ghostscript: X transition, shared lib

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dr. Volker Zell, A few suggestions for the ghostscript package: 1) With the X11 transition, is the native/x11 split really necessary anymore? While gs-x11 adds several additional library dependencies, you wouldn't be pulling in as much as you woul

Bash process hangs around forever after ssh disconnect

I'm seeing this on several systems... I'm logging in to a W2k server via cygwin sshd and using Putty as my terminal emulator. If my ssh connection gets dropped for any reason the bash.exe process on the host just stays there forever. Also, anything I was running in bash (e.g. vim) will stay th

Re: Re: Small documention addenda

Corinna Vinschen wrote: This isn't correct. Automatic checking for updates might be switched on by default on most or even all Linux systems today, but it's still a customizable setting so it can be switched on or off. Which can be fixed by adding a "by default": --- cygwin-doc-1.4/src/cygwin

Re: Cygwin 1.7: O_DIRECT read from raw devices returns EOF

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 21 13:58, Christian Franke wrote: ... In the O_DIRECT case, bytes_to_read is always 0. Indeed. Thanks for catching this bug! I've checked in a patch. Would you mind to give it a whirl? Build from CVS ... now works as expected. Thanks! Christian

Git corrupts repository

Hello, I've run into a similar issue as described in [1]. No matter which repository I try to clone, I end up with a corrupt repository. According to [1] it should be sufficient to put the git repository onto a binary mount point in order to avoid line endings issues. I've followed this advic

Re: nearly all postinstall scripts segfaulting in 64bit Windows (XP + Vista)

On Nov 21 15:49, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > This looks very similar to my problem (except that disabling TS > doesn't seem to help): > http://www.nabble.com/Re:-cygwin-bash-crashes-on-Win-Serv-2008-td20131536.html Apparently you didn't read the entire thread. I mentioned explicitly that disabling