Re: apparent solution to Emacs multi-shell problem

2024-08-14 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/11/2024 2:35 PM, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: [Added Emacs to Subject to get appropriate attention] On 2024-08-11 11:22, KARR, DAVID via Cygwin wrote: So then I looked at my .emacs file, and I noticed the following.  Note that this is another block of code that I haven't changed in many

Re: Updated: perl-5.40.0-1 and Perl distributions

2024-08-24 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/24/2024 1:38 PM, ASSI wrote: Perl 5.40.0-1 is now available on Cygwin, replacing perl-5.36.3. Most Perl distributions and dependent packages have been either re-released or updated in conjunction with this update. The following packages have been released for Cygwin: perl-5.40.0-1-src

Re: Updated: perl-5.40.0-1 and Perl distributions

2024-08-24 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/24/2024 4:11 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/24/2024 1:38 PM, ASSI wrote: Perl 5.40.0-1 is now available on Cygwin, replacing perl-5.36.3.  Most Perl distributions and dependent packages have been either re-released or updated in conjunction with this update.  The following packages

Re: cygwin-3.1.0 and mintty from desktop shortcut

2020-03-13 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/13/2020 5:26 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Takashi Yano via Cygwin writes: I guess renaming /usr/share/locale/locale.alias is enough. Yes it does. Could you please test if the following cygwin1.dll resolve the problem? Mintty doesn't start when I just replace this DLL, I get a Windows error

Re: cygwin-3.1.x seems to break emacs + gdb

2020-03-17 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/16/2020 7:23 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi Ken, (Apologies for private mailing you, but my attempts to message cygwin@ and cygwin-developers@ are rejected with TLS errors... any chance you could forward this info to an appropriate person for attention?) I upgraded cygwin in order to get gc

Re: After cygwin upgrade, Emacs shell buffers with colors are corrupted

2020-03-17 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/17/2020 7:14 PM, David Karr via Cygwin wrote: Yesterday I upgraded Cygwin, which I hadn't done in a while. I had recently upgraded my Windows 10 OS from build 1709 to 1809 (yes, those are correct). My current Emacs version is 26.3, but I don't know what it was before the upgrade. If I crea

Re: After cygwin upgrade, Emacs shell buffers with colors are corrupted

2020-03-18 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/18/2020 11:22 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, David Karr! Thanks, that worked. For now, I guess I have to figure out how to set that property permanently, or until this pty bug is fixed.. I start Emacs from a shortcut, executing "emacs.xml". I see the file appears to have some syntax

Re: CLISP missing full linking set

2020-03-19 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/19/2020 2:36 PM, Christopher Miller via Cygwin wrote: Hello Cygwin! I have a question about the clisp package. I seem to have run into the same issue as this poor fellow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60352371/how-to-run-swank-of-slime-with-clisp-without-dump After further debugg

Re: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-03-25 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/25/2020 7:11 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: I'll apologize in advance if something is not appropriate, but this is the first interaction with this project We (another open source project) have bumped into some problems using named pipes with multiple writers As far as I can see, r

Re: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-03-26 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
[Let's keep the discussion on the list in case others have suggestions.] On 3/25/2020 9:41 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] As far as I can see, reading through history, this have been a known issue for quite some time, but it seems like there have been some attempts to solve

Re: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-03-26 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/26/2020 10:06 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: [Let's keep the discussion on the list in case others have suggestions.] On 3/25/2020 9:41 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] As far as I can see, reading through history, this have been a known issue for quite some time

Re: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-03-26 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/26/2020 12:03 PM, Norton Allen wrote: On 3/26/2020 11:11 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: BTW, I've been working on adding support for multiple readers.  I expect to have a first cut ready within a week or two.  Would you have any use for that?  If so, I could revive the topic

Re: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-03-26 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/26/2020 6:01 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: The ENIXIO occurs when parallel child-processes simultaneously using O_NONBLOCK opening the descriptor. This is consistent with my guess that the error is generated by fhandler_fifo::wait. I have a feeling that read_ready should ha

Re: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-03-26 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/26/2020 6:39 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/26/2020 6:01 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: The ENIXIO occurs when parallel child-processes simultaneously using O_NONBLOCK opening the descriptor. This is consistent with my guess that the error is generated by

Re: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-03-27 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/26/2020 7:19 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/26/2020 6:39 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/26/2020 6:01 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: The ENIXIO occurs when parallel child-processes simultaneously using O_NONBLOCK opening the descriptor. This is consistent with my

Re: Sv: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-03-27 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/27/2020 10:53 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/26/2020 7:19 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/26/2020 6:39 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/26/2020 6:01 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: The ENIXIO occurs when parallel child-processes simultaneously using

Re: Sv: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-03-27 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/27/2020 6:56 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/27/2020 10:53 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/26/2020 7:19 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/26/2020 6:39 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/26/2020 6:01 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: The ENIXIO occurs

Re: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-03-28 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/28/2020 8:10 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/27/2020 10:53 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/26/2020 7:19 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/26/2020 6:39 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/26/2020 6:01 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: The

Re: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-03-28 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/28/2020 11:43 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/28/2020 8:10 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/27/2020 10:53 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/26/2020 7:19 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/26/2020 6:39 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/26/2020 6

Re: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-03-30 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/28/2020 10:19 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/28/2020 11:43 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/28/2020 8:10 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/27/2020 10:53 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/26/2020 7:19 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/26/2020 6

Re: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-03-31 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 3/31/2020 5:10 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/28/2020 10:19 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/28/2020 11:43 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/28/2020 8:10 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/27/2020 10:53 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-04-01 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 4/1/2020 3:45 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/31/2020 5:10 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/28/2020 10:19 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/28/2020 11:43 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/28/2020 8:10 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3

Re: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-04-01 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 4/1/2020 4:52 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/31/2020 5:10 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/28/2020 10:19 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/28/2020 11:43 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/28/2020 8:10 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3

Re: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-04-01 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 4/1/2020 1:14 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/1/2020 4:52 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/31/2020 5:10 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/28/2020 10:19 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/28/2020 11:43 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3

Re: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-04-01 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 4/1/2020 2:34 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 4/1/2020 1:14 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/1/2020 4:52 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/31/2020 5:10 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/28/2020 10:19 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 3/28

Re: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Named pipes and multiple writers

2020-04-02 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 4/2/2020 4:05 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: It is great that you're looking into a totally dynamic solution I've just pushed a first attempt at this. I tested it by running your test program with parameters 50/50. It looks like there are about 2000 writers open at once duri

Re: open descriptor to named pipes sometimes fail

2020-04-07 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 4/7/2020 11:10 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: Opening a (second) descriptor for (blocking) write sometimes fail The provided test case sometimes succeed, but quite often fail with ENOENT (in various indexes) I haven't dug deeper to find the underlaying cause yet Have anyone experie

Re: Sv: Sv: open descriptor to named pipes sometimes fail

2020-04-08 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 4/8/2020 4:52 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/7/2020 2:38 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/7/2020 11:10 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: Opening a (second) descriptor for (blocking) write sometimes fail The provided test case sometimes succeed, but qu

Re: Sv: Sv: open descriptor to named pipes sometimes fail

2020-04-08 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 4/8/2020 8:53 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 4/8/2020 4:52 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/7/2020 2:38 PM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/7/2020 11:10 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: Opening a (second) descriptor for (blocking) write sometimes

Re: unlink does not remove named pipe

2020-04-17 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
Hi Kristian, On 4/17/2020 4:26 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: If you're creating a lot's of named pipes in main process and in children and then using unlink, some of the named pipe files are not removed from the file system and no error is issued, i.e. unlink doesn't return -1 Thanks

