Re: App runs 8x slower on dual core machine (with test case to replicate issue)

2013-01-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 22 04:51, Zach Saw wrote: > Just wondering if there's any updates on this issue. I asked for a testcase in plain C but nobody came up with it. You can also try the latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ to see if it got better. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Pl

Re: BUG: FIFO (named pipe) is broken on Cygwin

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Turner
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Zach Saw wrote: > > According to POSIX, FIFO allows multiple readers / writers. However, it > appears > that Cygwin's implementation only allows for multiple readers and single > writer. That's a known issue -- ostensibly, one not aggressively being worked on by a

cygwin-inst-20130121

2013-01-22 Thread Achim Gratz
The latest snapshot and Emacs-24.2.90 do not like each other, I've rolled back to the 2013-01-18 snapshot: (1001)~ # strace emacs-nox 4 4 [main] emacs-nox (5948) ** 132 136 [main] emacs-nox (5948) Program name: C:\Programs\Cygwin\bin\ema

How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread Yves
Hi, this is my issue: I start up cygwin and do pwd, and this is my home directory. $ pwd /cygdrive/h But, I don't want it to be in /cygdrive/h. So, what gives? I've run the mkpasswd command like so (while in my /home/ directory): mkpasswd -l -p "$(cygpath -H)" > /etc/passwd At that point, I cl

Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread marco atzeri
On 1/22/2013 4:52 PM, Yves wrote: Hi, this is my issue: I start up cygwin and do pwd, and this is my home directory. $ pwd /cygdrive/h But, I don't want it to be in /cygdrive/h. So, what gives? I've run the mkpasswd command like so (while in my /home/ directory): mkpasswd -l -p "$(cygpath -H)

Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread Yves
Hi, thanks for your reply. I did cat /etc/passwd. I obfuscated certain portions of the output, all of which are characters (no numbers, no spaces, no special characters, all lower case): @FOOBAR /home//Downloads $ cat /etc/passwd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\L

Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Yves! > I start up cygwin and do pwd, and this is my home directory. > $ pwd > /cygdrive/h > But, I don't want it to be in /cygdrive/h. So, what gives? I've run the > mkpasswd command like so (while in my /home/ directory): > mkpasswd -l -p "$(cygpath -H)" > /etc/passwd > At that po

Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread Yves
I did echo $HOME and this is the output that I got: /cygdrive/h -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/How-do-I-change-the-default-home-directory-after-I-fire-up-cygwin-tp95558p95563.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem rep

Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread Yves
Ok, so if I do HOME=/home/ I go to the home directory that I want to go to. Yes! But when I close my cygwin window and then re-open it, I'm back in /cygdrive/h... hmm... -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/How-do-I-change-the-default-home-directory-after-I-fir

Cygwin gvim needs weird ritual to past from Windows clipboard

2013-01-22 Thread Andy
I installed cygwin's gvim on Windows 7. I found that pasting from the Windows clipboard into gvim doesn't work by clicking the middle mouse button unless I go through a weird ritual that I discovered by accident. If I don't do this, I get "E353: Nothing in register *". First, I have to highlight

Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread David T-G
Andrey & Yves, et atl -- ...and then Andrey Repin said... % % > I start up cygwin and do pwd, and this is my home directory. % > $ pwd % > /cygdrive/h % ... % % Check the contents of your $HOME variable. But isn't $HOME set based on what the shell gets? So whatever is setting it wrong is goin

Cygwin gvim needs weird ritual to past from Windows clipboard

2013-01-22 Thread Andrew Hancock
I installed cygwin's gvim on Windows 7. I found that pasting from the Windows clipboard into gvim doesn't work by clicking the middle mouse button unless I go through a weird ritual that I discovered by accident. If I don't do this, I get "E353: Nothing in register *". First, I have to highlight

Re: Cygwin gvim needs weird ritual to past from Windows clipboard

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 22 January 2013 11:55, Andy wrote: > I installed cygwin's gvim on Windows 7. I found that pasting from the > Windows clipboard into gvim doesn't work by clicking the middle mouse > button unless I go through a weird ritual that I discovered by > accident. If I don't do this, I get "E353: Nothi

Re: Cygwin gvim needs weird ritual to past from Windows clipboard

2013-01-22 Thread Richard Gribble
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Andy wrote: > > I installed cygwin's gvim on Windows 7. I found that pasting from the > Windows clipboard into gvim doesn't work by clicking the middle mouse > button unless I go through a weird ritual that I discovered by > accident. If I don't do this, I get "

