src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog

2014-02-26 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2014-02-26 13:16:41 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog Log message: Fix typo Patches:

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Sorry, I don't grok this. What has a web application server to do with asking a DC for user info? We have one of these that does a lot of DC lookups because it authenticates all users. It's also in a much faster network, so I can check there what the lookup rate could be reasonably expected

Re: Maintainer for git?

2014-02-26 Thread Frank Fesevur
2014-02-21 1:18 GMT+01:00 Adam Dinwoodie: - Install git-cvs and the assorted dependencies mentioned in its setup.hint, and verify you can clone the Cygwin CVS repository. I've not managed to do this without hitting errors, but I suspect that's because I'm using the tool incorrectly.

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 06:17, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! Other than that, I just had an in-shower inspiration how to speed up `id' specificially. The getgroups(2) call is in the center of this and I could probably speed up the stuiff a lot by opening the LDAP connection in

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 08:09, Achim Gratz wrote: Sorry, I don't grok this. What has a web application server to do with asking a DC for user info? We have one of these that does a lot of DC lookups because it authenticates all users. It's also in a much faster network, so I can check there what the

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 18:37, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/25/2014 6:24 PM, Jim Burwell wrote: On 2/25/2014 13:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 13:52, Jim Burwell wrote: Hi, I've noticed after installing an update the Cygwin64 appears to ignore the contents of the shell field in /etc/passwd. I

Re: How should I report a critical type of Cygwin bug?

2014-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 17:00, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, Risking the wrath that I should just report the bug, I would like to just get some advice on how to go about it. I'm encountering a problem with a rather new Cygwin package/feature that if reproducible, has serious consequence on the hosting

Re: Running getent in a certain way grows it in memory in critical way.

2014-02-26 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2014/02/26 22:28+1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I need to recompile -O2 - -O0 as the integer counters were optimised out. Then single-stepping through, run --help succeed. But an attempt to run ./getent --help on this non-optimised build encountered the same problem. I had to hard reset to

Re: Running getent in a certain way grows it in memory in critical way.

2014-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 22:28, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I noticed getent on my 64-bit install for the first time today. Excited (as I often type it into a Cygwin window, force of habit, to no avail), I successfully ran; getent hosts www.google.com.au. I then decided to check the usage: getent --help It

Re: Running getent in a certain way grows it in memory in critical way.

2014-02-26 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 2014/02/26 23:33+1100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 26 22:28, Shaddy Baddah wrote: snip/ Not believing what I had seen, I downloaded the code and checked it. I inspected more_help() function, and suspecting the for loop my have runaway, I eyed it over. It looks fine to me. I

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

2014-02-26 Thread Wagemans, Peter
This is an additional comment on the thread starting with http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-10/msg00086.html Recently I was bitten again by this RCS 5.8 bug after I failed to keep RCS at version 5.7 during a Cygwin update. The failure mechanism is described in

Octave package database update

2014-02-26 Thread Jonas.Hagen
Hello, I installed the octave package in Cygwin. This works well. But when I install octave-signal and other octave packages, They are not found by octave. At start, octave gives an error: error: save: unable to open output file '/usr/share/octave/octave_packages' error: called from: error:

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 11:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 26 08:09, Achim Gratz wrote: Sorry, I don't grok this. What has a web application server to do with asking a DC for user info? We have one of these that does a lot of DC lookups because it authenticates all users. It's also in a much

Problems with new setup

2014-02-26 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
The new setup (32 bit) now requires admin privileges, which I don't have. I've used all of the usual tricks, re-naming to remove setup from the name, copying by cat new_file.exe, moving to a FAT and then back, playing with windows permissions. It is also a lot bigger than the previous version.

Re: Problems with new setup

2014-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 16:08, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: The new setup (32 bit) now requires admin privileges, which I don't have. I've used all of the usual tricks, re-naming to remove setup from the name, copying by cat new_file.exe, moving to a FAT and then back, playing with windows

cygport bug: doesn't understand DOS line endings

2014-02-26 Thread Steven Boswell II
Hello, I was trying to build the waf cygport (i.e. http://sourceforge.net/p/cygwin-ports/waf/ci/master/tree/ ), and kept getting a cryptic error message: *** ERROR: inherit: unknown cygclass python3 Since there was definitely a /usr/share/cygport/cygclass/python3.cygclass file, this made no

Re: Problems with new setup

2014-02-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]! The new setup (32 bit) now requires admin privileges, which I don't have. I've used all of the usual tricks, re-naming to remove setup from the name, copying by cat new_file.exe, moving to a FAT and then back, playing with windows permissions.

