Re: mbrtoc32 not found following update.

2024-08-04 Thread Eric J Korpela via Cygwin
I booted to knoppix, deleted the offending file, booted to windows and reinstalled the cygwin package. That fixed the problem. Thanks for your help. -- Eric -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https

Re: mbrtoc32 not found following update.

2024-08-01 Thread Eric J Korpela via Cygwin
setup-x86_64 says I'm at 3.5.3-1 (and yes I have rebooted, several times). I'll try a reinstall. On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 4:08 PM Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > On 2024-07-30 18:58, Eric J Korpela via Cygwin wrote: > > Following an update of the packages I have installed, multiple

Re: mbrtoc32 not found following update.

2024-07-31 Thread Eric J Korpela via Cygwin
On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 5:16 AM Eliot Moss wrote: > Your cygcheck.out does not list a man.exe or wget.exe. I am not sure how > the strace got as far as it did. But I suggest reinstalling those two > programs. Not sure how those exe's got zapped. Maybe an installation > upgrade did not

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-12 Thread Eric Hendrickson via Cygwin
your time and sharing. Thank you, Eric Sent from Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> on my Tricorder From: Adam Dinwoodie Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2023 1:22 PM To: Eric D Hendrickson Cc: gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com ; Hendrickson, Eric D ; cygwin@cygwin.com S

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-12 Thread Eric Hendrickson via Cygwin
the community. Sent from Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> on my Tricorder From: gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 11:46:53 PM To: Eric D Hendrickson Cc: Hendrickson, Eric D ; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Eric D Hendrickson via Cygwin
- Is there an Issues log or backlog a la GitHub where bugs / enhancement requests / feature suggestions like this can be logged for future consideration / evaluation, instead of one off discussions in this ephemeral medium of email? thank you and Cheers to you as well, Eric On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 10:59 PM

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Eric D Hendrickson via Cygwin
this in the backlog and come back later to investigate this myself if I have time this winter? On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 8:11 PM Eliot Moss wrote: > On 10/11/2023 6:36 PM, Hendrickson, Eric D wrote: > > Hi Eliot, > > > > Thanks for responding. That makes total sense. > > > > To

RE: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Hendrickson, Eric D via Cygwin
guessing it's likely the case with other packages in Cygwin too. Is there a backlog for Cygwin somewhere, so that I can investigate this myself if I have time this winter? Thank you and all the best, Eric -Original Message- From: Eliot Moss Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 5:03 PM

Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Hendrickson, Eric D via Cygwin
of Ruby in case some security risk / 0Day is identified. Please advise. Eric Hendrickson This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended

Re: posix_spawn facility

2023-07-31 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin
Following up on an older thread: On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 03:49:20PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > The glibc bug points to the sample posix_spawn() implementation in > POSIX XRAT - but that example implementation is non-normative and > known buggy, so it is not safe to rely on it. >

Re: posix_spawn facility

2023-04-18 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 12:10:34AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > we now have implementations in the wild that differ in behavior, and > > use security as a reason for the divergence, it is worth getting that > > clarified in POSIX. I'll file a bug

Re: posix_spawn facility

2023-04-18 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin
(Firefox, Chromium, Rust) > > * posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np > > implemented in glibc, musl libc > > but not used by any package so far [3]. > > > > The next POSIX will contain these functions (without the _np suffix).[4] > > Thanks for the po

ECLIPSE IDE NIOS II C/C++ compiler warnings

2023-03-17 Thread Eric Staley via Cygwin
this version of Eclipse is from 2012.  Also which version of JAVA Runtime should I be using with Eclipse? Regards, Eric Staley -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info

Re: [cygwin] Re: mintty phantom key presses

2022-05-04 Thread Eric Adams
d from the bin directory / running bash instead of tcsh / I think the home directory was the same / not all startup files were found or used / I felt very strange in this setup :) . Eric Adams. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwi

Re: mintty phantom key presses

2022-05-03 Thread Eric Adams
On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 6:53 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > Am 03/05/2022 um 13:50 schrieb Eric Adams: > > On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 12:20 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: > >> Am 02.05.2022 um 23:54 schrieb Eric Adams: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I had pre

Re: mintty phantom key presses

2022-05-03 Thread Eric Adams
On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 12:20 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Am 02.05.2022 um 23:54 schrieb Eric Adams: > > Hi, > > > > I had previously reported this issue as "Possible phantom control-key > > state..." > > > > I observe that moving between

mintty phantom key presses

2022-05-02 Thread Eric Adams
l 5b1b0a4f Here, the nl character is inserted by vi. This smells like an incomplete escape sequence. If it's left at the command line, just waiting for the user to type something, there might be trouble. Am I completely off? Thanks, Eric Adams. fdsa Description: Binary d

