Cygwin/X - Query: why invoking from cmd backgrounds?

2024-01-20 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, I am just wondering if anyone understands why XWin detaches/runs in the background, when launched from Windows Command Prompt. This being different to when run from Mintty. Here's what happens with my Mintty invocation, which stays in the foreground: | $ XWin :1 -nolisten tcp -ac

Re: Sparse file support for SMB by default? Re: Comment about "Cygwin: sparse support: enable automatic sparsifying of files on SSDs", extend feature to VMware/qemu disks?

2023-12-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi Corinna, On 6/12/2023 8:38 pm, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: If you want to see if a filesystem supports that flag, just use the /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo tool: $ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo . Device Type: 7 Characteristics: 20020 Volume Name: Serial

Re: Command 'net user' outputs error message if PKA is used

2023-11-27 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, On 27/11/2023 7:51 pm, tk--- via Cygwin wrote: Any idea why this is happening ? I suspect the reason is related to this long standing understanding of Cygwin: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00087.html On 03/09/2004 2:13 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Public Key

Re: Cygwin/X - *bizarre discovery* doorknock like behaviour for new windows

2023-10-21 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, On 20/10/2023 12:40 pm, Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin wrote: On 20/10/2023 11:50 am, Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin wrote: What I am seeing is that for Cygwin/X, in multi-window mode (and it just occurred to me it would be helpful to check the behaviour in rooted(? manual page terminology) mode

Re: Cygwin/X - doorknock like behaviour for new windows

2023-10-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
On 20/10/2023 11:50 am, Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin wrote: What I am seeing is that for Cygwin/X, in multi-window mode (and it just occurred to me it would be helpful to check the behaviour in rooted(? manual page terminology) mode. I'll follow-up on this)... in multi-window mode (Xwin

Cygwin/X - doorknock like behaviour for new windows

2023-10-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, I've now noticed this across two different installations, both Windows 10 and Windows 11. I've refrained from attaching a cygcheck output for the moment, because I'm confident this is reproducible. What I am seeing is that for Cygwin/X, in multi-window mode (and it just occurred to me it

Re: sshd_config AllowStreamLocalForwarding *remote not possible* / effectively privsep off

2023-08-07 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, I've just updated the subject line for accuracy. Only remote/reverse unix socket forwarding fails. Further, I have a clarification that might have significance: On 8/08/2023 3:40 am, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > On Aug 7 22:11, Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin wr

Re: sshd_config AllowStreamLocalForwarding perm off / effectively privsep off

2023-08-07 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, On 8/08/2023 3:40 am, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Aug 7 22:11, Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin wrote: .. Yes, the parts of OpenSSH requiring descriptor passing are disabled in OpenSSH. Otherwise, what's the solution? Solution for what? What is it you want to do? Reverse unix

sshd_config AllowStreamLocalForwarding perm off / effectively privsep off

2023-08-07 Thread Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin
Hi, For the current OpenSSH server (9.3p2), AllowStreamLocalForwarding defaults on. That means both local and remote unix socket port portforwarding are possible. For Cygwin, it appears the remote form of this is not possible. The following message is seen on the client-side, regardless of

Re: minor correction: ca-certificates postinstall permission denied error

2022-08-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 26/08/2022 1:22 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: -B, no privelege elevation). Both installs have had an manual manipulation of the directory, or its parents up to /etc. Both installs have *not* had any manual manipulation... -- Regards, Shaddy -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com

Resend: ca-certificates postinstall permission denied error

2022-08-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 26/08/2022 1:10 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, Getting consistent permission denied errors on postinstall of Apologies for the rendering of the original email. Email client did something unexpected with line breaks. I've loopback tested this resend first. Getting consistent

ca-certificates postinstall permission denied error

2022-08-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, Getting consistent permission denied errors on postinstall of ca-certificate. It appears to be oversight, out of a well-intentioned attempt to protect script generated reference files. There error as it appears in setup.log.full: 2022/08/26 11:39:07 running: e:\cygwin-x86_64\bin\bash.exe

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.917)

2022-01-30 Thread Shaddy Baddah
for your prompt response. -- Regards, Shaddy Baddah -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.917)

2022-01-26 Thread Shaddy Baddah
hunch. Otherwise, even with -v on command line, there was nothing that could indicate to me what was causing the issue. I'm hoping that this silent exit can be fixed, to at least give an indication, via logging or pop-up or other, of what is blocking the install. -- Regards, Shaddy Baddah

Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?

2021-11-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
ew corporate Windows installs disable running executables off of removable media. I recall being able to defeat that by avoiding running directly from the Windows shell (explorer.exe), but... your mileage may vary, so to speak. -- Regards, Shaddy Baddah Ph: 0406 753 978 -- Problem reports:

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *resolved. /tmp/cygwin1.dll. Apologies * cpp/gcc

2020-05-07 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 7/5/20 1:44 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Thanks. Yes, I am mapping my directory outside the cygwin directory tree, via /etc/fstab. I will certainly check the perms and see if they make a difference. However, you must admit, it is weird that running as.exe with path /usr/bin/as.exe does

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *now isolated to /tmp weirdness* cpp/gcc

2020-05-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Doug, On 7/5/20 11:19 am, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: I think this is the essence of your problem. It looks like you are mapping you temporary directory outside the cygwin directory tree, Not sure how you are doing it. For me, I have TMP=/tmp and TEMP=/tmp in my cygwin environment. In

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *now isolated to /tmp weirdness* cpp/gcc

2020-05-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 29/4/20 10:38 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Matches what I see when I ctrl-d the *hung* 64-bit cc1. At this point, I am going to back right off. I am fairly sure now this is some form of BLODA. We do have something installed that logs all commands run. And that is so sacred to our

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *now further isolated, back to a fork issue* cpp/gcc

2020-04-29 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 29/4/20 2:06 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi Eliot, On 28/4/20 10:46 pm, Eliot Moss wrote: Could it be a cygwin fork problem?  Definitely possible in a 32-bit environment.  I had to rebase all the time. Now that I'm mostly in the 64-bit environment it's not such an issue. I suspected so

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *now further isolated, potential console issues* cpp/gcc

2020-04-28 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Eliot, On 28/4/20 10:46 pm, Eliot Moss wrote: Could it be a cygwin fork problem?  Definitely possible in a 32-bit environment.  I had to rebase all the time. Now that I'm mostly in the 64-bit environment it's not such an issue. I suspected so and did trigger a rebaseall... it hasn't

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *now isolated somewhat* cpp/gcc

2020-04-27 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 27/4/20 4:54 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Further, doing an strace seems to me to be a little revealing. Whilst I see cc1.exe in taskmgr, I do not see the process in strace. I realise now that I mightn't expect to see the cc1 process by name in the trace. But I have further information

Odd hang of cc1.exe, when invoking cpp/gcc

2020-04-27 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, First, I want to acknowledge that this could be exclusively a problem with my Windows 10 desktop. The problem I am having is when I run a simple gcc command, say gcc hello.c, the command hangs. In mintty, ctrl-c won't kill it. And I have to carefully kill the gcc process taskmgr, then kill

Re: Possible Cygwin setup regression with --prune-install

2019-08-29 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Achim, On 29/8/19 4:02 pm, Achim Gratz wrote: Shaddy Baddah writes: -Y --prune-install Prune the installation to only the requested packages My reading of that is that this should defeat any packages from being (automatically added). However, even with this option, the base packages

Possible Cygwin setup regression with --prune-install

2019-08-28 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I have a use-case for Cygwin setup, which I admit will seem strange, whereby I want it to do an "Install" with no packages selected at all. ie., just setup a "skeleton" of a Cygwin install. I value it, because based my own experience with the Cygwin setup code, it seems to "bootstrap" the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] screen-4.6.2-3 (test)

2019-04-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 16/4/19 11:40 pm, Andrew Schulman wrote: screen-4.6.2-3 is now available as a test release in Cygwin. This release includes a small change to the default /etc/screenrc, that has been reported to fix a screen corruption problem that some users - okay, Shaddy :) - have reported after

Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-09 Thread Shaddy Baddah
On 9/4/19 4:07 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: This helped with screen when using Putty to a Cygwin ssh session. For some reason, it isn't helping for running screen locally in a mintty session. And it's not mintty either, because I can ssh to a Debian stretch server within mintty and I can use its

Re: *spoke to soon to a* Workaround to screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-09 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 9/4/19 3:37 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I confirmed this by turning off the default "login" mode for a new session, which averted attempts to manage utmp entries, and therefore avoided the "utmp slot not found" message. I did this by launching a session via: screen -

Workaround to screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, So I've had an issue with screen for some years now. I do remember noticing its introduction, but I no longer can remember when that actually happened. As per the subject, I find that when I detach or exit a screen session the cursor ends up part way up the restored buffer, intermingled

Re: cygwin.com is down

2018-12-13 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 14/12/18 1:11 pm, Andy Li wrote: Looks like the website is down :( Not down for me. Not down according to: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/cygwin.com -- Regards, Shaddy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: [bug: csih] Setting privileged rights to cyg_server fails on Windows 7.

2018-06-13 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 14/06/18 07:22, Takashi Yano wrote: Hi Corinna, On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:14:07 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: There's something fishy in your environment. The variable LOGONSERVER is always set in Windows NT, at least since NT4. For standalone machines LOGONSERVER is set to "\\". You

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] freerdp 2.0.0-0.6.rc2

2018-05-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Yaakov, On 17/04/18 18:05, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * freerdp-2.0.0-0.6.rc2 * libfreerdp2_2-2.0.0-0.6.rc2 * libfreerdp2-devel-2.0.0-0.6.rc2 * libwinpr2_2-2.0.0-0.6.rc2 * libwinpr2-devel-2.0.0-0.6.rc2 FreeRDP is a

Resolved: Re: setup stuck on cygwin.ldif

2017-10-11 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 12/10/17 06:15, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/8/2017 9:46 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, I have a weird problem happening... so I have tried to update a 64-bit Cygwin installation on Windows 10 Pro. I closed all Cygwin processes, and a ps -ef is showing only the ps process itself. In anycase

Re: setup stuck on cygwin.ldif

2017-10-10 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 10/10/17 17:59, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 09/10/17 04:16, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-10-08 07:46, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I have a weird problem happening... so I have tried to update a 64-bit Cygwin installation on Windows 10 Pro. I closed all Cygwin processes, and a ps -ef

Re: setup stuck on cygwin.ldif

2017-10-10 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 09/10/17 04:16, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-10-08 07:46, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I have a weird problem happening... so I have tried to update a 64-bit Cygwin installation on Windows 10 Pro. I closed all Cygwin processes, and a ps -ef is showing only the ps process itself. In anycase

setup stuck on cygwin.ldif

2017-10-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I have a weird problem happening... so I have tried to update a 64-bit Cygwin installation on Windows 10 Pro. I closed all Cygwin processes, and a ps -ef is showing only the ps process itself. In anycase, during the install I was prompted that the file /usr/share/cygwin/cygwin.ldif was

Missing announcements for screen?

