Re: Cloning enterprise github repo with cygwin git tries to use username/password auth, have to use Windows git

2025-02-07 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-credential-store https://github.com/git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager the first allows you to save your PAT as the password when using HTTPS auth with username. But really you want link #2. Install the windows binary in a handy place (I put it under $APPDATA), tem

col binary removed from util-linux-2.40.2-1

2025-01-29 Thread Matthew "mirage335" Hines via Cygwin
/usr/bin/col.exe is apparently missing from the more recent version of the 'util-linux' package 'util-linux-2.40.2-1' https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Futil-linux%2Futil-linux-2.39.3-2&grep=util-linux https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Futil-linux%2F

Re: env and PATH

2025-01-17 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On 13/01/2025 09.59, Andrey Repin wrote: > But I know that the program is a windows program, thus a setting for>  >manually disabling the conversion made sense (at least in my head). You might find this bit useful. For example the AWS CLI binary is windoze and doesn't play nicely with unix-style p

Re: Computer Science

2024-10-18 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Friday, October 18, 2024 at 02:09:31 PM EDT, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote: > Most university courses in "software engineering" don't begin to cover > the actual knowledge base and, more importantly, internal mental > processes, discipline and curiosity required to do quality software My 2

Re: Computer Science

2024-10-17 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 11:07:50 PM EDT, Mike Yearwood via Cygwin wrote: > The education of and practice of software is glaringly lax and we have the > collective power to fix it. ahem, Microsoft would like to enter the chat... Apparently "unlimited" funds doesn't help either. I'm go

Re: Computer Science

2024-10-15 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
> I've always wondered why software has maintainers not set forth by their > graduating universities. because a CompSci degree != competence in anything. Prove your mettle by picking up a useful package off the abandoned list (is this even current?) https://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint Personall

Re: [Ms-nfs41-client-devel] WinSG Re: ANN: NFSv4.1 filesystem client Windows driver binaries for Windows 10/11 for testing, 2024-05-28 ...

2024-06-02 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
>> - WinSG should be installed in C:\Windows\system32\ alongside cmd.exe > >Not yet, all stuff for the Cygwin install of the ms-nfs41-client goes >into the Cygwin /bin && /sbin dirs. Let's try for NEVER. 3rd parties have no business polluting the operating system. If this is MS code or closely re

Re: ssh over stunnel hangs on second connection

2024-02-15 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
can you turn stunnel debug up higher?also post your stunnel.conf? Beyond that, why something this convoluted when you could use ssh port-forwarding by way of the remote Stunnel endpoint? Or use Stunnel as a SOCKS proxy and configure SSH client to connect that way?https://hamy.io/post/0013/how-to

Re: Running setup-x86_64.exe from cmd does nothing but works from cygwin itself

2024-02-12 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
> If you really suspect some AV problems, it may help to try the> uncompressed > setup executable, available from [1] Huh, when did this start? Nobody pays by BW anymore so what was the rationale behind a "self altering" executable? No wonder it would experience havoc in an A/V environment sin

Re: cygsshd fails due to bad ownership or modes of /cygdrive/c/Users

2024-02-07 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
> The problem seems to be that OpenSSH does not even arrive at checking the >home diretory> or the .ssh directory. It starts checking every directory in >the path and fails already at "/cygdrive/c/Users" I don't think we can win an argument with Theo over how misguided and unnecessary meddling t

Re: Cygwin generates syscalls for *.lnk files on filesystems with native symlink support?

2024-01-08 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
> This breaks many applications such as the java runtime among others. In any event "unreadable files" is a problem all over the place if I use Cygwin's /usr/bin/ln to create links. That's why I was forced to write a wrapper. Even if 'JUNCTION' is false/misleading as to the root cause, plenty of

Re: Cygwin generates syscalls for *.lnk files on filesystems with native symlink support?

2024-01-08 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
> Cygwin does not create symlinks as junctions.  No idea where you got that > idea. $ echo $CYGWINwinsymlinks:nativestrict $ /usr/bin/ln -s default.GGG6q test1 01/08/2024  01:24 PM         test1 [...]Type=File $ (unset CYGWIN; /usr/bin/ln -s default.GGG6q test2.nocygwin) 01/08/2024  01:25 PM     

Re: Cygwin generates syscalls for *.lnk files on filesystems with native symlink support?

