Re: META: Fix the signup procedure?

2021-08-12 Thread Christopher Faylor via Cygwin
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 12:36:12PM +0200, Valerio Messina wrote: >On 8/11/21 1:26 PM, Russell VT via Cygwin wrote: >>Can one of you powerful folks, please, fix the signup approvals and make it >>a bit more difficult to signup and account that is "allowed" to post on >>this list? > >as now the subsc

Re: META: Fix the signup procedure?

2021-08-11 Thread Christopher Faylor via Cygwin
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 04:26:18AM -0700, Russell VT wrote: >List Admins - > >Can one of you powerful folks, please, fix the signup approvals and >make it a bit more difficult to signup and account that is "allowed" to >post on this list? The cygwin list has been open for around 23 years or so. M

Re: Test message - please ignore

2021-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor via Cygwin
On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 11:47:46AM +1000, Duncan Roe wrote: >Test ezmlm replacement Please don't send test messages. If you have something to say, send the message. That will show you if your mail made it through or not. If you don't have anything to post about then there's no need for hundreds

Re: Cygwin.com address down

2021-01-02 Thread Christopher Faylor via Cygwin
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 06:00:32PM +, Peter Rice wrote: >I tried installing cygwin on a new Windows 10 system yesterday and it >failed to find any mirror sites. > >I can see www.cygwin.com to start the download, but then everything >points to cygwin.com and all those links fail (but work when I

Re: Country Of Origin Verification - 8944

2020-06-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 11:24:09AM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >On 2020-06-11 10:07, Watson, Christian M. (GRC-V000)[Peerless Technologies >Corp.] via Cygwin wrote: >> My name is Christian Watson and I am a Supply Chain Risk Management >> Coordinator at NASA Glenn Research Center As such, I ensure

Re: Mailing list Digest: Inconvenient format change: no more thread grouping, long message names

2020-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 04:33:42PM +, Vermessung AVT - Wolfgang Rieger wrote: >Why was this change made? sourceware.org migrated to new hardware and new, supported, "mailman" mailing list software few months ago. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:58:26AM -0700, Stephen Carrier wrote: >On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 03:13:12PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> To summarize: You can click on the mailto link of any message in the >> archive and it will invoke your email client with the proper In-Reply-T

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 03:13:12PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Information provided information here: Or, even just "Information provided here:" -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 09:49:34AM -0700, Stephen Carrier wrote: >On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:57:50PM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: >>You can ask list management software to resend past messages. I don't >>recall specifics, and given the recent change, they may be entirely >>obsolete. You can check h

Mailing list musings (was Re: Two naive questions)

2020-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 12:33:59PM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >On 2020-04-20 14:14, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:59:08AM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> The new server ml archive does not seem to offer the metadata available on >>> the >

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 02:44:41PM -0600, Bill Stewart wrote: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:09 PM Christopher Faylor wrote: >>With mailman, if you click on a message in the archives and then click >>on the email address at the top, your mail client of choice will be >>opened with

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:59:08AM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >The new server ml archive does not seem to offer the metadata available on the >previous server and archive, and that is true of most archives that do not >allow >replies: probably a good way to reduce space required by 50-90%, from wh

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:41:32AM -0600, Bill Stewart wrote: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:20 AM Stephen Carrier wrote: >>I think the OP's first question was asking how to effectively join an >>existing thread when one is browsing the recent archives and not >>subscribed to the list. >> >>Joining th

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 08:21:56PM +, Fergus Daly wrote: >2. Since when the new look provided by >https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/ ? >Is there a way to default to the "legacy" look provided at, say, >https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin/2019-04/ >but not obviously available today (even

Re: Setup mirrors

2020-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 11:34:27PM +, Jon Turney wrote: >>Since then, a number of things gone wrong, including mailing list signature. > >We have Top Men working on it, right now. Huh? Wha? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: ezmlm warning (fixed)

2019-05-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
The duplicate Sender header was mainly coming from announce-list resends. It was helpfully added by perl's Mail::Internet package. The mailing list software has been modified to delete incoming Sender header fields when it sees them which should result only one Sender: header in mail to the list.

Re: Missing Message-Id header on forwarded email

2017-12-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:22:35PM -0500, cyg Simple wrote: >The cygwin-annou...@cygwin.com list forwards email to the >cygwin@cygwin.com list. That email is missing the Message-Id header. >My email provider, gmail.com, adds the header with a suffix indicating >that it was added by the provider.

