Re: Have idea for titlebar tweak -- need help with syntax

Lee Rothstein wrote: On 9/24/2010 5:15 AM, SJ Wright wrote: I'd like my terminal title bar to show my current working directory, the running process (with a fall-back to the active shell when idle) and the word "Cygwin." I have an old .bashrc file in which I collected code for the middle bi

Re: What does this look like to you folks?

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:26 PM, SJ Wright wrote: > SJ Wright wrote: >> >> First, a little background: >> >> In quite a few previous edits of my .bash_aliases file, I've used the same >> alias to cd to a particular folder. Tonight I typed it in and got the >> following as a return: >>> >>> [/cygd

Re: What does this look like to you folks?

SJ Wright wrote: First, a little background: In quite a few previous edits of my .bash_aliases file, I've used the same alias to cd to a particular folder. Tonight I typed it in and got the following as a return: [/cygdrive/c/blu/newest] mintty-cygwin>>smith + laugh + pwd /cygdrive/c/blu/newe

What does this look like to you folks.

First, a little background: In quite a few previous edits of my .bash_aliases file, I've used the same alias to cd to a particular folder. Tonight I typed it in and got the following as a return: [/cygdrive/c/blu/newest] mintty-cygwin>>smith + laugh + pwd /cygdrive/c/blu/newest + cd /cygdrive/

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

survivant wrote: Does anyone one have an answer for this problem ? (I saw lot of threads in different forums.. but never an answer.) I'm trying to clone a repository from my computer to my computer. I,m using cygwin 1.7. I,m able to clone all my others projects without problems. This projec

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

Does anyone one have an answer for this problem ? (I saw lot of threads in different forums.. but never an answer.) I'm trying to clone a repository from my computer to my computer. I,m using cygwin 1.7. I,m able to clone all my others projects without problems. This project is 900k.. and th

random xterm: Error 29, errno 11: Resource temporarily unavailable

I can issue the following command, sometimes it works perfectly fine, sometimes it complains, and other times it just dies: bash-3.2$ xterm -e /usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/ssh 192.168.1.105" Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion 0 [main] xterm 4560 exception::handle: Exceptio

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

On 9/27/2010 7:03 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Christopher, I did have a question on the old thread that went un-answered. I was wondering exactly what process you used to determine that it was git that was having a stack issue. It would be helpful as a starting point for a developer to try a

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 05:56:04PM -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote: >On 9/27/2010 3:59 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>And, when I tried this, it pointed to an actual problem in git rather >>than a problem in Cygwin so that limits what is meant by "developer". >> >>Isn't git normally used for source cont

Re: cygwin perl not working on my new x64 pc

On 9/27/2010 6:34 PM, Koestner, Bart (FC CoE) wrote: I have a new PC at work, a 64-bit Dell T3500 with Windows XP Pro x64 Edition 2003 with svc pack 2. After running the cygwin install, the problem is that when I run a perl script in a cygwin bash shell, or just fire up perl.exe, it just returns

cygwin perl not working on my new x64 pc

Hi, I have a new PC at work, a 64-bit Dell T3500 with Windows XP Pro x64 Edition 2003 with svc pack 2. After running the cygwin install, the problem is that when I run a perl script in a cygwin bash shell, or just fire up perl.exe, it just returns instantly without doing anything or reporting a p

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

On 9/27/2010 3:59 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: And, when I tried this, it pointed to an actual problem in git rather than a problem in Cygwin so that limits what is meant by "developer". Isn't git normally used for source control management by programmers? If this is such a bad problem why is

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 02:24:05PM -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote: >On 9/27/2010 12:38 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: >> Eric Blake wrote: >> On 03/11/2010 04:03 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: >> If it is not being worked on... I agree with Brian. This is a serious >> impediment to using Cygwin 1.7.

Re: Have idea for titlebar tweak -- need help with syntax

On 9/24/2010 5:15 AM, SJ Wright wrote: I'd like my terminal title bar to show my current working directory, the running process (with a fall-back to the active shell when idle) and the word "Cygwin." I have an old .bashrc file in which I collected code for the middle bit (running process), b

Vista problem / heuristic status elevation / manifests

When running cygwin on Windows 7, if you compile programs with names that include "update" and "install" and other keywords, they won't execute. It seems to relate to heuristic privelege elevation: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/onoj/archive/2007/04/20/windows-vista-uac-and-installer-detection.aspx A m

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

On 9/27/2010 12:38 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: Eric Blake wrote: On 03/11/2010 04:03 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: If it is not being worked on... I agree with Brian. This is a serious impediment to using Cygwin 1.7. I would think it would be of top priority. Only people who experience the problem

Re: strange crashes on invocation

On 9/27/2010 10:31 AM, Heath Kehoe wrote: On 9/24/2010 2:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 01:23:48PM -0500, Heath Kehoe wrote: Well, another difference is the addition of PATH_MAX*2 bytes on the stack. Those functions do some stack manipulations that I'm having trouble

