Re: ca-legacy not bourne-compatible

2015-02-09 Thread David Boyce
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > For now, but I may move to dash someday in the future, like Debian did. By “I” are you referring to a personal decision at your site or do you mean you may exert your influence to get the default Cygwin /bin/sh switched to dash? -David -- Prob

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-18 Thread David Boyce
> The path argument to find must be a directory. Sorry, but I can't let this go by. The statement above is incorrect, as a simple test like "find /etc/passwd -print" would show. David On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2014-09-17, Paul.Domaskis wrote: >> writes: >> > wri

Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-09-12 Thread David Boyce
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/12/2014 02:15 PM, Christian Franke wrote: unsetenv("PATH"); >>> This is undefined behavior, per POSIX. POSIX recommends that you always >>> leave PATH defined to at least a bare minimum of the results of >>> confstr(_CS_PATH, ...)

Re: Maintainer for git?

2014-02-11 Thread David Boyce
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> Just curious where we stand with this now that 1.7.28 is out. Assuming that further testing affirms that the SSE2 bug affecting Git is fixed in recent snapshots, this brings us back the original subject: is there a maintainer for Git who w

Re: ps | grep hangs intermittently

2014-01-29 Thread David Boyce
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/threads.html#00262 > > With all due respect, so what? That is for 1.7.25, I have 1.7.27 It was reported in 1.7.25, fixed for 1.7.28. -- Problem

Re: cygcheck and literal plus sign

2014-01-22 Thread David Boyce
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > So I'll change my answer to "I don't know". How about 'g[+][+]' or 'g[+]{2}'? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Un

Re: Add retry logic to rebaseall

2014-01-17 Thread David Boyce
Jason, On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Jason Tishler wrote: > AFAICT, there is a race condition issue with the proposed functionality. > David's build servers could be quiescent when the check for running > processes is performed, but they could restart before the rebase is > finished. I reali

Add retry logic to rebaseall

2014-01-15 Thread David Boyce
Jason et al, Here's a suggested new flag (with patch, attached) for /usr/bin/rebaseall. It adds a -w(ait) flag which causes the check for running Cygwin processes to be done in a loop, breaking out and doing the rebaseall as soon as it finds a quiescent moment. We run Cygwin on build servers whic

Re: fixing BLODA-caused fork failures

2013-10-08 Thread David Boyce
> But as a point of practicality, 64-bit Cygwin can help with some cases of > DLL address space collisions. So if you haven't experimented with > 64-bit Cygwin in your environment, it may be worth your time. This sounds very reasonable but I'm curious: is it to date just a theory that makes sense

David.S.Boyce

2013-07-21 Thread David Boyce
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Re: regression in subversion with 1.7.18 (and .19)

2013-05-29 Thread David Boyce
export > //server/share") because those require teaching libapr1 about UNC paths, > which I haven't done (yet?). > > Still, I think it will support your use case of the config directory on > a UNC share. > > Please give it a shot and let me know. My local test case

regression in subversion with 1.7.18 (and .19)

2013-05-27 Thread David Boyce
name in its path (the full correct path to the file containing the password is "//prefix.company.com/xyz/home/builder/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/1b794458a0e19fc8211326d47216f19b"). Taken together it implies an off-by-one error causing a leading pathname component to be dropped and a corre

Re: Difference in 32/64-bit curl.

2013-04-24 Thread David Boyce
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Christian Franke wrote: >>> >>> Yes, option is possibly set as int (bool) but retrieved as long: > > > Is this possibly an upstream bug which is hidden on Linux et al. due to a > different x64 ABI (which requires register parameter zero extension) ? Very possible

Re: python2.6 appears to be missing _md5 module?

2012-12-20 Thread David Boyce
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Paul Fredrickson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:24 PM, David Boyce wrote: >> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+_md5 >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10306531/python-importerror-no-module-named-md5 >> > > Well, it certainly isn'

Re: python2.6 appears to be missing _md5 module?

2012-12-19 Thread David Boyce
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+_md5 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10306531/python-importerror-no-module-named-md5 On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/19/2012 8:08 PM, Paul Fredrickson wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >>> >>> On 12/19/2012 4:5

Re: UNIX groups in CYGWIN

2012-06-11 Thread David Boyce
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 6/11/2012 9:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >>> >>>     Perhaps CYGWIN could have used a tab to separate the group names? >> >> What's to say that 'TAB' won't be valid in a group name? > > What's to say that any characters won't be valid in a nam

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly

2011-04-27 Thread David Boyce
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > I think the patch should remain cygwin-only, and not go upstream. What about native Windows builds of GNU tar such as GnuWin32? Wouldn't they benefit from a (suitably conditionalized) patch too? DSB -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes

2011-03-18 Thread David Boyce
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 3/18/2011 2:39 PM, Alex Khripin wrote: > If you're using a native Windows 'make' with a Cywgin shell, you're better > off making your tools consistent.  Quoting mechanisms for Windows do not > align with those used by Cygwin/Linux/Uni

use of LD_PRELOAD (and RTLD_NEXT?)

2011-01-21 Thread David Boyce
ementing RTLD_DEFAULT only without saying why RTLD_NEXT had fallen off (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00288.html>). I'm guessing the main problem is that EnumProcessModules does not guarantee an order? Thanks, David Boyce -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr