Re: Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks

2017-03-12 Thread cyg Simple
On 3/11/2017 7:03 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > cyg Simple wrote: >> On 3/10/2017 4:01 PM, L A Walsh wrote: >> >>>I want to be able to mount other areas of other file >>> systems onto directories. Symlinks are destroyed by Cygwin's >>> SETUP.EXE and the install process For example. I have >>> a sm

Re: Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks

2017-03-12 Thread L A Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 11 15:57, L A Walsh wrote: I'm, talking parallel features and parallel problems. Installing products on Linux or cygwin may check for and complain about symlinks leading to their installation directory. The cure in both is to use bind-type mount

Re: bash -l not sourcing /etc/profile? (minor annoyance)

2017-03-12 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-03-11 20:51, Daniel Santos wrote: > First off, thanks for your response and I apologize for my late reply. > > On 03/09/2017 06:21 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2017-03-09 15:58, Daniel Santos wrote: >>> This is just a minor annoyance. When I start a mintty session and >>> even if I type b

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: R-3.3.3-1

2017-03-12 Thread Marco Atzeri via cygwin
Versions 3.3.3-1 of R libRmath libRmath-devel for cygwin are now available: CHANGES New upstream release https://mailman.stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2017/000611.html DESCRIPTION R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R provides a

Re: dd -- bs>=2G, error writing to /dev/null - possible bug? (win7; coreutils 8.26)

2017-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 15:49, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 12/03/2017 12:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 12 00:33, Josef Frank wrote: > > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > > > > dd utility has problems to write to /dev/null with bs>=2^31, > > > while bs<2^31 is ok. > > > > > > Increasing bs further to 2^33 l

Re: dd -- bs>=2G, error writing to /dev/null - possible bug? (win7; coreutils 8.26)

2017-03-12 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 12/03/2017 12:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 12 00:33, Josef Frank wrote: Dear all, dd utility has problems to write to /dev/null with bs>=2^31, while bs<2^31 is ok. Increasing bs further to 2^33 leads to extended error message For description see below Thanks for the testcase. It

Re: dd -- bs>=2G, error writing to /dev/null - possible bug? (win7; coreutils 8.26)

2017-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 00:33, Josef Frank wrote: > > Dear all, > > > dd utility has problems to write to /dev/null with bs>=2^31, > while bs<2^31 is ok. > > Increasing bs further to 2^33 leads to extended error message > > For description see below Thanks for the testcase. It's a combination of two bugs:

Re: Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks

2017-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 11 15:57, L A Walsh wrote: > Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, L A Walsh! > > > You say that throwing out the MS-designed ability > > > to mount a filesystem subtree and treat them the same as another > > > feature they added, "symlinks", is a benefit? > > > > Where did I said that? >