Re: fresh 64 bit install question

2013-10-09 Thread Bill Morgan
No errors in the setup log all of the post scripts are renamed .done On 10/7/2013 11:07 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/6/2013 11:30 AM, Bill Morgan wrote: Just did a fresh 64 bit install and there are no directories under Home. Is this normal ? No. This is done in '/etc/profile

Re: cp creates unreadable file on Windows 7

2013-10-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Frank, Matthew I! > I believe my problem is identical to the one reported in: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00456.html, but that message chain > ended with > "mount your file system noacl" which isn't an option for me, so I'm looking > for > other alternatives. Please expl

Re: ssh takes forever to interrupt-- known problem?

2013-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/9/2013 8:44 PM, Don Hatch wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 07:30:42PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: ... Some of your packages are reported as empty, which isn't right. See if you can make those complaints go away. Okay, I ran setup_x86.exe and uninstalled all packages that appeared as

Re: ssh takes forever to interrupt-- known problem?

2013-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/9/2013 7:21 PM, Don Hatch wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 06:58:52PM -0400, Don Hatch wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 06:38:10PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: WJFFM. Maybe looking at your cygcheck output will provide a clue? Hmm, wasn't expecting that it actually works fine for other

Re: ssh takes forever to interrupt-- known problem?

2013-10-09 Thread Don Hatch
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 06:58:52PM -0400, Don Hatch wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 06:38:10PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > WJFFM. Maybe looking at your cygcheck output will provide a clue? > > Hmm, wasn't expecting that it actually works fine for other people! One more possibly releva

Re: ssh takes forever to interrupt-- known problem?

2013-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/9/2013 6:19 PM, Don Hatch wrote: ssh'ing from a cygwin shell to a linux computer, if I run an output-bound command (e.g. "yes ")and I try to kill the command using ctrl-c, it takes a long time, sometimes several minutes. I'd love

Re: cp creates unreadable file on Windows 7

2013-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/9/2013 5:30 PM, Frank, Matthew I wrote: I believe my problem is identical to the one reported in: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00456.html, but that message chain ended with "mount your file system noacl" which isn't an option for me, so I'm looking for other alternatives. I crea

ssh takes forever to interrupt-- known problem?

2013-10-09 Thread Don Hatch
ssh'ing from a cygwin shell to a linux computer, if I run an output-bound command (e.g. "yes ")and I try to kill the command using ctrl-c, it takes a long time, sometimes several minutes. I'd love to get this fixed, as it's the one thing

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: poco-1.4.6p2-1

2013-10-09 Thread David Stacey
The following packages have been updated: - poco-1.4.6p2-1 - libpoco-devel-1.4.6p2-1 - libpoco-doc-1.4.6p2-1 - libpoco16-1.4.6p2-1 - poco-debuginfo-1.4.6p2-1 This is a maintenance release containing bug-fixes and minor improvements. DESCRIPTION === Poco is a collection of mo

cp creates unreadable file on Windows 7

2013-10-09 Thread Frank, Matthew I
I believe my problem is identical to the one reported in: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00456.html, but that message chain ended with "mount your file system noacl" which isn't an option for me, so I'm looking for other alternatives. I create a file using cmd.exe in a directory created b

Various crashes

2013-10-09 Thread Mike Cappella
In this post: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-10/msg00060.html I mentioned that less(1) was crashing the shell/cygwin environment. I reinstallation of all packages seemed to have solved the problem. But I'm continuing to see the same crash, and others just like it. The following have res

Re: checking in >= 256k file fatally corrupts rcs file

2013-10-09 Thread Richard Gribble
I On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ryan Johnson writes: >> So in other words, a misguided performance optimization [1] that >> almost certainly has little measurable impact on performance [2] has >> introduced a silent data corruption bug (or tickled a latent one >> somewhere

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cppcheck-1.61-1

2013-10-09 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Version 1.61-1 of cppcheck has been uploaded, following the upstream release. cppcheck is a tool for static C/C++ code analysis. It tries to detect bugs that your C/C++ compiler doesn't see. The goal is no false positives. cppcheck is versatile. You can check non-standard code that includes var

Re: checking in >= 256k file fatally corrupts rcs file

2013-10-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Ryan Johnson writes: > So in other words, a misguided performance optimization [1] that > almost certainly has little measurable impact on performance [2] has > introduced a silent data corruption bug (or tickled a latent one > somewhere else). Lovely. It is not the performance optimization that i

Re: checking in >= 256k file fatally corrupts rcs file

2013-10-09 Thread Don Hatch
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 07:37:26AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On 10/9/2013 01:05, Don Hatch wrote: > > > >if I forget to set the variable, or set it wrong, > >or someone else doesn't know about the variable and runs into the bug, > >then corruption happens and work is irretrievably lost. > > How

Re: Getting different times with or without --login

2013-10-09 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi Francesco On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Francesco Pizzolante wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that I'm getting different times from the command line when use > --login or not. > Bash executes different startup scripts depending on whether it was started with --login or not, so the results may als

Getting different times with or without --login

2013-10-09 Thread Francesco Pizzolante
Hi, I noticed that I'm getting different times from the command line when use --login or not. Here's a simple test. 1. Start from a Windows command prompt and start bash with "bash --login". In this case, I can see that the TZ variable is set to "Europe/Brussels". If I run date, I get "We

Re: checking in >= 256k file fatally corrupts rcs file

2013-10-09 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 09/10/2013 9:37 AM, Warren Young wrote: On 10/9/2013 01:05, Don Hatch wrote: Would it be possible to simply declare 5.8 DOA The Cygwin package system allows one to mark 5.8-1 as obsolete, but I don't know if it can be told "and downgrade to 5.7-11". If not, can we make a 5.9 that's iden

Re: checking in >= 256k file fatally corrupts rcs file

2013-10-09 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 08/10/2013 7:48 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 10/8/2013 04:22, Don Hatch wrote: Checking in a text file of size >= 256k corrupts the rcs file, irretrievably losing most of the contents It's documented in the rcs NEWS file: - Env var RCS_MEM_LIMIT controls stdio threshold. For spee

Re: checking in >= 256k file fatally corrupts rcs file

2013-10-09 Thread Warren Young
On 10/9/2013 01:05, Don Hatch wrote: if I forget to set the variable, or set it wrong, or someone else doesn't know about the variable and runs into the bug, then corruption happens and work is irretrievably lost. How is this more difficult than what you're already doing, manually rolling bac

Re: transfering cygwin configuration from win XP to win 7

2013-10-09 Thread Robert Klemme
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Chris Olin wrote: > I recently did this at work by backing up the C:\cygwin directory, my > Windows user profile directory and manually creating the directory > path C:\cygwin\etc\setup, then copying > C:\cygwin\etc\setup\installed.db to the new computer, running t

Re: checking in >= 256k file fatally corrupts rcs file

2013-10-09 Thread Don Hatch
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 07:30:40PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On 10/8/2013 18:30, Don Hatch wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:48:53PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > >>On 10/8/2013 04:22, Don Hatch wrote: > >>> > >>>Checking in a text file of size >= 256k > >>>corrupts the rcs file, irretrievably