New Google Review

2024-12-12 Thread James Farrell via Cygwin
ews like we do-guaranteed. Let me know if you would like to start with our 20 or 50 reviews plan. Thanks, James Farrell Co-founder | Review For You -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.ht

Chromedriver does not launch from python 3.9 script

2024-01-20 Thread James via Cygwin
Latest version of Cygwin installed and updated. I'm trying to run this python script which uses chromium in order to execute. I got it all installed, and I'm just now trying to run the script and login, but it keeps saying it cannot find the chromedriver.exe. But the file exists and I know it's

Re: "Internal Error: gcrypt library error 60 illegal tag." when scripting

2024-01-02 Thread James Hanley via Cygwin
idea why those sites would have issues in the script but not when selecting from the picker? -Jim On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 9:41 AM James Hanley wrote: > when running the following script below - I always get the error indicated > in the subject line. If I click another site from the UI th

"Internal Error: gcrypt library error 60 illegal tag." when scripting

2023-12-22 Thread James Hanley via Cygwin
when running the following script below - I always get the error indicated in the subject line. If I click another site from the UI then after it works fine. If I change the script to reflect that selected site from the UI and re-run, I get the same error mentioned. Any ideas? """ #!/bin/sh (

vim: errors launching "/usr/bin/vi

2023-12-19 Thread Beau James via Cygwin
This problem appeared with my most recent Cygwin update that included an update to "vim". My Cygwin installation now show vim version 9.0.2115. Launching VIM from the shell running in a mintty window using the full pathname "/usr/bin/vim" works fine. But launching "/usr/bin/vi" (which has wo

Re: 1 [main] bash 17336 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com

2022-04-01 Thread James
gt;pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list > >cygwin@cygwin.com > > >Not sure if it's interesting? > > > >Kind regards, > >James > > > https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-find_fast_cwd-warnings > -- Problem reports:

Re: 1 [main] bash 17336 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com

2022-04-01 Thread James
Never mind I'd say. I got the error when launching C:\Appz\Cygwin\Cygwin.bat Which is just @echo off C: chdir C:\Appz\Cygwin\bin bash --login -i If however I run C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe It works fine. On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 8:28 AM James wrote: > Hi there, > > > I ju

1 [main] bash 17336 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com

2022-04-01 Thread James
Hi there, I just got that error message, asking me to report it here. 1 [main] bash 17336 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Not sure if it's interesting? Kind regards, James -

Download errors Cygwin Digest, Vol 23, Issue 55

2022-01-23 Thread James McKelvey
I keep getting download errors for  python-sip-6.5.0-1. My Cygwin is otherwise up to date. I've tried multiple repositories.Today it was mirrors.sonic.net. On Sunday, January 23, 2022, 04:00:56 AM PST, cygwin-requ...@cygwin.com wrote: Send Cygwin mailing list submissions to     cyg

IEEE 128 Support Re: Cygwin Digest, Vol 22, Issue 26

2021-12-14 Thread James McKelvey
I have an up-to-date Cygwin and the latest snapshot of gcc-11 on Windows 10. How do I have to configure to make C++use IEEE-128 for long double? No big deal, I'm just curious. I could build gcc-12 (or other) if that helps. On Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 04:00:28 AM PST, cygwin-requ...@cygw

Business Phone solution for Village Mart?

2021-10-04 Thread James Traya via Cygwin
-winning support ✔ Tons of extras *If Yes*: Let me know the best number to call (on top of the count of employees at your company) Thanks James Traya Independencytelecommuter Not interested in receiving messages like this? Message back ““DISCONTINUE” bromocyanid coccygeal chlamydophore

startxdmcp.bat doesn't discover its path

2021-02-23 Thread James Hanley
Inside of the ./bin/startxdmcp.bat arround line 30, the script hard codes the variable assignment as such: SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin This is a non-issue on 32bit installations of Cygwin, but 64 bit seem to install the environment into C:\cygwin64 and fails to properly run. Discovering the prefix or p

