Re: Registry keys not only accessible when user

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote > On 10/9/2012 4:51 PM, julien2412 wrote: >> Anyway, I noticed that with regtool, everything was ok. >> Is "regtool" the recommanded way to access (in read only) registry keys? >> And >> so we should avoid to run things like this Perl script line: >> open($fhandle, "/proc/

Re: minor bug in cygports 'Terminal' package -- don't install a link for 'terminal->Terminal

On 10/9/2012 10:55 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/9/2012 5:50 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: It prevents Terminal from loading when you type Terminal (or terminal). Discussion of a Cygwin Ports package should be done on the Cygwin Ports mailing list. There's a separa

Re: minor bug in cygports 'Terminal' package -- don't install a link for 'terminal->Terminal

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/9/2012 5:50 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: It prevents Terminal from loading when you type Terminal (or terminal). Discussion of a Cygwin Ports package should be done on the Cygwin Ports mailing list. There's a separate cygports mailing list? Fortunately we a

RFE: Cygw32 GNU Emacs Port

GNU Emacs 24.3, due out in about a month, will have a new configuration option: --with-w32. When built this way, Cygwin Emacs uses native Win32 widgets instead of X11. The resulting "cygw32" Emacs looks just like NT Emacs, but is a native Cygwin application with full support for Cygwin paths, ptys

Re: Registry keys not only accessible when user

On 10/9/2012 4:51 PM, julien2412 wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote On 10/9/2012 2:37 PM, julien2412 wrote: How to workaround launching Cygwin with admin rights and still access these registry keys? Windows won't let programs run by unprivileged users manipulate this registry hive. If you only

Re: minor bug in cygports 'Terminal' package -- don't install a link for 'terminal->Terminal

On 10/9/2012 5:50 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: It prevents Terminal from loading when you type Terminal (or terminal). Discussion of a Cygwin Ports package should be done on the Cygwin Ports mailing list. -- Larry _ A: Yes. > Q:

minor bug in cygports 'Terminal' package -- don't install a link for 'terminal->Terminal

It prevents Terminal from loading when you type Terminal (or terminal). terminal points to 'Terminal' which doesn't exist -- maybe it needs to point to Terminal.exe? But it's not needed for many of us who don't enable case confusion -- terminal/Terminal being a prime example. If you have to re

Re: git clone in cygwin is failing

preeetammn wrote > Hi, > I ran git clone command in cygwin and it is failing with below error. > Please help on this. > ... > error: cannot fork() for fetch-pack: Resource temporarily unavailable > ... Did you take a look to this link? http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-fail

Re: Registry keys not only accessible when user

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote > On 10/9/2012 2:37 PM, julien2412 wrote: >> How to workaround launching Cygwin with admin rights and still access >> these >> registry keys? > Windows won't let programs run by unprivileged users manipulate this > registry hive. If you only need read access, you will nee

Re: Registry keys not only accessible when user

On 10/9/2012 2:37 PM, julien2412 wrote: Hello, I'm trying to compile LibreOffice on Windows but configuration tool search some keys on /proc/registry/HKLM which appear only if I launch Cygwin with Admin rights. (Visual Studio/VCExpress keys). How to workaround launching Cygwin with admin rights

Re: Displaying extended ASCII characters in output of octal dump as hexadecimal

On 10/9/2012 7:25 PM, Olumide wrote: When I run octal dump (od) I notice that extended ASCII characters are displayed incorrectly as ordinary characters. For example, the extended characters 191, 196, and 218 are displayed as '?' , 'D' and 'Z' respectively. I thought od was 'anding' the each char

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: doxygen-1.8.0-1

Version 1.8.0-1 of doxygen has been uploaded. CHANGES: Numerous new features and bug fixes. Full change log: http://www.doxygen.org/changelog.html#1.8.0 DESCRIPTION Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#

Cppcheck full report

Hello, I runned cppcheck (a static analyzer) on Cygwin sources this week-end. I thought you could be interested by its report. Of course there must be some false positives but hope it can help. Julien. cppcheck_all.txt.gz

Registry keys not only accessible when user

Hello, I'm trying to compile LibreOffice on Windows but configuration tool search some keys on /proc/registry/HKLM which appear only if I launch Cygwin with Admin rights. (Visual Studio/VCExpress keys). How to workaround launching Cygwin with admin rights and still access these registry keys? Ju

Displaying extended ASCII characters in output of octal dump as hexadecimal

When I run octal dump (od) I notice that extended ASCII characters are displayed incorrectly as ordinary characters. For example, the extended characters 191, 196, and 218 are displayed as '?' , 'D' and 'Z' respectively. I thought od was 'anding' the each character with 127, but I've been infor

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lapack 3.4.2-1

New versions 3.4.2-1 of lapack (source) liblapack0 liblapack-devel liblapack-doc are available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES These are new upstream bugfix versions. Full list of changes at: http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lapack-3.4.2.html DESCRIPTION Comprehensive FORTRAN library for lin

RE: Cygwin utilities don't echo last input character in ssh session

-Original Message- From: ldhybl Additional information: The ssh server where the Cygwin utilities are invoked is a Windows XP system and the command interpreter is a CMD batch shell, not a Cygwin or other Linux/UNIX shell. Not sure why this would make Expect or Bash fail to echo the mos

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: w3m-0.5.3-1

Version w3m-0.5.3-1 of "w3m" has been uploaded. w3m is a text-based web browser as well as a pager like 'more' or 'less'. With w3m you can browse web pages through a terminal emulator window (xterm, rxvt, etc.). Moreover, w3m can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain tex

Re: ps -W crash on Cygwin 1.7.17s

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 05:39:36AM -0700, Sandeep Tamhankar wrote: >I've heard / read how particular folks are on this list, so please >forgive me if I'm too terse. I don't think this kind of innoculation attempt ever really works. Rather than apologize for an imagined possible gaffe, just ask you

Re: No support for sharing unnamed semaphores between processes through shared memory?

On Sep 25 14:03, Linda Walsh wrote: > Matt Sexton wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I am attempting to port to Cygwin an application that synchronizes > >between processes using unnamed semaphores in shared memory. Both > >processes have mapped the shared memory region, one process > >initialize > >

Re: No support for sharing unnamed semaphores between processes through shared memory?

On Sep 10 09:36, Matt Sexton wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to port to Cygwin an application that synchronizes > between processes using unnamed semaphores in shared memory. Both > processes have mapped the shared memory region, one process > initializes the semaphore, and both processes per

Re: Cygwin utilities don't echo last input character in ssh session

Additional information: The ssh server where the Cygwin utilities are invoked is a Windows XP system and the command interpreter is a CMD batch shell, not a Cygwin or other Linux/UNIX shell. Not sure why this would make Expect or Bash fail to echo the most recent character typed on STDIN, but tha

TESTERS: New package connect-proxy -- Establish TCP connection using HTTP tunnel (e.g. ssh)

Description connect-proxy package enables to tunnel connections, like ssh, through http in environments that only allow http traffic. Testers wanted As I have no environment to test the proxying, I'm asking volunteers to try if the utility works under Cygwin. If reports are