Re: Octave package database update

2014-02-26 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 26/02/2014 14:26, jonas.ha...@metas.ch wrote: Hello, I installed the octave package in Cygwin. This works well. But when I install octave-signal and other octave packages, They are not found by octave. At start, octave gives an error: error: save: unable to open output file

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: I just created 400 groups in AD, and added myself as member. An `id' on a 32 bit Windows 7 domain member machine in my tiny network consisting only of a handful of Windows VMs and with me as the only real user takes about 3.6 secs with the latest code from CVS, using

Re: setup.exe bad signatures?

2014-02-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Michael Ryan writes: I'm trying to verify the signatures on the latest setup.exe files and I'm finding that they don't match: $ gpg --verify setup-x86.exe.sig gpg: Signature made Fri 13 Dec 2013 17:24:37 GMT using DSA key ID 676041BA gpg: BAD signature from Cygwin Cygwin AT cygwin.com $

Re: Problems with new setup

2014-02-26 Thread Eric Lilja
On 2014-02-26 17:08, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: It is also a lot bigger than the previous version. 730624 2013-11-07 13:45:22 setup-x86.old.exe 2366464 2014-02-25 13:28:35 setup-x86.exe Is that expected or is that an indication something? I also saw that. I downloaded my

RE: Problems with new setup

2014-02-26 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
On 2014-02-26 17:08, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: It is also a lot bigger than the previous version. 730624 2013-11-07 13:45:22 setup-x86.old.exe 2366464 2014-02-25 13:28:35 setup-x86.exe Is that expected or is that an indication something? Eric Lilja sent the following at

RE: Problems with new setup

2014-02-26 Thread Jim Garrison
-Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 11:50 AM Subject: Re: Problems with new setup On 2014-02-26 17:08, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: It is also a lot bigger than the previous version. 730624 2013-11-07 13:45:22 setup-x86.old.exe 2366464

sox - package is broken

2014-02-26 Thread Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge
Hi Cygwin Team, 1st sox problem: in Cygwin 1.7.28 sound is broken. (sox + play) I followed all hints as reply to my first post last week. $ play blip.wav blip.wav: File Size: 1.33k Bit Rate: 94.4k Encoding: Unsigned PCM Channels: 1 @ 8-bit Samplerate: 11025Hz Replaygain: off Duration:

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-02-26 Thread Jim Burwell
On 2/26/2014 02:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 18:37, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/25/2014 6:24 PM, Jim Burwell wrote: On 2/25/2014 13:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 13:52, Jim Burwell wrote: Hi, I've noticed after installing an update the Cygwin64 appears to ignore the

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-02-26 Thread Jim Burwell
On 2/26/2014 15:53, Jim Burwell wrote: On 2/26/2014 02:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 18:37, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/25/2014 6:24 PM, Jim Burwell wrote: On 2/25/2014 13:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 13:52, Jim Burwell wrote: Hi, I've noticed after installing an

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-02-26 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-02-27 01:03, Jim Burwell wrote: On 2/26/2014 15:53, Jim Burwell wrote: On 2/26/2014 02:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 18:37, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/25/2014 6:24 PM, Jim Burwell wrote: On 2/25/2014 13:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 13:52, Jim Burwell wrote: Hi,

Re: sox - package is broken

2014-02-26 Thread David Stacey
On 26/02/2014 22:38, Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge wrote: 1st sox problem: in Cygwin 1.7.28 sound is broken. (sox + play) I followed all hints as reply to my first post last week. $ play blip.wav blip.wav: File Size: 1.33k Bit Rate: 94.4k Encoding: Unsigned PCM Channels: 1 @ 8-bit

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 01:16:28AM +0100, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2014-02-27 01:03, Jim Burwell wrote: On 2/26/2014 15:53, Jim Burwell wrote: On 2/26/2014 02:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 18:37, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/25/2014 6:24 PM, Jim Burwell wrote: On 2/25/2014 13:55,

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:26:59PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: The common case would be for a shell to show up in /etc/shells. Under Fedora adds the shell to /etc/shells when the shell package is installed. I don't see any reason for us to do anything different. Rephrasing that in English:

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-02-26 Thread Jim Burwell
On 2/26/2014 16:29, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:26:59PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: The common case would be for a shell to show up in /etc/shells. Under Fedora adds the shell to /etc/shells when the shell package is installed. I don't see any reason for us to

Re: cygport bug: doesn't understand DOS line endings

2014-02-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2014-02-26 11:14, Steven Boswell II wrote: You may want to modify cygport to handle DOS-style line-endings. cygport is a bash script, hence this applies: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2007-05/msg3.html Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-02-26 Thread Dirk Fassbender
Am 27.02.2014 01:45, schrieb Jim Burwell: On 2/26/2014 16:29, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:26:59PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: The common case would be for a shell to show up in /etc/shells. Under Fedora adds the shell to /etc/shells when the shell package is