2024-01-08 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
> For instance: Getting rid of .lnk files isn't easy with backward  >compatibility in mind. screw backward compatability! :)Why carry around bandaids on bandaids for an OS that is 10 years out of support? Obviously not ripe for 3.6 or maybe even 3.7, but at some point we should just put a stick i

Re: Qemu packages for Cygwin?

2024-01-03 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 04:10:56 AM EST, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > general": What really sucks is the filesystem inode operations and > file name lookup, e.g. /bin/find&friends are absurdly slow because of > the link emulation and the inflation of syscalls caused by it - just

Re: strverscmp is buggy in Cygwin 3.4.6

2024-01-02 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
> The cause is apparently that Cygwin's strverscmp implementation wasborrowed > from musl libc  would it make sense to use git submodules when "borrowing" code so the upstream reference is not lost, and keeping it abreast is relatively trivial exercise? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.c

Re: vim: errors launching "/usr/bin/vi

2023-12-20 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
> I've got "export EDITOR=vi" in my .bash_profile, so anytime $EDITOR is > called I want the huge version of vim. Then set EDITOR= If you want to cheat and only use 'vi' then you need to walk the dependency chain and/or search_for_binary mechanism employed by the SHELL to find the correct target.

Re: vim: errors launching "/usr/bin/vi

2023-12-20 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
>> No, because that's system-wide. >> Vi vs Vim is a personal choice. Also alternatives is for supporting multiple > Most of us run Cygwin on a device called a /Personal Computer/ that allows us > to > make our own choices about OS, desktop UI, services, and configuration. ;^> yeah, yeah I know

Re: vim: errors launching "/usr/bin/vi

2023-12-20 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
> I'd say vi/vim needs to be put under /etc/alternatives No, because that's system-wide.  Vi vs Vim is a personal choice. Also alternatives is for supporting multiple versions. Say v8.02 versus v9.1 of 'vim' on a system, one being in /usr/bin and the other in /usr/local/bin just as an example.

Re: vim: errors launching "/usr/bin/vi

2023-12-20 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
> Would you please let me know how to make an /etc/alternatives for vi/vim? did you install the alternatives package? I just use aliases (actually I set EDITOR=xxx) after I enumerate the editors I consider worthy of inclusion and resident. What DOES need nuking is the forced alias in /etc/profile

Re: /usr/bin/vi: errors parsing .vim files from vim-common package

2023-12-18 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
and /etc/profile.d/vim.sh has this bit: if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" -o -n "$KSH_VERSION" -o -n "$ZSH_VERSION" ]; then   # for bash and zsh, only if no alias is already set   alias vi >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias vi=vim fi someone needs to be smacked good and hard for that. -- Problem reports: ht

Re: WSL filesystem link compatibility?

2023-12-18 Thread Matthew Patton via Cygwin
That said, cygwin now uses junctions which is annoying and not all that compatible with all aspects of the windows ecosystem. So I wrote a wrapper script that replaced ln with calls to mklink. Much better. https://github.com/tb3088/shell-environment/blob/master/.functions_os.CYGWIN_NT#L9 -- P

Re: Cygwin tool to differ junctions from soft links?

2023-11-17 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
>> Cygwin never creates Windows Directory or Filesystem Junction reparse points, >> and by default it uses its own version of Unix path symlink files, preceded >> by >> a flag ("magic cookie") value, and with system attribute, to allow >> compatibility with FAT file system limitations, or else N

Re: Cygwin tool to differ junctions from soft links?

2023-11-16 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
AFAIK no. what I do is re-implement 'ln' with a wrapper because the Cygwin behavior (Junctions) was driving me up the wall. https://github.com/tb3088/shell-environment/blob/ccf7aa161899c2c4ebe2d9e980e674bc726a3ef3/.functions_os.CYGWIN_NT#L9 "In the information society, nobody think

Re: ARG_MAX missing from getconf

2023-09-08 Thread Matthew "mirage335" Hines via Cygwin
Ok, excellent, thank you, good to know. On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 7:44 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 8 07:36, Matthew "mirage335" Hines via Cygwin wrote: > > Ok, I guess that makes sense. > > > > My worry was some './configure' script determining

Re: ARG_MAX missing from getconf

2023-09-08 Thread Matthew "mirage335" Hines via Cygwin
, of a much higher, valid, ARG_MAX value. On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 6:49 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 8 00:14, Matthew "mirage335" Hines via Cygwin wrote: > > Really hope other Cygwin packages will not be broken because 'ARG_MAX' is > > now undefine

