On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM, David Christensen
wrote:
> I'm having trouble with rsync invoked on Debian 5.0.3 pulling files from
> Windows XP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25.
If this is not a daemon connection, then it's probably the cygwin
pipe-hang bug. I have heard that a more modern cygwin (such as 1
I updated cygwin today, and now perl JSON::XS fails to be able to
decode json data if it is run in a multi-threaded script. I tested
both x86_64 and x86 32-bit versions of cygwin, and they both have the
issue: once I launch a new thread, JSON::XS refuses to parse anything,
even in the primary thre
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> I've found a patch at least for the scenario that your test case uses.
Thanks -- the new version does indeed get things back to "normal" (how
things were behaving before).
As for thread support, it looks like I need to start using
Cpanel::JS
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> x86/x86_64
> --
> perl-DBD-mysql-4.036-1
I tested that on 2 of my x86_64 setups and it fails to load. Here's
the output of "perl -MDBD::mysql -e 1" on one of them:
Can't load
'/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/x86_64-cygwin-threads/a
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 2:35 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> A new version of Setup, release 2.876, has been uploaded to [...]
The change from a button to a dropdown list for the View seems like a
nice usability improvement, but it sadly takes away my main method of
changing the view -- I used to al
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Drake, Richard R wrote:
> What is really curious is where this option is being stored. If I knew that,
> then
> maybe I could remove that setting so it would revert to the default setting.
Look in /etc/setup/setup.rc. I bet the line following "last-action" is
jus
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz
wrote:
> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
> * mysql-10.1.19-1
> * [...]
Would you consider a change in the mysql packages back to using
readline? It should hopefully be as simple as:
CYGCONF_ARGS="--with-read
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Shaun Maher wrote:
> file has vanished: "BackUps(old)/Backup Pre-Rolled Payroll
> 2015"16-MBTT2016.zip" (in VSSG)
Those file-has-vanished errors shouldn't be affected by the --iconv
option because that is a sender-side error, and the rsync sender
directly read
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:48 AM, David Balažic wrote:
> it does not scroll the package list, instead it changes the selection
> in the mentioned drop down menu.
One thing you should be able to do to work around this is to go to the
mouse settings and enable the "Scroll inactive windows when I hove
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> I believe this [scrolling] option is new in Windows 10
That does indeed seem to be the case. There are also some tools you
can use on prior Windows versions. For instance, search the web for "5
Tools to Scroll or Move Background Windows" and you'
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> This is an update to the latest 10.1 release:
Is there any chance that readline support is going to make a comeback
in mysql? I downloaded the src, changed the readline option in the
cygport file to "-DWITH_READLINE=ON" (it was "OFF") and
On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Keith Christian wrote:
> $ mysql -u 'keith'@'localhost'
This is where you're messing up. You want to use "mysql -u keith" to
login as the user "keith" -- you're specifying a username with a
host-like suffix.
In the grant commands, the host suffix indicates where th
On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Could you be more specific as to what you think is missing[?]
I've mentioned the deficiencies on a couple occasions so far, but am
happy to do so again. The biggest problem is a total lack of search
(I've seen mention of Ctrl+R working in
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Ivan Gagis wrote:
> I use git repository on github to store the files. And to update it I
> clone the repo, run mksetupini and then commit and push.
One thing you can do after a clone/update is to run a script that
tweaks each file's mtime to be its last-commit tim
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 4:49 PM, Jim Reisert wrote:
> [...] ESC followed by UP-arrow. This seems to lock up the
> bash shell for about 30 seconds before control returns.
Your up-arrow is probably a character sequence that starts with an Esc
(you can verify that by typing a Ctrl+V followed by your
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:40 PM Thomas Wolff wrote:
> But which application does actually send the cnorm sequence?
The vim editor likes to send it. I just ran into this issue with the
new mintty whenever I edit in screen. I ended up changing this line
in my .screenrc (which has been there for ag
On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 1:51 PM Brian Inglis wrote:
> $ l /proc/cygdrive/c/usr/local/share/man/
Shouldn't those be under /usr/local instead of
/proc/cygdrive/c/usr/local? Typically /usr is something like
C:/cygwin64/usr, which is not the C:/usr dir you've used.
..wayne..
--
Problem reports:
On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 6:52 AM Jon Turney wrote:
> I was hoping to look at improving the 'skip' -> 'install current
> version' flow (which used to be a single click, but now requires you to
> pick the latest non-test version)
That's a nice idea for a future change. I'd suggest making it where
you
On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:29 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> In contrast to Linux the symlinks are not just faked symlinks with the
> underlying OS having direct access to the file descriptors.
Yeah, Linux is more like a fuse where the open filehandles are used
directly on open, and the stat calls
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:13 AM Bill Stewart wrote:
> I don't think Windows natively supports password-free logons using only key
> files (but I might be wrong about that).
Don't forget that sshd_config fully supports disabling passwords. You
can turn a password off for a single user via:
Match
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:09 AM Eric Blake wrote:
> Not so much compilation options of man and less, but rather the code
> used in Cygwin itself for handling regex.
