[ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

[Ken Brown]

On 12/6/2011 12:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  6 12:37, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 12/6/2011 4:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> A lot of changes and fixes have been made in Cygwin since 1.7.9 has
>>> been released, so we're looking forward to release Cygwin 1.7.10 soon.
>>>
>>> Please test the latest developer snapshots at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>>> which should have "Release Candidate" quality.
>>
>> Here's an easily reproducible problem with the 2011-12-05
>> cygwin1.dll snapshot:
>>
>> 1. Download cygwin-inst-20111205.tar.bz2 .
>>
>> 2. Start mintty from the Cygwin Terminal shortcut.
>>
>> 3. tar -C/ -xf /path/to/cygwin-inst-20111205.tar.bz2
>> --exclude=usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
>>
>> An hourglass appears and tar doesn't run.  I'm on W7-64 if that
>> makes a difference.
>
> Works for me.  I just tried from mintty with bash as login shell as
> well as with tcsh as login shell.  I even left out the --exclude and
> it worked ;)
>
> Does that really occur reproducible on your machine, every try?

Yes.  And I just tried twice more with the same behavior.  Earlier today 
I had a similar thing occur on a different machine, on which the 
2011-12-04 dll was installed instead of the 2011-12-05 dll.  On that 
machine (again W7-64), the mintty window simply disappeared when I gave 
the tar command.

The only other detail I can think of is that I started mintty by 
right-clicking on the shortcut and choosing "Run as administrator".

I'm attaching cygcheck.out in case it helps you spot some difference 
between my environment and yours.  I do see something strange in it:

Cygwin installations found in the registry:
   System: Key: c5e39b7a9d22bafb Path: C:\cygwin
   System: Key: 2707db8e4ba5ae4f Path: C:\cygwin-a
   User:   Key: c5e39b7a9d22bafb Path: C:\cygwin
   User:   Key: 2707db8e4ba5ae4f Path: C:\cygwin-a

I do have two Cygwin installations, but I don't know why they're each 
showing up twice, once as "System:" and once as "User:".  I just looked 
at an old cygcheck output from last March, and only the "System:" 
entries are there.

Ken
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