Cygwin DLL 3.2.0 (W10) Problem with touch (8.26) for old dates < 1970

2021-04-14 Thread akiki--- via Cygwin
Hi, I encountered problems with the use of timestamps in cygwin. May be it's an old problem, I don't know, using essentially files "recently" created/modified. I want to say after 1970 No problem, but before ... To day: touch -m -t 190001011200.00 x gives touch: format de date « 190001011

Very dangerous hacking ? Surprising relationship between cygwin and Microsoft

2020-05-11 Thread akiki
Hi, On doing an habitual "cygcheck -rs", I was interrogated and ALARMED to see some register keys speaking cygwin : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\ microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Children\001\Internet Ex

Can't use strace on curses application

2020-04-22 Thread akiki
Hi, My initial current versions : Windows 10 Professional Ver 10.0 Build 18363 cygwin 3.1.4-1 OK I have encountered too many problems with console tty use, that with a curses application. With cygwin 3.1.4, bash under cmd, and mintty are not really usable. I have tried several options to co

Bug with Windows 10 console

2020-04-18 Thread akiki
Hi, To day, all programs are upgraded permanently. A good and a bad thing. Windows 10, cygwin ... One recent upgrade, I don't target exactly which one, has broken my environment. Current versions as reported by cygcheck :  Windows 10 Professional Ver 10.0 Build 18363  cygwin 3.1.4-1 OK bas

bug with grep 3.0.2 in cygwin 3.0.7

2019-08-28 Thread akiki
Hi, I encounter some problem with grep option -E on cygwin 3.0.7 echo "a^b" | grep "a^b" #answer a^b ie it's OK but echo "a^b" | grep -E "a^b" #answer nothing " for me it's KO I have to backslash ^ to be OK like : grep -E 'a\^b' Is-it a bug ? I don't know if all versions of cygwin and