Re: kernel32.dll breakage (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1)

2010-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 19:04, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: On 21/08/2010 3:47 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: On 21/08/2010 3:35 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Chris [Sutcliffe], can we please revert this change for now? It breaks building Win32 apps, if the link order prefers kernel32.a over advapi32.a. Done.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 22 10:57, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: - Improve performance of stat and a few other functions. ls(1) should be up to 30% faster I have a directory (500MB, 30 files) which contains mainly 'exe' (setups for TB, FF, OO etc.). If I try 'ls -l' in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-23 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I can't reproduce such a problem and I don't have AVG9 (virus scanner?). Am I indiscreet if I ask you what AV are you using? Just a curiosity... Anyway thanks for clarification. Ciao, Angelo. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-22 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Larry Hall wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: - Improve performance of stat and a few other functions. ls(1) should be up to 30% faster I have a directory (500MB, 30 files) which contains mainly 'exe' (setups for TB, FF, OO etc.). If I try 'ls -l' in this directory, the first time it take

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/20/2010 8:56 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: - Improve performance of stat and a few other functions. ls(1) should be up to 30% faster I have a directory (500MB, 30 files) which contains mainly 'exe' (setups for TB, FF, OO etc.). If I try 'ls -l' in this directory, the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-21 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Larry Hall wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: - Improve performance of stat and a few other functions. ls(1) should be up to 30% faster I have a directory (500MB, 30 files) which contains mainly 'exe' (setups for TB, FF, OO etc.). If I try 'ls -l' in this directory, the first time it take

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 14:18, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: - Improve performance of stat and a few other functions. ls(1) should be up to 30% faster I have a directory (500MB, 30 files) which contains mainly 'exe' (setups for TB, FF, OO etc.). If I try 'ls -l' in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 15:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 21 14:18, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: - Improve performance of stat and a few other functions. ls(1) should be up to 30% faster I have a directory (500MB, 30 files) which contains mainly 'exe'

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-21 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Btw., after downloading cygwin1-20100820.dll.bz2 and bunzipping it, did you make sure the executable bits are set (chmod +x cygwin1-20100820.dll)? Obviously, it is the first thing I thought and checked. To summarize, I did the following: wget

kernel32.dll breakage (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1)

2010-08-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 18:04, Angelo Graziosi wrote: wget http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20100820.dll.bz2 bunzip2 cygwin1-20100820.dll.bz2 chmod +x cygwin1-20100820.dll [...] With 20100820 snapshot Cygwin.bat does not start and Windows says (literally): [...] Can not find entry point

Re: kernel32.dll breakage (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1)

2010-08-21 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 21/08/2010 2:58 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Not anymore. I could reproduce the problem on XP, but not on W7. This reminded me of a checkin to w32api from yesterday. The kernel32.def file, which is used to create the kernel32.a inport library for linking against kernel32.dll has been

Re: kernel32.dll breakage (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1)

2010-08-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 15:23, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: On 21/08/2010 2:58 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Not anymore. I could reproduce the problem on XP, but not on W7. This reminded me of a checkin to w32api from yesterday. The kernel32.def file, which is used to create the kernel32.a inport library for

Re: kernel32.dll breakage (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1)

2010-08-21 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 21/08/2010 3:35 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Chris [Sutcliffe], can we please revert this change for now? It breaks building Win32 apps, if the link order prefers kernel32.a over advapi32.a. Done. Thanks. Are you sure that only CreateProcessAsUserW is affected? In a word, no. I'll have

Re: kernel32.dll breakage (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1)

2010-08-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 15:47, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: On 21/08/2010 3:35 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Chris [Sutcliffe], can we please revert this change for now? It breaks building Win32 apps, if the link order prefers kernel32.a over advapi32.a. Done. Thanks. Are you sure that only CreateProcessAsUserW

Re: kernel32.dll breakage (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1)

2010-08-21 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 21/08/2010 3:47 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: On 21/08/2010 3:35 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Chris [Sutcliffe], can we please revert this change for now? It breaks building Win32 apps, if the link order prefers kernel32.a over advapi32.a. Done. Thanks. Are you sure that only

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-20 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: - Improve performance of stat and a few other functions. ls(1) should be up to 30% faster I have a directory (500MB, 30 files) which contains mainly 'exe' (setups for TB, FF, OO etc.). If I try 'ls -l' in this directory, the first time it take about 30 seconds to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 22:00, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:16 AM What changed since Cygwin 1.7.5: - Cygwin handles the current working directory entirely on its own. The Win32 current

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:16 AM What changed since Cygwin 1.7.5: - Cygwin handles the current working directory entirely on its own. The Win32 current working directory is set to an invalid path to be out of the way.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released 1.7.6-1. This release fixes a bunch of bugs, and introduces a few new features. It also contains a change which will affect calling native Win32 API functions from Cygwin applications. I would like to urge you to have another look into the