Re: 1.7.25, Windows 7: dumper doesn't generate core file

2014-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 03:03:52PM +1100, Sam lia...@constrainttec.com wrote: > >Thanks Corinna I appreciate the response. > >>>Question 2: IS THE CODE MODIFICATION AN ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM? > > > Maybe, but first it would be helpful if somebody could explain why > > sections should

If you are having problems sending email here

2014-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 09:53:52PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Just to be clear: The intent of my email was to actually save people >from going to the pointless exercise of trying to contact Corinna or >Larry directly since it won't work. To reiterate, here's the mailing list FAQ: https://

Re: 1.7.25, Windows 7: dumper doesn't generate core file

2014-03-11 Thread Sam lia...@constrainttec.com
Thanks Corinna I appreciate the response. Question 2: IS THE CODE MODIFICATION AN ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM? > Maybe, but first it would be helpful if somebody could explain why > sections should be able to overlap at all. That's puzzling me. > > As for patches, did you seehttp:/

Re: Please stop sending email to ...

2014-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
Just to be clear: The intent of my email was to actually save people from going to the pointless exercise of trying to contact Corinna or Larry directly since it won't work. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 04:42:36PM -0700, Someone Who Took Personal Offense About General Advice wrote: >Christopher Faylo

Re: Please stop sending email to corinna-cygwin and lh-cygwin

2014-03-11 Thread PolarStorm
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote > I know that this is a pointless exercise but I'll say it anyway: people > who think that they can have a private chat with Corinna or Larry by > sending email to what seem to be their private email addresses will just > show up in the spam trap, possibly even causing sp

Please stop sending email to corinna-cygwin and lh-cygwin

2014-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
I know that this is a pointless exercise but I'll say it anyway: people who think that they can have a private chat with Corinna or Larry by sending email to what seem to be their private email addresses will just show up in the spam trap, possibly even causing spamassassin to think that they are a

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-03-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > Thanks for finding this one! Unfortunately David has left us, > apparently. Isn't it that a bit too short a time to come to this conclusion? > Is anybody willing to take over maintainership of the base-files > package? Seeing that I have additional patches that David

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-03-11 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 6 14:40, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/3/2014 10:05 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 08:55, Charles Wilson wrote: On 2/26/2014 5:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Weird, I was pretty sure we already have an /etc/shells file installed by default. Apparently not. So,

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-11 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/03/2014 11:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 10 07:46, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 10/03/2014 04:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:25:02PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Interesting problem. Windows always su

Re: cannot open mintty as adminstrator

2014-03-11 Thread Lester Ingber
Well, that problem happened all day yesterday. Today there is no such problem. I have not done anything on the system since then, but that is the situation today. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

Compiled executables requiring admin rights - different results between MinGW host type

2014-03-11 Thread Tony Kelman
Hi, I'm looking at a very simple 32-line c file, source is available here https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/contrib/stringpatch.c I'm seeing unpredictable results w.r.t. the compiled executable requiring admin rights to run, depending which host compiler is used. Under 32 bit Cyg

Re: File permissions when using ACLs

2014-03-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Charles Plager writes: > * Anybody else experience files that lose all permissions? Any > suggestions on resetting the file (short of reformatting the drive)? Ahem. Yes, that has happened once to me. I don't know how the IT guys fixed it exactly, but they eventually deleted that file without f

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

2014-03-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz NexGo.DE> writes: > Exactly. But as revealed above, what was really missing is the > Administrators group. Somehow, when "files" is in effect, that mapping > doesn't seem to exist unless it is explicitly listed in the file. It does > get auto-created when I use _only_ the "db". I h

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

2014-03-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > With the original passwd and group file in place and nsswitch.conf set to > > either "files" or "files db" the test fails. With just "files" getfacl > > doesn't show the group ACL at all, > > How does it look with any non-AD integrated Cygwin? ... doesn'

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

2014-03-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 11 15:07, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > You don't have to move them away. Just set nsswitch.conf. > > Did that and using the snapshot DLL from 2014-03-05 on top of a full > snapshot install from 2014-03-10. The ACL is this: > > # file: x86 > # owner: grat

Re: New snapshots are from the 1.7.29 branch. That means...

2014-03-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > You're responding to a heads up which was intended to *inform* you of > this fact. > > The snapshot does not have Corinna's new code. How is that unclear? The original message was posted when a 2014-03-10 snapshot (with AD integration) already existed an

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

2014-03-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > You don't have to move them away. Just set nsswitch.conf. Did that and using the snapshot DLL from 2014-03-05 on top of a full snapshot install from 2014-03-10. The ACL is this: # file: x86 # owner: gratz # group: Domain Users user::--- group::--- group:a

Re: ssh login reports "Could not chdir to home directory /home/root: Bad address"

2014-03-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
If you could repeat the information below for a machine with the latest Cygwin and OpenSSH, along with your '/etc/passwd' and 'cygcheck -srv' output, that may be helpful. On 3/11/2014 9:36 AM, Ernesto Puig Rodriguez wrote: Hi Larry, After analyzing the debug information you recommended, I was

Re: About "defunct" processes

2014-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:26:45PM +, Kurt Franke wrote: >Angelo Graziosi alice.it> writes: > > >> $ ps >>PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND >> 2648 12648 2648 ? 1001 12:01:38 /usr/bin/mintty >> 372426483724 20

Re: New snapshots are from the 1.7.29 branch. That means...

