zsh bug: Incorrect (misleading) error message in zsh when using rm and drive letter is specified

I observed this: -0-1- ~/exp > rm e:/media/* zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /home/FISRONA/exp/e:/media [yn]? n We see that zsh is catching the case that I want to rm all files in the specified directory, and warns me about it (note that it is a zsh error message, not a error messa

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libtasn1_6/libtasn1-devel/libtasn1-doc}-4.9-1: ASN.1 library

Hi New versions of 'libtasn1_6/libtasn1-devel/libtasn1-doc' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 2.5.2 with gcc-5.4.0 o [x86] Removed the /usr/lib/libtasn1.la file libtasn1 NEWS: == o Fixes to OID encoding of OIDs wh

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.4.3 and test release mintty 2.5.0

I have uploaded mintty 2.4.3 with the following changes: * Fix trails when moving other window over mintty under certain conditions (#576). * Fix format of double child creation error message. I have also uploaded mintty 2.5.0 as a test release with the following change: * Revise DPI

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {t1lib/t1lib-x11/t1lib5/t1libx5/t1lib-devel/t1libx-devel}-5.1.2-13: Rasterizer library for Adobe Type 1 Fonts

Hi New versions of 't1lib/t1lib-x11/t1lib5/t1libx5/t1lib-devel/t1libx-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 2.5.2 with gcc-5.4.0 o [x86] removed .la files from /usr/lib -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.4.3 and test release mintty 2.5.0

2016-08-23 1:29 GMT+02:00 Thomas Wolff: > I have also uploaded mintty 2.5.0 as a test release with the following > change: > > * Revise DPI handling (#470; #492, #487); always consider individual > monitor DPI. > > Note that this release introduces a slightly incompatible change in mintty. > The

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sqlite3-3.14.1-1 for Cygwin/Cygwin64

SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine Changes since 3.13.0-1 = * Update to upstream SQLite 3.14.1, also known as the π release. * Maximu

Re: Trouble installing to UNC path and/or mapped network drive

Greetings, Andreas Wettergren! > Hi, > We have a shared Cygwin environment installed to a Windows network share at > my workplace, and I have been assigned the task to update it (along with > installing a Perl program I wrote + dependencies). I'll just throw in a note that the way Cygwin operates

Re: issue report

Greetings, Stanislav Bivolarski! > C:\wamp\www\Leanplum-Marketing>grunt install > (node) sys is deprecated. Use util instead. > Running "exec:seedDB" (exec) task > 0 [main] sh 728 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute > FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to > the public mailing

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sqlite3-3.14.1-1 for Cygwin/Cygwin64

Thank you for the update, Jan! On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Jan Nijtmans wrote: > SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, > serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine > > Changes since 3.13.0-1 > = > * Update to upstream SQLite

Re: building libgeos [solved]

Hey guys, after a couple more trials was able to solve the issue. I am not sure exactly what was the problem but I'll be reporting the full workaround. Neither I am certain that the libgeos shipped with cygwin has an issue; it looks like it was a matplotlib basemap issue instead. Anyways here is

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.11

On 2016-08-20 15:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.11. (Still) two interesting changes in this test release: - Fix the bug reported in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg00357.html - Add missing nl_langinfo_l functions as reported in https://cygwin.

Non-Privileged Execution of cygrunsrv/cygserver

Hi folks, Does anyone know how to start cygrunsrv/cygserver from a non-elevated shell? Starting them in an elevated system startup scheduled task works, as does shutting them down from a non-elevated shell before running setup. The problem is that neither the scheduled task nor service startup c

Re: Wrong file permissions

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Björn Kautler wrote: > Hi Eliot, > > thanks for your answer. > > It seems this was an issue with the NTFS permissions. > I also was not able to access the folders via Windows Explorer. > After also fixing the Windows permissions it works now as expected so far. > >

RE: Trouble installing to UNC path and/or mapped network drive

Thank you very much for the reply, my issue has been resolved, details in my answers below. > -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On > Behalf Of Erik Soderquist > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 6:04 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: T

Re: Trouble installing to UNC path and/or mapped network drive

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Andreas Wettergren wrote: >> Why 32 bit rather than 64 bit in a 64 bit environment? (more curious than >> anything else, I don't think this affects the outcome). >> > > This is partially for historical reasons, and partially because I'm > personally not > 100% s

Re: Wrong file permissions

On 8/23/2016 9:41 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Björn Kautler wrote: Your domain user SID will remain the same, however, all of the local machine's domain SIDs will be different as it is a different host on the domain, so I would expect permissions problems for a

RE: Trouble installing to UNC path and/or mapped network drive

Thanks for your reply, the problem has been resolved, details below and in my previous reply to Erik. > -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On > Behalf Of Achim Gratz > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 7:37 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject:

Re: Wrong file permissions

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: > Thank you, Erik -- you answered better than I could have! I don't > use a domain login, so the fact that my local SID is different has > been very plain to me! Multiple years as a network admin managing Windows/Linux/UNIX hybrid environments

RE: Trouble installing to UNC path and/or mapped network drive

> -Original Message- > From: Andrey Repin [mailto:anrdae...@yandex.ru] > Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 12:01 PM > To: Andreas Wettergren ; > cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Trouble installing to UNC path and/or mapped network drive > > Greetings, Andreas Wettergren! > > > Hi, > > We hav

