Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ...

2019-08-27 Thread Vince Rice
> On Aug 27, 2019, at 11:28 AM, Houder wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:25:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> … >> mkdir(2) has some special code from 2009 which drops trailing >> {back}slashes to perform a bordercase in mkdir Linux-compatible. >> This code snippet doesn't exist in rmdir(2). > > ..

Re: Empty file without "x" permission is successfully executable on Cygwin

2019-08-06 Thread Vince Rice
> On Aug 6, 2019, at 4:16 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > >> Which is why, as Ken said, the size is irrelevant. > > Which makes your comment irrelevant as well. Read the thread what I was > responding and to whom before trolling. I did read the thread. And Ken's comment was e

Re: Empty file without "x" permission is successfully executable on Cygwin

2019-08-06 Thread Vince Rice
> On Aug 6, 2019, at 3:39 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via wrote: > >> But what's your basis for saying that an empty script shouldn't be >> executable? > > I meant it only in the context of the script file lacking the proper "x" > permission. > Of course an empty script _with_ such

Re: Perl Illegal Instruction

2019-07-15 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jul 15, 2019, at 3:36 PM, Chris Wagner wrote: > > On 2019-07-15 3:46 pm, Achim Gratz wrote: >> Terribly out of date and no longer safe to use on a networked system. > > Of course it's up to date… There is no "of course" in troubleshooting. As Achim noted and you didn't quote, whether a "Wi

Re: How to start and verify cron?

2019-07-11 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jul 11, 2019, at 4:18 PM, David Karr wrote: > > I typically try to avoid top-posting, but I'm pretty sure I won't be able > to do anything about the mailer configuration. Then you'll need to fix it manually, like I just did on yours. Whichever it is, please stop including email addresses in

Re: How to start and verify cron?

2019-07-11 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jul 11, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Vince Rice wrote: > >> On Jul 11, 2019, at 2:56 PM, David Karr wrote: >> >> It's curious that when I bring up the default "Packages" view, filtering >> for "syslog-ng" doesn't find anything. I had to s

Re: How to start and verify cron?

2019-07-11 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jul 11, 2019, at 2:56 PM, David Karr wrote: > > It's curious that when I bring up the default "Packages" view, filtering > for "syslog-ng" doesn't find anything. I had to switch to the Categories > view, and then filtering for that found it. Not that curious. Setup's search is searching pac

Re: Question regarding OpenSSL 1.1.1b package configuration against OpenSSL 1.0.2r

2019-06-04 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jun 4, 2019, at 5:55 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > > Easy compared to what, assembly? Easy compared to hard. > He shows some domain knowledge of OpenSSL, but where are you getting that he > knows about compiling C? It's cygport, he doesn't have to know about compiling C. He has to know about

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:33 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Am 28.03.2019 um 19:16 schrieb Vince Rice: >>> On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>> >>>> A potential solution is, add another user to your system named cygwin. >>>> When yo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >> A potential solution is, add another user to your system named cygwin. >> When you build you packages use the cygwin user. The debug information >> will reference your cygwin user, and not your real user account. > Thanks for the suggestion,

Re: util-linux package missing usr/bin/script between 2.25 and 2.32

2019-03-03 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mar 3, 2019, at 3:38 PM, Mason Giles wrote: > > Hi, > > The /usr/bin/script program seems to have gone missing from the util-linux > package somewhere between the 2.25 and 2.32 timeframe. > > As far as I can tell this program is still included upstream (and the > util-linux package still

Re: Cygwin 3.0.1-1 Breaks ALL cygwin applications on Windows 7 x64

2019-02-26 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 26, 2019, at 8:55 PM, Jerry Baker wrote: > > I don't work for free, This is open source. Given that the people here do, that's not a very good argument. > especially for hostile people with over inflated egos and crippling social > disorders. Don't feed it by arguing. > The onus is on

Re: Cygwin 3.0.1-1 Breaks ALL cygwin applications on Windows 7 x64

2019-02-26 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 26, 2019, at 2:00 PM, Jerry Baker wrote: > > I just installed from scratch in a new directory. Same issue. Nothing runs. If cygcheck doesn't run, then it would appear there's (at least) something non-cygwin-related going on. cygcheck isn't a cygwin program, i.e. it doesn't link to or d

