Re: Set num of concurrent processes

2015-02-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, xmoon 2000! > How can I set max number of concurrent processes allowed in Cygwin? Define "concurrent"? What exactly you are trying to achieve? -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 11.02.2015, <07:42> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.co

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: hidapi-0.8.0-rc1-1

2015-02-10 Thread 陳韋任
Version 0.8.0-rc1-1 of packages hidapi mingw64-i686-hidapi mingw64-x86_64-hidapi are available in the Cygwin distribution: DESCRIPTION: HIDAPI is a multi-platform library which allows an application to interface with USB and Bluetooth HID-Class devices on Windows, Linux, an

Set num of concurrent processes

2015-02-10 Thread xmoon 2000
How can I set max number of concurrent processes allowed in Cygwin? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 10.02.2015, 21:43 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Am 10.02.2015, 21:33 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Works. The inodes from stat still differ, all seems right (to me). Unfortunately I get with the snapshot reproducibly: 125018 [main] dksh 2348 fork: child -1 - forked process 548 died

Re: slow startup after upgrade

2015-02-10 Thread Warren Young
> On Feb 10, 2015, at 2:38 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > "Starting a Cygwin shell is slow, what's going on?" > > I'd not be overly grudgy if somebody wants to come up with a FAQ text… I’m not entirely sure I understand the problem, but I’ve attached a starting point. I’m pretty sure the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: quvi, libquvi0.9, libquvi0.9-scripts

2015-02-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * quvi-0.9.5-1 * libquvi0.9_4-0.9.4-1 * libquvi0.9-devel-0.9.4-1 * libquvi0.9-scripts-0.9.20131130-1 quvi is a command line tool for parsing video download links. libquvi is a library for parsing video download links. They suppo

Re: Cygwin installer shows I have gdb 7.8-2, is n't it gdb 7.8.2?

2015-02-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 2/10/2015 10:54 PM, dum fk wrote: Hi, I'm hitting a bug of gdb 7.8. This is a known issue with gdb 7.8 and was fixed in latest gdb 7.8.2. The bug ID is 17642. Please refer to https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17642 With the latest cygwin setup, it shows the current gdb I have i

Cygwin installer shows I have gdb 7.8-2, is n't it gdb 7.8.2?

2015-02-10 Thread dum fk
Hi, I'm hitting a bug of gdb 7.8. This is a known issue with gdb 7.8 and was fixed in latest gdb 7.8.2. The bug ID is 17642. Please refer to https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17642 With the latest cygwin setup, it shows the current gdb I have is 7.8-2. Isn't it the latest gdb 7.8.2?

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lapack 3.5.0r1524-1

2015-02-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
New versions 3.5.0r1524-1 of lapack (source) liblapack0 liblapack-devel liblapack-doc are available in the Cygwin distribution, 32 and 64 bit : CHANGES This is latest upstream SVN version including a large number of bugfixes. http://www.netlib.org/lapack/Errata/index2.html Full list of change

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cmake-3.1.2-1

2015-02-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 2/9/2015 3:29 AM, Tony Kelman wrote: Let's try this again... Version 3.1.2-1 of packages cmake cmake-gui cmake-doc cmake-debuginfo emacs-cmake are available in the Cygwin distribution. Thanks Tony, Lapack SVN version built fine on both 32 bit and 64 bit version Regards Marco

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 10.02.2015, 21:33 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Works. The inodes from stat still differ, all seems right (to me). With the redirection they are the same of course: stat -c %i /dev/tty - http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: h

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 10.02.2015, 21:06 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: If it's legal to look up the inode of a device, then both OS should be fixed I think. I applied a patch to Cygwin. Please give the latest snapshots a try: https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ 1030/home/hk#obash /home/hk/.bashrc /home/hk#set -o no

Re: Emacs and last libpng release

2015-02-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/10/2015 1:13 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 12:44 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 2/10/2015 11:55 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ken Brown wrote: I think the better way is for all libraries that rely on libpng15 to rebuild for libpng16. Does this mean that there is some librar