Re: zsh bug: Incorrect (misleading) error message in zsh when using rm and drive letter is specified

On 8/23/2016 3:57 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote: I observed this: -0-1- ~/exp > rm e:/media/* zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /home/FISRONA/exp/e:/media [yn]? n We see that zsh is catching the case that I want to rm all files in the specified directory, and warns me about it (note tha

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libEMF/libEMF1/libEMF-devel}-1.0.8-1: A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles

Hi New versions of 'libEMF/libEMF1/libEMF-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Updated to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 2.5.2 with gcc-5.4.0 o [x86] Removed .la file from /usr/lib -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.11

On Aug 23 07:27, Brian Inglis wrote: > Compared lists of locale_t headers and functions for POSIX, Cygwin, > and glibc, attached below for comparison, and found: > > * missed string.h(strerror_l) on my first check; >not sure if you can implement that easily on Windows? > > * GNU also supports

The Cygwin User Guide on path names

The section on path names in the user guide (https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames) strikes me as misleading when it says in the first sentence, "Cygwin supports both POSIX- and Win32-style paths." I think it would be better to say "The Cygwin DLL" and to emphasize that C

Re: The Cygwin User Guide on path names

On Aug 23 12:16, Ken Brown wrote: > The section on path names in the user guide > (https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames) strikes me as > misleading when it says in the first sentence, "Cygwin supports both POSIX- > and Win32-style paths." I think it would be better to say "T

Cygwin SSHD 32bit

Good Day I would really appreciate it if someone can assist me. I have a Windows server 2003 server with the latest Cygwin installed. CYGWIN_NT-5.2  2.5.2(0.297/5/3) 2016-06-23 14:27 i686 Cygwin I have setup the SSH service as I have many a time before on other servers. The service successfully

Re: Cygwin SSHD 32bit

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Marcel Grandemange wrote: > Good Day > > I would really appreciate it if someone can assist me. > > I have a Windows server 2003 server with the latest Cygwin installed. > > CYGWIN_NT-5.2 2.5.2(0.297/5/3) 2016-06-23 14:27 i686 Cygwin > > I have setup the SSH serv

RE: Cygwin SSHD 32bit

I have entirely disabled the firewall at one point and this didn't help. Also keep in mind I did install bitvise ssh server to do a comparison and this worked. I would also like to add to this I also went through the effort of removing the SSH packages from Cygwin and built from source OpenSSH

Re: Cygwin SSHD 32bit

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Marcel Grandemange wrote: > I have entirely disabled the firewall at one point and this didn't help. > Also keep in mind I did install bitvise ssh server to do a comparison and > this worked. Then I don't know, though I will be watching this thread for a possible

Re: #!/bin/sh and #!/bin/bash is not the same

On 8/22/2016 3:31 PM, Morten Kjærulff wrote: > > This: > > date > echo a | while read ; do > sleep 3 & > done > wait > date > > will run in 0 seconds, with BOTH /bin/sh and /bin/bash > > This: > > date > while read ; do > sleep 3 & > done < <(echo a) > wait > date > > will run in 3 second

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.4.3 and test release mintty 2.5.0

Am 23.08.2016 um 11:30 schrieb Frank Fesevur: 2016-08-23 1:29 GMT+02:00 Thomas Wolff: I have also uploaded mintty 2.5.0 as a test release with the following change: * Revise DPI handling (#470; #492, #487); always consider individual monitor DPI. Note that this release introduces a slightly

Native build fails in winsup/cygwin/libc/strptime.cc because of strtou?l_l()

Hello everyone, building the git version of cygwin natively on Cygwin-2.5.3, I'm running into a problem with strtoul_l / strtol_l. winsup/cygwin/libc/strptime.cc fails to build: hbbro@NB4 ~/prg/cygwin/bld/x86_64-unknown-cygwin/winsup/cygwin $ make c++wrap -O2 -g -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno

Re: ImageMagick -6 not wotrking in WXP

On 8/23/2016 7:28 PM, Rodrigo Medina wrote: Hi, From an xterm the command display picture.jpg exits without doing anything. This is a known issue (on 32-bit Cygwin only), triggered by the recent update of libgd3: https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg00339.html The workaround i

Won't let me load the new software

[main] Intellycheckupdates 5948 find_fast_cwd: Warning: coulnd't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please let me know what I need to do to get the program loaded and working again please Thanks Walter Rutledge -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Cygwin 2.6.0-0.12 (?)

I just updated Cygwin-64 and got 2.6.0-0.12: CYGWIN_NT-10.0 JJR 2.6.0(0.304/5/3) 2016-08-23 18:30 x86_64 Cygwin I can not find any corresponding announcement E-mail. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.11

On 2016-08-23 10:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 23 07:27, Brian Inglis wrote: Compared lists of locale_t headers and functions for POSIX, Cygwin, and glibc, attached below for comparison, and found: * missed string.h(strerror_l) on my first check; not sure if you can implement that easil

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.11

On 2016-08-23 22:15, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2016-08-23 10:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 23 07:27, Brian Inglis wrote: Compared lists of locale_t headers and functions for POSIX, Cygwin, and glibc, attached below for comparison, and found: * missed string.h(strerror_l) on my first check;