Re: Cygwin 3.0.1-1 Breaks ALL cygwin applications on Windows 7 x64

2019-02-26 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 26, 2019, at 12:37 PM, Jerry Baker wrote: > > That's why you're reading about it "on the appropriate list," as described on > that page. It's a take it or leave it thing. I report it, and the cygwin > community can do whatever they like with it - ignore it, investigate it, > shoot the

Re: Get Cygwin home directory path for current user

2019-02-14 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 14, 2019, at 5:41 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 4:32 PM Vince Rice wrote: > >> I didn't suggest everyone did. But people who want tilde expansion do, >> because it's >> the shell that is responsible for tilde expansion. &

Re: Get Cygwin home directory path for current user

2019-02-14 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 14, 2019, at 4:52 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:14 PM Vince Rice wrote: > >> There is -- use a cygwin shell. As Eric has already explained, expansion is >> the >> shell's responsibility. Powershell doesn't do it. If you

Re: Get Cygwin home directory path for current user

2019-02-14 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 14, 2019, at 3:51 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: > > Seems like there must be a better way... There is — use a cygwin shell. As Eric has already explained, expansion is the shell's responsibility. Powershell doesn't do it. If you want expansion, use one that does. -- Problem reports: http

Re: Getting error message when launching X-Window apps in Cygwin

2019-02-09 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 9, 2019, at 6:01 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > > On 2/9/2019 11:06 AM, Vince Rice wrote: >>> On Feb 9, 2019, at 8:46 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > >> What you think about this is irrelevant. > >Not really. Yes, really. > >> What I think about thi

Re: Getting error message when launching X-Window apps in Cygwin

2019-02-09 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 9, 2019, at 8:46 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > > … > > For me, … What you think about this is irrelevant. What I think about this is irrelevant. The only thoughts that matter are the ones of those who manage the list, and they have said this is a "do not top post" list. Others who say "do not

Re: iperf 2.0.13 available

2019-01-23 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jan 23, 2019, at 5:54 PM, Bob McMahon wrote: > > Hi, > > We've done a lot of work to make iperf 2.0.13 work well on cygwin. There > are also a lot of new features relevant to the WiFi testing community. Is > there a contact on how to get this distributed via cgywin apps? https://cygwin.co

Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity

2019-01-11 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jan 11, 2019, at 10:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 11 16:40, Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2 wrote: >> On Friday, January 11, 2019 5:30 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Jan 11 16:15, Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2 wrote: On Friday, January 11, 2019 3:50 PM David Dombrowsky wrote: >>

Re: Cygwin Git with Windows paths

2018-11-26 Thread Vince Rice
> On Nov 27, 2018, at 8:09 AM, Steven Penny wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:54:14, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> Personally, I don't see this as a bug; AIUI using Windows style paths >> isn't something that is supported in general in Cygwin, even if it's >> something that works in some circumstances.

Re: urgent help for tool

2018-10-24 Thread Vince Rice
> On Oct 24, 2018, at 4:05 PM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > > A less disruptive approach would be just a) switch this list from > anybody-can-post to subscribers-only, at least for the time being, and > then b) put the FAQ pointers about FAST_CWD prominently into the > auto-reply for non-subscrib

Re: urgent help for tool

2018-10-22 Thread Vince Rice
> On Oct 22, 2018, at 5:27 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Lots of people wrote: > 1 [main] bash 9316 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD > pointer. > Please report this problem to > the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com > ... > https://cygwin.com/faq/f

Re: cygserver - /usr/sbin vs /usr/bin

2018-08-14 Thread Vince Rice
> On Aug 14, 2018, at 3:05 PM, cyg Simple wrote: > > On 8/13/2018 10:41 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> … >> >> cyglsa.dll requires an install script that would have to be change as >> well. In contrast, you'd have to make sure your new solution still >> works for existing installations. What's

Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

2018-06-04 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jun 4, 2018, at 2:30 PM, Frank Farance wrote: > > I've seen a bunch of spam, and it's continued for a while (beyond my > expectation that it would have already ended). Fortunately, no one's here to meet your expectations. If you have issues with the lists, you should take to the right pla

