Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-30 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Sorry Cygwinners, currently I'm having massive problems posting to the Cygwin list. I don't even get rejection mails, my posts simply don't make it :-( My first try was back on 2015-12-21, several more have followed since then. Happy New Year to all of you :-) Rainer ---

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 20 17:23, Sam Edge wrote: > On 20/12/2015 13:31, Houder wrote: > > > > Yes Corinna, I "heard" you the first time ... > > > > ... as I said, it must be my __old__ age. Let us stop at that. > > > > Regards, > > Henri > > > > > Should I be asking for subscriptions to the System V wrinklies' clu

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-20 Thread Sam Edge
On 20/12/2015 13:31, Houder wrote: > > Yes Corinna, I "heard" you the first time ... > > ... as I said, it must be my __old__ age. Let us stop at that. > > Regards, > Henri > > Should I be asking for subscriptions to the System V wrinklies' club at this point? :-; (Wasn't expecting my little polem

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-20 Thread Houder
On 2015-12-20 14:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 20 13:55, Houder wrote: On 2015-12-20 13:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Dec 20 12:50, incog wrote: >>On 2015-12-20 12:41, Sam Edge wrote: >>>On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: and (of all things!) contain blanks, >>> >>>* rant mo

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 20 13:55, Houder wrote: > On 2015-12-20 13:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Dec 20 12:50, incog wrote: > >>On 2015-12-20 12:41, Sam Edge wrote: > >>>On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > and (of all things!) contain blanks, > >>> > >>>* rant mode on * > >>> > >>>What's wrong wi

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-20 Thread Houder
On 2015-12-20 13:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 20 12:50, incog wrote: On 2015-12-20 12:41, Sam Edge wrote: >On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: >>and (of all things!) contain blanks, > >* rant mode on * > >What's wrong with blanks? > >The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so lon

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 20 12:50, incog wrote: > On 2015-12-20 12:41, Sam Edge wrote: > >On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > >>and (of all things!) contain blanks, > > > >* rant mode on * > > > >What's wrong with blanks? > > > >The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so long as they're given > >null-ter

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-20 Thread incog
On 2015-12-20 12:41, Sam Edge wrote: On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: and (of all things!) contain blanks, * rant mode on * What's wrong with blanks? The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so long as they're given null-terminated C-strings. Tools like find, xargs etc. have opti

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-20 Thread Sam Edge
On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > and (of all things!) contain blanks, * rant mode on * What's wrong with blanks? The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so long as they're given null-terminated C-strings. Tools like find, xargs etc. have options to cope. The biggest problem is t

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-19 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Corinna, On Wednesday, 2015-12-16 17:47:58 +0100, you wrote: > ... > >Since my "/etc/passwd" file > > uses more Unix like names even for the typical Windows accounts, > > Which doesn't make much sense from my POV, but, anyway. Well, from my point of view it does. My game is to have an as U

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Rainer, On Dec 15 20:29, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Corinna, > > On Monday, 2015-12-14 15:05:32 +0100, you wrote: > > > find: './System Volume Information': Permission denied > > > > This is normal if you don't run your shell elevated. Try again in an > > elevated shell. > > Hm. I have seve

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-15 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Corinna, On Monday, 2015-12-14 15:05:32 +0100, you wrote: > ... > > find: './System Volume Information': Permission denied > > $ > > This is normal if you don't run your shell elevated. Try again in an > elevated shell. Hm. I have several NTFS formatted USB sticks and a script which keeps t

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 14 14:04, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > last Wednesday was Windows Patch Day, causing me to install the follow- > ing eighteen patches (the comments ("# ...") reflect what I think the > corresponding knowledge base articles were about): > [...] > After that and after the nece