Re: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"

Stuart Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin on Tue, 27 May 2003 13:07:18 +0100: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:42:21PM +0100, Sam Edge wrote: > > Make sure that if your script uses Bash-specific features, it starts > > with #!/bin/

Re: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"

this whole script-handling behaviour had been moved out of the kernel.) I learn something new every day. Thanks. :-) Regards, -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http:

Re: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"

he problem? How can you guarantee that "env" is always in /usr/bin? It's also pretty inefficient, isn't it? Ho hum ... off topic thread alert! Mea culpa. ;-) Regards, -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:

Re: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"

other system. The obvious idea would be for the code that handles "#!/bin/" to look in the $PATH if doesn't exist in /bin - but there are security concerns with this approach, of course. Anyway, the whole discussion is not Cygwin specific. If anyone wants to discuss it furt

Re: activating a dial-up connection from cygwin

bly shut it > down) from the command line. Try typing rasdial /help from a command line. It's a built-in in NT, 2k and (I think) XP and works fine for me from CMD.EXE or bash. There's a freeware (or perhaps shareware) version available for 9x/Me as well. You'll have to Google for t

Re: apache problems gone with 1.50

y->Winsock socket API translation. Apparently this helps. (But I suspect the majority of the performance difference Stipe has found is the use of threads in the native Windows version against forking child processes in the *X versions which is a more expensive operation.) Regards -- Sam Edge

Re: Win2k and cygwin memory leak

gwin shared memory is automatically deallocated once the last Cygwin process exits, irrespective of any bugs (memory leaks) in Cygwin. Again, /supposedly/. ;-) Regards, -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

Re: Cygwin & MinGW

compile a program that will work on Windows machines that don't have Cygwin installed. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: ping on cygwin?

needing extra privileges. This might be useful for your version. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcecomm/htm/_wcesdk_internet_control_message_protocol__icmp_.asp (Don't worry that this is under the Windows CE section, by the way. It applies to NT/2k/X

Re: Advocacy

h you if I can. Right. This is deeply OT for [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I'll shut up again. -- Sam Edge This e-mail is intended for you. By reading it you have agreed to give me all assets in your posession and the labour of yourself and your descendants in perpetuity. And a date with your sister.

Re: Bash shell extension ?

l\BashHere] @="&Bash Prompt Here" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\BashHere\command] @="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe -c \"cd '%1' ; exec /bin/bash\"" -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Bash shell extension ?

a about creating a batch file and starting bash from this - possibly using cygpath to massage the passed pathname - would certainly make the line in the registry simpler but results in an extra CMD.EXE (or COMMAND.COM) process loading into memory and waiting around until the bash prompt exits. --

Re: Bash shell extension ?

when enclosed in single quotes. It might be time to think of a little utility that takes a Windows path as its first argument without converting any shell escapes in it, converts that to UNIX à la cygpath, chdirs to this and then execs its second argument with subsequent ones as the rest of t

Re: crypt command

er than the crippled Enigma one that crypt used to use - although a passphrase better than a single "X" character is probably a good idea. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentatio

Re: True Static Linking

end up dynamically linking to SYSTEM32, USER32, GDI32 and/or other "universal" Win32 system DLLs. The VC runtime are pretty much in this category. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Do

Re: will bash honor the suid bit or not?

solution. The Cygwin documentation tells us that all Cygwin processes have access to shared memory resources and can compromise each others integrity. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP?

hat is not correct, you can use whatever software you want to as long > as your 'Device' has a XP license. I've not read the full licence for XP but this passage taken alone would suggest that you need an extra licence for a monitor. After all, it's a separate device that displ

Re: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP?

ay, we're drifting off-topic so I'll stop.) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP?

You wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin on Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:34:16 +1000: > IIS runs just fine here (XP Pro). It also runs fine on NT 4 workstation > and 2000 workstation. Huh? I thought it'd only run on the "Server" version. That shows how m

Re: Getting Cygwin into a corporation..

ny Cygwin programs as NT services then they'll all be running interactively in the context of the current user so they can't do anything that can't be done anyway. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http:/

Re: Login as a different user?

ration..." <01fd01c1ebba$23197580$0d76aec7@D4LHBR01> -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

where I've no (or poor) access to the 'Net. Doing this is something of a headache and requires manual checking in the local package directory (now even more difficult because of its fragmented nature even when mitigated by clean_setup.pl - thanks Michael) and in the setup.exe

