On 2/9/2025 9:51 PM, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote:
Every so often one needs a standalone interim update of e.g. cygwin1.dll.
Latest working updates containing minor tweaks used to be available under the heading
"Cygwin Snapshots" at
https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
and this is still Google's best o
Every so often one needs a standalone interim update of e.g. cygwin1.dll.
Latest working updates containing minor tweaks used to be available under the
heading "Cygwin Snapshots" at
https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
and this is still Google's best offer; but this now seems to be defunct with
the last
> Windows is security deficient in this area, not Cygwin.
>
> I'll quote myself to share my opinion:
> https://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/src/branch/master/src/fdevent_win32.c#L543
> * The Microsoft CreateProcess() interface is criminally broken.
> * Forcing argument strings to
Ok, with a little better google finess I found this:
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/36421/what-is-the-applypatch-tool-and-how-does-one-use-it
From the discussion I gather that It is a binary patch utility used by
Android hackers.
--
Soren 'tino (somian)
He's earthy, he's pithy, he's
Hello Marco, thank you for your interest.
This should have occurred to me, nice one, Marco:
$ cygcheck -l git | grep applypatch
/usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/applypatch-msg.sample
/usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/pre-applypatch.sample
> About the second question, cygwin packages are NE
Thank you for your reply, Eliot. I show very different git executables:
$ ls -li /usr/local/bin/git /usr/bin/git
3659174698190617 -rwxr-xr-x 142 somia Administrators 3.6M May 25 2024
/usr/bin/git*
19421773393853074 -rwxr-xr-x 142 somia somia 20M Sep 7 21:44
/usr/local/bin/git*
The di
On 2025-02-09 11:56, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote:
On 2/10/2025 5:46 AM, Soren via Cygwin wrote:
Hello Cygwin community,
I've got a small issue. Out there in the oosphere there is mention of a
tool called "applypatch", and I went looking for it in cygwin pkgs. Using
the invocation
`cygcheck -f
On 2025-02-09 11:51, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
On 09/02/2025 06:40, Marco Atzeri wrote:
Noticed today, not sure it is new nor that is Cygwin specific.
It can create unrequested circular links, to replicate:
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir dirA
$ mkdir dirB
$ cd dirA
$ ln -fs /tmp/dirB dirB
$ ls -l
tota
On 09/02/2025 19:51, Marco Atzeri wrote:
On 09/02/2025 06:40, Marco Atzeri wrote:
typo :-(
It only happens with "ln -fs" not with "ln -s"
the test package
coreutils 9.5-1
has NOT this issue
Regards
Marco
--
Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:
On 09/02/2025 19:46, Soren via Cygwin wrote:
Hello Cygwin community,
I've got a small issue. Out there in the oosphere there is mention of a
tool called "applypatch", and I went looking for it in cygwin pkgs. Using
the invocation
`cygcheck -f applypatch'
not the way to look for a package, see
On 2/10/2025 5:46 AM, Soren via Cygwin wrote:
Hello Cygwin community,
I've got a small issue. Out there in the oosphere there is mention of a
tool called "applypatch", and I went looking for it in cygwin pkgs. Using
the invocation
`cygcheck -f applypatch'
I don't find any packages that supply
On 09/02/2025 06:40, Marco Atzeri wrote:
Noticed today, not sure it is new nor that is Cygwin specific.
It can create unrequested circular links, to replicate:
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir dirA
$ mkdir dirB
$ cd dirA
$ ln -fs /tmp/dirB dirB
$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco marco 9 Feb 9 06:33 dirB -> /
On 2025-02-08 22:40, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
Noticed today, not sure it is new nor that is Cygwin specific.
It can create unrequested circular links, to replicate:
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir dirA
$ mkdir dirB
$ cd dirA
$ ln -fs /tmp/dirB dirB
$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco marco 9 Feb 9 06:3
Hello Cygwin community,
I've got a small issue. Out there in the oosphere there is mention of a
tool called "applypatch", and I went looking for it in cygwin pkgs. Using
the invocation
`cygcheck -f applypatch'
I don't find any packages that supply "applypatch" or "applypatch.exe" but
now when I
On 2025-02-09 08:01, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
Testcase:
$ uname -r
3.5.7-1.x86_64
$ cygcheck -f /bin/chmod
coreutils-9.0-1
$ mkdir dir
$ touch dir/file
$ chmod -R -v g-w dir; echo $?
mode of 'dir' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)
mode of 'dir/file' retained as 0644 (rw-r--r--)
0
$ ln
Testcase:
$ uname -r
3.5.7-1.x86_64
$ cygcheck -f /bin/chmod
coreutils-9.0-1
$ mkdir dir
$ touch dir/file
$ chmod -R -v g-w dir; echo $?
mode of 'dir' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)
mode of 'dir/file' retained as 0644 (rw-r--r--)
0
$ ln -s file dir/link
$ chmod -R -v g-w dir; echo $?
mode of
Dr Bean via Cygwin writes:
> Thanks for the cygport file. That will help Soren or me get started.
> But we will probably need help uploading to the cygwin package repos.
You have apparently not understood what I said. The problem is not
creating the package itself, much less who creates it.
To r
On Sat, 08 Feb 2025, ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
> Dr Bean via Cygwin writes:
> > ASSI, what about adding to the long list of packages you maintain
> > another one, App::cpanminus, providing the commandline tool, 'cpanm', a
> > popular alternative to the venerable CPAN, and the installer of choice
>
Sorry for the late reply.
I can confirm that cygwin 3.5.6 solved the problem.
On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 8:24 AM Takashi Yano via Cygwin
wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:30:30 +0900
> Daisuke Fujimura via Cygwin wrote:
> > $ kill -CHLD 214
> >
> > $ ps
> > PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMA
19 matches
Mail list logo
