Concerning Python patch 3.6.12-socketmodule.patch

2022-11-07 Thread Mark Geisert
Hi Marco, Recently there's been a complaint about that patch on the Cygwin mailing list. The patch was meant to allow same-machine communication between Cygwin Python programs via an AF_UNIX socket. The patch works because both ends of the connection are Python programs that have the patch.

Re: Python regression related to unix sockets

2022-11-07 Thread Mark Geisert
Following up to myself... Mark Geisert wrote: Hi Fabian, Fabian Henze wrote: Hi all, This is a follow-up on a mail thread from February 2021. Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote: Fabian Henze via Cygwin wrote: Hi Cygwin users, I noticed a regression in the recent Python packages: Between version

Re: Cygwin commands are intermittently hanging on Windows

2022-11-07 Thread Takashi Yano
On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 22:06:46 + Derek Pagel wrote: > I've printed the script below for reference: > > use strict; > use Cwd; > > my $TESTDIR = getcwd() . "\\test"; > my $MKDIRCMD = "mkdir test"; > my $TOUCHCMD = 'touch test.txt'; > my $CPCMD = 'cp test.txt

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: procps-ng 4.0.1-1

2022-11-07 Thread Andy Koppe
On Sat, 22 Oct 2022 at 20:20, Achim Gratz wrote: > The package procps-ng has been updated to its latest upstream version. > > This package provides command line and full screen utilities for > browsing procfs, a pseudo file system dynamically generated by the > kernel to provide information about

Cygwin commands are intermittently hanging on Windows

2022-11-07 Thread Derek Pagel via Cygwin
We've been encountering Cygwin commands that are intermittently hanging on Windows. We don't have any predictable way to reproduce it besides running commands in a loop until we encounter a hang. So, we've created a script that will loop and execute 5 different Cygwin commands (touch, cp, mv,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] openssh 9.1p1-1

2022-11-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * openssh-9.1p1-1 OpenSSH is a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands on a remote machine. It can replace rlogin and rsh, providing encrypted communication between two machines.

openssh 9.1p1-1

2022-11-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * openssh-9.1p1-1 OpenSSH is a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands on a remote machine. It can replace rlogin and rsh, providing encrypted communication between two machines.

Re: Building a texlive environment in Cygwin

2022-11-07 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/7/2022 11:46 AM, Drew Abbott wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up texlive in Cygwin and installing the texlive package seems to get me most of the way there. I tried to compile a test document using the fontspec package (lualatex test.tex), but ran into errors about a missing package (! LaTeX

Building a texlive environment in Cygwin

2022-11-07 Thread Drew Abbott
Hi, I am trying to set up texlive in Cygwin and installing the texlive package seems to get me most of the way there. I tried to compile a test document using the fontspec package (lualatex test.tex), but ran into errors about a missing package (! LaTeX Error: File `fontspec.sty' not found.). On

Re: Accessing long filesystem paths using Python

2022-11-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Fridjof, Please don't top-post. On Nov 4 13:30, Fritjof Bornebusch wrote: > On Nov 4 13:57, marco atzeri wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 1:16 PM Fritjof Bornebusch wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I need to write files whose path exceed the maximum value of 260 >> > characters. >> > Using