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

directory structures I'd certainly be interested to download them from the CVS server and take a look. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

t's going on. I then log in as ADMINISTRATOR to install because I have the Cygwin directory hierarchy protected against write by normal users. That way I'm running with potentially dangerous privileges for as short a time as possible. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

s are required for their particular needs and download those packages. They'll also end up with two copies of everything on their hard discs. This is hardly a good way of increasing the Cygwin user/developer base! -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscri

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

liminate this problem. No, it makes it worse. > So, I think the right answer to this is the standard one "patches > gratefully accepted". I'll look but I'm making no promises! ;-D -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

simply be too much hassle for many just to evaluate something. > A reference for this is > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-11/msg00271.html. Ah. Exactly. :-) So is it worth my while looking at the code with an eye to providing a patch for this (specifically the checkbox option

Re: 'redownload' aka download again and setup.exe

option within setup.exe, unless doing so would leave the code too difficult to maintain than is worth while. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

ckage). Yup. Agreed. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis! :-) Can I also suggest adding reget behaviour at some point, if it can be done reliably. Getting nine tenths of the way into a 15MB package when your line goes down is /very/ annoying! ;-( Finally, I stand by my wish to retain a separate down

Re: Using a real mirroring tool...

m files if you're just populating a local package directory. They're very small but every little helps and it reduces the clutter and can save a few sectors on the local disc. Or am I missing something? ("Again" do I hear from the chorus? Kindly leave the auditorium, sir!) ;

Re: using Windows links

SES_ROOT\lnkfile contains an empty string value called "NeverShowExt." Here ends the Windows shell tutorial.) ;-) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Color Output with Printf

gwin application you need to use the Win32 console output routines. Take a look at WriteConsoleOutput and WriteConsoleOutputAttribute in the Win32 API for setting colours. If you don't have MSDN on CD, you should check out the on-line version, in this case http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.

Re: How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

ters so I'm not sure why the original poster > asks about that. You could possibly pronounce it as the contracted expletive "Jeez!" ;-) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Support for Windows 2000 Professional

hive before posting questions here. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: apache PHP segmentation fault

local/lib/php.ini. Ah ha! I've copied the php.ini-recommended file from a download of 4.2.0 for Windows native to /usr/local/lib/php.ini and the problem has gone away. No more segmentation faults. Perhaps the package should include a default php.ini file for idiots like me? Thanks anyway. --

Re: apache PHP segmentation fault

e package isn't compiled with debug enabled. Perhaps I need to compile my own versions of Apache and mod_php as he suggests to pin down the location. Ho hum. Thanks anyway. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.c

Cygwin/Apache with PHP CGI

though I can't think why.) (I appreciate that CGI is a sub-optimal way of using PHP in Apache but at least this /is/ working for me and allows me to check my code more easily before uploading to my service provider's Apache/PHP server.) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: Cygwin/Apache with PHP CGI

n. (All I wanted it for is to be able to test PHP code before sending it to my - pretty basic - hosting server.) Thanks anyway. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://c

Re: Too stupid to use MinGW?

STL and tchar.h support. One point though. Instead of copying c:\cygwin\usr\include\g++-3 into c:\cygwin\usr\include\mingw as suggested it's easier to open a bash shell and cd /usr/include/mingw ln -s ../g++-3 . instead. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsub

Re: -mno-cygwin does not work for g++ and g77

no package but there are libraries available for C++ in MinGW. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg00652.html -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FA

setup.exe problem

anually all the files are extracted okay so I suspect the problem is with setup.exe. (I've also been having the same trouble as others with setup.exe 2.218.2.4 and 2.218.2.6 not working for "Install from Local Directory." and am having to use 2.194.2.26.) -- Sam Edge -- Uns

Re: setup.exe problem

e package archive file appears to be perfectly fine. It extracts correctly using tar but not using setup.exe. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.

Re: setup.exe problem

Harold L Hunt wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 14 May 2002 16:12:51 EDT: > The reason I chided you is that I happen to have inside knowledge that this > is a change ('problem') with the openbox package, not with setup.exe. Búgger! My mistake. Apologies. -- Sa

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

pain. (Xlib does object to the CRs.) Thanks. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Possible error in cygpath

Jorg Schaible wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin on Wed, 15 May 2002 11:44:51 +0200: > If we have to be Win95-compatible still Please don't consider dropping 95 and NT4 support just yet! There are still plenty of us running these OSes for all sorts of reasons.

