Re: Withdrawing from the project

2014-07-31 Thread Linda Walsh
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'll be unsubscribing from all cygwin mailing lists right after sending this. I'll likely continue to use Cygwin but just as a user. Dang... you probably won't see all the goodbyes... But in case... best wishes in your new endeavor. Your efforts here were v

Re: Simplify AD integration?

2014-07-31 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, D. Boland! > I am not only a man of legacy, but also a very opinionated one. So give me > some > slack when I say: the whole thing is insane. This would mean that from now > on, I > have to use constructs like ~+daniel ~+SYSTEM in a Linux shell?? Bizarre. No, you don't have. Default

Re: Withdrawing from the project

2014-07-31 Thread David Eisner
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Felly hir, a diolch am yr holl bysgod And: So long and thanks for all the Cygwin. Seriously. Good luck in your future. -David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docum

Withdrawing from the project

2014-07-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
In the last several months I've told various key players in the Cygwin project that I was thinking about withdrawing from the project. Today is the day that this becomes official. I was hoping that my final act for Cygwin would be to get it imported into git but it looks like that will be handled

AW: Simplify AD integration?

2014-07-31 Thread Christoph H. Hochstaetter
Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Default is 'auto': > >builtin accounts; "+SYSTEM", "+LOCAL", etc. >primary domain "corinna", "cgf", ... >other domain: "DOMAIN1+walter", "DOMAIN2+mathilda" > > If set to 'primary': > >builtin accounts; "+SYSTEM", "+LOCAL", etc. >primary d

Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs

2014-07-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/31/2014 10:51 AM, Peter Hull wrote: VC integration in emacs has stopped working for me in the past few days. Using emacs debugger I found the last function call was to call-process which never returns. I can reproduce this by evaluating in Lisp Interaction mode (using ^J) (call-process "pwd

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sng 1.0.6-1

2014-07-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of sng, 1.0.6-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with minor bug fixes and improvements. The author of sng declines to provide a standard change log. To see the project version control history, go to: http://sourceforge.net/p/sng/code/ci/7e2

Re: Simplify AD integration?

2014-07-31 Thread D. Boland
Eric Blake wrote: > > On 07/31/2014 07:26 AM, D. Boland wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> So I'd like to ask a few questions to which I'd like to have some brief > >> answers, kind of like a poll, to get a better idea how we should > >> proceed: > >> > >> 1. Shall we remove the leading '+' f

(call-process ...) hangs in emacs

2014-07-31 Thread Peter Hull
VC integration in emacs has stopped working for me in the past few days. Using emacs debugger I found the last function call was to call-process which never returns. I can reproduce this by evaluating in Lisp Interaction mode (using ^J) (call-process "pwd" nil t) I would expect to see the PWD and

Re: Simplify AD integration?

2014-07-31 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/31/2014 07:26 AM, D. Boland wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> So I'd like to ask a few questions to which I'd like to have some brief >> answers, kind of like a poll, to get a better idea how we should >> proceed: >> >> 1. Shall we remove the leading '+' from the builtin account names >>

Re: [PATCH] openat-die: use _Noreturn markup

2014-07-31 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering wrote: Glad you found the root of the problem, and that it's not in gnulib. Likewise. For future reference, we avoid in gnulib because MSVC mishandles it. Please see doc/posix-headers/stdnoreturn.texi for details. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: Emacs 64-bit ahead of its time: clock skew

2014-07-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Markus Hoenicka mhoenicka.de> writes: > That is, no time difference. But why does the network drive affect only > emacs and not touch? Try "cat > testfile" or something along these lines that creates a file without explicitly resetting the timestamp as touch is doing. I think you should find the

RE: Emacs 64-bit ahead of its time: clock skew

2014-07-31 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Am 2014-07-31 15:50, schrieb Nellis, Kenneth: From: Markus Hoenicka Good catch. We're using roaming profiles here, so my home dir is on some network drive. If I re-run the test on a local disc, I get the following: That is, no time difference. But why does the network drive affect only emac

RE: Emacs 64-bit ahead of its time: clock skew

2014-07-31 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
> From: Markus Hoenicka > > Good catch. We're using roaming profiles here, so my home dir is on some > network drive. If I re-run the test on a local disc, I get the > following: > > That is, no time difference. But why does the network drive affect only > emacs and not touch? The primary purpos

Re: Simplify AD integration?

2014-07-31 Thread D. Boland
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > So I'd like to ask a few questions to which I'd like to have some brief > answers, kind of like a poll, to get a better idea how we should > proceed: > > 1. Shall we remove the leading '+' from the builtin account names >or shall we keep it? > > 2. Shall we stick to

RE: Emacs 64-bit ahead of its time: clock skew

2014-07-31 Thread Markus Hoenicka
At 2014-07-31 15:01, Nellis, Kenneth was heard to say: From: Markus Hoenicka Hi, once in a while make complains that some of my files have timestamps in the future. I've investigated a little, and it seems that this affecs only You can get this behavior if the files are on a server whose

RE: Emacs 64-bit ahead of its time: clock skew

2014-07-31 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
> From: Markus Hoenicka > > Hi, > > once in a while make complains that some of my files have timestamps in > the future. I've investigated a little, and it seems that this affecs only > You can get this behavior if the files are on a server whose time is not syncked to your computer. --Ken Ne

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-31 Thread D. Boland
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jul 29 15:36, D. Boland wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > The permissions of the home folder are set to 01777 by default (S_ISVTX > > > bit!). Since we can't rely on central administration for Cygwin, this > > > allows a user to create her own homedir automat

Emacs 64-bit ahead of its time: clock skew

2014-07-31 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Hi, once in a while make complains that some of my files have timestamps in the future. I've investigated a little, and it seems that this affecs only files which I save from Emacs. The following script reproduces the problem (run it in an empty directory, especially sample.txt must not exist

getcwd and PATH problem with moved cygwin1.dll

2014-07-31 Thread Jan Brezina
Hi, trying to make standalone build of an application with embedded Python I observe wrong values returned by getcwd and getenv("PATH") calls when cygwin1.dll is in the same directory as the executable. Python use these two calls to get absolute path of the executable (argv[0]) and to determ

Re: Simplify AD integration?

2014-07-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > Good points. I might have overvalued the gain of easily recognizing > builtin accounts by the leading '+' separator. After some thinking with my eyes closed... not prefixing local accounts at all would at least allow the sshd to see the local sshd user with

Re: local admin `chmod400` still can write

2014-07-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Ilya Basin gmail.com> writes: > From cygwin shell I'm able to read and write files even though my > Windows user has no permission for it. I tried `chmod` and to deny > everything for Everyone in the Windows dialog, but it didn't help. How > is it possible? The permission is granted via ACL (note