libnet on cygwin: how to deal with libpcap?

2017-12-11 Thread Gianpaolo Pedrazza
Dear all, I need to install libnet and I found on various sites [2][3] that the only one way to install the prerequisite libpcap is to extract the Developer Pack [4] into cygwin. I did it, I run all the tests and the pcap library seemed to work pretty well. So I run the configure file the latest av

Re: Files created in cygwin on fileshare no longer allow "delete" in NTFS

2017-12-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/11/2017 05:19 PM, Eric Duesterhaus wrote: How can I retain NTFS "delete" rights for my users and groups on files created by Cygwin? Note that there are two differences: 1. Delete permission are now missing. 2. Inheritance has been disabled and all permissions that would have been inhe

Re: setup 2.883 release candidate - please test

2017-12-11 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:46:30, Jon Turney wrote: A new setup release candidate is available at: https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.883.x86.exe(32 bit version) https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.883.x86_64.exe (64 bit version) Please test and report problems to cygwin@cygwin.com. If no regr

Re: Need help with multibyte UTF-8 characters

2017-12-11 Thread Thomas Taylor
Thank you for your advice on setting my locale to en_US.UTF-8.  Unfortunately, Cygwin still seems to have trouble displaying some three-byte UTF-8 encoded characters correctly.  For example, see the following snippet from a "sed" file.  This file attempts to convert XML-encoded filenames to UTF

RE: Files created in cygwin on fileshare no longer allow "delete" in NTFS

2017-12-11 Thread Eric Duesterhaus
Hi Jürgen, >From an NTFS standpoint, the containing directory allows "Modify" level access >to the AD group the users are members of. Effective permissions shows the AD >group members can do the following to the containing folder by virtue of being >members of this group: - Traverse folder /

Re: Git status delay

2017-12-11 Thread Richard H Lee
On 21/11/2017 10:27, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: (I believe this is a bug in Git, on the grounds that (a) Git in general supports POSIX systems and giving special meaning to paths starting with `\\` is allowed, if unusual, POSIX behaviour, and (b) Git specifically supports Cygwin, and this is very well

Re: Files created in cygwin on fileshare no longer allow "delete" in NTFS

2017-12-11 Thread Jürgen Wagner
Hi Eric,   what are the permission settings on the containing directory? Cheers, --J. On 11.12.2017 20:58, Eric Duesterhaus wrote: > Hi Cygwin Community, > > We are currently encountering an issue with Cygwin in regards to NTFS > permissions on files created within Cygwin. I'll try to outline m

Re: Cygport mailing list

2017-12-11 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Monday 11 December 2017 at 05:48 pm +0100, João Eiras wrote: > Hi, is this list dead ? If by "this list" you mean cygwin@cygwin.com, no, it's definitely not dead. However the convention on this list is to only reply to the list, not to individuals, so if you aren't subscribed to the list you w

Re: Git status delay

2017-12-11 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Monday 11 December 2017 at 02:37 pm +0100, Dawid Ferenczy wrote: >You can see that it hanged for about 30 seconds trying to open the > file >"\\HEAD\PIPE\wkssvc" which obviously failed with the BAD NETWORK PATH > error. >On my system, it always hangs for the same amount ti

Files created in cygwin on fileshare no longer allow "delete" in NTFS

2017-12-11 Thread Eric Duesterhaus
Hi Cygwin Community, We are currently encountering an issue with Cygwin in regards to NTFS permissions on files created within Cygwin. I'll try to outline my issue with specifics. 1. There is a windows file server mapped to M:\ on the a windows computer running Cygwin. 2. There is an activ

setup 2.883 release candidate - please test

2017-12-11 Thread Jon Turney
A new setup release candidate is available at: https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.883.x86.exe(32 bit version) https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.883.x86_64.exe (64 bit version) Please test and report problems to cygwin@cygwin.com. If no regressions are discovered in the next week or so, it

Issue with resolving symlinks (realpath, readlink, etc)

2017-12-11 Thread João Eiras
Hi. Programs and functions that rely in realpath() are broken. Example: $ cd $ ln -s /var symlink $ cd symlink $ readlink -m . /var $ mkdir subfolder $ cd subfolder $ readlink -m . /home/user/symlink/subfolder # should be /var/subfolder This is the block I think is causing problems, as it breaks

Re: Cygport mailing list

2017-12-11 Thread João Eiras
Hi, is this list dead ? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Git status delay

2017-12-11 Thread Dawid Ferenczy
Original message "Re: Git status delay" from "Adam Dinwoodie (a...@dinwoodie.org)" sent 21. listopadu 2017, 11:27:28, msgid:20171121102728.gm20...@dinwoodie.org (3557 bytes): > Your analysis is spot-on: Git is trying to find the directory that > contains all the metadata for the current wo