ARG_MAX missing from getconf

2023-09-07 Thread Matthew "mirage335" Hines via Cygwin
Really hope other Cygwin packages will not be broken because 'ARG_MAX' is now undefined in 'getconf' output. Caught this in a CI test for a rather large shell script. https://github.com/mirage335-colossus/ubiquitous_bash/blob/master/structure/installation.sh#L385 -- Problem reports: https:/

Re: 3.4.6-1 shm_open always returns -1, errno EINVAL

2023-03-12 Thread Matthew Rickard via Cygwin
That's perfect, thank you! On 12/03/2023 9:35 pm, Csaba Raduly wrote: Hi Matthew, ... https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/shm_open.3.html says: For portable use, a shared memory object should be identified by a name of the form /somename; that is, a null-terminated s

3.4.6-1 shm_open always returns -1, errno EINVAL

2023-03-11 Thread Matthew Rickard via Cygwin
Hi all, Cygwin 3.4.6-1 shm_open seems to reject all calls, returning  the value -1 and setting errno to 22 EINVAL. For example, this program: #include #include #include #include int main() {   int res = shm_open("123", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0666);   int error = errno;   printf("res=%d errno=

Re: cygdll 3.3.4 breaks cygpath.exe. mistyped commands result in fork bomb

2022-05-04 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
his fragment in my .bashrc function command_not_found_handle() { cmd.exe /D /C "$@"; } It now reads:[ -z "${CYGWIN_NOWINPATH+X}" ] && is_exec cmd.exe &&    function command_not_found_handle() { cmd.exe /D /C "$@"; } On Friday, April 29, 2022,

Re: cygdll 3.3.4 breaks cygpath.exe. mistyped commands result in fork bomb

2022-04-29 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
> Can you try the suggestions I made in my reply    >https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-February/250790.html ? sorry, no. Even though I have Admin I am unable to override this. Please note that all previous versions of cygwin1.dll (<3.3.3) are not interfered with. Though if this is indeed S

Re: cygdll 3.3.4 breaks cygpath.exe. mistyped commands result in fork bomb

2022-04-29 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
d someone stupidly delegate the search for executables to blindly call CMD.exe and since with NOWINPATH set CMD.exe can't be found so it just fork bombs?On Friday, April 29, 2022, 02:25:38 PM EDT, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: --- Process 25852 created--- Process 25852 loaded C

Re: cygdll 3.3.4 breaks cygpath.exe. mistyped commands result in fork bomb

2022-04-29 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
been perfectly fine for well over a year... On Friday, April 29, 2022, 05:04:23 AM EDT, Takashi Yano wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:22:09 + (UTC) matthew patton wrote: > I had to revert to 3.3.3-1 to restore functionality.with 3.3.4 invoking > cygpath would cause an Access

cygdll 3.3.4 breaks cygpath.exe. mistyped commands result in fork bomb

2022-04-28 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
I had to revert to 3.3.3-1 to restore functionality.with 3.3.4 invoking cygpath would cause an Access Violation Exception (0x05) and kill the thread so that I couldn't even do a 'cygpath --help'  All of a sudden I also am experiencing fork bombs if I type an invalid command. eg. type 'l' instea

Re: [QUAR] awsv2 cli

2021-11-26 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
I use the Windows version but had to write a wrapper since AWS CLI doesn't understand cygwin style paths in environment variables (not new). https://github.com/tb3088/shell-environment/blob/master/.functions_aws#L14 On Friday, November 26, 2021, 10:34:26 AM EST, Eliot Moss wrote: On 11/

Re: Difficult getting pure-ftpd to work under Cygwin on Windows 10, esp anonymous ftp

2021-06-28 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
have you tried applying the notable permissions from this to your 'ftp' windows user?https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/user-rights-assignment On Monday, June 28, 2021, 06:48:18 PM EDT, David Oppenheim wrote: I have debugged vari

Advertising inquiry to cygwin.com

2021-04-06 Thread Matthew Brown via Cygwin
Hi! I’m an SEO manager . I browsed your website and should say that I like it – both the style and content you post. I’m writing to ask about some advert opportunities and offers you have. I’m greatly interested in • guest posts • link insertion (in the existing article) • h

Re: Removing netcat from Cygwin

2021-02-16 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 12:05:32 PM EST, Rodney Kissee via Cygwin wrote: > My company identifies netcat as a hacking tool and is requiring it to be > removed from our version of Cygwin. aside from beating the moron with clue-by-four or locking him in the tape safe, rename binary to

