via Cygwin: I was looking at the settings for mintty and saw the new option (new as of 3.6.4 from March) for a status line. I decided to try it out. Sure enough, a status line appeared at the bottom. All was well until I tried to open a new mintty

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.4.7-1

Am 16/06/2023 um 16:25 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin: The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * cygwin-3.4.7-1 * cygwin-devel-3.4.7-1 * cygwin-doc-3.4.7-1 Bug Fixes - - Fix CPU_SET(3) macro type mismatch by making the macros t

Re: mouse behavior with vim

[just removing mintty from the mail topic as it's quite obviously not related to it] Am 19.05.2023 um 00:11 schrieb Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin: On May 18, 2023 5:12 PM, Brian Inglis expressed: That will depend on the client installed on the remote host! Get them to upgrade to gvim 9 as on

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xterm 380

I have uploaded xterm 380. Major changes: * DEC VT320 status line support * improved calculation of dim attribute colour Thomas -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscri

Re: Mintty terminal crashes after changing the default home via nsswitch.conf and launch in a new profile in Windows 11

Am 04.04.2023 um 17:13 schrieb Yuta SUZUKI via Cygwin: Hi, I am recently setting up the computer room of my faculty and then encountered the following issue: Short description: Change the default home directory via /etc/nsswitch.conf and make a new Windows user. Login to the new user (and do

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.6.4

I have uploaded mintty 3.6.4 with the following changes: Highlight   * Dynamic support for flags emojis, deployment script. Terminal features   * Tweak response code to XTQALLOWED OSC 60 and XTQDISALLOWED OSC 61 (xterm 378).   * Readline mouse modes (DECSET 2001 / 2002 / 2003, xterm 379).   *

Re: newlocale: Linux incompatibility

Am 23.03.2023 um 20:48 schrieb Ken Brown via Cygwin: I'm reporting this here rather than the newlib list because the behavior is compatible with Posix but not Linux, so I think it's a Cygwin issue. Consider the following test case: $ cat locale_test.c #include #include int main () {   con

Re: 'bat' for cygwin

Am 10.03.2023 um 19:18 schrieb marco atzeri via Cygwin: On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 6:58 PM Scott Smith via Cygwin wrote: Has anyone compiled bat for cygwin64? If not, could it be added for consideration to be added to the repository, please? Meanwhile, although I know 0% about Rust, if someone

Re: OpenSSH_9.2p1 sftp prompt now "s " instead of "sftp> "

Am 08.02.2023 um 03:17 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: On 2023-02-07 15:22, Voris, Ben via Cygwin wrote: For example: : sftp user@127.0.0.1 Connected to 127.0.0.1. s bye : type sftp sftp is hashed (/usr/bin/sftp) : ssh -V OpenSSH_9.2p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1s  1 Nov 2022 On Linux with a much olde

Re: compiling issue

Am 21.01.2023 um 06:19 schrieb Nathan via Cygwin: The file here for a game I wanted to use is http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/Adventure2.5.tar.gz and it all compiled but one file getting the error is init.c as follows: Leaving out result types isn't legal C nowadays. You cou

Re: Feature request: sudo

Am 19.01.2023 um 20:17 schrieb Jochen Wiedmann via Cygwin: Hi, as someone who is quite used to typing sudo do something I would really like to do the same in my CygWin bash.In my opinion, this could be implemented relatively simply, and straightforward as follows: - Accept an array of

Re: GCC doesn't find relative includes when passed paths using backward-slashes

Am 15.01.2023 um 14:51 schrieb Hans-Bernhard Bröker via Cygwin: Am 15.01.2023 um 13:38 schrieb Alexander Grund via Cygwin: The build system, finding it is running on Windows, will pass paths with backward slashes to the compiler. And that's wrong.  Cygwin is not, for practical intents and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.6.3

I have uploaded mintty 3.6.3 with the following changes: Terminal features   * Fixed double-width characters not to wrap if auto-wrap disabled.   * TAB may wrap to next line, or cause subsequent wrap, if enabled (#1182).   * Fixed auto-wrap behaviour in double-width lines.   * Overstriking char

Re: coredumps and/or CPU eating zombies after dlopen/fork

Am 25/11/2022 um 14:22 schrieb Dmitry Karasik: URL: http://karasik.eu.org/misc/cygwin/ Dear all, Here's some exception that is caused if gtk_settings_get_default() is called from a dll and then later fork() call is made. The bug is not observed if the call is made in the main program, and

Re: Adding an embedded signature on setup-x86_64.exe

Am 20.11.2022 um 08:26 schrieb Brian Inglis: On Fri Nov 18 21:15:04 GMT 2022, Dale McCoy wrote: I use Cygwin in the course of work, and while I can use the external gpg signature to verify the validity of setup-x86_64.exe, my IT department can't see that step. They get somewhat concerned when

Re: Is it possible to make `man´ work? [Actually, 2 bugs on top of each other]

Am 16/11/2022 um 13:52 schrieb Ilya Zakharevich: If I do man man in a Windows’ console, I get garbage on screen before I press -r Windows console is what you start with Win+R cmd, right? Works fine for me. Why don't you run cygwin programs in a proper cygwin environment to avoid such

Re: --text option of grep v3.7-2 not working

Am 16/11/2022 um 13:50 schrieb Ilya Zakharevich: grep with -a (or --text) option does not strip CR from line ends Broken in: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Bu 3.3.4(0.341/5/3) 2022-01-31 19:35 x86_64 Cygwin grep (GNU grep) 2.21 Works in: CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW Bu 2.2.1(0.28

