Re: mkshortcut (cygutils-1.4.14) free error

2015-10-26 Thread Mark Geisert
Anthony Heading writes: > I didn't hit any explicit configure issue myself, rather a bunch of > unrecognized case-invariant strcmp variants, which took about 10 seconds > to fix but did make me wonder about the source code.And then this > below was the slightly trickier issue: > > % src/mksho

Re: Bash unable to print epoch timestamp

2015-10-26 Thread Brian Inglis
Forwarded Message Subject: Fwd: Re: Bash unable to print epoch timestamp Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:32:44 -0600 From: Brian Inglis Reply-To: brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca Organisation: Systematic Software To: corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com Already forwarded as below to cygwin and .

Re: mkshortcut (cygutils-1.4.14) free error

2015-10-26 Thread Anthony Heading
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015, at 03:54 PM, Mark Geisert wrote: > There are configure errors from this process, at least on my > machine. I'll take on maintenance of this package. Give me a short > while to get my sea legs. Thanks Ken for the pointers and Corinna > for the nudge. Thanks Mark. I would t

RE: Win10: C:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe: *** fatal error - NtCreateEvent(lock)‏

2015-10-26 Thread Nick Gnedin
Corinna, This fixes the problem, thank you. Nick > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:50:02 +0100 > From: corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Win10: C:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe: *** fatal error - > NtCreateEvent(lock)‏ > > On Oct 25 08:48,

Re: mkshortcut (cygutils-1.4.14) free error

2015-10-26 Thread Anthony Heading
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015, at 11:57 PM, Mark Geisert wrote: > ...if tmp_str is not modified after the above line, ... Indeed. Unfortunately it is modified. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-26 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: > > Q: How do I install everything? > A: You do not want to do this! I explain this in more detail here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/21233990 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docume

Re: mkshortcut (cygutils-1.4.14) free error

2015-10-26 Thread Mark Geisert
Ken Brown writes: > Anthony Heading wrote: > > Hi, > > I see the cygutils package has been orphaned, perhaps explaining the > > lack of response to the below. > > A related question then is that the vanilla mkshortcut built from the > > latest source package does not > > seem to perfectly match the

MD5 vs SHA512 in setup.ini (was: Why package cache is not used during setup download?)

2015-10-26 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 26, 2015, at 5:48 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > MD5 hash proven weak That’s a bit strong. It’s better to say that MD5 has weak collision resistance properties, which in this context means it is possible to generate a Cygwin package with arbitrary contents that produces the same hash as t

Re: Bash unable to print epoch timestamp

2015-10-26 Thread Brian Inglis
Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Brian, ping? Hi Corinna, Just sent third try to this list, -patches, and yourself: May have been blocked because thunderbird decided to base64 encode the stc attachment ("smart" attachments?) whereas the patch was inlined properly! Note in latest attempt: "Third ti

Re: Bash unable to print epoch timestamp

2015-10-26 Thread Brian Inglis
Third time lucky - pasting inline into email and resending to all previous lists. Please note that conversion into too-small buffer size in regression test may not have expected result! Tried to build with below and variants: gcc -D_REGRESSION_TEST -D_COMPILING_NEWLIB -Dsniprintf=snprintf -I/

Fw: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-26 Thread t s
so just to be quite sure; at the following screen; http://cpm86.com/sdcard-new-1.jpg I should click on the "next" button? this would choose 'default' packages on the top right hand side, from "keep / curr / exp" I should choose "curr" ? thanks for your advice == F

Re: Command line length in Ash or Dash Shells

2015-10-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/26/2015 05:16 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Does anybody definitely know about a maximum command line length in the > Ash or Dash Shells? /bin/ash _is_ the same as /bin/dash, so there is no difference in their behavior. A windows process spawning a cygwin one, or a cygwin process spawning

Pop up GUI remotely via SSH

2015-10-26 Thread trimat
Hi all, I would like to pup up on Windows 7 the GUI of a program started remotely from SSH. I can't obtain this with *cygstart* even though I see the process running in Windows Task Manager. Trying to add /--interactive/ flag to Cygwin service /sshd/, the service doesn't start. I am aware of the W

Re: problems with to_string not declared in this scope

2015-10-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 26.10.2015 um 11:36 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: It would still be nice if somebody with a bit of math knowledge would contribute the missing long double functions to newlib. Or switch to musl? -- Achim. (on the road :-) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.3.0-0.4

2015-10-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 26.10.2015 um 11:07 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: Erm, really? I tested this locally with a directory with hundreds of files, each of which belonged to another user or group, and that resulted in a 25% slowdown. Not 1000%. Oh boy. That test is almost as bad as it can ever get. Given that enu