Re: open write descriptor on named pipe sometime results in ENOENT

2020-04-18 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 4/18/2020 11:24 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all We're trying to nail down some issues with using named pipes The issue we're getting is deterministic (ENXIO) but it is not this one, but we think this issue is worth reporting anyway We're using the branch topic/fifo

Re: open write descriptor on named pipe sometime results in ENOENT

2020-04-18 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 4/18/2020 5:48 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 4/18/2020 11:24 AM, sten.kristian.ivars...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all We're trying to nail down some issues with using named pipes The issue we're getting is deterministic (ENXIO) but it is not this one, but we think this issu

Re: posix_spawnp creates ghost processes

2020-04-24 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 4/24/2020 3:30 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: Hi all We're having a rather complex application and have noticed a rather weird behaviour that I cannot find any information about We're using posix_spawnp and sometimes it creates extra "ghost-process(es)" non visible to cygwin (via e.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TeX Live 2020

2020-04-29 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 4/29/2020 12:38 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote: Hi! Thank you for maintaining vast packages. I can't find pdfjoin in texlive-collection-binextra-20200406-1, while pdfjoin previously belongs to texlive-collection-binextra-20190509-1. The author no longer supports it, and it has been

Re: pdfcrop and ghostscript

2020-05-07 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/7/2020 6:56 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote: Hi! I tried to use pdfcrop in texlive-collection-binextra 20200406-1 And it didn't work correctly with ghostscript 9.27-2 libgs9 9.27-2 libgs-devel 9.27-2 (cropping wrong area) But it works well with test versio

Re: patch command incorrectly capitalizes filenames that live on external USB flash drives

2020-05-14 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/13/2020 8:31 PM, Jason Gross via Cygwin wrote: This does not explain why `ls` displays "Makefile" as "Makefile" before I run `patch`, but displays the filename as "MAKEFILE" after I run `patch`. Nor does it explain why this happens to patch-modified files, but not to files modified via sed

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] ghostscript 9.52-1 (TEST)

2020-05-16 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/8/2020 10:06 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce wrote: The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution as test releases: * ghostscript-9.52-1 * libgs9-9.52-1 * libgs-devel-9.52-1 The previous test release, 9.50-1, has now been promoted to current. GNU Ghostscript is a

Re: issue with reply to mailing list

2020-05-18 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/18/2020 11:07 AM, Jon Turney wrote: On 16/05/2020 20:42, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 16.05.2020 20:47, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Marco Atzeri! it is just me or the cygwin mailing lists post are not reporting anymore the reply to the list tag ? You seems to have replied to an

Re: issue with reply to mailing list

2020-05-19 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/19/2020 5:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 18 12:02, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 5/18/2020 11:07 AM, Jon Turney wrote: On 16/05/2020 20:42, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 16.05.2020 20:47, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Marco Atzeri! it is just me or the cygwin mailing

Re: name pipe problem: 1 writer, multiple concurrent readers

2020-05-19 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/19/2020 7:26 AM, Morten Kjærulff via Cygwin wrote: Hi, The following script: #!/bin/sh rm -f t.pip t.txt mkfifo t.pip printf "line1\nline2\n" >t.txt ps { while true ; do cp t.txt t.pip done } & rm -f t.rc.* for rc in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do { diff t.pip t.txt

Re: name pipe problem: 1 writer, multiple concurrent readers

2020-05-20 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/19/2020 11:20 AM, Morten Kjærulff wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 3:55 PM Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 5/19/2020 7:26 AM, Morten Kjærulff via Cygwin wrote: Hi, The following script: #!/bin/sh rm -f t.pip t.txt mkfifo t.pip printf "line1\nline2\n" >t.txt ps { wh

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.1.5

2020-05-21 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/20/2020 11:34 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: I have uploaded mintty 3.1.5 with the following changes: Terminal features   * Limit coordinates of all mouse reports to text area (#972).   * Support bell volume escape sequence DECSWBV (#974) with wave files.   * Support margin bell feature (#974),

