Re: Just finished updating my 64-bit Cygwin; at the end I have an exit code of 2 from zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh

2016-04-19 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 20/04/2016 04:01, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: Hi; Just finished updating my 64-bit Cygwin; at the end I have an exit code of 2 from zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh Package: z/Perpetual zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh exit code 2 Ken Wolcott check error on /var/log/setup.log.full Regards Marco

Re: bug#23314: gzip-1.7-1 regression: cannot redirect output of gzip -l

2016-04-19 Thread Paul Eggert
Come to think of it, that part of gzip can be simplified considerably, which should make future problems like this less likely. I installed the attached additional patch. Yay, 46 fewer files in the gzip tarball! >From 02b67e301e66c8641230afbe8663f2d503c0f57b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gzip-1.7-2

2016-04-19 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of gzip, 1.7-2, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 1.7-1. NEWS: = This is a bug fix build for the recently-reported upstream 'gzip -l' regression. For more details on the upstream changes, see the documentation in /usr/share/

Just finished updating my 64-bit Cygwin; at the end I have an exit code of 2 from zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh

2016-04-19 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; Just finished updating my 64-bit Cygwin; at the end I have an exit code of 2 from zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh Package: z/Perpetual zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh exit code 2 Ken Wolcott -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docume

Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree

2016-04-19 Thread andy
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > On Windows it's not sufficient to be admin to have all admin access. > Applications have to request certain privileges explicitely and many > native tools on Windows just don't do that, so they fail. The > Cygwin DLL requests these privilieges for Cygwin exe

Re: bug#23314: gzip-1.7-1 regression: cannot redirect output of gzip -l

2016-04-19 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for reporting the problem. I installed the attached gzip patch on savannah. From 9167b7b9d5b68cea52bdd683b81a3b64381b7ff9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:43:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] gzip: fix bug with -l output to pipes Problem reported by Christian F

RE: git and absolute Windows-style paths

2016-04-19 Thread Bill Smith
> $ git add C:\\test\\file <-- this fails despite exit code 0 [Bill Smith] Does it work if you do: git add c:/test/file We use the mixed mode paths extensively with Cygwin in our environment and it works well. We have the issue of having to work with non-Cygwin aware Windows program

Re: git and absolute Windows-style paths

2016-04-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/19/2016 5:31 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 19/04/2016 22:34, silverwind wrote: Hey, I noticed that Cygwin's git does not seem to correctly process Windows-style paths in at least v2.7.4 and v2.8.1. It may have worked before, but I'm not totally certain. don't assume cygwin programs are able

Re: git and absolute Windows-style paths

2016-04-19 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 19/04/2016 22:34, silverwind wrote: Hey, I noticed that Cygwin's git does not seem to correctly process Windows-style paths in at least v2.7.4 and v2.8.1. It may have worked before, but I'm not totally certain. don't assume cygwin programs are able to process windows path. Most don't. Use P

Re: pthread_attr_init() returning errors

2016-04-19 Thread Václav Haisman
On 19.4.2016 21:49, Canham, Timothy K (348C) wrote: > I have some code to start a task that suddenly started failing. This is > pretty mature code. Here is the code fragment with my added printf() > > pthread_attr_t att; > int stat = pthread_attr_init(&att); > if (stat !=

git and absolute Windows-style paths

2016-04-19 Thread silverwind
Hey, I noticed that Cygwin's git does not seem to correctly process Windows-style paths in at least v2.7.4 and v2.8.1. It may have worked before, but I'm not totally certain. Interestingly, a command like "git add" still sets an 0 exit code despite the apparent failure. Could it be that some

[ANNOUNCEMENT] php 5.6.20-1

2016-04-19 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * php-5.6.20-1 * php-devel-5.6.20-1 * httpd-mod_php5-5.6.20-1 * php-bcmath-5.6.20-1 * php-bz2-5.6.20-1 * php-calendar-5.6.20-1 * php-ctype-5.6.20-1 * php-curl-5.6.20-1 * php-dba-5.6.20-1 * php-enchant-5.6.20-1 * php-exif-5.6.20-

[ANNOUNCEMENT] CVE-2016-3067: network privilege escalation in Cygwin set(e)uid

2016-04-19 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
In versions of Cygwin prior to 2.5.0, a process which switched user contexts on a system where neither the Cygwin LSA module was enabled, nor the user password stored thereon with 'passwd -R', would retain the network credentials of the original user context even after switching. In the case of

[ANNOUNCEMENT] imlib2 1.4.8-1

2016-04-19 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * imlib2-1.4.8-1 * libImlib2_1-1.4.8-1 * libImlib2-devel-1.4.8-1 This is the Imlib 2 library - a library that does image file loading and saving as well as rendering, manipulation, arbitrary polygon support, etc. It does ALL

[ANNOUNCEMENT] httpd 2.4.20-1

2016-04-19 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * httpd-2.4.20-1 * httpd-devel-2.4.20-1 * httpd-manual-2.4.20-1 * httpd-tools-2.4.20-1 * httpd-mod_http2-2.4.20-1 * httpd-mod_ldap-2.4.20-1 * httpd-mod_lua-2.4.20-1 * httpd-mod_proxy_html-2.4.20-1 * httpd-mod_ssl-2.4.20-1 The A