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Please, https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR On Feb 10 19:31, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > Helmut Karlowski <...> wrote: > > Eric Blake <...> wrote: > > > On 02/10/2015 09:46 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > > > >> The same test from the command line: > > > >> > > > >> $ stat -c %i /dev/tty - 0>/

Re: group permissions

2015-02-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > My preference at this time would be option 2 because it’s easier to > understand than option 3 (and who cares to preserve entries not set by > cygwin but imposed by Windows default ACLs) but maybe option 3 would > be more “correct”. Again, if you want POSIX-only directory tr

Re: group permissions

2015-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 10 20:04, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 10.02.2015 um 10:21 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >... > >Here's the problem: Windows doesn't support an ACL_MASK entry, nor > >anything even remotely resembling it. > >[...] > >And a third one, which just occured to me after writing the above: > > > >o Cygw

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pulseaudio-5.0-2

2015-02-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: * pulseaudio-5.0-2 * pulseaudio-equalizer-5.0-2 * pulseaudio-esound-compat-5.0-2 * pulseaudio-module-gconf-5.0-2 * pulseaudio-module-x11-5.0-2 * pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-5.0-2 * pulseaudio-utils-5.0-2 * libpulse0-5.0-2 * libpu

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl-7.40.0-1

2015-02-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated for both arches: * curl-7.40.0-1 * libcurl4-7.40.0-1 * libcurl-devel-7.40.0-1 * libcurl-doc-7.40.0-1 cURL is a library and command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols, SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP up

Re: execlp/execvp needs case-correct PATH

2015-02-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 10.02.2015 um 10:27 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Feb 9 21:49, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 09.02.2015 um 11:17 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Feb 9 00:04, Thomas Wolff wrote: With a Windows case sensitive file system (and according mount flags for /cygdrive), the PATH does not properly reflect ca

Re: Windows/Posix path conversion fails on extra mount points

2015-02-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 10.02.2015 um 10:25 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Feb 9 21:47, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 09.02.2015 um 10:18 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Feb 9 00:04, Thomas Wolff wrote: cygwin_create_path (CCP_WIN_A_TO_POSIX, "C:/cygwin/lib") -> "/usr/lib" This is the correct directory, however, only by mea

Re: group permissions

2015-02-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 10.02.2015 um 10:21 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: ... Here's the problem: Windows doesn't support an ACL_MASK entry, nor anything even remotely resembling it. What does that mean for us? When reading permissions from a Windows ACL, the ACL_MASK entry can only be computed from the given values.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: several Lua modules

2015-02-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * lua-bit-1.0.2-1 * lua-crypto-0.3.2-1 * lua-json-1.3.2-1 * lua-lfs-1.6.2-1 * lua-logging-1.1.4-2 * lua-lpeg-0.12-1 * lua-luadoc-3.0-2 * lua-lxp-1.2.0-1 * lua-socket-2.0.2-2 These Lua modules have been added as dependencies of lib

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mysql-5.5.41-2

2015-02-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** mysql-5.5.41-2 *** mysqld-5.5.41-2 *** mysql-test-5.5.41-2 *** libmysqlclient18-5.5.41-2 *** libmysqlclient-devel-5.5.41-2 *** libmysqld0-5.5.41-2 *** libmysqld-devel-5.5.41-2 MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadabl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xz-5.0.8-1, mingw64-*-xz-5.0.8-1

2015-02-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * xz-5.0.8-1 * liblzma5-5.0.8-1 * liblzma-devel-5.0.8-1 * mingw64-i686-xz-5.0.8-1 * mingw64-x86_64-xz-5.0.8-1 XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with a high compression ratio. This is an update to the la

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- Helmut Karlowski wrote: (10/02/2015 19:04) > > -- > Eric Blake wrote: > (10/02/2015 18:34) > > > On 02/10/2015 09:46 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > > >> The same test from the command line: > > >

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 10 10:34, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/10/2015 09:46 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > >> The same test from the command line: > >> > >> $ stat -c %i /dev/tty - 0>/dev/tty > >> 327680 > >> 8912896 > >> > >> use any other (already-existing) file to see that the two numbers should > >> normally be th

