Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 2 14:20, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2014-02-28 22:08 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: > > That's not really a problem but a case of "it is as it is". To get the > > user and group info, Cygwin has to contact the DC and/or GC and then > > runs into a timeout. Right now, the LDAP timeout is set to 3

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 02:08, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > I've just uploaded a new snapshot to http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > I've sent a reply with testing details, but it may have been caught by SPAM > deflection for "excess use of foreign language". > Please disregard this no

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Frank Fesevur
2014-03-03 10:21 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: > No, this is not mintty's fault. You have to understand that the > request for information from the DC is called before the actual > application had any chance to initialize, This happens before > the application has, in fact, been called from the Cyg

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Frank Fesevur writes: > 2014-03-03 10:21 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: >> - We allow the user to specify a timeout value and set the default to >> 1 second. > I think the [above] makes most sense. Maybe even keep the default > timeout on 3 seconds. When the user can change the value, it is up to

Re: va_list and char* are ambiguous

2014-03-03 Thread Kai Tietz
Hi, cygwin64 shares for 64-bit the ABI of Windows native. This is caused by different reasons (eg. unwind-table description for prologue, etc). So for Windows targets va_list is indeed of 'char *' type. And this is ok. The variant of x86_64 abi, which uses indeed a structure-variant for variadi

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 12:29, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Frank Fesevur writes: > > > 2014-03-03 10:21 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: > >> - We allow the user to specify a timeout value and set the default to > >> 1 second. > > > I think the [above] makes most sense. Maybe even keep the default > > timeout on 3

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-03-03 Thread Charles Wilson
On 2/26/2014 5:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Weird, I was pretty sure we already have an /etc/shells file installed by default. Apparently not. So, shan't we add one? /bin/sh /bin/bash /bin/dash /bin/mksh /bin/zsh /usr/bin/sh /usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/dash /usr/bin/mks

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: google-breakpad

2014-03-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * google-breakpad-tools * google-breakpad-devel google-breakpad is a multi-platform crash reporting and analysis system using minidumps. The google-breakpad-tools package contains the minidump_dump and minidump_stackwalk tools f

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> > I've just uploaded a new snapshot to http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ >> >> I've sent a reply with testing details, but it may have been caught by SPAM >> deflection for "excess use of foreign language". >> Please disregard this notification, if a message will finall

Re: Building libsigsegv on Cygwin64

2014-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 2 12:20, Ken Brown wrote: > On 2/21/2014 10:32 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > >Trying to build libsigsegv-2.10 on Cygwin64 (using the src tarball and > >its .cygport file from x86 distribution), fails as follows > > > >[...] > >libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. > >-I/works/tmp/libsig

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-03-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Charles Wilson! > Speaking of base-files, version 4.1-2 has been in test now for over two > years...works fine here and fixes a problem with $TEMP and other > "standard" variable names: 4.1-1 set both $TEMP and $temp, but these are > not distinguished by native processes, leading to c

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 08:55, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 2/26/2014 5:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Weird, I was pretty sure we already have an /etc/shells file installed > >by default. Apparently not. So, shan't we add one? > > > > /bin/sh > > /bin/bash > > /bin/dash > > /bin/mksh > > /bin/zsh >

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 18:47, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > >> > I've just uploaded a new snapshot to http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > >> > >> I've sent a reply with testing details, but it may have been caught by SPAM > >> deflection for "excess use of foreign language". > >> Please di

An aspell-it package for Cygwin64?

2014-03-03 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Would it be possible to have an aspell-it dictionary added to Cygwin64? I remember that in the past someone prepared that package (at least for Cygwin32) and flagged it to the Cygwin lists, but the request was lost... TIA, Angelo. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FA

Re: Building libsigsegv on Cygwin64

2014-03-03 Thread Kai Tietz
Hmm, I think that stuff around EXCEPTION_DEBUG_EVENT is that what you are searching for. See for some details http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms679299%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Regards, Kai -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cy

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> In the meantime, I see my previous mail was indeed caught in the middle. I'll >> repost it with a link to test results. > Nah, never mind. I'm more interested of your experiences than in > dry numbers :) Oh, don't be so quick, lady... The results were quite inter

Re: Building libsigsegv on Cygwin64

2014-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 16:15, Kai Tietz wrote: > Hmm, I think that stuff around EXCEPTION_DEBUG_EVENT is that what you > are searching for. See for some details > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms679299%28v=vs.85%29.aspx These are functions for the debugger. I was looking for a way t

Re: An aspell-it package for Cygwin64?

2014-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 16:14, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Would it be possible to have an aspell-it dictionary added to Cygwin64? > > I remember that in the past someone prepared that package (at least > for Cygwin32) and flagged it to the Cygwin lists, but the request > was lost... You could volunteer to mainta

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > No, this is not mintty's fault. You have to understand that the > request for information from the DC is called before the actual > application had any chance to initialize, This happens before > the application has, in fact, been called from the Cygwin DLL. > The

Re: Building libsigsegv on Cygwin64

2014-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 16:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 2 12:20, Ken Brown wrote: > [...] > > I found the problem (or at least I found *a* problem): There's a > > configure test "checking whether a fault handler according to POSIX > > works", which passes on 32-bit Cygwin but fails on 64-bit Cygwin. >

RE: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Andy Hall
> On Mar 2 14:20, Frank Fesevur wrote: > > 2014-02-28 22:08 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: > > > That's not really a problem but a case of "it is as it is". To get the > > > user and group info, Cygwin has to contact the DC and/or GC and then > > > runs into a timeout. Right now, the LDAP timeout

Re: Building libsigsegv on Cygwin64

2014-03-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/3/2014 12:06 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 16:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 2 12:20, Ken Brown wrote: [...] I found the problem (or at least I found *a* problem): There's a configure test "checking whether a fault handler according to POSIX works", which passes on 32-bit Cyg

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> I'd need to test it in domain environment, but I don't have access to one >> with >> Cygwin installed right now. Or, perhaps, I do?... let me check something. > Sure. I just thought of a derelict pair of virtualbox containers, that were set up to simulate domain

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> I'd need to test it in domain environment, And with sane number of groups (less than 20), the results are barely different between different caching strategies (less than 1%, which could easily be explained by measurement error), except (again) for the case of runi

Re: struct tm problem

2014-03-03 Thread Irfan Adilovic
(Please note the date of the quoted emails) On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:58:01PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:34:21PM +0430, Alireza Ghasemi wrote: > > Hello, > > I have downloaded some c++ libraries and tried to download them.But All of > > them give an error l

Re: va_list and char* are ambiguous

2014-03-03 Thread Irfan Adilovic
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Kai Tietz wrote: > Hi, > > cygwin64 shares for 64-bit the ABI of Windows native. This is caused > by different reasons (eg. unwind-table description for prologue, etc). > So for Windows targets va_list is indeed of 'char *' type. And this > is ok. The variant of x

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Warren Young
On 3/3/2014 08:52, Andrey Repin wrote: I'd say it again, "sane defaults are better, than alot of options". Agreed in principle. However, observe that all network stacks have a bunch of built-in timeout options. They're rarely exposed to the user level, but their defaults are typically quit

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! >> I'd say it again, "sane defaults are better, than alot of options". > Agreed in principle. > However, observe that all network stacks have a bunch of built-in > timeout options. They're rarely exposed to the user level, but their > defaults are typically quite high

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Warren Young
On 3/3/2014 18:36, Andrey Repin wrote: Once TCP session is established, it remains, until closed or dropped on either end of the wire. Have you done the packet capture to prove that Windows does in fact keep the LDAP connection to the AD server up continually, or are you making an assumption?