Seeking For Collab With cygwin.com

2020-10-10 Thread Dino James via Cygwin
Seeking For Collab With cygwin.com Hey, I’m Dino James. I’m a huge fan of your blog cygwin.com, especially your last post that you published. I’ve come across a few topic pieces that I think your readers will love. In fact, Your competitors ranks for them, and they have only a small fraction of

Remote Work Solutions in the Time of the Pandemic

2020-03-25 Thread James Daab
uld you have any questions or feedback, please let me know. Otherwise, I wish you all the best and I won't bother you again. Kind regards, James Daab CEO | Togedo Sp. z o.o. http://url716.togedo.com/ls/click?upn=n6fSsmCc27ys20TM5pHuAUWBnfwyWKBIoa3CjqDe1ck-3DIj

APEX Expo 2019 Attendees Database

2019-08-22 Thread Evelyn James
s, Evelyn James Marketing Executive. If you do not wish to hear from us again, please respond back with "Obliterate" and we will honour your request.

Best documentation for how to use cygport

2019-03-06 Thread James Darnley
What's the best documentation to read to understand how to use cygport to build packages? I am trying to use it to build Lua 5.3 and some modules. I think I bashed the Lua 5.2 cygport file into the right shape to build 5.3 correctly. But I don't know how to use the result of that to build other

cygwin 3.0.1-1 breaks my sshd install

2019-02-20 Thread James R. Phillips via cygwin
quite sure this is not a firewall issue. I have not been able to locate any relevant information in /var/log. I see no diagnostic information in the files there. After downgrading back to 2.11.2-1, connection functionality returns to normal. Note: cygcheck.out created _after_ downgrade. R

Re: pthread_cond_timedwait with setclock(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) times out early

2018-11-30 Thread James E. King III
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 7:23 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Nov 29 17:38, James E. King III wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:18 AM Corinna Vinschen > > > I created a patch and uploaded new developer snapshots to > > > https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please

Re: pthread_cond_timedwait with setclock(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) times out early

2018-11-29 Thread James E. King III
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:18 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Nov 26 17:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Nov 26 10:47, James E. King III wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 10:35 AM Corinna Vinschen > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On N

Re: pthread_cond_timedwait with setclock(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) times out early

2018-11-26 Thread James E. King III
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 10:35 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Nov 25 09:01, James E. King III wrote: > > I have isolated a problem in pthread_cond_timedwait when the condattr > > is used to set the clock type to CLOCK_MONOTONIC. In this case even > > though a target tim

pthread_cond_timedwait with setclock(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) times out early

2018-11-25 Thread James E. King III
Mount registry: 3 Cygwin registry name: Cygwin Installations name: Installations Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Shared id: cygwin1S5 /* * Copyright (C) 2018 James E. King III * * This test exposes a problem in cygwin's condition var

No thread safety in clock_gettime (hires_ns::prime)

2018-11-23 Thread James E. King III
tallations Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Shared id: cygwin1S5 /* * Copyright (C) 2018 James E. King III * * Exposes a race condition in hires clock initialization * If two threads call ::clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) they * will race to perform one-time global initialization.

NDI[SVI]: JKT: Blsvn: JV Invite

2018-10-21 Thread James Kitula
condition before proceeding further. This is my personal email: jakitu...@outlook.com Looking forward to hear from you. Sincere regards, James Kitula. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: vim yellow lines problem

2018-10-09 Thread James Darnley
On 2018-10-09 10:49, Tapas Mishra wrote: > I had a C program which I copy pasted and there were line numbers in code. > So I replaced line numbers in vi by following command > :%s/\d*. (<-- last of * is a dot) > > Now I am opening vim in cygwin then all typed lines are coming yellow. > https://i.

Re: speeding up a paste operation

2018-08-24 Thread James Darnley
On 2018-08-25 01:30, Lee wrote: > In retrospect, I should have created the file some other way, but still.. > - grab the top 1M hosts from from > http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/index.html > - open w/ libreoffice > - select the host name column, right click & select copy (all 1 mi

Re: Strange git issue with a particular repo

2018-08-05 Thread James Darnley
On 2018-08-05 10:21, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > Hi. > > john doe wrote: > >> Linux is case sensitive and Windows is case preserving. >> That is probably the issue here, did the case of the files has been >> changed (rename 100%)? >> >> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/repos/git/case-sensit

octave 4.4.0-2 missing octave-gui

2018-07-19 Thread James R. Phillips via cygwin
would be desirable to have it available for users. As always, thanks to Marco Atzeri for the excellent work in making octave available in Cygwin. Regards James Phillips -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

2018-06-04 Thread James Darnley
On 2018-06-04 21:30, Frank Farance wrote: > Hi, I enjoy reading the cygwin E-mails, one of the few E-mail lists I > regularly follow. And I've administered multiple E-mail lists over > two-plus decades. > > I've seen a bunch of spam, and it's continued for a while (beyond my > expectation that it

What is the issue and how to correct

2018-05-21 Thread James Fu
Build of configuration Default for project test make all 1 [main] make 5788 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com make: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop. -- Problem reports:

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-15 Thread James Darnley
On 2018-05-15 18:22, L A Walsh wrote: > Someone wrote: >> I tried it for the hell of it. It worked ok for me. >> Running windows 10 - build 1803 - >> >> $ uname -a >> CYGWIN_NT-10.0 spiro1 2.9.0(0.318/5/3) 2017-09-12 10:18 x86_64 Cygwin >> >> Running as an normal user - I did not try an admin acct

Re: xhost: unable to open display ""

2018-01-24 Thread Waltz, James
...@users.sourceforge.net>> wrote: On 2018.01.23 19:57, Mark Geisert wrote: Waltz, James wrote: Hi- I think that I have installed all the necessary packages, but I still get the above error, when I type “xhost +” on my local machine. I am also still getting a “cannot open display: localhos

xhost: unable to open display ""

2018-01-23 Thread Waltz, James
Hi- I think that I have installed all the necessary packages, but I still get the above error, when I type “xhost +” on my local machine. I am also still getting a “cannot open display: localhost:10.0” error. This is DESPITE the fact that: - I set DISPLAY to “localhost:10.0” - X11Forwarding is

PostgreSQL version 9.6.6

2017-11-17 Thread Bliss, James P [US] (MS)
PostgreSQL has released version 9.6.6 to address security vulnerabilities. Is it possible for the maintainer of the postgresql packages to update the "postgresql" and "postgresql-client" packages to 9.6.6? Thank you, James Bliss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.c

FW: PostgreSQL 9.6.4

2017-08-18 Thread Bliss, James P [US] (MS)
PostgreSQL has released version 9.6.4. Is it possible for the maintainer of the postgres packages to update the "postgresql" and "postgresql-client" pacakges to 9.6.4? Thank you, James Bliss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Removing Git dependency on Perl [Was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Git v2.13.2-2]

2017-07-21 Thread James Darnley
On 2017-07-21 12:11, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> 2. Perl issue is still open: >> >> http://github.com/me-and/Cygwin-Git/issues/31 >> >> Currently only these files rely on it: >> >>usr/libexec/git-core/git-add--interactive >>usr/libexec/git-core/git-archimport > > Hmm. I'm struggl

Two Lyx 2.2.3-1 Issues

2017-06-08 Thread James R. Phillips via cygwin
it. 2) Spellchecking is not available from the gui despite aspell and hunspell both being installed. Regards James R. Phillips -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color

2016-09-16 Thread James Darnley
On 2016-09-15 22:47, David Karr wrote: > When I run mintty, the background is white, and normal text is black. > This is fine. However, there are some applications that are > displaying text in other colors, many of which are fine, but some apps > display some text in yellow, which on a white back

Unknown+User and Unknown+Group when using ls via ssh

2016-02-17 Thread James Whitwell
:/cygdrive/e:$ cd PDF -bash: cd: PDF: Permission denied WORKFLOW3:jams:/cygdrive/e:$ I’ve tried strace on the ls via ssh (attached) but can’t see anything obvious failing in it. Thanks, James. —— --- Process 6764 created --- Process 6764 loaded \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll

Re: Vim and cursor position

2016-02-14 Thread James Darnley
On 2016-02-14 21:24, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2016-02-14, James Darnley wrote: >> To the maintainer, Yaakov, or anyone else who knows: >> >> Have the compilation options of Vim changed recently? Is there some >> other recent change that would cause the behaviour des

Vim and cursor position

2016-02-14 Thread James Darnley
when running 'git commit', the cursor never starts on the first line but would appear to be where ever I ended the previous message. I find this jolly annoying. I would appreciate any insights people can offer. Thanks, James. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Fork and crashing problems

2016-02-02 Thread James Darnley
On 2016-02-02 15:53, Achim Gratz wrote: > James Darnley gmail.com> writes: >>> 0 [main] sh 10684 fork: child -1 - forked process 7812 died > unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC005, >> errno 11 > > Well, that exit code is ACCESS_VIOLATION... if you are sure i

Fork and crashing problems

2016-02-02 Thread James Darnley
\Phone Output from S:\cygwin\x86_64\bin\id.exe UID: 197608(James) GID: 197121(None) 197121(None) 197609(HomeUsers) 545(Users) 4(INTERACTIVE) 66049(CONSOLE LOGON) 11(Authenticated Users) 15(This Organization) 113(Local account

Re: Is there an easy way to find the version of Cygwin I have?

2016-01-13 Thread James Darnley
On 2016-01-13 16:36, Chuck Roberts wrote: > Including the bit depth, 32 or 64-bit. Plus critical DLL files. uname -a What critical DLL files are you looking for? You can also run cygcheck -c to check the versions of the packages you have installed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: X11 Fails to load on WindowsXP normal user

2015-08-19 Thread L. D. James
On 08/19/2015 11:35 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 19/08/2015 00:04, L. D. James wrote: I installed Cygwin on Windows XP with X11. I tested it and it works as expected. Then I logged in as a normal user (not administrator). I get the following error when trying to X11: A fatal error has occurred

X11 Fails to load on WindowsXP normal user

2015-08-18 Thread L. D. James
t the same results. I found that if I add the user account to Administrators X11 will then work without errors. Can someone advise what has to be done to make X11 work with a normal user's account? Thanks. -- L. James -- L. D. James lja...@apollo3.com www.apollo3.com/~ljames --

Re: Vim, Mintty, and mouse resizing no longer works.

2015-07-11 Thread James Darnley
On 2015-07-11 23:13, Thomas Wolff wrote: > If I only patch the apparently non-working version of mintty to report > version 1.2 and change nothing else, > it works! This is obviously a bug in vim, not mintty, and a very silly > one, because if must be checking the terminal version and enable the >

Re: Vim, Mintty, and mouse resizing no longer works.

2015-07-11 Thread James Darnley
On 2015-07-11 22:44, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 11.07.2015 um 20:11 schrieb James Darnley: >> On 2015-07-11 13:59, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>> Am 11.07.2015 um 02:52 schrieb James Darnley: >>>> Hi Thomas >>>> >>>> Unfortunately I have a complaint to

Re: Vim, Mintty, and mouse resizing no longer works.

2015-07-11 Thread James Darnley
On 2015-07-11 13:59, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 11.07.2015 um 02:52 schrieb James Darnley: >> Hi Thomas >> >> Unfortunately I have a complaint to make. >> >> When using the latest Mintty release I can no longer use the mouse to >> resize split windows i

Vim, Mintty, and mouse resizing no longer works.

2015-07-10 Thread James Darnley
Hi Thomas Unfortunately I have a complaint to make. When using the latest Mintty release I can no longer use the mouse to resize split windows in Vim. In 1.1.3, I can drag any window separator around to change the size of them. In 2.0.2 Aim appears to interpret the mouse as trying to make a vis

Re: Release: mintty 2.0.1

2015-07-03 Thread James Darnley
On 2015-07-03 23:18, Thomas Wolff wrote: > * Option MiddleClickAction=void disables mouse-middle-click pasting (#384) Yay, and thanks. I wonder if that uses my patch. I can't wait for my mirror to get the package so I can see. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: mintty project

2015-05-31 Thread James Darnley
On 2015-05-31 23:15, Thomas Wolff wrote: > As a contributor to mintty, some sent me a notice discussing the move to > github > (http://www.reddit.com/r/cygwin/comments/37vgwi/what_happened_to_minttys_maintainer_andy_kopp/) > and now there is already a github fork of mintty > (https://github.com/now

reinstall cygwin

2015-05-28 Thread James Mao
? BTW, my os is windows 8. Thank you very much! James -- 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

Error compiling cygwin 2.0.2-1: conflicting if_nametoindex declarations

2015-05-21 Thread James Johnston
the FAQ as a requirement. Best regards, James Johnston -- 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

Error from Perl when running git add -p

2015-03-11 Thread James Darnley
(Now I need a different message and to remember to uncheck encryption.) Earlier today I ran setup.exe to update Cygwin and packages. Now when I try to use git add -p (one of its iterative modes) I get an error from Perl (I assume) that it cannot find Error.pm in @INC (I should really learn to no

Error from Perl when running git add -p

2015-03-11 Thread James Darnley
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What happened to get send-email

2014-09-05 Thread James Darnley
So what happened to git send-email lately? I guess I let the package be updated and suddenly git tells me that there is no such command. Was it not built? Like it used to be missing on x86_64? I rolled back for now. P.S. Please Cc me as I am not subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPG

Re: [cygstart] optional double slash after scheme for file URIs

2014-08-05 Thread James Nylen
...but that doesn't handle UNC paths. It might be worth looking at how Chromium does this: https://github.com/scheib/chromium/blob/master/url/url_parse_file.cc On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:21 PM, James Nylen wrote: > Chrome and IE cope with these variants just fine: > > file:C:/Proj

Re: [cygstart] optional double slash after scheme for file URIs

2014-08-05 Thread James Nylen
Chrome and IE cope with these variants just fine: file:C:/Projects file:/C:/Projects file://C:/Projects file:///C:/Projects file:C:/Projects IE doesn't like more than 4 slashes, but Chrome doesn't mind. Your patch appears to only cover 0 or 2 slashes. How about something like this instead o

Command-line package manager: cyg-apt

2014-08-04 Thread James Nylen
Some of you may have heard of cyg-apt which is a command-line package manager for Cygwin. I and another developer have made extensive updates and fixes to cyg-apt, and gotten it working pretty well: https://github.com/nylen/cyg-apt Bug reports and patches welcome. I've tried to contact cjcormie

GNU Awk 4.0.1: Cygwin's awk is filtering CR from the input

2014-06-17 Thread James Calfee
"It seems like the issue is awk specific under Cygwin. I tried a few different things and it seems that awk is silently treating replacing \r\n with \n in the input data." See stack overflow ticket #24251296 titled: does-awk-cr-lf-handling-break-on-cygwin Unfortunately the spam filter rejects li

RE: Pipe syncronization and incompatibility between Cygwin and .NET Framework 4.0

2013-12-23 Thread James Johnston
er hand, if removing the flag causes mass breakage, I am not sure what the solution should be. Best regards, James Johnston -- 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: Pipe syncronization and incompatibility between Cygwin and .NET Framework 4.0

2013-12-23 Thread James Johnston
r all I know. I haven't yet had time to delve into what Cygwin does differently from the other shells I tried. Maybe there is some uncommon pipe setting or configuration that causes this issue... Best regards, James Johnston -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

RE: Pipe syncronization and incompatibility between Cygwin and .NET Framework 4.0

