From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 84631 invoked by alias); 8 Sep 2016 13:07:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 84618 invoked by uid 89); 8 Sep 2016 13:07:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL,URI_HEX autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=setupexe, setup.exe, meg, UD:setup.exe X-HELO: mbob.nabble.com Received: from mbob.nabble.com (HELO mbob.nabble.com) (162.253.133.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:07:00 +0000 Received: from static.162.255.23.22.macminivault.com (unknown [162.255.23.22]) by mbob.nabble.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E33930B1643 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2016 06:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:07:00 -0000 From: staffanu To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <1473340019198-129864.post@n5.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <931uaVwsq5840S01.1453501156@web01.cms.usa.net> References: <165uaTsft3776S01.1453314765@web01.cms.usa.net> <931uaVwsq5840S01.1453501156@web01.cms.usa.net> Subject: Re: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00134.txt.bz2 KARL BOTTS wrote >> --------------------------------------------------- >> > > Any size larger than a few meg. That is, any size that takes more >> than > a few >> > > milliseconds to seek to the end, I think. >> > >> > We will need someone with W10 to test it and confirm it. >> > On W7 I have no issue at all with 250MB file >> >> Tested on W10-64-cygwin-32 and a 207M-file, dos and unix-endings: both >> behave the same, i.e. no error when pressing 'G' and display the last >> line. Was that the question? >> >> cygwin 2.2.1, less 481 >> >> -Helmut > > I have reproduced on Win7, same exact cygwin, same exact symptom. > > OK, that you guys can't reproduce suggests that there is something special > about my cygwin installation. > > What is special, I suspect, is that I have not actually recreated it in > many > years: I just update it, and copy the whole thing from machine to machine. > (I > described this in the attachment to my original email.) That has worked > well > for a long time -- it is much easier and more consistent than running > setup.exe on many machines. But I suspect it has broken down. Somehow, I > may > have old libs or old config files mixed with new. (This last update, from > 1.7 > to 2.3, is clearly a big one.) > > So, I will re-install cygwin from scratch on one machine, this weekend. > > In the meantime, put this bug report on hold. Thanks to all of you. > > I will let the list know how this comes out. Was this ever resolved? I have, I guess, the same problem. I cannot see that the size of files matter, however -- I see the problem for all CRLF files that I tested. (It worked fine before upgrading a few days ago.) The weird thing is that, moving the file with CRLF line endings to a binary mounted filesystem makes less work just fine. Reading the file from a text mounted filesystem results in the problem. Is not the point with text mounts to be able to read text files with CRLF line endings? Just as Karl, my Cygwin installation is very old -- i.e., any registry entries (that I think might include mount options?) might have been written 10 years ago. Did the meaning of text/binary mounts change? Staffan -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/less-exe-v481-1-cannot-seek-to-EOF-in-CRLF-file-current-cygwin32-Win10-only-tp123813p129864.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple