Re: Support for ADS (Alternate Data Streams)

2022-01-08 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Jan 5, 2022, 05:08 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 3 22:40, NightStrike wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 15:51 wrote: > > > > > While I recognize that ADS is not supported by POSIX, I was wondering > > > what if any support for ADS might exist within Cy

Re: Support for ADS (Alternate Data Streams)

2022-01-03 Thread NightStrike
On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 15:51 wrote: > While I recognize that ADS is not supported by POSIX, I was wondering > what if any support for ADS might exist within Cygwin. > > The last time I looked into this was probably more than a decade ago > but I am seeing (unfortunately) more usage of ADS in the Wi

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

2021-08-24 Thread NightStrike via Cygwin
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 09:50 Chris Roehrig wrote: > I have a network of Windows, Linux and Mac machines and I use rsync to > synchronize various directories between them. > > I'm trying to figure out why my rsync transfers are so slow (<4 MB/s) only > when the remote endpoint is Cygwin rsync over

sshd /etc/ssh directory

2017-05-07 Thread NightStrike
Most GNU/Linux distributions (and openssh by default I believe) use /etc/ssh as the directory to store host keys and default config files. Cygwin uses /etc, creating by default numerous files in the top level /etc directory. Is there a technical reason for this? Is this something that could be co

Re: Cygwin64: errno.h error values

2013-05-26 Thread NightStrike
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Jan Nijtmans wrote: > 2013/5/8 NightStrike : >> How did you install the cross compiler without the dependencies >> picking up the headers package? > > Well, installing the cross-compiler I only get > the following 4 dependencies: >

Re: Cygwin64: errno.h error values

2013-05-07 Thread NightStrike
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Jan Nijtmans wrote: > 2013/5/3 Kai Tietz: >> 2013/5/3 Jan Nijtmans wrote: >>> The mingw-w64 cross-compiler in Cygwin64 (x64_64-w64-mingw32) >>> is currently lacking "errno.h", >> Absoultely an absurdity. Of course mingw-w64 provides an errno.h >> header. Not sure

Re: Differences between C++ 'new' operator and 'malloc()' (NOT a C/C++ question)

2012-07-06 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Claude SIMON wrote: > Let's consider a Java native component which only calls a 'malloc(1)'. It > doesn't even test the returned value (it is usually not a good idea, but > it doesn't matter here). > > This component : > - compiled with g++ under Linux : works, > -

Re: mingw-targeted cross-compiler question

2010-12-22 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 22 December 2010 15:12, NightStrike wrote: >> 2010/12/22 Frédéric Bron: >>>>>> I checked the Make file, it used this flag: >>>>>> gcc -mno-cygwin -g -Wl,--add-stdcall-alias -Wl,--export-all

Re: mingw-targeted cross-compiler question

2010-12-22 Thread NightStrike
2010/12/22 Frédéric Bron : I checked the Make file, it used this flag: gcc -mno-cygwin -g -Wl,--add-stdcall-alias -Wl,--export-all-symbols ... >>> >>> replace gcc by gcc-3 >>> gcc 4 is now the default on cygwin but the cross compiler is not >>> supported for that version. >>> Frédéric >>

Re: mingw-targeted cross-compiler question

2010-12-16 Thread NightStrike
2010/12/16 Frédéric Bron : >> I checked the Make file, it used this flag: >> gcc -mno-cygwin -g -Wl,--add-stdcall-alias -Wl,--export-all-symbols ... > > replace gcc by gcc-3 > gcc 4 is now the default on cygwin but the cross compiler is not > supported for that version. > Frédéric What do you mean

Re: mingw-targeted cross-compiler question

2010-12-15 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:10 PM, gviewer wrote: > > Thanks for explanation.  I checked the Make file, and here it is: > > CFLAGS = -O3 -Wimplicit > ... > gcc -mno-cygwin -g -Wl,--add-stdcall-alias -Wl,--export-all-symbols > ${BRILL_INCLUDES} -I ${JAVA_HOME}/include/ -I ${JAVA_HOME}/include/win32 >

Re: mingw-targeted cross-compiler question

2010-12-15 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:50 PM, gviewer wrote: > > My cygwin may already install that package, then how to modify the flag in > Makefile to compile. That depends on the makefile. Usually, there's a user-settable variable called CFLAGS that you can use to customize things. But basically, with t

Re: mingw-targeted cross-compiler question

2010-12-15 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:41 PM, gviewer wrote: > > Hello, I downloaded a software and tried to compile it on cygwin, I got an > error message: > > "gcc: The -mno-cygwin flag has been removed; use a mingw-targeted > cross-compiler." > > I checked the Make file, it used this flag: > gcc -mno-cygwin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.6.15-1

2010-12-01 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:32 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: > DESCRIPTION: > > Subversion is a version control system designed to be a compelling > successor to CVS. > > Please see > >  http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/index.html > > for the latest official release of the Subversion

Re: Cygwin paths in mingw64

2010-11-05 Thread NightStrike
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > and Atlas is so deep unix related, that is better to use Does this imply that a direct mingw port is not feasible without extensive effort? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: Win7 64bit, why so slow?

2010-10-20 Thread NightStrike
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > On 19 October 2010 22:56, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> Norton Security is running, this may well be a problem, I'll try to >> disable this for now. > > > Yes, much better now, seems to run very much faster now without Norton > running... I gu

Re: Where to get source for setup.exe?

2010-10-20 Thread NightStrike
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Pan ruochen wrote: > Hi All, > > Where can I get the source package for the latest setup.exe. I used to > implement a > package filter on version 2.573.2.3. But now the old version of setup > gets errors during > installation. And I still want to apply filtering o

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> We just started a Cygwin based forum in an attempt to build the Cygwin users >> community support for newer users. We need some forum mods to assist in the >> everyday tasks, as well as provide support for our users. > > We support Cygwin u

Re: About mingw64-x86_64 packages

2010-09-14 Thread NightStrike
No. They are not multilib capable, so they only target a single system - Win64. I am assuming that Jon will be providing toolchains that target Win32 shortly. These will be separate packages. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > For the sake of completeness, I would ask if

Re: cygport cross compile(r) support [was: Re: cygport patch: suppress libtool fixup step]

2010-07-07 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: >> OOTB gcc multilib does not build, nor AFAICS do clear-cut patches exist >> to fix it.  Others in #mingw-w64 seem to think that multilib isn't worth >> the headache, at least not yet.  We'll see what I come up with over the >> next few days,

Re: Cygport improvements

2010-06-25 Thread NightStrike
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:14:42AM +0800, JonY wrote: >>Hello, >> >>I am planning to bring mingw-w64 to cygwin. Here are some nits I found >>when working with it. >> >>* It sets CC=gcc >>While not a major issue, it does present some iss

Re: Cygwin Performance and stat()

2010-05-30 Thread NightStrike
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 08:54:10AM -0700, Christopher Wingert wrote: >>I was looking into speeding up stat() performance.  More specifically >>bash, ls, test, stat performance.  I've seen the subject come up before. >>Git recently implem

Re: Setup displays wrong version

2010-05-28 Thread NightStrike
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > On 27/05/2010 21:00, NightStrike wrote: >> Ping >> >> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:35 PM, NightStrike wrote: >>> When you run setup on a clean system, there's an alert that warns you >>> if this is your

Re: Setup displays wrong version

2010-05-27 Thread NightStrike
Ping On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:35 PM, NightStrike wrote: > When you run setup on a clean system, there's an alert that warns you > if this is your first time installing cygwin.  It says "This is the > first time you've installed cygwin 1.7.1."  I'm guessing t

Re: Native 64 bit.

2010-05-26 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > First off, I do not know if we will ever finish this attempt, but we will > start > and try. > > We would like to compile cygwin for 64 bit native operation. Our office is > switching to all 64 bit systems. > > Reading: > http://cygwin.com/fa

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems

2010-04-29 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:13 PM, greenup greenup wrote: > This is an old problem, the last I heard on it was something along the lines > of: > "Cygwin's functionality/compatibility/robustness improved in necessary > ways, but performance was required to suffer" > From a hearsay perspective, it ap

Re: Hello.

2010-04-15 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 05:02:50PM -0400, NightStrike wrote: >>Ok, I'll bite. > > Your biting is off-topic and responding to spam is just plain stupid. > > Stop it. Hmm.. I didn't realize the rep

Re: Hello.

2010-04-15 Thread NightStrike
Ok, I'll bite. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:58 PM, farhad Fai wrote: > Hello Sir/Ma, > > > My name is farhad Fai  from  I newly established a art gallery here in Mumbai > India, I saw some beautiful artworks which am interested to buy on the > internet and I contacted them on phone but the sellers

Setup displays wrong version

2010-04-10 Thread NightStrike
When you run setup on a clean system, there's an alert that warns you if this is your first time installing cygwin. It says "This is the first time you've installed cygwin 1.7.1." I'm guessing this version number should either say 1.7, or should be otherwise handled differently. -- Problem repor

Re: How to properly set up a chrooted environment

2010-04-01 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, wrote: > I was thinking about a ftp server. Users would log in into the jail, > say /chroot/home/proftp/... Most ftp servers provide this functionality natively. > And this is just for testing/learning purposes and fun. A great way to learn is by doing :) -- Pr

Autoconf 2.1 / 2.5

2010-03-29 Thread NightStrike
Autoconf is listed twice in the list of installable packages from cygwin, and described thusly: autoconf2.1 - Stable version, latest = 2.13-10 autoconf2.5 - Development version, latest =2.65-1 Think it's about time that these are labeled differently? 2.65 is hardly a development version, and it'

Re: cygwin.com website

2010-03-20 Thread NightStrike
This guy just redid http://mingw-w64.sf.net/ and it looks GREAT! I highly recommend his work. On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Brian Wilson wrote: > Wait a minute...  This new web page looks crisp and professional.  The > information is easily seen and well laid out.  How will anyone know this >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf2.5-2.64-1

2009-08-19 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Dave Korn wrote: >> configure on cygwin being fast?  What > >  Yes, really.  I boggled. It just keeps getting better... >  Anyways you'll get your chance to try it out on the whole /src and /gcc > repositories soon enough, Ralf's making good progress convertin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf2.5-2.64-1

2009-08-19 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > >> This release includes the use of shell functions, providing smaller and >> faster configure scripts. > >  Seriously, this should not be underestimated.  I tried it for the first time > last night, and suddenly configure

Re: Cygwin on x64

2009-02-05 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Tim Prince wrote: > rajeevs wrote: > >> 1) I want to create a 64 bit DLL using Cygwin in Windows Serever 2003 >> 64 bit platform. > >> >> 5) The main thing is that I don't know exactly what should be the >> option we have to give under cygwin for building

Re: Cygwin source

2008-09-17 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Where is the actual source code repo for the cygwin dll, as opposed to >> any of the other things? > > On every page of cygwin.com, as part of the left-hand > navbar, is a link to http://cygwin.com/cvs.html. > > -- > Eric Bl

Cygwin source

2008-09-17 Thread NightStrike
Where is the actual source code repo for the cygwin dll, as opposed to any of the other things? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http:/

Re: inetutils 1.5-4, ftp + inline password immediately quits

2008-09-15 Thread NightStrike
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robinson, Paul T (NonStop) wrote: > >>> From: Andrew DeFaria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> Or how 'bout >>> >>> scp! >> >> Probably would not work in my case, the other end of the connection is a >> non-Windows b

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New experimental package: gcc4-4.3.0-1

2008-09-13 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NightStrike wrote on 10 September 2008 19:22: > >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Faylor >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:53:45PM -0400, NightStr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New experimental package: gcc4-4.3.0-1

2008-09-10 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:53:45PM -0400, NightStrike wrote: >>On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Well, here it is at last. Experimental test r

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New experimental package: gcc4-4.3.0-1

2008-09-10 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NightStrike wrote on 10 September 2008 18:54: > >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Well, here it is at last. Experimental test release of GCC 4 series

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New experimental package: gcc4-4.3.0-1

2008-09-10 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, here it is at last. Experimental test release of GCC 4 series > for Cygwin. Please be aware that this is highly experimental; anything Dave, I've been building and releasing gcc 4.3 and gcc 4.4 toolchains to cross com

Re: Difficulty building gcc 4.3.2 under i386-pc-cygwin

2008-09-09 Thread NightStrike
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:17:16PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote on 08 September 2008 22:48: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:43:37PM +, Jay wrote: You can build gcc 4.3.1 and 4.3.2 just f

Compiling gcc for cygwin

2008-08-22 Thread NightStrike
I figured I would take the liberty of informing anyone from the cygwin community that might not be on the gcc mailing lists. After a recent merge of the "tuples" branch of gcc to the mainline gcc, gcc stopped being compilable by the 3.4.4 compiler that comes with cygwin. There are two bugs for th

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-20 Thread NightStrike
On 6/20/08, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's definitely a good suggestion, quite possibly a great suggestion. > > However, having made it, it is now just going to sit there in the mail > archive for ever and ever and not ever do anything all by itself. > > I think the point that cg

Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-24 Thread NightStrike
On 4/24/08, Nefastor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > > Nefastor wrote: > > > >> (...) I don't know which of Cygwin's /dev/tty device corresponds to which > >> serial > >> port on my PC (that is, I only know the COM port number). I can "sort of > >> guess" /dev/tty0 is CO

Re: Bash.exe stays open after Putty is closed

2008-04-05 Thread NightStrike
On 4/5/08, Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip lots of useless arguing] Look, use whatever you want, I don't really care. If you like cygwin's ssh, wonderful! I don't. Putty provides me the flexibility I need to access many ssh features on a regular basis for the things that I do, a

Re: Bash.exe stays open after Putty is closed

2008-04-05 Thread NightStrike
On 4/5/08, Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NightStrike wrote: > > Killing putty with Alt-F4 is the same as losing connectivity, or putty > crashing (rare as that is), or any of several other scenarios where there is > abnormal termination. Does bash remain runni

Re: Bash.exe stays open after Putty is closed

2008-04-05 Thread NightStrike
On 4/5/08, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 4 18:58, Christian Borchert wrote: > > I just installed Cygwin with OpenSSH and got it setup on Windows Server > > 2003. > > When I use Putty on a remote machine to connect to the server, the server > > starts a bash.exe processes. >

Re: Cygwin on x64

2008-03-21 Thread NightStrike
On 3/13/08, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NightStrike wrote on 13 March 2008 19:20: > > > Is cygwin for Win64 native 64-bit, or does it run in the WoW > > compatibility layer? > > The latter. There's no such thing as "cygwin for Win64"; the d

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread NightStrike
On 3/19/08, Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * When I want to test installing something myself for which there is > > no cygwin package supplied, and I don't want to break anything (nor am > > I able to backup the current cygwin root tree) > > We have /usr/local or /opt for that. Fur

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread NightStrike
On 3/19/08, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't assume that everyone who asks the question > is trying to cheat or bend the rules; I'm a pretty fierce It is true -- not everyone who wants multiple cygwins installed is a software packager trying to profit off of cygwin. I have found it be

Re: gmp/mpfr status

2008-03-18 Thread NightStrike
On 3/18/08, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bobby McNulty wrote: > > > It built fine. Installed. Got to build mpfr 2.31, and gmp 4.2.2 kept showing > > 4.2.1. > > That's because toplevel configure will find the system gmp header in > /usr/include unless you pass --with-gmp= and > --with-

Re: gmp/mpfr status

2008-03-18 Thread NightStrike
On 3/18/08, Tim Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been building gcc 4.3 and 4.4 with mpfr upgraded to 2.3.1, taking the > gmp provided by cygwin. gcc build doesn't complain about mpfr 2.3.0 until > you get to a few testsuite failures, but there seems no point in using > less than 2.3.1. > T

gmp/mpfr status

2008-03-17 Thread NightStrike
Is there an approximate timeline for when the gmp and mpfr packages will be upgraded to the minimum required for compiling gcc? Really, I guess it's just mpfr that has to be upgraded to 2.3.0., but I think mpfr 2.3.0 requires gmp 4.2.2. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-

Cygwin on x64

2008-03-13 Thread NightStrike
Is cygwin for Win64 native 64-bit, or does it run in the WoW compatibility layer? -- 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/fa

Re: Easy question

2008-03-12 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Phil Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Troy Bull wrote on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:45 PM:: > > > > Greetings > > > > I use rxvt and I use the -fg and -bg to set colors. Where can i find > > a list of the colors that I can put in there. I know I can do the

Re: writing to /proc file system

2008-03-04 Thread NightStrike
On 3/4/08, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 4 10:12, Jeff Fulmer wrote: > > I'd like to access and write to the /proc file system from a java program. > > Can somebody steer me in the right direction? I'm starting to feel that > > I've exhausted my search options... > > /proc i

ncurses packages

2008-02-24 Thread NightStrike
There are various libncurses packages, as well as a package named just "ncurses". What is the difference between these? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

cygwin.h and debug formats

2007-07-10 Thread NightStrike
cygwin.h doesn't define DWARF2 as an option for debugging formats. This causes a large array of spurios warnings of the form: /tmp/ccifRtnm.s:248198: Warning: .stabs: description field '138ef' too big, try a different debug format Is it at all possible to include DWARF2 support in future rele