Re: How to handle length limit of PATH environment variable

2018-04-05 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On 05.04.2018 11:19, Peter Bauer wrote: hi, i was bitten by the length limit of the PATH variable of 4095 characters (see [1]) and could not find a way around it. This means i have a lot of software packages in different directories and each of them adds itself to the PATH so one can run the

Re: Simplify AD integration?

2014-07-30 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On 30.07.2014 15:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, here's a set of question to those of you interested in the new passwd/group functionality. This already has been discussed partially, but there was no conclusion. Right now, there's a lot of variability in the user names, based on the /et

Re: fork() and file descriptors with un-flushed output

2012-08-28 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
This is not a bug - it's a feature ;-) The "issue" you are describing is in fact the standard behaviour expected of fork() in any unix/posix compliant implementation. From the fork man page on Linux: ... fork() creates a new process by duplicating the calling process. The new process, re

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-05 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 08:21 -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 05/07/2011 8:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jul 4 12:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > >>> As an aside: > >>> I also used to have

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-05 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 14:10 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 12:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > > > As an aside: > > > I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > > > hierarc

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 13:33 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 06:56, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > On 04/07/2011 6:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > > >>As an aside: > > >> I also used to have

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:46 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > > As an aside: > > I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > > hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the &

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly, silghtly OT

2011-07-04 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
As an aside: I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the time) because files were presumably still "in use". Repeating the command several times would succeed, though. Downgradin

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly

2011-06-30 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
Dear all, just joining after being hit by an obviously known issue: Running tar (in my case to extract openssl-0.9.8r.tar.gz) results in symbolic links being randomly substituted by zero length mode 0 files as described in http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00299.html. For me this happen