Re: umask not honored?

2016-01-22 Thread K Stahl
Discovered the cause of the issue. Somehow, the Win7 permission on my home directory were all messed up. Move my home directory out of the way. Restarted cygwin and let it create the initial directory. Moved my files back in and everything seems to work as expected. On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 4:40 PM

RE: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-22 Thread KARR, DAVID
> -Original Message- > From: Andrey Repin [mailto:anrdae...@yandex.ru] > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 11:35 PM > To: KARR, DAVID; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall > > Greetings, KARR, DAVID! > > >> > I was installing cygwin for the first time

Re: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only.

2016-01-22 Thread Marco Atzeri
please reply on the list and Bottom post please. On 22/01/2016 16:26, KARL BOTTS wrote: How largish ? Any size larger than a few meg. That is, any size that takes more than a few milliseconds to seek to the end, I think. We will need someone with W10 to test it and confirm it. On W7 I have

Cygwin setup with HTTPS package mirror

2016-01-22 Thread Brian J. Krische
I'm using a local LAN server to act as a cache of a cygwin package mirror. I'm trying to have the Cygwin setup application use this local server instead of one of the public mirrors. However, I'm having a bit of a problem. It appears the cygwin setup application can't use HTTPS to connect to thi

Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, KARR, DAVID! > Ok. I understand the basic procedure for uninstalling Cygwin, but what's > the best way to reset the installer to the "base" install? No need to "uninstall". Just nuke it from the orbit. Since this is a new installation, you are (presumable) have nothing to lose. P.S.

Re: Cygwin setup with HTTPS package mirror

2016-01-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Brian J. Krische! > I'm using a local LAN server to act as a cache of a cygwin package mirror. > I'm trying to have the Cygwin setup application use this local server > instead of one of the public mirrors. However, I'm having a bit of a > problem. It appears the cygwin setup applicatio

Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-22 Thread Mark Geisert
KARR, DAVID writes: > Ok. I understand the basic procedure for uninstalling Cygwin, but what's the best way to reset the > installer to the "base" install? Doing a base install just means running setup (the appropriate setup*.exe for your platform) and clicking Next all the way through, taking

Re: Base-files-mketc.sh error for non-existing C:\Windows\SysWOW64\drivers\etc

2016-01-22 Thread cyg Simple
On 1/22/2016 2:13 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > David Lee gmail.com> writes: >> Sorry not sure what you mean. > > What I mean is this: are all the Windows versions that Cygwin supports > looking for the hosts and other files in > > %windir%\system32\drivers\etc > Yes. > or are there some versio

Re: cygpath 2.4.0 (32-bits) in error?

2016-01-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 20:44, Houder wrote: > On 2016-01-21 20:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>Hi Corinna, > >> > >>Did not mean to get you angry ... > > > >It's not you getting me angry here ;) > > It is not? :-))) > > >>do_sysfolders() in cygpath.cc has changed between 2.3.1 and 2.4.0 where > >>it attempts

Re: Performance of "ls -F"

2016-01-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 22 07:30, Achim Gratz wrote: > Bill Smith progress.com> writes: > > The difference is 1.3 seconds versus 1 minute 7 seconds. The directory is > identical on the two NetApps and > > they both contain ~29K files. C-dot (Cluster Data On Tap) is the newest > operating system for the NetApp.

Re: Performance of "ls -F"

2016-01-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > Just a hint: ls -F requires to stat every single file. stat in turn > requires to load not only the usual metadata but also to fetch the ACL > and convert it to POSIX permissions. The timings are from shares mounted with the noacl option, so that bit of code shouldn't

How to compile vim so that the server feature works?

2016-01-22 Thread Martin T.
I want to run vim in servermode. I need the +clientserver feature for this to work, so I have to compile vim myself. I have done this but servermode does not work. this is what I have done $ ./configure --with-x --with-features=huge --enable-luainterp --with-luajit --enable-pythoninterp --enable

Re: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only.

2016-01-22 Thread Helmut Karlowski
--- > please reply on the list > and Bottom post please. > > On 22/01/2016 16:26, KARL BOTTS wrote: > >> How largish ? > > > > Any size larger than a few meg. That is, any size that takes more than a > > few > > milliseconds to seek to the end, I t

Re: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only.

2016-01-22 Thread KARL BOTTS
> --- > > please reply on the list > > and Bottom post please. > > > > On 22/01/2016 16:26, KARL BOTTS wrote: > > >> How largish ? > > > > > > Any size larger than a few meg. That is, any size that takes more than a few > > > milliseconds to seek to

Using Perl on Cygwin; how to prevent display of unwanted usage/error message?

2016-01-22 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; I'm using a qx call to "net user username /DOMAIN" (probably should use system instead) to determine whether a person having an active account in an application is still an employee. I get two messages back (error and/or usage) when a username is not found. "The user name could not be fo

Re: Using Perl on Cygwin; how to prevent display of unwanted usage/error message?

2016-01-22 Thread Erik Soderquist
In cygwin, I use >/dev/null 2>&1 quite frequently and it works as expected. In windows cmd.exe, I don't know why they would recommend the < part for dealing with output, but I have used >NUL 2>&1 for the same effect in Windows command shells. -- Erik On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Kenneth Wolc

Re: Using Perl on Cygwin; how to prevent display of unwanted usage/error message?

2016-01-22 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Kenneth Wolcott > wrote: >> Hi; >> >> I'm using a qx call to "net user username /DOMAIN" (probably should >> use system instead) to determine whether a person having an active >> account in an application is still an employee. >> >> I get two messages back (e

Problem with dlsym against libicu

2016-01-22 Thread Sam Habiel
Hello all. I am porting GT.M (https://www.fisglobal.com/Solutions/Services/Database-Engine) to run on Cygwin x86. My changes are here: https://github.com/shabiel/fis-gtm/. GT.M is used in healthcare and banking; I happen to work in the former field. The problem I am having is that GT.M opens libi