w32api-headers-3.0.0.-1 in question

2013-10-04 Thread Denis Excoffier
ygwin snapshot (20130925). With the Previous issues of these packages (3.0b_svn5935), all is ok. The errors i get are as follows (below). Regards, Denis Excoffier. In file included from /tmp/lcl/tmp/cygwin/cygwin-snapshot-20130925-1/winsup/cygwin/cygtls.h:279:0, from ./global

cygwin-src-20131107.tar.xz

2013-11-08 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, The x86/cygwin-src-20131107.tar.xz seems to be missing in the snapshot http page and folder. Without this file, i cannot see how to get an uptodate winsup/../newlib in order to compile the 20131107 snapshot. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: How about a 64-bit installer that doesn't require UAC?

2013-11-08 Thread Denis Excoffier
elevation is for knowledgeable people), but never mind. More importantly, the new —no-admin/-B option is especially beneficial for users that are not allowed to elevate or that do not know any Administrator password. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

Re: Intermittent failures retrieving process exit codes

2013-11-15 Thread Denis Excoffier
never with "tar tf"; and with all tar’s i have tested. The return code of all the involved xz -d commands is always zero though. Perhaps after all, this is unrelated? Thank you. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Intermittent failures retrieving process exit codes

2013-11-17 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2013-11-15 20:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 07:53:26PM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> On 2013-11-14 05:01, Tom Honermann wrote: >>> On 12/21/2012 01:30 AM, Tom Honermann wrote: >>>> >>>> The workaround I implemented within C

Re: Please test latest snapshots 2013-11-20

2013-11-23 Thread Denis Excoffier
1 instead of 3.0.0-1 - w32api-runtime 3.0b_svn5935-1 instead of 3.0.0-1 - mingw64-i686-headers 3.0b_svn5935-1 instead of 3.0.0-1 - mingw64-i686-runtime 3.0b_svn5935-2 instead of 3.0.0-1 (i’m under i686) all is fine (in particular using the new gcc-4.8.2). Denis Excoffier. (below is here:) We still hav

Re: Please test latest snapshots 2013-11-20

2013-11-23 Thread Denis Excoffier
2013-11-23 13:25 -05:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 05:11:23PM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> On 2013-11-23 12:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> we're planning to release Cygwin 1.7.26 next week. It would be quite >>> helpful if tho

Re: Please test latest snapshots 2013-11-20

2013-11-24 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2013-11-24 14:21 +01:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 24 14:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Nov 24 00:27, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> You must be talking about /usr/include/exceptions.h. I did remove it from >>> my system on the very first snapshot that removed

Antivirus strikes back (probably) (Was: Intermittent failures retrieving process exit codes)

2013-11-25 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2013-11-25 à 21:58 +02:00, Lasse Collin wrote: > On 2013-11-15 Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Very briefly, my problem is that when i "tar xf >> —use-compress-program=xz", i get: >> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive >> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive >> tar: E

snapshot 20131201 (dated 17:53:27)

2013-12-01 Thread Denis Excoffier
, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: snapshot 20131201 (dated 17:53:27)

2013-12-01 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2013-12-01 14:42 -05:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 07:55:43PM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> I'm under Windows XP 32bits. I installed the last snapshot (20131201, >> 17:53:27). And now: >> >> % /usr/bin/make -f /dev/null make

snapshot dated 20131206

2013-12-06 Thread Denis Excoffier
me (01:10:29) is UTC. The snapshot should have been named 20131206 i suppose. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

snapshots dated 20140210 fail

2014-02-10 Thread Denis Excoffier
this `uname -v` part? Dashes or not? Seconds or not? By the way, after comparison of cygwin-1.7.28-2-src.tar.xz and cygwin-src-20140209.tar.xz, none of them contains/supersedes the other one. I can live with this. However the snapshots don’t work for me. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem

Re: snapshots dated 20140210 fail

2014-02-10 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-02-10 23:05, Denis Excoffier wrote: > Hello, > > I use XP SP3 with 32 bits and also Seven 32 bits. Today i could exercise 4 > new snapshots. > I can see another one, dated 22:17:21 UTC. Same problem as for the 3rd and 4th: windows complaint that this is not a window

