Re: Permission Problems

2016-04-25 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
> From: Dave Caswell  > To: cygwin    > Cc: > Date: 2016/4/25, Mon 09:29 > Subject: Permission Problems > >T his is a followup to: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-03/msg00345.html > > To recap, making three nested directories  on a non-C drive produces a > third level which is unusable

Re: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS

2016-04-25 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 08:49:18AM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Brian Clifton! > > -Original Message- > > From: Andrey Repin > >> Greetings, Brian Clifton! > > > >>> Hi folks, > > > >>> I have a proposed change for the web site. This patch (see below) will > >>> update most of t

Re: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS

2016-04-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Adam Dinwoodie! > Secure connections historically had a high overhead, sure, but that's > very rarely the case nowadays. Certainly my experince of loading the > Cygwin web page is that there's no perceptible difference between the > http and https versions. Adam Langley (a senior engi

Re: can't open cygwin from shortcut

2016-04-25 Thread Doug McIlroy
The nonworking "Cygwin64 Terminal" shortcut is indeed a bug in CYGWIN_NT-10.0 version 2.4.1(0.293/5/3). Adding .exe to the pathname for mintty fixes it. Thanks to Brian Inglis for telling me how to do that. Doug McIlroy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

gcc x86 - problem on library search order

2016-04-25 Thread Marco Atzeri
Visible on 32bit and not present on 64bit $ cat uuid.c #include int main () { uuid_t out; uuid_generate_random(out); return 0; } $ gcc uuid.c -luuid /tmp/ccLlmFMf.o:uuid.c:(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `uuid_generate_random' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status $ g

RE: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS

2016-04-25 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
-Original Message- From: Adam Dinwoodie > ... > But I agree with Brian: the Cygwin website > should use https everywhere unless there's some good, specific reason > why it's a bad idea... 1. Did Brian say that? I couldn't find it in the thread. 2. I would be interested to hear the rationa

Re: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS

2016-04-25 Thread Vince Rice
> On Apr 25, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: Adam Dinwoodie >> ... >> But I agree with Brian: the Cygwin website >> should use https everywhere unless there's some good, specific reason >> why it's a bad idea... > > 1. Did Brian say that? I couldn

Re: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS

2016-04-25 Thread Brian Clifton
>From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com on behalf of Vince >Rice >Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 12:58 PM >To: cygwin@cygwin.com >Subject: Re: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS > >> On Apr 25, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Nellis, Kenneth >> wrote: >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Adam

Re: httpd/sshd will not start due to "failed to create proxy mutex" error

2016-04-25 Thread Matt Gregory
I fixed it! I don't know if the fix is any good, but the server starts and serves pages. The key was this Mutex directive: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#mutex I wound up adding this to my httpd.conf: > Mutex posixsem proxy I don't know if "posixsem" is the right choice,

Re: Permission Problems

2016-04-25 Thread Dave Caswell
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: >> From: Dave Caswell >> To: cygwin >> Cc: >> Date: 2016/4/25, Mon 09:29 >> Subject: Permission Problems >> >>T his is a followup to: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-03/msg00345.html >> >> To recap, making three nested director

Re: Permission Problems

2016-04-25 Thread Dave Caswell
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 25/04/2016 02:29, Dave Caswell wrote: >> >> This is a followup to: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-03/msg00345.html >> >> To recap, making three nested directories on a non-C drive produces a >> third level which is unusable. >> >> dave