Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

2021-10-26 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 06:52:02PM -0400, Michel LaBarre wrote: Greetings, Michel & Corinna, > Corinna , thank you for the heads up regarding subsequent updates wrt Window > 7. > > Would it be possible to create a short "how-to" for installing the most > recently "known-to-work-with-Windows-7" v

Re: socat UDP-LISTEN,fork misbehaves

2021-10-26 Thread Andrew Schulman via Cygwin
> I have socat 1.7.4.1-1 and the same version on Linux. > When I try to create a forking UDP server, only the first client is served, > unlike in Linux where subsequent clients are served properly. > > Test case. Terminal 1: > > socat -v UDP-LISTEN:12345,reuseaddr,fork SYSTEM:"stdbuf -i0 -o0

Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

2021-10-26 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin
On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 22:55:01 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > We're also planning to drop Support for the 32 bit release of Cygwin in > 2022, thus Cygwin 3.4.0 won't come in 32 bit anymore, and the package > maintainers won't have to update 32 bit packages anymore. If you're > still running Cygwin

RE: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

2021-10-26 Thread Michel LaBarre
Corinna , thank you for the heads up regarding subsequent updates wrt Window 7. Would it be possible to create a short "how-to" for installing the most recently "known-to-work-with-Windows-7" version of Cygwin (presuming that old versions remain accessible indefinitely...). Alternately, how one c

Re: [QUAR] [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

2021-10-26 Thread Eliot Moss
Thank you for your many efforts, Corinna! This seems very reasonable to me! Best wishes - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.co

[ANNOUNCEMENT] ssmtp 2.64-10

2021-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * ssmtp-2.64-10 A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous things - no mail spool to poke around in, and no daemons running in the backgroun

[HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

2021-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
Hi folks, The upcoming version 3.3.0 is the last version officially supporting Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The next major release 3.4.0 will be released in 2022 and will be the last one officially supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012. We're

Re: Problem/Bug with binutils-gdb and strsignal ?

2021-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Oct 24 08:26, Claudius Schnörr via Cygwin wrote: > o suggestion: undefining DEFS_H might be risky -> to be added at >line 55: > + #ifndef DEFS_H >#    include /* for strsignal on >cygwin */ >#else >char *strsignal

Re: Confusing Cygwin X / xlaunch issue

2021-10-26 Thread Eliot Moss
On 10/26/2021 4:02 PM, Jon Turney wrote: On 24/10/2021 12:01, Eliot Moss wrote: First, things work fine when I am using just my hi-res laptop display, or that display plus a hi-res external display in "Extend these displays" mode according to Windows 10.  At present I am using a lower resolution

Re: Confusing Cygwin X / xlaunch issue

2021-10-26 Thread Jon Turney
On 24/10/2021 12:01, Eliot Moss wrote: First, things work fine when I am using just my hi-res laptop display, or that display plus a hi-res external display in "Extend these displays" mode according to Windows 10.  At present I am using a lower resolution external display (becaue I am on an exte

Re: rename using regexpr - is it possible?

2021-10-26 Thread Eliot Moss
Turns out that my installation that I reported about was for cygwin64. Given your mail, I tried cygwin32 also (I happen to have both installed, mostly laziness) and the installation went fine for me there, too. So, yes, must be something about what you had (not) installed, but you're right that n