Re: qpdf: missing dep lib cygqpdf-17

2016-08-20 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 20.08.2016, 15:27 Uhr, schrieb Marco Atzeri: setup.ini is reporting it on both 32 and 64 bit version: You're right. Maybe I should stop using apt-cyg .. -Helmut -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

qpdf: missing dep lib cygqpdf-17

2016-08-20 Thread Helmut Karlowski
I guess libqpdf17 belongs into the qpdf-dependencies: $cygcheck qpdf Found: C:\cygwin\bin\qpdf.exe C:\cygwin\bin\qpdf.exe C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNELBASE.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-09 Thread Helmut Karlowski
--- > file. I'm not satisfied that we should continue with the .exe > artificial symlink for the same reasons we shouldn't use PATHEXT. > Because of the amount of time to port scripts and software to use the > .exe suffix for executable files it

Re: zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh is for bash

2016-08-08 Thread Helmut Karlowski
--- > Helmut Karlowski writes: > > I just noticed that zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh has read -d which is not > > present in sh in line 5, but no #!/bin/bash or something. Is that > > correct? > > Yes, if setup sees th

zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh is for bash

2016-08-08 Thread Helmut Karlowski
I just noticed that zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh has read -d which is not present in sh in line 5, but no #!/bin/bash or something. Is that correct? -Helmut -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: symlinks to unlinked but open files should work

2016-07-03 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 03.07.2016, 13:14 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: You don't even need a symlink. This will show the same result: exec >out1 rm out1 [[ -w /dev/fd/1 ]] || echo /dev/fd/1 not writable 1>&2 I noticed that too meanwhile, but I thought you would not need that information ;) It's only

symlinks to unlinked but open files should work

2016-07-01 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Cygwin seems to look up a symlink wrong: When the target-file is unlinked while it is used by a process the file still exists and the symlink should point to that file. Test: ln -s out1 lout1 exec >lout1 rm out1 [[ -w /dev/fd/1 ]] || echo /dev/fd/1 not writable 1>&2 rm lout1 Only on cygwin

Re: stty icrnl

2016-06-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
--- > Ideally by somebody who knows how this dreaded Windows serial line API > works... Wouldn't someting like this work: term=$'\r' l= while true; do read -N1 c [ "$c" == $'\4' ] && break [ "$c" == $term ] && { echo "<$l>"; l=; } || l="$l$c" done

Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?

2016-04-04 Thread Helmut Karlowski
--- > On 04/04/2016 12:09 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On 2016-04-03 18:05, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Because, within my reach, Cygwin is the only system that not using > >> DASH as > >> /bin/sh. Though, I may try rolling some busybox… > > > >

Re: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only.

2016-01-22 Thread Helmut Karlowski
--- > please reply on the list > and Bottom post please. > > On 22/01/2016 16:26, KARL BOTTS wrote: > >> How largish ? > > > > Any size larger than a few meg. That is, any size that takes more than a > > few > > milliseconds to seek to the end, I

Re: cmp (or echo) bug?

2015-12-27 Thread Helmut Karlowski
--- > Hi, > > David Balažic gmail.com> writes: > > > In Cygwin terminal (bash) I typed: > > > > cmp <(echo echo1) <(echo echo2) > > I suspect its a bash bug since it works fine with zsh (tested 64bit only). zsh uses temp-files for

Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH

2015-12-08 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 08.12.2015, 22:21 Uhr, schrieb Achim Gratz: Helmut Karlowski writes: Can you tell me in which circumstances this happens and why this is a problem? SHELL is supposed to be the user preference, so I don't think /etc/profile should try to second-guess it. /etc/profile is run before

Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH

2015-12-08 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 08.12.2015, 22:31 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Yes, but why is this a problem? Note that bash will set it anyway if not present. All shells set it only when run as login-shell. Wrong: Only bash gives it a value - ksh and dash export SHELL with no value if none present. And IMHO

Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH

2015-12-08 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 08.12.2015, 22:01 Uhr, schrieb Achim Gratz: Helmut Karlowski writes: I set C:/cygwin/usr/bin in my windows-environment. Now /etc/profile always adds /usr/bin to PATH resulting in /usr/bin being twice in my cygwin-PATH. The attached patch fixes this. I tend to reject this patch

Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH

2015-12-08 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 08.12.2015, 22:26 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Am 08.12.2015, 22:21 Uhr, schrieb Achim Gratz: Helmut Karlowski writes: Can you tell me in which circumstances this happens and why this is a problem? SHELL is supposed to be the user preference, so I don't think /etc/profile should try

/etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH

2015-12-06 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Hello, I set C:/cygwin/usr/bin in my windows-environment. Now /etc/profile always adds /usr/bin to PATH resulting in /usr/bin being twice in my cygwin-PATH. The attached patch fixes this. It also sets SHELL if not yet set and avoids a call of hostname. Maybe the maintainer takes a look.

