Re: subversion silently fails

2014-04-13 Thread jaakov jaakov
For an unknown reason, svn help as well as other commands of subversion work again after an update yesterday. Whoever contributed to repairing, thanks a lot! Jaakov. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again. > It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group > account creation without requiring the /etc/passwd and /etc/group > files. > Not a lot has changed since we made a break to test

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Eric Blake! >> A local cygwin user told me that the users in their company would >> probably be confused by the '+ or, FWIW, any other non-backslash char, >> because they were drilled to see and use usernames always in domain\name >> form, or even in domain\\user form when logging in to

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > What bugs me a bit is what this means for applications which expect > fixed usernames. Sshd, for instance, expects the fixed username > "sshd" right now when using privilege separation. I discussed this > with the OpenSSH devs, and they understand the problem, but

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again. >> >It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group >> >account creation without requiring the /etc/passwd and /etc/group >> >files. >> > >> >Not a lot has changed since we made a

gcc-4.9.0-RC-20140411

2014-04-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, Yesterday i tried to bootstrap the new gcc-4.9.0-RC-20140411 (with snapshot 20140412 installed), but didn’t manage to come to a satisfactory end. Not the snapshot fault i suppose. For the interested people, see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60830 . Regards, Denis Excoffie

Re: [Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: tmux-1.9a-1]

2014-04-13 Thread Michael Wild
Sorry, I was on vacation, and somehow I messed up my subscription to cygwin-users, so I missed the original post... After investigating a bit, it appears that when the terminal emulator uses /dev/cons*, the tmux server is denied access to it by Windows. When a /dev/pty* is in use, things are fine

mixed Ada-C program using OpenSSL library hangs on exit with Cygwin but not Cygwin64

2014-04-13 Thread Mark Veneziano
Hello, I have a very simple mixed Ada and C language program. My eventual goal is to make some OpenSSL calls from an Ada main program under Cygwin. The Ada code (a.adb): with ada.text_io; with system; procedure a is procedure junk (px : in system.address); pragma import (c, junk

Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-13 Thread KARR, DAVID
I recently installed 1.7.29 on a new Win7/64 laptop. Every day or so, I get a "fatal error" dialog from emacs-w32. It asks me if I want to debug it, but I'm not sure what info I could pull from gdb that would be useful. Is this a known problem? Is there any useful information I could provide?

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/13/2014 10:53 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote: I recently installed 1.7.29 on a new Win7/64 laptop. Every day or so, I get a "fatal error" dialog from emacs-w32. It asks me if I want to debug it, but I'm not sure what info I could pull from gdb that would be useful. A gdb backtrace might or migh

Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions

2014-04-13 Thread Ken Jackson
On 02/10/2014 08:15 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc alias clear='printf "\033c"' Sometimes 'clear' is installed and sometimes it's not, so I put this line in my ~/.bashrc file on all Linux, BSD and Cygwin systems: test -z "$(type -t clear)" && alias clear='e