Re: Circular dependency with mingw64-x86_64-runtime

2018-05-02 Thread Vince Rice
> On May 2, 2018, at 10:22 AM, Mikhail Usenko wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2018 19:16:17 -0700 (PDT) > Steven Penny <...> wrote: >> so "mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core" and "mingw64-x86_64-runtime" require each other > > By the way this is not the only package group with circular dependencies. > There are m

Re: "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems

2018-04-19 Thread Vince Rice
> On Apr 19, 2018, at 11:31 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > > I have an update script which calls "setup-x86 --quiet-mode". > So far, this works great, but now it tries to install a new mintty.exe, > but one mintty still running (where I started setup-x86), so setup-x86 > kills this process... and set

Re: Report

2018-03-29 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mar 29, 2018, at 5:36 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 5:33 PM, Evil World wrote: >> 3 [main] john 7512 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD >> pointer. Please report this problem > > > We need more detail to be able to do anything... please refer to the

Re: GitForWindows vs. Cygwin

2018-03-21 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mar 21, 2018, at 3:49 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > On 21.03.2018 05:02, Vince Rice wrote: >>> On Mar 20, 2018, at 7:24 PM, Tony Kelman wrote: >>>>> Can anyone enlighten me about the relationship of "Git for Windows" to >>>>> Cygwin? &

Re: GitForWindows vs. Cygwin

2018-03-20 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mar 20, 2018, at 7:24 PM, Tony Kelman wrote: > >>> Can anyone enlighten me about the relationship of "Git for Windows" to >>> Cygwin? >> >> They are not related. > > Yes, they are. No they're not. It doesn't use cygwin, therefore it's not related. Since this is a cygwin mailing list, th

Re: vi/vim editors stopped working after upgrade

2018-03-13 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mar 13, 2018, at 9:49 AM, d.kertz wrote: > > After applying pending updates and adding the make package, the vi/vim > editors stopped working. Running either vi or vim with or without the > hard-coded path just returns exit code 127: > > … > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/p

Re: [bug-gawk] gawk Regression: CR characters are not stripped on Windows

2018-03-05 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mar 5, 2018, at 2:58 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, > >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >>> Hi Arnold, >>> >>> On Mar 5 06:36, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: Is there a way to distinguish cygwin from msys at compile time? I would not object to restoring the behavior for msys only

Re: Setting a bash variable from backtick operator fails

2018-02-27 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 27, 2018, at 2:29 PM, Kaz Kylheku <920-082-4...@kylheku.com> wrote: > > On 2018-02-27 09:10, Numien wrote: >> Jürgen Wagner nailed it; it was my antivirus, and disabling the >> shellcode injection check fixed it. > > However, this time-wasting pattern of dealing with the issue by end use

Re: Future of 32-bit distro (was: rebase-4.4.3-1 regression: Too many DLLs for available address space)

2018-01-12 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jan 12, 2018, at 12:11 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On 2018-01-12 03:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jan 11 22:52, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> The full list contains 8006 lines, i have the complete Cygwin 32bit >>> installation >> >> The bottom line of this is, and it has been said befo

Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-15 Thread Vince Rice
> On Dec 16, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Steven Penny wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:50:44, Vince Rice wrote: >> It's my computer. I don't want setup (or anything else) replacing files on it >> it doesn't know about without at least asking whether that's wha

Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-14 Thread Vince Rice
> On Dec 15, 2017, at 7:33 AM, Steven Penny wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:57:14, Ken Brown wrote: >> And, as I said, it happens when setup is *preparing* to download files and >> finds a corrupt copy already present in the local cache. In that context, >> setup has no idea where the file came

Re: setup 2.883 release candidate - please test

2017-12-12 Thread Vince Rice
> On Dec 12, 2017, at 6:12 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:04:09, Ken Brown wrote: >> How can setup possibly automate this? It doesn't know where the corrupt >> local tarball came from. For example, suppose you sometimes build packages >> yourself for testing or debugging.

