[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: neomutt-20200424-1

2020-04-24 Thread Federico Kircheis via Cygwin-announce
Version 20200424-1 of neomutt has been uploaded. The command line mail reader neomutt reached version 20200424. On GitHub it is possible to find the changelog for the new release: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/releases Federico -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: write() on 64 bit platform sometimes returns 32bit -1 as error indicator

2020-04-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-04-24 08:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > This problem is due to a restriction in Windows introduced with Windows > Vista. In theory it gets explained at length in "Changes to the file > system and to the storage stack to restrict direct disk access and > direct volume access in Windows Vista

Re: If Cygwin ssh, git, etc. can't find your .ssh directory

2020-04-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-04-24 09:37, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 24.04.2020 um 15:46 schrieb Mark Hansen: >> I had a case when I took my office laptop home and found that in the Cygwin >> environment, >> commands were not able to find my .ssh directory. It seemed those commands >> didn't know >> where my home directo

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-24 Thread Stephen Carrier
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 03:13:12PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 09:49:34AM -0700, Stephen Carrier wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:57:50PM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > >>You can ask list management software to resend past messages. I don't > >>recall specifics, an

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: guile-3.0.2-1

2020-04-24 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce
Version 3.0.2-1 of guile3.0 libguile3.0-devel libguile3.0_1 have been uploaded for cygwin. CYGWIN NOTE "guile" package has been obsoleted The package postinstallation script uses alternatives(8) to install a symlink for /usr/bin/{guile,guild,guile-config} programs. CHANGES Latest upstre

Re: If Cygwin ssh, git, etc. can't find your .ssh directory

2020-04-24 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 24.04.2020 um 15:46 schrieb Mark Hansen: I had a case when I took my office laptop home and found that in the Cygwin environment, commands were not able to find my .ssh directory. It seemed those commands didn't know where my home directory was, and was defaulting to "/". After asking on th

Re: If Cygwin ssh, git, etc. can't find your .ssh directory

2020-04-24 Thread Mark Hansen
Sorry, this was a mistaken post. If an admin can do so, please delete it. Thanks. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

Re: write() on 64 bit platform sometimes returns 32bit -1 as error indicator

2020-04-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi John, On Apr 23 12:36, netbsdrat--- via Cygwin wrote: > > write() on 64 bit platform sometimes returns 32bit -1 as error indicator: > > Using 64 bit cygwin on 64 bit platform. Doing direct read() / write of > disks, > this example is using the /dev/floppy device. > > Opening for writing

If Cygwin ssh, git, etc. can't find your .ssh directory

2020-04-24 Thread Mark Hansen
I had a case when I took my office laptop home and found that in the Cygwin environment, commands were not able to find my .ssh directory. It seemed those commands didn't know where my home directory was, and was defaulting to "/". After asking on the Cygwin newsgroups, I received the following

Re: Problems with ssh when I log into my PC using my corporate domain while working from home

2020-04-24 Thread Mark Hansen
On 4/23/2020 11:57 AM, Norton Allen wrote: I also have had to deal with this problem. You should certainly read https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html. After much experimenting and consultation with Corinna, we decided the best solution for me was: * Create /etc/passwd and /etc/group

Sv: posix_spawnp creates ghost processes

2020-04-24 Thread Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin
> Greetings, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin! > > > We're having a rather complex application and have noticed a rather > > weird behaviour that I cannot find any information about > > > We're using posix_spawnp and sometimes it creates extra "ghost- > process(es)" > > non visible to cygwin (via e.g

Re: posix_spawnp creates ghost processes

2020-04-24 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 4/24/2020 3:30 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: Hi all We're having a rather complex application and have noticed a rather weird behaviour that I cannot find any information about We're using posix_spawnp and sometimes it creates extra "ghost-process(es)" non visible to cygwin (via e.

Re: Unable to test the Cisco ISO Image in GNS3

2020-04-24 Thread cygwinautoreply--- via Cygwin
>     1 [main] dynamips 12636 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute >FAST_CWD pointer.  Please report this problem tothe public mailing list >cygwin@cygwin.comCisco Router Simulation Platform (version 0.2.12-x86/Windows >stable)Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Christophe Fillot.Build date: Mar 28

Unable to test the Cisco ISO Image in GNS3

2020-04-24 Thread Serge Paul via Cygwin
     1 [main] dynamips 12636 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer.  Please report this problem tothe public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.comCisco Router Simulation Platform (version 0.2.12-x86/Windows stable)Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Christophe Fillot.Build date: Mar 28 2014 12

Re: posix_spawnp creates ghost processes

2020-04-24 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin! > We're having a rather complex application and have noticed a rather weird > behaviour that I cannot find any information about > We're using posix_spawnp and sometimes it creates extra "ghost-process(es)" > non visible to cygwin (via e.g. process status

posix_spawnp creates ghost processes

2020-04-24 Thread Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin
Hi all We're having a rather complex application and have noticed a rather weird behaviour that I cannot find any information about We're using posix_spawnp and sometimes it creates extra "ghost-process(es)" non visible to cygwin (via e.g. process status (ps)) but visible to Windows (Task Manager