Re: What would it take to get Cygwin and NTFS file permissions to play nice?

2016-08-12 Thread Eliot Moss
On 8/12/2016 10:26 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote: I use rsync to back up my Cygwin user directories to an external USB disk drive, formatted as NTFS. This fails from time to time, usually due to permission failures when trying to update the destination files. The Windows permissions of the destinatio

What would it take to get Cygwin and NTFS file permissions to play nice?

2016-08-12 Thread Thomas Taylor
I use rsync to back up my Cygwin user directories to an external USB disk drive, formatted as NTFS. This fails from time to time, usually due to permission failures when trying to update the destination files. The Windows permissions of the destination files turn out to be in the wrong order,

RE: Please explain how to add to a thread in this mailing list

2016-08-12 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
Alternatively, From: Andrey Repin > People use digest when they don't plan to participate in discussions, or if > they are using web mail with no ability or inclination to setup main filters > so that list messages end in a separate directory and not disturbing their > private mails. I subscri

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave forge packages

2016-08-12 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 12/08/2016 14:39, Franz Fehringer wrote: Am 12.08.2016 um 14:20 schrieb Marco Atzeri: On 12/08/2016 13:34, Franz Fehringer wrote: Would it be possible to provide the symbolic package (with python3 under the hood)? Hi Franz, as reported on its page http://octave.sourceforge.net/symbolic/in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave forge packages

2016-08-12 Thread Franz Fehringer
Am 12.08.2016 um 14:20 schrieb Marco Atzeri: > On 12/08/2016 13:34, Franz Fehringer wrote: >> Would it be possible to provide the symbolic package (with python3 under >> the hood)? > > Hi Franz, > > as reported on its page > http://octave.sourceforge.net/symbolic/index.html > it requires sympy th

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave forge packages

2016-08-12 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 12/08/2016 13:34, Franz Fehringer wrote: Would it be possible to provide the symbolic package (with python3 under the hood)? Hi Franz, as reported on its page http://octave.sourceforge.net/symbolic/index.html it requires sympy that is not available on cygwin. I have no personal interest on

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave forge packages

2016-08-12 Thread Franz Fehringer
Would it be possible to provide the symbolic package (with python3 under the hood)? Am 12.08.2016 um 12:35 schrieb Marco Atzeri: > New version of > > octave-sparsersb1.0.1-1 > > and the library on which is based > > librsb-devel1.2.0-0.rc4 > librsb0 1.2.0-0.r

Re: chere mintty window position

2016-08-12 Thread Frank Fesevur
2016-08-12 6:04 GMT+02:00 Brent: > Thomas Wolff wrote: >>How about mintty -w max or -w full instead? > > Thanks, I am going to try that tomorrow. I'm not use, but I think Thomas meant that as a possible yet to be written command line option. Regards, Frank -- Problem reports: http://cygwin

Re: Please explain how to add to a thread in this mailing list

2016-08-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Taylor! > I'd like to thank all of you who responded with advice on how to use > this mailing list, and how to reply to a post. I'd especially like to > thank Kaz Kylheku for his extensive and detailed tutorial on how to use > the mailing list, written as a reply to my origin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave forge packages

2016-08-12 Thread Marco Atzeri
New version of octave-sparsersb1.0.1-1 and the library on which is based librsb-devel1.2.0-0.rc4 librsb0 1.2.0-0.rc4 implementing the RSB sparse matrix format for fast shared-memory sparse matrix computations. are available in the Cygwin distribution: ADVI

Re: 2.5.1: kill(pid, sig) before waitpid() returns -1 for sig != 0

2016-08-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Erik, On Aug 12 10:44, Erik Bray wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > On Aug 11 11:51, Erik Bray wrote: > >> [...] > >> In response to the originally issue, this was fixed *specifically* for > >> the case of kill(pid, 0). But my reading of the above is that

Re: 2.5.1: kill(pid, sig) before waitpid() returns -1 for sig != 0

2016-08-12 Thread Erik Bray
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On Aug 11 11:51, Erik Bray wrote: >> [...] >> > Existing implementations vary on the result of a kill() with pid >> > indicating an inactive process (a >> > terminated process that has not been waited for by its parent). Some

Re: tcsh version 6.19.00-3 hangs on exit

2016-08-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Thomas, On Aug 11 16:36, Thomas Taylor wrote: > I really appreciate your looking into this problem. I use the Cygwin64 > Terminal icon to create one or more windows. I set my login shell to > /bin/tcsh in /etc/passwd. As you suggested, I deleted ~/.logout, and do not > have an /etc/csh.logou

Re: Please explain how to add to a thread in this mailing list

2016-08-12 Thread Thomas Taylor
I'd like to thank all of you who responded with advice on how to use this mailing list, and how to reply to a post. I'd especially like to thank Kaz Kylheku for his extensive and detailed tutorial on how to use the mailing list, written as a reply to my original post. I encourage everyone to