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.1.5

2020-05-21 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/21/2020 12:36 PM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 21.05.2020 16:48, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 5/20/2020 11:34 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: I have uploaded mintty 3.1.5 with the following changes: The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/ It also links to the issue tracker

Re: Current setup timestamp 1590343308

2020-05-25 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/25/2020 12:47 PM, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote: It looks to me that /etc/setup/timestamp is updated by the last successful setup (upgrade?) run, and contains a copy of the selected mirror's setup.ini setup_timestamp field as of the last successful setup (upgrade?) run, a few hours earlier th

Re: pdfjam in texlive-collection-binextra-20200406-1 doesn't work

2020-05-27 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/27/2020 9:35 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote: Hi ! pdfjam in texlive-collection-binextra-20200406-1 doesn't work. Even a simple invocation such as pdfjam a.pdf hangs while waiting for input from stdin. pdfjam 3.03 in TeX Live 2020 have got a major update since TeX Live 201

Re: Which rsync version is current?

2020-05-27 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
[Adding the rsync maintainer to the Cc in case he wants to add something.] On 5/27/2020 3:34 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 1:20 PM Andrey Repin wrote: When I run rsync --version, I see this: rsync version 3.2.0dev protocol version 31 However the Cygwin Setup program says

Re: Seems like a bug with mkfifo -m

2020-05-28 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/28/2020 4:12 AM, Дмитрий Есарев via Cygwin wrote: Hi, all When i ran cygwin 2.x, i used mkfifo -m 0600 file to create a named pipe with no user and group permissions. in the latest cygwin the above command creates device with 0644 permissions. And i cant drop it to 0600: cygcheck.exe -V

Re: Seems like a bug with mkfifo -m

2020-05-28 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/28/2020 10:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 28 09:16, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 5/28/2020 4:12 AM, Дмитрий Есарев via Cygwin wrote: Hi, all When i ran cygwin 2.x, i used mkfifo -m 0600 file to create a named pipe with no user and group permissions. in the latest cygwin the

Re: Seems like a bug with mkfifo -m

2020-05-28 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/28/2020 11:28 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 5/28/2020 10:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 28 09:16, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 5/28/2020 4:12 AM, Дмитрий Есарев via Cygwin wrote: Hi, all When i ran cygwin 2.x, i used mkfifo -m 0600 file to create a named pipe with no user

Re: Seems like a bug with mkfifo -m

2020-05-28 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 5/28/2020 1:31 PM, yoshi kakbudto wrote: you say 'ls' is a problem source. Then i have to be more specific with the problem to not miss any other possible problems around it. My use case is this: I have an ssh rsa keys dynamically loaded in environment variables. Those variables then expaned

Re: ghostscript issues

2020-06-01 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/1/2020 11:26 AM, Thomas Bodine via Cygwin wrote: My favorite use of ghost script is to combine PDF's. I upgraded Cygwin this weekend, and ghost script fails to perform this task I am running this: Cygwin Setup version 2.904 (64 bit) base-cygwin 3.8-1 ghostscript 9.52-1 ghostscript-fonts-ot

Re: ghostscript issues

2020-06-02 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/2/2020 7:58 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote: Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:43:44 -0400 From: Ken Brown via Cygwin On 6/1/2020 11:26 AM, Thomas Bodine via Cygwin wrote: My favorite use of ghost script is to combine PDF's. I upgraded Cygwin this weekend, and ghost script fai

Re: ghostscript issues

2020-06-02 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/2/2020 8:12 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 6/2/2020 7:58 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote: Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:43:44 -0400 From: Ken Brown via Cygwin On 6/1/2020 11:26 AM, Thomas Bodine via Cygwin wrote: My favorite use of ghost script is to combine PDF's. I upg

Re: ghostscript issues

2020-06-03 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/2/2020 2:14 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 6/2/2020 8:12 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 6/2/2020 7:58 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote: Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:43:44 -0400 From: Ken Brown via Cygwin On 6/1/2020 11:26 AM, Thomas Bodine via Cygwin wrote: My favorite use of