Re: Rounding off real (floating point) values - bash to awk

2015-11-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
--- > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Steven Penny wrote: > > echo 3.7 | awk '{printf "%.0f", $0}' > > Another option > > awk 'BEGIN {printf "%.0f", ARGV[1]}' 3.7 #4: printf "%3.0f\n" 3.7 -Helmut -- Problem reports:

Re: Cygwin DLL V2.3.0 on XP 64-bit professional not working at all

2015-11-11 Thread Helmut Karlowski
--- > Finally I restored the complete cygwin folder from a backup. Now Cygwin > works again as a charm. I conclude, that my system itself is OK and > something or the other might be broken in the current Cygwin version? I once had this fork-error

Re: TP_NUM_C_BUFS too small

2015-11-02 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 02.11.2015, 12:15 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: Glad it's fixed! For the record, could you say what sort of bug would cause a fatal internal error like that? Just curious, Me too. Sounds like some kind of recursion. It all happened after I had replaced all strcpy/strcat by strlcpy

TP_NUM_C_BUFS too small

2015-11-01 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Hello just had a program crashing with this error: 2 [main] ue 3180 C:\bin\ue.exe: *** fatal error - Internal error: TP_NUM_C_BUFS too small: 50 What could that mean? #uname -srvmo CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW 2.2.1(0.289/5/3) 2015-08-20 11:40 i686 Cygwin -Helmut -- -- Problem reports:

Re: TP_NUM_C_BUFS too small

2015-11-01 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 01.11.2015, 18:46 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Hello just had a program crashing with this error: 2 [main] ue 3180 C:\bin\ue.exe: *** fatal error - Internal error: TP_NUM_C_BUFS too small: 50 What could that mean? It means my program had a bug - fixed now. -Helmut -- Problem

Re: [Aranym-user] [windows] scancode for ^-key changed

2015-10-25 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 24.10.2015, 16:19 Uhr, schrieb Andreas Schwab: "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlow...@ish.de> writes: I discovered that the scancode for the ^-key (on german keyboard the one left to the 1-key) is 0x60 in aranym 1.02, while it used to be 0x29 in 0.915. Which scancode is

Re: [Aranym-user] [windows] scancode for ^-key changed

2015-10-25 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 25.10.2015, 11:31 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Sorry - wrong list. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: links 2.12-1 -- Text mode WWW browser

2015-10-24 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 15.10.2015, 07:24 Uhr, schrieb Jari Aalto: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freecode.com/projects/links I tried 6 different mirrors and all have links 2.8-2, not 2.12 (32 bit). Why's that? -Helmut -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

utf/codepage-conversion on cmd-window

2015-10-06 Thread Helmut Karlowski
I came across a surprising behaviour when a cygwin-process prints to a windows-console. In cygwin 1.7 (XP) I don't think any conversion took place, while now in cygwin 2 (10) cygwin-utf-8 gets converted into the suitable(?) windows-encoding used in the cmd-window. I have a file containing german

Re: Bash / cygwin process spawning (?) performance very slow

2015-09-23 Thread Helmut Karlowski
--- > I'm not running any antivirus as far as I'm aware of (I do run a Comodo > firewall with all "virus" scanning disabled). > I checked again, and it really is the Bash.exe which is consuming a lot of > Kernel time. I didn't spot another process

Re: Bash / cygwin process spawning (?) performance very slow

2015-09-23 Thread Helmut Karlowski
lit...@null.net: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:52:26 +0200 --- > Hi all, > > I noticed that doing simple loops in Bash takes unexpectedly long under > Cygwin on a Windows XP 32 bit machine > (CYGWIN_NT-5.1 2.2.1(0.289/5/3) 2015-08-20 11:40 i686 Cygwin) >

Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2

2015-08-27 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 27.08.2015, 21:26 Uhr, schrieb Peter Rosin: Seems like a fast way to not get a compiler warning if you do happen to use a variable that would be used uninitialized if it were not for an ugly pointless initializer. Sorry if I added the wrong number of negations in there, but you get my

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Corinna Vinschen Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:32:14 +0200 --- Now that Windows 2003 is finally out of long term support, and given that XP's much-too-long-term support ended 2014, I'll drop support for XP and Server 2003 from Cygwin End of 2015. He -

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is on the way. From what I've seen and heard W10, while mostly stable, still coerces users towards the software as (an expensive) service model and follows the dictum that Microsoft knows more about what you want than you

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Good luck finding all the Microsoft spyware. From what I can tell, Win 10 defaults to reporting almost everything to the company for their spam servers to use. From my first inspection the remote-adress is something with akamai (may differ in other regions). I did shut them all down with

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Corinna Vinschen Unfortulately I think I'm bound to windows which is all malware anyway since1991 ;) Heh. But thanks cygwin it's a place where I can live :-) -Helmut -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: setup-x86_64.exe Unable to get setup.ini on all mirrors

2015-08-24 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Dennis Putnam Mon, 24 Aug 2015 07:41:00 -0400 --- OK. I have no networking problems with anything other than cygwin which Another idea: You could download the packages needed for a basic install from any server, e.g.:

Re: setup-x86_64.exe Unable to get setup.ini on all mirrors

2015-08-23 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 23.08.2015, 14:21 Uhr, schrieb Dennis Putnam: Since I have gotten no response to this and am stuck I assume my problem is badly worded. I don't know how else to present it. Perhaps someone explaining how setup uses the windows network interface would help. If it helps, I tried installing

Re: setup-x86_64.exe Unable to get setup.ini on all mirrors

2015-08-23 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 23.08.2015, 19:42 Uhr, schrieb Dennis Putnam: Hi Helmut, Thanks for the reply. I can download that file but now that I have it, how do I get setup to use it? However, I don't think that would work Just to test if you can access it at all but that was expectable. either since the problem

Re: More details about the tmux 2.0 regression

2015-06-09 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Achim Gratz Tue, 9 Jun 2015 11:18:40 + (UTC) --- Again, I just think procps is good enough for us as is, it is good enough for Linux anyway. :-) Would be great if the ps from procps would work as the current ps, e.g. ps -W (with and without

no info in the texinfo-package

2015-02-22 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Hello there's no info-program in the texinfo-package. I re-installed texinfo and it was still not there. In checked out the texinfo-source, built it and found that the info-program is called ginfo, maybe that's why it's missing? Also I have no dir (the default top-node) in

Re: no info in the texinfo-package

2015-02-22 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 22.02.2015, 19:07 Uhr, schrieb Ken Brown: On 2/22/2015 1:30 PM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: Hello there's no info-program in the texinfo-package. I re-installed texinfo and it was still not there. See https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-11/msg2.html . I've been looking

Re: no info in the texinfo-package

2015-02-22 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 22.02.2015, 20:26 Uhr, schrieb Ken Brown: $ grep '@ info' http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/x86/setup.ini @ info There it is. Setup says 5.2-3: Keep for info, I now did re-install it, no clue why it was gone. Had to run update-info-dir.sh.done to get dir, and

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-11 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 11.02.2015, 10:55 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Nope, WFFM. Do you have another cygwin1.dll in C:\cygwin\usr\src\ksh\pdksh or somewhere in the path, by any chance? There's one in /tmp (a copy of the release-version). Maybe that is it. I'll try again tonight. That was it. All fine now

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-11 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Corinna Vinschen : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:48:54 +0100 --- On Feb 11 09:49, Helmut Karlowski wrote: Corinna Vinschen : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:40:42 +0100 --- On Feb 10 23:30, Helmut Karlowski wrote

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-11 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Corinna Vinschen : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:41:17 +0100 --- On Feb 10 21:43, Helmut Karlowski wrote: Am 10.02.2015, 21:33 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Works. The inodes from stat still differ, all seems right (to me). What inodes from what

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-11 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Corinna Vinschen : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:40:42 +0100 --- On Feb 10 23:30, Helmut Karlowski wrote: Am 10.02.2015, 21:43 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Am 10.02.2015, 21:33 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Works. The inodes from stat still

