tzcode dependency on /bin/ksh

2006-01-07 Thread L. A. Walsh
I was wondering who "owned" the tzcode package and if they could include an install script to check for the existance of "bash" OR "ksh", and create a link at install time to the installed substitute or just patch tzselect so the dependency on pdksh could be removed. The documentation in "tzcode"

Re: find reports an internal system loop on cygdrive

2006-01-18 Thread L. A. Walsh
Do you have a directory named "cygdrive" in your root? Normally, you shouldn't. For example, if I type "ls /proc*", I get: ls: /proc*: No such file or directory But if I type: "ls /proc", I see: 1024 cpuinfo meminfo registry statversion 608 loadavg partitions self uptime ---

Re: [ADMINISTRIVIA] Please don't use 'cygwin at cygwin dot com' as an email address

2006-01-18 Thread L. A. Walsh
Mea culpa...*irk*...it wasn't _intentional_... It's a Tbird extension that's supposed to pick *my* address out of headers that just put cygwin@cygwin.com on the From addr instead of my domain. *Irk*...Haven't seen that behavior before. I wouldn't have noticed it except that this time the email b

Re: disk space allocation (du, ls et al?)

2006-01-24 Thread L. A. Walsh
Baksik, Frederick (NM75) wrote: the info pages state for these tools: If none of the above environment variables are set, the block size currently defaults to 1024 bytes in most contexts, but this number may change in the future. For `ls' file sizes, the block size defaults to 1 byte. Er

Problem in Cygwin program offering: Bashdb is for Bash 3.1.9; Bash is at 4.4.12 (or 5.x).

2019-12-03 Thread L A Walsh
Bashdb doesn't work very well (many things don't work) on Cygwin, -- figured out that Bashdb is from 2012, while bash is from 2017. If bashdb was upgraded to a compatible version it might run a bit better. Table from page @ https://sourceforge.net/projects/bashdb/files/bashdb/5.0-1.1.1/ Selecti

BUG: bashdb-3.1_0.09-1 is obsolete; pkg bashdb w/bash?

2019-12-11 Thread L A Walsh
cygcheck -p bashdb Found 2 matches for bashdb bashdb-3.1_0.09-1-src - bashdb-src: Debugger for bash scripts (source) bashdb-3.1_0.09-1 - bashdb: debugger for bash scripts (installed binaries and support files) Current version of bash on Cygwin download site is bash-4.4.12-3 So for bashdb, a

Re: non-persistant storage?

2019-12-12 Thread L A Walsh
On 2019/12/12 13:40, Eliot Moss wrote: Ah! I think what you want is a tmpfs or ramfs. Not sure if cygwin supports that ... Easiest thing might be to use /dev/shm. I used it during development to store intermediate data that was later to be transfered via a fifo... Basically check fo

Re: Bug in "factor" (coreutils: GNU core utilities (8.26-2), 64bit edition)

2019-12-12 Thread L A Walsh
On 2019/12/11 23:36, Bernd Eggen wrote: Hello, Some time ago I found that the Cygwin-64 "factor" command did not seem to terminate with certain numbers, eg try: -> echo '3401347*3861211*12099721' | bc | factor The developers provided a fix (in GNU coreutils 8.29), however, after some two yea

Re: non-persistant storage?

2019-12-12 Thread L A Walsh
On 2019/12/12 22:26, Brian Inglis wrote: I've been using /run, with /var/run as a symlink to that, created in a permanent postinstall script /etc/postinstall/zp_mk_run_var_links.dash (with some others), for some time. It's currently using ~28KB. Is it feasible to mount /run on say /dev/shm/run

Re: git on mounted CIFS is it Git or Cygwin

2020-01-27 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/01/26 13:56, Jason Pyeron wrote: I have an issue with git in Cygwin on windows shares - this is recent (worked months ago). Just to be clear, you are running 'git' on Cygwin and not on linux or some other OS? There is a 'git' that runs on window natively. Have you thought about

Re: git on mounted CIFS is it Git or Cygwin

2020-01-29 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/01/28 14:56, Jason Pyeron wrote: Two short details, ll is an alias commonly used on unix/linux/cygwin most often standing for "ls -l" in its simplest form. Mine does a few other things alias llg='ls -l' #long listing alias ll='llg -gG'# same with user+group turned o

Re: rsync and ls -lR slow for directories with many files

2020-01-29 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/01/08 08:43, Frank-Ulrich Sommer wrote: but rsync did not get faster. I'm sorry to admit that the ultimate solution does not use Cygwin any more. I'm now using a Windows share and connect to that share from my Linux server with cifs and autofs. rsync then runs on the linux machine and

Re: Has rename syntax changed?

