least historically, HP-UX login(1) set LOGNAME but not USER.
On the other hand, historically some su programs set USER but not LOGNAME.
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gwin bash should
default the igncr option to on. Also why Cygwin symlinks should probably
default to using real Windows symlinks. And why Cygwin should probably go
back to reading/setting/clearing the DOS read-only attribute. And why more
effort should be put into supporting text-mode mounts.
Marco Atzeri yahoo.it> writes:
> Don't use filename with a space inside is a WELL KNOWN
> rule of any UNIX system.
> If MS made a stupid decision, we should not follow it.
>
> Regards
> Marco
It really doesn't matter to me whether cygport supports filenames with
spaces. And it is certainly t
Linh Phan usc.edu> writes:
> I have wondering why when I do floating-point math in Cygwin 1.7, Cygwin
does not output the "correct"
> result, eg:
>
> qca = [-0.623718486146499718, 0.736824293298044886, -0.260654850643024127,
> 0.011147182658310384] CORRECT (LINUX/SOLARIS)
> qca = [-0.62371848
Eric Backus agilent.com> writes:
> Dave Korn googlemail.com> writes:
>
> > This will require a newlib patch and a new cygwin dll release to solve,
> > it'll take a little while I'm afraid.
>
> Impressive, 5 hours from defect report to complete debugg
Charles Wilson cwilson.fastmail.fm> writes:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
> > Eric Backus wrote:
> >> $ tput sgr0
> >> Segmentation fault (core dumped)< this is wrong
> >>
> >> The seg fault didn't happen with the previous vers
Dave Korn googlemail.com> writes:
> Needs moar 'ffree st(0)'.
>
> This will require a newlib patch and a new cygwin dll release to solve,
> it'll take a little while I'm afraid.
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
Impressive, 5 hours from defect report to complete debugging and understanding
of
Dave Korn googlemail.com> writes:
> Thanks for the STC. The difference between -ffast-math and -fno-fast-math
> is that the fast version calls the _f_tan newlib fast math function rather
> than tan. I think this is likely to be a calling-convention issue but I'm
> still debugging it.
>
>
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes:
> On Nov 7 20:38, Eric Backus wrote:
> > Jim Reisert AD1C alum.mit.edu> writes:
> >
> > > How do I make this work, while maintaining:
> > >
> > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > >
> > > - Jim
is
LOCALE.
>
> How do I make this work, while maintaining:
>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>
> - Jim
You might try "LANG=en_us.UTF-8" (Note the lower-case "us"). It seems to
change the time formatting used by ls. But I don't understand how or why, nor
Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes:
> On 10/28/2009 10:04 AM, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> > when I type the who command within a Cygwin window, only an empty line
> > is returned.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > It looks, to me, as if perhaps we are missing some setup that results in
> > entries being writt
Niels Hallenberg gmail.com> writes:
> I have a lot of scripts that
> won't run under bash as long as the extra CR's are not removed. I know
> of the tool doc2unix, however there are other obstacles too so having
> the auto-conversion is the best solution for me.
>
> I have also tried to use the
n. Is there anything else
I should try to debug this? Would you like cygcheck output?
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Andy Koppe gmail.com> writes:
> > The obvious method would be to check $TERM,
> > but of course that doesn't work...
>
> ... and I can't change it to "mintty", because even if entries for it
> were added to Cygwin's termcap and terminfo, any other system would
> say "what?".
Yes. Though you co
Andy Koppe gmail.com> writes:
> 2009/10/16 Eric Backus:
> > Unfortunately, cygwin's terminfo/termcap entries for XTERM say that the
> > backspace key returns ^H. This can be seen by looking in /etc/termcap for
> > xterm, and finding the 'kb' property
Andy Koppe gmail.com> writes:
> CHANGES
> ===
>
> Keyboard:
> - The default backspace keycode now is ^? rather than ^H, to make
> Ctrl+H available as a shortcut for other purposes, particularly as the
> help key in emacs. The backspace keycode option is gone. Instead, the
> DECBKM control se
comparing equality of floating-point values.
This is true even if you get rid of the excess precision stuff above. Sure,
in this particular case, if you get rid of excess precision, the values will
be exactly equal, but direct comparison is a bad habit to get into.
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tomary to have some
overlap period where the deprecated solution still works (but with ugly
warnings) while the new solution is available?
I've used -mno-cygwin for many years, quite successfully, with no problems
from headers or libraries. I'm willing to upgrade all my Makefiles,
Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
> Most .exe magic is already inside cygwin. In particular, CVS cygwin
> (which will become 1.7.0) has a transparent_exe option that makes this all
> even cleaner, without application specific knowledge.
>
> But the real problem reported by this thread has nothing to
oes that introduce other
problems?
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Gustavo Seabra gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to use the windows folder "My
> Documents" or even "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME" (or some dir
> inside those) as the hoe directory in Cygwin. I though about
> substituting the user directory inside /home
Matthew Woehlke users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Dennis Simpson wrote:
> > Three of us updated to latest windows cygwin last week, and none can run
> > even simple .sh scripts any more. Prior version was 6 months ago.
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-12/msg00026.html
>
> Next time
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