Re: Why cygwin's history output is prefixed by two spaces?

2024-07-30 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker via Cygwin
Am 30.07.2024 um 12:35 schrieb Sophoklis Goumas via Cygwin: 000 sp sp sp 4 3 sp sp h i s t o r y sp | [...] 000 sp 7 3 5 1 sp sp h i s t o r y sp | Hypotheses/ideas/insights/explanations/conclusions? Your conclusion about there

Re: GCC doesn't find relative includes when passed paths using backward-slashes

2023-01-15 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker via Cygwin
Am 15.01.2023 um 13:38 schrieb Alexander Grund via Cygwin: The build system, finding it is running on Windows, will pass paths with backward slashes to the compiler. And that's wrong. Cygwin is not, for practical intents and purposes, Windows. It just runs on top of it. Yes, backslashed

Re: [FEEDBACK] Issue with fd_set, FD_ZERO, FD_SET, FD_SETSIZE : Cygwin

2023-02-07 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker via Cygwin
Am 07.02.2023 um 07:59 schrieb Yeo Kai Wei via Cygwin: I think I found the issue, I believe it's due to MinGW's build of gcc (I could be wrong). I downloaded "gcc -core" and it worked. You keep talking of "downloading" and "unpacking" things. That indicates a continuing misunderstanding of

Re: Use Real LPT port with Cygwin?

2023-06-19 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker via Cygwin
Am 18.06.2023 um 21:35 schrieb tlake--- via Cygwin: I can use an emulated LPT port to a shared network printer from Cygwin but I'd like to print to a local LPT port also. The local printer has no IP address. Is it possible to print to a physical LPT port?> If I do this: ls > LP

Re: Compile win64 filesys kernel module only with Cygwin tools?

2023-08-09 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker via Cygwin
Am 09.08.2023 um 21:17 schrieb Wendy Lin via Cygwin: How can I compile https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-driver-samples/tree/main/filesys/cdfs with Cygwin gcc? You should not be trying to do that. That's deeply system-specific Windows code. It has nothing to with POSIX, Cygwin or anything

Re: Cygwin 3.4.9 - how to install ssh-keygen

2023-11-20 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker via Cygwin
Am 20.11.2023 um 17:54 schrieb Matthias--- via Cygwin: Unfortunately  I can't find ssh-keygen in the installable packages. That's quite strange, given ssh-keygen is clearly right there in that openssh package: $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/ssh-keygen.exe openssh-9.5p1-1 -- Problem reports:

Fwd: Cygwin 3.4.9 - how to install ssh-keygen

2023-11-21 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker via Cygwin
I can't see a command like cygcheck -p ssh-keygen as noticeably more cumbersome than comparable commands of other distributions Lee via Cygwin schrieb am Mo., 20. Nov. 2023, 23:42: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 11:54 AM Matthias wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > I've installed cygwin 3.4.9-1 i

Re: Compile as DOS application?

2025-06-01 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker via Cygwin
Am 01.06.2025 um 18:47 schrieb Eric J Korpela via Cygwin: To be more explicit, a text mode windows program is not a DOS program. It will do anything useful on a DOS system without windows.   ^ not If you desire 32-bit protected mode DOS programs, DJGPP may be your best option. New b

Re: Path prefix //./ in Cygwin

2025-06-13 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker via Cygwin
Am 13.06.2025 um 07:38 schrieb Yuyi Wang via Cygwin: If the CWD is /proc (so something without a Windows CWD), it seems to fall back to referring to '/a/b' again?!? Oh, no. That makes me nearly impossible to determine whether a path is absolute without getting the current PWD. That distinction

Re: permission problems with Azure

2025-08-05 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker via Cygwin
Am 05.08.2025 um 15:27 schrieb ben-xD via via Cygwin:    As soon as I launch Cygwin, I see    -bash: /usr/bin/hostname: Permission denied    |find| fails:    $ /usr/bin/find    bash: /usr/bin/find: Permission denied This would appear to be due to M$'s latest bout of paranoia, which in some