Re: 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) - Cannot change mode of file, and other permission issues on a Windows fileshare

On Sep 27 10:33, Keith Christian wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Corinna Vinschen > > > What you have to do is to use some entirely different path, commas > > to separate the mount options, and drop the noumount option, like this: > > > >  Z: /my_z_drive dont_care binary,posix=0,user.no

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

Eric Blake wrote: >> On 03/11/2010 04:03 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: >> >> If it is not being worked on... I agree with Brian. This is a serious >> >> impediment to using Cygwin 1.7. I would think it would be of top >> >> priority. >> > >> > Only people who experience the problem can diagnose, d

Re: 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) - Cannot change mode of file, and other permission issues on a Windows fileshare

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Corinna Vinschen > What you have to do is to use some entirely different path, commas > to separate the mount options, and drop the noumount option, like this: > >  Z: /my_z_drive dont_care binary,posix=0,user.noacl 0 0 > >  $ mount -f -o binary,posix=0,user.noacl

Re: 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) - Cannot change mode of file, and other permission issues on a Windows fileshare

On Sep 27 10:12, Keith Christian wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen> Nevertheless, are > you really sure you tried the "noacl" mount option for > > this share?  The "noacl" option results in trying to open the file a > > second time, with just the READ_CONTROL and FILE_WRIT

Re: 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) - Cannot change mode of file, and other permission issues on a Windows fileshare

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen> Nevertheless, are you really sure you tried the "noacl" mount option for > this share?  The "noacl" option results in trying to open the file a > second time, with just the READ_CONTROL and FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES access > rights.  This should work

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Testing: mintty-0.9b2-1

On 8:59 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: mintty 0.9b2-1 is on its way to the Cygwin mirrors. This is a test release. a .zip can be downloaded from http://mintty.googlecode.com. FWIW, I've been using a home-built mintty-0.9b2 from googlecode all day with no problems (loving extended mouse mode!). I swear

Re: strange crashes on invocation

On 9/24/2010 2:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 01:23:48PM -0500, Heath Kehoe wrote: Well, another difference is the addition of PATH_MAX*2 bytes on the stack. Those functions do some stack manipulations that I'm having trouble grokking. Does 'ret' need to be topmost on

Mount table - LOCAL MACHINE and CURRENT USER regitry set

Hello, I need some help regarding the following problem. I must say that I don't have much experience with Cygwin or Unix. I have a Cygwin installations on my PC (C:\_DevTools\Cygwin), and in the same time I have another Cygwin (not installed : C:\Documents and Settings\ionela1\My Documents\_MKS\

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lzip-1.11-1

Version 1.11-1 of "lzip" has been uploaded. lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm with a user interface similar to gzip or bzip2. It supports recovery from damaged archives. Homepage: This is a new upstream release. *

Re: setup.exe: How to install sources from the command line?

For future readers of this thread. >>> When I open the shell for the first time, the user directory is >>> created. Is there a trigger to reach this without manually opening a >>> login shell? >> >> The check is in '/etc/profile'.  It's just checking if "$HOME" exists. This does the trick from a

Re: //UNC/ paths problem

Corinna Vinschen wrote: We have 2 separate Win2k8 R2 x64 server systems (without domain, and both regularly updated from Windows Update). On each of these systems, we have some file shares which we access from other system. I noticed that when I start Cygwin shell session with Administrator righ

Re: //UNC/ paths problem

On Sep 27 14:30, Wladimir Mutel wrote: > Hi, > > We have 2 separate Win2k8 R2 x64 server systems (without domain, and > both regularly updated from Windows Update). On each of these > systems, we have some file shares which we access from other system. > I noticed that when I start Cygwin shell se

//UNC/ paths problem

Hi, We have 2 separate Win2k8 R2 x64 server systems (without domain, and both regularly updated from Windows Update). On each of these systems, we have some file shares which we access from other system. I noticed that when I start Cygwin shell session with Administrator rights, I can't acces

Re: setup.exe: How to install sources from the command line?

> Google wasn't my friend here. I managed to install packages with the > --category and --packages option of setup.exe.  I didn't find out how > to install sources. As there is no answer I assume it is not possible to install source packages with setup.exe from the windows commandline. So I was lo

Re: setup.exe: How to install sources from the command line?

>> When I open the shell for the first time, the user directory is >> created. Is there a trigger to reach this without manually opening a >> login shell? > > The check is in '/etc/profile'.  It's just checking if "$HOME" exists. > Thank you, that's it. I try what's happen if I source /etc/profile

Update graphicsmagick with quantum depth = 16

Dear users, I am thinking to update GraphicsMagick-1.3.12 moving from "quantum depth = 8" to "quantum depth = 16" following a discussion on octave bug list http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30715 about the improved image quality using the higher quantum depth, specially for medical and scientific imag