[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: socat 1.7.2.4-1, 2.0.0-b7-1

2014-05-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
Two new versions of socat are available in the Cygwin distribution: 1.7.2.4-1 - current 2.0.0-b7-1 - test These are new upstream releases, that address a security vulnerability (possible buffer overflow) in previous versions. Security advisory: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/s

Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)

2014-05-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 8 19:17, Robert Pendell wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I created a new snapshot on http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ which > > introduces the following behaviour, which is a bit less intrusive: > > > > If a local account is connected to a Microsoft Account,

Re: socat with IP6 support?

2014-05-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 8 22:05, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > On May 8 15:23, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > > On Jan 20 03:45, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > > > Cygwin doesn't seem to > > > > > define IPV6_DSTOPTS. In Ubuntu, it's defined in > > > > > /usr/include/linux/in6.h (value 59), along with a whole bunch of

Enquiry on Cygwin function - file sharing between Windows and Windows

2014-05-09 Thread Marco Lau
Dear Cygwin, Further to FAQ 4.28, we know that Cygwin can provide a SCP protocol for file sharing between Unix and Windows and we have been using this tool for years. My question is, can we do the same thing for file sharing between Windows and Windows? I know there are huge number of sftp appli

Re: Enquiry on Cygwin function - file sharing between Windows and Windows

2014-05-09 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 09/05/2014 11:07, Marco Lau wrote: Dear Cygwin, Further to FAQ 4.28, we know that Cygwin can provide a SCP protocol for file sharing between Unix and Windows and we have been using this tool for years. My question is, can we do the same thing for file sharing between Windows and Windows? I

Re: socat with IP6 support?

2014-05-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > To copy file1 to file2 on the localhost, run: > > > > socat tcp6-listen: file2 > > > > to set up a listener, and: > > > > socat tcp6:[::1]: file1 > > > > to connect to the listener and transfer the file. > > > > If you have two hosts, you could try the same, running the fir

strace and sigprocmask

2014-05-09 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Running on Windows 8.1, with 32-bit Cygwin v1.7.29. I've taken straces of a problematic area of xemacs, tidied them, and am trying to locate significant differences. I'm seeing something I don't understand, which isn't causing a crash so probably isn't significant, but I'd like to understand it b

Re: strace and sigprocmask

2014-05-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 01:55:51PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >Running on Windows 8.1, with 32-bit Cygwin v1.7.29. > >I've taken straces of a problematic area of xemacs, tidied them, and >am trying to locate significant differences. > >I'm seeing something I don't understand, which isn't causi

Cygwin home looking at wrong directory

2014-05-09 Thread xmoon 2000
My IT just installed Cygwin on a machine with 2 drives c and d. They appear to have installed on both drives (not sure why!) How can I tell Cygwin which drive I want it to use? There is NO windows environment HOME variable set. So how is it choosing D drive version over the C drive version tha

Re: socat with IP6 support?

2014-05-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 9 06:01, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > To copy file1 to file2 on the localhost, run: > > > > > > socat tcp6-listen: file2 > > > > > > to set up a listener, and: > > > > > > socat tcp6:[::1]: file1 > > > > > > to connect to the listener and transfer the file. > > > > > > If y

Re: socat with IP6 support?

2014-05-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> 2.0 works for me, too. Thanks for testing. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin home looking at wrong directory

2014-05-09 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 09/05/2014 16:34, xmoon 2000 wrote: My IT just installed Cygwin on a machine with 2 drives c and d. They appear to have installed on both drives (not sure why!) How can I tell Cygwin which drive I want it to use? There is NO windows environment HOME variable set. So how is it choosing D

Re: getent group fails

2014-05-09 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-05-09 11:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 7 19:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: > Thanks for the report. I made a dumb Copy/paste error. This should > be fixed in the today's snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Indeed, it is working now. Also, i have noticed that 'getent group' pr

Re: Enquiry on Cygwin function - file sharing between Windows and Windows

2014-05-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 5/9/2014 2:33 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 09/05/2014 11:07, Marco Lau wrote: Dear Cygwin, Further to FAQ 4.28, we know that Cygwin can provide a SCP protocol for file sharing between Unix and Windows and we have been using this tool for years. My question is, can we do the same thing for fil

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen 4.2.1-1

2014-05-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of screen, 4.2.1-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release. This release may or may not fix some of the known outstanding issues with screen: Scrolling breaks in shells inside screen: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00223.html ssh segmentat

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ping-1.0.2-1

2014-05-09 Thread Marco Atzeri
New versions 1.0.2-1 of ping are available in the Cygwin distribution (32 and 64 bit) : CHANGES - First release for cygwin 64 bit. Minimal source change to remove all build warning with latest gcc-4.8 (additional header and some casts) - No functional change for 32 bit, just same repackin