Re: Cygwin GDB won't start or hangs at startup

2021-02-08 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 4:13 PM Jon Turney  wrote: >> It seems that gdb wants to run 'iconv -l' to list the available encodings. >> >> It looks like perhaps an upstream bug that gdb outputs nothing when >> iconv can't be found (rather than using the default encoding?). > the lack of a backup solut

Re: gdb not working properly in Cygwin

2021-01-21 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Thursday, January 21, 2021, 05:29:27 PM EST, Tord Andreasson via Cygwin wrote: > I tried "strace -o /tmp/gdb.strace /usr/bin/gdb --version" and indeed there >are lines with 37 error messages in it. Since the trace file is large (2MB) $ Err_6.4.5.exe  0xC034 says:   STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_N

Re: Terminal output disappearing after SSH into cygwin

2021-01-21 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Thursday, January 21, 2021, 01:30:41 PM EST, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:13:56 -0500 Ken Brown wrote: > # when leaving the console clear the screen to increase privacy > if [ "$SHLVL" = 1 ]; then >    [ -x /usr/bin/clear ] && /usr/bin/clear > fi That should be t

Re: Terminal output disappearing after SSH into cygwin

2021-01-21 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Thursday, January 21, 2021, 10:49:14 AM EST, Martyn B wrote: > 1) understand why this happens. - Is this the Cygwin standard behavior? Not in the slightest. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-17 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Sunday, January 17, 2021, 02:41:35 PM EST, Brian Inglis wrote: > Sorry, it's been a few years now - there were a few issues testing various > paths > using various directories and links that neither readlink nor > realpath resolved > absolutely and correctly, so I added the cygpath to

Re: How to reinstall everything?

2021-01-17 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Sunday, January 17, 2021, 02:44:37 PM EST, Achim Gratz wrote: >matthew patton via Cygwin writes: >> can we fix setup.exe to read STDIN with '-P', like so?  >> echo 'pkg1,pkg2,pkg3' | setup.exe -P - > You probably forgot that setup is a Windows prog

Re: How to reinstall everything?

2021-01-17 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
can we fix setup.exe to read STDIN with '-P', like so?  echo 'pkg1,pkg2,pkg3' | setup.exe -P - and even more useful if the argument can be space delimited.setup.exe -P pkg1 pkg2 pkg3or if that's too muchsetup.exe -P pkg1 -P pkg2 -P pkg3 -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-16 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Friday, January 15, 2021, 12:48:16 PM EST, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > but it would be appreciated if you would confirm this by testing a snapshot. I have confirmed that running snapshot build Cygwin1.dll from 2021-01-13 handles symlinks in the PATH as expected. -- Problem reports:

Re: mysterious GIT failure

2021-01-15 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Friday, January 15, 2021, 12:09:30 PM EST, Brian Inglis wrote: > Given that you have the same symptom, it is possible that Git-Bash or > something > else you are running in Windows is creating symlinks somewhere,  I only installed Git-Bash out of desperation and it's msys.dll (fork of cy

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-15 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
ent/blob/master/.functions#L144 On Friday, January 15, 2021, 11:36:28 AM EST, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: Ken Brown wrote:> Do you by any chance have symlinks in your PATH? Yes, the first and 3rd entries are symlinks. I've had these symlinks in my PATH for years. /home/MP

Re: misterious GIT failure

2021-01-15 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
Ken Brown wrote:> Do you by any chance have symlinks in your PATH? Yes, the first and 3rd entries are symlinks. I've had these symlinks in my PATH for years. /home/MP1116/.aws/YYY/bin:/home/MP1116/bin -> .WPHOME/bin/ .aws -> .WPHOME/.aws/.WPHOME -> Dropbox/Work_Projects/XXX #/etc/fstabC:/Users /h

Re: misterious GIT failure

2021-01-14 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
ring a bell with anyone? C:\Users\mp1116\Downloads>Err_6.4.5.exe 0xc279# for hex 0xc279 / decimal -1073741191  STATUS_IO_REPARSE_TAG_NOT_HANDLED                              ntstatus.h# The layered file system driver for this IO tag did not# handle it when needed.# as an HRESULT: Severit