2017-05-02 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, So I noticed my recent fresh install of Cygwin has screen 4.5.1-1 installed. And the most recent release is 4.5.2-1. I've been afflicted by a screen bug that popped up some releases ago say about 1.5 year ago. Basically, after detach, the restored screen buffer is mildly corrupted. And the

Re: cygwinports.org: determine what in your install is now EOL

2017-03-28 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Yaakov, On 2017-03-28 16:51+1100, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2017-03-28 00:48, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I was hoping you could give some advise however. Is there a quick way to find which packages are installed, which are now no longer being maintained. ie. no longer available, because

cygwinports.org: determine what in your install is now EOL

2017-03-27 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Yaakov, I received the notification that cygwinports.org was closing immediately. This email is not complain about that. I want to thank you for running it so long with such quality over the years. I was hoping you could give some advise however. Is there a quick way to find which packages

Re: ssh-host-config: patch fix debug option + broken for me on Vista (non-domain)

2017-01-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 20/01/17 05:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 19 22:26, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 19/01/17 21:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 18 14:34, Shaddy Baddah wrote: ... And I'm sure the problem is that this well-intended change to the script fails on the assumption that LOGONSERVER

Re: ssh-host-config: patch fix debug option + broken for me on Vista (non-domain)

2017-01-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 19/01/17 21:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 18 14:34, Shaddy Baddah wrote: ... And I'm sure the problem is that this well-intended change to the script fails on the assumption that LOGONSERVER is always populated. It isn't for me on Vista. cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh

Re: ssh-host-config: patch fix debug option + broken for me on Vista (non-domain)

2017-01-17 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 18/01/17 14:34, Shaddy Baddah wrote: First please find attached a simple patch that fixes a problem I encountered running ssh-host-config with the --debug option. Also, it'd be nice if an enhancement was made to protect the privacy of silly people. -- Regards, Silly person

ssh-host-config: patch fix debug option + broken for me on Vista (non-domain)

2017-01-17 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, First please find attached a simple patch that fixes a problem I encountered running ssh-host-config with the --debug option. Pretty simple. Without redirecting the output of csih_stacktrace() to stderr, then (3.5.4) Command Substitution of functions that call it will run into problems. And

Re: setup.exe to have Install button

2016-09-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 08/09/16 22:59, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: Just in case anyone's collecting change requests against Setup.exe, here's a simple one that I'd like to see: All screens until the final screen display a "Next>" button. Typically, after launching, I just click this button until I get to the list

Mcafee e'prise false positive on (x86) texlive-collection-fontsrecommended?

2015-07-28 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, My companies locked down desktop environment forces a weekly virus scan. Yesterday's (Mon 27/07) scan deleted (without recourse unfortunately) files from the texlive-collection-fontsrecommended, claiming they were infected(??) with CVE-2015-2426

Re: addr2line not returning anything useful (maybe just for me?)

2014-11-20 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 20/11/14 21:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 20 17:35, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, I can't get addr2line to give me anything useful on any stackdump files. I haven't used it for a while, so perhaps the following snippet will show my incorrect use? snip $ cat /tmp/foo.c EOF int main

addr2line not returning anything useful (maybe just for me?)

2014-11-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I can't get addr2line to give me anything useful on any stackdump files. I haven't used it for a while, so perhaps the following snippet will show my incorrect use? snip $ cat /tmp/foo.c EOF int main() { ((void (*)(void))0)(); } EOF $ gcc -g -o /tmp/foo2 /tmp/foo2.c $ /tmp/foo2

Re: rebase db perms seem too restrictive

2014-11-17 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 17/11/14 20:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 17 14:14, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, I expect that there wasn't any explicit reasoning behind this, but rebase creates a db with permissions that are too restrictive. To me anyway, as I cannot see any danger in the db being readable by all

rebase db perms seem too restrictive

2014-11-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I expect that there wasn't any explicit reasoning behind this, but rebase creates a db with permissions that are too restrictive. To me anyway, as I cannot see any danger in the db being readable by all. This snippet describes it: snip $ whoami sbaddah $ od -c /etc/rebase.db.x86_64 od:

Re: /usr/local, /var and */tmp in c:\Users\Public

2014-11-13 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 14/11/14 08:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 13 14:09, Warren Young wrote: On Nov 13, 2014, at 2:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: On Nov 12 17:19, Warren Young wrote: I’m not advocating that step so early, but maybe if this breakup does happen, a few years

Re: Problems installing man-db

2014-06-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 19/06/14 22:44, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Chris J. Breisch wrote: Hmmm...well, that's not good. Can you run /usr/bin/mandb -c yourself from the command line? It will take a while and may generate several warnings, such as what you see above. I did this: $ /usr/bin/mandb -c and it

squid 64-bit is Aborting sporadically

2014-05-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I run squid as a non-daemon process, with the following command-line: /usr/sbin/squid -f ~/etc/squid/squid3_sbaddah.conf -N -u 0 Sporadically I find squid aborting with; Aborted (core dumped). I've attached the last stackdump for this. Running addr2line against both cygwin1.dll and

Re: squid 64-bit is Aborting sporadically

2014-05-19 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2014-05-20 10:28+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: snip/ I haven't really taken careful note of every crash, bit it seems that most of the aborts happen after my laptop comes out of a sleep. It's not a big problem. The crashes aren't too frequent. But thought it might help to have it reported

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2014-05-15 04:15+1000, Andrew Schulman wrote: snip snip I can't understand why the ./conftest.exe differ. Trying to emulate by hand, I cannot reproduce it. But it is now very late here, and I can't debug anymore. I'm hoping that I've provided enough of a lead for someone of authority

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 2014-05-15 17:17+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Nice detective work, really. The goldstar is well deservered :) On May 15 04:00, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I quickly worked out that the code has a bug for %i. At some point the code was changed to push and pop the parameters being

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
H, On 2014-05-15 02:46+0100, Andrew Schulman wrote: snip/ The problem only occurs with screen on 64-bit Cygwin. The 32-bit appears to work correctly. The problem is that when screen is run in mintty, it seems to exclude the bottom line, reducing the actual size of the buffer. Further,

Re: Baffled: is it Cygwin (64-bits) or Windows that causes the invocation of regedit (from bash) to fail?

2014-05-12 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2014-05-12 22:50+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 12 14:20, Houder wrote: Of course, it is not really a problem, that regedit cannot be invoked from Cygwin, as it can be invoked from the Windows interface ... However, in some of the harder cases of using Gygwin, one needs to have

screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-12 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, This is a problem that I noticed some time last year, so I apologise for sitting on it for so long. I actually started drafting a number of emails to report but never committed. The problem only occurs with screen on 64-bit Cygwin. The 32-bit appears to work correctly. The problem is that

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.29-2

2014-04-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2014-04-07 22:00+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I just released Cygwin 1.7.29-2. This is a bugfix release. I looked to see if this had been asked, but couldn't see anything. I'm curious as to why this is a -2 release? Accident? -- Regards, Shaddy -- Problem reports:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.29-2

2014-04-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 2014-04-14 18:05+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 14 17:02, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 2014-04-07 22:00+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I just released Cygwin 1.7.29-2. This is a bugfix release. I looked to see if this had been asked, but couldn't see anything. I'm

Untidy situation regarding p11-kit packaging causing setup inconsistency

2014-03-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I've noticed that on a number of occasions when attempting to update my Cygwin 32 bit installation, that amongst the list of packages for update (Download only method), libp11-kit0 is continually listed to go to version 0.18.17-1. I never noted what happened when I finally performed an

Re: Untidy situation regarding p11-kit packaging causing setup inconsistency

2014-03-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 26/03/14 13:30, Shaddy Baddah wrote: snip/ Regardless, the problem still exists. Because for whatever reason, I cannot force-ably select 0.18.7-1 in the Install (from local) run of setup.exe. I can only keep libp11-kit0 at 0.19.1-1 or uninstall. The latter triggers the dependency check

Re: Untidy situation regarding p11-kit packaging causing setup inconsistency

2014-03-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 26/03/14 14:06, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 26/03/14 13:30, Shaddy Baddah wrote: snip/ Regardless, the problem still exists. Because for whatever reason, I cannot force-ably select 0.18.7-1 in the Install (from local) run of setup.exe. I can only keep libp11-kit0 at 0.19.1-1

Re: Running getent in a certain way grows it in memory in critical way.