Re: Issue with lyx and recent dll

2020-06-03 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/3/2020 4:34 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 10:26:05PM +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 29.05.2020 17:29, Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 10:01:15PM +0200, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 28.05.2020 20:25, Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2020

Re: TCP_KEEPINVTL and TCP_KEEPIDLE - Socket Keep Alives not working

2020-06-07 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/7/2020 9:20 AM, Cary Lewis via Cygwin wrote: These constants are usually defined in netinet/tcp.h but are not defined anywhere in cygwin. > As a result there does not seem to be a way to enable the socket level keep alives in cygwin. One result of this is curl's --keepalive-time option d

Re: RCS?

2020-06-14 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/14/2020 8:05 PM, Bill Coffin wrote: I've been using RCS for many years in an older cygwin running, most recently, on Windows 10.  For some reason, my cygwin installation went nuts so I downloaded and installed cygwin64.  cygwin64 works great but doesn't have RCS. RCS is available for 64-b

Re: Is this a valid synopsis of Cygwin Permission Handling?

2020-06-18 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/18/2020 12:15 PM, KARL BOTTS via Cygwin wrote: I wrote the following to a colleague in a private chat channel. Colleague is pure Windows: knows little of cygwin or Linux. He helps me with hardware and Windows. We had gotten the WinExplorer dialog saying: "The permissions on volume I: are

Re: change in handling quotes in cygwin package from 3.1.4-1 to 3.1.5-1

2020-06-22 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/15/2020 12:21 PM, Josh Thompson wrote: We recently noticed a change in double quote (") handling that is causing a command we issue to fail. The command is: [...] 3.1.4: $ cmd.exe /c "echo \"" " 3.1.5: $ cmd.exe /c "echo \"" \" I can confirm this change in behavior, and I thought it wo

Re: ImageMagick maybe broken by libgs9 upgrade

2020-06-23 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/22/2020 9:37 PM, Emily via Cygwin wrote: I use ImageMagick to convert and crop shipping labels from PDFs generated by Ebay.  On 6/8, this command worked: $ convert -density 300 -crop 1500x1200 label.pdf label.png Aborted (core dumped) The command still runs on PDFs that were not generate

Re: ImageMagick maybe broken by libgs9 upgrade

2020-06-23 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/23/2020 7:27 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 6/22/2020 9:37 PM, Emily via Cygwin wrote: I use ImageMagick to convert and crop shipping labels from PDFs generated by Ebay.  On 6/8, this command worked: $ convert -density 300 -crop 1500x1200 label.pdf label.png Aborted (core dumped

Re: ImageMagick maybe broken by libgs9 upgrade

2020-06-23 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/23/2020 12:56 PM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 23.06.2020 15:03, Markus Hoenicka wrote: On 2020-06-23 14:15, Ken Brown via Cygwin was heard to say: On 6/23/2020 7:27 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 6/22/2020 9:37 PM, Emily via Cygwin wrote: But in case other ImageMagick

Re: ImageMagick maybe broken by libgs9 upgrade

2020-06-23 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
Hi Emily, On 6/23/2020 3:32 PM, Emily wrote: Any actual label.pdf would contain the Ebay buyer's name and address, and my return address.  Is there a tool I can use to redact sensitive information in a PDF? There's no need. I've found the bug, as I will explain in a separate message. Ken -

Re: ImageMagick maybe broken by libgs9 upgrade

2020-06-23 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/23/2020 2:18 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 6/23/2020 12:56 PM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 23.06.2020 15:03, Markus Hoenicka wrote: On 2020-06-23 14:15, Ken Brown via Cygwin was heard to say: On 6/23/2020 7:27 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 6/22/2020 9:37 PM, Emily via

