Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-29 Thread Dante Allegria
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Sure, it does. It's called "intelligent scripting" and it > includes setting "errexit" and "nounset" in bash or Z Shell. > If you are scripting > and not using those above, then you got exactly what you > deserved. Thanks for the tip, Thorsten! Any ideas what the best prac

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-28 Thread Dante Allegria
--- On Mon, 3/28/11, Damon Register wrote: > this at a company.  Is that so?  Do you have an > aggressive IS department who might have decided they don't like Cygwin? No, turns out it was because someone committed this into the nightly build scripts: rm -rf $(DOES_NOT_EXIST)/* Should cygwi

Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-28 Thread Dante Allegria
We just discovered that a whole bunch of our Windows machines had everything under their c:/cygwin directories deleted over the weekend. Has anyone else experienced this? Just trying to rule out some sort of malware/virus related to Earth Hour or perhaps some internal process gone awry. Thanks!

flex 2.5.35-1: isatty() problem (and solution)

2008-06-04 Thread Dante Allegria
Hi, Recently, I updated my cygwin flex from 2.5.4 to 2.5.35-1 and my build has been breaking because of changes in flex.skl. Specifically, I have a problem with extern declaration of isatty in flex.skl. In 2.5.35-1, it is done like this in flex.skl: %if-c-only m4_ifdef( [[M4_YY_ALWAYS_INTERACT