2020-03-03 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/02/28 04:38, Fergus Daly wrote: I am almost certain that the command $ rename "anything" "AnyThing" *.ext would alter the string from lc to uc as shown, anywhere it occurred in any filename in *.ext in the current directory. isn't that they same as "mv anything.xxx Anything.xxx" ?

Re: Has rename syntax changed?

2020-03-03 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/03/03 15:45, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: Am 04.03.2020 um 00:25 schrieb L A Walsh: On 2020/02/28 04:38, Fergus Daly wrote: I am almost certain that the command $ rename "anything" "AnyThing" *.ext would alter the string from lc to uc as shown, anywhere

Re: Cygwin-OpenSSH 8.2.2.2

2020-03-23 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/02/27 14:30, Brian Inglis wrote: No, you must backport all sources to the current and all previous versions What all previous versions? Going back to year 2000 or before? That sounds a bit onerous. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: bug report: shell expansion in argv[] processing sensitive to LANG, e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory", but works okay in bash

2020-04-01 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/03/24 00:18, Jay Libove via Cygwin wrote: Problem: Under certain circumstances (see Steps to Reproduce, below) Cygwin programs' built-in argv[] globbing will produce unexpected: "{programName}: cannot access '{glob pattern}: No such file or directory" e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No

Re: bug report: shell expansion in argv[] processing sensitive to LANG, e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory", but works okay in bash

2020-04-02 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/04/02 06:43, Andrey Repin wrote: That's not what actually happens. ...\Documents> ls -1 *.pdf 21927-ticket.pdf 'Stars! Universe Map.pdf' --- Thank you for your update. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentatio

How can I access & save reg acls? RFE-/proc/registry passthrough ACL's?

2020-07-23 Thread L A Walsh
If you look in the registry editor, entry permissions similar to those found on files -- complete access control lists for permissions, auditing and integrity levels (MEDIUM, HIGH, SYSTEM 'Mandatory Levels') are shown. Also, a creation or last-mod time is stored that may be the timestamp shown in

Weird behavior in 'grep'ing for string in /proc/registry...

2020-09-06 Thread L A Walsh
In directory /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/services/eventlog I wanted to list all the ".dll"s that handled various types of events. I tried /bin/grep -Pr '\.dll' but got a load of bogus error messages: /bin/grep: Group: Is a directory /bin/grep: ImagePath: Is a direc

Re: Bug in 'grep'ing for string in /proc/registry...

2020-09-07 Thread L A Walsh
On 9/7/2020 12:05 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: >> /bin/grep -Pr '\.dll' >> /bin/grep: Group: Is a directory >> /bin/grep: ImagePath: Is a directory ImagePath is a expandable string value under the Eventlog key. 'ls -l' shows ImagePath has having 65 bytes. > ll ImagePath -r--r- 1 65 S

cygwin1.dll: uname_x not found

2020-09-07 Thread L A Walsh
> > I uploaded new snapshots for testing to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > Please give them a try. --- Got: "The procedure entry point uname_x could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll" :-( -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: h

Re: cygwin1.dll: uname_x not found

2020-09-08 Thread L A Walsh
On 9/8/2020 12:18 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 7 14:34, L A Walsh wrote: >>> I uploaded new snapshots for testing to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ >>> >>> Please give them a try. >> --- >> Got: >> >> "The procedure entry point

Re: Bash 4.4.12-3 erroneous behavior using [[ -f name ]] and other utilities

2020-09-08 Thread L A Walsh
What are you complaining about? What erroneous behavior? We can't read your mind, but it isn't clear what you think is going wrong -- so how are we supposed to figure out what the erroneous behavior is? Please give an example of what you think is wrong and what you expected instead. Please be cl

cygwin permissions on folders creating problems for windows applications (like explorer, gvim)