Re: snapshots dated 20140210 fail

2014-02-11 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-02-11 10:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 10 16:09, Warren Young wrote: >> On 2/10/2014 15:53, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> >>> I can see another one, dated 22:17:21 UTC. Same problem as for the >>> 3rd and 4th: windows complaint that this is n

Re: snapshots dated 20140210 fail

2014-02-12 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-02-11 21:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: > On 2014-02-11 10:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Feb 10 16:09, Warren Young wrote: >>> On 2/10/2014 15:53, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>>> >>>> I can see another one, dated 22:17:21 UTC. Same problem as for th

snapshot dated 20140310 fails under XP

2014-03-10 Thread Denis Excoffier
d 20140309 (which is not visible any more) was perfectly working. Under W7/x86 all of them work correctly. By the way, one question: does anybody know when the support for XP SP3 is expected to be discontinued? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.24.51-1 (x86/x86_64)

2014-03-17 Thread Denis Excoffier
"Devel" category under Cygwin's setup. This new version 2.24.51 needs (at least on x86) the addition of /usr/lib/libiberty.a (that was present in 2.23.51) in order to compile the 20140317 snapshot successfully (see the target dumper.exe). Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-binutils-2.24.0.1.acd6540-1 (x86/x86_64)

2014-04-01 Thread Denis Excoffier
ch the previous one didn’t), but this file is already provided by the binutils-2.24.51-2 package (with the .gz suffix, i must however recognize). Please someone to confirm that this new mingw64-x86_64-binutils package is indeed ok. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: ht

gcc-4.9.0-RC-20140411

2014-04-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, Yesterday i tried to bootstrap the new gcc-4.9.0-RC-20140411 (with snapshot 20140412 installed), but didn’t manage to come to a satisfactory end. Not the snapshot fault i suppose. For the interested people, see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60830 . Regards, Denis

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-binutils-2.24.0.3.85cf705-1 (x86/x86_64)

2014-04-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
4 side (Cygwin Windows "native" applications still suffer > the issue). > Me too, see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg3.html Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

thank you for vsnprintf et al

2014-05-06 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, The recent snapshots (since 20140505) contain (in /usr/include/stdio.h) the declarations of the vsnprintf(), snprintf() etc. functions, including (this is new) for under strict C++11 (i.e. 'gcc -std=c++11’). I think this is worth noting. And thank you. Denis Excoffier. -- Pr

getent group fails

2014-05-07 Thread Denis Excoffier
ne where the "Corinna's prize-winning passwd/group rewrite" was reintroduced). It was not present in snapshot 20140305. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http:/

Re: getent group fails

2014-05-09 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-05-09 11:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 7 19:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: > Thanks for the report. I made a dumb Copy/paste error. This should > be fixed in the today's snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Indeed, it is working now. Also, i have noticed that

typo correction (patch)

2014-05-26 Thread Denis Excoffier
->gr_gid; ++cnt; } - *ngroups = cnt; if (cnt > *ngroups) ret = -1; else ret = cnt; + *ngroups = cnt; syscall_printf ( "%d = getgrouplist(%s, %u, %p, %d)", ret, user, gid, groups, *ngroups); Regards, Denis Excoffier. --

timeout in LDAP access

2014-06-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
t was truncated. Another (unrelated and less important) problem is that 'getent' happily produces lines with some extra ‘:’, in particular when the gecos field itself contains ‘:’. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-06-17 Thread Denis Excoffier
(it it works). But in this case, it will not resume to the next domain, and the whole operation (eg getent) is interrupted? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin

Re: gecos from AD? (was Re: timeout in LDAP access)

2014-06-17 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-06-17 12:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 17 12:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jun 16 22:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> Another (unrelated and less important) problem is that 'getent' >>> happily produces lines with some extra ‘:’, in parti

Re: gecos from AD? (was Re: timeout in LDAP access)

2014-06-17 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-06-17 14:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 17 12:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jun 17 12:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Jun 16 22:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>>> Another (unrelated and less important) problem is that 'getent' >>>

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-06-19 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-06-18 20:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 18 10:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> >> The idea I was proposing was just to drop all attempts to seconds guess >> how fast a DC replies. We're going to use LDAP with default settings >> and that's it. Default settings means, every operat

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-06-23 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-06-23 11:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 19 19:53, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > Do you really *want* to enumerate 500K users when accessing the DCs > remote over a slow DSL line? Isn't this a situation in which you'd > rather like to avoid enumerating acco

