Re: tar fails to expand simple tar.gz across junction point

On 2:59 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: We're seeing some strange behaviour with tar under cygwin when its start point is a disk mounted under a directory. [snip] uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 blade33 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin Steven: have U tried a

program_invocation_name

Porting of some programs originally written for glibc over to cygwin would be easier if cygwin could provide the global variables char* program_invocation_{short_,}name, set automatically to match argv[0] of main(), and declared in errno.h when strict standards compliance isn't requested. Is it

Where is 'getconf' utility?

I can not found 'getconf' utility in Cygwin. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=getconf I search that same reported in 2003 and found some article where people have portability issue because utility is missing, like:

Re: Where is 'getconf' utility?

On 12/24/2010 03:55 PM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: I can not found 'getconf' utility in Cygwin. That's correct. Would you like to help by volunteering to port it? I don't know if utility mention in POSIX it must be implemented in POSIX compliance env. Yes, POSIX requires getconf(1) to