2020-09-08 Thread L A Walsh
I was trying to edit files in /etc/ssh: /etc/ssh> gvim sshd_config Error: Current working directory has restricted permissions which render it inaccessible as Win32 working directory. Ca

bug in cygwin perl

2020-10-25 Thread L A Walsh
I'm using perl 5.26. The following perl-lib function fails. perl -e 'use charnames qw{:full};' Undefined subroutine utf8::SWASHNEW called at /usr/share/perl5/5.26/_charnames.p m line 176. Com

Re: Conflict if same username local and in domain

2020-10-29 Thread L A Walsh
e point to /Users/joe/home, and the domain should get joe.dom so /home/joe.dom => /Users/joe.dom/home. I started with my /home dir pointed at my the same dir as my /users dir, so by default, windows separated them. Both my userid and username are different -- have 2 entries in /etc/passwd: Bliss\

Re: Conflict if same username local and in domain

2020-11-01 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/10/31 03:56, David Balažic wrote: I don't have any of /user /users /User /Users folders on my setup. Do you mean C:\Users ? --- Sorry, yeah. Even if I symlink it, won't that just change the location, but not the used usernames? You have one user in the Domain a

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

2020-11-05 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/11/05 13:41, Michael Soegtrop via Cygwin wrote: I wonder if the path "/mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/wingding.ttf" is something which should be written into a NTFS reparse point by cygwin setup. Probably not - it looks like a cygwin path and it is understandable that this confuses NTFS.

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

2020-11-08 Thread L A Walsh
d volumes. Some will work with network, some not. If they are all Microsoft windows symlinks, you might look at the fsutil settings -- as well as open files. You maybe said, but don't remember -- is there any error message when you can't delete those files? @ L A Walsh: you

Re: Commercial use of cygwin

2020-11-13 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/11/12 02:42, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin copied the whole note: On 12.11.2020 09:42, Antonio Sidoti via Cygwin wrote: I was looking into using Cygwin for commercial use... [27 lines of duplicate text] in general there is no restriction on usage. Marco If you are going to bottom post,

Re: surrounding double quotes not removed from native command line arguments when they contain unicode and locale is default

2020-11-15 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/11/12 08:10, Ilya Basin via Cygwin wrote: Hi. When I launch a Cygwin program from a native Windows program and an argument in the command line string is quoted and contains national characters then the Cygwin program behaves as if double quotes were part of the program argument. This ha

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-23 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/11/17 15:41, tealhill via Cygwin wrote: ### Summary Why should Cygwin add Sysnative to $PATH? As a workaround for Microsoft's failure to add Sysnative to %PATH%. ### Full explanation Cygwin imports the Windows %PATH% variable at startup. It would be ideal if Microsoft would add Sysn

Re: Updated: fetchmail-6.4.14-1

2020-12-03 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/12/02 12:29, Achim Gratz wrote: fetchmail-6.4.14-1... This release uses the Python3 interpreter as Python2 is now EOL... When I look at the binary on linux (ldd), I see no reference to any python of any version. I haven't seen the 6.4.14 package for my distro yet, but the

Re: Updated: fetchmail-6.4.14-1

2020-12-04 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/12/04 12:18, Achim Gratz wrote: L A Walsh writes: I see no reference to any python of any version. Yes, the package does depend on it, and as noted in the announcement it depends specifically on python36. So, people who configure fetchmail with the man page and

Re: Workaround for cygwin's way of linking folders?

2020-12-06 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/12/06 14:41, Johnathan Schneider via Cygwin wrote: Hi all, I'm setting up a cross platform development environment using Cygwin. Upon attempting to use Cygwin's CMake that is natively bundled, I discovered that Cygwin goes looking for the gcc in /usr/bin/cc, If you go into 'ba

Re: bc version has issue with \r when run from cmd

2016-10-22 Thread L. A. Walsh
dapiot holmp wrote: the version of bc that comes with cygwin, is bc 1.06.95 it works fine from within the cygwin environment, but from cmd it doesn't process \r C:\cygwin\bin>echo 5+4|.\bc (standard_in) 1: illegal character: ^M --- It's not about "bc" not working with cmd. The proble

Re: bc version has issue with \r when run from cmd

2016-10-24 Thread L. A. Walsh
Andrew Schulman wrote: Does whoever made the windows port e.g. for the gow one or for the cygwin one, make their windows ports open source, and if so, then does anybody have a link to those? The Cygwin bc package uses the bc 1.06.95 source that I linked to, plus some patches. You can download

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux starts to compete with Cygwin?

