Re: reading from pipes fails if working directory is on a removable drive

2016-04-29 Thread mihau
On 29.04.2016 16:51, Marco Atzeri wrote: yes but you mentioned that the problem is only on the removable drive so the two versions should be different somewhere ;-) oh yes, correct. my bad. fixed drive: $ strace -o pipe.strace cat test.txt | head test removable drive: $ strace -o

Re: reading from pipes fails if working directory is on a removable drive

2016-04-29 Thread mihau
On 29.04.2016 15:23, Marco Atzeri wrote: As next step, can you remove it ? Some can interfere also when disabled. I did think about it for a second but actually that's not an option; also it never interfered with cygwin or any other application. In addition you can run strace -o

Re: reading from pipes fails if working directory is on a removable drive

2016-04-29 Thread mihau
On 29.04.2016 05:50, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 29/04/2016 00:18, mihau wrote: ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall Can you disable it ? yes; no change. Michael -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

Re: reading from pipes fails if working directory is on a removable drive

2016-04-28 Thread mihau
On 28.04.2016 23:23, Marco Atzeri wrote: My cygwin is on a removable drive so your experience is not normal. I guess some BLODA. thanks for the suggestion; removed everything from the path except for the absolutely necessary, but it didn't help. As suggested on

reading from pipes fails if working directory is on a removable drive

2016-04-28 Thread mihau
hello, came across this today on a fresh (2 days old) installation of cygwin x86 $ cat test.txt | head 3 [main] head (3348) C:\tools\cygwin\bin\head.exe: *** fatal error - MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x5DC), Win32 error 6. Terminating. Segmentation fault reading from pipes works fine if

Re: wget seemingly modifies file access permissions on XP

2016-03-30 Thread mihau
> unfortunately, this did not help, not even after a reboot. Did not help with what? sorry if this wasn't specific enough. "this did not help" meant the behavior described in the original message did not change at all; cygwin wget works like before and - in comparison to mingw wget - messes

Re: wget seemingly modifies file access permissions on XP

2016-03-30 Thread mihau
Remove your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Don't regeneate them, they are not required anymore (https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html) Then try again. unfortunately, this did not help, not even after a reboot. Michael -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

wget seemingly modifies file access permissions on XP

2016-03-30 Thread mihau
hello, (my setup is latest cygwin 32bit on Win XP SP3, logged in as Administrator) I have just updated my cygwin installation after a year or so and stumbled upon weird behavior with its wget build. it seems to screw file access permissions on downloaded files, rendering e.g. downloaded exe