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-11 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Corinna Vinschen : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:39:35 +0100 --- Nothing helpful in there, unfortunately. You could do this: cd cp /bin/bash . ./bash ls Maybe this already triggers it. Nope, WFFM. Do you have another cygwin1.dll in

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: (10/02/2015 17:33) On 02/10/2015 09:28 AM, Eric Blake wrote: The bug is in cygwin1.dll, not bash. Here's a STC; opening a file should NOT change its st_ino number, but that's exactly what cygwin is

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- use any other (already-existing) file to see that the two numbers should normally be the same. Also: isn't it nonsense to interpret the inode of somthing like /dev/tty? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- Helmut Karlowski helmut.karlow...@ish.de wrote: (10/02/2015 19:04) -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: (10/02/2015 18:34) On 02/10/2015 09:46 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: The same

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: (10/02/2015 18:34) On 02/10/2015 09:46 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: The same test from the command line: $ stat -c %i /dev/tty - 0/dev/tty 327680 8912896 use any other (already-existing) file

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 10.02.2015, 21:06 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: If it's legal to look up the inode of a device, then both OS should be fixed I think. I applied a patch to Cygwin. Please give the latest snapshots a try: https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ 1030/home/hk#obash /home/hk/.bashrc /home/hk#set -o

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 10.02.2015, 21:33 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Works. The inodes from stat still differ, all seems right (to me). With the redirection they are the same of course: stat -c %i /dev/tty - /dev/tty 327680 327680 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 10.02.2015, 21:43 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Am 10.02.2015, 21:33 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Works. The inodes from stat still differ, all seems right (to me). Unfortunately I get with the snapshot reproducibly: 125018 [main] dksh 2348 fork: child -1 - forked process 548 died

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-09 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- Thomas Wolff t...@towo.net wrote: (09/02/2015 09:47) Am 09.02.2015 um 05:23 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! echo bla /dev/tty bash: /dev/tty: cannot overwrite existing file WJFFM Please be more specific. I.e.

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-09 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 09.02.2015, 20:38 Uhr, schrieb Thomas Wolff: bash prints that message when it has the noclobber-option set. Maybe you check it? Yes, indeed, the effect shows up after set -o noclobber; however, this shouldn’t apply to device files (and doesn’t on other systems) - man bash: “redirection

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-09 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 09.02.2015, 21:03 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Right. Looks like a bug (in cygwin). No, in bash, it works with another shell. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: ca-legacy not bourne-compatible

2015-02-08 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 08.02.2015, 20:34 Uhr, schrieb Achim Gratz: Helmut Karlowski writes: /usr/bin/ca-legacy contains [[-operators but has #!/bin/sh. Attached patch fixes it. The patch seems reversed… Oops. Shall I send an un-reversed one? Or maybe it is an upstream-issue? -Helmut -- Problem reports

ca-legacy not bourne-compatible

2015-02-08 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Hello /usr/bin/ca-legacy contains [[-operators but has #!/bin/sh. Attached patch fixes it. -Helmut -- ca-legacy.diff Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-08 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 08.02.2015, 23:05 Uhr, schrieb Thomas Wolff: echo bla /dev/tty bash: /dev/tty: cannot overwrite existing file Works for me. -- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: opendir(/dev/fd/n) should fail

2015-01-23 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: (23/01/2015 10:43) numerous entries ... This occurs on Linux as well, just with a few less entries in fd (42 rather than 560). These descriptors are apparently created by bash for some

Re: opendir(/dev/fd/n) should fail

2015-01-23 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- Helmut Karlowski helmut.karlow...@ish.de wrote: (23/01/2015 10:54) It's not just bash. The same happens in my home-grown shell. Starting with /dev/fd/3 opendir succeeds giving (only the opendir-entries): Maybe it's because: 3 - /proc/3008

Re: opendir(/dev/fd/n) should fail

2015-01-23 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- Helmut Karlowski helmut.karlow...@ish.de wrote: (23/01/2015 10:54) It's not just bash. The same happens in my home-grown shell. Starting with /dev/fd/3 opendir succeeds giving (only the opendir-entries): Maybe it's because: 3 - /proc/3008

Re: opendir(/dev/fd/n) should fail

2015-01-23 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: (23/01/2015 15:04) On 01/23/2015 03:00 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: -- Helmut Karlowski helmut.karlow...@ish.de wrote: (23/01/2015 10:54) It's