Re: Fwd: Re: DMARC - gmail.com or is it yahoo.com

2016-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 09:15:46AM -0500, cyg Simple wrote: >On 12/10/2016 3:39 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:00:12AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:55:49AM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >>>> cygsimple wr

Re: Fwd: Re: DMARC - gmail.com or is it yahoo.com

2016-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:07:19PM +, Ian Lambert wrote: >On Sat, 12/10/16, Christopher Faylor > wrote: > I just turned on a > new DMARC-aware version of ezmlm-send which rewrites > the From address for any domain that is DMARC > sensitive to something like: > &g

Re: Fwd: Re: DMARC - gmail.com or is it yahoo.com

2016-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:00:12AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:55:49AM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >>cygsimple wrote: >>> See the description below of a problem that is occurring because of >>> DMARC rules in place by yahoo.com. Is th

Re: Fwd: Re: DMARC - gmail.com or is it yahoo.com

2016-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:00:12AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:55:49AM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >>cygsimple wrote: >>> See the description below of a problem that is occurring because of >>> DMARC rules in place by yahoo.com. Is th

Re: Fwd: Re: DMARC - gmail.com or is it yahoo.com

2016-11-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:55:49AM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >cygsimple wrote: > >> See the description below of a problem that is occurring because of >> DMARC rules in place by yahoo.com. Is there anything you can do for this? > >cgf, any chance of updating our copy of ezmlm-toaster etc.? >

Withdrawing from the project

2014-07-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
In the last several months I've told various key players in the Cygwin project that I was thinking about withdrawing from the project. Today is the day that this becomes official. I was hoping that my final act for Cygwin would be to get it imported into git but it looks like that will be handled

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 08:08:07PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >Greetings, D. Boland! >> Cygwin security will be done for in the long run. Why not make the leap and >> show MS admins/developers how it should be done? > >You really think they are all idiots?... Like, really? Sure, why not. MS admin

Reminder: Don't send html email and don't try to send private messages

2014-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
I just got back from a couple days of vacation and had to clean out the spam traps. As is usual these days, the majority of the email there was not spam but was just was html-formatted. Anyone who showed up in the spam trap already got a message telling them not to do that but I thought I would s

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2014-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:32:34PM +, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> From: sous lesquels >> >> > If you can't wait, then read the message using your browser and click >> > on the "Raw text" link near the top. The first line will say something >> > like From cygwin-return-191383-listarch-cygwin=...

Re: Link count wierdness

2014-07-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 06:30:05AM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: >> git isn't ready yet unfortunately. Can't you just download a recent >> snapshot? That should be good enough. > >I can download and install snapshots just fine. I'm ru

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2014-07-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:59:10PM -0400, sous lesquels wrote: >Any suggestions? Or is this not as common use case as I think it is? Craft your reply with the appropriate "In-Reply-To" header tag and it will maintain threading. There is no automated way to do that if you are using the digest. Di

Re: Link count wierdness

2014-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 09:43:40PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >Corinna Vinschen writes: >> Netapp inode numbers are not reliable and thus the number of links isn't >> either. There's a check in Cygwin which is the result of the early >> Cygwin 1.7 development. It does not report the number of hard

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2014-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 04:29:54PM -0400, sous lesquels wrote: >A few more things to add: > >- This crashes under the regular Windows console, i.e. run cmd.exe, >then bash, then follow the above You've discovered that Cygwin has limits. You can't run it with console windows that are too big. Sor

Re: pipe handling errors

2014-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:44:25PM +, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >From: Christopher Faylor >>On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 06:05:27PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>Yes, I saw that, but I can't duplicate the problem with that command >>>sequence. >> >&

Re: pipe handling errors

2014-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 06:05:27PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Yes, I saw that, but I can't duplicate the problem with that command sequence. I took a stab at another change which may ameliorate the problem. Please try the latest snapshot. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cy

Re: pipe handling errors

2014-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 08:40:32PM +, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >From: Christopher Faylor >>On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 07:17:48PM +, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >>>From: Nellis, Kenneth >>> >>>> Well, I'm getting different results with the latest snapshot

Re: pipe handling errors

2014-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 07:17:48PM +, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >From: Nellis, Kenneth > >> Well, I'm getting different results with the latest snapshot. >> Instead of getting the error message, I'm getting a hang for maybe a minute >> before it continues. >> >> I used the following command to

Re: pngquant md5 mismatch?

2014-07-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 06:33:14PM +1000, Luke Kendall wrote: >On 14/07/14 12:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:05:48AM +1000, Luke Kendall wrote: >>> For a few days now, mirrors.kernel.org has had a mismatch in the md5sum >>> for the componen

Re: pngquant md5 mismatch?

2014-07-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:05:48AM +1000, Luke Kendall wrote: >For a few days now, mirrors.kernel.org has had a mismatch in the md5sum >for the component >pngquant-2.0.20130820+git1e28372-1-src.tar.bz2 in the pngquant package >in the x86_64 architecture: > >$ grep pngquant-2.0.20130820+git1e28372

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: flex-2.5.39-1

2014-07-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of flex available for downloading. This updates the package to the latest version available from sourceforge. This update corrects the missing m4 dependency in the 64-bit version of flex. Thanks to Роман Донченко for the heads up about that. The flex program generates sc

Re: Using fork() and pthread() OR how to link against cygwin?

2014-07-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:27:00AM -0500, Ismael Farfán wrote: >Hello list > >I've been searching allover the internet for "fork gcc cygwin linker" >and stuff like that without much look :( > >In my test I use pthreads, fork, waitpid, random and other POSIX >stuff, so the linker returns "LNK2019 un

Re: Emacs-w32... Still Crashing

2014-07-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 11:36:07AM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >On 2014-07-08 10:02, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:55:55AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >>> Grasping at straws, as usual, I wonder if these mysterious crashes could >>> be related

Re: Emacs-w32... Still Crashing

2014-07-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:55:55AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >On 7/7/2014 3:12 PM, Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote: >> The current version of Emacs that I have is >> emacs 24.3.91-1OK >> emacs debuginfo 24.3.91-1OK >> emacs-el24.3.91-1

Gold star Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rcs-5.9.2

2014-07-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 07:59:42PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >This release brings RCS to version 5.9.2 for both architectures and >includes a patch for the RCS work file corruption problem that has been >discussed on the Cygwin mailing list and reported to rcs-bugs: Could we get a gold star for Ac

Re: Feature request - option to save username and password for proxy in setup.exe

2014-07-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:03:31AM +0530, Siddhant Saraf wrote: >Hello, > >I like that setup.exe remembers the HTTP proxy host name and port for >the subsequent runs of setup.exe. > >If the proxy requires authentication, it prompts for username and >pasword. Can it include an option to save the use

Re: can't share fifo between 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwins

2014-06-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:08:24PM +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: >On 30/06/2014 20:04, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> Just thought I'd share an observation I found interesting. >> Not a problem for me, so not asking for any particular response. >> >> If I create a named pipe (mkfifo), as long as I write to

Re: developing 32-bit and 64-bit in a shared environment

2014-06-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 01:04:24PM +, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >I have happily been using 32-bit Cygwin for years, developing >shell/perl scripts and C/C++ software. Some of the users that >I support have upgraded to 64-bit Cygwin, and so my 32-bit C/C++ >binaries no longer work for them. That

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.24.51-4 (x86/x86_64)

2014-06-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This is a refresh against the official git repository. The binutils package contains the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities. It is available in the "Devel" category under Cygwin's setup. -- Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zip-3.0-2

2014-06-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 06:29:11PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >Corinna Vinschen writes: >> I fixed this on cygwin.com by adding "prev" and "curr" entries. > >Confirmed, thanks. Isn't the real question why the numbering went backwards? It sounds like there is a packaging error here and this should

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rsync 3.0.9-1 -- fast, versatile file synchronizing tool

2014-06-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 02:55:02PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jun 23 12:35, Achim Gratz wrote: >> Since the new release doesn't provide a rsync-debuginfo package, there >> should be setup.hint file that makes the old debuginfo package the previous >> version. > >I guess Jari just forgot to

Re: Too many mailing lists(passing the buck)

2014-06-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 09:10:06PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 06/22/2014 05:38 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> But, then, I know of cygwin devs who feed orphans, rescues kittens, and >> work to prevent global warming. So, as long as we're making >> unsubtan

Re: Too many mailing lists(passing the buck)

2014-06-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 02:21:49PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 03:07:37PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >> >>> Every time someone says "That's not on topic here, go elsewhere," it >>> can easily be read as "Go away." The Cygwin project should only be