Re: Requested report

2017-12-01 Thread Vince Rice
> On Dec 1, 2017, at 9:31 PM, cyg Simple wrote: > > On 12/1/2017 10:35 AM, Vince Rice wrote: >>> On Dec 1, 2017, at 8:55 AM, cyg Simple wrote: >>> >>> On 11/30/2017 11:41 PM, Richard Mateosian wrote: >>>> Thanks. I wasn't actually using Cygw

Re: Requested report

2017-12-01 Thread Vince Rice
> On Dec 1, 2017, at 8:55 AM, cyg Simple wrote: > > On 11/30/2017 11:41 PM, Richard Mateosian wrote: >> Thanks. I wasn't actually using Cygwin, but Ruby apparently does so under >> the covers. Or maybe my path leads it astray, because I used to use Cygwin >> -- a long time ago. ...RM >> > > Yo

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-05 Thread Vince Rice
> On Nov 5, 2017, at 6:48 AM, Houder wrote: > > Hi John (Turney), > > After I had downloaded and exercised setup version 2.882, I noticed > that setup.ini has multiple (2?) "prev" entries per package ... > > Why? Did I miss one of your announcements mentioning this change? > > Regards, > > Hen

Re: Cygwin on Win10 much slower than Win7

2017-11-02 Thread Vince Rice
> On Nov 2, 2017, at 12:15 PM, Nellis, Kenneth > wrote: > … > I first noticed the problem with cygpath: > On Win 7: > > $ time cygpath abc > abc > > real0m0.016s > user0m0.000s > sys 0m0.015s > $ > > On Win 10: > > $ time cygpath abc > abc > > real0m0.105s > user0m0.000s

Re: Which is it -pc- or -unknown-

2017-10-19 Thread Vince Rice
> On Oct 19, 2017, at 3:21 PM, cyg Simple wrote: > > On 10/19/2017 4:02 PM, Vince Rice wrote: >>> On Oct 19, 2017, at 2:08 PM, cyg Simple wrote: >>> >>> On 10/19/2017 2:51 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>>> >>>> When you *really*

Re: Which is it -pc- or -unknown-

2017-10-19 Thread Vince Rice
> On Oct 19, 2017, at 2:08 PM, cyg Simple wrote: > > On 10/19/2017 2:51 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >> >> When you *really* need to use --build and/or --host, then you need to >> use x86_64-pc-cygwin, as that is our chosen name. > > Then config.guess needs to change to match the chosen name!! >

Re: Mercurial update needed for security fixes

2017-09-25 Thread Vince Rice
> On Sep 25, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Andy Moreton wrote: > > On Mon 18 Sep 2017, Ken Brown wrote: > >> On 9/18/2017 11:27 AM, Andy Moreton wrote: >>> On Thu 17 Aug 2017, Andy Moreton wrote: >>> >>> Ping? >>> Hi, Can the mercurial maintainer please update to upstream Hg 4.3.1, to get

Re: Compile/run problems on cygwin not solved by going to cygwin64

2017-06-28 Thread Vince Rice
> On 28 June 2017 at 22:02, Vince Rice wrote: >>> On Jun 28, 2017, at 3:00 PM, Wouter van Doorn wrote: >>> … >>> I can't give the strace output, as 'strace ./hello.exe' causes an >>> immediate segmentation fault. No idea why, but not something

Re: Compile/run problems on cygwin not solved by going to cygwin64

2017-06-28 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jun 28, 2017, at 3:00 PM, Wouter van Doorn wrote: > … > I can't give the strace output, as 'strace ./hello.exe' causes an > immediate segmentation fault. No idea why, but not something I'm going > to put energy into right now. You should. If strace won't run, you have a problem, and I would b

Re: CR-LF handling behavior of SED changed recently - this breaks a lot of MinGW cross build scripts

2017-06-08 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jun 8, 2017, at 3:50 AM, Soegtrop, Michael wrote: > > Dear Eric, > >> No, the documented behavior is that CR-LF is converted to LF only for text- >> mounted files; but pipelines are default binary-mounted. If you want to >> strip >> CR from a pipeline, then make it explicit. >> >>> var=$(

Re: [ATTN: Yaakov Selkowitz / PHP maintainer] Re: Composer segfault on multiple configurations

2017-05-30 Thread Vince Rice
>> Would be grateful if you could review and possibly accept this patch, as it >> has been confirmed and does affect several people. > On May 30, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Vince Rice wrote: > > I'm sure he will tell you himself soon enough, but no you shouldn't have. > E

