[ANNOUNCEMENT] putty 0.67-1

2016-03-13 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * putty-0.67-1 PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. This is an update to the latest upstream release, with a fix for CVE-2016-2563: http://w

Re: Cygwin unable to resolve hostnames

2016-03-13 Thread Jun-ya Kato
It also depends on query againt VMware's DNS proxy server. For more analysis, see vmware community site, https://communities.vmware.com/thread/518949?start=15&tstart=0 I think it is not cygwin's bug at all. but any workaround may be implemented againt weak behavior of GetAddrInfoW() API.

Re: Cygwin unable to resolve hostnames

2016-03-13 Thread Carl-Erik Kopseng
Just a follow up for anyone else experiencing this. I fixed the DNS issues by directly specifying a DNS server in the IPV4 settings for my network adapter in the Windows VM. I used Google's public DNS server (8.8.8.8) and it worked instantly. The cue to check out DNSSEC was a dead-end as the hostn

Re: bash completion after equals sign does not work after upgrading to bash_completion 2.1-2

2016-03-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/13/2016 1:42 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: [Achim, /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc has some outdated comments referring to /etc/bash_completion.] I need further discussion and preferrably a patch. Since I don't use bash, I don't know anything about how its completion mechanism

Re: bash completion after equals sign does not work after upgrading to bash_completion 2.1-2

2016-03-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > [Achim, /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc has some outdated comments > referring to /etc/bash_completion.] I need further discussion and preferrably a patch. Since I don't use bash, I don't know anything about how its completion mechanism works and reading the man page makes me n

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.25-1

2016-03-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Mark Geisert writes: > I can't answer to whether it's worth saving :-) but if it is, I think I > can help. Has it diverged enough into Windows-isms that it could fit > under the cygutils umbrella? Either there or as a separate su package > works for me. The way things are on Windows you'd end

Re: Latest perl JSON::XS failing when threaded

2016-03-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Wayne Davison writes: > I updated cygwin today, and now perl JSON::XS fails to be able to > decode json data if it is run in a multi-threaded script. As said before, the use of JSON::XS with threads is not supported by upstream. That said, I've found a patch at least for the scenario that your te

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated/New: Perl distributions

2016-03-13 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions are newly available in Cygwin: perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.056-1 perl-JSON-MaybeXS-1.003005-1 The following Perl distributions are updated to the latest version available on CPAN: perl-Canary-Stability-2011-1 perl-Capture-Tiny-0.36-1 perl-CPAN-Reporter-1.2017-1 perl-File-W

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {nettle/libnettle4/libhogweed2/libnettle-devel}-2.7.1-1: A cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context

2016-03-13 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'nettle/libnettle4/libhogweed2/libnettle-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 2.4.1-1 with gcc-5.3.0-3 o Update to 2.7.1 o Fix for CVEs, see https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-03/msg0.html nettle NEWS: * Fixed

Re: Problem with ssh-copy-id when home folder contains spaces

2016-03-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 20:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 11 22:38, darkdragon wrote: > > Some file paths were not correctly escaped. Fix attached > > ("ssh-copy-id.patch"). > > Thanks, since we're using the verbatim upstream OpenSSH sources, > I sent the patch upstream. Hopefully they apply it. It wil

Re: Problem with line buffering and getc function on 1.7.33.

2016-03-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 13 12:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 12 16:41, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > On 12.03.2016 14:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >I do now. Basically it's setvbuf screwing up the internal flags in the > > >FILE structure. I took the liberty to update newlib's setvbuf to the > > >OpenBSD versio

Re: Problem with line buffering and getc function on 1.7.33.

2016-03-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 16:41, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > On 12.03.2016 14:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >I do now. Basically it's setvbuf screwing up the internal flags in the > >FILE structure. I took the liberty to update newlib's setvbuf to the > >OpenBSD version locally and I'm going to apply my patches to newl

Re: Problem with line buffering and getc function on 1.7.33.

2016-03-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 16:37, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > On 12.03.2016 14:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Mar 12 20:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>On Mar 11 16:05, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > >>> We can reproduce the problem with just file streams using > >>> a much simpler program: > >>> [...] > >>> The contents of file