Cygwin is not passing arguments to Windows apps

2023-12-16 Thread Karl Crary via Cygwin
Dear all, I am encountering a bug wherein Cygwin is not passing arguments to most Windows programs (although Cygwin programs are doing fine). For example, the following command ought to be dumping a lot of usage information, but instead it starts a command prompt, which is what it does when n

/usr/bin/vi: errors parsing .vim files from vim-common package

2023-12-16 Thread John Hein via Cygwin
I just updated vim packages (including vim-minimal and vim-common) to 9.0.2155-1 Now when I run 'vi', I get this: Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim90/filetype.vim: line 11: E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: let did_load_filetypes = 1 line 14: E319: S

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: How efficient is 'sleep'?

2023-12-16 Thread Backwoods BC via Cygwin
On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 9:37 AM Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > > > the process isn't allocated any CPU time until the timer expires. > > Almost so. But the "sleep" functions are interruptible, so if a process (the > "sleep" command) > is somehow signaled, it will wake up premature

RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: How efficient is 'sleep'?

2023-12-16 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
> the process isn't allocated any CPU time until the timer expires. Almost so. But the "sleep" functions are interruptible, so if a process (the "sleep" command) is somehow signaled, it will wake up prematurely, and will have to either put itself back to sleep (for the remaining unslept time) o

Re: Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

2023-12-16 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
On 16/12/2023 02:41, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 15/12/2023 18:07, Mainz, Roland via Cygwin wrote: Hi! Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a CI (Continuous integration)