Re: [ATTN: Yaakov Selkowitz / PHP maintainer] Re: Composer segfault on multiple configurations

2017-05-30 Thread Vince Rice
I'm sure he will tell you himself soon enough, but no you shouldn't have. Emails re packages should go to the list, not to the package maintainers directly. If you want to ping a previous message, ping the list, not the person. > On May 30, 2017, at 11:47 AM, Richard H Lee wrote: > > Yaakov, >

Re: Moving forward from cygwinports

2017-04-04 Thread Vince Rice
>> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>> On 2017-04-04 05:38, Chris Davies wrote: As an example, my use case is Perl-DBD-Sybase from about three weeks ago, which works beautifully but is not in the main repository. Short of moving to a Linux-based platfor

Re: Cygwin - Install Liquidsoap for Shoutcast or Icecast

2017-03-27 Thread Vince Rice
>>> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Andrew Schulman >>> You should start at https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi to see if >>> someone has already packaged it for Cygwin. >>> >>> If no one has, then you can either build and install it yourself, or try to >>> convince someone else to do i

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

2017-03-01 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mar 1, 2017, at 11:27 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 21:46:38, Vince Rice wrote: >> There are valid reasons (which several others have made) not to force others >> to use it. > > Have they though? I have not seen anyone save Eric (including you)

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

2017-03-01 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mar 1, 2017, at 6:22 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 09:42:27, cyg Simple wrote: >> Oh but it is. We're discussing the bike shed named /bin/sh. >> One of the color names is bash the other is dash; it's still the same >> bike shed. > > I see, when you realize your argument do

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

2017-02-23 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 23, 2017, at 5:04 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > > On 2/23/2017 6:01 PM, Tony Kelman wrote: >>> The big question remains, where this speed boost coming from? >>> Is this a startup time? Or some internal slowness? >>> Because in latter case, given your STC, this is a bash issue and should be >>>

Re: Console buffer width always 1 column less than setting

2017-02-06 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 6, 2017, at 11:43 AM, Lee Dilkie wrote: > > On 2/5/2017 3:59 PM, Steven Penny wrote: >> On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 14:12:04, Vince Rice wrote: >>>> On Feb 5, 2017, at 1:53 PM, Steven Penny wrote: >> >> Please fix your email client. You should not

Re: Console buffer width always 1 column less than setting

2017-02-05 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 5, 2017, at 1:53 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > > This issue has bothered me for some time, but I never got around to reporting > it. The issue is that the Cygwin buffer via Cygwin.bat is always 1 less than > what is set. > > For example, the default buffer is 80 columns, same as the window

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libreadline7-7.0.1-1, libreadline-devel-7.0.1-1, bash-4.4.5-1

2017-01-15 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jan 14, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 15:47:57, Eric Blake wrote: >> Okay, so you've isolated the problem to readline. In all likelihood, it >> is an unintentional upstream regression; now we need to figure out what >> is causing the change in behavior. > >

Re: Cygwin 1.7.0.58 with Windows 2012

2017-01-03 Thread Vince Rice
Please do not https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU. > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 9:29 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Rashi Singhal! >> >>> Will Cygwin version 1.7.0.58 will be supported in Windows 2012? >> >> 1.7 is not supported. At all. >> >>> Or where i can get information regarding Cygwin

Re: CYGWIN_NOWINPATH (was Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH)

2016-11-17 Thread Vince Rice
> On Nov 17, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Francis Litterio wrote: > > On 9/8/2016 8:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Sep 5 10:36, Doug Henderson wrote: > >>> I set CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 in my user environment variables, i.e. in >>> registry, not in a cmd shell. I expect it needs to be seen when the >>>

Re: CancelSynchronousIo could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll

2016-10-24 Thread Vince Rice
> On Oct 24, 2016, at 10:28 AM, Keith Williams wrote: > > I've read the FAQ. I feel the matter isn't resolved and I haven't been able > to use Cywin/XP for a while/ > > Has anyone tried installing Cygwin on Windows XP? The installation doesn't > work because the applications seem to be linked

