Re: "man" hangs attempting to access UNC paths

2016-04-28 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:23:35AM -0700, joeking wrote: > When I try using "man", it hangs for a long time. > From PROCMON, I see that MAN.exe is accessing > \\man\PIPE\wkssvc - failed with BAD NETWORK PATH - about 3 seconds. > Then > \\share\man\ - failed with BAD NETWORK PATH - about 75 seconds

[PATCH] index.html: Minor whitespace fix

2016-04-28 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
--- index.html | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index c36ec70..dfeb4d5 100755 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ href="faq.html">FAQ, the User's Guide and the mailing list archives. If you've exhausted these resour

[PATCH] Git is Git, not GIT

2016-04-28 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
--- contrib.html | 6 +++--- cvs.html | 20 ++-- cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html | 4 ++-- faq/faq.html | 2 +- git.html | 28 ++-- lists.html | 4 ++-- navbar.html

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] texlive-collection-* 20160404-1 (TEST)

2016-04-28 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/12/2016 2:21 PM, Ken Brown wrote: Cygwin's TeX Live 2015 collections have been updated to the latest upstream release as test releases. TeX Live provides a comprehensive, cross-platform TeX system. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free soft

[ANNOUNCEMENT] gtk3 3.18.9-1

2016-04-28 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * gtk-update-icon-cache-3.18.9-1 * gtk3-demo-3.18.9-1 * libgtk3_0-3.18.9-1 * libgtk3-devel-3.18.9-1 * libgtk3-doc-3.18.9-1 * girepository-Gtk3.0-3.18.9-1 * libgailutil3_0-3.18.9-1 * libgailutil3-devel-3.18.9-1 * libgailutil3-doc

Re: converting from -mno-cygwin

2016-04-28 Thread Lee
On 4/27/16, JonY wrote: > On 4/27/2016 08:32, Lee wrote: >> On 4/26/16, JonY wrote: >>> On 4/27/2016 05:08, Lee wrote: Questions: [.. snip ..] >> and maybe it's a problem. I haven't tracked it down yet, but >> GNUmakefile.in has >> # PThreads library, if needed. >> PTHREAD_LIB = @PTHREAD

reading from pipes fails if working directory is on a removable drive

2016-04-28 Thread mihau
hello, came across this today on a fresh (2 days old) installation of cygwin x86 $ cat test.txt | head 3 [main] head (3348) C:\tools\cygwin\bin\head.exe: *** fatal error - MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x5DC), Win32 error 6. Terminating. Segmentation fault reading from pipes works fine if wo

Re: reading from pipes fails if working directory is on a removable drive

2016-04-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 28/04/2016 23:16, mihau wrote: hello, came across this today on a fresh (2 days old) installation of cygwin x86 $ cat test.txt | head 3 [main] head (3348) C:\tools\cygwin\bin\head.exe: *** fatal error - MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x5DC), Win32 error 6. Terminating. Segmentation fault r

`CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict`, `ln -s target link` fails if target doesn't exist

2016-04-28 Thread Gene Pavlovsky
Hello everybody! First post on this mailing list, my name is Gene, I'm from Russia, long-time Linux user, but had to use Windows as desktop for the last 8 years. Cygwin really helps me to keep my sanity! Thanks :) I have an issue to report: Introduction: On a UNIX system, `ln -s target link` cre

Re: reading from pipes fails if working directory is on a removable drive

2016-04-28 Thread mihau
On 28.04.2016 23:23, Marco Atzeri wrote: My cygwin is on a removable drive so your experience is not normal. I guess some BLODA. thanks for the suggestion; removed everything from the path except for the absolutely necessary, but it didn't help. As suggested on https://cygwin.com/problems.h

Re: "man" hangs attempting to access UNC paths

2016-04-28 Thread joeking
Thanks for your help. I've attached cygcheck.out - I removed a couple of private env vars and changed the username. There are a lot of things in my path, so I tried shortening it to just a bare minimum (C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1

Re: `CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict`, `ln -s target link` fails if target doesn't exist

2016-04-28 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Gene Pavlovsky! > I have an issue to report: > Introduction: On a UNIX system, `ln -s target link` creates a link > regardless of target's existence. > This is used in some scripts, e.g. Gentoo's `run-crons` (which I also > use on Cygwin) uses a symlink pointing to the running process

Re: `CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict`, `ln -s target link` fails if target doesn't exist

2016-04-28 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/28/2016 05:06 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Bottom line, I think the native symlink creation code should be >> checked and a possibility should be added to create links to >> non-existent targets, rather than the current behavior of failing. > > This is actually an arguable behavior, even in Li

Re: `CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict`, `ln -s target link` fails if target doesn't exist

2016-04-28 Thread Gene Pavlovsky
I don't know if POSIX standard has something to say about that, but here's a reference from GNU libc: `man 2 symlink`: > A symbolic link (also known as a soft link) may point to an existing > file or to a nonexistent one; the latter case is known as a dangling link. On 29 April 2016 at 02:

Re: `CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict`, `ln -s target link` fails if target doesn't exist

2016-04-28 Thread Gene Pavlovsky
The list of errors that might be returned by symlink(2) mention target only 3 times: EFAULT target or linkpath points outside your accessible address space. ENAMETOOLONG target or linkpath was too long. ENOENT A directory component in linkpath does not exist or is

Re: reading from pipes fails if working directory is on a removable drive

2016-04-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 29/04/2016 00:18, mihau wrote: ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall Can you disable it ? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

Re: "man" hangs attempting to access UNC paths

2016-04-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 29/04/2016 01:09, joeking wrote: Thanks for your help. I've attached cygcheck.out - I removed a couple of private env vars and changed the username. There are a lot of things in my path, so I tried shortening it to just a bare minimum (C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:

Re: `CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict`, `ln -s target link` fails if target doesn't exist

2016-04-28 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Eric Blake! > On 04/28/2016 05:06 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> Bottom line, I think the native symlink creation code should be >>> checked and a possibility should be added to create links to >>> non-existent targets, rather than the current behavior of failing. >> >> This is actually a

Re: Cygwin process activation very slow

2016-04-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 29/04/2016 03:39, b...@theworld.com wrote: 15-30 seconds to do even an ls of a small directory, seems to be process activation. I've spent several days on this. Cygcheck output below but W7 pro, 4GB, personal laptop, not a new CPU but otherwise seems ok and the disk is a 480GB Sandisk SSD, f