Problem - Possibly Cygwin

2019-01-25 Thread Mitch Rosefelt
Hi All: I've run into a problem in which cygwin is part of the error message. I don't know that cygwin is part of the problem, but I'm having great difficulty figuring this out, so I'm posting it here with the hope that someone will know the fix. Thanks much. = After

Re: crazy default permissions

2016-10-04 Thread Mitch Deoudes
On 10/5/2016 12:40 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 05/10/2016 06:31, Mitch Deoudes wrote: mkdir has suddenly started creating directories with strange permissions. As far as I can tell, it's related to making directories nested inside other directories that were also created within cygwin. A

crazy default permissions

2016-10-04 Thread Mitch Deoudes
. It starts at the second level deep, with the setuid flag, and eventually gets to the point where you're making directories that don't even have user read/write. I tried this on a brand new installation of the latest cygwin64, with no modifications, as of just now: mitch@calculonjr

Re: Re: cygwin python os.stat gives wrong ctime

2016-05-29 Thread Mitch Deoudes
On 5/28/2016 10:35 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: On 5/28/2016 9:39 PM, Mitch Deoudes wrote: According to the python docs, os.stat() gives the following for st_ctime: "|st_ctime| - platform dependent; time of most recent metadata change on Unix, or the time of creation on Windows"

cygwin python os.stat gives wrong ctime

2016-05-28 Thread Mitch Deoudes
" time from within cygwin's python? I'm currently calling out to the cygwin shell using os.popen('stat "%W" '), but that's not particularly efficient, and it doesn't give subsecond precision. mitch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: changing cygdrive prefix in fstab has no effect

2014-09-09 Thread Mitch Deoudes
Thanks for the suggestions. @Linda: >> Have you tried 'mount -h'? Yes - I believe I mentioned it above. Changing the prefix via mount does not seem to survive between sessions, on this install. @Andrey >> Simplest would be to just reboot the box to be absolutely sure. I believe these boxes

changing cygdrive prefix in fstab has no effect

2014-09-02 Thread Mitch Deoudes
utput on me, but this is a clean install, downloaded as of this week, with no extra packages except python. Using "mount -c" works, but is not persistent between sessions. The below works for me at home: # This is default anyway: # none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 n

RE:parsing error

2010-01-06 Thread Mitch
Problem Solved. Yesterday's several fresh downloads all produced a setup.exe that was 572kb. Today I ignored the "Install Cygwin now" icons and went to the bottom of the page Latest Cygwin DLL relase version is 1.7.1-1 and after re-locating the setup.exe link it downloads as a 610kb file.

Problem Updating using cygwin.exe

2010-01-06 Thread Mitch
successful first install and 1/5/10 unsuccessful install. - Thanks Mitch Newcomer Problem: Can not update Cygwininstalled ~Dec 22, 2009 1. Installed several "fresh" copies of setup.exe ( 2.573.2.3 ) 2. Ran with and without Symantic

setup.exe Parse errors

2010-01-05 Thread Mitch
e focus is on the new Xterm window and I enter any kb letter the window disappears. Please find:Problem description and attempts to solve it, Setup.log.full and excerpts setup.log for 12/22/09 successful install and 1/5/10 unsuccessful install. - Thanks Mitch Newcomer Proble

sed and searches for $

2005-04-05 Thread mitch gart
It seems like sed works differently when searching for end-of-line ($) depending if it's launched from a DOS prompt or from inside a shell prompt. For example if I have a file named junk which contains 1 line hello\ ( \ is the last character of the line.) The command sed -n -e /\\$/= junk

slow directory access

2003-07-24 Thread Mitch Deoudes
ered executable, and name all data-specific scripts ".csh". (Generic scripts can be mounted "-x".) mitch -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/