Re: misterious GIT failure

2021-01-14 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
ok, so can someone do the following on their installation? I've narrowed it down to the invocation of git-core/git.exe or any of the other git-core/git* binaries. I get a Windows dialog box no less, with "The application was unable to start correctly". 100(1) $ strace /usr/libexec/git-core/git.e

Re: misterious GIT failure

2021-01-12 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
Friday, January 8, 2021, 09:35:03 PM EST, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, matthew patton! > Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> This looks like some sort of problem writing to disk to me.  Where are >> you storing your Git repositories?  Is it on a regular NTFS disk > plain NTFS

BUG: bash_completion package consistently omitting critical file

2021-01-07 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
Every recent version that I can remember has been missing the most important file of all: /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion Why? What is wrong with the packaging process if we're building from the source? The origin has always lived at  https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/blob/master

misterious GIT failure

2021-01-07 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
I've been using cygwin since like 20 years ago and do everything in it. A couple days ago my Git program mysteriously stopped working. I can see (GIT_TRACE=1) it invoke SSH and HTTPS connections just fine but it fails with a short-read/write when it's time for pack or unpack. Baffled I uninstall

[procps-ng] Bug: pidof invokes /bin/ps instead of /bin/procps

2019-02-01 Thread matthew patton via cygwin
The 'pidof' command doesn't work with Cygwin's very crippled version of /bin/ps. Specifically 'ps' doesn't understand '-o' nations whereas 'procps' does. Either 'pidof' needs to account for the Cygwin 'ps' not being remotely as capable as the Linux 'ps' command and alter invocation accordingly,

Re: sshd permits logon using disabled user?

2019-01-24 Thread matthew patton via cygwin
> I think refusing an account manually and deliberately disabled by an > admin makes lots of sense. Why is this even a discussion? You *ALWAYS* refuse a login to an account that is disabled, locked out, or has an expired password or failed any of the other criteria that might be in effect (day

Re: Cygwin Git with Windows paths

2018-11-27 Thread Matthew Patton via cygwin
I agree this may not be a bug as such but would VERY much like it fixed. In extreme cases I have to resort to rsync in/out of WSL to do builds or make sure to only do relative paths. That there already is a patch set should make this an easy think to undertake.  -- Problem reports: http:/

Re: cygwin/acl.h not included from sys/acl.h

2018-10-18 Thread matthew patton via cygwin
https://github.com/tuna/rsync/blob/master/configure.ac#L981 Looks like it was short-circuited to use Solaris ACLs. I'll send the RSYNC guys a patch. Defeating the case statement does pick up Posix ACLs. $ grep -i acl config.status S["LIBS"]="-lacl " D["HAVE_SYS_ACL_H"]=" 1" D["HAVE_ACL_LIBACL_H"

cygwin/acl.h not included from sys/acl.h

2018-10-18 Thread matthew patton via cygwin
Many of the headers in 'sys' include their counterparts from 'cygwin'. Why is acl.h special? I see the comment on line 25 but I'm missing the point, I guess - not seeing the collisions. 'cygwin/acl.h' is a very important file. Granted I don't normally compile much from source under Cygwin but I

bash pipe race condition

2017-10-02 Thread Matthew McGIllis
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 64-Bit Operating System Cygwin $ uname -r 2.9.0(0.318/5/3) $ uname -m x86_64 The basic issue is in a normal windows command shell if I do $ .

Re: Is there a newer syslog-ng in the works?

2016-08-18 Thread Matthew Hatch
On 08/18/2016 03:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 17 16:09, Matthew Hatch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've noticed that syslog-ng hasn't received much attention in cygwin >> and is several years out of date (3.2.5). As such, it is missing some >> feature

Is there a newer syslog-ng in the works?

2016-08-17 Thread Matthew Hatch
getting an updated version (say, 3.7+) built and released? -- Matthew Hatch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

[FIXED] was: Re: Unattended setup succeeding but not really

2016-02-12 Thread Matthew Adams
was "Download from internet but do not install" or something. -matthew On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Matthew Adams wrote: > > Anyone knowledgeable has had a chance to look into this? > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Matthew Adams > wrote: >> >> Logs, r

Unattended setup succeeding but not really

2016-01-26 Thread Matthew Adams
amp; { iwr https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe -OutFile $env:CYGSETUP } " ) %CYGSETUP% -D -q -R %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\cyg64 -a x86_64 -l %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\cyg64 -s http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com -P openssh,autossh,nano,vim,git endlocal TIA, Matthew -- mailto:matt...@matthewadams

