Re: How to repair the symlinks in a copied cygwin64 tree

2024-08-07 Thread Mark Geisert via Cygwin
Hi David, On 8/7/2024 1:26 PM, David Karr via Cygwin wrote: At my work, I had to have my laptop reimagined for various reasons. I had them save my cygwin64 tree to external storage first. I now have the laptop back, and I copied the entire tree back in, but now I realize I should have done this

Re: mintty focus problem after Windows 11 Insider Preview update

2024-08-07 Thread Bruce Jerrick via Cygwin
A clarification: On 8/7/24 3:24 PM, Bruce Jerrick wrote: > ... > Which brings it all back to the same state as stage 2 above. Except that the focus problem did not re-occur. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: mintty focus problem after Windows 11 Insider Preview update

2024-08-07 Thread Bruce Jerrick via Cygwin
I am not able to reproduce the mintty window focus problem. (Also I failed to mention that I was originally using the latest test version of the cygwin package, but that now appears not to matter (see below).) Test history is as follows. Versions not mentioned are the same as the previous s

How to repair the symlinks in a copied cygwin64 tree

2024-08-07 Thread David Karr via Cygwin
At my work, I had to have my laptop reimagined for various reasons. I had them save my cygwin64 tree to external storage first. I now have the laptop back, and I copied the entire tree back in, but now I realize I should have done this differently, and I'm wondering how best to repair this. Some of

Cygwin mount "notexec", what does it really do?

2024-08-07 Thread Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin
Greetings! I tried to benchmark Cygwin mount "notexec" compared to "exec" by building bash in a loop. So far I do not see any performance differences, and putting a Cygwin binary like ls or bash into a folder mounted from X: to /cygwin/x with "notexec" still causes those binaries to be executabe.