Re: Snapshot cygwin-inst-20080327 regression in ls (permissions?)

On 07/04/2008, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The next one. There is no next one so far. > I tried the 2008-04-08-7 snapshot and this seemed fine on my machine. I also tried rsync again and it all seemed good. The only strange thing I noticed was that a /cygwin directory was crea

Re: Snapshot cygwin-inst-20080327 regression in ls (permissions?)

On 07/04/2008, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 6 21:52, James Abley wrote: > > On 02/04/2008, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I applied a patch which you'll find in the ne

Re: Snapshot cygwin-inst-20080327 regression in ls (permissions?)

On 02/04/2008, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 2 10:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > The above mentioned names are the old directory names used before Vista. > > These names have changed, for instance, "Application Data" is now called > > "AppData". The old names stil

Snapshot cygwin-inst-20080327 regression in ls (permissions?)

Hi, I was testing this snapshot as part of my exploration into how long path name support is coming on, specifically for rsync. It seems to be going very well; thanks for all the improvements. I did notice a couple of things: $ ls -l ~ ls: cannot access /cygdrive/c/Users/jabley/Application Data:

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

On 01/04/2008, Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schrieb: > > > On Apr 1 06:43, Eric Blake wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > > > > That's right, but. > > > > > > The problem is that long path names are supported by the sna

Re: lost SIGTERM signal handler and winpcap....

On 28/03/2008, S A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's the really strange part: > > if I do an strace on my application, then my signal handler > gets invoked correctly!! Can't explain this. c.f. Heisenbug [1]. It's common enough, but very annoying. Gives you another avenue to explore though.

Re: invoke vbscript from cygwin?

On 19/03/2008, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would one invoke a vbscript from cygwin, if it is possible? I > guess invoking cygwin from a vbscript would also do the trick, though > I'd rather not have to fiddle with the vbscript at all. > > I tried googling and looking at cygwin do

Long path name support

Hi, I would like to do what I can to help with this. My reasons are purely selfish; I'm currently having to use Vista and I'd like to get off! I've seen that there is some activity around this [1], [2]. My immediate issue is using rsync fails due to long path names, so that's my motivation for of