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On 2023-11-22 9:53 am, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote:
I have a new Win11 PC, and I wanted to capture the same Cygwin setup
that I have in another Win10 PC. I copied the C:\cygwin64 folder from
the Win10 pc to the Win11 pc, then I downloaded a fresh
setup-x86_64.exe from c
On 2023-11-22 9:53 am, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote:
I have a new Win11 PC, and I wanted to capture the same Cygwin setup
that I have in another Win10 PC. I copied the C:\cygwin64 folder from
the Win10 pc to the Win11 pc, then I downloaded a fresh
setup-x86_64.exe from cygwin.com to the
On 2023-10-14 7:39 am, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
I know about nice and renice, but I don't see whether it is working or
not.
Is there anything in /proc which can tell me the current *Windows*
scheduler priority level? Or a command line tool?
Ced
Iarn's TaskInfo will show you the
On 6/29/2022 9:18 AM, Norton Allen wrote:
On one machine I have, chmod g+s fails to set the sticky bit. The
>>> command
does not return any error, but ls -l continues to show the bit not
set.
$ mkdir foo
$ chgrp flight foo
$ chmod g+ws foo
$ ls -ld foo
drwxrwxr-x+ 1 nor
On 2021-11-10 3:39 pm, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
To the contrary. The problem is the ambiguity that "X:/foo" might
be either the absolute POSIX path $CWD/X:/foo, or the absolute DOS
path "X:\foo". I have a patch which fixes your case, but not much
else. The problem is that we historic
On 2020-05-19 6:49 am, Andrey Repin wrote:
Then take a look at this thread:
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-March/thread.html#174
You'll need correctly configured LANG and CYGWIN's glob option.
That info should definately be in the FAQ. Although I would still
consider this behavior
On 2020-05-18 8:40 am, jeff wrote:
I have a directory that has some files with odd files.
I can do a 'ls', successfully. However if I do a 'ls *'' I get:
ls: cannot access '*': No such file or directory
Here is ls output:
'Highlander-S03E21-Final'$'\303\251''_Part_I-22.mkv'
'Highlander-S03E22-Fi
On 2020-05-12 3:45 pm, David wrote:
The groups command in the cmd window on Windows 10 shows None as my
first group.
When I use the dir command to create a file, the security display
shows no error.
When I use the touch command to create a file, I get "The permissions
on ... are incorrectly orde
On 2020-05-11 12:53 pm, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
I would just like to chime in that it would be a crying shame if
Cygwin
were to ever drop support for Windows 7. There are many people,
myself
one, who are dead set against Windows 10.
"Ever"?!? You do realize that, ESU aside, Windows 7 is out
On 2020-05-05 5:05 am, Rainer Emrich wrote:
Hi Corinna,
Am 05.05.2020 um 10:54 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
Therefore it might be a good idea to bump the default for these
Cygwin-related headers to at least 0x0600.
Setting them to 0x0602 sounds like a good idea, but as long as we
didn't
drop Vi
Hi folks, I'm having some issues with getting mail from this list.
The first one is that I'm getting a decent number of messages diverted
into spam holding over protocol violations. For example this one has
two reply-to headers.
Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Authentication-Results: sourceware.
The first thing to consider is that Windows XP is no longer supported by
the main Cygwin code base.
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html
If you really need to install on XP, you'll have to find a snapshot of
the last repository that supported it. That would be anything prior to
Cy
On 2019-08-28 3:16 am, ak...@free.fr wrote:
Hi,
I encounter some problem with grep option -E on cygwin 3.0.7
echo "a^b" | grep "a^b" #answer a^b ie it's OK
but
echo "a^b" | grep -E "a^b" #answer nothing " for me it's KO
I have to backslash ^ to be OK like : grep -E 'a\^b'
Is-it a bug ?
I do
On 2019-08-19 8:33 am, Morten Kjærulff wrote:
find //$server/d$/dir/subdir*/subsubdir -name 'thefile' -printf '%A+\n'
Problem is that it seems this command locks thefile, as the application
sometimes can't delete it.
Unfortunately, yes. On Windows, a "full stat" requires that the file be
ope
program.
Thanks.
On 2019-07-16 1:37 am, Achim Gratz wrote:
Chris Wagner writes:
Of course it's up to date...
I'll let that stand, although I've seen sufficiently many Win7 systems
lately to be wary of any such statement.