Re: opendir(/dev/fd/n) should fail

2015-01-22 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 22.01.2015, 13:55 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: I applied a fix and uploaded a new developer snapshot to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please give it a try and report back. I can't download the snapshot - tried with several browsers, all have near to 0 transfer-speed. I'll try again

Re: opendir(/dev/fd/n) should fail

2015-01-22 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 22.01.2015, 22:47 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: #! /bin/bash (set -o globstar 2/dev/null) set -o globstar || shopt -s globstar extglob echo /dev/fd/** run this in on mintty, and then in another: ps: ... 8164012 816176 pty01004 00:15:27 /usr/bin/obash 676

Re: opendir(/dev/fd/n) should fail

2015-01-22 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 22.01.2015, 21:25 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Am 22.01.2015, 13:55 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: I applied a fix and uploaded a new developer snapshot to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please give it a try and report back. I can't download the snapshot - tried with several browsers

opendir(/dev/fd/n) should fail

2015-01-21 Thread Helmut Karlowski
I discovered a strange behaviour when accessing /dev/fd: ls -l /dev/fd/0 ls -l /dev/fd/0/1 ls -l /dev/fd/0/1/2/3/4/5 ls -l /dev/fd/0/1/2/3/ ls -l /dev/fd/0/1/2 ls -l /dev/fd/0/1/2/3 ls -l /dev/fd/0/1/1/1/1 gives: lrwxrwxrwx 1 hk Benutzer

Re: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

2014-11-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
You could also try a little script I wrote: http://home.arcor.de/zabruder/cygwin/cygdesc It needs files created by cygcheck-dep. Docs inside. -Helmut -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: mintty: WINCH-signal to child

2014-10-19 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 19.10.2014, 09:48 Uhr, schrieb Duncan Roe: bash at least has shopt -s checkwinsize to achieve what you want, That would be a workaround for bash. Ideally every process should forward the WINCH-signal to its parent, or the terminal should walk through the call-tree. Both not very likely

mintty: WINCH-signal to child

2014-10-18 Thread Helmut Karlowski
When I run for example an editor from a shell in a mintty-window and change the window-size the editor is informed by a WINCH-signal. That is good. But the shell it was started from does not know about the change, so after exiting the editor the shell uses the old size. Could mintty send a

Re: New bash vulnerability.

2014-09-24 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 24.09.2014, 19:53 Uhr, schrieb Eric Blake: On 09/24/2014 12:12 PM, David Young wrote: Hi, I've been seeing some traffic on this new bash vulnerability and wanted to know if cygwin team will be updating bash with these patches. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-09/index.html

Re: beep perl script

2013-12-22 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 22.12.2013, 08:08 Uhr, schrieb Gigabit Pony: Well I know the beep script is not yours but.. I am trying to configure it so I hear a sound inside of Windows 7. I have cygwin with weechat curses running in it. The set command /set plugins.var.perl.beep_beep_command_highlight cat

Re: texlive-install: core dumped

2013-06-30 Thread Helmut Karlowski
without '=' in the environment, and there is no 0-check in find_env(), which appears to be a good thing. Fixed. -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: texlive-install: core dumped

2013-06-30 Thread Helmut Karlowski
... which mintty can't display unfortunately. I'm too little a TeX-expert to tell what's wrong. The other issue regarding the error-message during latex-run seems to be solved with the now successful installation - I renamed the .def-file and got not message. -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem

texlive-install: core dumped

2013-06-29 Thread Helmut Karlowski
' failed `xetex -ini -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex -etex xetex.ini' failed `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' failed But again no Memory fault. How can I find out what caused the Memory fault? CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.20(0.266/5/3) 2013-06-07 11:11 i686 -- Helmut

Re: texlive-install: core dumped

2013-06-29 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini' failed And more. It would be really helpful to be able to find the stackdumps produced during setup. I don't care that much about the TeX-errors. -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

Re: texlive-install: core dumped

2013-06-29 Thread Helmut Karlowski
don't know about that. Maybe there's a commandline-option for setup that enables keeping stackdump-files? -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info

Re: texlive-install: core dumped

2013-06-29 Thread Helmut Karlowski
to setup.log.full all 4 luatex-calls crash. I have to mention I'm not using a shell available by cygwin, but something I'm working on, that's why I want to know why it crashes. -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com