Re: No glibc in cygwin

2014-06-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:03:52PM +, Lucero, Aldo wrote: >I am trying to port some Fortran/C code from Linux to Windows using >Cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.1 elp-w7wks-40 1.7.30(0.272/5/3) 2014-05-23 10:36 >i686 Cygwin) The main program spawns several processes using fork() and >one of those processes

gold star (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: man-db-2.6.7-1)

2014-06-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:41:19PM +0200, waterlan wrote: >Chris J. Breisch schreef op 2014-06-18 03:01: >> Version 2.6.7-1 of "man-db" has been uploaded. >> >> DESCRIPTION >> === >> man-db is an implementation of the standard Unix documentation system >> accessed using the man command. It

Re: Package file lists archive

2014-06-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:24:13AM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>If this was the question you wanted to ask originally, this is all you >>needed to add to the thread. > >Hey Larry, thanks for your comments. However, did you have anything

Re: Package file lists archive

2014-06-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 01:53:14AM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Your idea of "constructive" is apparently flawed. > >This is an interesting comment, taking in that your response ignores the >original quest

Re: Package file lists archive

2014-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:29:53PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 11:17:11AM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >>>Of course because of Cygwin flawless website... >>> >> If you want to e

Re: Website: Package listing not working + cygport query

2014-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:04:29AM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >On 2014-06-17 10:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I'm surprised that I haven't seen this before: The name that you used to >> generate your packages was "David Stacey/None". My parser wasn'

Re: Website: Package listing not working + cygport query

2014-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:32:00AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >I'm surprised that I haven't seen this before: The name that you used to >generate your packages was "David Stacey/None". My parser wasn't >expecting a name with a space and I didn't d

Re: Website: Package listing not working + cygport query

2014-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:31:11AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 07:19:04PM +0100, David Stacey wrote: >>On the cygwin.com website, none of my packages display their contents >>correctly, e.g.: >> >> https://cygwin.com/packages/x86/keepas

Re: Website: Package listing not working

2014-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 07:19:04PM +0100, David Stacey wrote: >On the cygwin.com website, none of my packages display their contents >correctly, e.g.: > > https://cygwin.com/packages/x86/keepassx/keepassx-0.4.3-2 >https://cygwin.com/packages/x86/libpoco-devel/libpoco-devel-1.4.6p3-1 > http

Re: Package file lists archive

2014-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 11:17:11AM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Warren Young wrote: >> Speaking of, is the source for package-grep.cgi available somewhere? I > >http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/htdocs/cgi-bin2?cvsroot=cygwin > >Of course because of Cygwin flawle

Re: Package file lists archive

2014-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 04:58:25PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> And, frankly, I think it's a bad idea to keep a monolithic list of >> packages available for people to download anyway. > >I would counter that

Re: Emacs-w32... still crashing

2014-06-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 03:05:43PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >On 6/3/2014 6:00 PM, Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote: >> And... another crash. I didn't run it under gdb this >> time and it didn't dump anything either, but I got >> interesting new message I didn't see before: >> >> *** fatal error - WFSO failed

Re: Compiling cygwin1.dll

2014-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 11:55:32PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >Greetings, Michael Wild! > >> Many thanks. So you are saying, you never used the top-level build >> system? > >I don't NEED to rebuild whole toolchain to begin with. If you follow the instructions for checking out cygwin you shouldn't

Re: Are there any SELinux tools available for Cygwin?

2014-06-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 01:20:26PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >One of the biggest mistakes people make when asking for help is >specifying the solution in advance. Amen. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Are there any SELinux tools available for Cygwin?

2014-05-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 01:40:53AM -0700, PolarStorm wrote: >Warren Young wrote >> There is an excellent tool for managing SELinux on remote machines, and >> it is packaged for Cygwin. It is called ssh. > >Perhaps you have a package to prevent idiots from answering here as well? >Install it pleas

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 02:29:30AM -0700, PolarStorm wrote: >Hello, >[snip] Ok, there is no new information here. I'm declaring this off-topic for the cygwin list and asking people to send any follow-ups to the cygwin-talk. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Bash silently truncates the Command Line when called programatically via CreateProcess as MAXPATHLEN was reduced to 8192 from 16384

2014-05-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 06:58:59PM +0530, Abhijit Bhattacharjee wrote: >Thank you everyone for your time and reply. I believe from your reply >I am able to get the problem sorted out. I would also try to reply to >each of your queries > >@Christopher Faylor >Qs/Stmt: A Cygwin p

Re: Regarding debug_printf in your code base.

2014-05-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 07:01:40PM +0530, Abhijit Bhattacharjee wrote: >In your code base, I can see in lot of places there are calls to >debug_printf, example > >How do I invoke/build cygwin so that debug_printf dumps debugging >information to the console. By personally modifying the code to do s

Re: It's back -- "gcc: error: spawn: No such file or directory"

2014-05-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:19:37AM -0500, David Friedman wrote: >I just upgraded my gcc to 4.8.3 and tried a compilation, and got the >error above. I see that there's been some previous discussion of this >error, including whether gcc is started from /usr/bin or /bin; tried >both, no difference.

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 05:49:53PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 08:12:46PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >>On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: >>>On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>> So the botto

Re: make install problem for emms (Permission denied)

2014-05-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 01:50:49AM +0400, Filipp Gunbin wrote: >Also, it's strange that the install... command above works when run >directly in shell, but fails when run from make. Which implies that you probably are not running /usr/bin/install. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:56:41PM -0400, David Conrad wrote: >On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 09:59:03AM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >>> . . . >> >> Funny how you're saying "We" as if you are

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.24.51-3 (x86/x86_64)

2014-05-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This is a refresh against the official git repository. The binutils package contains the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities. It is available in the "Devel" category under Cygwin's setup. -- Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: Bash silently truncates the Command Line when called programatically via CreateProcess as MAXPATHLEN was reduced to 8192 from 16384

2014-05-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 05:41:19PM +0200, Houder wrote: >As far as I can tell, it is not bash, but the Cygwin supervisor, that >does the truncation. The code in Cygwin has already been repeatedly identified. Possibly setting the CYGWIN environment variable to "noglob" might cause things to work a

Re: Bash silently truncates the Command Line when called programatically via CreateProcess as MAXPATHLEN was reduced to 8192 from 16384

2014-05-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
ce that you are hoping to engage a Cygwin developer, we do know where the glob code lives. As I indicated, it originally comes from FreeBSD. Quoting myself: On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 04:08:57PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Since this isn't really an issue when Cygwin calls Cygwin programs

Re: Package file lists archive

2014-05-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:18:20PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> And, frankly, I think it's a bad idea to keep a monolithic list of >> packages available for people to download anyway. > >Could you not just requi

Re: Bash silently truncates the Command Line when called programatically via CreateProcess as MAXPATHLEN was reduced to 8192 from 16384

2014-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 03:38:13PM -0500, René Berber wrote: >On 5/26/2014 3:08 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> If you're using Cygwin's make it will not truncate paths if it is >> running cygwin programs. Not sure what MSVS is. > >Microsoft Visual Stud

Re: Package file lists archive

2014-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 05:37:45PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >The MSYS2 project keep an up to date archive with files lists for all packages > >http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/msys2/REPOS/MINGW/x86_64/mingw64.files.tar.gz > >This file is not very large considering > >$ gzip -l mingw64

Re: Bash silently truncates the Command Line when called programatically via CreateProcess as MAXPATHLEN was reduced to 8192 from 16384

2014-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 08:59:56PM +0530, Abhijit Bhattacharjee wrote: >On a typical configuration, we use gmake on windows as the build >system. GMAKE calls the Cygwin bash in order to invoke the MSVS >compiler in-order to satisfy the dependency if a rule to call the >compiler is present. If you'

Re: [Question] about OS Support

2014-05-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 04:50:40AM +, tmorik...@abeam.com wrote: >1. MS SQL Server 2012 R2 is already supported ? > >As follows, it was written in the documentation. In [1.2. What >versions of Windows are supported?] : Windows >(XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/2008 R2/8/2012)* as of the time of writing

Re: Gdb with python enabled

2014-05-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 04:14:03AM +0200, Robin KERDILES wrote: >I see cygwin doesn't provide gdb with python enabled : > >How should I do now ? Build gdb yourself with python enabled. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Doc

Re: https://cygwin.com/ now live

2014-05-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 05:08:12PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>There will probably be some gotchas to work out for places which refer >>to http://cygwin.com/ directly. Please send any issues here, as >>always. &g

https://cygwin.com/ now live

2014-05-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
Red Hat (thanks fo Frank Eigler) has activated some certificates for cygwin.com so everyone should be able to access the site via https://cygwin.com now. There will probably be some gotchas to work out for places which refer to http://cygwin.com/ directly. Please send any issues here, as always.

