Re: blockdev.exe is missing in util-linux. How to determine block device size in bash?

2020-12-05 Thread Ilya Basin via Cygwin
Strange. On Win7 this doesn't work: il@mar2 /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32 $ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name win-mounts 8 0 0 sda 816 0 sdb il@mar2 /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32 $ dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/sda bs=1M

Re: setup.exe corruption

2020-12-05 Thread o lu via Cygwin
How does this acl option work? Im on Win 10 Home. On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:10 AM o lu wrote: > How does the acl option work? I ran it on a regular Windows directory (to > my knowledge). > > Your english is fine. > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 4:20 AM Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Greetings, o lu! >>

Re: ssh to cygwin-box and access remote exe fails saying exe is a directory

2020-12-05 Thread Raj Kumar Sanpui via Cygwin
I haven't received any help/suggestions from the forum, but i tried digging deeper. Now i can see the "Is a directory" error happens if I do passwordless ssh (copying my public key using ssh-copy-id) to remote Cygwin box and try executing the exe, i get the error. rsanpui@cygwin ~ $ "//DNVM/E920/S

Environment variable named !:: (exclamation mark + colon + colon)

2020-12-05 Thread tzccinct via Cygwin
Hi, I have found an environment variable that has a strange name `!::' (exclamation mark + colon + colon) on my terminal (both mintty and Tera Term). The value is also strange, `::\' (colon + colon + backslash). $ env | sort | head -n 3 !::=::\ _=/usr/bin/env ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData I

gnuplot post-install : exit code 1

2020-12-05 Thread Fergus Daly via Cygwin
Both cygwin32 and cygwin64, both up-to-date: Following recent update to gnuplot I'm getting post-install errors as follows in both setup logs: running: D:\cygwin..\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh" abnormal exit: exit code=1 My installed.db shows gnuplot-X11 gnuplot-X1

Re: ssh to cygwin-box and access remote exe fails saying exe is a directory

2020-12-05 Thread Raj Kumar Sanpui via Cygwin
I feel, i got the answer to the question here: https://superuser.com/questions/1607551/remote-login-using-ssh-keys-vs-password-weird-error-is-a-directory/1607563 This issue may be marked as close. On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 7:16 PM Raj Kumar Sanpui wrote: > I haven't received any help/suggestions f

Re: Environment variable named !:: (exclamation mark + colon + colon)

2020-12-05 Thread Csaba Raduly via Cygwin
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 15:25, tzccinct wrote: > > Hi, > > I have found an environment variable that has a strange name `!::' > (exclamation mark + colon + colon) on my terminal (both mintty and Tera > Term). The value is also strange, `::\' (colon + colon + backslash). > > $ env | sort | head -n 3 >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libarchive-3.5.0-1, mingw64-{x86_64, i686}-libarchive-3.5.0-1

2020-12-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Libarchive has been updated to version 3.5.0-1, the following (sub-)packages: libarchive (source) libarchive-devel libarchive13 bsdcat bsdcpio bsdtar mingw64-i686-libarchive mingw64-x86_64-libarchive are available in the Cygwin distribution. The MinGW64 packages

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2020-12-05 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest release version available on CPAN: x86/x86_64 -- perl-DateTime-1.54-1 -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubs

Re: Unix Domain Socket Limitation?

2020-12-05 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 12/4/2020 8:51 AM, Norton Allen wrote: On 12/3/2020 8:11 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/2/2020 12:30 PM, Norton Allen wrote: On 11/30/2020 9:22 PM, Norton Allen wrote: Yeah, so now the example no longer blocks for me. Unfortunately these bugs are not present in my application, so I will need to