Re: A Question about Cygwin

2022-04-26 Thread Eric Adams
, whatever you feel is required -- and then execute a test command. If needed, the source code is available. I have found the cygwin software, and this community, extremely helpful Best wishes, Eric Adams. On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 7:53 PM wrote: > > To:the members of Cygwin > > Hell

Re: Possible phantom control-key state moving from windows to cygwin

2022-03-01 Thread Eric Adams
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 7:46 PM Takashi Yano wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 19:17:50 -0600 > Eric Adams wrote: > > Hi, and thanks for all the wonderful work. > > > > I have noticed "recently" that when I move from using a graphical > > windows applica

Possible phantom control-key state moving from windows to cygwin

2022-03-01 Thread Eric Adams
the first character typed is a "d". I'm running tcsh as my shell. Let me know if I can add more information. Thanks again, Eric Adams. cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documen

Re: cygwin terminal window disrupts scroll-lock state

2021-09-16 Thread Eric Adams via Cygwin
Thank you. ".minttyrc" is my new friend. Thanks to all who help with cygwin. Eric Adams. On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 12:19 PM Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > Am 15.09.2021 um 11:59 schrieb Eric Adams via Cygwin: > > Hi, > > > > In the last few days, I ha

cygwin terminal window disrupts scroll-lock state

2021-09-15 Thread Eric Adams via Cygwin
ed on the use of the scroll-lock light to control the illumination of this keyboard. Thanks for your attention, Eric Adams. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe in

Re: [ITCM] diffutils findutils

2021-08-04 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin-apps
On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 06:43:25PM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: > Hi folks, > > Eric Blake no longer seems to have free time available for Cygwin package > upgrades, so I would like to offer to co-maintain diffutils and findutils, > and provide upgrades, as they are both five yea

Re: Possible vim bug

2020-12-08 Thread Eric Connor via Cygwin
30052, 0.00219736, 0.00238191, 0.00212762, 0.00163783, 0.000750669, 0.00230171, 0.00217917 Thank you, Eric Connor -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Possible vim bug

2020-12-07 Thread Eric Connor via Cygwin
-related matter. I was successful in back-reving to 8.1, simply because I had the previous setup file for Cygwin, but older versions are a bit more difficult to locate...and I'm doubtful that going back much further wouldn't cause damage to my current setup. Thank you, Eric Connor -- Problem

Re: Is it possible to alter Birth time?

2020-10-08 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin
le a file system is mounted on that block device) -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: How to check cygwin version?

2020-07-01 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
gt; useless advice: > >To find the version of the Cygwin DLL installed, you can use uname >as on Linux > $ uname -r 3.1.5(0.340/5/3) This is what I always do - Eric L -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/fa

Re: Console doesn't work correctly under anything else than cmd or mintty

2020-05-13 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
I had a similar experience when I tried to use the CLI that comes with MongoDB. Switched to use TakeCommand instead when I needed to use the MongoDB CLI. Too bad! - Eric L On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:05 PM Kacper Michajlow via Cygwin < cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
, my suggestion is downgrade Cygwin itself and see if that helps (if not, we know the problem is elsewhere). All the other packages you can keep at latest versions. - Eric L On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:11 PM wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2020 22:22:56 +0200 > Eric Lilja wrote: > > >

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
You simply run the setup program, it's possible to select a few older versions. - Eric L On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 6:32 PM wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2020 18:01:59 +0200 > Eric Lilja wrote: > > > Did you try to go back to Cygwin 3.0.7? At work, we had to do that, after > > out

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
. - Eric L On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 5:52 PM wrote: > Hi, > > Doesn't matter what terminal i'm using, I'm having a problem with the way > graphic characters print. > Julia uses unicode output, and will generate output that should look like > this: > > julia> x=DataFrame([(1,2,3)

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2020-04-18 Thread Eric Freudenthal via Cygwin
; > > const int wfd = open(name, O_WRONLY | O_NONBLOCK); > > > > > > Issue #3 sometimes occurs somewhere unknown and the main process just get > > stuck (I've failed to reproduced that with strace or so) and to not have > any > > more input so maybe this should

Re: calm bounces

2020-04-16 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin
e others also seeing these bounces from Corinna's releases: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2020-April/244386.html Yes. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.c

Re: hardlinks on directories?