Re: xterm title not shown

ofile sets up PS1 with the xterm escape sequences to put the username and current directory into the title. Either edit /etc/profile or override it in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_rc. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: ht

Re: Cygwin/Apache with PHP CGI

simple scripts appear to be working okay. By the way, PHP 4.2.1 is now available. Would it make sense to port this to Cygwin first before attempting a debug? -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html

Re: ssmtp 2.38.7-4 reads headers from message body.

s) /require/ CR-LF ("\r\n" i.e. "DOS") line endings. (Probably because debugging using dumb terminals or printers was easier that way in days of yore.) Regards, -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: ht

Re: ssmtp 2.38.7-4 reads headers from message body.

ourse, ssmtp > has never been written with textmode mounts in mind... Answered your own question. :-D The translation between the SMTP stream's CRLF and the UNIX (or DOS text-mode) LF is maybe done elsewhere? Does ssmtp explicitly set stdin to be text-mode? If it's coming from a UNIX

Re: Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?

nk that deserves a gold star. :-D I love Fridays. -- Sam Edge -- 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/

Re: Is there a 'ping' in cygwin?

eaven forbid, just use Windows Explorer to rename (F2) "PING.EXE" to "ping.exe". Regards, -- Sam Edge -- 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/

Re: error installing sshd on win2k3

> I am installing sshd on win2k3. Windows 2300?! Microsoft must be /really/ confident about this version of the OS. ;-) (Sorry.) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: h

Re: Cygwin1.DLL soon to be Windows Vista only

Finally I get to go for my MCSE certificate. I can't thank you enough. (Really, I CAN'T.) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/doc

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: units-2.11-1

7;s been a while since I was on here.) -- Sam Edge -- 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: chgrp in Windows

bsystem at all, although it is propagated through the CIFS network filesystem which is handy for us. You'll need to add a bolt-on (like SFU I think) if you want to see a tab on the Explorer security settings showing the primary group. Or just use Cygwin ls. :-) -- Sam Edge -- Sam Edge

Re: mintty hangs after exit

le bar, Alt-F4 etc.) close the window and the mintty process exits cleanly. Not a massive problem but slightly annoying. Cygcheck attached. -- Sam Edge -- Sam Edge Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Sat Aug 22 05:19:26 2015 Windows 7 Home Premium Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pac

Re: mintty hangs after exit

On 22/08/2015 05:54, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 22.08.2015 um 06:31 schrieb Sam Edge: >> On 22/08/2015 05:05, John Hein wrote: >>> Andrey Repin wrote at 02:05 +0300 on Aug 22, 2015: >>> > Just noticed a weird thing. Wonder if anyone can confirm or deny >>&

Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2

> unlikely >2G string; and it helps to never branch on uninitialized memory] > One might add, "Always, always initialize automatic variables. This ensures deterministic behaviour. The compiler will optimise out the redundant ones." Rapid diagnosis once reported so I&

Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2

ern compiler. Anyway, we're off-topic so adieu. -- Sam Edge -- 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: Question about flock - potential memory corruption?

. slight technical hitch? Your example flock.c doesn't call fork(), nor does it use your two macros MAX_ITER & CHILDREN. -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsu

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > and (of all things!) contain blanks, * rant mode on * What's wrong with blanks? The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so long as they're given null-terminated C-strings. Tools like find, xargs etc. have options to cope. The biggest problem is t

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

On 20/12/2015 13:31, Houder wrote: > > Yes Corinna, I "heard" you the first time ... > > ... as I said, it must be my __old__ age. Let us stop at that. > > Regards, > Henri > > Should I be asking for subscriptions to the System V wrinklies' club at this point? :-; (Wasn't expecting my little polem

Re: svn segfault when using svn+ssh schema

On 09/01/2017 19:07, Sam Edge wrote: > On 09/01/2017 02:04, Eliot Moss wrote: >> On 1/8/2017 3:45 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: >>> On 1/8/2017 6:12 AM, Sam Edge wrote: >>>> I've seen a number of 'svn segfault' threads on the mailing list >>

Re: svn segfault when using svn+ssh schema

On 16/01/2017 20:26, Jon Turney wrote: > On 16/01/2017 20:07, Sam Edge wrote: >> On 09/01/2017 19:07, Sam Edge wrote: >>> On 09/01/2017 02:04, Eliot Moss wrote: >>>> On 1/8/2017 3:45 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: >>>>> On 1/8/2017 6:12 AM, Sam Edge wrot

Re: cygpath

of this work-around. Generally, all you need to do is accept the Copenhagen interpretation in your scripts and just calculate. ;-) The only thing you need to be careful of is that if you really mean to pass the glob to your Windows app, you leave it out of the string passed to cygpath e.g. cygsta

Re: cygpath

On 11/02/2017 00:05, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 2/10/2017 6:50 PM, Sam Edge wrote: > >> Sorry, did anyone actually read Andrey's post? > > Yes, but I was going through the emails in order and responded > to the earlier one before I got to the later one. Sorry to have

Re: sshd permits logon using disabled user?

