[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.27

2013-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released Cygwin 1.7.27. This is mainly a bugfix release. To install 32-bit Cygwin use http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe To install 64 bit Cygwin use http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe The 64 bit Cygwin distribution doesn't yet come with as many packages as the

Problems with the mailinglist

2013-12-08 Thread Rainer Woitok - Mobil
Whenever I'm posting to the list using my normal email address (without the "dot mobile" part) I'm receiving a "552 spam score exceeded threshold" error message. What's going wrong here? Sincerely Rainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygw

Re: Problems with the mailinglist

2013-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 03:31:43PM +0100, Rainer Woitok - Mobil wrote: >Whenever I'm posting to the list using my normal email address >(without the "dot mobile" part) I'm receiving a "552 spam score >exceeded threshold" error message. What's going wrong here? The first thing wrong is that you ar

Please don't send personal email to maintainers

2013-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
I frequently find email in the spam trap on cygwin.com addressed to Corinna personally. I've also recently had email sent to me personally despite my from address. Please don't do this. Please use the mailing list for all Cygwin communications unless specifically instructed otherwise. Note that

Signal occasionally causes thread inside win32 api to be suspended?

2013-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
I don't really understand the intricacies of cygwin signal delivery, but I see that it can suspend the target thread to determine if it's in a safe place to deliver the signal (outside a win32 API call). I think that sometimes the thread is not correctly resumed. This appears to be the cause of

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated, new for 64-bit: lftp 4.4.11-1

2013-12-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > The real mirror script sanitizes the cygwin.lftp script and the sources > it for the actual mirroring. The problem is that from version 4.4.10 on > the cygwin.lftp will include _all_ files encountered by mirror, not just > the newer and missing ones. I've spent some time wit

cygwin1.dll update

2013-12-08 Thread Tim Prince
1.27.7 from sourceware mirror not working with gcc nor gfortran for me. Tried 3 closer mirrors first which delivered the previous bad version. -- Tim Prince -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cy

Re: cygwin1.dll update

2013-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 8 15:10, Tim Prince wrote: > 1.27.7 from sourceware mirror not working with gcc nor gfortran for > me. -v? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat pgp8yfFdg2UKj.pgp Descript