How to fix |mkfifo()| failure if |pathname| is on NFS ? / was: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: mkfifo: cannot set permissions of 'x.fifo': Not a directory

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 4:52 PM Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: > > FIFOs which don't make *any* sense > > ... FWIW, a remote NFS fileystem. > > I got an impression that the OP is trying to deploy something (maybe the > entire Cygwin) onto an > NFS share. So the named FIFO

Re: Virus Total scan

On 2023-08-22 08:12, Dom Woods - BGS via Cygwin wrote: I scanned your application through Virus Total as per our company policy and noticed that the installation process calls out to a suspicious Microsoft IP 13.107.4.50, this ip has been flagged by 8 vendors as malicious, I get varying response

Re: lulatex problems after update of zlib

On 22/08/2023 17:55, ASSI via Cygwin wrote: Ken Brown via Cygwin writes: On 8/21/2023 11:02 AM, ASSI via Cygwin wrote: (although in this case maybe i got spooked by the change from 1.2.x to 1.3) It looks like that's exactly what happened. The version check compares the first 4 characters of

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {,mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-}mpfr-4.2.1-1

The following packages have been updated to the latest upstream release (a patch rollup release): mpfr-4.2.1-1 mingw64-i686-mpfr-4.2.1-1 mingw64-x86_64-mpfr-4.2.1-1 -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list,

How to use X-Server on VM with multiple client displays?

Hello, I hope I'm using the right list! I have an X application that uses the cygwin X Server XWin. It works fine on Windows: * When I launch the application, XWin launches, then the X app raises it's window. When I install this application (and cygwin and XWin) on a virtual machine, I

Re: Virus Total scan

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 9:00 AM Thomas Schweikle wrote: It is the address of one of the distribution servers. Since this is not > "one server", but a cluster of servers, your "suspicious" server shows > only one thing: those "suspicious" flags are suspicious by themselves: > > this particular serv

Re: lulatex problems after update of zlib

Ken Brown via Cygwin writes: > On 8/21/2023 11:02 AM, ASSI via Cygwin wrote: >> (although in this case maybe i got spooked by the change >> from 1.2.x to 1.3) > > It looks like that's exactly what happened. The version check > compares the first 4 characters of the version string. Almost exactly

Re: Virus Total scan

It is the address of one of the distribution servers. Since this is not "one server", but a cluster of servers, your "suspicious" server shows only one thing: those "suspicious" flags are suspicious by themselves: this particular server ist down since some time and only reports back a broken h

RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: mkfifo: cannot set permissions of 'x.fifo': Not a directory

> FIFOs which don't make *any* sense > ... FWIW, a remote NFS fileystem. I got an impression that the OP is trying to deploy something (maybe the entire Cygwin) onto an NFS share. So the named FIFO "file" is also created in there. It's pointless to assume that the FIFO can be used as a communic

lualatex and zlib

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Virus Total scan

Hi Cygwin, I scanned your application through Virus Total as per our company policy and noticed that the installation process calls out to a suspicious Microsoft IP 13.107.4.50, this ip has been flagged by 8 vendors as malicious, I get varying responses for what it is used for (an os updater or