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- Eric Blake wrote: (10/02/2015 18:34) > On 02/10/2015 09:46 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > >> The same test from the command line: > >> > >> $ stat -c %i /dev/tty - 0>/dev/tty > >> 327680 > >> 8912896 > >> > >> use any other (already-existing) fil

Re: Emacs and last libpng release

2015-02-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 12:44 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > On 2/10/2015 11:55 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > Ken Brown wrote: > >> I think the better way is for all libraries that rely on libpng15 to > >> rebuild > >> for libpng16. > > > > Does this mean that there is some library which, after being re

Re: Emacs and last libpng release

2015-02-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/10/2015 11:55 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ken Brown wrote: I think the better way is for all libraries that rely on libpng15 to rebuild for libpng16. Does this mean that there is some library which, after being rebuilt, will allow Emacs to be build OB, linking to libpng16, without the need

Re: Emacs and last libpng release

2015-02-10 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Il 10/02/2015 17:55, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: Ken Brown wrote: I think the better way is for all libraries that rely on libpng15 to rebuild for libpng16. Does this mean that there is some library which, after being rebuilt, will allow Emacs to be build OB, linking to libpng16, without the

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/10/2015 09:51 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > > -- >> use any other (already-existing) file to see that the two numbers should >> normally be the same. > > Also: isn't it nonsense to interpret the inode of somthing like > /dev/tty? No. inodes

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/10/2015 09:46 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: >> The same test from the command line: >> >> $ stat -c %i /dev/tty - 0>/dev/tty >> 327680 >> 8912896 >> >> use any other (already-existing) file to see that the two numbers should >> normally be the same. > > Don't know why, but cygwin is not the on

Re: Emacs and last libpng release

2015-02-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 17:55 +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Ken Brown wrote: > > I think the better way is for all libraries that rely on libpng15 to > > rebuild for libpng16. > > Does this mean that there is some library which, after being rebuilt, > will allow Emacs to be build OB, linking to

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Eric Blake writes: > The same test from the command line: > > $ stat -c %i /dev/tty - 0>/dev/tty > 327680 > 8912896 > > use any other (already-existing) file to see that the two numbers should > normally be the same. Interestingly enough I get exactly the same numbers, both on 32bit and 64bit Cygw

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- > use any other (already-existing) file to see that the two numbers should > normally be the same. Also: isn't it nonsense to interpret the inode of somthing like /dev/tty? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- Eric Blake wrote: (10/02/2015 17:33) > On 02/10/2015 09:28 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > > > > The bug is in cygwin1.dll, not bash. Here's a STC; opening a file > > should NOT change its st_ino number, but that's exactly what cygwin is > > doing to

Re: Emacs and last libpng release

2015-02-10 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: I think the better way is for all libraries that rely on libpng15 to rebuild for libpng16. Does this mean that there is some library which, after being rebuilt, will allow Emacs to be build OB, linking to libpng16, without the need to install libpng15? Ciao, Angelo. --

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/10/2015 09:28 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > > The bug is in cygwin1.dll, not bash. Here's a STC; opening a file > should NOT change its st_ino number, but that's exactly what cygwin is > doing to /dev/tty. As such, bash thinks that because the ino changed > between stat() and open() that there i

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/09/2015 01:53 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/09/2015 01:38 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>> bash prints that message when it has the noclobber-option set. Maybe >>> you check it? >> Yes, indeed, the effect shows up after set -o noclobber; >> however, this shouldn’t apply to device files (and doe

Re: Emacs and last libpng release

2015-02-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/10/2015 10:12 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: After this update: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00126.html, building Emacs (from master) fails because 'ld' does not find '-lpng15'... Installing libpng15-devel fixes the build but I wonder if there is a better way to do this.. I think t

Emacs and last libpng release

2015-02-10 Thread Angelo Graziosi
After this update: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00126.html, building Emacs (from master) fails because 'ld' does not find '-lpng15'... Installing libpng15-devel fixes the build but I wonder if there is a better way to do this.. TIA, Angelo. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin

Re: Cannot write backup file; backing up in ~/.emacs.d/%backup%~

2015-02-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Tim Even gmail.com> writes: > Do you have any ideas about how to get backups working on the following? Emacs issues this warning when you have no write access in the directory where the file you're editing resides. Based on the assumption that you would have those rights in your home directory i

Re: Cannot write backup file; backing up in ~/.emacs.d/%backup%~

2015-02-10 Thread Eliot Moss
On 2/10/2015 9:13 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 2/9/2015 11:39 PM, Tim Even wrote: Do you have any ideas about how to get backups working on the following? Sorry, but you need to provide more details. Please make a complete problem report, following the guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems

Re: Cannot write backup file; backing up in ~/.emacs.d/%backup%~

2015-02-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/9/2015 11:39 PM, Tim Even wrote: Do you have any ideas about how to get backups working on the following? Sorry, but you need to provide more details. Please make a complete problem report, following the guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html Your report should include detail

Re: group permissions

2015-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 10 11:48, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > Here's the problem: Windows doesn't support an ACL_MASK entry, nor > > anything even remotely resembling it. > > Right. And pretending that it does is doing more harm than good, IMHO. > > > o The other way to emulat

Re: group permissions

2015-02-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > Here's the problem: Windows doesn't support an ACL_MASK entry, nor > anything even remotely resembling it. Right. And pretending that it does is doing more harm than good, IMHO. > o The other way to emulate writing an ACL_MASK entry would be to drop > p

Re: slow startup after upgrade

2015-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 23:26, xian wrote: > Sorry for the double post, just noticed a very similar thread. I do > have domain account. What I did now to speed up startup: > created local db with mkpasswd and mkgroup > created nsswitch.conf allowing only files to be read. > > Now everything back to normal. > >

Re: ls not in sync with chmod (weird problems with file permissions)

2015-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 22:50, diod lightbulb wrote: > On 9 February 2015 at 21:28, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Am 09.02.2015 um 16:37 schrieb diod lightbulb: > >> > >> ... > >> > >> 1- For pre-existing files/directories under /cygdrive/d and /cygdrive/e > >> All my file permissions that were correctly reported by

Re: ls not in sync with chmod (weird problems with file permissions)

2015-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 22:00, diod lightbulb wrote: > However, I'd like to ask somthing else, is there a way to make newly > created files outside my home to respect my umask? I just tried touch > still buggy; ll stillbuggy reports -rw-rwxr--+ while stat -c " %a %u > %g" stillbuggy gives back " stillbuggy

Re: Fossil 1.30 [Was: Group execute permission regression (??): causing problem in fossil.]

2015-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Jari, On Feb 10 01:11, Jari Aalto wrote: > 2015-02-09 15:43 Corinna Vinschen > : > | On Feb 9 11:10, Jan Nijtmans wrote: > | > | > 2015-02-09 10:23 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen : > | > > No worries. I guess I should revamp the FAQ to add a more generic > | > > > | > > Why do my files have cer

Re: execlp/execvp needs case-correct PATH

2015-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 21:49, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 09.02.2015 um 11:17 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >On Feb 9 00:04, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>With a Windows case sensitive file system (and according mount flags > >>for /cygdrive), the PATH does not properly reflect casing of the actual > >>directories (e.g.

Re: Windows/Posix path conversion fails on extra mount points

2015-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 21:47, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 09.02.2015 um 10:18 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >On Feb 9 00:04, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>cygwin_create_path (CCP_WIN_A_TO_POSIX, "C:/cygwin/lib") -> "/usr/lib" > >>This is the correct directory, however, only by means of the extra mount > >>point > >>of /u

Re: group permissions

2015-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 21:20, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 09.02.2015 um 10:14 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >On Feb 9 00:03, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>With 1.7.34-6: > >>>- the fixes in POSIX ACL handling and the effect this has on the standard > >>> POSIX group permissions, as well as the accompanying new setfac