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Algol68 Genie compiler/interpreter

I have uploaded upstream update package:# algol68g-3.1.0 -- 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

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Unicode data packages

I have uploaded updates: unicode-ucd 15.0 unicode-cldr 42 -- 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

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.6.2

I have uploaded mintty 3.6.2 with the following changes: Unicode and Emoji data   * Unicode 15.0 update. Terminal features   * Status line area support (VT320, xterm 371), DECSSDT, DECSASD.   * Extended multi-line host-writable status area, DECSSDT 2 N.   * Combined sub/superscript attributes re

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libunistring 1.1-1

Am 14.11.2022 um 14:28 schrieb Erwin Waterlander: Op 13-11-2022 22:17 CET schreef Thomas Wolff : By the way, on cygwin 32-bit the dependency does not resolve as libunistring5 is not available... I can make it available on 32-bit, if it is still possible. I read that x86 is end-of-life

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libunistring 1.1-1

Am 13.11.2022 um 21:43 schrieb Brian Inglis: On Sat, 12 Nov 2022 13:50:58 +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: Erwin Waterlander via Cygwin-announce writes: libunistring (source package) libunistring5 (runtime library) libunistring-devel (development library and include files) libunistring-doc (document

Re: Make: Issue with $(MAKE) in make includes, when make is not on the default path

Am 24/10/2022 um 11:36 schrieb marco atzeri: On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 7:27 PM Ferenc Valenta wrote: Hi, Just found a possible issue with Cygwin: If cygwin is not on the default path, and make is started by specyfing the path to it (e.g., c:\cygwin64\bin\make), $(MAKE) works in the top-level

Re: substitute for xclip?

Am 19.10.2022 um 11:01 schrieb Backwoods BC: On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:59 PM Ulli Horlacher wrote: With Linux I am using xclip to read the X11 clipboard. Is there a cygwin equivalent to read the Windows clipboard? There are 2 ways to access the clipboard: 1. The commands 'getclip' and 'put

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Re: jdupes-1.21.0-1

Am 03.10.2022 um 21:25 schrieb Federico Kircheis: On 10/3/22 20:25, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 02.10.2022 um 23:27 schrieb Federico Kircheis: Version 1.21.0-1 of jdupes has been uploaded. jdupes is a program for finding and acting on duplicate files On GitHub it is possible to find the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Re: jdupes-1.21.0-1

Am 02.10.2022 um 23:27 schrieb Federico Kircheis: Version 1.21.0-1 of jdupes has been uploaded. jdupes is a program for finding and acting on duplicate files On GitHub it is possible to find the changelog for the new release: https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes/releases Federico The help o

Re: unzip failure with files that contain colons

Am 15.06.2022 um 20:30 schrieb Adam Dinwoodie: Cygwin generally handles filenames with colons just fine, by mapping the character to some higher Unicode character and remapping on the fly. However Cygwin's `unzip` appears to have a bug: when unzipping an archive that contains a filename with a c

Re: pluma editor does not startup

Am 21/05/2022 um 15:24 schrieb Tatsuro MATSUOKA: Installing "mate-desktop-schemas" solves the issue Sorry for noise. If that's the case, a package dependency is missing, so it's not noise but could be fixed. Tatsuro - Original Message - From: "Tatsuro MATSUOKA" To: "cygwin@cyg

Re: Latest versions of cygwin - Paths with spaces

Am 18.05.2022 um 15:24 schrieb Giovani Erthal: I'm using the windows terminal. So you call cygwin rsync directly from the Windows cmd or powershell? That is asking for trouble, especially if quoting is involved. You should call rsync from a cygwin shell. Using lowercase for the drive and do

Re: mintty phantom key presses

Am 03.05.2022 um 14:26 schrieb Eric Adams: On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 6:53 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 03/05/2022 um 13:50 schrieb Eric Adams: On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 12:20 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 02.05.2022 um 23:54 schrieb Eric Adams: Hi, I had previously reported this issue as "Pos

Re: mintty phantom key presses

Am 03/05/2022 um 13:50 schrieb Eric Adams: On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 12:20 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 02.05.2022 um 23:54 schrieb Eric Adams: Hi, I had previously reported this issue as "Possible phantom control-key state..." I observe that moving between cygwin mintty windows a

Re: mintty phantom key presses

Am 02.05.2022 um 23:54 schrieb Eric Adams: Hi, I had previously reported this issue as "Possible phantom control-key state..." I observe that moving between cygwin mintty windows and Windows windows causes unexpected behavior in the cygwin world. I took a new approach, using vi :) . In cygwi

Home directory on network drive not accessible in 3.3.4

I upgraded 3.3.3 → 3.3.4 in a lab environment, where my home directory is H:\ or /cygdrive/h Starting cygwin (cmd/bash or mintty) with some tools from gnuutils (like ls) in the path gives me this message: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/cygdrive/h’: File exists /cygdrive/h could not be creat

Re: `locale -s` shows incorrect info on systems where the language is changed after the OOBE

Am 29/04/2022 um 12:16 schrieb Gennaro Prota: Hi, the locale utility currently gets the system default UI locale (-s option) via GetSystemDefaultUILanguage(). This is a problem on systems where the default UI language is changed after the Windows Out of Box Experience (OOBE), because that funct

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.6.1

I have uploaded mintty 3.6.1 with the following changes: Window handling   * Terminal reflow (#82, #219): fixed crash condition on irregular reflow chunks.   * Terminal reflow (#82, #219): fixed memory leak. Terminal features   * Visual input feedback: don't obscure text when just pressing Alt

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