cygstart: buffer overflow when a URI is passed (cygutils-1.4.17-[23])

Hi all, I've encountered a possible bug in cygstart. It seems to abort when a URI is passed to it. $ cygcheck -dc | grep cygutils cygutils1.4.17-3 $ cygstart https://www.google.com *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated Aborted $ cygcheck -dc | grep cyguti

mksetupini aborts if run by a normal user

Hi Jon, Thanks for updating calm package. Usually, I work as a normal user. (i.e., not as root or an administrator) In this case, mksetupini aborts with a permission error. It is because Python library files do not have permission to normal users. Could you modify the file permissions so that th

Re: cygstart: buffer overflow when a URI is passed (cygutils-1.4.17-[23])

ggl329 via Cygwin wrote: Hi all, I've encountered a possible bug in cygstart. It seems to abort when a URI is passed to it. $ cygcheck -dc | grep cygutils cygutils    1.4.17-3 $ cygstart https://www.google.com *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated Aborted P

/dev/null regression in Cygwin 3.6.1

Hi, In Gnulib, we have a unit test that compiles the program below as a native Windows program (either with mingw or with MSVC), that exercises the Gnulib select() function

Cygwin fork error

Hi all, My Cygwin was working perfectly until yesterday. I installed Python 3.13 and pip and Ansible through Win powershell. I think this corrupted cygwin. Now Cygwin is giving fork errors : 54936743 [main] bash 161 dofork: child -1 - forked process 17848 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0

Re: Cygwin fork error

This issue was resolved after a pc restart, thanx. On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 at 09:07, Siva kumar wrote: > Hi all, > My Cygwin was working perfectly until yesterday. I installed Python 3.13 > and pip and Ansible through Win powershell. I think this corrupted cygwin. > Now Cygwin is giving fork errors