2016-10-28 Thread L. A. Walsh
Evgeny Grin wrote: A lot of? I don't know many... correction.. any GNU/Linux tools that works badly with \n newlines. --- All the tools in linux and current MacOS use 1 character to indicate end of line. It is only windows that has a problem. Is Cygwin still better for something? ---

Re: Windows 10 updates causes fork retry no child processes

2016-11-07 Thread L. A. Walsh
Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: Am 03.11.2016 um 07:06 schrieb Gerry Reno: What is needed is for Cygwin itself to detect and manage the situation. That is technically impossible. The DLL rebasing procedure can only be done from _outside_ Cygwin. --- Oh? The Dll rebasing needs to

isn't or hasn't 32 bit support going or gone away?

2016-11-09 Thread L. A. Walsh
I thought I remember an announcement about 32-bit support going away in cygwin and that cygwin would only be built for 64-bit? Am I imagining this or was this reversed? Thanks... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentati

Re: Broken bash command substitution

2016-11-24 Thread L. A. Walsh
Tydus wrote: Dear list, I use Cygwin64 for a long time and everything went well. However, after one setup.exe update, the command substitution (`foo`) is broken on bash. You didn't specify what version of bash you are running. Since here: $ ssh a-linux-server $ A=`echo 123 | cat`;

Re: Broken bash command substitution

2016-11-26 Thread L. A. Walsh
Gerrit Haase wrote: 2016-11-24 17:25 GMT+01:00 L. A. Walsh says: Tydus wrote: You didn't specify what version of bash you are running. Therefore he attached the cygcheck output which says: bash 4.3.46-7 --- Is that the same version as he's runnin

Re: chmod failing on user's permissions

2016-11-28 Thread L. A. Walsh
Ben Altman wrote: When I log in to my account at work I get access to a network location accessed as a drive dedicated to me. I log in from 2 locations - my laptop and desktop. --- Were both setup by your company's IT department, or if not, who? Are they both running the same version of

hang on 'cat /proc/mounts' when one of the network drives is on a 'down' system

2017-01-10 Thread L A Walsh
I noticed my local terminals were not opening w/a shell prompt, but would timeout if I waited long enough...(1-2 minutes? maybe?). Turns out, one of my mounted net-drives was a down-system, so if I was trying to access the drive (or content on it), I can see it hanging. But what about "cat /proc

Re: hang on 'cat /proc/mounts' when one of the network drives is on a 'down' system

2017-01-11 Thread L. A. Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I know why this happens but I don't see an easy way around that. Basically the problem is that Cygwin has no control over the OS mount points (i. e., drive letter mapping and volume ireparse points). Given that, apart from C: maybe, the drive letter mapping can change any

Re: rename() cannot replace the file which is opened with writable access

2017-01-12 Thread L. A. Walsh
Masamichi Hosoda wrote: Hello, I've found that rename() cannot replace the file which is opened with writable access on Cygwin. On Linux, it works. If I understand correctly, it should work under POSIX. Here's sample code for reproduce. --- #define OLDPATH "oldpath" #define NEWPATH "newpath"

Re: Is it OK to mount cygdrive on / ? (usually, but may not be as portable).

2017-02-04 Thread L. A. Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: Accessing drive letters directly from inside Cygwin is often considered a grey area. How is it grey? Too much may happen on this border. You have to clearly understand, how Cygwin interact with other system, to avoid issues. I.e. if you think you may have

Re: Cannot access volumes mounted with 'mklink /d' which point to a volume UUID

2017-02-15 Thread L. A. Walsh
Matt D. wrote: On Windows you can create symbolic links which point to volume UUIDs as a way of mounting and unmounting them without having to use the administrative disk management tools. For example, in cmd: mountvol ... \\?\Volume{079b79c9----1000}\ C:\ ...

Re: Cannot access volumes mounted with 'mklink /d' which point to a volume UUID

2017-02-24 Thread L. A. Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: This type of directory symlink to a GUID volume path isn't supported at all yet in Cygwin. As I mentioned, symlinks don't support volume destinations under windows, but Junctions should be used instead. They half-way work under Cygwin (junctions to volumes look like mo

showing all JUNCTIONS as normal dirs as w/linux --bind (was Re: Cannot access volumes mounted with 'mklink...)

