[snip]
> > Again, I 100% share the notion that text mounts should not
> be necessary.
> > But when even such basic apps as tar get this wrong, I simply don't
> > see how anybody can realistically entertain the idea that
> eliminating
> > them will somehow solve any problems.
>
> You're a lucky
On Sep 8 23:12, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > From: Corinna Vinschen
> [snip]
> > You should not mount the whole Cygwin tree in textmode, it
> > will always give trouble when you expect it the least.
>
> I've had everything mounted as text for years, and the only trouble I've
> ever had is not r
> From: Corinna Vinschen
[snip]
> You should not mount the whole Cygwin tree in textmode, it
> will always give trouble when you expect it the least.
I've had everything mounted as text for years, and the only trouble I've
ever had is not related to the existence of textmode mounts, but to progra
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
You should not mount the whole Cygwin tree in textmode
Totally agree. But we need to do a "text mode install" from setup.exe
because so many of the tools we use are non-Cygwin tools, and "cvs" does
nasty (or at least unattractive) things if the mount is binmode, and t
On Sep 8 10:00, Luke Kendall wrote:
> On 7 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Oh well, why are you still using textmode? We should drop this choice
> > from
> > setup.exe entirely.
>
> The logic went:
>
> 1) Under Windows, most of the programs we use are native Windows ones,
>so we cho
On 7 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Oh well, why are you still using textmode? We should drop this choice from
> setup.exe entirely.
The logic went:
1) Under Windows, most of the programs we use are native Windows ones,
so we choose DOS style line endings during Cygwin install.
2) I ass
On Sep 7 15:05, Luke Kendall wrote:
> I installed the latest Cygwin a couple of days ago. "file" now
> produces no information for binary executables. Anyone else seeing
> this problem? (I checked that "file" is /usr/bin/file.)
>
> $ file /usr/bin/ls.exe
> /usr/bin/ls.exe:
> $ file /cygdrive/
I installed the latest Cygwin a couple of days ago. "file" now
produces no information for binary executables. Anyone else seeing
this problem? (I checked that "file" is /usr/bin/file.)
$ file /usr/bin/ls.exe
/usr/bin/ls.exe:
$ file /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/net.exe
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/syst
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