Re: Native symlinks and setup.exe

2016-10-04 Thread Vince Rice
Please don’t https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU. > On 4 October 2016 at 17:56, Gerrit Haase wrote: >> Hello Gene, >> >> in my opinion, it is not a setup.exe or tar problem, but I think >> packages should not include symlinks at all. All can be created >> postinstallation by the postinstall script

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.876)

2016-09-10 Thread Vince Rice
> On Sep 10, 2016, at 12:07 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Am 10.09.2016 um 07:57 schrieb Wayne Davison: >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 2:35 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz >> wrote: >>> A new version of Setup, release 2.876, has been uploaded to [...] >> The change from a button to a dropdown list for the View s

Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH

2016-09-05 Thread Vince Rice
>> Note that CYGWIN_NOWINPATH is still undocumented, except in the email >> archives. See, e.g. >> >>https://www.google.ca/search?q=CYGWIN_NOWINPATH+site:cygwin.com >> >> CYGWIN_USEWINPATH is also undocumented, except in a non-cygwin.com >> email archive. > > It's documented right in /etc/pr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.6.0-1

2016-08-31 Thread Vince Rice
> As the 84 year old guy who helps my 70 year old dad … H. Is one of you Benjamin Button? :) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-09 Thread Vince Rice
> > On Aug 9, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2016, at 2:07 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote: >> >> On 8/9/2016 2:45 AM, Michel LaBarre wrote: >>> It could very well be that, as one response to me on this thread >>> alluded, CYGWIN's role is to provide the equivalent of an isolate

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-05 Thread Vince Rice
The choice to use slashes as qualifers instead of dashes was “just to be different” as well. This was ’78-81. VMS wasn’t in Gates’ mind at the time. > On Aug 5, 2016, at 1:14 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > From: Erik Soderquist >> ... DOS did a lot of things >> against already established con

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-03 Thread Vince Rice
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 8:43 PM, Michel LaBarre wrote: > > The CYGWIN site makes it quite difficult to discern how somebody can report > an issue or comment. If you think a plainly labeled “Reporting Problems” and “Mailing Lists” in the prominent sidebar is difficult, then I’m afraid it’s only goin

Re: CVS version 32 vs 64-bit

2016-07-11 Thread Vince Rice
On Jul 11, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Vince Rice wrote: > On Jul 11, 2016, at 1:17 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > On 11/07/2016 18:40, Vince Rice wrote: >> Is there a reason there’s a different version of cvs in 32-bit vs 64-bit >> Cygwin? >> >> 32-bit shows 1.

CVS version 32 vs 64-bit

2016-07-11 Thread Vince Rice
Is there a reason there’s a different version of cvs in 32-bit vs 64-bit Cygwin? 32-bit shows 1.12.13-10. 64-bit shows 1.11.23. (Yes, I know, git forever, but not everyone got the memo.) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docume

Re: changes in 32-bit Cygwin OpenGL causing crashes?

2016-05-26 Thread Vince Rice
> On May 26, 2016, at 10:01 PM, lloyd.w...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > > It's odd, the amount of extra support that Cygwin needs. > > Okay, OpenGL is broken in 32-bit cygwin, not for the first > time. > > I'm unsure if OpenGL is broken in 64-bit cygwin, because > the piping my applications use is broke

Re: tar incremental backups and ctime‏ problem

2016-05-23 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 05/23/2016 03:18 AM, x y wrote: >>> It is not clear to me your expectation: >>> - are you asking how to use ctime to select the file with tar alone ? >>> It is not possible for my understanding of the manual. >>> >>> - Are you asking the

Re: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS

2016-04-25 Thread Vince Rice
> On Apr 25, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: Adam Dinwoodie >> ... >> But I agree with Brian: the Cygwin website >> should use https everywhere unless there's some good, specific reason >> why it's a bad idea... > > 1. Did Brian say that? I couldn

Re: Question about old win32 api

2015-09-21 Thread Vince Rice
On Sep 21, 2015, at 8:11 PM, Michael Enright wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Vince Rice wrote: > >> blindly > > The blindness was blindness to the fact that new users were getting a > different version than existing users in some way other than fixing >