2017-03-02 Thread L. A. Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: They half-way work under Cygwin (junctions to volumes look like mounted file systems look under linux, but junctions to pathnames get converted by cygwin to symlinks -- losing information when such junctions are restored. Corinna -- could you _please_ re-look at suppor

Treating Junctions consistently, as "normal dirs" as w/linux "bind"-type mount

2017-03-08 Thread L. A. Walsh
Didn't see a response to this, so reposting, as this would provide a needed vol and subdir mount facility as exists on linux... Especially, since there was a misunderstanding of what was needed or wanted w/regards to the JUNCTION file-system mounts in Windows. Didn't need mount table updated, j

Re: Treating Junctions consistently, as "normal dirs" as w/linux "bind"-type mount

2017-03-09 Thread L A Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: I would argue against all junctions being treated blindly. The difference with bind mounts in Linux is that in Linux you don't have the information available within the filesystem itself, and have no other option, than to treat them as regular directories. Only direct volum

Re: Treating Junctions consistently, as "normal dirs" as w/linux "bind"-type mount

2017-03-09 Thread L A Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: He's right. The mount point handling in Cygwin is based on the in-memory mount table. I'm not wanting a mount point fake. Just wanting it to look like a normal dir just like the mountvol-junctions. There's no reasonable way to fake some reparse point to look

Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks

2017-03-10 Thread L A Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, L A Walsh! > Andrey Repin wrote: >> I would argue against all junctions being treated blindly. >> The difference with bind mounts in Linux is that in Linux >> you don't have the >> information available within the filesystem its

Re: Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks

2017-03-11 Thread L A Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, L A Walsh! You say that throwing out the MS-designed ability to mount a filesystem subtree and treat them the same as another feature they added, "symlinks", is a benefit? Where did I said that? --- Are you not suggesting treating JUNCTION

Re: Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks

2017-03-11 Thread L A Walsh
cyg Simple wrote: On 3/10/2017 4:01 PM, L A Walsh wrote: I want to be able to mount other areas of other file systems onto directories. Symlinks are destroyed by Cygwin's SETUP.EXE and the install process For example. I have a smallish "/usr" partition, but a large &qu

Re: Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks

2017-03-12 Thread L A Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 11 15:57, L A Walsh wrote: I'm, talking parallel features and parallel problems. Installing products on Linux or cygwin may check for and complain about symlinks leading to their installation directory. The cure in both is to use bind

Re: free() and implicit conversion to a function pointer

2017-03-16 Thread L A Walsh
Going by subj and talk below, this is a bit confusing... But it looks like you are testing 'free' for a value? Isn't standard 'free' declared to take 1 arg and return void? If you aren't talking standard 'free()', then nevermind... Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: [Sorry, forgot to reply-all...]

Re: how to make sshd start a shell other than bash when I log in?

2017-04-06 Thread L A Walsh
Andrew Schulman wrote: But when I log into that same host by sshd, bash starts... Have you tried changing your shell (chsh if it is on your system, otherwise edit /etc/passwd and change the shell for your username). andrews:x:1001:545:A.S.:/home/andrews:/bin/fish

Re: /bin/ gets deleted on error

2017-04-13 Thread L A Walsh
Felipe Vieira wrote: Dear cygwin mailing list, For the second time this week my /bin/ folder gets obliterated on an error during normal usage. It is equivalent of doing the infamous "rm -rf /bin" . That's different. I take it trying to restore previous copies from the windows menu

bug in cygcheck -- claims missing files, but files are not missing.

2017-04-15 Thread L A Walsh
I am trying to update my cygwin installation -- I seem to be missing some files, but am not sure, as cygcheck seems to be broken. I generated a dump using cygcheck -vs, and it claims may files are missing: Missing directory: /usr/share/doc/ from package afio Missing directory: /usr/share/doc/af

Re: bug in cygcheck -- claims missing files, but files are not missing.

2017-04-15 Thread L A Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, L A Walsh! Hi Andrey Repin! ;-) Any idea how to figure out what cygcheck is doing? How did you invoke cygcheck? I've seen similar behavior when invoking it as /usr/bin/cygcheck outside the Cygwin environment. I invoked it from bash at the same pl

How to create root account to own /var/empty for ssh?