Re: setup-x86.exe has virus and is blocked by Malware Detectors

2014-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:36:29PM +0100, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:25:48PM -0700, Wes Kaefer wrote: >> I agree, it probably does not have a virus; but it has a virus signature. > >This is covered in the FAQ at http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.virus Thanks for pointing

Re: setup-x86.exe has virus and is blocked by Malware Detectors

2014-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:25:48PM -0700, Wes Kaefer wrote: >I agree, it probably does not have a virus; but it has a virus signature. So your virus detection is issuing a false positive. You need to fix that. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:

Re: setup-x86.exe has virus and is blocked by Malware Detectors

2014-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
The Malware Detectors are wrong. The program was built on Linux so it isn't likely that a Windows virus crept in. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http:

Re: Default manifest

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 08:07:26PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >Are we close to a resolution of the problems with default manifests? It >looks to me like all the pieces are in place, but maybe I've missed >something: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-04/msg01387.html > https://sourcewa

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 02:15:38PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > >> The 32-bit defines TERMINFO: >> >> config.h: >> >> /* >> * Define TERMINFO if your machine emulates the termcap routines >> * with the terminfo database. >> * Thus the .screenrc file is parsed for >> * the command 'te

Re: Debugging sub-processes with gdb

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:36:59PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: >> If you have control over the code you could have it print a pid, wait, >> and then attach to it with gdb. That works. > >Understood, will do. I should have mentioned, as an alt

Re: Debugging sub-processes with gdb

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:10:36PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >I'm trying to debug a problem with xemacs that involves the child >process forked when you execute M-x shell. > >None of the mechanisms in the gdb documentation for choosing to step >into the child process (instead of the parent) a

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 06:26:01PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I've taken the ball back. We don't need a new maintainer. > >You clearly do, as I have shown. You are just choosing not to take one >on.

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 03:29:40PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 01:00:24PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >>On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>Funny how you're saying "We" as if you are actually contributing

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 01:00:24PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Funny how you're saying "We" as if you are actually contributing >>anything other than criticism. > >You want me to contribute?

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 09:59:03AM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: >>I'd rather have a maintainer that insulates me from \r-issues and says >>"no" before they hit me, than have a maintainer that don't understand >>why stripping every \r in sight isn't

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 07:29:10AM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >These are major packages, not just "user X favorite package". Several people >including myself have offered to update them, only to be met with "Sorry, I am >maintainer not you. I will do it when I get time". It gets old after a while.

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 04:33:06PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> I haven't relinquished maintainership of this package yet. It's still >> on my list of things to build, when I get a moment (although free time >> has been a bit sparse as of late w

Re: strace and sigprocmask

2014-05-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 01:55:51PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >Running on Windows 8.1, with 32-bit Cygwin v1.7.29. > >I've taken straces of a problematic area of xemacs, tidied them, and >am trying to locate significant differences. > >I'm seeing something I don't understand, which isn't causi

Re: mysqld no longer starts

2014-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 10:21:39AM -0500, David Blackstone wrote: >Since my most recent upgrade, mysqld will not start any more. I get >the following errors: > >$ /usr/sbin/mysqld >140507 9:48:28 [ERROR] Can't find messagefile '/usr/share/mysql/errmsg.sys' >140507 9:48:28 [Warning] Can't create

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-05-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 07:52:22PM +, Dawid Ferenczy wrote: >Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > >> I duplicated this. The command window that I use doesn't exhibit this >> behavior. I thought I'd tested pure cmd when making the recent spate of >>

Re: ioctl crash in mpg123

2014-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 07:16:25PM +0800, JonY wrote: >Hi, > >I am debugging a crash in Cygwin 1.7.29-2 ioctl but I am not familiar >with the OSS sounds API. I traced the ioctl calls and made this example, >is it supposed to work? If you're asking if Cygwin is supposed to SEGV in certain situation

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 01:33:30AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >I think I understand now. The request if for Cygwin to "do nothing" >when it sees escape sequences since, apparently, ConEmu will handle >escape sequences on its own. This is not a bug in Cygwin but, a req

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