Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories

2013-05-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:07:03AM +0400, Fedin Pavel wrote: >> Not to discourage you but there will be a fairly low tolerance for much >> of a complexity change or almost any performance degradation. Cygwin's >> performance is a regular source of complaints on this list (and >> elsewhere). > > By

RE: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories

2013-05-20 Thread Fedin Pavel
> Not to discourage you but there will be a fairly low tolerance for much > of a complexity change or almost any performance degradation. Cygwin's > performance is a regular source of complaints on this list (and > elsewhere). By the way... Right now i'm testing 64-bit Cygwin, and it appears to

Re: what library provides __b64_ntop? (libresolv does not)

2013-05-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2013-05-20 23:57, Luke White wrote: There appears to be an implementation of that function in cygwin's src/newlib/libc/sys/linux/net/base64.c. Is it possible to link against whatever that gets compiled to? If not, could that function be copied to cygwin's libresolv? When the header and impl

Re: what library provides __b64_ntop? (libresolv does not)

2013-05-20 Thread Luke White
There appears to be an implementation of that function in cygwin's src/newlib/libc/sys/linux/net/base64.c. Is it possible to link against whatever that gets compiled to? If not, could that function be copied to cygwin's libresolv? When the header and implementation are already there it seems a s

Re: what library provides __b64_ntop? (libresolv does not)

2013-05-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2013-05-20 18:06, Luke White wrote: I'm getting the following error if I try to compile something that includes resolv.h: $ gcc test.c -lresolv /tmp/cc0xhSEa.o:test.c:(.text+0x2e): undefined reference to `___b64_ntop' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Cygwin does not provide that function

Re: Were the Perl multithreading problems ever fixed?

2013-05-20 Thread David Karr
(Resending because it complained about my inadvertently using html.) My Cygwin Perl is 5.14.2. I don't have a link to a report. I never filed a bug report, but we had an email exchange about this starting on 1/13/12. My script is still having occasional problems, but it's not dumping core. I'l

Re: Were the Perl multithreading problems ever fixed?

2013-05-20 Thread Reini Urban
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:14 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: > Last year I had reported some problems with a Perl script that utilizes > multithreading. I believe it was Reini Urban who told me that there were > known problems with Perl multithreading and that an ETA for a set of fixes > was not known y

lftp update

2013-05-20 Thread Alex Mason
Would it be possible to have lftp updated to the latest version 4.4.6? There's some SFTP related bugfixes in this version. Thanks, Alex -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsub

what library provides __b64_ntop? (libresolv does not)

2013-05-20 Thread Luke White
I'm getting the following error if I try to compile something that includes resolv.h: $ gcc test.c -lresolv /tmp/cc0xhSEa.o:test.c:(.text+0x2e): undefined reference to `___b64_ntop' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Here's the contents of test.c, which is just meant to demonstrate the problem:

Re: luatex font path problem

2013-05-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/7/2013 5:52 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/29/2013 10:50 PM, Arthur Tu wrote: On 4/30/2013 12:47 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/28/2013 12:56 PM, Arthur Tu wrote: After lualatex command, file "~/.cache/texmf/luatex-cache/generic/names/otfl-names.lua" was generated. Entry like this for example {

Re: mbuffer or similar app?

2013-05-20 Thread Linda Walsh
David Balažic wrote: > Hi! > > Is there a port of mbuffer or a similar tool to cygwin? --- pv? (pipeview)? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: Patch for shutdown

2013-05-20 Thread Frank Fesevur
2013/5/20 Jeffrey Altman: > I believe it is very important that the Cygwin shutdown not alter the > meaning of command line parameters such that they are different from the > Windows native version. The various options are already too confusing > to remember. Typing the right option value into w

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: doxygen-1.8.4-1

2013-05-20 Thread David Stacey
Version 1.8.4-1 of doxygen has been uploaded. CHANGES: This version contains support for "clang assisted parsing", which allows the code to also be parsed via libclang (C/C++ frontend of LLVM) and can improve the quality of the syntax highlighting, cross-references, and call graphs,

Re: Difference in 32/64-bit curl.

2013-05-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2013-04-24 16:21, Christian Franke wrote: The attached patch would actually fix the issue. Likely not the correct way to do this as va_arg(param, long) is also used for the other integer options. Is this possibly an upstream bug which is hidden on Linux et al. due to a different x64 ABI (whic

Were the Perl multithreading problems ever fixed?

2013-05-20 Thread KARR, DAVID
Last year I had reported some problems with a Perl script that utilizes multithreading. I believe it was Reini Urban who told me that there were known problems with Perl multithreading and that an ETA for a set of fixes was not known yet. Does anyone know if those particular Perl multithreadin

Re: Patch for shutdown

2013-05-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Fedin Pavel! > At the other hand, IMHO, Windows .bat scripts are never run from wihin > bash, and vice versa, UNIX .sh scripts are never run from within cmd.exe... That's a bold claim. If I run it down to underlying interpreter, I always run all scripts from "cmd", be it .bat, .cmd, .

Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories

2013-05-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 5/20/2013 11:58 AM, Andy Hall wrote: So here is a naïve question. Contrary to Corrina’s posting at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-01/msg00173.html, the underlying OS must effectively evaluate a path from left to right. As you say, it's a naive question. Just checking around the web for

Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories

2013-05-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 03:53:16PM +0400, Fedin Pavel wrote: > Hello! > >> >> Heh... >> >> So, complete emulation would cost a major performance drop, right ? >> >> Well... Can there be any setting which enables these checks ? At >> least we have one use case... >> > >> >Not without lots of new

Re: ps with command line arguments

2013-05-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:32:07AM +0200, AZ 9901 wrote: >Do you think ps command could be corrected / improved to display >"myscript" (script's name according to the example above) and/or >command line arguments ? We have no plans on modifying Cygwin's ps program. -- Problem reports: http:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {gnutls/libgnutls28/gnutls-devel/gnutls-doc/gnutls-guile}-3.2.0-2

2013-05-20 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ciao Volker. Dr. Volker Zell wrote: New versions of 'gnutls/libgnutls28/gnutls-devel/gnutls-doc/gnutls-guile' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Fix @LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME@ -> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00267.html Thanks for the quick fix... :) Ciao, Angelo. -- Probl

RE: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories

2013-05-20 Thread Andy Hall
> On 5/20/2013 7:53 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: > > Hello! > > > Heh... > So, complete emulation would cost a major performance drop, > right ? > Well... Can there be any setting which enables these checks ? > At > >> least we have one use case... > >>> > >>> Not without lots of

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 5/20/2013 11:02 AM, Seb.Th wrote: - a stream line PATH (Please excuse-me, I don't undertand what it is.) Marco is suggesting that you try trimming your PATH down to the bare minimum and see if that helps. -- Larry _ A:

Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories

2013-05-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 5/20/2013 7:53 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: Hello! Heh... So, complete emulation would cost a major performance drop, right ? Well... Can there be any setting which enables these checks ? At least we have one use case... Not without lots of new code. So, maybe next Thursday? By th

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-20 Thread Seb.Th
Le 20/05/2013 16:25, marco atzeri wrote : The only main differences I noticed between my system and Nate's one are: Windows Vista Home Premium Ver 6.0 Build 6002 Service Pack 2 vs Windows 7 Professional N Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 Mine is : Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Se

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-20 Thread marco atzeri
Il 5/20/2013 3:39 PM, Seb.Th ha scritto: Le 14/05/2013 18:08, Nate Bargmann wrote : I'm relatively new to Cygwin and am using it to enhance portability of a software package I help maintain. To be sure that a bug I was hitting in my compilation was in my software package I updated Cygwin last w

Re: Patch for shutdown

2013-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 5/20/2013 9:59 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: > At the other hand, IMHO, Windows .bat scripts are never run from wihin > bash, and vice versa, UNIX .sh scripts are never run from within > cmd.exe... And following the same logic we would need to teach our > find.exe (already mentioned on this list) to un

Re: Patch for shutdown

2013-05-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: > > At the other hand, IMHO, Windows .bat scripts are never run from wihin bash, > and vice versa, UNIX .sh scripts are never run from within cmd.exe... I do this. Create a null (native, i.e. non-cygwin) program named #! and put it in PATH. T

RE: Patch for shutdown

2013-05-20 Thread Fedin Pavel
> I would be unhappy with this proposed change. The Windows > "shutdown.exe" uses: > > 'h' for hibernate > 'l' for logoff > 's' for shutdown and halt > 'r' for shutdown and restart > 'g' for shutdown and restart including registered applications > > 'a' for abort shutdown > > with the fo

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-20 Thread Seb.Th
Le 14/05/2013 18:08, Nate Bargmann wrote : I'm relatively new to Cygwin and am using it to enhance portability of a software package I help maintain. To be sure that a bug I was hitting in my compilation was in my software package I updated Cygwin last week and since then I have found that the s

Re: Patch for shutdown

2013-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Frank, I would be unhappy with this proposed change. The Windows "shutdown.exe" uses: 'h' for hibernate 'l' for logoff 's' for shutdown and halt 'r' for shutdown and restart 'g' for shutdown and restart including registered applications 'a' for abort shutdown with the following modifier

RE: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories

2013-05-20 Thread Fedin Pavel
Hello! > >> Heh... > >> So, complete emulation would cost a major performance drop, right ? > >> Well... Can there be any setting which enables these checks ? At > least we have one use case... > > > >Not without lots of new code. > > So, maybe next Thursday? By the way, you said it would b

Patch for shutdown

2013-05-20 Thread Frank Fesevur
Hi Corinna, Since nobody made real objections about changing the short flag for hibernate from -h to -b to make room for -h for halt [1], I created a patch to change the shutdown program. The patch was created back in March, but with all your work being done on cygwin64, your holiday and myself be

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {gnutls/libgnutls28/gnutls-devel/gnutls-doc/gnutls-guile}-3.2.0-2: Library implementing TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols

2013-05-20 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'gnutls/libgnutls28/gnutls-devel/gnutls-doc/gnutls-guile' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Fix @LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME@ -> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00267.html CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscrib

Re: ps with command line arguments

2013-05-20 Thread AZ 9901
Le 7 mai 2013 à 15:30, AZ 9901 a écrit : > Le 7 mai 2013 à 10:46, AZ 9901 a écrit : > >> Hello, >> >> I run a bash script in a multi-user environment. >> This script uses "ps -ef" in particular to list all its instances. >> >> On a common UNIX / Linux system, it gives something like this : >> b