Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

On Apr 15 19:28, Brian Dessent wrote: > So, with that in > mind, are there any objections to simply HK{LM,CU}\Software\Cygwin? Just go ahead. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to "Just me"

On Apr 15 21:55, Brian Dessent wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > I just found that, regardless of my privileges, setup-1.7 defaults > > to install for "just me" instead of "all users" while the standard > > setup defaults to "all users". Why does that happen? > > This is very odd. Setup's

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to "Just me"

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Not really, no. 1024 bytes should be big enough in most cases. Did you > look for the desired size which now gets returned by the NULL call? Yes, it was in the neighborhood of 230 bytes or so. It wasn't that the buffer was too small, and I would have expected ERROR_IN

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to "Just me"

On Apr 16 02:12, Brian Dessent wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Not really, no. 1024 bytes should be big enough in most cases. Did you > > look for the desired size which now gets returned by the NULL call? > > Yes, it was in the neighborhood of 230 bytes or so. It wasn't that the > buff

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to "Just me"

On Apr 16 11:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 16 02:12, Brian Dessent wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > Not really, no. 1024 bytes should be big enough in most cases. Did you > > > look for the desired size which now gets returned by the NULL call? > > > > Yes, it was in the neig

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to "Just me"

On Apr 16 02:45, Brian Dessent wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Alignment? > > Perhaps. Do you know if gcc aligns VLAs higher than their natural > alignment? The nonworking code was just "UCHAR foo[1024]" whereas the > working was "char buf[size]", which I cribbed from > grp.cc:internal_g

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to "Just me"

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Alignment? Perhaps. Do you know if gcc aligns VLAs higher than their natural alignment? The nonworking code was just "UCHAR foo[1024]" whereas the working was "char buf[size]", which I cribbed from grp.cc:internal_getgroups(). Brian

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to "Just me"

On Apr 16 02:49, Brian Dessent wrote: > Don't you love discovering these little pearls of joy inside the Win32 > API? They're like little rays of sunshine. No wait, the opposite. Big rays of moonshine? ;) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cyg

Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

On Apr 15 20:51, Lapo Luchini wrote: > PS: my only WinXP box is still waiting for his motherboard back from RMA... > I'll try qemu to test cygwin-1.7 and, if it's not too slow, produce updated > packages for both 1.5 and 1.7 (or is 1.7 "near enough" that is better to > update that first?). We w

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to "Just me"

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I mean, token_info was an UCHAR array, so it's not aligned while > the token_group information might require a 4 or 8 byte alignment > which you now get by chance. Probably you'd be better off not > using `char buf[size]' but > > PTOKEN_GROUPS groups = (PTOKEN_GROUPS)

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to "Just me"

On Apr 16 02:45, Brian Dessent wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Alignment? > > Perhaps. Do you know if gcc aligns VLAs higher than their natural > alignment? The nonworking code was just "UCHAR foo[1024]" whereas the > working was "char buf[size]", which I cribbed from > grp.cc:internal_g

Perl 5.10 stabilization

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Reini, My perl packages are now ready for 5.10, as soon as you're ready to stabilize: ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/help2man/help2man-1.36.4-2-src.tar.bz2 ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/help2man/help2man-1.36.4-2.tar

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to "Just me"

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 02:49:33AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Don't you love discovering these little pearls of joy inside the Win32 >API? They're like little rays of sunshine. No wait, the opposite. Windoze rulez! cgf

Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:39:16AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 15 20:51, Lapo Luchini wrote: >> PS: my only WinXP box is still waiting for his motherboard back from RMA... >> I'll try qemu to test cygwin-1.7 and, if it's not too slow, produce updated >> packages for both 1.5 and 1.7 (o

Re: Perl 5.10 stabilization

2008/4/16, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My perl packages are now ready for 5.10, as soon as you're ready to > stabilize: > > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/help2man/help2man-1.36.4-2-src.tar.bz2 > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/help2man/help2man-1.36.