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-06-25 Thread Denis Excoffier
equivalent) is produced for LDAP_SERVER_DOWN, it probably should be better if this were not the case? I suppose it will need more testing, but i’m currently unavailable for tests, by the way until Friday 08:00 UTC. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-07-03 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-06-25 23:13 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > You asked for errors being propagated up the chain to the > getpwent/getgrent calls and that's exactly what happens now. There are > a lot of LDAP error codes. How is Cygwin supposed to handle every one > of them? Do we need a list of ignorable an

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-07-08 Thread Denis Excoffier
he value has still not been fetched. I have encountered this case in real life. The domain admins have set the trustPosixOffset of the secondary domain to zero. This value is therefore never recorded and the cldap->open occurs again and again. Hope this helps. Regards, Denis Excoffier.

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-07-12 Thread Denis Excoffier
swd’ executes gracefully in 40 minutes (instead of 60) and ‘getent group’ in 25 minutes (instead of 90). Also quicker is ‘mkpasswd -d secondary_domain’ of course. Patch attached. Regards, Denis Excoffier. posixoffset.patch Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-07-15 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-07-14 15:48 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 14 11:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jul 12 15:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> On 2014-07-09 12:12 Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have encountered this case in real life. The domain a

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-07-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
signment of posixOffsets to various substitutes would be useless. Even assigning the null posixOffsets to non-null values, i’m not convinced of. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-07-28 Thread Denis Excoffier
lexity would be quite small. > > any feedback on this one? Shall I create a snapshot with a matching > patch? I have nothing to add except that i am a great fan of cygwin snapshots in general, and i suppose that if several posix offsets are set to 0, it is a minor problem if all of them

suggestion about math.h

2014-08-07 Thread Denis Excoffier
) */ /* Global control over fdlibm error handling. */ Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

modification time of standard input is wrong

2010-03-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
modification time of /dev/null. This has some impact in gzip and further, in tar. Thank you for your help. See below for the details. Denis Excoffier. - #include #include #include // int main() { // struct stat s; if (fstat(fileno(stdin), &s)

Re: modification time of standard input is wrong

2010-03-17 Thread Denis Excoffier
time at which compression started.". This has been reported to the `bug-gzip' mailing list (see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2010-03/msg0.html). In his answer, Eric Blake suggested that the bug might be in cygwin1.dll. Regards. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports:

readshortcut: print Target in raw format

2010-05-04 Thread Denis Excoffier
someone later changed that to be consistent with SHORTCUT.EXE (or due to some other reason). Please modify readshortcut.exe in order to be able to really print the raw path (e.g. with an extra option). Thanks in advance. Regards. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http:

enlarge MAXSYMLINKS

2009-03-03 Thread Denis Excoffier
ossibility to enlarge the value of 10 in order to reach e.g. 32 as expected? The value 10 is definitely too low for me, a value 20 (like in Solaris) would be better. Thank in advance for your help, Denis Excoffier. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: enlarge MAXSYMLINKS

2009-03-10 Thread Denis Excoffier
owing suggestions: 1) to enhance cygcheck to report whether a given symlink is implemented as a Windows'shortcut or as an adhoc Cygwin symlink (although this can be seen easily from outside Windows) 2) to use "#define SYMLOOP_MAX 32" in future Cygwin-1.7 Hope thi

1.7.0-62: segfault when PATH is not set

2009-10-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
When i switch back to 1.7.0-61, the problem disappears. On a Windows 2000 machine, the same happens. Thank you to spend a little time to take my problem into consideration. Denis Excoffier. jupiter% uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 JUPITER 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) 2009-10-03 14:33 i686 Cygwin jupiter% date --ve

Re: 1.7.0-62: segfault when PATH is not set

2009-10-19 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2009-10-19 11:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 17 04:33, Denis Excoffier wrote: Hello, I've installed all the Cygwin-1.7.0 packages uptodate, on my Windows XP machine. I do experience a segmentation fault whenever i launch a program when the PATH is not set. When PATH is

Re: 1.7.0-62: segfault when PATH is not set

2009-10-19 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2009-10-19 21:18, Denis Excoffier wrote: $ export LC_CTYPE=dummy $ env - PATHOS=/nonexistent /usr/bin/date Mon Oct 19 13:12:41 RDT 2009 $ env - PATHOS=/nonexistent /usr/bin/env PATHOS=/nonexistent SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINNT WINDIR=C:\WINNT Oops, bad redact, the first line in the last example should