2020-01-30 Thread Eric Blake
(the same directory mounted under two different names). -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Support opening a symlink with O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW

2020-01-13 Thread Eric Blake
in Linux, then we don't have to do any better. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Support opening a symlink with O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW

2020-01-13 Thread Eric Blake
fchmodat(AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW); it is only with the recent introduction of the fchmodat2() syscall that this has become possible (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9596301/) -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org

Re: [PATCH v2] Cygwin: rmdir: fail if last component is a symlink, as on Linux

2019-09-24 Thread Eric Blake
x is reasonable. (I still hope that POSIX will relax its stance to allow both Solaris AND Linux behaviors, but that's not going to happen any time soon...) -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PATCH v2] Cygwin: rmdir: fail if last component is a symlink, as on Linux

2019-09-24 Thread Eric Blake
ce both give ENOTEMPTY, > + we're okay. */ > + char *buf; > + char *p = stpcpy (buf = tp.c_get (), dir) - 1; > + dir = buf; > + while (p > dir && isdirsep (*p)) > + *p-- = '\0'; > + } >if (!(fh = build_fh_name (dir,

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-09 Thread Eric Blake
teria-evaluation.en.html ranks github as worse than gitlab, in part because there is no way to use the full power of github without surrendering to the use of non-free software. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.o

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-05 Thread Eric Blake
f ambiguous parsing instead of well-balanced quoting, it's no surprise if cygwin doesn't parse that corner case in the manner expected. A patch to teach cygwin to parse the corner case identically would be welcome, but fixing recipient processes does not scale as well as fixing the culprit source proc

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 9/5/19 5:01 PM, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: > On 9/5/19 2:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 9/5/19 1:31 PM, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: >>> Not expected. > >> Why not? That obeyed cmd's odd rules: The moment you have a " in the >> command l

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-05 Thread Eric Blake
structing the command line string in a manner that matches that blog post, the bug would be in Go. Presumably, Cygwin is correctly quoting things any time it calls into a non-Cygwin process (but if not, give us a test case for us to patch cygwin, or even better submit the patch). -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ...

2019-08-28 Thread Eric Blake
ailing slashes to be Linux-compatible is okay. Dropping trailing backslashes is risky, though, if it makes us forget that the user was asking for a DOS path (even though DOS paths are not always going to work as expected). > > Eric, any insight? As usual our comments from way back when are

Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ...

2019-08-28 Thread Eric Blake
a number of places, we have accidentally ended up with mkdir 'e:\' behaving like mkdir 'e:/' instead of acting on the DOS path. Patches welcome. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: bug with grep 3.0.2 in cygwin 3.0.7

2019-08-28 Thread Eric Blake
difference you are observing matches POSIX. > > > I have to backslash ^ to be OK like : grep -E 'a\^b' Correct. > > > Is-it a bug ? No. (In fact, if you test on Linux, you'll see the same behavior, which shows it is not specific to Cygwin). -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Future setup regression caused by 'mkdir: always check-for-existence' commit

2019-08-26 Thread Eric Blake
pt that is using mkdir without -p. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Regression (last snapshot)

2019-08-02 Thread Eric Blake
POSIX explicitly requires that the shell is unable to reset SIGPIPE back to SIG_DFL if it was inherited ignored (try it - you CANNOT use the 'trap' command to undo an inherited ignored SIGPIPE, even though it can be used to undo signals ignored locally). It is generally considered bad practice to l

Re: Regression (last snapshot)

2019-08-01 Thread Eric Blake
entally letting grep inherit the ignored SIGPIPE? When SIGPIPE is not ignored, grep's failure to write to a pipe causes termination before the failed write completes; but when it is ignored, grep sees EPIPE from the failed write and reports that. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, In

Re: go through duplicate commands

2019-05-21 Thread Eric Blake
skeleton .bashrc file) to be tweaked to add a HISTCONTROL=ignoredups so that new installations automatically turn on that feature of bash. But in the meantime, you can modify your own ~/.bashrc to turn it on for yourself. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc.

Re: Testing your altera uni program

2019-05-07 Thread Eric Blake
står nu här, med armarna öppna, och ber om nåd. Hjälp mig med detta > felmeddelande. Looks like our autoresponder got confused by your use of a different language than English. https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-find_fast_cwd-warnings -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red H

Re: bug: cygwin-devel v3.0.2-1 socket.h does not #define MSG_EOR per the POSIX standard

2019-04-25 Thread Eric Blake
gt; > Would it be allowed and valid to #define MSG_EOR 0 to simplify lack of > support? No, because that implies that EVERY send() call is requesting MSG_EOR and that it never fails. Defining it to a distinct non-zero value makes it possible to report EOPNOTSUPP. -- Eric Blake, Prin

Re: bug: cygwin-devel v3.0.2-1 socket.h does not #define MSG_EOR per the POSIX standard

2019-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
pbugs.net/main_page.php although I personally thought POSIX was clear enough that MSG_EOR is required to be defined, even if only so that it can trigger send() errors showing that it is unsupported. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [main] john 21084 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer.

2019-04-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 4/17/19 7:19 AM, DJ creations wrote: > > Looks like our autoresponder is not (yet) smart enough to autorespond when the body is empty because the question was in the subject instead. https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-find_fast_cwd-warnings -- Eric Blake, Principal So

Re: [PATCH] default ps -W process start time to system boot time when inaccessible, 0, -1

2019-03-23 Thread Eric Blake
g on. On the other hand, the lie is pretty realistic - the program can't have been running longer than your computer has been powered on, and all such affected programs will have the same timestamp. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: q

Re: Cygwin 3.0.0-1

2019-03-21 Thread Eric Blake
-2017. I'm still trying to get a new uname(1) (part of coreutils) built. I had a free weekend earlier this month to attempt that, but got stalled by a cygwin1.dll bug on Windows 2012 (now fixed). -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization:

Re: Is async-signal-safety applicable to Cygwin?

2019-03-19 Thread Eric Blake
upted another non-async-safe function is indeed observable on Cygwin and can indeed result in deadlocks (a classic example being the case if you malloc() from a signal handler that interrupted an ongoing malloc() call). -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-32

Re: rsync fails on Win 2012 server [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin 3.0.1-1]

2019-03-04 Thread Eric Blake
uploaded to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please test. Confirmed. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

rsync fails on Win 2012 server [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin 3.0.1-1]

2019-03-02 Thread Eric Blake
652 fork: child -1 - forked process 2980 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11 rsync: fork failed in do_recv: Resource temporarily unavailable (11) rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at main.c(897) [Receiver=3.1.2] -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc

Re: Cygwin 3.0.1-1 Breaks ALL cygwin applications on Windows 7 x64

2019-02-27 Thread Eric Blake
with recent changes in network username validation, for ideas on better debugging this. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwi

Re: bash string-operator problem

2019-02-21 Thread Eric Blake
than you ever wanted to know, read http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=375 -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.c

Re: bash string-operator problem

2019-02-21 Thread Eric Blake
h proper quoting, and using the portable spelling of equality (if you want to port your script to more than just bash): [ "$A" != "$B" ] [ "$A" = "$B" ] -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization:

Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: add secure_getenv

2019-02-19 Thread Eric Blake
w, just as on BSDs. If that's the right thing > to do for BSD, it's not... *really* wrong for Cygwin either, regardless > what Linux is doing. > > That in turn means Yaakov's patch is perfeclty fine since it's equivalent > to the above gnulib code. > > Agreed? Yes. -- Eric

Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: add secure_getenv

2019-02-19 Thread Eric Blake
to running as administrator, and that there is no native setuid/setgid binaries where you can otherwise gain privileges by influencing the environment presented to a binary. Of course, if Cygwin is able to emulate setgid binaries where native Windows can't, then we need secure_getenv() to reflect

Re: Get Cygwin home directory path for current user

2019-02-14 Thread Eric Blake
ul. Are you going to write and submit the patch? Because it's not my itch, I do not plan to be the one to write such a patch. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Get Cygwin home directory path for current user

2019-02-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 2/14/19 2:22 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:49 PM Eric Blake wrote: > >> Depending on the shell, ~ is expanded to $HOME prior to invoking a >> program. But if you want to take the shell's expansions out of the >> equation, you could use: >>

Re: Get Cygwin home directory path for current user

2019-02-14 Thread Eric Blake
equation, you could use: cygpath -w "$HOME" -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: manpage searches "^\s+keyword\s" vs. ???

2019-01-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 1/30/19 1:09 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > \s is a non-standard regex extension - glibc provides it, Cygwin has not > (at least, historically). POSIX provides [[:space:]] as a portable > alternative (although not all libc have implemented all of POSIX yet), > but is annoyingly

Re: manpage searches "^\s+keyword\s" vs. ???

