Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 11:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 21 10:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 21 02:45, Andrey Repin wrote: > > > The setup: A Win7 machine - member of a NT4-style domain. (No AD yet.) > > > [...] > > I'm wondering if that's a side effect of using a NT4 domain. This isn't > > supp

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 10:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 21 02:45, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Sorry for the holdup, I was trying to crack it by myself. > > But I was unsuccessful, and have to reach for help. > > Even the most striped down configuration doesn't produce visible > > improvements. > > > > The

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 02:45, Andrey Repin wrote: > Sorry for the holdup, I was trying to crack it by myself. > But I was unsuccessful, and have to reach for help. > Even the most striped down configuration doesn't produce visible improvements. > > The setup: A Win7 machine - member of a NT4-style domain. (No

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> >> > I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by >> >> >> > the >> >> >> > Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to >> >> >> > do >> >> >> > now is something like: >> >> >> > >> >> >> > db_home: /%H/cygwin >>

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 14 13:19, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > I uploaded a snapshot and I'm going to release another test release. > > The snapshot and the test release are the same thing at the moment? Yes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails reg

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > I uploaded a snapshot and I'm going to release another test release. The snapshot and the test release are the same thing at the moment? Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/f

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 14:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 13 13:31, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Would it be possible to give the homeDirectory preference over homeDrive? > > This order would be more useful for Cygwin since Cygwin doesn't map the > > drive when the user logs in. > > The idea of the windows sch

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 14:12, cyg Simple wrote: > > From: Corinna Vinschen > > On Jan 13 09:37, cyg Simple wrote: > > user's Windows default environment at the time of a user context switch (for > > instance, logon via ssh). In that case, "leaving it as is" > > today would mean to *drop* TMP/TEMP from the envi

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread cyg Simple
> From: Corinna Vinschen > > On Jan 13 09:37, cyg Simple wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Achim Gratz > > > > > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > > Which means what for the Cygwin DLL? Dropping TMP/TEMP from the > > > > merged Windows env? It makes sense, I think. Of course,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 09:37, cyg Simple wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Achim Gratz > > > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > Which means what for the Cygwin DLL? Dropping TMP/TEMP from the > > > merged Windows env? It makes sense, I think. Of course, there will > > > be others... > > My pro

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread cyg Simple
> -Original Message- > From: Achim Gratz > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Which means what for the Cygwin DLL? Dropping TMP/TEMP from the > > merged Windows env? It makes sense, I think. Of course, there will > > be others... My process is dependent on the fact that TMP/TEMP have in/o

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > Which means what for the Cygwin DLL? Dropping TMP/TEMP from the > merged Windows env? It makes sense, I think. Of course, there will > be others... Just for this question: if the Cygwin DLL always handles it no matter what, then I think these should be dr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 13:31, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > No. How often do you change such a central setting as the db_home > > setting for all users? > > Almost never. But testing gets more involved in this way. > > > I thought it's clear how Cygwin does it. Here it is:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > No. How often do you change such a central setting as the db_home > setting for all users? Almost never. But testing gets more involved in this way. > I thought it's clear how Cygwin does it. Here it is: > > Is homeDrive non-empty? > If yes, conve

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 12:02, Achim Gratz wrote: > [using the 20150113 snapshot already] > > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > The leading slash is in integral part of the "path" scheme, The above > > is not recognized as valid entry at all. > > It doesn't work differently now that I've added the sla

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Achim Gratz
[using the 20150113 snapshot already] Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > The leading slash is in integral part of the "path" scheme, The above > is not recognized as valid entry at all. It doesn't work differently now that I've added the slash, though. To solve the problems with the server

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 06:53, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > >> >> > I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the > >> >> > Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to > >> >> > do > >> >> > now is something like: > >> >> > > >> >> >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> > I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the >> >> > Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to do >> >> > now is something like: >> >> > >> >> > db_home: /%H/cygwin >> >> >> >> I've used >> >> >> >>db

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 15:50, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > >> > I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the > >> > Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to do > >> > now is something like: > >> > > >> > db_home: /%H/cygwin > >>

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> > I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the >> > Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to do >> > now is something like: >> > >> > db_home: /%H/cygwin >> >> I've used >> >>db_home: %H/cygwin > Meep!

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 10 21:44, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the > > Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to do > > now is something like: > > > > db_home: /%H/cygwin > > I've used > >db_ho

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the > Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to do > now is something like: > > db_home: /%H/cygwin I've used db_home: %H/cygwin instead. That works, sort of. The windo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 18:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 20 19:19, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Another thing is that the Cygwin home directory is always a > > sub-directory of the windows home in our environment, so it would be > > useful if there was a placeholder for the windows home directory (%H or > > som

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 18:41, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > but that would produce some rather unwieldy and long paths for certain > > > users. So, instead of specifying the users' home directory directly I > > > would like to mount or auto-mount /home/≤user> to the actual (n

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-07 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > but that would produce some rather unwieldy and long paths for certain > > users. So, instead of specifying the users' home directory directly I > > would like to mount or auto-mount /home/≤user> to the actual (network) > > home directory. > > Hmm. That'

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 20 19:19, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > The major change in this new release will be the new method to read > > account (passwd and group) information from the Windows user databases > > directly, without the requirement to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group > > files to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bryan Berns! > I'll take a look at the archives for February. I'm not sure how it'd > be "obvious" given that's it's just descriptive metadata for the SID, > but I'll try to educate myself before rehashing a previous discussion. This is where POSIX is different from Windows. What is e

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-27 Thread Bryan Berns
Thanks for the reply, Andrey. I'll take a look at the archives for February. I'm not sure how it'd be "obvious" given that's it's just descriptive metadata for the SID, but I'll try to educate myself before rehashing a previous discussion. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bryan Berns! > It would be nice if the names presented would be in what Microsoft > calls the "NameSamCompatible" format instead of DOMAIN+USERNAME If you mean "DOMAIN\USER" scheme, it would not work for obvious reasons. I.e., you can't have a file name with [back]slash. > format. I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-27 Thread Bryan Berns
Finally had a chance to test out the new release, albeit in a very limited fashion. On our multi-domain forest with SID-History enabled, running 'ls -l' was able to lookup account names for groups and users on files. Some ACEs had SIDs that would only be in present SID-History and those worked as

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > The major change in this new release will be the new method to read > account (passwd and group) information from the Windows user databases > directly, without the requirement to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group > files to generate Unix-like uid and gid. I've just se

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 17 10:52, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 17, 2014, at 6:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > > I released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release. > > The version number is 1.7.34-003. > > The iperf3 configure time regression is still there in this release. Yes. I still

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-17 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 17, 2014, at 6:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release. > The version number is 1.7.34-003. The iperf3 configure time regression is still there in this release. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release. The version number is 1.7.34-003. This is the Christmas/New Year release and the last one for 2014. Not much has changed compared to 1.7.34-002. A few minor bugfixes and the new -k/--remove-defaul