1.7: mv: Device or resource busy

2009-10-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
to 1: the unknown process would probably need to be launched at each instance of (this kind of) mv, but must return very quickly if the boolean is already set to 1. Help! How to solve this? How to make my first box behave like the second one (ie never fail)? At least, did you manage to reproduce th

Re: 1.7.0-62: segfault when PATH is not set

2009-10-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2009-10-19 21:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 19 21:18, Denis Excoffier wrote: Hope this helps. It does. The value of $PATH is used without checking if $PATH exists. I fixed that in CVS. Thank you. Let's wait until 1.7.0-63 now. In the same spirit, i discovered that `cygche

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-23 Thread Denis Excoffier
cygheap.cc the line 'wcpncpy (installation_dir, ...' (and also the next one) and the old behaviour is now back. It seems to me that this change is a regression. Could someone please argue? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-24 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2014-10-24 13:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Oct 23 20:06, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> On 2014-10-22 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >>> - Drop the current working directory from the default DLL search path in >>> favor of Cygwin's /b

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-24 Thread Denis Excoffier
27; at the beginning of the Makefile will do the job. > > Possible enhancement: If AddDllDirectory() is available (>= Win8), accept a > real search path in CYGWIN_DLLPATH. Also perhaps you can use yet another subitem in the CYGWIN environment variable? Denis Excoffier. -- Problem

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-25 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-10-25 16:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Oct 25 13:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Oct 24 23:17, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> 2014-10-24 22:16, Christian Franke wrote: >>>> Another possible solution: >>>> Check for e.g. CYGWI

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.3

2014-10-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
or some time now, there are /usr/include/rpc/types.h and /usr/include/rpc/xdr.h which are present in the snapshots but not in releases. This is just a remark and i suppose this is ok. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.4

2014-10-29 Thread Denis Excoffier
xact command that i use (in .cshrc) is echo \\ /nonexistent* |& head --lines=-6 in order to show a single line (a single line is enough for a visual indication) Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

qt5 announce please

2014-11-03 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, Could somebody please tell us a little bit more about the new qt5-related packages that we received recently (at least for x86)? Perhaps unrelated, i cannot compile cmake-3.1.0-rc1 any more since that. Thanks in advance. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: qt5 announce please

2014-11-03 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-11-03 23:17, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On 2014-11-03 16:10, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Could somebody please tell us a little bit more about the new qt5-related >> packages that we received recently (at least for x86)? > > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-a

Re: qt5 announce please

2014-11-04 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-11-03 23:17, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >> >> On 2014-11-03 16:10, Denis Excoffier wrote: > >> >>> Perhaps unrelated, i cannot compile cmake-3.1.0-rc1 any more since that. >> >> http://sourceforge.net/p/cygwin-ports/cmake/ci/master/tree/2.8.12-gu

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.33-1

2014-11-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-11-13 17:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I just released Cygwin 1.7.33-1. Just to report that 'uname -a' (and also /proc/version) shows 1.7.33-2 for this one. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:

Re: Incorrect workaround for KB 823764 in fhandler_socket.cc

2014-11-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-11-14 05:37, Iuliu Rus wrote: > > What is the procedure for submitting patches for cygwin? See https://cygwin.com/contrib.html Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

subversion and permissions

2014-11-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
referably without changing any permissions on the repository? I tried to mount the disk noacl, the problem remains exactly the same. Thank you for your suggestions, Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: subversion and permissions

2014-11-28 Thread Denis Excoffier
/mnt/d somefs text 0 0 Thank you and sorry for the noise. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-005

2015-01-21 Thread Denis Excoffier
st snapshot (20150119) has the same problem (again, only for XP). Older snapshots i don't know, but 20150113 was OK. I cannot formally exclude antivirus and all such kinds of things. Probably the bug-make mailing list would be more appropriate. Hope this helps though. Regards, Denis

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-005

2015-01-22 Thread Denis Excoffier
w I have to check whether somebody could have applied some antivirus update, software update or anything else on my PC. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscri

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-005

2015-01-24 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-01-22 23:07, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > % /usr/bin/ls / > /usr/bin/ls: reading directory /: No such file or directory > (regular ls output follows) > % > I reinstalled cygwin completely. The problem is now vanished. No idea what caused the problem. Denis Excoffier.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-005

2015-01-28 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-01-24 17:45, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > On 2015-01-22 23:07, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> >> % /usr/bin/ls / >> /usr/bin/ls: reading directory /: No such file or directory >> (regular ls output follows) >> % >> > I reinstalled cygwin completely

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.1

2015-02-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
o confess that i used here the nearly-to-be-obsoleted XP SP3. But i also use W7 sometimes, and it would be great if i could have "db_home: /%H/%U/cygdir" in both of them (yes my username has to appear twice): no /etc/passwd any more. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: ht

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.1

2015-02-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-02-13 22:04, Warren Young wrote: > >> On Feb 13, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Denis Excoffier >> wrote: >> >> I tried (according to the new documentation): >> >> db_home: /%H/%U/cygdir >> >> and that was fine but %H was replaced by the >&g

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.1

2015-02-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-02-13 22:30, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > On 2015-02-13 22:04, Warren Young wrote: >> >>> On Feb 13, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Denis Excoffier >>> wrote: >>> >>> I tried (according to the new documentation): >>> >>> db_home: /

minor improvement for base-cygwin

2015-02-24 Thread Denis Excoffier
-02-24 20:42:45.0 +0100 @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ # Defaults: # passwd: files db # group:files db +# db_enum: cache builtin # db_home: cygwin desc # db_shell: cygwin desc # db_gecos: cygwin desc Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.3

2015-02-26 Thread Denis Excoffier
the Return key. My shell is tcsh under XP. The typescript file contains Control-M twice (followed by a regular \012), as expected. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] (last?) TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.5

2015-02-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
quot; the command. Previously, the fourth-character-delay was probably already there, but only for the Return key. Hope this helps. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http:

speedup in AD access, thanks

2015-02-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
an empty group (i.e. line begins with colon) and e.g. ls -al fails miserably in this case (and segfault seems to lie in cygwin1.dll). Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

bad interaction with /usr/bin/make

2015-02-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
usr/mydata, only with /usr/mydata/svn, which is unknown in the Makefile. Do you think that Cygwin has something to do with this or is it exclusively /usr/bin/make's business? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

xlaunch small glitch

2015-02-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
; on second line should be changed into "WOW*" (or equivalent) since now the W7 32bits are now called "CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW". Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: h

Re: Cygwin hangs up if several keys are typed during outputting a lot of texts.

2015-02-28 Thread Denis Excoffier
xterm window hangs. And, the same: with 'stty -echo' the problem does not occur. I'll add that this is not new (occurred for me at least for the last few months, even perhaps years). I'm happy that Takashi found: - a fully reproducible case - that the problem vanishes with stty -

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] (last?) TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.5

2015-02-28 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-02-28 13:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 28 00:23, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> On 2015-02-27 18:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >>> I released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release. >>> >> I have noticed that the b

Re: speedup in AD access, thanks

2015-03-02 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-02-28 13:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 28 00:51, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Playing with mkgroup and mkpasswd like others, i also >> noticed some great improvement in performance: >> now less than 5min for 404653 entries (mkpasswd

Re: Cygwin svn vs. TortoiseSVN?

2015-03-18 Thread Denis Excoffier
cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table, especially the word "suddenly". Hope this helps. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Under /bin/script, characters get printed in four-character chunks

2015-03-24 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-02-28 16:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 28 15:19, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> On 2015-02-28 13:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >>> On Feb 28 00:23, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>>> On 2015-02-27 18:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>&g

Re: X server sets VMIN? (was Re: Under /bin/script, characters get printed in four-character chunks)

2015-03-25 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-03-24 20:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 24 19:59, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> On 2015-02-28 16:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> I can not reproduce this in mintty, nor in a Cygwin xterm started on a >>> remote X server running under Linux. I can reprodu

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.0.0-5

2015-04-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
in this case. > > I added a change to this effect, but it occuurs to me that this may > be really just a missing test if the uid and gid values are backed by > a real Windows account. It seems better to return EPERM here. > I applied the patch indicated (see in https://cyg

cannot build cygwin-2.0.2 because of net.cc (or because of some header.h)

