Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-23 Thread Luke Kendall
On 24/10/14 02:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 22 20:57, Tom Schutter wrote: >> On Wed 2014-10-22 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> For your convenience I wrote new documentation. Since this is a TEST >>> prerelease, the new documentation is not part of the official docs yet. >>> Rather hav

Re: Threads

2014-10-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/23/2014 4:32 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/23/2014 11:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 23 08:04, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/23/2014 7:31 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 20/10/2014 14:03, Ken Brown wrote: Or is there some other plausible explanation for "impossible" crashes? This can't just be a

Re: Problems on case-sensitive file systems

2014-10-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > I'm facing a number of issues with case-sensitivity which I've collected: > > There is a documented limitation on case-sensitivity using drive letter > paths, > also mentioned in https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg00090.html > (last item)

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Tom Schutter! >> The major change in this new release is the new method to read account >> (passwd and group) information from the Windows user databases directly, >> without the requirement to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to >> generate Unix-like uid and gid. > What do yo

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-23 Thread John Wiersba
Thank you -- that clears up a lot of my confusion. - Original Message - > From: Achim Gratz > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 4:52 PM > Subject: Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on > Win7Pro-64 > > John Wiersba writes: >> Is th

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-23 Thread Achim Gratz
John Wiersba writes: > Is this not a bug in run.exe? No, if anything it's a bug in Windows. Look in the archives at the beginning of 2009 where this was discussed. You can at least hide the window after it exists now, but the option of starting it out of sight has been removed with Windows 7 and

Re: Threads

2014-10-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/23/2014 11:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 23 08:04, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/23/2014 7:31 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 20/10/2014 14:03, Ken Brown wrote: Or is there some other plausible explanation for "impossible" crashes? This can't just be a result of a gdb bug, because in at least

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-23 Thread John Wiersba
> From: Doug Henderson > >On 21 October 2014 10:51, John Wiersba wrote: > >> I'm trying to use run.exe to avoid a flashing console window, but it is not >> working on >> my cygwin64 install on Win7Pro-64. This is a fresh install from 10/20/2014. >> I've >> attached my cygcheck.out. I've

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-23 Thread Doug Henderson
On 21 October 2014 10:51, John Wiersba wrote: > I'm trying to use run.exe to avoid a flashing console window, but it is not > working on my cygwin64 install on Win7Pro-64. This is a fresh install from > 10/20/2014. I've attached my cygcheck.out. I've tried the following windows > shortcuts an

mingw32 - libtool - compiling error

2014-10-23 Thread Vineet Gupta
Today I have update my Cygwin and thus it started giving error at the end of compiling. Using Compiler Mingw32 Libtool for cross platform compiling In function 'main': xxx.c:315:3: warning: implicit declaration of function '_spawnv' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] rval = _spawn

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-23 Thread John Wiersba
Thanks, Doug. I use cygstart.exe to start windows programs (such as winword or notepad) from a mintty/bash console in a way that allows the mintty console to be closed while the windows application is still active. I thought run.exe was meant to be used from shortcuts to run cygwin program

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-23 Thread John Wiersba
> > From: Achim Gratz >John Wiersba writes: >> Maybe I'm confused. Isn't the purpose of run.exe to start a >> cygwin program without creating a (visible) console window? > >The purpose of run is to start a Windows program that needs a console to >exist and hide th

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-23 Thread Doug Henderson
On 23 October 2014 06:24, John Wiersba > wrote: > Maybe I'm confused. Isn't the purpose of run.exe to start a > cygwin program without creating a (visible) console window? > I can just start a cygwin program directly without the indirection of > run.exe if I don't care about the random flashing co

Re: Threads

2014-10-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: >> Yes, flags register corruption is exactly what Eli suggested in the other >> bug report I cited. > > The aforementioned patch was supposed to fix this problem and it is > definitely in the current 1.7.32 release... Emacs uses a bunch of libraries and also messes itself

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-23 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-10-22 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > - Drop the current working directory from the default DLL search path in > favor of Cygwin's /bin dir. I'm not so comfortable with this one. I use PATH=/my/dir/bin:/usr/bin /my/otherdir/myprog There is no DLL at all in /my/otherdir (this is the v

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > Corinna Vinschen writes: >> In theory, no. The last OpenSSH update, 6.7p1-1, alreadyd contained >> the upstream fix to work with local sshd accounts which have the >> machine name prepended. > > I will check this tomorrow, I somehow missed that this patch was live. > The entr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Tom Schutter writes: > On Wed 2014-10-22 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> The major change in this new release is the new method to read account >> (passwd and group) information from the Windows user databases directly, >> without the requirement to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to >>

