[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grep-3.0-1

2017-02-10 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of grep, 3.0-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 2.27-2. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or m

Re: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Sam Edge
On 11/02/2017 00:05, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 2/10/2017 6:50 PM, Sam Edge wrote: > >> Sorry, did anyone actually read Andrey's post? > > Yes, but I was going through the emails in order and responded > to the earlier one before I got to the later one. Sorry to have > added noise to the list ... > No

Re: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Eliot Moss
On 2/10/2017 6:50 PM, Sam Edge wrote: Sorry, did anyone actually read Andrey's post? Yes, but I was going through the emails in order and responded to the earlier one before I got to the later one. Sorry to have added noise to the list ... EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob

Re: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Sam Edge
On 10/02/2017 23:17, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 2/10/2017 3:03 PM, Gluszczak, Glenn wrote: >> * is a legal character for ls but perhaps not cygpath? I don't know. >> No files or directories are using * in the name. >> >> Not sure about incorrect terminal settings as I never touched any. >> It shows up

Re: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Eliot Moss
On 2/10/2017 3:03 PM, Gluszczak, Glenn wrote: * is a legal character for ls but perhaps not cygpath? I don't know. No files or directories are using * in the name. Not sure about incorrect terminal settings as I never touched any. It shows up in mintty and ssh equally. The characters that appea

Re: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Michael Enright
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Gluszczak, Glenn! > >> * is a legal character for ls but perhaps not cygpath? > > "*" is not a legal path name character. And cygpath expects a path. AFAICT, '*' is a legal character in a filename or directory name on Posix systems

Re: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Michael Enright
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Gluszczak, Glenn wrote: > I suppose the glob explanation from Michael explains this behavior in sh. > Though unsupported, it seems to work (probably some side cases do not). It seems to me that the behavior is supported and working. Bash or sh takes an unescaped ar

RE: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Gluszczak, Glenn
I suppose the glob explanation from Michael explains this behavior in sh. Though unsupported, it seems to work (probably some side cases do not). $ cygpath -w /usr/bin/* C:\cygwin64\bin\[.exe C:\cygwin64\bin\2to3 C:\cygwin64\bin\addftinfo.exe C:\cygwin64\bin\addr2line.exe C:\cygwin64\bin\whatis.ex

Re: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Gluszczak, Glenn! > * is a legal character for ls but perhaps not cygpath? "*" is not a legal path name character. And cygpath expects a path. > I don't know. > No files or directories are using * in the name. See above. > Not sure about incorrect terminal settings as I never touch

Re: Stuck with incomplete Cygwin installation

2017-02-10 Thread Daniel Friedman
Marco, Thanks VERY much for explaining I have a BLODA interference issue and suggesting I try using safe mode--I did, and now I have a complete Cygwin installation. I still have to work on the "fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable" issue, which I may not be able to resolve, but you've ena

RE: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Gluszczak, Glenn
Thanks for the explanation. Just odd how cmd.exe only sometimes misbehaves. %%%cygpath -w /usr/a/b/* C:\cygwin\usr\a\b\ %%%cygpath -w /a/b/* C:\cygwin\a\b\ %%%cygpath -w /a/b/c/* C:\cygwin\a\b\c\ -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Beh

Re: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Michael Enright
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Michael Enright wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Gluszczak, Glenn wrote: >> Sorry, I forgot the user I log in as is switching to cmd.exe. >> >> This doesn't happen in sh or tcsh, so it is probably a non-issue. >> > > My results are from running a "normal"

Re: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Michael Enright
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Gluszczak, Glenn wrote: > Sorry, I forgot the user I log in as is switching to cmd.exe. > > This doesn't happen in sh or tcsh, so it is probably a non-issue. > My results are from running a "normal" bash-under-mintty setup. If I go to a cmd.exe window and start b

Re: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Michael Enright
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Gluszczak, Glenn! > >> Isn’t this a defect in cygpath? Looks like memory corruption. > >> %%%cygpath -w /usr/non-existent/* >> C:\cygwin\usr\non-existent\�[W�� > > Looks more like private character space combined with incorrect te

RE: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Gluszczak, Glenn
Sorry, I forgot the user I log in as is switching to cmd.exe. This doesn't happen in sh or tcsh, so it is probably a non-issue. -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Gluszczak, Glenn Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 3:04 PM To: cy

RE: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Gluszczak, Glenn
* is a legal character for ls but perhaps not cygpath? I don't know. No files or directories are using * in the name. Not sure about incorrect terminal settings as I never touched any. It shows up in mintty and ssh equally. The characters that appear vary. Some non-existent paths do *not* pro

Re: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Gluszczak, Glenn! > Isn’t this a defect in cygpath? Looks like memory corruption. > %%%cygpath -w /usr/non-existent/* > C:\cygwin\usr\non-existent\�[W�� Looks more like private character space combined with incorrect terminal setup. See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specia

cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Gluszczak, Glenn
Isn’t this a defect in cygpath? Looks like memory corruption. %%%cygpath -w /usr/tmp/* C:\cygwin\usr\tmp\ %%%cygpath -w /usr/non-existent/* C:\cygwin\usr\non-existent\�[W�� -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lyx-2.2.2-1

2017-02-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
New version 2.2.2-1 of lyx is available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES Last upstream release. http://www.lyx.org/announce/2_2_2.txt DESCRIPTION LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appe

Re: Providing cygwin1.dll in both 32- and 64-bit versions

2017-02-10 Thread Thomas Nilefalk
Hans-Bernhard Bröker skrev: Am 03.02.2017 um 12:49 schrieb Thomas Nilefalk: Hans-Bernhard Bröker skrev: Am 02.02.2017 um 22:12 schrieb Thomas Nilefalk: 'how can I make a 32-bit compiled cygwin program run under cygwin64'? You can't. Nor can anybody else. For a Cygwin64-based program, Cyg