2014-02-26 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2014/02/26 22:28+1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I need to recompile -O2 - -O0 as the integer counters were optimised out. Then single-stepping through, run --help succeed. But an attempt to run ./getent --help on this non-optimised build encountered the same problem. I had to hard reset

Re: Running getent in a certain way grows it in memory in critical way.

2014-02-26 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 2014/02/26 23:33+1100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 26 22:28, Shaddy Baddah wrote: snip/ Not believing what I had seen, I downloaded the code and checked it. I inspected more_help() function, and suspecting the for loop my have runaway, I eyed it over. It looks fine to me. I

How should I report a critical type of Cygwin bug?

2014-02-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, Risking the wrath that I should just report the bug, I would like to just get some advice on how to go about it. I'm encountering a problem with a rather new Cygwin package/feature that if reproducible, has serious consequence on the hosting Windows platform. My concern is that if I list

Re: [GOLDSTAR] Re: [PATCH] setup: allow running as non-admin

2013-11-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On Nov 08 02:23, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 02:15:21PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Shaddy, On Nov 7 11:39, Shaddy Baddah wrote: 2013-11-06 Shaddy Baddah lithium-cygwin at shaddybaddah dot name * LogFile.cc (LogFile::flushAll): New function to flush

Re: How about a 64-bit installer that doesn't require UAC?

2013-11-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 04/11/13 22:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 3 14:13, Bill Welch wrote: My apologies for the snark. The list archive ends at the same message as the top of the second page of the nabble rendering and I didn't immediately see the additional messages in nabble that include a

Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On Nov 04 22:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: any news? Sorry, yes. I have seen the emails (I do like cats :-D). I shouldn't offer excuses, but two concepts can explain my time deficit in the intervening period: terrible twos and various viruses (non computer). Kicked into action ;-)

Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On Nov 06 22:16, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On Nov 04 22:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: any news? I still want to implement and test excluding enforced elevation as a default on XP, as I am sure it will be a nuisance. But I'll publish that as a separate patch in a couple of hours from now (I

[PATCH] setup: allow running as non-admin

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, As discussed, please find the patch to allow setup to be run as a non-admin user include clear text. -- Regards, Shaddy 2013-11-06 Shaddy Baddah lithium-cygwin at shaddybaddah dot name * LogFile.cc (LogFile::flushAll): New function to flush log all logging to files without exiting

Re: [PATCH] setup: allow running as non-admin

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Christopher, On Nov 07 11:23, Christopher Faylor wrote: This indentation looks wrong. Should I correct and republish? -- Regards, Shaddy

Re: [PATCH] setup: allow running as non-admin

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
. +// The understanding is that pre-Vista, the runas verb will not This indentation looks wrong. Corrected with this updated patch. -- Regards, Shaddy 2013-11-06 Shaddy Baddah lithium-cygwin at shaddybaddah dot name * LogFile.cc (LogFile::flushAll): New function to flush log all logging to files without

Re: Building a snapshot (Not an ELF file error)

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On Nov 06 02:37, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: It'd still be very interesting to know an opinion of the CYGWIN gurus about this trouble that I asked yesterday (thanks to Marco, I now know that the original ELF error is benign): make[3]: Entering directory

Re: Building a snapshot (Not an ELF file error)

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On Nov 07 00:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 06 02:37, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: It'd still be very interesting to know an opinion of the CYGWIN gurus about this trouble that I asked yesterday (thanks to Marco, I now know that the original ELF error is benign):

setup Download Only deltas against an existing installation (was emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon)

