Re: cyg1.7 - DOS character remapping: change request.

2009-11-29 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/11/29 Linda Walsh: >        I'm aware that this would reserve the 'display forms' > of those chars and map them them to their real forms when > interpreted within cygwin.  I don't see this to be a problem. But it is a problem. It would make it impossible to use the wide forms of those deadly

Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-11-29 Thread LiuYan 刘研
I'm using Cygwin for several years, it help me very much in my work. There's a tiny issue: after downloaded in several years, the total size of my local setup packages directory had grown up to G bytes, while a fresh setup packages of mine are only <40M bytes. There are many historical setup pac

Re: `cygwinpath -D' could not display the Chinese character

2009-11-29 Thread ︶ㄣ無名氏
The problems occurs again. uname -v 2009-11-27 15:38 -- 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

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Test update: perl-5.10.1-1

2009-11-29 Thread Reini Urban
perl has been updated to 5.10.1-1 as test in the Experimental section. Important Changes since the last perl-5.10.0-5: - for cygwin-1.7 and gcc-4 only - added Win32CORE to the dll to enable libtool compilation (Yaakov). This is a fragile hack but survived all attempts to break it so far.

Re: Nasty permissions / pathing bug in perl on 1.7

2009-11-29 Thread Reini Urban
Steven Hartland schrieb: Just been chasing my tail for hours trying to figure out why the permissions on a file weren't being set even though no error was being thrown. It turns out that giving a dos like path to chmod in perl under 1.7 although doesn't error it doesn't do anything either. Here

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-29 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: I just confirmed this on my XP SP3 system. I initially got similar behavior to what Angelo and Robert reported, but it doesn't happen if I export TMPDIR=/tmp before running patch. Indeed! On my system TMPDIR isn't defined by default; instead TMP and TEMP point to $USERPROFI

Re: cyg1.7 - DOS character remapping: change request.

2009-11-29 Thread Linda Walsh
Eric Blake wrote: Rather than complaining, write a patch to prove your point. Patches speak much louder than rants on open source projects. But I won't be the one writing the patch. I already supplied code in the first email. It's a matter of using those constants instead of the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-29 Thread Robert Pendell
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/29/2009 3:19 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> >> On 11/29/2009 2:59 PM, Robert Pendell wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 28 19:12, Robert Pendell wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:13

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-runtime-3.17-1

2009-11-29 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
I've made a new version of the mingw runtime available for download. A list of what has changed can be found at the end of this email To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/29/2009 3:19 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/29/2009 2:59 PM, Robert Pendell wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 28 19:12, Robert Pendell wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Fixes a few last-minute bugs:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/29/2009 2:59 PM, Robert Pendell wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 28 19:12, Robert Pendell wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Fixes a few last-minute bugs: Now, it seems that creating directories

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-29 Thread Robert Pendell
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 28 19:12, Robert Pendell wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >> > >> > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> >> >> Fixes a few last-minute bugs: >> > >> > Now, it seems that creating directories and files in so

Re: Nasty permissions / pathing bug in perl on 1.7

2009-11-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 11/29/2009 11:43 AM, Steven Hartland wrote: Just been chasing my tail for hours trying to figure out why the permissions on a file weren't being set even though no error was being thrown. It turns out that giving a dos like path to chmod in perl under 1.7 although doesn't error it doesn't

Nasty permissions / pathing bug in perl on 1.7

2009-11-29 Thread Steven Hartland
Just been chasing my tail for hours trying to figure out why the permissions on a file weren't being set even though no error was being thrown. It turns out that giving a dos like path to chmod in perl under 1.7 although doesn't error it doesn't do anything either. Here's my little test case: [s

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-29 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Therefore I put them back in -63. Hum... This is strange. I always upgrade after reading your announcements, and never noticed this behavior. It seems that it starts from 24-25 November 2009. Any way, thanks for clarification. Apart from that, I don't see the extra

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 28 19:12, Robert Pendell wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > >> Fixes a few last-minute bugs: > > > > Now, it seems that creating directories and files in some manner acquires > > an extra unexpected '+' flag. For example

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-29 Thread Torsten Schütze
Hi, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > - Fix a potential stack corruption in stat() which only occurs > on filesystems not supporting security (FAT, FAT32). See > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00881.html it seems to me that the recent patch in stat() for 1.7.0-67 actually fixed the problem re