The configuration of less supports many different regex libraries. I
downloaded the source and ran "./configure --with-regex=pcre"
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 2:33 PM L A Walsh wrote:
> Things like
> Term::Size::chars no longer works as it says chars isn't exported.
> but it is 'EXPORT_OK', and it used to work.
Remember that EXPORT_OK means that you can ask for it to be exported,
but it's not by default. I just tried out CPAN 2.2
On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 4:23 PM L A Walsh wrote:
> Yes...it worked for me up till the latest perl. I was surprised.
Which latest perl is that? The 5.26.3 version I cited is the latest
version on cygwin, and it's working fine in all the simple tests I
tried (I tried scalar & array contexts for bo
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 7:58 AM Douglas Coup wrote:
> I need the Cygwin tar to be found regardless of whether I'm using a
> Cygwin command window or a DOS command window.
I think the easiest way to run the cygwin tar from CMD (if you don't
want to just put your cygwin bin dir on your Windows PATH)
On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 5:19 AM Doug Henderson wrote:
> The following packages have been uploaded [...]
> * libxxhash0-0.8.0-1
> * libxxhash-devel-0.8.0-1
I note that libxxhash-devel does not depend on libxxhash0, unlike
other devel libs (e.g. liblz4-devel and libzstd-devel each pull in
their assoc
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 11:44 AM Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
> Hi, I have the same problem - cygwin.org works for me, but cygwin.com
> doesn't, although tester sites suggest cygwin.com is indeed up.
Since this looks to be some kind of DNS resolving issue for various
people, you can try to work ar
On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 12:44 PM Jesse Thompson wrote:
> *TL:DR;* I'm looking for options to reliably start and manage an ssh-agent
> daemon in Cygwin.
I recommend the "keychain" package, which is available in Cygwin.
You'd add something like the following to your shell initialization
scripts:
/u
On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 8:17 AM wrote:
> So, why is 'cp -a' able to preserve ownership while 'rsync -a' fails
> and sets ownership to the login name?
Rsync is rather old-school Unix-oriented, so it only checks if its uid
is 0 to see if it should try to chown things. You can give it the
--super op
On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 5:50 PM L A Walsh wrote:
> For some reason, the behavior of less has changed recently in regards to how
> it interprets characters like '\s' (whitespace).
Sadly, it's been compiled with POSIX regular expressions on Cygwin for
quite a while now. On Linux it is often compiled
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 4:27 AM wrote:
> In Linux [times()] returns a time value and return code of 0:
The Linux man page for times() mentions this special behavior, how it
isn't portable, and even advises against using the function:
"On Linux, the buf argument can be specified as NULL, with the
In recent Cygwin versions I've had gnu screen crash if the parent ssh
connection closes before an explicit disconnect is performed. If an
orderly screen disconnect happens first, future closed connections
(after reconnecting to the screen session) no longer crash screen.
To reproduce:
I ssh into
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:05 AM Andrey Repin wrote:
> And you've got exactly what you asked for.
I think you missed the important part of the email. Distilled down,
this is wrong:
$ ln -s /cygdrive/C/Windows foo
$ readlink foo
/mnt/C/Windows
The symlink's value changed to a path that doesn't exi
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 1:50 PM Andrey Repin wrote:
> The cygdrive prefix is resolved, if no other mount points match.
> Since you have /mnt/C mount point, it is resolved first.
I wish it would have resolved it to the cygdrive prefix, because then
it would have worked (and would have been /cygdriv
On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:36 PM Brian Inglis wrote:
> Looks like a packaging problem as the man dirs are created but not populated:
What undoubtedly happened was that the git checkout used for the
release does not include pre-generated man pages, and the build
required the yodl document processor
On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 9:08 PM The Other wrote:
> This was due to the ensurepip stage failing.
Indeed, this seems to be broken in Cygwin. The ensurepip lib is
included with the main python package, but that code requires that the
wheel files exist (as it has no handling for a case where the list
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 10:37 AM Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> I still get an error:
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226)
> [Receiver=3.1.3]
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes re
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 10:01 PM wrote:
> On the server, I got a /tmp/rsync-3191.out file which I am attaching here.
> I can't make sense of what it is trying to tell me.
It shows you the system calls being made. If you read down to the end,
rsync writes 4 bytes and then tries to read 4 bytes from
[Please CC me on any replies -- thanks.]
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:20:57PM -0600, Keith Moore wrote:
> subsequent incremental backups fail on certain large files when
> compression (-z) is enabled. So far, the problem only appears when
> making incremental backups of VMware virtual disk images.
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> We're using the latest plain BSD getopt() now. It's permuting the
> options by default. This was switched off by default in Cygwin so
> far.
>
> Typically you should quote the command you send to the remote host:
>
> ssh somehost '/bin/bash --login -c date'
This is
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:46:06AM -0600, Chuck Irvine wrote:
> I always find myself scrolling back and forth trying to see everything
> in the setup dialog. It would be very useful if this dialog were made
> resizable.
I've been using the version that is available from the KDE-Cygwin folks.
It wo
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