2017-04-15 Thread L A Walsh
The new version of ssh is not likely my "/var/empty", which it says: var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. It doesn't seems to like this: llg -a /var/empty total 4 drwx--+ 1 root Administrators 0 Oct 11 2014 ./ llg -an /var/empty total 4 drwx--+ 1 0

Re: How to create root account to own /var/empty for ssh?

2017-04-15 Thread L A Walsh
Marco Atzeri wrote: How am I supposed to make ssh happy? Thanks! -l user separation ? $ ls -ld /var/empty drwxr-xr-x+ 1 cyg_server Administrators 0 Jan 7 2015 /var/empty Um, could elaborate? I mean do I just create a user called cyg_server, and that makes it sshd happy? Or how is us

Re: UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-24 Thread L A Walsh
Lee wrote: So... keep it simple, set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and use vi or something else that comes with cygwin to create the file and I'll have a file with UTF-8 character encoding - correct? --- The first 127 characters of UTF-8 are identical to the first 127 characters of ASCII, and latin

win junctions no longer symlinks? When did that happen?

2018-07-22 Thread L A Walsh
OMG! When were junctions changed to no longer behave like symlinks? I wanted that for years because it was apparent to me that MS intended them to function more as mount-points than symlinks and event referred to them as mountpoints in some of their earlier literature on them. Anyway -- outstan

Re: A Way To Suppress Certain Kinds Of Spam

2018-07-30 Thread L A Walsh
Michael Crawford wrote: then somehow determine whether that domain is owned by the trademark holder. I'll send you my bill in the mail. --- You didn't prove it belongs to the TM holder. In fact, you did nothing. The important part is proving the domain is owned by the trademark holder

problem with X11 auto-window placement: far away, and now under other windows

2018-08-22 Thread L A Walsh
I've had about 2-3 degradations regarding auto-window placement over the past few months, though with 1, possibly > than a year. The oldest prob with is the least problematic and that regards the default x,y positioning of a new program or window coming up. It used to be very convenient in tha

maybe partial sol: Re: problem with X11 auto-window placement: far away, and now under other windows

2018-08-22 Thread L A Walsh
L A Walsh wrote: latest one: But now have a new degradation: the windows pop-under existing windows, and trigger the task bar sliding open from the left -- both obscuring and often preventing access to the wanted window! ***maybe*** have this one solved...my alert count on my desktop had

incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.

2018-08-22 Thread L A Walsh
Ran in to this trying to use tar to store acls and xattrs: tar caf lawbins.tar scripts scripts- bin tar: miner.js: Warning: Cannot acl_to_text: Invalid argument tar: run-crons.sys: Warning: Cannot acl_to_text: Invalid argument tar: smallprof.out: Warning: Cannot acl_to_text: Invalid argument t

Re: incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.

2018-08-26 Thread L A Walsh
On 8/23/2018 1:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: ... No, that's a wrong assumption. Think about it. The ACL given to acl_to_text is the binary form, so it doesn't contain user or group names, only uids and gids. The usernames are only generated in the output. --- Rats. Of course, you're right.

Re: handling invalid user/groups (was incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.)

2018-09-04 Thread L A Walsh
On 8/27/2018 10:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On 8/27/2018 3:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The only sane way to handle unknown SIDs in file ACLs is to ignore them entirely. The result will be that you never see them in getfacl, nor will they be stored by tar or rsync. They are just not there

Odd email symptoms (was Re: handling invalid user/groups)

2018-09-05 Thread L A Walsh
Thanks for your reply, it's not so much a problem for me, just that when I have some email problem, I often need someone else to point it out to me, as from my perspective, everything is working fine! :-) On 9/5/2018 4:30 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, L A Walsh! p.s. -- some

Re: handling invalid user/groups (was incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.)