Re: ImageMagick maybe broken by libgs9 upgrade

2020-06-24 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/24/2020 1:30 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 23.06.2020 23:02, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 23.06.2020 22:56, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: I think I've found the problem, although it will take patching and rebuilding ImageMagick (which I haven't done) to confirm that I'm

Re: ImageMagick maybe broken by libgs9 upgrade

2020-06-24 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/24/2020 2:46 PM, Emily via Cygwin wrote: Hi Marco, I don't see that one, do I need to add a special download site?  Thanks! You might not have waited long enough for it to propagate to the mirrors. But I just checked mirrors.kernel.org, and it's there. Since it's a test package, you'l

Re: date command hangs sometimes (coreutils 8.26-2) on cygwin 3.1.4 x86-64

2020-06-25 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/24/2020 8:57 PM, Gruff Hacker via Cygwin wrote: This happens more frequently for me now. Another example of thread stacks below: Can you show us a gdb backtrace of all threads when this happens? You'll need to install gdb and coreutils-debuginfo. When date hangs, attach gdb by giving t

gdb and core files

2020-06-27 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
Following the instructions at https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html, I tried to create a core file that I could examine with gdb, but I apparently ran into a gdb bug. I tried both gdb 9.2-1 and 8.3.1-1. Here are the results with 9.2-1. $ cat crash.c #include int main () {

Re: Where can I download the cygport source packages for a cygwin package

2020-06-29 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/29/2020 9:17 AM, Cary Lewis via Cygwin wrote: I would like to build php locally. I know I can use the setup.exe installer and select the src, but there must be a repo somewhere with the cygport files? https://cygwin.com/packages/src_package_list.html -- Problem reports: https://cygwin

Re: gdb and core files

2020-06-29 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/28/2020 9:31 AM, Jon Turney wrote: On 28/06/2020 01:50, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: Following the instructions at https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html, I tried to create a core file that I could examine with gdb, but I apparently ran into a gdb bug. I tried both gdb 9.2

Re: Where can I download the cygport source packages for a cygwin package

2020-06-29 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/29/2020 1:43 PM, Cary Lewis wrote: I appreciate the reply, I found those links but they only list the files in the src ports - where can I download them from? Most of the pages have links to the maintainer's source repository. For example, if you to to https://cygwin.com/packages/src_pac

Re: date command hangs sometimes (coreutils 8.26-2) on cygwin 3.1.4 x86-64

2020-06-29 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/29/2020 3:41 PM, Gruff Hacker wrote: On Thu Jun 25 11:50:15 GMT 2020, Ken Brown wrote: Can you show us a gdb backtrace of all threads when this happens?  You'll need to install gdb and coreutils-debuginfo.  When date hangs, attach gdb by giving the command    gdb -p where is the pid

Re: name pipe problem: 1 writer, multiple concurrent readers

2020-07-03 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/2/2020 1:50 PM, Morten Kjærulff via Cygwin wrote: I think we got a new release around the beginning of June, right? You said that there were still issues (I can confirm). If it can help, here is the output I see today of above scripts: $ ./tp.sh [...] 0 [fifo_reader] diff 1806 C:\c

Re: pdfjam in texlive-collection-binextra-20200406-1 doesn't work

2020-07-03 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/3/2020 7:22 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote: Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2020 19:23:58 +0900 From: Lemures Lemniscati Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 09:46:46 -0400 From: Ken Brown via Cygwin On 5/27/2020 9:35 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote: Hi ! pdfjam in texlive-collection-binextra

Re: name pipe problem: 1 writer, multiple concurrent readers

2020-07-16 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/3/2020 7:09 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2020 1:50 PM, Morten Kjærulff via Cygwin wrote: I think we got a new release around the beginning of June, right? You said that there were still issues (I can confirm). If it can help, here is the output I see today of above scripts

