Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)
On 6/7/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >I've been off of the developer list for a while now, and now the > >archives are subscriber only. :-( > > Joshua, any chance I could get a FAQ entry about this? I've updated "What Cygwin mailing lists can I join?" with a better description. Old language was "If you are going to help develop the Cygwin library by volunteering for the project, you will want to subscribe to the Cygwin developers list, called cygwin-developers." New language is "There is also a low-volume list called cygwin-developers which is reserved for knowledgeable people who regularly contribute to the Cygwin DLL. Please do not ask for read-only access to this mailing list." > >However, it was NTFS-specific and Cygwin went a different > >route (which has path length limitations, but I digress). > > And, Joshua could I get a FAQ entry about this, too? OK, I added some about managed mounts. I've never really used them myself, but this is the example I came up with for the FAQ that seems to work fine: mkdir /managed-dir mount -o managed c:/cygwin/managed-dir /managed-dir cd /managed-dir/ touch makefile touch Makefile Are managed mounts prime-time enough to be put in the --help statement and users guide with caveats? -- 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: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)
I wrote: >> [...] If a disclaimer is all that you want, I'm sure you/I can get >> it. In fact, as long as they know about the uncopyrighted code and >> don't do anything about it, they've given up rights to it. Christopher Faylor wrote: > And you prove that they don't know anything about it by...? Realistically, probably an e-mail from somebody in the legal department (just not necessarily a signed document). Or you could force the issue by sending a certified letter referring to the files on SourceForge. :-) It'd be a shame if you aren't able to use public domain files due to legal concerns. I thought "taking the high ground" by entirely dropping the copyright would maximize usefulness to everybody. gsw -- 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: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)
On 6/7/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:17:02PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>Not that I know of. We're discussing to convert Cygwin's path handling > >>to use Unicode for a while now, but it will take time. Don't expect > >>this any time soon. > > > >I've been off of the developer list for a while now, and now the > >archives are subscriber only. :-( > > Joshua, any chance I could get a FAQ entry about this? > > >However, it was NTFS-specific and Cygwin went a different > >route (which has path length limitations, but I digress). > > And, Joshua could I get a FAQ entry about this, too? This has got to be > at least the fifth time that someone has felt compelled to make the > observation that the current implementation of managed mode has path > length limitations. Maybe a managed mode section would be useful in > general. Sure, though unfortunately it will be a few days since I'm moving right now. -- 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: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 05:24:57PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> But releasing something to the public domain doesn't help >> Cygwin. [...] The problem is that you still have to verify >> that the sources are truly public domain and how do you do >> that without getting a disclaimer from a person's employer? >[...] >> I truly hate all of this assignment stuff that is required for >> contributions to FSF programs and Cygwin. I think it's time >> for someone to come up with an online way to do this. > >My employer authorized the release into the public domain, making the >code explicitly not protected by copyright. The lawyer-types don't >trust the assignments though, so online forms therefore wouldn't help >anyway. If a disclaimer is all that you want, I'm sure you/I can get >it. In fact, as long as they know about the uncopyrighted code and >don't do anything about it, they've given up rights to it. And you prove that they don't know anything about it by...? cgf -- 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: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > But releasing something to the public domain doesn't help > Cygwin. [...] The problem is that you still have to verify > that the sources are truly public domain and how do you do > that without getting a disclaimer from a person's employer? [...] > I truly hate all of this assignment stuff that is required for > contributions to FSF programs and Cygwin. I think it's time > for someone to come up with an online way to do this. My employer authorized the release into the public domain, making the code explicitly not protected by copyright. The lawyer-types don't trust the assignments though, so online forms therefore wouldn't help anyway. If a disclaimer is all that you want, I'm sure you/I can get it. In fact, as long as they know about the uncopyrighted code and don't do anything about it, they've given up rights to it. Of course, IANALATEIHSMBSI (http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#IANAL and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#YANALATEYHSMBSI). gsw -- 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: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:28:28PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > >>Of course we would be glad to have more people working on the DLL (and > >>sign the copyright assignment, sigh), > > > >Yes, the assignment was/is a hurdle for me. It turns out to be much > >easier to release something into the public domain (at least at my > >company), thus my approach. I had actually made some progress with the > >assignment, but it went back to ground zero when my old group was > >disbanded. > > But releasing something to the public domain doesn't help Cygwin. I did > ask the Red Hat lawyer if accepting public domain sources was ok and he > said "Yes, but..." The problem is that you still have to verify that the > sources are truly public domain and how do you do that without getting a > disclaimer from a person's employer? > > I truly hate all of this assignment stuff that is required for > contributions to FSF programs and Cygwin. I think it's time for someone > to come up with an online way to do this. I asked a (very) technically > savvy lawyer acquaintance about this once and he said "Hmm..." but he > never came up with anything workable... FWIW, here's something I proposed to our lawyers that they found reasonable: paste the fingerprint hash of the digital signature on the manager's e-mail message approving the copyright assignment into the assignment form. That way, if there's ever doubt, the message can be referred to and it could be verified to be the correct message. I don't know how workable that is, but it could be a start... Of course, it could be the ravings of a madman on a dark September night, in which case feel free to ignore or drop a hippo on me (in the appropriate list). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:28:28PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: >>Of course we would be glad to have more people working on the DLL (and >>sign the copyright assignment, sigh), > >Yes, the assignment was/is a hurdle for me. It turns out to be much >easier to release something into the public domain (at least at my >company), thus my approach. I had actually made some progress with the >assignment, but it went back to ground zero when my old group was >disbanded. But releasing something to the public domain doesn't help Cygwin. I did ask the Red Hat lawyer if accepting public domain sources was ok and he said "Yes, but..." The problem is that you still have to verify that the sources are truly public domain and how do you do that without getting a disclaimer from a person's employer? I truly hate all of this assignment stuff that is required for contributions to FSF programs and Cygwin. I think it's time for someone to come up with an online way to do this. I asked a (very) technically savvy lawyer acquaintance about this once and he said "Hmm..." but he never came up with anything workable... cgf -- 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: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)
> Of course we would be glad to have more people working on > the DLL (and sign the copyright assignment, sigh), Yes, the assignment was/is a hurdle for me. It turns out to be much easier to release something into the public domain (at least at my company), thus my approach. I had actually made some progress with the assignment, but it went back to ground zero when my old group was disbanded. > but what you wrote sounds somewhat like a special solution > which requires lots of new "if (is_ntfs)" tests, roughly. Sort of, although I approached it as a set of services that could replace Windows file operations with extended versions that could be selected dynamically. I had come up with the following list of functions to replace (which perhaps might be of some use to you): CopyFile CopyFileEx CreateDirectory CreateDirectoryEx CreateFile DeleteFile FindFirstChangeNotification FindFirstFile FindFirstFileEx GetBinaryType GetFileAttributes GetFileAttributesEx GetFullPathName GetLongPathName GetShortPathName MoveFile MoveFileEx MoveFileWithProgress RemoveDirectory ReplaceFile SearchPath SetCurrentDirectory SetFileAttributes SetFileSecurity gsw -- 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: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)
On Jun 8 18:20, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > (I don't necessarily expect that there will be any interest > in my solution, but I thought that I should mention it just > in case. As I said, there are other ways to deal with this > without imposing path length limitations, and I don't even > know how much of a concern such limits are in general.) Of course we would be glad to have more people working on the DLL (and sign the copyright assignment, sigh), but what you wrote sounds somewhat like a special solution which requires lots of new "if (is_ntfs)" tests, roughly. Sure it only works on file systems supporting that (which is NTFS, basically), but the code already contains way too many different routes due to OS/FS differences. Our vague ideas how to implement this are more along the lines of "always use the fooW (on Win32 level) or _U (on NT level) functions and drop back to something else only on 9x, if necessary". This would also automatically cover the managed mounts in terms of path length. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)
I wrote: >> However, it was NTFS-specific and Cygwin went a different >> route (which has path length limitations, but I digress). Christopher Faylor wrote: > And, Joshua could I get a FAQ entry about this, too? This > has got to be at least the fifth time that someone has felt > compelled to make the observation that the current > implementation of managed mode has path length limitations. Sorry, poor wording choice. To be honest, I don't even know if managed mounts still have those limitations since I don't use them, although that was my understanding at the time. My approach was to use underlying NT services that bypass normal Windows naming restrictions, allowing more or less arbitrary Unicode strings as file names. It had path length limitations, but they were no worse than what Windows has already. It was my understanding that Cygwin managed mounts did this by escaping such characters into multi-character sequences, which of course would cause you to run into the Windows limits sooner. There are other ways to accomplish this, so the mechanism may have changed for all I know. (I don't necessarily expect that there will be any interest in my solution, but I thought that I should mention it just in case. As I said, there are other ways to deal with this without imposing path length limitations, and I don't even know how much of a concern such limits are in general.) gsw -- 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: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:17:02PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>Not that I know of. We're discussing to convert Cygwin's path handling >>to use Unicode for a while now, but it will take time. Don't expect >>this any time soon. > >I've been off of the developer list for a while now, and now the >archives are subscriber only. :-( Joshua, any chance I could get a FAQ entry about this? >However, it was NTFS-specific and Cygwin went a different >route (which has path length limitations, but I digress). And, Joshua could I get a FAQ entry about this, too? This has got to be at least the fifth time that someone has felt compelled to make the observation that the current implementation of managed mode has path length limitations. Maybe a managed mode section would be useful in general. cgf -- 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/