2018-09-05 Thread L A Walsh
On 9/5/2018 1:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: No, I deliberately removed it from the released version to tease you. Meanie!!! :-) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsub

continued acl problems

2018-09-07 Thread L A Walsh
I'm now getting errors where I never got errors before -- this may be for the 'Trusted installer' user, or possibly domain users that I I tried copying files using tar|tar...I have a script that I've tried to run daily (but only do it manually), called 'daily_maint.sh' Tries to recycle old archi

Re: continued acl problems

2018-09-07 Thread L A Walsh
On 9/7/2018 2:26 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, L A Walsh! In all of these cases it appears that the problem is with directories. At first thought it was related to presence of 'TRUSTED USER' But I saw some 'flakeyness' on domain ID's, where I saw it dis

Re: Creation of weird WINDOWS-related (sub)directories

2018-09-27 Thread L A Walsh
On 9/25/2018 9:53 AM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: Am 25.09.2018 um 17:16 schrieb Fergus: Unintentionally I have confounded the discussion. The directory named "consoleX" is my home-grown Cygwin root directory. (Others' preferred locationname might be "cygwin" or "mycygwin" or whatever.) Th

Re: Mintty fails to render 3 byte UTF-8 on Windows 7

2018-10-12 Thread L A Walsh
Referring to the below paragraph, I would not be against you providing a patch to fix it. I doubt any working on the tools or cygwin in their spare time would mind either and would probably appreciate the help. --- When do you plan to submit a fix? linda :-) p.s. - just another cygwin

RFE: find -d -size 0 => doesn't find empty directories

2018-10-31 Thread L A Walsh
Something I can use on my /tmp files on linux is a find command: find /tmp -size 0 -delete to delete zero-len-files or empty-directories in /tmp. Unfortunately, due to directories really not being in the user disk data space, but in the MFT(zone) (I think), the size comes back as zero ('0') for

Re: (SOLVED) RFE: find -d -size 0 => doesn't find empty directories

2018-11-01 Thread L A Walsh
On 10/31/2018 9:39 PM, Mark Geisert wrote: I shouldn't have blindly trusted the Subject:. --- You did and gave the right answer. I had forgotten about empty -- though not sure why. I guess I usually only use it for file normally. For empty directories under /tmp, I usually use 'rm

lib missing, cygcheck says "ok"?

2018-11-02 Thread L A Walsh
cygcheck pulseaudio cygcheck: track_down: could not find cygspeexdsp-1.dll When I reinstalled the package, it didn't want any extra packages. I made sure the speex package was loaded, but that didn't have it either. Well this is odd: cygcheck -c libspeexdsp1 Cygwin Package Informatio

Re: lib missing, cygcheck says "ok"?

2018-11-04 Thread L A Walsh
Thanks, *sigh*. Unfortunately, that also implies that no one is using pulseaudio ? On 11/3/2018 12:26 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: Well this is odd: 'cygcheck -c libspeexdsp1' libspeexdsp1 1.2-0.1.rc3 OK cygcheck -l libspeexdsp1 #nothing listed. Did a reinstall on package an

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer:

2018-11-25 Thread L A Walsh
On 11/25/2018 9:08 AM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: Am 25.11.2018 um 15:38 schrieb Lester Ingber: I'd like to simply transfer my cygwin64/ directory from my old Thinkpad to my new Thinkpad, both running Win 10 x64 Pro. E.g., I would put my old c:/cygwin64/ onto a flash SSD USB drive e:/ . cd

Re: setup-x86_64 Can't Download to Mapped Drive

2018-11-26 Thread L A Walsh
On 11/26/2018 6:38 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Sridhar Ayengar! I am trying to use a network shared drive mapped to I: for the download directory, I:\cygwindownload. setup-x86_64 shows a dialog box with "Directory I:\cygwindownload does not exist, would you like me to create it?". ..

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer:

2018-11-26 Thread L A Walsh
On 11/25/2018 11:58 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, L A Walsh! --- Hmm...can't tar it, but he could drag&drop from Explorer like he was moving the image (but do a copy instead). It would screw permissions on Cygwin files/directories. --- Perhaps, I haven

Re: mintty slow refresh rate over RDP

2018-11-26 Thread L A Walsh
On 11/26/2018 12:20 PM, David Dombrowsky wrote: mintty is the only non-X11 terminal emulator in the stack, correct? --- I find best results hosting the GUI (the window of the TTY) on the local machine, and only transfering the data (the txt of the ssh session). On of the feat

how is cygstart different from cmd /c or how to have cygstart start 'inline'?

2018-12-20 Thread L A Walsh
Got a program that starts under cygstart, but I'd like to be able to start it without starting up the program in a new window..so was trying cmd /c. I compared env's and noted both PATH and TMP had been converted back to the backslash using case, so I did that manually: if ((usecmd)); then ex

Re: how is cygstart different from cmd /c or how to have cygstart start 'inline'?