Re: Cygwin PHP (all available versions) has a hard 4MB memory limit

2020-07-18 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/17/2020 5:39 PM, km2z7kca0oge--- via Cygwin wrote: Hi there, Recently I've noticed that PHP seems have to hard 4MB memory limit, [...] Example script: ``` http://mirror.cwcs.co.uk/centos/8.2.2004/isos/x86_64/CentOS-8.2.2004-x86_64-dvd1.iso'); // A large file such as an ISO. ``` Output

Re: Cygwin PHP (all available versions) has a hard 4MB memory limit

2020-07-21 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/18/2020 10:11 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 7/17/2020 5:39 PM, km2z7kca0oge--- via Cygwin wrote: Hi there, Recently I've noticed that PHP seems have to hard 4MB memory limit, [...] Example script: ``` file_get_contents('http://mirror.cwcs.co.uk/centos/8.2.2004/isos/x86

Re: graph (plotutils) seg-faulting

2020-07-22 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/22/2020 1:36 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 22.07.2020 02:10, Tony Richardson via Cygwin wrote: I have attached both the cygcheck and strace output. Tony Richardson something is clearly interfering with your Cygwin installation --- Process 11136 loaded C:\Applications\cygwin64\b

Re: graph (plotutils) seg-faulting

2020-07-22 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/22/2020 6:07 PM, Tony Richardson via Cygwin wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 3:48 PM Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 22.07.2020 14:06, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 7/22/2020 1:36 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 22.07.2020 02:10, Tony Richardson via Cygwin wrote: I have

Re: graph (plotutils) seg-faulting

2020-07-23 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/23/2020 12:48 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 23.07.2020 00:12, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 7/22/2020 6:07 PM, Tony Richardson via Cygwin wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 3:48 PM Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 22.07.2020 14:06, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 7/22/2020 1:36

Re: Problem with "xmgrace" graphing software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-24 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/24/2020 1:19 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 24.07.2020 05:00, Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin wrote: Hello. I recently installed a copy of the Cygwin software package on my new Windows 10 laptop.  However, whenever I try to access the "xmgrace" graphing software (by entering the comman

Re: Meld 3.18.0-1 does not start

2020-07-27 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/27/2020 9:50 AM, Rabbe Fogelholm wrote: I am having problems with meld 3.18.0-1. On startup I get "fatal: external diff died, stopping at ", where is a file to be inspected. My workaround is to downgrade to 3.16.4-1, which works. I am running cygwin on Windows 10. My cygwin installation is

Re: Meld 3.18.0-1 does not start

2020-07-27 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/27/2020 12:57 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 7/27/2020 9:50 AM, Rabbe Fogelholm wrote: I am having problems with meld 3.18.0-1. On startup I get "fatal: external diff died, stopping at ", where is a file to be inspected. My workaround is to downgrade to 3.16.4-1, which wo

Synchronization problem with posix_spawn

2020-07-29 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
posix_spawn(p) returns before the spawned process is fully up and running. As a result, the spawned process can fail to receive signals. The attached test case illustrates the problem. It spawns a sleep process and then tries to kill it. On exit, the sleep process is still running. The foll

Re: Synchronization problem with posix_spawn

2020-07-29 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/29/2020 4:17 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: posix_spawn(p) returns before the spawned process is fully up and running.  As a result, the spawned process can fail to receive signals.  The attached test case illustrates the problem.  It spawns a sleep process and then tries to kill it. On

Re: Synchronization problem with posix_spawn

2020-07-30 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
Hi Corinna, On 7/30/2020 1:17 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Ken, On Jul 30 13:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 29 19:12, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 7/29/2020 4:17 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: posix_spawn(p) returns before the spawned process is fully up and running.  [...] I just

Re: Cygwin PHP (all available versions) has a hard 4MB memory limit

2020-08-04 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
[Please don't top-post on this list.] On 8/3/2020 9:57 PM, Cary Lewis wrote: I am running php on two different Windows 10 computers, and on one machine I can run composer with no issues, but on other I get our of memory issues. Both report:  php -v PHP 7.3.7 (cli) (built: Jul 21 2019 18:10:3