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 16 Aug 2013 23:14+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: OK. It seems my mirror can be trusted. It seems setup cannot be trusted. That's a little unfair actually. More that... something I assumed about setup, but also based on the assumption thought would one day cause issue is the following. When

Re: setup Download Only deltas against an existing installation (was emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon)

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 17 Aug 2013 00:48+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On 16 Aug 2013 23:14+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: snip/ I know in the past that PTC has been suggested. I genuinely aim to contribute when able. Everyone's busy so I won't whinge here, I'll just say that at the moment it is tough for me to do

emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I've recently made the switch to 64bit Cygwin for my day-to-day use. I've already encountered a few (about four) minor issues. However once they become repeatable I'll follow reporting guidelines and report. This one though is a simple one that hopefully is easily verifiable. When I run

curl on 64bit always includes headers

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I think this is some sort of regression best demonstrated with copy/paste: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 AUD-CYGHOST 1.7.22(0.268/5/3) 2013-07-22 17:06 i686 Cygwin $ curl 'http://www.google.com/' HTMLHEADmeta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html;charset=utf-8TITLE302

Re: emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Ken, On 16 Aug 2013 22:14+1000, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/16/2013 3:40 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: When I run emacs-w32, I do not see the emacs tray icon as I did with 32bit Cygwin. Instead I see the generic Windows Program icon. I can take a screenshot of that if required. I fixed this before

Re: emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Ken, On 16 Aug 2013 22:14+1000, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/16/2013 3:40 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: When I run emacs-w32, I do not see the emacs tray icon as I did with 32bit Cygwin. Instead I see the generic Windows Program icon. I can take a screenshot of that if required. I fixed this before

Re: emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Ken, On 16 Aug 2013 22:39+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On 16 Aug 2013 22:14+1000, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/16/2013 3:40 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: When I run emacs-w32, I do not see the emacs tray icon as I did with 32bit Cygwin. Instead I see the generic Windows Program icon. I can take

Re: emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi again, On 16 Aug 2013 22:46+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On 16 Aug 2013 22:39+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On 16 Aug 2013 22:14+1000, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/16/2013 3:40 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: When I run emacs-w32, I do not see the emacs tray icon as I did with 32bit Cygwin. Instead I see

Re: curl on 64bit always includes headers

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 16 Aug 2013 20:46+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 16 18:39, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I think this is some sort of regression best demonstrated with copy/paste: snip/ Any chance you have a .curlrc file with an include line? Sorry for the noise. As per http://cygwin.com/ml

setup(-x86_64) bug - Download Incomplete possibly due to cdrkit

2013-08-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, When attempting to Download Only using setup-x86_64.exe, allowing the default Pending selections of packages (ie. no manual selection at all) I encountered a Download Incomplete yesno dialog box (see http://imgur.com/lsoHFJE) I believe there is a bug in the handling of the unusual entry for

Re: setup(-x86_64) bug - Download Incomplete possibly due to cdrkit

2013-08-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 16 Aug 2013 13:17+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Looking at the default pending packages (http://imgur.com/9osp4rK), cdrkit was conspicuous by both its absence and listing with no binary package and only source. Sorry, I forgot to clarify that I think cdrkit accounts for the debug output

Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-02 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, As per: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive Cygwin act on filenames on NTFS in with case preservation/sensitivity. As this was a feature configured in the Windows kernel, the pre-existing limitation whereby the same case sensitivity was not

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-02 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 02 Aug 2013 18:31+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Correction, not only NTFS. Here's the source code comment: Sorry, yes I forgot that it was coded to let Windows make the decision. Unfortunately, in providing EXFAT, Microsoft has not seen fit to carry over the same handling in the

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-02 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 02 Aug 2013 20:29+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 2 19:05, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 02 Aug 2013 18:31+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Correction, not only NTFS. Here's the source code comment: Sorry, yes I forgot that it was coded to let Windows make the decision