2018-12-23 Thread L A Walsh
On 12/21/2018 5:15 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: See: https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/Tips#inputoutput-interaction-with-alien-programs --- Will have to read it in more detail...look like alot of neat things to try out (not sure how useful relating to my question, but maybe...so much there).

gnanny: tr: warning: an unescaped backslash at end of string is not portable

2018-12-31 Thread L A Walsh
This is being run on cygwin w/bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release. Have a table of windows files, sample line (it's all 1 line): cat test D,"c:\windows\system32\FMS.DLL",2010-11-20 19:24:33,2010-11-20 03:59:27,93696,A,0x00024E23,0x00024E23,x86,GUI,"CV",0x0448,Unknown,0x00019000,Not Loaded,1.

manpage searches "^\s+keyword\s" vs. ???

2019-01-27 Thread L A Walsh
I've always used "^\s+keyword\s" as a way to search for some keyword starting a section. On linux it still works, but on cygin it doesn't like '\s' as symbol for white space. Any idea why there might be a difference? I note an option that could do similar in less -- '&pattern' turns OFF single

perl -- classic?

2019-02-04 Thread L A Walsh
Can we have an older perl, say, perl-5.0.16? works for my stuff mostly unchanged, I can't get many cpan things to work with current perl. Things like Term::Size::chars no longer works as it says chars isn't exported. but it is 'EXPORT_OK', and it used to work. Too many things break on cpan on n

Re: perl -- classic?

2019-02-05 Thread L A Walsh
On 2/4/2019 4:18 PM, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 2:33 PM L A Walsh wrote: > >> Things like >> Term::Size::chars no longer works as it says chars isn't exported. >> but it is 'EXPORT_OK', and it used to work. >> > > Remem

Re: TEST: Cygwin 3.0.0-0.4

2019-02-05 Thread L A Walsh
On 2/1/2019 11:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > - Cygwin PIDs have been decoupled from Windows PID. Cygwin PIDs are > now incrementally dealt in the range from 2 up to 65535, POSIX-like. > Posix like? Posix starts from '1' (usually for init), but never heard it limited to 65535 --- L

Re: perl -- classic?

2019-02-05 Thread L A Walsh
On 2/5/2019 4:25 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Yes...it worked for me up till the latest perl. I was surprised. > > STC ? > >> The man page documents usage as: STC? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: perl -- classic?

2019-02-05 Thread L A Walsh
On 2/4/2019 3:09 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 02:32:35PM -0800, L A Walsh wrote: > > Greetings, > > >> Can we have an older perl, say, perl-5.0.16? works for my stuff mostly >> unchanged, >> > > You sure you mean 5.0.16? Tha

Re: perl -- classic?

2019-02-07 Thread L A Walsh
On 2/5/2019 5:43 PM, Mark Geisert wrote: > Please provide a Simple Test Case that shows exactly what you're > trying and > exactly what happens that's incorrect. > My simple test case was referencing some old copy that didn't get deleted/updated when I last updated the module. Fixing that it w

Re: Getting error message when launching X-Window apps in Cygwin

2019-02-09 Thread L A Walsh
Coud you reconsider that, otherwise someone posting a README would violate the rules, (for exampe) which has most recent changes at the top and you can read down as far as you want, going back in time. Also, like your sentence, below, you put the category of your "PS-no top posting" with the categ

Re: Getting error message when launching X-Window apps in Cygwin

2019-02-09 Thread L A Walsh
On 2/9/2019 11:06 AM, Vince Rice wrote: >> On Feb 9, 2019, at 8:46 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > What you think about this is irrelevant. Not really. > What I think about this is > irrelevant. The only thoughts that matter are the ones of those who > manage the list,

Re: Posting Order

2019-02-09 Thread L A Walsh
On 2/9/2019 10:26 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2019-02-09 07:46, L A Walsh wrote: > >> That's why it is very surprising to see computer people treat >> 'email' as a "log" instead of like a chat w/history... >> > > Logs can be display

Re: Posting Order

2019-02-09 Thread L A Walsh
On 2/9/2019 3:02 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > For the record I tend to prefer top posting. > I only prefer it because most readers display the first snippet of something. I'd prefer full editing of quotes, but if they can't do that, having the old stuff down off the bottom of my wind

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