FUSE for Cygwin - was: Re: Fork and Windows Heap

2016-06-17 Thread Bill Zissimopoulos
[I apologize if my responses to the list appear to break the mailing list's threading model. I am not actually subscribed to the list and I respond to individual messages using my mail app.] Hello, Herbert: Herbert Stocker wrote: > > On 16.06.2016 08:37, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: > > > > I have a

GitHub shutdown repo

2016-06-17 Thread Frank Fesevur
Hi, I recently transferred my shutdown repo from my personal github acoount to the cygwin organization. Could anybody with the right permissions rename the repo to just "shutdown"? Regards, Frank -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/

Re: FUSE for Cygwin - was: Re: Fork and Windows Heap

2016-06-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Bill, On Jun 17 07:25, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: > > How are you dealing with limitations of the Windows file system as seen > > from a POSIX perspective? You say you can't support hard links. > > Windows hard links are rather un-POSIX like and rarely used on Windows. > After considering the r

Re: GitHub shutdown repo

2016-06-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 17 10:34, Frank Fesevur wrote: > Hi, > > I recently transferred my shutdown repo from my personal github > acoount to the cygwin organization. > > Could anybody with the right permissions rename the repo to just "shutdown"? Done. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, se

Re: FUSE for Cygwin

2016-06-17 Thread Herbert Stocker
On 6/17/2016 9:25 AM, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: WinFsp provides three (3) different modes of integration: (1) Its own native API, which allows a user mode file system to do almost anything NTFS can do (with a few exceptions). It also allows for the Read, Write and ReadDirectory callbacks to be a

Re: setup - 0p_000_autorebase.dash hangs

2016-06-17 Thread Michel Bader
Hi, I am also having the problem of 0p_000_autorebase.dash and 0p_update-info-dir.dash hanging during setup. I have tried both the 32 and 64 on this laptop with the same result. when i end the dash process with alt+ctr+del i move forward to the postinstall scripts and these also hang one by

Re: setup - 0p_000_autorebase.dash hangs

2016-06-17 Thread cyg Simple
On 6/17/2016 2:51 PM, Michel Bader wrote: > > any hints on how to fix this? > > > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ I'm guessing some BLODA. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Latest perl JSON::XS failing when threaded

2016-06-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Wayne Davison writes: > As for thread support, it looks like I need to start using > Cpanel::JSON::XS (which might be nice to get added into cygwin). I > noticed that the newly added JSON::MaybeXS will choose > Cpanel::JSON::XS first if it is around (unlike "JSON", which just > seems to choose bet

Re: FUSE for Cygwin - was: Re: Fork and Windows Heap

2016-06-17 Thread Bill Zissimopoulos
Hi, Corinna: On Jun 17 07:25, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: > > Windows hard links are rather un-POSIX like and rarely used on Windows. > > After considering the required changes on the FSD for a feature that is > > so rarely used I opted against supporting them. > > I disagree here. Windows hardlin

Re: FUSE for Cygwin

2016-06-17 Thread Bill Zissimopoulos
Hi, Herbert: > > WinFsp provides three (3) different modes of integration: [snip] > i'm planning to make a suggestion of mode (4). It will be in addition or > instead of (3) and will avoid those issues we touched. I think (based on your earlier ask re: bindings to Python, Perl, etc.) I may see wh

Re: xdvipdfmx:fatal: This font using the "seac" command for accented characters...

2016-06-17 Thread Mark McGregor
Ken wrote: > Ken, thank you! > (You might probably have more experience with XeTeX than me. Is XeTeX > dying? The last bugfix was in March, months ago, and apart from A.R. > nobody seems to work on it anyway...) No, I don't think XeTeX is dying. A look at its git repository shows lots of comm