2015-05-11 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, In order to successfully build cygwin-2.0.2-1 (for x86, both XP and W7) i had to apply the following patch (below). No such problem with cygwin-2.0.1-1. Regards, Denis Excoffier diff -uNr newlib-cygwin-o/winsup/cygwin/net.cc newlib-cygwin-p/winsup/cygwin/net.cc --- newlib-cygwin-o

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tcsh-6.18.00-1

2012-01-18 Thread Denis Excoffier
ould be postinstall misbehavior? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tcsh-6.18.00-1

2012-01-20 Thread Denis Excoffier
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:59:16AM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:20:58PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> I've updated the tcsh package to 6.18.00-1. >> After installation of this package, i discovered that >> the symlink /usr/b

Re: src/winsup cygwin/release/1.7.10 doc/ChangeLog ...

2012-01-29 Thread Denis Excoffier
* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.10): Add tzset. > > * release/1.7.10: Add tzset. Shouldn't it be tzget instead of tzset? Regards. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http:/

Cygwin User's Guide, typos

2012-02-04 Thread Denis Excoffier
ufficent 0xhex cygwin DLL (capital C) in 2.1.2: The Default Text File Type... (no longer up to date) Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/d

Re: Cygwin User's Guide, typos

2012-02-04 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2012-02-04 12:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 4 10:04, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Reading the Cygwin User's Guide, i discovered a few typos (or similar) that >> could be corrected before 1.7.10. >> Sear

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.10-1

2012-02-07 Thread Denis Excoffier
Cygwin releases, cannot test at the same time the disinstallation of the associated previous releases. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.10-1

2012-02-07 Thread Denis Excoffier
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 03:25:20PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Feb 7 15:09, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 05:29:27PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> So, here are two questions: >> >> - Since you *knew* that the process.h header

Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use

2012-02-07 Thread Denis Excoffier
/bin/cygiconv-2.dll 6AFC-6AFC1000 r--p C095:C492 1407374884189126 /usr/bin/cygreadline7.dll ... Now looking into dll_init.cc, i'm probably going to try the following: if VirtualAlloc (line 429, just before 'already occupied') fails, try it once more after waiting, say 1

Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use

2012-02-07 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2012-02-07 17:47, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 07/02/2012 11:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Feb 7 16:43, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> I've also instrumented cygwin1.dll as suggested recently to Heiko Elger >>> in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg0009

Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use

2012-02-08 Thread Denis Excoffier
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:48:35PM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> >> On 2012-02-07 17:47, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> > On 07/02/2012 11:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> On Feb 7 16:43, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> >>> I've also instrume

Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use

2012-02-08 Thread Denis Excoffier
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 10:27:11AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Feb 8 10:08, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> > Result is: >> > >> > 1 [main] gcc-4 4084 dll_list::reserve_space: address space needed by >> > 'cygiconv-2.dll'

Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use

2012-02-08 Thread Denis Excoffier
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:35:02PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Feb 8 14:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > On Feb 8 11:22, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> > > I can reproduce. >> > > >> > > On my system (2012-02-07 snapshot instrumented)

Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use

2012-02-08 Thread Denis Excoffier
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 03:05:33PM +, Heiko Elger wrote: >> Denis Excoffier writes: >> >> > Here it is. Enjoy! >> > 1 [main] gcc-4 5440 dll_list::reserve_space: address space needed >> by 'cygiconv-2.dll' (file >> > D:\Home\dexcof

Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use

2012-02-09 Thread Denis Excoffier
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:06:31PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Feb 8 16:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > On Feb 8 15:55, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:35:02PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > > >> Denis, can yo

Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use

2012-02-09 Thread Denis Excoffier
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:37:58PM +0059, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> >> Usually after installation of a new snapshot i begin with a compilation >> of the sources. Today the compilation fails in winsup/cygwin/mkimport >> (perl script) with the following messages: >

unexpected nodosfilewarning message

2012-02-28 Thread Denis Excoffier
netd.d % No message under bash (under a fresh instance of cygwin1.dll of course): $ echo '\u' /etc/xi* \u /etc/xinetd.conf /etc/xinetd.d Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use

2012-03-04 Thread Denis Excoffier
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 06:22:10PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Feb 8 11:22, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 10:27:11AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > >> On Feb 8 10:08, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> > >> > Result is

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