cant access to files more than 128 utf-8 symbol long names

2013-12-09 Thread Nikolay Ilychev
Hello! When using cygwin, i can't list, copy, remove files and directories with 128 utf-8 symbol long names. useless examples that illustrates the problem: it is OK with latin symbols: $ a="$(perl -e 'print "x"x255')"; touch "$a" && { ls "$a"; rm "$a"; } x

Re: Cygwin, Chris, Corinna - thanks!

2013-12-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 03:42:04AM +, Guy Harrison wrote: >It has likely been over a decade since Chris blasted me into orbit over >something I stuck my head over the parapet for(*). Corinna I don't >think I've ever wrangled with. Nevertheless, with the New Year >beckoning it is about time I

Cygwin, Chris, Corinna - thanks!

2013-12-09 Thread Guy Harrison
Hi, It has likely been over a decade since Chris blasted me into orbit over something I stuck my head over the parapet for(*). Corinna I don't think I've ever wrangled with. Nevertheless, with the New Year beckoning it is about time I acknowledged just how much easier life has been because of

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:08:20PM +0100, Bj?rn Kautler wrote: >Ok, so you are telling me that it is "nothing" if a small - probably >unintended - change breaks the whole vim functionality? o_O >Especially if there is a fix as small as the erroneous change? >C'mon, you're kidding me, aren't you? M

Re: Signal occasionally causes thread inside win32 api to be suspended?

2013-12-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 08:59:26PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: >On 09/12/2013 20:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 05:36:16PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: >>> I don't really understand the intricacies of cygwin signal delivery, >>> but I see that it can suspend the target thread to

Re: Signal occasionally causes thread inside win32 api to be suspended?

2013-12-09 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 09/12/2013 20:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 05:36:16PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: >> I don't really understand the intricacies of cygwin signal delivery, >> but I see that it can suspend the target thread to determine if it's in >> a safe place to deliver the signal (outs

Re: Signal occasionally causes thread inside win32 api to be suspended?

2013-12-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 05:36:16PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: >I don't really understand the intricacies of cygwin signal delivery, >but I see that it can suspend the target thread to determine if it's in >a safe place to deliver the signal (outside a win32 API call). I think >that sometimes the thr

Re: Where can I look for an answer to a problem with Cygwin's Perl‏?

2013-12-09 Thread bartels
On 12/09/2013 03:39 PM, Jim Cant wrote: I have a problem with Cygwin's Perl. If a process started by Perl (system(), `` (backticks) ) crashes, the system debugger never getsww called so I can't get a dump. Have you tried perl dump? http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/dump.html -- - Bartels --

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sqlite3-3.8.2-2 for Cygwin/Cygwin64

2013-12-09 Thread Jan Nijtmans
SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine Changes since 3.8.1-1 = * Updated to upstream 3.8.2 release. Main features: * Added support for WITHOUT ROWID tables. * Extend the maximum path l

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Björn Kautler
Ok, so you are telling me that it is "nothing" if a small - probably unintended - change breaks the whole vim functionality? o_O Especially if there is a fix as small as the erroneous change? C'mon, you're kidding me, aren't you? Whatever, I'll NOT continue on this topic. I have a working workarou

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 04:40:19PM +0100, Bj?rn Kautler wrote: >If you mean. "Let's focus on the small bug Bj?rn reported instead of >talking about vi vs. vim", I'm absolutely on your side Christopher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Björn Kautler
If you mean. "Let's focus on the small bug Björn reported instead of talking about vi vs. vim", I'm absolutely on your side Christopher. 2013/12/9 Christopher Faylor: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 03:03:37PM +0100, Frank Fesevur wrote: >>2013/12/9 Corinna Vinschen: >>> The new vim layout closely refle

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 03:03:37PM +0100, Frank Fesevur wrote: >2013/12/9 Corinna Vinschen: >> The new vim layout closely reflects the Fedora packaging. It has a >> minimal vi in the vim-minimal package and a full-featured vim in the >> vim-enhanced package. I'm using a vi -> vim alias on Fedora

Where can I look for an answer to a problem with Cygwin's Perl‏?

2013-12-09 Thread Jim Cant
I have a problem with Cygwin's Perl. If a process started by Perl (system(), `` (backticks) ) crashes, the system debugger never getsww called so I can't get a dump. I have submitted the problem (see below) to this list but got no responses. Can anyone suggest somewhere else I might look for an

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Björn Kautler
The special handling of vi is just fine. The whole problem is that not only the vi behaviour changed, but also the vim behaviour. Which is why I suggested the solutions I suggested. 2013/12/9 Frank Fesevur : > 2013/12/9 Björn Kautler: >> Again, what I talk about is NOT an issue of vi vs. vim. >> W

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Frank Fesevur
2013/12/9 Björn Kautler: > Again, what I talk about is NOT an issue of vi vs. vim. > What I talk about is a breaking change in vim that was introduced > while doing a change for vi. > But it is NOT an issue of vi vs. vim. That patch was introduced when people started to complain that they got erro

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Frank Fesevur
2013/12/9 Corinna Vinschen: > The new vim layout closely reflects the Fedora packaging. It has a > minimal vi in the vim-minimal package and a full-featured vim in the > vim-enhanced package. I'm using a vi -> vim alias on Fedora for ages. That explains why Yaakov did this. I assume Yaakov is a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Björn Kautler
Again, what I talk about is NOT an issue of vi vs. vim. What I talk about is a breaking change in vim that was introduced while doing a change for vi. But it is NOT an issue of vi vs. vim. Here again my original mail: Hi Yaakov, I'm wondering that noone mentioned it before, but maybe everyone is

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 9 13:34, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2013/12/9 Björn Kautler: > > I don't have a problem with being mean. > > Everyone makes mistakes. > > I just wonder that it gets broken silently without obvious (to me) reason > > and a question regarding it and with two proposed solutions just stays > > igno

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Björn Kautler
I'm sorry, but I don't really understand what you mean. Alternatives are not a problem to me. The patch I mentioned originally changes the file where the full vim looks for its configuration file. And beause of the missing configuration file at the new place, the full vim behaves as if it were the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Frank Fesevur
2013/12/9 Björn Kautler: > I don't have a problem with being mean. > Everyone makes mistakes. > I just wonder that it gets broken silently without obvious (to me) reason > and a question regarding it and with two proposed solutions just stays > ignored while it would be very easy to fix. To me, th

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.27-2

2013-12-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released Cygwin 1.7.27-2. It differes from 1.7.27-1 only by this change: - Fix include/cygwin/stdlib.h header to use the _XOPEN_SOURCE feature test macro in a secure way. Without this change, you might encounter an error when building an application whic

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Björn Kautler
Hi Frank, I don't have a problem with being mean. Everyone makes mistakes. I just wonder that it gets broken silently without obvious (to me) reason and a question regarding it and with two proposed solutions just stays ignored while it would be very easy to fix. Regards Björn 2013/12/9 Frank F

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-09 Thread Frank Fesevur
2013/12/7 Björn Kautler: > And it is ok and accepted that such a patch breaks the functionality? Apparently that depends on the maintainer. One maintainer does his best not to break existing installations: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/msg00059.html And another introduces a new version htt