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenEXR 2.2.0

2015-10-26 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * libilmbase12-2.2.0-1 * libilmbase1-common-2.2.0-1 * libilmbase1-devel-2.2.0-1 * libIlmCtl2-1.4.1-3 * libIlmCtl-devel-1.4.1-3 * libIlmImf22-2.2.0-1 * libIlmImf-devel-2.2.0-1 * libIlmImfCtl2-1.0.1-3 * libIlmImfCtl-common-1.0.1-3

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: p7zip 15.09-1

2015-10-26 Thread Tony Kelman
Version 15.09-1 of the package p7zip is now available in the Cygwin distribution. CHANGES - 7-Zip now can extract ext2 and multivolume VMDK images. - 7-Zip now can extract ext3 and ext4 (Linux file system) images. - assembly routines now supported in 64 bit cygwin - cygwin : fix in GetRamSize

Re: mkshortcut (cygutils-1.4.14) free error

2015-10-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/25/2015 9:45 PM, Anthony Heading wrote: Hi, I see the cygutils package has been orphaned, perhaps explaining the lack of response to the below. A related question then is that the vanilla mkshortcut built from the latest source package does not seem to perfectly match the behaviour of the b

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, t s! > I am making a fresh install of Cygwin on a Windows 7 machine. > The installation is to a 256 GB memory stick. I understand, you're wishing to use it as portable install? > Should I format the memory stick as NTFS? It may be necessary, depends on the packages you want to use.

Re: Why package cache is not used during setup download?

2015-10-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Aleksey Midenkov! >>> Cygwin setup process my turn to endless retry-error on bad internet >>> channels, because: >> >>> 1. setup doesn't know how to retry download (why it fails to download >>> anyway?); >> >> Because your internet is bad? > On the second thought I believe that the pr

Command line length in Ash or Dash Shells

2015-10-26 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Fellow Cygwinners, recently I needed to remove quite a few Cygwin packages from my install- ation, and due to all these interdependencies I wanted to do this in a single call: setup-x86*.exe -x ...,...,... Calling this command as a Windows "*.bat" file failed with an error message sugg

Re: Error accessing mapped drive >2TB?

2015-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 23 16:15, Warren Young wrote: > On Oct 23, 2015, at 8:30 AM, Jeffrey Altman > wrote: > > While Apple's design choices do not fit with the expectations of Cygwin > > they are not necessarily wrong. > > So, should I send Apple this code, or not? > > http://pastebin.com/uZdDZPgi Wouldn't

Re: Error accessing mapped drive >2TB?

2015-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Jeffrey, On Oct 23 10:30, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Lets discuss what is going on in this particular case. Apple > constructs their file namespace as the machine name representing a > virtual directory containing mount points to partitions and end user > folders. > [...] > Apple's SMB file name

Re: Win10: C:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe: *** fatal error - NtCreateEvent(lock)‏

2015-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 25 08:48, Nick Gnedin wrote: > I have just upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7, and now my 32 bit Cygwin > ssh crashes with this error: > > ~>ssh -vv gne...@fulla.fnal.gov > OpenSSH_7.1p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015 > debug1: Reading configuration data /home/Home/.ssh/config > debug1: /ho

Re: problems with to_string not declared in this scope

2015-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 25 11:25, Michael Enright wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 10:31 PM, JonY wrote: > > > > On 10/25/2015 01:00, Michael Enright wrote: > > > > > > I sometimes wonder what would be involved in fixing this. > > > > > > > Full C99 *printf support. Corinna answered on the same thread > > https://

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.3.0-0.4

2015-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 23 14:01, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > There's, as usual, a downside: AuthZ leans a bit to the slow side. > > It's not too bad, as long as your network connection is fast (and fast means > short roundtrip time for an AD query). If I take each page fault as

Re: Bash unable to print epoch timestamp

2015-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Brian, ping? On Oct 22 10:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi Brian, > > On Oct 22 07:03, Brian Inglis wrote: > > Brian Inglis SystematicSw.ab.ca> writes: > > > > > > > > Don Harrop effx.us> writes: > > > > Bash outputs no value when using it's built in method of printing an > > > > "epoch" tim

Re: mkshortcut (cygutils-1.4.14) free error

2015-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 26 03:57, Mark Geisert wrote: > Anthony Heading writes: > > I see the cygutils package has been orphaned, perhaps explaining the > > lack of response to the below. > > A related question then is that the vanilla mkshortcut built from the > > latest source package does not > > seem to perfe