2019-01-30 Thread Eric Blake
r patch to expand \s into [[:space:]] would be a reasonable idea. > I guess this is down to compilation options at this point. Not so much compilation options of man and less, but rather the code used in Cygwin itself for handling regex. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc.

Re: regtool 2.11.1 need a way to specify leading "-" in values

2019-01-22 Thread Eric Blake
HKCU\Environment\MAVEN_OPTS' "-Xms512m -Xmx3072m > -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote" > regtool: unknown option -- X > Try `regtool --help' for more information. Try: regtool -s set '\HKCU\Environment\MAVEN_OPS' -- "-Xms512m -Xmx3072m -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote" -- Eric Blake, Princ

Re: Fun with cp -R error when both foo and foo.exe exist

2018-10-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/9/18 11:21 AM, Dan Kegel wrote: On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 5:03 AM Eric Blake wrote: whether someone patches the cygwin dll or cp, it seems like some rather hairy code for what is normally a rare corner case, so it probably won't happen unless someone actually contributes a patch. Right

Re: Fun with cp -R error when both foo and foo.exe exist

2018-10-09 Thread Eric Blake
the cygwin dll or cp, it seems like some rather hairy code for what is normally a rare corner case, so it probably won't happen unless someone actually contributes a patch. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

Re: grep < fifo fails

2018-10-08 Thread Eric Blake
nks for isolating the problem! -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.

Re: Tab completion adding spurious escape characters

2018-09-05 Thread Eric Blake
; a\=b; echo $a) hi c $ (PATH=:$PATH; a=b; echo $a) b As for , and @, they are never special to the shell, but as I argued above, it's easier to write tab completion code that doesn't have to special case things than to worry about what is or is not special) -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer R

Re: error in "cygpath" behavior

2018-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
wing about logical mode. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: [Bug] __wait_status_to_int() is expected to be a macro

2018-08-24 Thread Eric Blake
not compiling there, then it's hard to argue what Cygwin apps need the type to stick around. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

Re: The 'mount' function different from Linux

2018-08-16 Thread Eric Blake
the actual device manipulation earlier on. As such, the tool REALLY CANNOT mimic what Linux does, because it IS NOT doing the same things. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http

Re: strtod ("nan") returns negative NaN

2018-08-14 Thread Eric Blake
preserve the negative sign bit when parsing "-nan". https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23007 So, the desired behavior: strtod("nan") -> NaN strtod("-nan") -> -NaN printf("%f", NaN) -> "NaN" printf("%f", -NaN) ->

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.11.0-0.1

2018-08-13 Thread Eric Blake
. Updating the code base to uniformly use UTF-8 seems reasonable to me. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.co

Re: BASH 4.4 mapfile/readarray/read builtins mis-behaving with pipe [edit] documentation bug

2018-07-20 Thread Eric Blake
for a cygwin-specific patch. [Hint - as the maintainer of the cygwin bash port, I don't recall adding any cygwin-specific tweaks for mapfile - and a quick test on Fedora shows the same behaviors] -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization

Re: Aw: Re: Problematic interpretion of paths starting with double slashes

2018-06-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/12/2018 08:14 AM, Sven Eden wrote: Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Juni 2018 um 13:52 Uhr Von: "Eric Blake" Then fix your script to provide 3 slashes instead of 2. Only 2 slashes has the magic UNC behavior. It is not my script. *my* scripts are portable by all means. Go

Re: Problematic interpretion of paths starting with double slashes

2018-06-12 Thread Eric Blake
ine is: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/331976f/eclass/toolchain.eclass#L2136 Well, then report that as a bug to the author of that script. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports:

Re: [Bug] __wait_status_to_int() is expected to be a macro

2018-06-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/12/2018 03:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 8 12:43, Eric Blake wrote: On 06/08/2018 12:26 PM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: Am 08.06.2018 um 17:16 schrieb Denis Nikiforov: /usr/include/boost/process/detail/posix/is_running.hpp:18:1: error: non-constant condition for static

Re: [Bug] __wait_status_to_int() is expected to be a macro

2018-06-08 Thread Eric Blake
an be used in a static_assert(). On the other hand, the implementation of WIFEXITED() is more like Linux if it DOES result in a compile-time constant when used on a compile-time constant argument; so in that regards, it would ALSO be worth patching Cygwin, whether or not the Boost portability bug is fix

Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

2018-06-06 Thread Eric Blake
rator to approve the message?" Even if the overseers can't turn on human moderation, they are also the right people to complain to about spam blocking not being effective enough. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | l

Re: Help with C clearenv and setenv

2018-05-31 Thread Eric Blake
niter" error (-1). What it SHOULD do is set environ to a one-element array containing NULL, at least until someone submits a patch adding the glibc extension of clearenv() to Cygwin. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu

Re: cygwin not showing afp files since update

2018-05-04 Thread Eric Blake
of the few lists that munges reply-to settings and breaks my expectations. I wish we could fix it, but I'm not in charge of the mailing list settings. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports

Re: inotify?

