Re: Cygwin for Windows 8

2012-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 15 21:04, GrahamC wrote: > On 10/15/2012 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Oct 15 20:24, GrahamC wrote: > > >  > > > On 10/15/2012 Steve John wrote: > > > > I am looking for cygwin tool in Windows 8 platform.  When i execute > > > > the setup.exe (for installing cygwin in Windows 8 OS), i could

Re: Cygwin for Windows 8

2012-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 15 23:55, GrahamC wrote: > Another anomaly with disk drive partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc.) > is the access control. >   > While the whole disk devices (/dev/sdX) can only be accessed when running as > administrator, the > individual partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc

Re: signalfd support

2012-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 15 20:57, Charles Stepp wrote: > > Since the performance of Cygwin fifos is orders of magnitude poorer than > > the equivalent Linux implementation, I've been trying to find an > > alternative to fifos in my Cygwin port. > > > > One possibility is to use a combination of real time signals

Re: Registry keys not only accessible when user

2012-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 10 11:19, julien2412 wrote: > Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote > > On Oct 10 03:17, julien2412 wrote: > >> For example, there's nothing there : > >> /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/VCExpress > >> And there's nothing cause permissions aren't ok : > >> ls -l /proc/registry/HKEY_LO

re: signalfd support

2012-10-16 Thread bob
I'm on the list in digest mode, so I don't know how to thread this response properly. Thanks to all who have taken time to respond so far. I am already using POSIX shared memory in the application I am trying to port to Cygwin. The fifos are simply used to synchroni

Re: signalfd support

2012-10-16 Thread Noel Grandin
On 2012-10-16 14:22, bob wrote: In a previous posting a few weeks back I presented some test code which illustrated the performance deficit in the current Cygwin fifo implementation (2 orders of magnitude slower than Linux on same hardware). It was this performance issue that led me on a se

Re: Where is detailed setup.exe usage documentation? (old question, never answered)

2012-10-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/16/2012 12:26 AM, Pit Bull wrote: I am looking for some documentation - html, man page, doc file, whatever that describes setup.exe. So the specific questions I have (which I would have liked to have seen answered in a documentation file of some sort) are: Why isn't the status changed

Re: signalfd support

2012-10-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 02:30:03PM +0200, Noel Grandin wrote: > >On 2012-10-16 14:22, bob wrote: >> In a previous posting a few weeks back I presented some test code which >> illustrated the performance deficit in the current Cygwin fifo >> implementation (2 >> orders of magnitude slower than Linu

Installation issue with recent cygwin (1.7.16-1) (and unable to link afterwards)

2012-10-16 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hi, I was doing a fresh install on a Windows 7 (x64) box that has its Users and ProgramData folders JUNCTIONed from C: (SSD) to D: (HDD), and CYGWIN was to be installed at D:\Cygwin. There's no issues with running any Windows app so the layout works just as expected. However, when CYGWIN setup

Re: Registry keys not only accessible when user

2012-10-16 Thread julien2412
strace gives an error: $ strace -o ls.trace /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft strace: error creating process C:\cygwin\proc\registry\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft, (error 3) Here's the result of cygcheck strace $ cygcheck strace Found: C:\cygwin\bin\strace.exe C:\cygwin\

Re: Registry keys not only accessible when user

2012-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 16 11:24, julien2412 wrote: > strace gives an error: > $ strace -o ls.trace /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft > strace: error creating process > C:\cygwin\proc\registry\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft, (error 3) My fault. Make that: $ strace -o ls.trace /bin/ls

Re: Registry keys not only accessible when user

2012-10-16 Thread julien2412
Thank you for your quick feedback Corinna, it worked. Here's the result of the grep command: 73 143048 [main] ls 2212 stat_worker: 0 = (/proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft,0x2004AD88) 67 146386 [main] ls 2212 stat_worker: 0 = (/proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE,0x2

Re: R 2.15.1-1 sub() function produces unexpected output

2012-10-16 Thread Warren Young
On 10/12/2012 4:56 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 10/12/2012 9:18 AM, Toby Johnson wrote: The sub() function in R 2.15.1-1 produces unexpected output. Here is a minimal piece of R code: I believe sub() is using PCRE for this, per http://goo.gl/XxDyB I just looked back at this and since there w

Maintainer of R Cygwin package?

2012-10-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I'm one of the R developers. I've just noticed that the Cygwin setup offers to install R. In the past, our experience was that Cygwin builds didn't pass the tests, so they weren't reliable. Can someone put me in touch with the Cygwin maintainer of this package, so I can find out if these pro

Re: Maintainer of R Cygwin package?

2012-10-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/16/2012 3:48 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I'm one of the R developers. I've just noticed that the Cygwin setup offers to install R. In the past, our experience was that Cygwin builds didn't pass the tests, so they weren't reliable. Can someone put me in touch with the Cygwin maintainer of t

Re: Maintainer of R Cygwin package?

2012-10-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 16/10/2012 4:16 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/16/2012 3:48 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > I'm one of the R developers. I've just noticed that the Cygwin setup offers > to install R. In the past, our experience was that Cygwin builds didn't > pass the tests, so they weren't reliable. > >

Re: Maintainer of R Cygwin package?

2012-10-16 Thread marco atzeri
On 10/16/2012 9:48 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I'm one of the R developers. I've just noticed that the Cygwin setup offers to install R. In the past, our experience was that Cygwin builds didn't pass the tests, so they weren't reliable. Can someone put me in touch with the Cygwin maintainer of t

Re: Registry keys not only accessible when user

2012-10-16 Thread julien2412
Corinna, the commands you gave seem to show a pb with Windows registry. So I launched a free Windows registry tool (glary utilities) to search for errors + defrag Windows registry I also runned a scandisk on C: and now it works! Registry keys appear now with Cygwin without needing to launch it wit

Re: sshd crashing

2012-10-16 Thread The love dada
I too would like to thank those who fixed this issue. I had the same problem on Windows 7 but not only with sshd, also with rxvt exiting unexpectedly whenever I accessed files under /etc. All fine with todays snapshot cywin1.dll. -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.

Re: Using nosleep with wrappers

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > In my .bashrc I have something like this: > > > > xf() > > { > > LANG=''\ > > /usr/bin/xfig -specialtext -latexfonts -startlatexFont default \ > > "$@" 2>/dev/null > > } > > > > but, trying > > > > $ nosleep xf > > nosl