Re: pip newer version available

2020-11-28 Thread Nicholas Clark via Cygwin
Your first command used your Windows installation of Python, not Cygwin's. But it looks like you caught that. To your question about upgrading pip in Cygwin, it's not usually a good idea to overwrite any distro-provided packages. That's true on Linux and on Cygwin as well. But if you want access

Re: [cygwin] DD bug fails to wipe last 48 sectors of a disk

2020-06-23 Thread Nicholas Clark via Cygwin
Do you get the same behavior when you run dd with iflag=fullblock? Without that flag, it's possible dd's input to read a smaller block than requested (which would correspond with a smaller write to the output). On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 9:28 AM Hashim Aziz via Cygwin wrote: > I hadn't checked with

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Nicholas Clark
.bat files - I just wanted to illuminate that making Windows paths illegal is likely to break a whole bunch of users' scripts, and really offers no benefit. On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Nicholas Clark! > >> I totally agree that setting HOME to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1

2015-08-05 Thread Nicholas Clark
I totally agree that setting HOME to a relative-path is probably a Bad Idea, and can/should be undefined behavior. As for absolute paths (and whether they should be POSIX, Windows, or either), that's a little less cut and dry for me. I currently use a ton of scripts of the general form:

cygwin@cygwin.com

2015-08-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
Hi all, I remember seeing a bunch of traffic on the subject of rebasing a few years ago, with people saying that it wouldn't be necessary once we moved over to 64-bit Cygwin. Did that wind up being true? I've got some in-house tools that some of our developers want to use on Cygwin, and I've been

smokes (was Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis)

2003-01-11 Thread Nicholas Clark
ystems is that SEGVs and other failures can cause windows to pop up some sort of dialogue box, causing the batch test system to stall. Nicholas Clark -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http