stat st_birthtim(espec)

While checking if an OSS project of mine (www.snobol4.org/csnobol4) compiled cleanly under Cygwin, I was happy to discover that struct stat contains file birth time as on various BSD based systems. BUT, I was unhappy to find out that MacOS 10.15 and Cygwin 3.1.7 have non-overlapping definitions fo

Re: Unconsistent command-line parsing in case of UTF-8 quoted arguments

On 2020-10-14 14:47, Jérôme Froissart wrote: The choice of GetCommandLineA was for illustration purposes; had I used GetCommandLineW I would not be able to printf using %ls under CMD.EXE, because of code page issues. However here is a modified version of the test program that uses GetCommandLineW

Re: Date of first Cygwin release / 25th Anniversary

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:51 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 23 19:53, Kevin Schnitzius via Cygwin wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 02:33:13 PM EDT, David Eisner via > Cygwin wrote: > > > > > In any case, happy 25th anniversary, Cygwin! Thanks to everybody who > made it and conti

Re: xterm tab key (temporarily) locks keyboard

On 2020-10-18 12:07, Frank Eske via Cygwin wrote: > If the tab key is entered as the first character running the bash shell on > an xterm terminal, the keyboard temporarily locks. Control-C writes ^C but > doesn't unlock it. This doesn't happen on Fedora. It also doesn't lock if a > space is typed

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl, libcurl{4, -devel, -doc}, mingw64-{x86_64, i686}-curl 7.73

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * curl 7.73 * libcurl4 7.73 * libcurl-devel 7.73 * libcurl-doc 7.73 * mingw64-x86_64-curl 7.73 * mingw64-i686-curl 7.73 cURL is a command line tool and Library supporting tr

xterm tab key (temporarily) locks keyboard

If the tab key is entered as the first character running the bash shell on an xterm terminal, the keyboard temporarily locks. Control-C writes ^C but doesn't unlock it. This doesn't happen on Fedora. It also doesn't lock if a space is typed first. This occurs whether or not the xterm console is in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openldap-2.4.54-1

The openldap package in Cygwin has been updated to the latest upstream version 2.4.54. https://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html Notes = I don't use the server components of openldap myself and know next to nothing about these, so use them with due care. For this release th

Re: Happy TwentyFifth (25th) Birthday Cygwin!

On 2020-10-18 09:31, Brian Inglis wrote: > ...and many more until Windows runs on a POSIX compatible kernel! > > Thanks to all the contributors, documentors, testers, and especially users, > who > keep us honest, and without which we would have little encouragement to > continue! ...and also th

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dos2unix 7.4.2-1

CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE: === New upstream release. * New Friulian translation of the messages. * Updated Dutch, German, Serbian, Traditional Chinese, and Ukrainian translations. homepage: http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/dos2unix.html license: 2-clause BSD (Fr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tzcode, tzdata 2020c

The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * tzcode 2020c * tzdata 2020c The Time Zone Database (often called tz, tzdb, or zoneinfo) contains data that represents the history of local time for many locations around the world. It is updated periodically to reflect changes

Happy TwentyFifth (25th) Birthday Cygwin!

...and many more until Windows runs on a POSIX compatible kernel! Thanks to all the contributors, documentors, testers, and especially users, who keep us honest, and without which we would have little encouragement to continue! -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This