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On Dec  6 13:28, Ken Brown wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, that's weird.

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

Still works for me.  That's puzzeling.  Any chance to debug that?
Stracing, attaching with GDB, building your own debug-enabled Cygwin,
etc?

> 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.

In theory, if you're running your machine with an admin account under
UAC, you should practically always have an entry in HKCU as well as in
HKLM.  One of them when running restricted (the default), one of them
when running with "Run as administrator".


Corinna

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