On 27/01/2019 22:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 27 17:49, Sam Edge (Cygwin) wrote: >> On 25/01/2019 18:03, Bill Stewart wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:48 AM Stephen Paul Carrier >>> wrote: >>> >>>> There are different paths to acces

Re: cygwin can not be compiled with gcc 8.3.0

On 05/07/2019 18:03, Biswapriyo Nath wrote: > > If it is deprecated then why the FAQ is not fixed yet? > As is normal, I'll think you'll find https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: cygwin can not be compiled with gcc 8.3.0

On 05/07/2019 21:46, Biswapriyo Nath wrote: > Now I'm sure that the issue in cygwin source code. I've installed all the > components. Also find same issue[1] provided a year ago. Cygwin needs some > papering[2] for gcc 8.3.0. > Hi again. I don't want to sound mean (https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM

Re: rename a user using setfacl -- possible? how?

s to manipulate the NTFS ACLs I'd be inclined to look at native tools, probably using a Powershell script if you need to automate it. If you use setfacl on paths outside your 'Cygwin domain' it's going to mess up the more normal Windows/NTFS ACL usage especially the inheritanc

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

Hi Andrey. Nice to be back in a thread with such esteemed folk. ;-) On 30/09/2017 10:00, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Sam Edge (Cygwin)! > >> I've been developing a Python package that can interrogate and >> manipulate local package caches (the directories where se

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

On 30/09/2017 12:23, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Indeed. However, while off label usage of Cygwin is anathema to me but >> sometimes I wish 'base' wasn't quite so big and have to pare things down >> a little once installed, e.g. as part of a makefile- and/or >> Eclipse-based build tree in source code

Re: substitute for xclip?

Hi there. In the absence of a Cygwin-native utility, how about? x="$(powershell -command Get-Clipboard)" You can pipe to the Windows 'clip' utility to go the other way or use 'powershell -command Set-Clipboard'. But I agree, a Cygwin utility would be nice, unless

Re: substitute for xclip?

H again. Or you can use:- #!/bin/bash shopt -s lastpipe powershell -command Get-Clipboard | mapfile array_variable for multiline. -- Sam Edge On 19/10/2022 08:44, Sam Edge wrote: Hi there. In the absence of a Cygwin-native utility, how about? x="$(powershell -command Get-Clipboard)&

Re: substitute for xclip?

e clipboard: > 1. The commands 'getclip' and 'putclip' > 2. Redirection to/from /dev/clipboard > Eek. I knew that. I use them all the time. Apologies for the bad steer ... and for top-posting! -- Sam Edge OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature --

Re: substitute for xclip?

which of course can be extracted by scripts etc. It appears that Windows Explorer doesn't also place a textual representation onto the clipboard (the Windows clipboard allows multiple representations to exist simultaneously) which is what would be required for Cygwin to use it at present. -- S

Re: A notion about saving and restoring Windows file security info

sible values that only affect how they're written and not how they're read. Just a thought. -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https:

Re: Cygwin Perl has slowed in recent months

f processes "then" > as it does  "now". > In  which case the increase in the run time could be attributed to Cygwin. Indeed. But perhaps what the Cygwin core and/or Cygwin Perl maintainers need is a simple test case Perl script that can be shown to be

Re: Cygwin Perl has slowed in recent months

On 24/05/2022 16:03, David Christensen wrote: On 5/24/22 01:47, Sam Edge wrote: On 24/05/2022 09:25, Csaba Raduly wrote:  > On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 20:47, Lee  wrote:  >>  >> On 5/22/22, David Christensen wrote:  >>> On 5/21/22 10:55, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:  >

Re: Unable to execute Cygwin application within UDF format

ng to identify the Cygwin root directory as one higher than its own location so that it can locate /etc/fstab etc. If it's in the root of a drive maybe it's getting confused. Create an x:\bin\ directory (where x is the drive letter of the UDF device) into which to place cygwin1.dll and the exec

Re: Wish list: Cygwin `mv` to move OneDrive files without downloading them

e using the underlying POSIX 'rename within mount' API which hopefully uses the Win32 'rename' but not in a way that carries the new 'O' attribute. Presumably PowerShell's Move-Item does use the right flags to the Win32 API call. One of the problems t

Re: sshd permits logon using disabled user?

