rxvt and mintty fail with SHELL=c:\bin\bash.exe

If Cygwin will generally accept Window-style paths in shells and such, I think that it should continue to accept them in SHELL too. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

UTF-8 versus utf8

ts, so I find it confusing nad disheartening to see any difference. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- 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: UTF-8 versus utf8

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/02/2010 04:27 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote: Why does <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html> talk all about a charset of UTF-8, then "For a list of locales supported by your Windows machine, use the new locale -a command", w

Re: UTF-8 versus utf8

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: Tim McDaniel: Why does <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html> talk all about a charset of UTF-8, then "For a list of locales supported by your Windows machine, use the new locale -a command", which shows "utf8" (w

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

y, what is currently installed on the running system. It is only updated by new installs run on the machine. I think that some other distributions put something in /etc/motd. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: h

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:32:53AM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:42:05PM +1000, Rurik Christiansen wrote: * How do I know what the current release is ? (e.g. is there something

qt3 silently fails to install?

both and leave them uninstalled. Still, I thought I should report this oddity. (While I'm here: out of curiosity, why does qt3's description say "(sources)" when the "Bin?" box is checked?) -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem reports: http://cy

Re: qt3 silently fails to install?

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Dave Korn wrote: On 05/04/2010 21:03, Tim McDaniel wrote: I don't know of anything that I have installed that uses qt3* -- at least, I suppose that setup.exe would have complained if any Cygwin package needed it, and surely it's unlikely that anything outside Cy

Cannot stop "cygcheck -c"

his happen to anyone else? -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- 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: cygwin-1.7.3-1

About release number testing, Jeremy Bopp wrote: The most accurate way to check for functionality is to specifically test for it, a la autoconf. Even better, when possible, is to just try it and catch errors. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: installer improvements

help links are on my desktop. (2) I was annoyed that it silently included a package, and more, that it silently undid an action. I'm not entirely sure of what the best fix would be. Maybe if, when clicking Next, it would pop up a dialog box listing unmet dependencies and ask

Re: 1.7 setup.exe overwrites softlink for home

ppose it's doing a test for symlinks specifically. Why not just test that /home is a directory via stat(), and if so, leave it alone? Perhaps it doesn't have stat() available and it would be extra work to cobble it together in that environment? -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem

MySQL client, prompt, redux

ound other than simply using cmd.exe instead? (In mintty, BTW, "cmd /c mysql ..." doesn't prompt, presumably for the same reason that mysql alone doesn't prompt.) -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Filesystem Filename touch fail [ was: PLEASE TEST YOUR FS ]

t about periods. In Windows in CMD and Explorer, an attempt to rename "C:\download\MySQL\foo bar baz" to "C:\download\MySQL\foo bar baz." simply caused the trailing "." to be ignored. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- 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: read file with windows filenames

debug output has "test 0 -gt 0" that the code doesn't have just before the loop exit, it is probably necessary for you to publish the actual code that's failing, even if it has details that you're "100% certain" are irrelevant and unimportant. -- Tim McDaniel,

Re: Setting Integer Variables in Bash

by default, created files in UNIX file format, not native Windows. - strip out the carriage returns from your existing script -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: Setting Integer Variables in Bash

en=10+1 But Green=Red+1 will echo + Green=Red+1 (assuming that you've not changed PS4, IFS, &c &c). You can decide which "set -x" output you like. I found that I preferred the substituted forms, the ones with $this and $that. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

to have the scripts work for any system. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Tim McDaniel wrote: I have several "trampoline" scripts, a bat file doing nothing but invoking a corresponding bash shell script or Perl program. I have to hard-code a location for the bash / perl interpreter, but those locations change

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Larry Hall wrote: Tim McDaniel wrote: I have several "trampoline" scripts, a bat file doing nothing but invoking a corresponding bash shell script or Perl program. I have to hard-code a location for the bash / perl interpreter, but those locations change from us

Re: CygWine 1.0 Beta -- an new cygwin package manager

that it was a port of Wine to Cygwin, which would be tres silly. I had that exact same thought. M3 T00, AOL, or whatever other means by which the whippersnappers express agreement now-a-days. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [1.7] New documentation available

Many thanks. Will there be a release-notes document giving some user-visible changes from 1.5 to 1.7? I think you listed them, plus notes on internal restructuring, in the first 1.7 announcement on this list. Is there anything to know about upgrading from 1.5 to 1.7? Denyel de Lincoln -

Re: subshell redirection (/dev/fd/x)

Process substitution is supported on systems that support named pipes (FIFOs) or the /dev/fd method of naming open files. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentatio

Re: fstream - problem with reading/writing to file

d a write (and the reverse), it was necessary to do a seek on the file. But I don't have a citation for that, and I don't know much about C++ I/O to know what rules exist there. I only mention this in case it might prompt someone else who knows where to look. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -

Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program

at a command line, and then press enter. That will start the "octal dump" program. The quote mark (meaning ") and enter is the one line of input. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program

go into your editor, delete the "quotation marks" that are around the string, and retype them with the " key that's probably next to Enter on your keyboard. Then re-do od as above to make sure that they show up as ", hex code 22, instead of a8 or anything else. -- Tim

Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program

setting? Escape character in your terminal program, even? Though that seems unlikely to me: the terminal programs I've used of late look for ~ as the first character on a line only, and the double quotes are not at the start of a line. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Tim McDaniel wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, grip wrote: and so forth. I just realized I've been forgetting this list's custom of ripping out e-mail addresses, so I've sent out a bunch of unobfuscated ones lately. My apologies. -- Tim McDaniel,

Re: file name too long

hd /mnt/m [do my work here] popd /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32/subst M: /d # unmap the drive letter -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: h

Re: umount/mount issues

swers? -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Upgrade woes ("file in use")

dows and and and, it is still running ssh-agent.exe. Also, in XP Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services, it shows services CYGWIN sshd CYGWIN syslog-ng When upgrading, I make a point of killing ssh-agent.exe via Process Explorer, and then stopping the two services via Control

Corrupt *.lst.gz

e" which seemed to indicate that it was trying to read C:\etc\setup\libncurses-devel.lst.gz when it died. Searching further, I read the suggestion to just delete a suspected corrupt *.lst.gz file and retry setup.exe. I did. It installed a lot of man pages and ran to completion without

Re: Did anyone download the Windows 7 beta?

Dave Corn wrote: A lot of complaints have been addressed at how UAC is so intrusive, users just end up turning it off completely. By chance, I recently ran across this Kevin and Kell cartoon (work-safe), titled "Allow": <http://www.kevinandkell.com/2008/kk0324.html> --

I'd like to have an unreadable file

it that Cygwin gives more permission than Windows? I am using the latest Cygwin, just updated a few hours ago. Please let me know if you need more information. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://c

Normalized directory name

answer was "no way", but I was wondering whether the answer was correct, or whether someone has come up with a program or script to do better. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: I'd like to have an unreadable file

guess the workaround would be to simply test the script by running as a user who is not in the Administrators group. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Normalized directory name

1.7, and whether the directory is case-sensitive? -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

e odd networking problem with that particular mirror. (I've had odd networking problems in the past, even in Linux.) It's also an obvious fix technique, if it works, but he later said it didn't. -- Tim McDaniel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#uns

Re: environment variables derived from TMPDIR

like it's common advice that, when you want to know whether a file is readable at the start of using it in your program, you should simply try to open it for reading and catch the error or exception if it's not. -- Tim McDaniel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

RE: Bizarre Cygwin/Explorer/paths problem half-solved

ues in new and exciting ways. Is there any documentation on who rewrites arguments, under what conditions, and how they're altered? -- Tim McDaniel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docume

Re: Bizarre Cygwin/Explorer/paths problem half-solved

etting Microsoft to make explorer.exe be sane is hopeless)? Except by not using characters that bash thinks need quoting. I found two workarounds that have safe quoting of $XPATH: XPATH=$(cygpath -s -w "$2"); # produce the Windows short name ... cmd /c explorer /e,"$XPATH&q

Re: Bizarre Cygwin/Explorer/paths problem half-solved

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:58:12PM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote: That's most unpleasant. I don't suppose there's any way to control Cygwin's bash in re where to put double quotes around arguments being p

Re: Funny behavior with echo command in bash_login

' echo 'Cygwin making modification in HKCU registry' echo 'To completely clean Cygwin Portable' echo 'installation run clean.bat in root directory' echo '' -- Tim McDaniel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: perl.exe: fatal error on Vista

and. It's intended to be a T-joint, metaphorically: it copies all its input to the filename argument and also to its standard output. It's most commonly used to saving output into a log file while also monitoring it as it is generated, as intended here. -- Tim McDaniel, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Interesting gotcha: http + vim-common + maybe Symantec Endpoint Protection

p!), but that is NOT permitted (or even possible) for a user at $ORKPLACE. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

Windows clipboard and Emacs yank, kill-region, and kill-ring-save

the X clipboard and Emacs clipboard usually work together (modulo X having more than one). If I'm not, did something change, and can I do some setting to obviate it in Emacs? -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: h

Re: Windows clipboard and Emacs yank, kill-region, and kill-ring-save

! The important one for me is (setq x-select-enable-primary t) Thank you very much for the quick and informative answer! -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://

IFS not fixing carriage returns

I have tried Googling for info on this, but there are a lot of false hits ... I want to run bash scripts on a Cygwin-running system. The problem is that (so far as I know) I cannot control the format of the scripts -- Rational Build Forge writes each line of the script with a trailing carriage r

updatedb: man page inaccuracies, not usable out of the box

ine the current cygdrive prefix and put it in PRUNEPATHS. This would probably involve patching what comes from upstream, but the usability problem hits me bad enough, and perhaps hits others, that I think it would be reasonable to do it. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com Cygwin Configuration Diagnos

RE: Shell script - is this expected behaviour?

n save you having to write and maintain and distribute a filter to all your environments. -- Tim McDaniel -- 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: Illegal character ^M

ould just delete the name characters, and '\r' (note: single quote ', not double quote ") is the ^M character. -- Tim McDaniel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/d

Re: Searching manpages for option codes, e.g. "--all"

e never had a problem with PAGER=/usr/bin/less export PAGER I do them as separate statements because older Bourne shells do not allow the combined form export PAGER=/usr/bin/less But bash does. Further, on my system with little customization, the default man pager is less anyway, so (fo

Cygwin slow on x64 systems?

trinsic to Cygwin, and is there any prospect of fixing this soon? -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Nov 30 10:30:05 2011 Windows 7 Enterprise Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 Running under WOW64 on AMD64 Path: C:\usr\local\bin

Emacs in Cygwin: (file-exists-p "c:/")?

but that only "works" because I "know" that I have changed the drive prefix from /cygdrive to /mnt. Can it be made to work again? Any suggestions on how to tell in Emacs whether I'm running under Windows? -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem reports: h

ash is wrong about [ -w Temp ], so rebaseall fails

r--+ 1 tmcdaniel Domain Users 5 Nov 30 16:10 /Users/tmcdaniel/AppData/Local/Temp/long -rw-r--r--+ 1 tmcdaniel Domain Users 6 Nov 30 16:10 /Users/tmcdaniel/AppData/Local/Temp/short So bash is right about it being writable, and ash is wrong. (And /Users/tmcdaniel and /Users/TMCDAN~1 do indeed point

Re: ash is wrong about [ -w Temp ], so rebaseall fails

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Eric Blake wrote: On 11/30/2011 03:17 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote: $ /bin/ash -c ' [ -w /Users/tmcdaniel/AppData/Local/Temp ] && echo yes || echo no' no So bash and ash disagree on whether this Temp directory is writable. Known limitation in dash - it is

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems?

n it and locked down absolutely every setting whatsoever (except for how long to keep local logs). I really doubt that they'd unlock anything for me, especially because I'm brand new and we don't do very much on Windows. Unless someone has another suggestion, maybe I just have to

RE: Cygwin slow on x64 systems?

On Sat, 3 Dec 2011, Buchbinder, Barry wrote: Tim McDaniel sent the following at Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:59 AM BLODA is the Big List Of Dodgy Apps, apparently from http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda 44. What applications have been found to interfere with Cygwin

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems?

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, marco atzeri wrote: On 12/5/2011 5:20 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote: On Sat, 3 Dec 2011, Buchbinder, Barry wrote: And I see slowness even when everything is a bash builtin (except perhaps for whatever is handling "|" -- I suppose it's forking bash itself): $ time

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, Lars Bj_rndal wrote: What doew Iirc mean? http://www.acronymfinder.com/ is often useful, but in this case, it produces a lot of useless crud. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=iirc is often of more use. If I Recall Correctly. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com

Re: Rsync Mirrors Have Disappeared from Cygwin Mirrors Page

On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, L Anderson wrote: Hey! Some rsync mirrors are back on the list--now you see them, now you don't, now you do---just how does all this work? They do it with mirrors. (I'll be here all week, try the veal.) -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem reports:

RE: Cygwin slow on x64 systems?

Tim McDaniel: BLODA is the Big List Of Dodgy Apps, apparently from http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda 44. What applications have been found to interfere with Cygwin? In case anyone cares about the details of my datum, and in case anyone ever searches for the exact system

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems?

On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Marco Moreno wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Tim McDaniel wrote: (You quoted my e-mail address there, which may get you dinged by the admins, but I'm cool with my e-mail addy going out -- I put it in my sig and all.) After uninstalling Symantec Endpoint Prote

Re: Latest cygwin.bat - need one

that you don't have installed. I wonder if there are any common typos to try for. If execvp() ever looked in "." unconditionally, there would be no way to ever completely close this security hole. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

Re: Another BLODA with Cylance PROTECT? Can't rebase

er update it. Or install a virtual machine with disk sharing and try to do my occasional UNIXy work with it. Someone from the local support team has asked why I was asking about Cygwin, and why I'm interested in "Running OSes on top of OSes". So I may have to go the VM route. -- T

Re: Another BLODA with Cylance PROTECT? Can't rebase

eyondTrust * Cylance antivirus/antimalware was triggering on certain programs like dash Both had to be dealt with. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.h

Re: Another BLODA with Cylance PROTECT? Can't rebase

On Tue, 23 May 2017, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-05-23 21:34, Tim McDaniel wrote: Back in ml/cygwin/2017-04/msg00238.html, Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:25:26 -0400, "Another BLODA with Cylance PROTECT? Can't rebase", I noted that I couldn't install current cygwin, and asked for he