[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash 0.5.12

2023-01-22 Thread Cygwin dash Co-Maintainer via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin
The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution: * dash 0.5.12 This Base category shell is used in all installations, so it has been available in test for a few weeks, is locally installed as my /bin/sh, used by most scripts, cron jobs, and cygport builds, getting frequent u

Re: [bug?] cygwin cannot mount smb shares beginning with underscore; "Invalid argument"

2023-01-22 Thread Jeremy Hetzler via Cygwin
Thanks Brian and Corinna. Jeremy On Sun, Jan 22, 2023, 14:57 Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > On 2023-01-22 12:21, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Jan 21 11:30, Jeremy Hetzler via Cygwin wrote: > >> First, thank you for many years of Cygwin. > >> > >> I'm unable to get Cygwin to mount

[ANNOUNCEMENT] getent 2.18.90-5

2023-01-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * getent-2.18.90-5 The getent command displays entries from databases supported by the Name Service Switch libraries, which are configured in /etc/nss‐ witch.conf. If one or more key arguments are provided, then only the ent

Re: [bug?] cygwin cannot mount smb shares beginning with underscore; "Invalid argument"

2023-01-22 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2023-01-22 12:21, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Jan 21 11:30, Jeremy Hetzler via Cygwin wrote: First, thank you for many years of Cygwin. I'm unable to get Cygwin to mount Windows SMB shares where the share name begins with underscore. mount gives an error "Invalid argument". Yes,

Re: observation: masses of requests to LDAP

2023-01-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Jan 22 15:32, Tobias Wendorff via Cygwin wrote: > Hi there, > > our IT department has informed me that masses of requests are being sent > from my computer to our two LDAP servers on port 389. After a detailed > investigation, the problem could be clearly traced back to "cygwin". > > Firewall

Re: observation: masses of requests to LDAP

2023-01-22 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2023-01-22 07:32, Tobias Wendorff via Cygwin wrote: our IT department has informed me that masses of requests are being sent from my computer to our two LDAP servers on port 389. After a detailed investigation, the problem could be clearly traced back to "cygwin". That is required for Cygwi

Re: [bug?] cygwin cannot mount smb shares beginning with underscore; "Invalid argument"

2023-01-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Jan 21 11:30, Jeremy Hetzler via Cygwin wrote: > All, > > First, thank you for many years of Cygwin. > > I'm unable to get Cygwin to mount Windows SMB shares where the share > name begins with underscore. mount gives an error "Invalid argument". Yes, that's actually a bug. The mount code pat

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {,{mingw64-{x86_64,i686}}xz 5.4.1-1

2023-01-22 Thread Achim Gratz via Cygwin
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: xz-5.4.1-1 liblzma5-5.4.1-1 liblzma-devel-5.4.1-1 mingw64-i686-xz-5.4.1-1 mingw64-x86_64-xz-5.4.1-1 XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio. XZ Utils are the successor to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pkgconf 1.9.4-1

2023-01-22 Thread Achim Gratz via Cygwin
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: libpkgconf-devel-1.9.4-1 libpkgconf4-1.9.4-1 pkg-config-1.9.4-1 pkgconf-1.9.4-1 pkgconf is a program which helps to configure compiler and linker flags for development frameworks. It is an alternative to pkg-config. Th

observation: masses of requests to LDAP

2023-01-22 Thread Tobias Wendorff via Cygwin
Hi there, our IT department has informed me that masses of requests are being sent from my computer to our two LDAP servers on port 389. After a detailed investigation, the problem could be clearly traced back to "cygwin". Firewall logs show that about any tool, even base tools "sort" or "le

[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygport 0.36.0-1

2023-01-22 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * cygport-0.36.0-1 cygport is the standard method for building and maintaining packages for the Cygwin distribution. Highlights of this release: * Error on attempts to build python2 packages with the python2{,-disutils,-w