security auditing. On the other hand, I am baffled as to why Windows itself allows a token to be created for an account that is disabled or locked out. If Cygwin can do it, other programs could too so you're still vulnerable. -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

Re: Windows to Cygwin username mapping: Domain before local account when duplicate name?

you'd > have to specify an authority (e.g. domain\username). > > It seems like Cygwin looks up the domain account first. > > Is this correct, or am I missing something? Is this by design? > > Thanks, > > Bill https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-map

Cygserver functionality in UG

iliar with the web site source tree. I'll try to take a look next week if one of you stout fellows hasn't done it. -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubsc

Dependency issues in setup.ini.

i - even to the point that some packages depend upon themselves! And also we have some dependency omissions. For example, mintty doesn't depend upon anything - it has no requires field. Surely, every binary package should depend at least upon 'cygwin'? Is this a known issue or sho

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

On 29/09/2017 23:39, Steven Penny wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:16:17, "Sam Edge (Cygwin)" wrote: >> For example we have lots of dependency loops in the 'requires' fields in >> setup.ini - even to the point that some packages depend upon themselves! > >

Re: newlib-cygwin.git repository: Switching "master" to "main"

ster/slave relationship anyway. See https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master, for example:- * "In Casablanca, I am the master of my own fate." * "She is a master carpenter." * "He is a master of the violin." * "The professor is the master of the coll

Re: exe in path directory, "command not found"

instance exiting before returning. The second script ('npp') provides a wrapper around the first for POSIX programs looking for an executable e.g. git commit message editor etc. I've done the same for kdiff3 if anyone wants them. -- Sam Edge #!/bin/bash # # Script to add an "n

Re: mintty window border?

On 25/08/2023 08:18, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 10:54 PM Gary Johnson via Cygwin > wrote: >> >> On 2023-08-25, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: >>> >>> >>> Am 25.08.2023 um 02:41 schrieb Gary Johnson via Cygwin: On 2023-08-24, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: >

Re: /usr/bin/fallocate missing in Cygwin 3.5's "util-linux" ...

On 24/01/2024 06:33, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > Does /usr/bin/cp in Cygwin copy holes correctly Yesterday, within the 'ware, I saw some bytes that weren't there! They weren't there again today, They'd better not just go away. -- Sam Edge (with apologies t

Re: Cygwin a bit slow

hreads just to do AV scanning does not fill me with confidence! Wherever possible, I remove third-party AV from Windows machines and install group policy to enforce Windows Defender and malware detection in the browser and/or a proxy & the email server instead. Saves a lot of CPU cycles. :-)

Re: Cygwin a bit slow

of doing so. (Good luck with the last - IT managers are often petty empire builders who don't like taking advice even when it's good & saves money. I know - I have been one in past times!) -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: cygwin runs three instances of rsync.exe at the same time

an rsync daemon process or via remote shell, usually ssh. The documentation for rsync explains this. -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http

Re: cygwin runs three instances of rsync.exe at the same time

On 19/06/2024 07:09, Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote: This is how rsync works. The executable forked from the command line runs up two communicating child processes to handle the 'from' and 'to' ends of the transfer. I forgot to say, this is how rsync works on any platform such

Re: cygpath and star character

th it will naturally consider it to be a character in a pathname and give you the equivalent Windows path that Cygwin would construct using the open() syscall. This is cygpath's purpose, after all! -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https:

Re: objects created in a dir w/cygwin mangled perms; inherit no-access

nt you from using it for recovery. PEBCAK -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: META: Fix the signup procedure?

ists with a pretty small moderation team. Sounds like an offer to me. Thanks Russell. ;-) -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: objects created in a dir w/cygwin mangled perms; inherit no-access

On 23/08/2021 20:31, L A Walsh wrote: > > On 2021/07/15 01:23, Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote: >> (By the way, the permission workaround is another good reason for not installing in system root if advice from the authors of Cygwin - Corinna et al - isn't enough for you.) > --- >

Re: mmap failure [was: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?]

On 07/09/2021 23:44, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > MS can't add a new named field to a documented struct without breaking a lot of code.  I think it's extremely unlikely that they would do that.  On the other hand, I think it's very likely that a reader of the Cygwin code would be confused by c

Re: possible snprintf() regression in 3.3.2

On 18/11/2021 14:27, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Nov 18 16:11, Noel Grandin via Cygwin wrote: On 2021/11/18 3:19 pm, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: My patch raised NDEC from 43 to 1023 to allow aproximately the same number of digits as glibc. Newlib strives to support embedded

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