Re: Cygwin gvim needs weird ritual to past from Windows clipboard

2013-01-22 Thread Alan Thompson
I always use the keyboard shortcuts to cut/paste from windows apps (e.g. Chrome/Firefox, etc). - Highlight the desired text (typically using "v" or "V" & motion). - Copy using "-*-Y (double quote, asterisk, y) to yank into the system clipboard - Paste into the windoze app (browser, etc) using C

Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread Yves
This machine is on a corporate network, I'm doing this setup at work :) . And yes, there's a domain. And, after looking at System variables, I found HOME which is pointed to H:\. Would it make sense to just set that to C:\cygwin\home\? -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n

Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread Yves
Ok, so I changed HOME in Environment variables to C:\cygwin\home\ and when I do pwd, this is what happens: /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/ Ok... it's not /home/, but it's progress :) . -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/How-do-I-change-the-default-home-directory-afte

Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 1/22/2013 8:31 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Yves! I start up cygwin and do pwd, and this is my home directory. $ pwd /cygdrive/h But, I don't want it to be in /cygdrive/h. So, what gives? I've run the mkpasswd command like so (while in my /home/ directory): mkpasswd -l -p "$(cygpath

Not finding a file or directory

2013-01-22 Thread Matt Tracey
I have cygwin install on the server.  When I open cygwin on my Windows XP machine, it opens fine, it finds the .login and all is good. I have another computer, Windows 7, on the same network, but when I try to open cygwin on that machine, I get "/usr/local/np71:  No such file or directory" A

Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 1/22/2013 9:50 AM, Yves wrote: This machine is on a corporate network, I'm doing this setup at work :) . And yes, there's a domain. And, after looking at System variables, I found HOME which is pointed to H:\. Would it make sense to just set that to C:\cygwin\home\? Personally I'd delete the

RE: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Yves wrote: > Ok, so I changed HOME in Environment variables to C:\cygwin\home\ > and when I do pwd, this is what happens: > /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/ > > Ok... it's not /home/, but it's progress :) . Delete the HOME environment variable entirely. That way Cygwin will use what's set in /etc/passw

RE: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread Yves
Yes! It works just like I expect it to work! Thanks guys! -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/How-do-I-change-the-default-home-directory-after-I-fire-up-cygwin-tp95558p95579.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports

Re: Not finding a file or directory

2013-01-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/22/2013 1:03 PM, Matt Tracey wrote: I have cygwin install on the server. When I open cygwin on my Windows XP machine, it opens fine, it finds the .login and all is good. I have another computer, Windows 7, on the same network, but when I try to >open cygwin on that machine, I get "/usr/l

ruby rebase / remap problems

2013-01-22 Thread David Stacey
I have a 'kitchen sink' Cygwin installation from 2013-01-14. This gives 'rebase' errors when running the following command (taken from a ./configure script): $ ruby -r mkmf -e 'exit(have_func("rb_hash_foreach") ? 0 : 1)' checking for rb_hash_foreach()... 0 [main] ruby 3064 child_info_for

Re: cygwin-inst-20130121

2013-01-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 03:34:55PM +, Achim Gratz wrote: >The latest snapshot and Emacs-24.2.90 do not like each other, I've rolled back >to the 2013-01-18 snapshot: This should be fixed in the upcoming snapshot. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Emacs 24.2.90.1 (previous-line) behavior

2013-01-22 Thread michael
> I've never seen this problem. Can you give a recipe for reproducing it > starting with `emacs-nox -Q'? > > > Ken $ emacs-nox -Q (you are placed in the *scratch* buffer) RET RET RET (opens some more blank lines) (Note that C-p and C-n work as expected) M-X linum-mode (Linum mode e

Re: Intermittent failures with ctrl-c

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Honermann
On 01/20/2013 05:08 PM, Tom Honermann wrote: However, I was still able to reproduce another case. As before, one of the processes is being left running when the rest are terminated. The "abandoned" process appears to be in a live-lock state with two threads (threads 1 and 2) running at 100%. O

Re: Intermittent failures with ctrl-c

2013-01-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:20:20PM -0500, Tom Honermann wrote: >On 01/20/2013 05:08 PM, Tom Honermann wrote: >> However, I was still able to reproduce another case. As before, one of >> the processes is being left running when the rest are terminated. The >> "abandoned" process appears to be in a

Re: Emacs 24.2.90.1 (previous-line) behavior

2013-01-22 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 21.01.2013 22:53, schrieb mich...@mauger.com: ... or Control-P (, C-p in emacs-speak) sometimes jumps up two lines rather than one. ... I did not encounter this problem with any of the pretest versions of 24.3 (which is what 24.2.90 is) on GNU/Linux. And while I guess this is not a Cygwin c