Re: Cygwin UNC path conversion functions?

2023-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Nov 30 04:44, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: > Hello, > > does Cygwin have UNC path conversion functions, for example UNC path > to DOS mount letter, UNC path to file URL? Neither Cygwin nor Windows really care for that when using paths. Either you use a drive letter or you use an UNC path, and

Re: "Lazy" bind mounts?

2023-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Nov 30 04:53, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: > Hello, > > if I do a mount -o bind //foo/bar/baz /mnt the UNC path //foo/bar/baz > is evaluated immediately, i.e. the network share //foo/bar/baz is > "mounted" immediately. > > Is it possible to mount //foo/bar/baz only the first time someone does

Re: Cygwin tools to read/write NTFS alternate data streams?

2023-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Nov 30 04:55, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: > Hello, > > Does Cygwin have tools (modified /usr/bin/dd ?) to read/write NTFS > alternate data streams? No. As you know, the colon is translated to a normal filename character, and there's no POSIX-like API to expose ADS raw to user space. There

Comment about "Cygwin: sparse support: enable automatic sparsifying of files on SSDs", extend feature to VMware/qemu disks?

2023-12-01 Thread Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
Good morning! Small comment about 3.5.0 commit "Cygwin: sparse support: enable automatic sparsifying of files on SSDs" https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=832e91422c4ae9b2dcd0c307779f3dd53ee9c0ac Can this functionality be extended to VMware and QEMU virtual disks, please? Also

Re: Cygwin mount limited to 64 mounts, even for UNC paths?

2023-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Dec 1 04:55, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote: > Greetings, Martin Wege! > > > Cygwin mount(1) is (per docs) limited to 64 mounts. Why was that > > limitation chosen, and does it apply even if I create bind mounts to > > UNC paths (not DOS letters)? DOS letters might be restricted by the > > ASC

Re: Cygwin api to punch a hole into a file?

2023-12-01 Thread Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 at 11:30, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Nov 24 12:01, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Nov 23 23:36, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > > > Linux has fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE|FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, ...) > > > to punch a hole into a file, i.e. deall

Re: Comment about "Cygwin: sparse support: enable automatic sparsifying of files on SSDs", extend feature to VMware/qemu disks?

2023-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Dec 1 11:12, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > Good morning! > > Small comment about 3.5.0 commit "Cygwin: sparse support: enable > automatic sparsifying of files on SSDs" > https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=832e91422c4ae9b2dcd0c307779f3dd53ee9c0ac > > Can this function

_PC_MIN_HOLE_SIZE pathconf() Re: Cygwin api to punch a hole into a file?

2023-12-01 Thread Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 at 11:30, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Nov 24 12:01, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Nov 23 23:36, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > > > Linux has fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE|FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, ...) > > > to punch a hole into a file, i.e. deall

Re: Cygwin api to punch a hole into a file?

2023-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Dec 1 11:22, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > I see the value of 128k (128*1024 bytes) quite often in your sparse > file commits. Yes, but they have been removed. Read the patches again, especially commit 65831f88d6c4. > Can you please make this value a per filesystem tunable? No, becaus

RE: inkscape installed but does nothing --- solved to my satisfaction

2023-12-01 Thread J.F. Huesman via Cygwin
> I have uploaded a re-build of inkscape that seems to avoid the issue reported > by> the OP, namely inkscape exiting without doing anything (with exit code > 127).>> Could the OP please try installing this updated inkscape, shown as > 0.92.3-2 (Test)> in the Cygwin setup app.  Being a test buil

Re: inkscape installed but does nothing --- solved to my satisfaction

2023-12-01 Thread Mark Geisert via Cygwin
Hi John, J.F. Huesman via Cygwin wrote: [...] If I call inkscape -V from the prompt, I get an error:(inkscape:1451): Gtk-WARNING **: 07:07:30.361: cannot open display: :0 Inkscape is expecting a running X server to display on. But even for "-V"? That seems a little presumptuous :-). But

Re: Cant install Cygwin Virt-manager that asks for library that asks for python2

2023-12-01 Thread Jānis Ķengurs via Cygwin
> > > > You don't need it at all to begin with. > Cygwin is a userspace library, not a kernel driver. It has access to > anything > Windows system provides the easy way. Just mount ISO in the system any way > you > like and it will be accessible to Cygwin with no hassle. > > But i need virt-manager

Re: Cant install Cygwin Virt-manager that asks for library that asks for python2

2023-12-01 Thread Jānis Ķengurs via Cygwin
> You don't need it at all to begin with. > Cygwin is a userspace library, not a kernel driver. It has access to > anything > Windows system provides the easy way. Just mount ISO in the system any way > you > like and it will be accessible to Cygwin with no hassle. > > > > But i want virt-manager t

Re: R library() bug

2023-12-01 Thread Stephen P Carrier via Cygwin
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 8:32 PM Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 29.11.2023 02:12, Stephen P Carrier via Cygwin wrote: > > I have found another issue with Cygwin R. > > > > This is for a brand new R installation (4.3.0) on up-to-date Cygwin. I > am > > warned when starting R that "stats" package was not