On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM Brian Inglis via Cygwin
wrote:
> On 2025-01-19 05:56, Devste Devste via Cygwin wrote:
> > strace -o strace.log dirname -- /some/path/here
> > There are 2 points that could make it significantly faster and
> > shouldn't be too hard to implement?
> ...
Drop all the
On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 4:51 PM Andrey Repin via Cygwin
wrote:
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> Greetings, Jason Pyeron!
>
> > Sad to admit, but I have not updated Cygwin in a very long time.
>
> > It takes a very long (more than an hour) time to update Cygwin due to the
> > amount of items installed. …
Sorry if I mention s
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:11 AM J M via Cygwin wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I see repeated /usr/bin in my path.
> I don't known if is something of my PC or not.
>
> To check I do:
> which -a ls
> Show:
> /usr/bin/ls
> /usr/bin/ls
This is normal! We do this because on Linux, the two paths may be different,
On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 4:23 PM Brian Inglis via Cygwin
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> On 2024-03-03 15:29, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote:
> > A recent run of setup showed it installed 3.5.1-1 but uname -a reports
> > 3.4.9-1.x86_64
> ... logs in /var/log ... see /proc/version
>
A recent run of setup showed it installed 3.5.1-1 but uname -a reports
3.4.9-1.x86_64
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19045 mars 3.4.9-1.x86_64 2023-09-06 11:19 UTC x86_64 Cygwin
I used setup to reinstall cygwin 3.5.1-1 but uname still reports
3.4.9-1. I don't see any errors reported during setup execu
> Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin writes:
> > 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,
I use the attached script (rename it to remove the .txt extension) to
clone
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 10:14 AM Martin Wege wrote:
> >
> > Good morning!
> >
> > Does Cygwin have a command line tool (Scriptable!) which can be used
> > to differ between soft links and Windows junctions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Martin
Cygwin itself does not have a command, that I know of, to do t
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 8:02 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin
wrote:
> How can I find out whether the current Cygwin terminal has
> Administrator rights? I want to safeguard our admin scripts with a
> simple test and bail out with an error if someone wants to do admin
> stuff (say: regtool) without admin
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 10:45, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I spotted earlier today that there are a significant number of Cygwin
> packages that seem to include __pycache__ directories in the package.
> I'd have expected this to be an error, and any Python code to be
> distributed without
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 17:21, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote:
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> Greetings, Kevin Andrew Lipscomb!
>
> > ssmtp-config fails silently on step 6 at the first call to
> > /usr/sbin/alternatives.
>
> > I isolated the alternatives command, added the --verbose switch to it, and
> > ran the result from
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 11:00, Kevin Andrew Lipscomb via Cygwin
wrote:
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> ssmtp-config fails silently on step 6 at the first call to
> /usr/sbin/alternatives.
>
> I isolated the alternatives command, added the --verbose switch to it, and
> ran the result from a bash shell that was launched as Ad
On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 at 02:35, Naoto Aoki via Cygwin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I'm using some programs such as bash and python from cygwin under
> Windows Terminal, Ctrl+C is sometimes ignored.
> https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
>
snip
What do you expect to happen when you press Ctrl+C.
- break
On Sun, 26 Sept 2021 at 03:41, Mark Geisert wrote:
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> Hi Takashi,
>
> >
> > Currently, putclip calls OpenClipboard()/CloseClipboard() four
> > times. Is there any reason why closing and reopening clipboard
> > several times?
>
> I don't know why the author coded putclip that way. Perhaps Windows
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 13:50, Mark Geisert wrote:
>
> David Dyck via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:56 AM Brian Inglis wrote:
Are you running any cygwin services? Be sure to stop them, and all
other cygwin processes before running cygwin setup.
Having any cygwin process running wh
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
* expat-2.4.1-1
* libexpat1-2.4.1-1
* libexpat-devel-2.4.1-1
This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, originally
written by James Clark, and now maintained by a loose group of
developers. Expat is a stream-oriented XML parse
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
* expat-2.4.1-1
* libexpat1-2.4.1-1
* libexpat-devel-2.4.1-1
This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, originally
written by James Clark, and now maintained by a loose group of
developers. Expat is a stream-oriented XML parse
"On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 05:59, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>
> On 7/14/2021 9:20 PM, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 16:33, Ken Brown via Cygwin
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 7/14/2021 5:08 PM, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 16:33, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>
> On 7/14/2021 5:08 PM, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 13:03, Achim Gratz wrote:
> >>
> >> Doug Henderson via Cygwin writes:
> >>> The first error message occu
On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 13:03, Achim Gratz wrote:
>
> Doug Henderson via Cygwin writes:
> > The first error message occurred when I installed all pending packages
> > this morning. I hoped to heal the problem by reinstalling the
> > installed gnuplot packages. Now I get b
When running setup-x86_64.exe version 2.908 (64-bit) I get errors after rebase:
Package: _/gnuplot-base
gnuplot-base.dash exit code 2
Package: _/Unknown package
python38-devel.sh exit code 2
The first error message occurred when I installed all pending packages
this morning. I hoped to he
)()On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 at 19:55, Vadim wrote:
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> Ah, this beautiful topic. Windows 7 x64.
>
> This is the summary written as post-scriptum, tests and findings below:
>
> 1) Cygwin limits individual names to 255 bytes, Windows seems to follow
> UTF-16 chars and work fine: 256 bytes in 108 characte
On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 16:28, Mark Geisert wrote:
> Håkon Hægland via Cygwin wrote:
> > I am on Windows 10 Home, 21H1. I am trying to understand what type of files
> > are generated by the "ln -s" command. According to this blog:
> >
> > https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2016/12/02/symlin
I attempted to remove all packages related to Python 2.7 from my
cygwin installation.
I am unable to remove four packages.
python2
python27
python27-pip
python27-setuptools
There are over 500 packages that require python2 and over 700 packages
which depend2 on python2.
There are also around 90
On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 at 08:21, Satalink via Cygwin wrote:
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> I deal with a lot of very large files on a regular basis. I've noticed that
> when I delve into these directories using in mintty and issue the command ls
> -l (or ls -color=auto), a very large junk of memory is consumed. The
> memor
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 at 14:48, Andry via Cygwin wrote:
>
> "%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\bash.exe" -c "{ cd ""%PWD:\=/%""; CHERE_INVOKING=.
> ""%CYGWIN_ROOT:\=/%/bin/bash.exe"" -l -i; } 2>&1 |
> ""%CYGWIN_ROOT:\=/%/bin/tee.exe"" -a ""%PROJECT_LOG_FILE:\=/%"""
> ```
>
In most situations like this, I cre
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 13:50, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin
wrote:
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>
> The only purpose CYGWIN have is to make/build posix-applications runnable on
> Windows and applications usually have user defined input, such as paths etc,
> and on Windows that input is usually Windows-native-paths unless
On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 15:41, Jérôme Froissart <> wrote:
>
> By discussing a merge request on another project [1], I think
> billziss-gh found a weirdness in the way Cygwin parses the command
> line arguments when non-ASCII characters come into play.
>
> EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR:
> cygwin should parse the
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 15:56, Ken Brown via Cygwin <> wrote:
>
#include
#include
int
main ()
{
char *temp_nam;
char *p_tmp_nam;
printf ("$TMP is '%s'\n", getenv ("TMP"));
printf ("$TMPDIR is '%s'\n", getenv ("TMPDIR"));
printf ("$TEMP is '%s'\n", getenv ("TEMP"));
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
* xxhash-0.8.0-1
* libxxhash0-0.8.0-1
* libxxhash-devel-0.8.0-1
xxHash is an Extremely fast Hash algorithm,
running at RAM speed limits. It successfully completes the
SMHasher test suite which evaluates collision,
dispersion an
On Mon, 11 May 2020 at 10:39, akiki <> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On doing an habitual "cygcheck -rs", I was interrogated and ALARMED to see
> some register keys speaking cygwin :
>
> I have never see in cygcheck, such reference to cygwin with chrome, firefox ,
> opera ...
> May be something is done to
On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 06:46, Steven Penny via Cygwin <> wrote:
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> That Cygwin does convert some environment variables, from Windows format to
> Unix format. For example HOME and TMP. But for me at least, are some
> important
> omissions.
>
>
In general, converting environment variable owned b
On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 08:34, Shaddy Baddah <> wrote:
> On 29/4/20 10:38 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
>
>
>
> … And only when run out of my /tmp (which is custom mapped btw).
>
>
>
> | /tmp$ ls -li /usr/bin/as.exe /usr/x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/as.exe
> | 1688849860843563 -rwxr-xr-x 2 AUD-ELIDED+porta
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