2018-05-03 Thread Eric Blake
in support inotify_init() and friends implemented on top of the Windows native API are certainly welcome. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: Updated POSIX 2018 Standard Available

2018-04-17 Thread Eric Blake
he timeframe of that older document which was nearing the end of its 10 years. So other than editorial changes, such as the document name, there are no substantial content changes to what you've already had available for 2 years. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-

Re: [bug] coreutils: potentially dangerous: $(realpath //) != /

2018-03-12 Thread Eric Blake
OSIX has already declared it to be implementation-defined. Any implementation is also free to define // as an error that never resolves to a path; such an implementation would still comply with POSIX, but break expectations of scripts that are written to cater to only the Linux and Cygwin behav

Re: [bug] coreutils: potentially dangerous: $(realpath //) != /

2018-03-12 Thread Eric Blake
o you fail to glob what was expected). At any rate, realpath is not broken, but only your expectations. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: gawk Regression: CR characters are not stripped on Windows

2018-02-27 Thread Eric Blake
;. or strip the CR in any other means. But the same is true of any script that must run on both Windows and Linux. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.c

Re: setup 2.887 release candidate - please test

2018-02-08 Thread Eric Blake
grams also output the version in --help, but GNU Coding Standards don't require that, so it is not universal the way --version should be) -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://

Re: [PATCH libtirpc] Disable libtirpc's own bindresvport{,_sa}() in favor of Cygwin's

2018-02-07 Thread Eric Blake
at git does by default) or 'diff -c' when generating a patch, so that it has proper context. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

Re: environ: fix link error on 64-bit Cygwin

2018-01-31 Thread Eric Blake
he option > + -Wl,--disable-auto-import is in use. */ > +_GL_EXTERN_C __declspec(dllimport) char **environ; > +# endif > # if !@HAVE_DECL_ENVIRON@ > /* Set of environment variables and values. An array of strings of the form > "VARIABLE=VALUE", terminated with a NULL. */ > > > -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PATCH] winsup/doc/etc.postinstall.cygwin-doc.sh fix shell variable typo

2017-12-20 Thread Eric Blake
[ -r $target ] && $mks $CYGWINFORALL -P -n "Cygwin/$name" -d "$desc" -- $target Wrong. Needs to be [ -r "$target" ] to be properly quoted. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

Re: mkshortcut fails when run from setup, postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh - not otherwise

2017-12-20 Thread Eric Blake
ot yet POSIX and is not supported on dash). (and again btw, I am not sure bash should count "[ -r ]" as a true statement) I am. POSIX requires that behavior. Any time you have exactly one argument to '[', the result is true unless that argument was the empty string. -- Eri

Re: Wrong file position after writing 65537 bytes to block device

2017-12-19 Thread Eric Blake
ocations (caveat: I haven't tested what Linux does in that regards). -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.co

RE: Files created in cygwin on fileshare no longer allow "delete" in NTFS

2017-12-11 Thread Eric Duesterhaus
Thanks for the help so far! Hopefully this answered your question. > Hi Eric, > what are the permission settings on the containing directory? > > Cheers, > --J. On 11.12.2017 20:58, Eric Duesterhaus wrote: > Hi Cygwin Community, > > We are currently encountering an iss

Files created in cygwin on fileshare no longer allow "delete" in NTFS

2017-12-11 Thread Eric Duesterhaus
ites the permissions and again, my AD group only has rwx and not "modify" permissions while looking at the ACL from windows. How can I retain NTFS "delete" rights for my users and groups on files created by Cygwin? Eric -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: Which is it -pc- or -unknown-

2017-10-20 Thread Eric Blake
or some reason, agree with your patch, it still is not something so urgent that we would backport it downstream any faster than normal propagation of other upstream packages slowly picking up newer config.guess as they release new tarballs. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc.

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