Re: Question about old win32 api

2015-09-21 Thread Vince Rice
> On Sep 21, 2015, at 7:04 PM, Michael Enright wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> >> the change in nc had nothing to do with cygwin >> change between 1.5 and 1.7 >> >> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-05/msg00015.html >> > > Implying a tie betwee

Re: --line-regexp option with null data

2015-07-16 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jul 16, 2015, at 10:04 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Linux grep will do the same. >> null byte = not a text. >> Wrong encoding, not matching locale = not a text. > > I have repeatedly asked you to stay out of my threads. My experience is

Re: delay when querying /proc/loadavg

2015-06-22 Thread Vince Rice
On Jun 22, 2015, at 11:14 AM, m0viefreak wrote: > > > Hello, > > I noticed that there is long delay when getting the content of /proc/ladavg: > > $ time cat /proc/loadavg > 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/16 > cat /proc/loadavg 0.01s user 1.47s system 100% cpu 1.480 total > > I am aware that loadavg is not

Re: managing multiple emacs

2015-06-09 Thread Vince Rice
The good reason is this problem goes away if you’re only using native (cygwin) emacs. The other good reason is that you’ll almost certainly spend more time trying to work around not using native tools than you would just installing them (and uninstalling the non-native one). (Spoken as a non-em

Re: From Microsoft: Windows 10 Console and Cygwin

2015-06-02 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jun 2, 2015, at 2:20 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 06/02/2015 10:37 AM, Rich Eizenhoefer wrote: >> Can you provide more detail on changing isatty function to support Cygwin >> PTY's? I need to be able to support the request in our backlog. > > As long as we are wishing, it would be awesome

Re: Grepping Unicode files?

2015-05-14 Thread Vince Rice
> On May 14, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 05/14/2015 10:32 AM, Vince Rice wrote: > > … >> >> Now, pardon my continued ignorance, but which of those variables needs to be >> set to UTF16 in order for grep to work? And I assume it (they?)

Re: Grepping Unicode files?

2015-05-14 Thread Vince Rice
On May 14, 2015, at 10:56 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Vince Rice! > >> uname says "CYGWIN_NT-6.1 machinename 1.7.35(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-04 12:07 >> i686 Cygwin”. >> I’m running grep 2.21.2, which cygcheck -c says is OK. > >> Does Cygwin’s gr

Grepping Unicode files?

2015-05-14 Thread Vince Rice
uname says "CYGWIN_NT-6.1 machinename 1.7.35(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-04 12:07 i686 Cygwin”. I’m running grep 2.21.2, which cygcheck -c says is OK. Does Cygwin’s grep support Unicode files? The output from a SQL Server SQL Agent job is a Unicode file, i.e. if you look at it in a hex editor every other

Re: Although advertised on a different Cygwin mailing list ...

2015-01-27 Thread Vince Rice
> PS: the cygwin web site seems very slow. Is it just my connection ? What he said. It’s been off and on for a couple of weeks, but this morning it actually timed out. I actually did a traceroute and it was a 70.* address that was the problem. (Sorry, I did it at home and don’t have the output w

Re: A list of installed packages (no dependencies)

2015-01-01 Thread Vince Rice
This is the fourth or fifth time you have persisted in this rudeness, even after Yaakov called you down for it the first time and told you it would not be tolerated here. I’m calling attention to it so he and Corinna will see it for what it is, not just a benign link. On Jan 1, 2015, at 4:25 P

cygcheck -p indicate obsoleteness?

2014-09-25 Thread Vince Rice
tl;dr version: can cygcheck possibly be improved (I know, PTC :) ) to show that a package is obsolete, instead of just showing the “current” version? Longer explanation of where the request came from: I’ve had an alias for c=clearw.exe for quite some time. I did an update today to get the bash

serial port block on the command line

2012-10-30 Thread vince
Hi, Why this command is blocking on the cygwin shell: echo "Hello" > /dev/ttyS0 I need to break it with ctrl-c and it gives me the following line: -bash: echo: write error: Interrupted system call I don't understand what is going on. Thanks, Vince -- View this message

