[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin 2.6 for Windows XP

2016-11-19 Thread Mikulas Patocka
Hi I needed Windows XP support in cygwin, so I reverted the XP-removal patches from cygwin 2.6 git and I compiled a version that works with Windows XP. You can download it here: http://www.jikos.cz/~mikulas/cygwin-xp/32/ http://www.jikos.cz/~mikulas/cygwin-xp/64/ You need older setup.exe (beca

Re: Instability with signals and threads

2014-11-21 Thread Mikulas Patocka
> Do you use a DLL built with optimization by any chance? I wouldn't take > the backtraces too serious in that case. For debugging it helps a lot > to use a Cygwin DLL built without -O2. I use optimization. The stacktrace may contain some other functions that already finished but left the add

Re: Instability with signals and threads

2014-11-20 Thread Mikulas Patocka
> Never mind that. I can fix your testcase by calling _my_tls.remove with > INFINITE as parameter in both places. If I drop one of them, your > testcase will invariable fail at one point. With both INFINITE params > in place, your testcase is now running half an hour without problems. For me

Re: Instability with signals and threads

2014-11-19 Thread Mikulas Patocka
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > Hi > > I have a program that sets a repetitive timer with setitimer and spawns > several threads. > > The program is very unstable on cygwin, it locks up in few minutes. This is a simplified example that triggers the lockup ve

Instability with signals and threads

2014-11-19 Thread Mikulas Patocka
Hi I have a program that sets a repetitive timer with setitimer and spawns several threads. The program is very unstable on cygwin, it locks up in few minutes. The bug manifests itself in the following way: the signal thread calls cygheap->find_tls to find a thread to deliver the signal to. fi

[PATCH] fix broken mouse in Cygwin 1.7.14 and 1.7.15

2012-05-16 Thread Mikulas Patocka
On Thu, 17 May 2012, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen: > > > > > 2012-04-03 Thomas Wolff > > > > > > * fhandler.h (class dev_console): Two flags for extended mouse modes. > > > * fhandler_console.cc (fhandler_console::read): Imple

Setup cannot execute install scripts

2012-05-05 Thread Mikulas Patocka
Hi I have a problem with cygwin setup.exe. Every time I run setup and the setup upgrades something, the setup is trying to run scripts at the end. These scripts fail (it happens after almost every upgrade of some package). The file /var/log/setup.log.full contains these error messages: 2012/05