Re: 'list-packages function in Emacs 24.5.2 causes core dump

2015-12-08 Thread Matthew Eichler
core dump On 12/4/2015 6:37 AM, Matthew Eichler wrote: > Thanks Ken. > > Running emacs with the -Q switch has shown me that this is an ELisp > problem with my init.el. This is a problem on Cygwin but not on > ArchLinux (I synchronize this file accross all my Unix instances > i

Re: 'list-packages function in Emacs 24.5.2 causes core dump

2015-12-04 Thread Matthew Eichler
hen (not (package-installed-p p)) (package-install p))) (global-set-key (kbd "") 'list-packages) I'm attaching the cygcheck.out file per instructions. -- Matthew Eichler matthew.eich...@aventinesolutions.nl www.aventinesolutions.nl cygcheck.out Description: Binary dat

'list-packages function in Emacs 24.5.2 causes core dump

2015-12-03 Thread Matthew Eichler
hare/emacs/24.5/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.elc Note that I use Emacs 24.5.1 on ArchLinux and I don't have this problem. Thanks in advance for any help, -- Matthew Eichler matthew@aventine.solutions aventinesolutions.eu -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Cygwin unable to resolve hostnames

2015-07-22 Thread Matthew Fountain
I'm not sure when this started, but recently Cygwin has been unable to resolve (certain) hostnames. Example: wget github.com --2015-07-22 15:17:04-- http://github.com/ Resolving github.com (github.com)... failed: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution. wget: unable to resolve host address ‘g

1.17.1-4 xorg-server documentation update

2015-05-23 Thread Matthew Horwood
Good evening, I have been trying to connect to a raspberry PI over XDMCP, but have been having issues getting it to work. After looking at both the cygwin/X and raspberry PI sites, I did a search for 'lightdm connecting to xserver windows' and found a post that suggested using VcXsrv. As it

Alternative implementation of select()?

2015-03-17 Thread Matthew Bromley-Barratt
lect(). I've also not an answer for the last part of select(). Any thoughts? Matthew -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Google Penalty: urgent action requested

2014-12-16 Thread Matthew Hogg
Hi,I work for the company: EI-RESOURCE.ORGAll communication / replies must be directed to myself Matthew Hogg , my email supp...@ei-resource.orgOur site has been penalized by Google because of a handful of back links pointing to our site (we have lost 80% of our traffic). I have opened a line of

Re: emacs no longer works for me under cygwin

2014-09-13 Thread Matthew Cummings
Great, thanks! On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Matthew Cummings wrote: > Hi, > I'm running 64bit Windows 7, a relatively new OS install. I've been > using the 64bit version of Cygwin for about a month now on this > machine, including the emacs that ships with it. > >

emacs no longer works for me under cygwin

2014-09-12 Thread Matthew Cummings
Hi, I'm running 64bit Windows 7, a relatively new OS install. I've been using the 64bit version of Cygwin for about a month now on this machine, including the emacs that ships with it. I haven't changed any part of my cygwin/emacs configuration in the past few weeks but starting today, emacs has

setup.exe version 2.844 (32 bit): "No packages found."

2014-04-05 Thread Matthew Langston
The "Select Pacakge" window shows "No packages found." when I run setup.exe version 2.844 (32 bit) and choose the option to “Install from Local Directory" even though there are 167 .tar.bz2 files in my local directory. These are the options I choose when running setup.exe: Root Directory: C:\cy

bug in 'cs' value of Xterm termcap (was: Updated: screen 4.1.0-20130513-1)

2013-11-27 Thread matthew patton
For whatever reason I set my newly installed environment to use 'xterm' mode and ran across this bug. The archives led me to http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00029.html and specifically # Set the hardstatus prop on gui terms to set the titlebar/icon title > termcapinfo xterm*|rxvt*|kte

RE: Path issue with windows shell

2013-11-27 Thread Matthew Lagoe
Sorry I did not clarify earlier, I have cygin added to my path and I have not added anything to /cygdrive or otherwise. C:\tmp>where ls C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe C:\tmp>C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe /cygdrive c I noticed that all the paths that I am having issues with are setup via a "subst" in windows You

Path issue with windows shell

2013-11-27 Thread Matthew Lagoe
im having a problem with paths, when i use /cygdrive/l in the windows shell it doesn't work however when i use it in the cygwin shell it works fine Cygwin === Matthew@Matthew-PC /cygdrive/l/leveldesign $ rsync -avrP --chmod=a=rw,Da+x --delete /cygdr

RE: cp creates unreadable file on Windows 7

2013-10-10 Thread Frank, Matthew I
On 2013-10-09-21:50, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Frank, Matthew I! > > > I believe my problem is identical to the one reported in: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00456.html, but that message > chain ended with > > "mount your file system noacl&q

RE: cp creates unreadable file on Windows 7

2013-10-10 Thread Frank, Matthew I
On 2013-10-09 18:27, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 10/9/2013 5:30 PM, Frank, Matthew I wrote: >> I believe my problem is identical to the one reported in: >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00456.html, but that message chain >> ended with >> "mount your f

cp creates unreadable file on Windows 7

2013-10-09 Thread Frank, Matthew I
I believe my problem is identical to the one reported in: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00456.html, but that message chain ended with "mount your file system noacl" which isn't an option for me, so I'm looking for other alternatives. I create a file using cmd.exe in a directory created b

Security systems (6/28/2013)

2013-06-28 Thread Matthew Cole
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Re: libneon27 requires libproxy1 which requires libglib2.0_0

2011-12-07 Thread Matthew Smith
>The latest libneon27 does require libproxy1-0.4.7, which pulls in only >libglib2.0_0, and I wouldn't count that as "some gnome libraries". libglib2.0_0 : dbus libfam0 and gsettings-desktop-schemas dbus : libdbus1_3 libX11_6 libX11_6 : libxcb1 libxcb1 : libXau6 libXdmcp6 libfam0 : gamin >I'm not

libneon27 requires libproxy1 which requires libglib2.0_0

2011-12-02 Thread Matthew Smith
After running setup.exe to add a package I noticed something had decided to pull in some gnome libraries. As best I can tell its due to libneon27 requiring libproxy1 though I may be missing something else. I did manage to find this regarding libproxy. >From http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-05/msg0

home path for cygwin 1.7.9 is acting funny

2011-10-25 Thread Matthew Smith
I installed to "c:\personal\cygwin" on my windows xp machine. If I open a command prompt and type "echo %HOME%", I get "C:\Documents and Settings\Matt" If I then start an ssh connection from DOS (not the Cygwin program), I get an error at the beginning of the connection initiation that states "Co

regex_t internals: can we use re_magic to tell whether a regex has been regcomp'd?

2011-08-10 Thread Fischer, Matthew L
We are porting code from Linux that is attempting to determine whether a regular expression has been properly regcomp'd and not freed. The code from Linux is looking into the buffer inside regex_t. On Cygwin, the "buffer" (not the same field name) is hidden inside re_guts which has a comment

1.7.9: g_spawn with envp set doesn't see my envp unless it's setting PATH

2011-06-07 Thread Fischer, Matthew L
I have code that calls g_spawn_sync and sets an environment variable. The program that I am spawning simply dumps out the environment and exits. I found some odd behavior when running this test app on Cygwin, if I set any random variable, like "HELLO=world" it is not passed to the child. Howe

1.7.9: where are ns_get16 and ns_name_ntop defined?

2011-06-07 Thread Fischer, Matthew L
I cannot find ns_get16 and ns_name_ntop defined in libresolv or anywhere else for that matter. For example, the following sample code compiles and links fine on Ubuntu 10.04, but on Cygwin it has missing symbols: #include int main() { char *dst; unsigned int ux; int x = ns_name_n

Re: Troubleshooting SSH connection as SYSTEM user.

2011-05-26 Thread Matthew Leonhardt
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 5/26/2011 11:10 AM, Matthew Leonhardt wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I'm trying to install a service to keep some SSH tunnels alive using >> the following script: >> >> $ cat

Troubleshooting SSH connection as SYSTEM user.

2011-05-26 Thread Matthew Leonhardt
Hello all, I'm trying to install a service to keep some SSH tunnels alive using the following script: $ cat ssh_tunnel.exe #!/usr/bin/bash while : do /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/netstat -an | grep 192\.168\.0\.1:139 \ | grep LISTENING > /dev/null if (( $? )); then /usr/bin/ssh -v -v

The same assembly code but different result on cygwin and Centos

2011-04-25 Thread matthew chao
The code below assigns an integer number 20 to %ebx, which can be CORRECTLY assembled on both cygwin and CentOS, ###code begin### .section .data items: .long  20 .section .text .globl _start _start:   movl $0,%edi   movl items(,%edi,4),%eax   movl %eax,%ebx   movl $1,%eax   int $0x80 ###code e

1.7.x:ld linker error with *.o files

2010-09-12 Thread matthew caswell
I'm trying to compile a very basic kernel.  The source contains 2 files: mckern.c mckern_start.asm These compile into *.o files fine. Here's how (in case it helps solve the problem): $ nasm -f aout mckern_start.asm -o mcks.o $ gcc -c mckern.c -o mckern.o But when I run the linker with my link.ld

Hello! I can't get to c:\Program Files using c:\Program/ Files\ any suggestions?