That is not BLODA. That's the standard list of l
On 2019-07-15 3:46 pm, Achim Gratz wrote:
Chris Wagner writes:
For some reason this afternoon, after having worked fine, my Perl
stopped working. There was no error message. It just silently died
with status 0 no less.
Windows 7 SP1.
Terribly out of date and no longer safe to use on a
Hi folks.
For some reason this afternoon, after having worked fine, my Perl
stopped working. There was no error message. It just silently died
with status 0 no less. Windows 7 SP1.
$ /usr/bin/perl.exe -v
$ echo $?
0
So I turn to strace and it states Illegal Instruction. Any ideas?
Tha
On 2019-06-10 3:24 pm, Achim Gratz wrote:
Chris Wagner writes:
Perl maintainers, I was wondering why the Cygwin Perl distribution
does not contain a windowless Perl executable, wperl.exe.
Because nobody needs it?
Directly executing the standard perl.exe from Windows causes a command
console
Perl maintainers, I was wondering why the Cygwin Perl distribution does
not contain a windowless Perl executable, wperl.exe. Directly executing
the standard perl.exe from Windows causes a command console to pop up.
I've had it before in other distros but it would be super handy to
execute com
It won't work if the terminal window was started in administrator mode.
Something to do with Windows's security isolation.
On 2019-06-06 12:26 am, Academy OfFetishes wrote:
Hello,
I tried to google for this but couldn't find anyone with the same
problem.
I'm using mintty 3.0.1 and cygwin
Hi Linda, / is just a mount to something like C:\Cygwin64 so there is no
problem in changing it.
You should delete all the target thing's permissions first to guarantee
starting from a clean slate.
$ setfacl -kb z2/ && getfacl z1/ |setfacl -f - z2/
This works for me with the latest packages.
Hi Irfan,
I'm assuming that there is some reason you don't want to use the
password option:
-w, --passwdOptional password for user. Only needed
if a user is given. If a user has an empty
password, enter `-w '. If a user is given
but
Maintainers, I have been getting numerous bounce warnings and spam holds
on mail sent to me by the list. The spam holds are due to protocol
violations. This ezmlm warning is because of: 550 Messages should have
one or no Sender headers, not 2.
If the list software could be made more complian
I too have had ongoing issues getting Cygwin mail. My spam package
regularly filters out emails for "protocol" violations which I then have
to notice and release. Some were for having multiple Reply-To headers.
I even got a notice from the list stating that email to me had been
bouncing. So
Personally I wouldn't want to see yet another .directory in home.
Endless fractionation of config is one of the things about unix that
irks me. This is not to say that there aren't perfectly valid use cases
for YACF (yet another config file).
Perhaps this would be best served by a new shell
On 2019-04-03 12:20 pm, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, All!
This can be considered "working by design", but it really imposes some
serious
restrictions on interoperability with Cygwin, that I think can be
avoided.
...
After some further testing, this seems to be affecting IP-based UNC
path
On 2019-03-29 9:43 pm, Massimo Balestra wrote:
Thank you Chris for answering.
But the problem is not during the test, but during the compilation
itself (make).
Yes, I know I could use ActiveState, but I don't want to have two perl
installed on my pc. For me it is more important to have cygwin a
On 2019-03-29 3:56 pm, Massimo Balestra wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to compile the module Win32::OLE but it fails.
I searched on Google and I did not find any good suggestion.
Can anyone help me?
This is what I get:
(This is from cpan but it is the same if I compile manually
downlaoding the tar packag
On 2019-03-28 7:36 am, Steven Penny wrote:
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:34:34, Thomas Wolff wrote:
Mintty can be used to run any command-line application directly (like
top, your editor, ...), a shell is not needed.
That may be true, the by default Mintty is configure to load Bash. So
it is
disinge
Thanks for the responses.
The uname output was already in my attachment. I executed cat as
/usr/bin/cat.exe. Cygcheck cat is also in my original attachment.
I attached the cygcheck -svr. The other Cygwin installations referenced
are from my debugging and are not active. The missing Perl f
Hi all. A few days ago I noticed that cat.exe was failing without
printing any output or errors and exiting with status 3. I tried
rebooting, updating my Cygwin, even a fresh install of Base only. I
removed all recently installed Windows software and nothing changed.
What's truly strange is
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