Re: 1.7: cygdrive files readonly by default

2009-09-03 Thread Vince Indriolo
Interesting, the location of the file seems to matter. On E:\ $ ls -l foo --+ 1 vince None 6 Sep 3 10:27 foo $ ls -l .\\foo -rw-r--r-- 1 vince None 6 Sep 3 10:27 .\foo For a file on my desktop: $ ls -l foo -rwx--+ 1 vince None 6 Sep 3 10:28 foo $ ls -l

Re: 1.7: cygdrive files readonly by default

2009-09-02 Thread Vince Indriolo
There is definitely something not right with my setup. I have 64-bit Windows 7 e:\>echo foo > foo e:\>c:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe -l foo --+ 1 vince None 6 Sep 2 17:28 foo $ ls -l foo --+ 1 vince None 6 Sep 2 17:28 foo I've attached the output of cygcheck -s -c. Thank

Re: 1.7: cygdrive files readonly by default

2009-09-02 Thread Vince Indriolo
09 at 4:40 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 09/02/2009 05:30 PM, Vince Indriolo wrote: >> >> Is there a setting or issue that would result in all externally >> generated files in an NTFS filesystem to have 000 permissions?  New >> files created in the shell appear to

Re: 1.7: cygdrive files readonly by default

2009-09-02 Thread Vince Indriolo
to have its primary group be 'None'? I am using cygwin 1.7 on Windows 7 Ultimate. Should I be running in compatibility mode? Should I install as administrator? On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Vince Indriolo wrote: > I am running Windows 7, cygdrive 1.7. > After installation al

1.7: cygdrive files readonly by default

2009-09-02 Thread Vince Indriolo
I am running Windows 7, cygdrive 1.7. After installation all files my files show up as 000 permissions. I have to chmod in order to modify files. vi...@granada /cygdrive/f $ ls -l total 852 d-+ 1 vinceNone 4096 Aug 25 08:58 $RECYCLE.BIN d-+ 1 vince None

mintty and readline mapping

2009-08-26 Thread Vince Rice
am I missing? If this is a generic mapping issue, feel free to point me to somewhere else to look. Thanks, Vince Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Aug 26 15:44:59 2009 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Path: C:\cygwin\home\vrice\bin

cron and Windows 2000

2008-04-09 Thread Vince LaMonica
meone! I would perfer to run cron as Administrator, since that is the only user who logs into the console and the only user with a crontab. Is there something obvious I am missing? Thank for any info y'all can provide, /vjl/ -- Vince J. LaMonica Knowledge is knowing a street is

Re: big enormous shell script - to remotely execute .exes on machines

2007-11-30 Thread Vince
ne. Anyone know if this is possible ? > Easiest way I can think of would be to use psexec http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/PsTools.mspx Vince > Thanks - > Gabe -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.

Windows 2000 cron errors

2006-02-13 Thread Vince LaMonica
hecked /var/log/cron.log and it just reports when cron has started/stopped [i reinstalled it as per the cron_diagnose.sh script]. I have attached my cygcheck.txt file to this e.mail. If there is something else I can provide, please let me know. Thanks for any help you can provide. /vjl/ -- Vince J

RE: OpenLDAP NT Service

2005-08-15 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Vince, I was trying to do this, however, I can't find the documentation on how to add the sysV init scripts as a service. I think you just add /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit as a service using: # cygrunsrv --install rc.sysinit --path /etc

RE: OpenLDAP NT Service

2005-08-12 Thread Vince
oad) reload ;; status) status $SLAPD RETVAL=$? ;; *) echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|condrestart|status}" RETVAL=1 esac exit $RETVAL --

RE: [Windows Security] User rights inherited from parent directory

2005-08-12 Thread Vince
hile but if I remember rightly, if you don't want cygwin to set the permissions then add nontsec to your CYGWIN environment Variable and windows will handle permssions for you so permissions are inherited. Vince > > cheers, > DaveK > -- > Can't think of a witty

RE: mount?

2005-05-03 Thread Vince
All file access in cygwin is done through windows, so it should see a fat partition fine. It will automagicly be mounted as /cygdrive/ Its well worth reading man mount though. Vince > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of be

RE: How well supported is csh/tcsh?

2005-04-20 Thread Vince
easons Against using csh although this is only if you are planning to do much Scripting with csh. Vince > > Regards, > Jason > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentatio

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