Re: SIGQUIT reported as SIGSEGV

2013-04-30 Thread Helmut Karlowski
, the report is correct. Stack trace: Frame Function Args 0022AAC8 7C80A115 (0003, 0022AB2C, , ) -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: BUG: Pasting Smiling Cat with Heart-Shaped Eyes into ZSH locks MinTTY, requires force close

2013-04-23 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Jeff Crowell, 23.04.2013 18:58:07: 1) Copy http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f63b/index.htm 2) paste into ZSH 3) press enter Actual Results: MinTTY hangs and does not respond Similar happens when doing: cat /bin/gdb.exe for example. Something seems to overflow. -- Helmut

Re: BUG: Pasting Smiling Cat with Heart-Shaped Eyes into ZSH locks MinTTY, requires force close

2013-04-23 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Andy Koppe, 23.04.2013 22:07:11: Quite. Or just kill the cat. That's a solution in case of /bin/cat. But also any other process hanging that way can only be killed -9, no other signal can be caught by it (e.g. alarm), or is there a way to keep it going somehow? -- Helmut Karlowski

Re: Problem with HTTPS in LWP module in Perl

2012-11-06 Thread Helmut Karlowski
://www.geocaching.com It starts ssl-negotiation, and timeouts later. I also see this with other urls, while other https-urls work fine. I guess there are some certificates missing or similar, I'm no expert for ssl. But it seems it's not only perl-related. -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem reports

Re: Problem with HTTPS in LWP module in Perl

2012-11-06 Thread Helmut Karlowski
: Unzugängliche Startdatei https://www.geocaching.com/ lynx exits here. (sorry for german). Also the other urls I cannot connect to with links work with lynx after answering the above certificate-question and a long time of waiting. -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: mintty: Ctrl-Q does not work?

2012-10-28 Thread Helmut Karlowski
, but e.g. Enter stops output and freezes the terminal like before (need to kill -9 the involved process). Why is there any reaction on Enter at all? -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

mintty: Ctrl-Q does not work?

2012-09-25 Thread Helmut Karlowski
I type cat [some long ascii-file] then Ctrl-S (output stops), then Ctrl-Q (terminal hangs, can only be terminated by closing the window). Using minty 1.1.2 and 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20 22:55 i686 Cygwin Can anybody reproduce this? -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem reports: http

Re: Small request for the new cygwin terminal

2012-06-11 Thread Helmut Karlowski
defined it for something in the windows-desktop? -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Small request for the new cygwin terminal

2012-06-08 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Andy Koppe wrote: I don't think you can have different terminfo entries for different character sets for the same terminal type, i.e. you'd need to create charset-specifc types such as xterm-cp850. I suspected that ... I've added csin=\233, but I'm not sure if it's really

Re: Small request for the new cygwin terminal

2012-06-07 Thread Helmut Karlowski
if that matters. As of my understanding CSI is something like ESC[ (at least on an ANSI-terminal, is this different on xterm?). Also, when I press either Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Shift+Tab, instead of getting what the table indicates, I don't get anything at all. Same here. -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem

Re: Small request for the new cygwin terminal

2012-06-07 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Helmut Karlowski, 07.06.2012 17:52:43: Nellis, Kenneth, 07.06.2012 16:56:57: -Original Message- From: Andy Koppe snip/ It is done on purpose, to allow Shift+Esc to be bound to a different function if desired. It's documented here: [1] http://code.google.com/p/mintty/wiki/Keycodes

Re: Small request for the new cygwin terminal

2012-06-07 Thread Helmut Karlowski
, is there a fallback if an entry in terminfo is missing? -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

mintty randomly switches keyboard-layout

2012-05-01 Thread Helmut Karlowski
not sure about this. Is there a way to avoid this or to reset the layout back to german? I'm using mintty 1.0.3 on cygwin 1.7.13. -- Helmut Karlowski -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: mintty randomly switches keyboard-layout

2012-05-01 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 01.05.2012, 11:47 Uhr, schrieb Andy Koppe andy.ko...@gmail.com: On 1 May 2012 10:32, Helmut Karlowski wrote: Hi, I notice quite often that my german keyboard-layout in mintty gets changed into an english one. Alt-F8 (Reset) does not bring back the german layout, so I can only exit