Re: Https proxy auth issue with git in cygwin 2.2.1

2015-09-25 Thread LukaszPielak
Adam Dinwoodie dinwoodie.org> writes: > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 08:54:39AM +0200, Lukasz Pielak wrote: > > In the latest Cygwin 2.2.1. git doesn’t work with proxy authentication. > > What do you mean by proxy authentication here? What do you have > configured, and how? > > > The git versio

Re: cygwin potentially corrupting permissions?

2015-09-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Linda Walsh! > Andrey Repin wrote: >> Obscurity has no relation to security. >> Oh, and these both are disabled on my systems. >> >>> If you read windows 'rules', you'd know that... (so many rules >>> to read...really hard for someone to keep up)... >> >> There's no such rules as "ren

Re: cygwin potentially corrupting permissions?

2015-09-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: @Greg Freemyer: An "army in the world" does not have passwords and firewalls. That's the only reason they are trying to rely on obscurity. Doesn't quite work, as attacker could just carpet bomb the target positions. --- password = obscure secret; crypto = hidden secrets that

Re: workflow idiom to compare zip/tgz with folder subtree

2015-09-25 Thread Paul
Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: > If anything, I would NOT recommend CVS to anyone making their first > steps into VCS world. Subversion is way more consistent, better > thought out and have about the same usability characteristics where > they are comparable. (And don't forget the marvelous svnb

Re: workflow idiom to compare zip/tgz with folder subtree

2015-09-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Paul! > BTW, is your sig obsolete? What's this about terrible english? One of the ancient teachers (I forgot which one) once walked by the beach with his students, talking their lessons and what life come by. And one of his students exclaimed: - You know so much, is there something lef

Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version

2015-09-25 Thread Walter L.
On 24/09/2015 07:35, Marco Atzeri wrote: > 2) The 'touch' command creates a file with the executable bit set > > [user@hostname ~]$ touch newfile.txt > [user@hostname ~]$ ls -l newfile.txt > -rwxrwx---+ 1 user Domain Users 0 Sep 22 17:21 newfile.txt It likely depends on the inherited permission

Re: workflow idiom to compare zip/tgz with folder subtree

2015-09-25 Thread Warren Young
On Sep 24, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> I noticed that fossil & cvs are part of cygwin. I will have to bite >> the bullet & try a few baby steps at some point. > > I would NOT recommend CVS to anyone making their first steps into > VCS world. No new repos should be created in CVS

Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version

2015-09-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/25/2015 11:01 AM, Walter L. wrote: On 24/09/2015 07:35, Marco Atzeri wrote: > 2) The 'touch' command creates a file with the executable bit set > > [user@hostname ~]$ touch newfile.txt > [user@hostname ~]$ ls -l newfile.txt > -rwxrwx---+ 1 user Domain Users 0 Sep 22 17:21 newfile.txt It l

Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version

2015-09-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/25/2015 11:23 AM, Ken Brown wrote: I think you misunderstood what Marco was saying. If the problem is caused by the default ACL on the directory, you could fix that ACL. To elaborate on this, observe the following: $ cd /cygdrive/c/Users/kbrown/AppData/Local/Temp $ getfacl . # file: . #

gawk: Bad File Descriptor error with concurrent readonly access to a network file

2015-09-25 Thread Vermessung AVT - Wolfgang Rieger
We let thousands of tiles undergo the same time consuming processing tasks. We use a multi core Windows 7 workstation running several tiles simultaneously in separate shell windows (parallel processing). A batch script controls the work flow of the task with gawk interpreting a number of setup /

Re: workflow idiom to compare zip/tgz with folder subtree

2015-09-25 Thread Warren Young
On Sep 24, 2015, at 6:50 PM, Paul wrote: > > I am shuttling incremental work back and > forth between two locations using disc. In that case, you want a distributed version control system (DVCS), not a centralized one. That rules out Subversion. (And CVS.) Fossil and Git are DVCSes, so they’

Re: gawk: Bad File Descriptor error with concurrent readonly access to a network file

2015-09-25 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 25/09/2015 18:31, Vermessung AVT - Wolfgang Rieger wrote: We let thousands of tiles undergo the same time consuming processing tasks. We use a multi core Windows 7 workstation running several tiles simultaneously in separate shell windows (parallel processing). A batch script controls the wo

Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version

2015-09-25 Thread Walter L.
On 9/25/2015 12:04 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > I think you misunderstood what Marco was saying. If the problem is > caused by the default ACL on the directory, you could fix that ACL. To elaborate on this, observe the following: Hi Ken, thanks for the clarification. I understood what Marco meant

Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version

2015-09-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/25/2015 2:01 PM, Walter L. wrote: On 9/25/2015 12:04 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > I think you misunderstood what Marco was saying. If the problem is > caused by the default ACL on the directory, you could fix that ACL. To elaborate on this, observe the following: Hi Ken, thanks for the clari

Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version

2015-09-25 Thread Walter L.
On 9/25/2015 2:24 PM, Ken Brown wrote: Why not just run 'setfacl -b' once and for all on whatever directory you do your work in? Is it under your home directory? Do you have default ACL entries on your home directory that are then inherited by every subdirectory you create? Ken Actually yes

Re: base-files-4.2-3 : attention maintainer

2015-09-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/24/2015 1:29 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Marco Atzeri writes: the bug is in the /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh of base-files-4.2-3 FILES="hosts protocols services networks" OSNAME="$(/usr/bin/uname -s)" WINETC="$(/usr/bin/cygpath -S -u)/driv

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.3.42-4

2015-09-25 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/24/2015 03:08 PM, Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: > A new release of bash, 4.3.42-4, has been uploaded and will soon reach a > mirror near you. It is currently marked experimental pending test > results from others that have reported problems on text mounts: > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-03