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-23 Thread Achim Gratz
John Wiersba writes: > Maybe I'm confused. Isn't the purpose of run.exe to start a > cygwin program without creating a (visible) console window? The purpose of run is to start a Windows program that needs a console to exist and hide the console window created by windows if there is no console tha

Re: Problems on case-sensitive file systems

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 23.10.2014 17:36, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Oct 23 14:42, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 22.10.2014 16:00, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Oct 22 09:01, Thomas Wolff wrote: I'm facing a number of issues with case-sensitivity which I've collected: There is a documented limitation on case-sensitivit

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-23 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
> More exact: stricmp is still available as exported symbol, and it will > be available for a long time, to make sure existing executables continue > to run. stricmp will just not be provided by the standard header files > anymore. Thanks, Corinna! I'll use strcasecmp() from now on. -- Jim Re

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 22 20:57, Tom Schutter wrote: > On Wed 2014-10-22 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > For your convenience I wrote new documentation. Since this is a TEST > > prerelease, the new documentation is not part of the official docs yet. > > Rather have a look at > > > > https://cygwin.com/preli

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 23 17:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 23 08:14, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 10/23/2014 08:10 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > > > Apparently stricmp() is no longer in the library: > > > > > > ClubLog.cpp:593:34: error: 'stricmp' was not declared in this scope > > > if (!stricmp(fiel

Re: Threads

2014-10-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 23 08:04, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/23/2014 7:31 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > >On 20/10/2014 14:03, Ken Brown wrote: > >>Or is there some other plausible explanation for "impossible" crashes? > >>This can't just be a result of a gdb bug, because in at least one case > >>the assertion can be shown

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 23 08:14, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/23/2014 08:10 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > > Apparently stricmp() is no longer in the library: > > > > ClubLog.cpp:593:34: error: 'stricmp' was not declared in this scope > > if (!stricmp(field,"call")) { > > > > I realize that stricmp() is non

Re: Problems on case-sensitive file systems

2014-10-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 23 14:42, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 22.10.2014 16:00, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >On Oct 22 09:01, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>I'm facing a number of issues with case-sensitivity which I've collected: > >> > >>There is a documented limitation on case-sensitivity using drive letter > >>paths, > >

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/23/2014 08:10 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > Apparently stricmp() is no longer in the library: > > ClubLog.cpp:593:34: error: 'stricmp' was not declared in this scope > if (!stricmp(field,"call")) { > > I realize that stricmp() is non-standard. Is this going to be the > situation g

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-23 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
Apparently stricmp() is no longer in the library: ClubLog.cpp:593:34: error: 'stricmp' was not declared in this scope if (!stricmp(field,"call")) { I realize that stricmp() is non-standard. Is this going to be the situation going forward with 1.7.33+? If so, what's the best workaround?

Re: Problems on case-sensitive file systems

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 22.10.2014 16:00, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Oct 22 09:01, Thomas Wolff wrote: I'm facing a number of issues with case-sensitivity which I've collected: There is a documented limitation on case-sensitivity using drive letter paths, also mentioned in https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2013-08

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-23 Thread John Wiersba
> From: Andrey Repin >To: Doug Henderson ; cygwin@cygwin.com >Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 9:28 PM >Subject: Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on >Win7Pro-64 > >>> Andrey, the flashing console flashes very quickly and I don't know how to >>> slow it down. >>> It ap

Re: Threads

2014-10-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/23/2014 7:31 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 20/10/2014 14:03, Ken Brown wrote: Or is there some other plausible explanation for "impossible" crashes? This can't just be a result of a gdb bug, because in at least one case the assertion can be shown to be valid by using printf instead of gdb. [*]

Re: Threads

2014-10-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 20/10/2014 14:03, Ken Brown wrote: Or is there some other plausible explanation for "impossible" crashes? This can't just be a result of a gdb bug, because in at least one case the assertion can be shown to be valid by using printf instead of gdb. [*] By "impossible" I mean that examination o

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > Have you tried changing the shortcut to cause it to open the window > > minimized? I vaguely remember doing something like that with the > > cygwin.bat clone I used to start a (non-X windows) rxvt window. > > That may at least alleviate the window flashing in the face of a user. Yeah, that do

Mounted NAS, net use and shared drive paths

2014-10-23 Thread igerard
Well I am using cygwin for my continuous build/test integration system. And I meet a lot of issue with the use of the mounted NAS Because the behaviours are not repeatable it is hard to see a pattern, sometimes it does work, sometimes not... First to describe the context : - I have cygwin insta