Re: Please try new setup exe's

2013-07-18 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 16 Jul 2013 03:05+1000, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd appreciate it if people could try the two new setup.exe's installed at http://cygwin.com/ http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe for 32-bit This is not working for me against an existing install, where I am following a two-step process to

Re: Error building cygwin-1_7_18-release from cvs

2013-07-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2013-07-08 17:51+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I am encountering an error build cygwin-1_7_18-release from CVS. Before I plunge into that, it might be wise to address why I would want to do that in the first place. I apply a local patch for my own use to the DLL to enable sharing

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.19

2013-06-05 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 2013-06-05 19:39+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I just released Cygwin 1.7.19. What's new: === - Drop support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP pre-SP3. I find this change interesting. In no way am I complaining about this, releases matching the above are well past

setup.exe Download Without Installing with multiple roots

2013-06-03 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I'm sure this is a known issue. And it is minor, but I thought it might be good to put it on record, in hope someone has a good idea for how to solve it (in UI). Cygwin setup.exe allows for install to multiple Cygwin, parallel root directories. If you wish to upgrade some packages for one

setup.exe in unattended mode. Possible problems handling dependencies

2013-05-01 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I have been trying to upgrade my cygwin package from 1.7.17-1 to 1.7.18-1 via command-line/unattended mode. This is the command line I used: setup.exe -q -s http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/sourceware/cygwin/ -R S:/cygwin/ -D -l C:/Users/Public/Downloads/cygwin_setup_area/ -P cygwin Using

setup64.exe from CVS doesn't seem to append 64bit to base URL

2013-04-24 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I've finally had the time to compile setup64.exe from CVS. It doesn't seem to want to download anything. And the URL it is failing on seems to me to be missing the 64bit appendage, ahead of setup64.ini: site: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/sourceware/cygwin/ get_url_to_membuf

Re: setup64.exe from CVS doesn't seem to append 64bit to base URL

2013-04-24 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On Apr 24 22:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It doesn't seem to want to download anything. And the URL it is failing on seems to me to be missing the 64bit appendage, ahead of setup64.ini: Yes, that's a patch I applied only locally to provide a setup64 during the test phase. I know

Re: setup64.exe from CVS doesn't seem to append 64bit to base URL

2013-04-24 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On Apr 24 23:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 24 23:11, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi Corinna, On Apr 24 22:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It doesn't seem to want to download anything. And the URL it is failing on seems to me to be missing the 64bit appendage, ahead of setup64.ini: Yes

setup.exe: error: ‘KEY_WOW64_{64,32}KEY’ was not declared in this scope

2013-04-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I'm encountering this error whilst trying to build (32bit) setup.exe, under 32bit Cygwin: make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/sbaddah/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-setup-build' CXX install.o ../cygwin-setup/install.cc: In function ‘void create_allow_protected_renames()’:

Re: setup.exe: error: ‘KEY_WOW64_{64,32}KEY’ was not declared in this scope

2013-04-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 16/04/13 00:39, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I'm encountering this error whilst trying to build (32bit) setup.exe, under 32bit Cygwin: make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/sbaddah/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-setup-build' CXX install.o ../cygwin-setup/install.cc: In function ‘void

Re: setup.exe: error: ‘KEY_WOW64_{64,32}KEY’ was not declared in this scope

2013-04-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 16/04/13 01:34, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On 16/04/13 00:39, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I'm encountering this error whilst trying to build (32bit) setup.exe, under 32bit Cygwin: make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/sbaddah/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-setup-build' CXX install.o ../cygwin

Re: possible libtool bug blocking builds of Cygwin setup.exe

2013-04-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Peter, On Apr 13, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2013-04-13 02:31, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi Peter, On 13/04/13 09:15, Peter Rosin wrote: /snip Have I stumbled on a real problem? This all sounds suspiciously like libtool bug 14022, where the reporter had confused --build and --host. How did you

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