2014-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:01:00PM +, Achim Gratz wrote: >Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: >> The snapshots page is incorrectly listing every snapshot as coming from >> the branch. Sigh. I'll fix this. > >The 2013-03-09 snapshot also doesn't appear to have the AD integration code. You

Re: New snapshots are from the 1.7.29 branch. That means...

2014-03-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > The snapshots page is incorrectly listing every snapshot as coming from > the branch. Sigh. I'll fix this. The 2013-03-09 snapshot also doesn't appear to have the AD integration code. Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

RE: Current mirror size

2014-03-11 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Jon TURNEY sent the following at Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:18 AM >On 10/03/2014 20:09, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Jon TURNEY sent the following at Monday, March 10, 2014 12:17 PM >>> On 10/03/2014 09:36, Alexander Kurilo wrote: could anyone say how much space does Cygwin mirro

Re: ssh login reports "Could not chdir to home directory /home/root: Bad address"

2014-03-11 Thread Ernesto Puig Rodriguez
Hi Larry, After analyzing the debug information you recommended, I was still not able to find the reason of the error message during the ssh login. Below the output of the commands after the login. $ ssh root@winsrv2008 root@winsrv2008's password: ** Last login: Fri Mar 7 16:16:51 2014 from

Re: Current mirror size

2014-03-11 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 10/03/2014 20:09, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Jon TURNEY sent the following at Monday, March 10, 2014 12:17 PM >> On 10/03/2014 09:36, Alexander Kurilo wrote: >>> could anyone say how much space does Cygwin mirror currently take? >>> I'll be really grateful if someone can run du -

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

2014-03-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 11 12:07, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > st_atim=531DE525.1B5BB150 (release) > > > st_atim=531DF887.5D9B9F8 (snapshot) > > > > Access time. On Windows it even changes when requesting certain > > kinds of metadata :-P > > It's been consistent over many da

Re: File permissions when using ACLs

2014-03-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 11 08:40, Charles Plager wrote: > Hi Andrey, > > I understand that Cygwin is emulating POSIX permissions (and, yes, we > already turn this off using the /etc/fstab). What I don't understand > is why it uses "special" permissions and not the standard "read/write" > options that are availabl

Re: File permissions when using ACLs

2014-03-11 Thread Charles Plager
Hi Andrey, I understand that Cygwin is emulating POSIX permissions (and, yes, we already turn this off using the /etc/fstab). What I don't understand is why it uses "special" permissions and not the standard "read/write" options that are available. One possibility I just though of: Cygwin uses s

Re: File permissions when using ACLs

2014-03-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Charles Plager! > Short version: When writing to network drives (and probably local > ones) as Cygwin is setup by default, we see the permissions being set > using the ACLs where "creator owner" is given "full control" and > "creator" group are given "read/execute", but by setting "spe

Re: About "defunct" processes

2014-03-11 Thread Kurt Franke
Angelo Graziosi alice.it> writes: > $ ps >PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND > 2648 12648 2648 ? 1001 12:01:38 /usr/bin/mintty > 372426483724 2012 pty01001 12:01:38 /usr/bin/bash > 317637243176

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

2014-03-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > st_atim=531DE525.1B5BB150 (release) > > st_atim=531DF887.5D9B9F8 (snapshot) > > Access time. On Windows it even changes when requesting certain > kinds of metadata :-P It's been consistent over many days of testing and the only difference between releas

File permissions when using ACLs

2014-03-11 Thread Charles Plager
Hi, Short version: When writing to network drives (and probably local ones) as Cygwin is setup by default, we see the permissions being set using the ACLs where "creator owner" is given "full control" and "creator" group are given "read/execute", but by setting "special permissions" instead of ju

Re: 1.7.25, Windows 7: dumper doesn't generate core file

2014-03-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Sam, On Mar 11 10:35, Sam lia...@constrainttec.com wrote: > As a disclaimer I'm new to Cygwin and memory mapping that's alluded > to in this post. > > My brief was to investigate and resolve an issue with dumper not > producing a core. > > With that I'll proceed with outlining the journey inc

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

2014-03-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 11 07:44, Achim Gratz wrote: > Achim Gratz nexgo.de> writes: > > IIRC, the next call is the write that prints "no" or "yes"... there may > > have been something like "stat_helper" inbetween only on Cygwin64, but > > I'll have to check again tomorrow. > > It's a call to stat_worker with the

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

2014-03-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz nexgo.de> writes: > IIRC, the next call is the write that prints "no" or "yes"... there may > have been something like "stat_helper" inbetween only on Cygwin64, but > I'll have to check again tomorrow. It's a call to stat_worker with the UNC file path and the stat_worker handle, both