instruction cache flushing in Cygwin

2025-06-05 Thread Jeremy Drake via Cygwin
I noticed while looking at JIT test failures in LLVM that they don't have an implementation for Cygwin for flushing the instruction cache. I don't see any Cygwin function calling FlushInstructionCache, is there some POSIXy function for this? I don't really want to have to include Windows headers

Re: cygin 3.6.2-1 under Win11 24H2: Cannot launch: no available terminals

2025-06-05 Thread Johannes Schindelin via Cygwin
Hi Robert, this patch has now been released as Cygwin v3.6.3. Would you kindly verify that it fixes your problem? Thanks, Johannes On Mon, 2 Jun 2025, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On Wed, 28 May 2025, Robert Fensterman wrote: > > > getent passwd %USERNAME% > > is blank > > I _

Re: Cygwin 3.7: Increase SYMLOOP_MAX?

2025-06-05 Thread Sebastian Feld via Cygwin
On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM Sebastian Feld wrote: > > Could the maximum symlink depth in Cygwin please be increased for > cygwin 3.7? We're regularly hitting that limit (seems to be 10). > > What is the maximum number of symlink recursion? Rumor is that this is > 32, but I cannot find it in an

Re: Why no "World" group in Cygwin?

2025-06-05 Thread Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 at 20:46, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > > On 2025-06-04 10:58, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > > Why is there no "world" group in Cygwin by default? > > So war I've found EVERY Windows access token contains an group entry > > for S-1-1-0 (World), which makes me wonder by

Re: Cygwin sparse file support: Please support fcntl(..., F_FREESP, ...)

2025-06-05 Thread Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 at 11:07, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Feb 16 16:27, Sebastian Feld via Cygwin wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM Cedric Blancher via Cygwin > > wrote: > > > > > > Good afternoon! > > > > > > Could Cygwin 3.6 please support fcntl(...,F_FREESP,...) and > >