Re: Cygwin PHP (all available versions) has a hard 4MB memory limit

2020-08-04 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
[Once again, please don't top-post on this list.] On 8/4/2020 9:35 AM, Cary Lewis wrote: Thank you Ken, I followed your instructions and I am now able to use https and composer with your versions of php. Did you have to apply any of the cygport patches? I applied all of them except for one h

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl 7.71.1-1

2020-08-10 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/9/2020 5:48 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2020-08-09 12:28, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 13:56, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: In the failing case, the `/configure` stage includes the following text: `configure: Setting CURL_LDFLAGS to '-lcurl -lnghttp2 -lidn2 -lssh -lpsl -lssl -lcrypt

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl 7.71.1-1

2020-08-10 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/10/2020 1:33 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2020-08-10 08:52, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/9/2020 5:48 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2020-08-09 12:28, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 13:56, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: In the failing case, the `/configure` stage includes the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl 7.71.1-1

2020-08-11 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/10/2020 9:27 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2020-08-10 13:14, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/10/2020 1:33 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2020-08-10 08:52, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/9/2020 5:48 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2020-08-09 12:28, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 13

Re: #!/bin/sh vs #!/bin/bash filename expansion after

2020-08-12 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/12/2020 1:54 PM, Morten Kjærulff via Cygwin wrote: Hi, This script: #!/bin/sh echo hello >hello.txt ls -l cat hell* cat < hell* gives me: $ ./t.sh total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 vp01mkf Domain Users 6 Aug 12 19:51 hello.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 vp01mkf Domain Users 60 Aug 12 19:51 t.sh hello ./t.sh: line

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] emacs 27.1-1

2020-08-15 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/15/2020 11:07 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce writes: The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * emacs-27.1-1 * emacs-common-27.1-1 * emacs-X11-27.1-1 * emacs-w32-27.1-1 * emacs-lucid-27.1-1 This release seems to have a serious

Re: unhandled C++ exceptions not propagating

2020-08-16 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/15/2020 11:53 PM, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 20:38:01 -0300 David McFarland via Cygwin wrote: I was just debugging a c++ app (b2 build system from boost), and noticed that it would appear to exit unexpectedly without an error. This turned out to be when an unhandl

Re: unhandled C++ exceptions not propagating

2020-08-16 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/16/2020 9:52 AM, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 09:21:24 -0400 Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/15/2020 11:53 PM, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 20:38:01 -0300 David McFarland via Cygwin wrote: I was just debugging a c++ app (b2 build system

Re: unhandled C++ exceptions not propagating

2020-08-16 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/16/2020 10:56 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/16/2020 9:52 AM, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 09:21:24 -0400 Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/15/2020 11:53 PM, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 20:38:01 -0300 David McFarland via Cygwin wrote

[Attn: gcc maintainers] Re: unhandled C++ exceptions not propagating

2020-08-17 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/16/2020 6:38 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/16/2020 10:56 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/16/2020 9:52 AM, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 09:21:24 -0400 Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/15/2020 11:53 PM, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2020

Re: [Attn: gcc maintainers] Re: unhandled C++ exceptions not propagating

2020-08-17 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/17/2020 2:13 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 17 13:36, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/16/2020 6:38 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: One further comment, and then I'll shut up I lied. ...which is ok. and leave it to people who know what they're talking about: In the 6

Re: [Attn: gcc maintainers] Re: unhandled C++ exceptions not propagating

2020-08-17 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/17/2020 3:06 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/17/2020 2:13 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 17 13:36, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/16/2020 6:38 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: One further comment, and then I'll shut up I lied. ...which is ok. and leave it to peopl

Re: [Attn: gcc maintainers] Re: unhandled C++ exceptions not propagating

2020-08-17 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 8/17/2020 4:40 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/17/2020 3:06 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/17/2020 2:13 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 17 13:36, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 8/16/2020 6:38 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: One further comment, and then I'll shut up I

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