Re: hdparm 6.9-1 will not function as expected

2012-10-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/3/2012 8:26 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Hello all, Decided to check out hdparm today after reading about the utility. After install, I attempted to run the utility by executing a check on my computer's hard drive and received a message from bash stating that the hdparm command could not be fou

SMB symlink compatibility between Cygwin, Windows XP, and Windows 7

2012-10-03 Thread Brian Alexander
I have run into an issue when trying to create a symlink/shortcut to a network share (SMB) that will work between Cygwin, Windows XP, and Windows 7. If you set the environment variable CYGWIN=winsymlinks, you get the benefit that ln -s will create files that work as both Windows shortcuts, and

hdparm 6.9-1 will not function as expected

2012-10-03 Thread Sean Murphy
Hello all, Decided to check out hdparm today after reading about the utility. After install, I attempted to run the utility by executing a check on my computer's hard drive and received a message from bash stating that the hdparm command could not be found. Can anyone else confirm this behavior?

Re: Check if a package is installed

2012-10-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/3/2012 6:02 PM, Vincent Rivière wrote: On 01/10/2012 13:24, marco atzeri wrote: cygcheck -c I wonder how much "cygcheck -c" is reliable. For example, the libmpfr4 package. I delete /bin/cygmpfr-4.dll and /etc/setup/libmpfr4.lst.gz As a result, I can't compile sources with gcc anymore

Re: Check if a package is installed

2012-10-03 Thread Vincent Rivière
On 01/10/2012 13:24, marco atzeri wrote: cygcheck -c I wonder how much "cygcheck -c" is reliable. For example, the libmpfr4 package. I delete /bin/cygmpfr-4.dll and /etc/setup/libmpfr4.lst.gz As a result, I can't compile sources with gcc anymore due to the missing cygmpfr-4.dll. But "cygc

Fifo blocking and performance issues - some test code snips

2012-10-03 Thread bob
I'm on the mailing list in digest mode, so this response may not get threaded correctly. Here is some basic test code which illustrates all the things I spoke about in my previous note. The Cygwin machine and the Linux machine are identical (I have a harddrive swap system).Notice that t

Re: [PATCH] Re: Fifo blocking and performance issues

2012-10-03 Thread Gregory M. Turner
On 10/3/2012 6:02 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:58:55AM -0700, Gregory M. Turner wrote: On 10/2/2012 5:55 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: FYI, a quick scan seems to show that you've pretty much undone a lot of what I've recently added for fifos so I don't expect to real

[Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sendxmpp 1.22-1 -- Command line XMPP (jabber) utility

2012-10-03 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Jari Aalto writes: > PACKAGE DESCRIPTION > === > Homepage: http://freecode.com/projects/sendxmpp > License : GPL > A perl script to send XMPP (jabber) messages, similar to what mail(1) > does for mail. XMPP is an open, non-proprietary protocol for in

Re: Fifo blocking and performance issues

2012-10-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 08:29:21AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:15 PM, bob wrote: >>While this hack works the performance under Cygwin is orders of >>magnitude slower than the equivalent Linux performance. >> >>Any suggestions on how we can achieve a higher performance blocki

Re: [PATCH] Re: Fifo blocking and performance issues

2012-10-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:58:55AM -0700, Gregory M. Turner wrote: >On 10/2/2012 5:55 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 01:45:08PM -0700, Gregory M. Turner wrote: >>>On 10/2/2012 1:19 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 03:15:37PM -0400, bob wrote: >

Re: mosh

2012-10-03 Thread Sean Murphy
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Simon Barnes wrote: > The experimental mosh package, version 1.2.2-2, works very well while the > "current" package 1.2.2-1 does not. Would it be possible to promote 1.2.2-2 > to current? > > Thanks > Simon > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

ruby-rake man page problem rake.1

2012-10-03 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi man 1 rake gzip: /usr/share/man/man1/rake.1.gz: unexpected end of file Ciao Volker -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Re: Fifo blocking and performance issues

2012-10-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:15 PM, bob wrote: > While this hack works the performance under Cygwin is orders of > magnitude slower than the equivalent Linux performance. > > Any suggestions on how we can achieve a higher performance blocking read on a > Cygwin RDWR fifo? > You expect too much, it is

Re: [PATCH] Re: Fifo blocking and performance issues

2012-10-03 Thread Gregory M. Turner
On 10/2/2012 5:55 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 01:45:08PM -0700, Gregory M. Turner wrote: On 10/2/2012 1:19 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 03:15:37PM -0400, bob wrote: Any suggestions on how we can achieve a higher performance blocking read on a

RE: mosh

2012-10-03 Thread Simon Barnes
The experimental mosh package, version 1.2.2-2, works very well while the "current" package 1.2.2-1 does not. Would it be possible to promote 1.2.2-2 to current? Thanks Simon -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

Re: [RFE][PATCH] cygport: allow for subdirectory specification via CPAN_AUTHOR

2012-10-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Reini Urban writes: > Looks a bit weird. Don't we have a better field for this cpan quirks? > Like a new CPAN_DIR which defaults to CPAN_AUTHOR? I've just added an alternative configuration variable CPAN_DIR that records just the directory component and sent the patch (together with a few more to