Re: /usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l 2 myfile takes forever

On 2024-01-28 23:44, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: rm -f myfile touch myfile /usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l myfile takes forever with latest Cygwin 3.5 It takes much longer without Cygwin 3.5! Your fallocate(1) option -l has no length numeric argument and no -o offset numeric argument to spe

Re: /usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l 2 myfile takes forever

On 1/28/2024 11:56 PM, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote: On 1/28/2024 10:44 PM, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: Good morning! rm -f myfile touch myfile /usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l myfile takes forever with latest Cygwin 3.5 ^ length goes here, before filename I be

Re: Setting process command name in forked process

On Jan 26 18:35, Steve Beck via Cygwin wrote: > Thanks so much for the reply, Anton! Really appreciate it. > > I tried what you proposed. Here is the code trying both ways > (overwriting what is referenced by __argv[0] and then reassigning the > reference). I compile this code (foo.c) simply as

Re: /usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l 2 myfile takes forever

On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 09:33, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > > On 2024-01-28 23:44, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > > rm -f myfile > > touch myfile > > /usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l myfile takes forever with latest Cygwin 3.5 > > It takes much longer without Cygwin 3.5! > > Your fallocate(1) o

Re: arc4random does not reseed after using fork()

Hi Johnothan, On Jan 26 22:06, Johnothan King via Cygwin wrote: > Hello, > > While testing ksh93u+m's recently added SRANDOM variable[1], I have > discovered a bug in Cygwin's arc4random function. After using fork(), > arc4random does not reseed itself, which causes the results to become > predic

RE: Setting process command name in forked process

> Can you see what I'm doing wrong? It used to work in the past, for sure, and was used in some code over here... Since it was an ad-hoc thing, the behavior might have changed -- I haven't checked it lately. To make the full disclosure, we reassign the entire __argv here from the linear memory

RE: Setting process command name in forked process

> It used to work in the past, for sure, and was used in some code over here... And yes, like Corinna said, you have to use procps to actually see the changes. Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwi

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Re: Setting process command name in forked process

Thank you, Corinna and Anton for your replies. I downloaded procps, and it worked exactly as you described. I understand this approach is a non-portable hack and to the extent that it matters at all, I'd like to +1 the suggestion/request of picking up support for setproctitle(3) in the next a

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Re: arc4random does not reseed after using fork()

Hello, I can confirm the bugfix works and that arc4random now functions correctly in Cygwin 3.5 after fork(). - Johnothan King -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe i