Re: 3.1.x: Mangled input/output when calling non-cygwin programs

2020-02-02 Thread m0viefreak
On 02.02.2020 10:59, Takashi Yano wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 19:00:04 +0100 > m0viefreak wrote: >> Since Cygwin 3.1's pseudo console support was introduced I've run into >> lots of issues with non-cygwin programs. > > Thanks for the report. > &g

3.1.x: Mangled input/output when calling non-cygwin programs

2020-02-01 Thread m0viefreak
Hi, Since Cygwin 3.1's pseudo console support was introduced I've run into lots of issues with non-cygwin programs. 1) Mangled output: See screenshot [1]. As you can see, at what it seems random places, the output is broken. The above can easily be reproduced using Apache Maven in any proje

delay when querying /proc/loadavg

2015-06-22 Thread m0viefreak
Hello, I noticed that there is long delay when getting the content of /proc/ladavg: $ time cat /proc/loadavg 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/16 cat /proc/loadavg 0.01s user 1.47s system 100% cpu 1.480 total I am aware that loadavg is not meaningful on cygwin and always returns "0 0 0", but it is used in many

Re: 1.7.29: Incorrect output from the "file" command

2014-04-30 Thread m0viefreak
On 30.04.2014 20:55, Andy Leung wrote: > > In the 1.7.29 version of cygwin, the "file" command (5.18) outputs the > following: > > PNG image data72 72 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced > > > > While in previous versions, the "file" command actually outputs for the same > file: > > PNG i

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-binutils-2.24.0.1.acd6540-1 (x86/x86_64)

2014-04-07 Thread m0viefreak
>> I fixed it for now by placing an empty dummy default-manifest.o file in >> working directory. > > May you describe how you have crated it or attach here your empty file? > I tried in different ways but always fail in building with: > > "...default-manifest.o: file not recognized: File format n

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-binutils-2.24.0.1.acd6540-1 (x86/x86_64)

2014-04-06 Thread m0viefreak
> Please try again without the /bin/ prefix. > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16792 I see. Without the prefix it worked fine. >> Is there a way to disable that whole default-manifest.o thing for now >> without having to roll back to an older version of binutils? > > No, you may

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-binutils-2.24.0.1.acd6540-1 (x86/x86_64)

2014-04-06 Thread m0viefreak
The latest mingw64-binutils is broken for me: $ echo 'main() { }' > a.c; /bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc a.c /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find default-manifest.o $ echo 'main() { }' > a.c; /bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -m32 a.c /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find default-manifest.o It

Re: Question about the ps command, missing option -o to format the output

2014-03-26 Thread m0viefreak
> I have searched the man page and the Cygwin projects, but did not found a way > to get > this working. Cygwin uses a custom ps program that can also handle windows processes but which does not support all those options. The version you are looking for is available from the procps package. The

Re: Little cygpath improvement request

2014-02-15 Thread m0viefreak
I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to accomplish with that patch, but it looks to me as if everything you want is already present: cygpath --help states -i, --ignore ignore missing argument which outputs nothing if you pass it an empty argument (or even without any further ar

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-13 Thread m0viefreak
Hello, I have a a question about how this change is going to affect third-party utilities. Especially in the case once chooses to use the PAM method and get rid of any /etc/{passwd,group} files completely. There seem to be programs (mostly scripts) that make use of /etc/passwd as a file directly.