Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 4 20:53, Achim Gratz wrote: > Warren Young writes: > > Here’s an interesting experiment to try on your non-Cygwin POSIX boxes: > > > > $ HOME=/dfjkshkds bash -l > > $ echo $HOME > > > > Guess what it prints. > > > > Hint: It isn’t the second-to-last field in /etc/passwd. :) This is

Re: fork: can't reserve memory for parent stack

2015-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 23:37, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Testing on 64bit latest pure-ftp, I hit this issue: > > /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd.exe -d > 1 [main] pure-ftpd 8860 E:\cygwin64\usr\sbin\pure-ftpd.exe: *** fatal > error in forked process - fork: can't reserve memory for parent stack > 0x1E - 0x3E, (ch

Re: Failure when building LibreOffice on Windows 7 via Jenkins

2015-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 4 10:48, Jan-Marek Glogowski wrote: > I have attached a diff of the environment. When investigating, I added > an CYGWIN=binmode export, but this didn't change the output. https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html#cygwinenv-removed-options binmode is loong gone. Cori

Re: Seg Fault in strftime

2015-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 23:33, Michael Enright wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Michael Enright wrote: > > I'm interested in a solution at the libmozjs level > > Is there anything I can do to advance a solution in libmozjs? You could report the problem upstream, ideally. Since the behaviour is not res

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 05.08.2015 um 09:54 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Aug 4 20:53, Achim Gratz wrote: Warren Young writes: Here’s an interesting experiment to try on your non-Cygwin POSIX boxes: $ HOME=/dfjkshkds bash -l $ echo $HOME Guess what it prints. Hint: It isn’t the second-to-last field in

Re: Possible issue with Firefox (38.0.1) running on X Server 1.17.2

2015-08-05 Thread Derby Pride
Thanks for your reply Jon. I'm happy to report that I tried the 32-bit version of your updated XWin.exe which worked perfectly. On 4 August 2015 at 18:30, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 03/08/2015 16:43, Derby Pride wrote: >> >> I have recently upgraded Cygwin/X which upped the version of X Server >> up

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Kiehl, Horst
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > The problem the fix was *supposed* to fix (but it didn't) was to disallow > incoming $HOME values which are non-POSIX or non-absolute paths. These > $HOME values should be disregarded. > > So the idea was: > > set HOME=foo<- ignored, set HOME from pas

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 5 09:19, Kiehl, Horst wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > The problem the fix was *supposed* to fix (but it didn't) was to disallow > > incoming $HOME values which are non-POSIX or non-absolute paths. These > > $HOME values should be disregarded. > > > > So the idea was: > > > > se

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 5 11:09, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 05.08.2015 um 09:54 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >On Aug 4 20:53, Achim Gratz wrote: > >>Warren Young writes: > >>>Here’s an interesting experiment to try on your non-Cygwin POSIX boxes: > >>> > >>> $ HOME=/dfjkshkds bash -l > >>> $ echo $HOME > >>>

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated chicken-4.10.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Christian Kellermann
Version 4.10.0-1 of "chicken" has been uploaded. CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. CHICKEN produces portable and efficient C, supports almost all of the R5RS Scheme language standard, and includes many enhancements and extensions. CHICKEN runs on Linux, MacOS X, Windows, a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Kiehl, Horst! > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> The problem the fix was *supposed* to fix (but it didn't) was to disallow >> incoming $HOME values which are non-POSIX or non-absolute paths. These >> $HOME values should be disregarded. >> >> So the idea was: >> >> set HOME=foo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > The problem the fix was *supposed* to fix (but it didn't) was to disallow > incoming $HOME values which are non-POSIX or non-absolute paths. These > $HOME values should be disregarded. > So the idea was: > set HOME=foo <- ignored, set HOME from passwd D

Re: Pipe behaviour broken with Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Mark O'Keefe! > I’ve noticed that the following is broken in Cygwin 2.2.0-1. It works in > Cygwin 2.1.0-1. > yes | head -10 > This fails to exit on Cygwin 2.2.0-1. It correctly exists on Cygwin 2.1.0-1. WJFFM both in mintty and native console. CYGWIN_NT-6.1 daemon2 2.2.0(0.289/5/3

Re: Pipe behaviour broken with Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Nem W Schlecht
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> I’ve noticed that the following is broken in Cygwin 2.2.0-1. It works in >> Cygwin 2.1.0-1. > >> yes | head -10 > >> This fails to exit on Cygwin 2.2.0-1. It correctly exists on Cygwin 2.1.0-1. > > WJFFM both in mintty and native consol

Re: Pipe behaviour broken with Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 05/08/2015 23:09, Nem W Schlecht wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: I’ve noticed that the following is broken in Cygwin 2.2.0-1. It works in Cygwin 2.1.0-1. yes | head -10 This fails to exit on Cygwin 2.2.0-1. It correctly exists on Cygwin 2.1.0-1. WJFF

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Nicholas Clark
I totally agree that setting HOME to a relative-path is probably a Bad Idea, and can/should be undefined behavior. As for absolute paths (and whether they should be POSIX, Windows, or either), that's a little less cut and dry for me. I currently use a ton of scripts of the general form:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Nicholas Clark! > I totally agree that setting HOME to a relative-path is probably a Bad > Idea, and can/should be undefined behavior. As for absolute paths (and > whether they should be POSIX, Windows, or either), that's a little > less cut and dry for me. > I currently use a ton of s

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Nicholas Clark
You're certainly right that there are nicer ways to write that script. My point with the sample script above is that I'm currently using a Windows-style HOME path, and it works fine. Chances are there are a bunch of other users out there who also use a Windows-style HOME path in messy .bat files -