2010-06-15 Thread Matthew Thornton
Hello! I just recently upgraded to the newer version of cygwin and I am not unable to change directory into Program Files or My Documents using the forward slash. This was working before the upgrade and I was wondering what I should check to see how it was disabled. I have also tried using

Re: 'cp' utility bug when .exe file exist.

2010-06-08 Thread Matthew B. Smith
Ill throw in my two cents. I don't want to overwrite an existing file accidentally. Ie if I ls > foo and that writes to foo.exe I would be frustrated. This hasn't happened to me yet so it might not be to big of a problem. It seems a bit odd that the behavior would change if there is a file in t

cygwin-1.7.5: intptr_t/uintptr_t types and PRI?PTR/SCI?PTR format specfiers are inconsistent

2010-05-24 Thread Matthew Fluet
/usr/include/stdint.h typedefs intptr_t as "int" and uintptr_t as "unsigned int". /usr/include/inttypes.h #defines PRIdPTR as "ld" and PRIoPTR as "lo". These and the other PRI?PTR and SCN?PTR format specifiers are meant to be used for the intptr_t and uintptr_t types (thus, making them usable witho

Ignored Permissions

2010-04-29 Thread Matthew B. Smith
If I set the permissions of a file to be read only I can still delete it, or modify it w/out warning. eg. touch test.txt chmod 444 test.txt echo "what" >> test.txt In ubuntu I get an error, in cygwin it just modifies the file. This is an administrator acct if that affects the issue. I am using

Re: Spurious 'grep: writing output' in Cygwin 1.7.5-1 in certain cases

2010-04-19 Thread Matthew Kidd
gwin 1.7.5-1 in certain cases References: [adding bug-grep] On 04/19/2010 03:19 PM, Matthew Kidd wrote: > We are seeing grep emit 'grep: writing output' multiple times in > certain cases where the output of grep is piped to another program. > Specifically, we see it in the follo

Spurious 'grep: writing output' in Cygwin 1.7.5-1 in certain cases

2010-04-19 Thread Matthew Kidd
ppear in out.txt; my guess is that they are being sent to STDERR when they do occur. - Matthew Kidd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Running a Matlab script remotely via ssh

2010-04-17 Thread Matthew B. Smith
I'm pretty sure you cannot use a window. I think matlab has another cmd line argument such as -batch to run w/out windows? mbs On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 15:04 -0300, Geraldo Veiga wrote: > I have Cygwin installed in a Vista/64 system with sshd enabled. I > would like to login remotely via ssh and r

nohup, non-cygwin processes

2010-04-05 Thread Matthew B. Smith
Hello I am writing about a problem probably not due to cygwin, but I think it used to work with 1.5. I want to start a long running process with nohup and have it continue to run even though I log out of the computer. It seems no matter how I start the process I get a SYGTERM signal when I lo

Re: Cygwin1.dll 1.7.1 causes ActivePerl 5.10 hang on gzip pipe close on Windows Server 2003

2010-03-29 Thread Matthew Kidd
pressed Fedora 11 ISO file. Original size > 3683829760 bytes, compressed size 3576437027. Works like a charm. I just tried Cygwin 1.7.2 on a 64-bit Window 7 installation using ActivePerl 5.10 Build 1007. Like you I do not see a problem on Windows 7. So this issue seem to be confined to 64-bit Window

RE: Cygwin1.dll 1.7.1 causes ActivePerl 5.10 hang on gzip pipe close on Windows Server 2003

2010-03-22 Thread Matthew Kidd
>> >> I upgraded to Cygwin 1.7.1 on a (64-bit) Windows Server 2003 >> >> and immediately ran into trouble. It seems that Perl can no >> >> longer shutdown pipes related to Cygwin executables. Here is >> >> some example code: >> >> >> >> #!/usr/bin/perl >> >> >> >> use strict; >> >> >> >> # my $f

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