2013-12-23 Thread James Johnston
full control over the creation of the pipes and full control over the reading/writing of the pipes - not the case here. So I can see why they went for WaitForMultipleObjectsEx method... the other methods have significant performance and/or functional limitations, and they probably found out fr

Pipe syncronization and incompatibility between Cygwin and .NET Framework 4.0

2013-12-20 Thread James Johnston
fix might look like? Thank you for any feedback. Best regards, James Johnston -- 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: Re: /etc/screenrc issue on cygwin64

2013-10-24 Thread James Phillips
On 10/21/2013 08:39 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> I have found that two lines in /etc/screenrc cause the nano editor to get >> one line off in its text buffer display when running gnu screen in a mintty >> terminal on cygwin64. The two lines are as follows (the ones beginning with >> "termcap" a

Re: setup.exe and mounting home directory in fstab

2013-10-04 Thread James R. Phillips
/home directory. The soft link was created using winsymlinks. This causes a cygwin terminal to ignore the previously created soft link and see a new empty user profile. It seems to me that setup should not step on a user's existing system configuration in this way. Regards James

/etc/screenrc issue on cygwin64

2013-10-04 Thread James R. Phillips
nt out the two lines identified above in /etc/screenrc and notice that the problem does not occur. Regards James R. Phillips -- 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

setup incorrectly(?) reports "first time you've installed Cygwin 1.7.x."

2013-04-30 Thread James Cook
Hallo Folks, I didn't find this in the mailing list archive - apologies if I missed it. I have W8 install: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.2-WOW64 Z21 1.7.17(0.262/5/3) 2012-10-19 14:39 i686 Cygwin Installed on or around 22 to 27.3.2013. Doing a setup.exe today - to get some extra packages - I keep gett

Re: cygwin Digest 30 Oct 2012 19:48:59 -0000 Issue 8142

2012-10-30 Thread James Coleman
Didn't see Marco's message. Simply adding a id tag to your documentation and linking to the portion of the document which contains a solution is a good idea. It'll make it easier for me to find my solution without learning something I wouldn't need from here on out. Thanks Marco, I'll look into it

RE: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS

2012-09-27 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Behalf Of Bry8 Star > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 05:14 > Subject: Re: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS > > James, you are right, a combination approach would be better. > > But before doing any major changes (on

RE: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS

2012-09-26 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 11:57 > Subject: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS > > Hello, > Please include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest code of "setup.exe" file, on webpage > next to "setup.exe" download url-link. > so we can know for sure, if we h

RE: stuff running slowly

2012-08-28 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 07:09 > Cc: Aharon Robbins > Subject: Re: stuff running slowly > > On 8/27/2012 11:28 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote: > > Michael, > > > > Thanks for your note. I understand that process creation on Windows is > > slower than on Linux. But wh

RE: /etc/profile

2012-08-21 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 14:39 > Subject: Re: /etc/profile > > > Eric Blake redhat.com> writes: > > Unfortunately, at least your windows system dll directory has to be on > > PATH, or cygwin1.dll will fail to load, so blindly removing ALL > > windows paths fr

internal-sftp logs

2012-08-17 Thread James Calfee
Where are the logs in Cygwin for sftp? I'm using the sftp subsystem. There is nothing to be found in /var/log/sshd.log or /var/log/*. I have already enabled logging in my sshd_config file as follows: Subsystem sftpinternal-sftp -l INFO -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob

RE: Promote sqlite 3.7.13-1 from test status?

2012-08-16 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 18:22 > To: Cygwin-L > Subject: Re: Promote sqlite 3.7.13-1 from test status? > > On 8/16/2012 10:34 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: > > is correct, Cygwin is supposed to be a Posix compliant environment > > It's also supposed to interoperate

RE: running interactive process on xp through cron not working

2012-08-10 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 04:13 > Subject: Re: running interactive process on xp through cron not working > > > Any ideas on how to make cron work to allow me run programs > > interactively like notepad? > > To be honest, making this work is tenuous at best. MS

RE: automatically using pipe_byte for certain EXE's

2012-07-27 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 10:05 > Subject: RE: automatically using pipe_byte for certain EXE's > > Daniel Colascione wrote: > >Since message pipes cause problems _in practice_ and byte pipes (which > >Cygwin lived with for many years) don't seem to cause problems _

RE: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-13 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 02:14 > Subject: Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration > > So I will just tar up the cygwin directory and put it back after the new install. If > I download a new copy of setup.exe and point it at the install directory,

RE: CTRL+C is not working with java on latest cygwin 1.7.15

2012-07-12 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 20:07 > Subject: Re: CTRL+C is not working with java on latest cygwin 1.7.15 > > > Thanks for the reply "K Stahl", but it didn't work for me. I ran the same Test, > then press CTRL+C. But the cygwin terminal did nothing. It did not sto

RE: running .bat file in cygwin

2012-07-11 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 19:34 > Subject: Re: running .bat file in cygwin > > > "Note, fork requires the cygwin1.dll file. Are you prepared for that?" > > thanks for your response. What got me notice is the above comment? > Would you please elaborate on tha

RE: stdout not visible on some programs after upgrading from to 1.7.11-1 to 1.7.15-1

2012-06-25 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 19:11 > Subject: Re: stdout not visible on some programs after upgrading from to > 1.7.11-1 to 1.7.15-1 > > >> I use cygwin on a windows 7 machine to automate a Visual Studio 10 > >> build from the command line.  To do this, I invoke MSBui

RE: cygwin 1.7.15-1 - .NET console output locks up mintty

2012-06-25 Thread James Johnston
gwin.com/snapshots? > > Yes, replacing cygwin1.dll with the latest snapshot, cywgin1-20120619.dll, > makes the observed problem go away. > > James Johnson asked: > > > Try both of the following: > > > > 1. Update to latest development snapshot, should re

RE: cygwin 1.7.15-1 - .NET console output locks up mintty

2012-06-22 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 02:22 > Subject: cygwin 1.7.15-1 - .NET console output locks up mintty > > I have noticed a problem with the â"cygwin: The Unix emulation engine" > package, version 1.7.15-1. Output from .NET console does not show up, the > console > (min

RE: Cygwin unstable as hell on Windows7 64bit‏

2012-06-21 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 15:55 > Subject: Re: Cygwin unstable as hell on Windows7 64bit‏ > > On 21/06/2012 11:34 AM, Gerard H. Pille wrote: > > I checked the BLODA, but with only the following programs left > > running, Cygwin is still getting killed: > > > > $

RE: stdout not visible on some programs after upgrading from to 1.7.11-1 to 1.7.15-1

2012-06-20 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 16:27 > Subject: stdout not visible on some programs after upgrading from to 1.7.11- > 1 to 1.7.15-1 > > Hello, > > I use cygwin on a windows 7 machine to automate a Visual Studio 10 build > from the command line. To do this, I invoke

RE: sshd connections unexpectedly close on windows 2012

2012-06-18 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 16:34 > Subject: Re: sshd connections unexpectedly close on windows 2012 > > > " 5 [main] sshd 180 fhandler_dev_zero::fixup_mmap_after_fork: > requested 0xFEF2 != 0x0 mem alloc base 0x0, state 0x1, size > 1179648, Win32 error

RE: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-12 Thread James Johnston
> >Red Hat might not have to buy a code signing cert for this. They might > >already have one that will work: http://goo.gl/5Hm3C > > The Cygwin project is not Red Hat. It wouldn't be "Red Hat" buying anything. What is the Cygwin project then? I honestly thought it was a Red Hat project... I.

RE: stderr output from .NET apps causes shell hangs when cygwin is not running in Windows console

2012-06-08 Thread James Johnston
> And only now I've found the messages talking about similar issues after > fruitless Google searches. Same thing happens to me after I buy hardware. > > The problem appears fixed in the latest snapshot of cygwin1.dll. Indeed it was; the problem happened for at least two other people on the maili

RE: 1.7.15-1: mintty bash failing to run .NET executables ?

2012-05-22 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 06:14 > Subject: 1.7.15-1: mintty bash failing to run .NET executables ? > > After that, .NET programs failed to launch at all. The mintty bash terminal just > sits there, no CPU or anything else being used, the .NET .exe failing to launch

RE: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012

2012-05-21 Thread James Johnston
> On 5/18/2012 4:37 PM, JonY wrote: > >> OK, OK. Tack on "for most applications" to my statement (I thought it > >> was assumed). > > I believe the same was said when transitioning from 16bit to 32bit. > If so then they were wrong. Hey, why isn't "ls" a 16-bit program? Realistically, it does not

RE: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012

2012-05-21 Thread James Johnston
> How can 1000 machine instructions of 32 bit be larger than 1000 machine > instructions twice that size! Unless vastly different code generation happens > with 64 bit compilers the number of instructions emitted should be just > about the same yet with 64 bit instructions are obviously twice as bi

RE: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012

2012-05-18 Thread James Johnston
> 64-bit does not make things go any faster than 32-bit. Not true for some applications. For one of our applications that uses very large in-memory trees and is therefore heavy on the recursion, simply switching the compiler to 64-bit provided a 10% performance boost. Other commonly used comp

RE: rxvt loses output connection with non cygwin console processes

2012-05-16 Thread James Johnston
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 06:59:14PM +0200, Pawel Jasinski wrote: > >i have discovered something peculiar. > >I run my rxvt with the usual: > > > >C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -bg wheat -fg black -sl 5000 -e /bin/bash -ls > > > >now I try inside to run some *non* cygwin console program rxvt shows > >noth

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.15

2012-05-15 Thread James Johnston
> - Add CYGWIN=pipe_byte option to force opening of pipes in byte mode > rather than message mode. I can confirm that setting this fixes the test cases I was having problems with. Thanks! :) A suggestion: maybe modify the documentation to state why one would set this? Current documentation

RE: non-blocking reads of stdin in native child of cygwin process

2012-05-15 Thread James Johnston
In situations like this, it's useful to examine the .NET Framework and see how the Microsoft implementation works. Generally, I find that the implementations in the framework seem good and cover edge cases that I might not normally think about. In this case, the System.Console class has a method

RE: Cygwin passes through null writes to other software when redirecting standard input/output (i.e. piping)

2012-05-10 Thread James Johnston
> The cygwin DLL can't intercede here. It's not some superior process > controlling I/O. It's just a DLL used by two programs. cat is writing to the > stdout that it inherited from the shell. Good point, I had not thought this through enough. In this case, bash.exe is asking CYGWIN1.DLL for a

RE: Cygwin passes through null writes to other software when redirecting standard input/output (i.e. piping)

2012-05-09 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 19:00 > Subject: Re: Cygwin passes through null writes to other software when > redirecting standard input/output (i.e. piping) > > I can't say with 100% certainty, but I would bet with 90+% confidence that > this > is a bug in MS's libra

RE: Putting package directory in c:\Cygwin

2012-04-30 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 23:03 > Subject: Putting package directory in c:\Cygwin > > Putting the packages directly in c:\Cygwin is ill-advised because it shows up in > the posix directory "/". It pollutes the directory with millions of package > folders. But

RE: Cygwin passes through null writes to other software when redirecting standard input/output (i.e. piping)

2012-04-27 Thread James Johnston
tly right. I don't want to waste more hours trying to patch this thing if there's no real chance of acceptance. > Maybe I'm in the minority but I find long-winded impassioned pleas > rather boring and off-putting. So, continuing in this vein is not going > to be pr

RE: Cygwin passes through null writes to other software when redirecting standard input/output (i.e. piping)

2012-04-27 Thread James Johnston
st would be > even more filled with people complaining that Cygwin is slow. If there is no other way, then maybe it should. Better to be functional and sacrifice a couple milliseconds, rather than be fast and broken. Given that I've never seen pipes in the Windows command prompt or

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