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: plotutils-2.6-5

2016-04-19 Thread Marco Atzeri
New versions of font-tektronix-misc libplot-devel libplot2 libplotter-devel libplotter2 libxmi-devel libxmi0 plotutils are available in the Cygwin distribution. CYGWIN CHANGES rebuild for postinstall fonts update DESCRIPTION The

Re: Security update needed for mercurial

2016-04-19 Thread Andy Moreton
On Sat 02 Apr 2016, Andy Moreton wrote: > Hi, > > The current package is for mercurial 3.5.1, but upstream have released > 3.7.3 as a security release, with fixes for: > > CVE-2016-3630 Mercurial: remote code execution in binary delta decoding > CVE-2016-3068 Mercurial: arbitrary code execution wi

Re: ctrl-c doesn't reliably kill applications

2016-04-19 Thread Aaron Digulla
Am Dienstag, 19. April 2016 10:11 CEST, Corinna Vinschen schrieb: > On Apr 18 23:38, Aaron Digulla wrote: > > On 17.03.2016 21:04, Björn Stabel wrote: > > > I couldn't replicate it either, but the question I started this thread > > > with is unrelated to either of the ping tools. > > > Here it

Re: gzip-1.7-1 regression: cannot redirect output of gzip -l

2016-04-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/19/2016 03:49 AM, Christian Franke wrote: > gzip-1.7-1 reports a write error if result of -l is redirected: > > $ uname -srvm > CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW 2.5.0(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-11 09:55 i686 > > $ cygcheck -f /bin/gzip > gzip-1.7-1 > > $ echo text | gzip > text.gz > > $ gzip -l text.gz >

Re: git clone fails with error chmod on config.lock failed: Invalid argument

2016-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 19 13:20, Tomas Jura wrote: > Hi > > My passwd and groups files got automatically renamed. I can't identify the > exact date. Last update of cygwin I did yesterday, but the rename could > happen a long time ago. > > >pwd > /etc > > ls passwd* groups* > passwd.backup groups.backup > > > g

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Version 2.2-1 of "tmux" has been uploaded

2016-04-19 Thread Michael Wild
tmux is a terminal multiplexer, similar to GNU screen. It enables a number of terminals (or windows) to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal like GNU screen. tmux runs as a server-client system. Moreover tmux provides a consistent and well-documented command interface, with the same sy

Re: git clone fails with error chmod on config.lock failed: Invalid argument

2016-04-19 Thread Tomas Jura
Hi My passwd and groups files got automatically renamed. I can't identify the exact date. Last update of cygwin I did yesterday, but the rename could happen a long time ago. >pwd /etc > ls passwd* groups* passwd.backup groups.backup > groups groups: cannot find name for group ID 10749228312

gzip-1.7-1 regression: cannot redirect output of gzip -l

2016-04-19 Thread Christian Franke
gzip-1.7-1 reports a write error if result of -l is redirected: $ uname -srvm CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW 2.5.0(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-11 09:55 i686 $ cygcheck -f /bin/gzip gzip-1.7-1 $ echo text | gzip > text.gz $ gzip -l text.gz compresseduncompressed ratio uncompressed_name

Cygwin/X windowed single window mode not working properly on Windows 10

2016-04-19 Thread Yos T
Recently I upgraded from Win8 to Win10. I used to run Cygwin/X with a window manager (dwm) without any problems. After the upgrade this did not work properly anymore. I can still run the X server and dwm starts as expected. However the window does not seem to be refreshing/ repainting correctly. No

Re: ctrl-c doesn't reliably kill applications

2016-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 18 23:38, Aaron Digulla wrote: > On 17.03.2016 21:04, Björn Stabel wrote: > > I couldn't replicate it either, but the question I started this thread > > with is unrelated to either of the ping tools. > > Here it is again: > > > > The ctrl-c shortcut doesn't reliably kill applications (anymor

Re: git clone fails with error chmod on config.lock failed: Invalid argument

2016-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 19 09:22, Tomas Jura wrote: > Hi > > I got error chmod on config.lock failed: Invalid argument and I was able to > catch the strace. It is attached. What I see from the strace, chmod fails to request group information: 299755 597014 [main] chmod 5840 internal_getlogin: group not found i

Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree

2016-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 19 02:31, andy wrote: > Erik Soderquist gmail.com> writes: > > As administrator is the Windows counterpart to root, yes, I would > > expect this behavior when starting a mintty session as administrator > > OK. I wasn't sure because, depending on what machine I'm using, > Windows 7 sometim

[ANNOUNCEMENT] tzcode/tzdata 2016d-1

2016-04-19 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * tzcode-2016d-1 * tzdata-2016d-1 The Time Zone Database (often called tz or zoneinfo) contains code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe. It is updated periodic

Re: Permissions change concern

2016-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 18 16:33, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 4/18/2016 2:55 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Apr 18 09:14, Eliot Moss wrote: > >>On 4/18/2016 6:18 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>On Apr 16 22:17, Eliot Moss wrote: > > >Your example looks like 775. But even then, the actual permissions > >depend on t

git clone fails with error chmod on config.lock failed: Invalid argument

2016-04-19 Thread Tomas Jura
Hi I got error chmod on config.lock failed: Invalid argument and I was able to catch the strace. It is attached. I had a suspicion to locales, but with the LC_ALL=C chmod 777 x Use CC: to my email address for any questions or requests for testing. I'm not in the mailing list. Tomas