Re: NOACL leads to a massive speed slowdown in file system processes

2015-09-13 Thread tiwasey
> This is not the default exactly because of its nature. > It is unusable. You will not be able to run scripts from such mount point. No problem for me, I have my scripts in my cygwin home/bin. Why put them outside? That's their environment. > However, I don't quite understand the nature of the

Cygwin terminal weirdness

2015-09-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! This is best explained with a video ( apparently, list don't like videos ), but for a quick reference, here's a description of observed behavior: Call "man" on a sufficiently long topic. man bash would be quite sufficient. Or just `less` a long enough text. Hold down "End" key. Th

Re: NOACL leads to a massive speed slowdown in file system processes

2015-09-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Mikkel Filla! > Wow, that seems a very fast solution. Are there any side effects which > could be a problem? Else I wonder, why this is not the default setting. This is not the default exactly because of its nature. It is unusable. You will not be able to run scripts from such mount po

Re: NOACL leads to a massive speed slowdown in file system processes

2015-09-13 Thread Mikkel Filla
Wow, that seems a very fast solution. Are there any side effects which could be a problem? Else I wonder, why this is not the default setting. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

Re: Fonts reorganization and additions

2015-09-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/11/2015 3:59 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: The first thing that should be checked is if the code in setup which allows it to unpack files with "illegal" characters in Windows also makes sure to create parent directories. Based on these reports my *guess* is it doesn't but I haven't looked yet

Re: NOACL leads to a massive speed slowdown in file system processes

2015-09-13 Thread Bengt Larsson
Bengt Larsson wrote: >Try adding the "notexec" option. If it's mounted "noacl" Cygwin checks >for executable by opening the file and checking the two first bytes. If you add "notexec" scripts that start with "#!" won't be recognized as executable. But files with .exe and .com extensions will be r

Re: NOACL leads to a massive speed slowdown in file system processes

2015-09-13 Thread Bengt Larsson
tiwa...@arcor.de wrote: >Hello, I've used Cygwin under WinXP and now Win8.1. Among others I'm using it >to rsync big folders. I had one big problem. On the destination the file >system permissions where that wrong, that I could not enter the rsynced >folders. As it is said in the internet, the

Re: gdb arbitrarily starting threads

2015-09-13 Thread William M. (Mike) Miller
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > People who can reproduce this problem and can also build their own GDB > are encouraged to try the patch posted here: > > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2015-06/msg00071.html > > and report whether it solves the problem on Cygwin. (I alrea

NOACL leads to a massive speed slowdown in file system processes

2015-09-13 Thread tiwasey
Hello, I've used Cygwin under WinXP and now Win8.1. Among others I'm using it to rsync big folders. I had one big problem. On the destination the file system permissions where that wrong, that I could not enter the rsynced folders. As it is said in the internet, the solution for this is to use

RE: Fonts reorganization and additions

2015-09-13 Thread Fergus
>> ... are we awaiting a fix with a new timestamp? > I'm sure this will be fixed properly in due course. In the meantime, here's a workaround: 1. Create the directory /etc/X11/fontpath.d. 2. Create a file in that directory. [This is to prevent deletion of the directory during step 3.] 3. Reinstal