Re: [ITP] wtf

2003-08-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Has my vote, Just a small note, though: most of the OLOCA acronyms are a lot more verbose than their wtf counterparts, and some of them are duplicates. would it be possible to adapt your Perl script to weed out the (exact) duplicates? JAT (*) rlc (*) JAT: Just A Thought - neither in wtf nor

Re: [ITP] wtf

2003-08-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Great, that makes 3 votes. Now all I have to do is get someone to review the packaging (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). I don't see a particular value in weeding out duplicates, as all variants will be displayed, so no information is lost. However, I'll see if I could hide the original acronyms...

Re: [ITP] wtf

2003-08-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:56:57AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Great, that makes 3 votes. Now all I have to do is get someone to review the packaging (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). FWIW, I've installed the binary - it seems to be working nicely. I've tried bowth wtf and wtfindex. I've also

Re: 1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23?

2003-08-04 Thread Steve Coleman
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:59:56PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Am Samstag, 2. August 2003 um 17:23 schriebst du: I am still unable to build Perl and I haven't found the problem yet. I'm seeking for volunteers to help tracking down this problem. I'm sorry

Re: 1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23?

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:02:19PM -0400, Steve Coleman wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:59:56PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Am Samstag, 2. August 2003 um 17:23 schriebst du: I am still unable to build Perl and I haven't found the problem yet. I'm seeking for

Re: 1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23?

2003-08-04 Thread William A. Hoffman
Hi, I maintain the cmake package. I have tested it, and it only requires a recompile to work with cygwin 1.5.1. I am not sure how to proceed. Should I create binaries that require 1.5.1, and make them the -test version of the package. Then when 1.5.1 is officially released on 2003-08-23, I

RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3

2003-08-04 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
-Original Message- From: Alexander Gottwald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, August 03, 2003 11:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3 Pavel Rozenboim wrote: Hi, I just upgraded XFree86 to a latest 4.0.3 packages. Now, when I run

RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3

2003-08-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: please check if a file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB exists and if a line like these exists: XF86_Switch_VT_1:1008FE01 It exists. Since you're the only one with this Problem I suspect it's a problem with the 1.5 release of cygwin.

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread David Fraser
Alexander Gottwald wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: I am all about baby steps. We haven't even proven that we know how to start a new application for the user from the system tray icon yet. Until we actually do that this discussion is really pointless. I can send you code which spawns new

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, David Fraser wrote: I can send you code which spawns new processes from a running windows app. Could you send it to the list? /* we must build this string with information about mount points */ const char* command = c:\\cygwin\\usr\\x11r6\\xterm.exe

RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3

2003-08-04 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
-Original Message- From: Alexander Gottwald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, August 04, 2003 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3 On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: please check if a file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB

RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3

2003-08-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: I suspect it caused by upgrade from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0, since I didn't have such problem with X 4.2.0 and cygwin 1.5.1. I could not reproduce it on abother computer , though. There were several people who have upgraded to 4.3.0 too and have not reported

RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3

2003-08-04 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
-Original Message- From: Alexander Gottwald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, August 04, 2003 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3 On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: I suspect it caused by upgrade from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0, since

Re: xfree cvs

2003-08-04 Thread J S
Harold, I downloaded the XFIXES_BRANCH but when I tried to compile it I got: make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/u752359/x-devel/build/std/programs/Xserver/XTrap' cleaning in programs/Xserver/xfixes... cd: can't cd to xfixes cleaning in programs/Xserver/hw/xwin... make[4]: Entering directory

Re: xfree cvs

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
JS, Okay, it looks like you are using my suggested directory structure from the Contributor's Guide. Does this mean that you have XFIXES_BRANCH somewhere like: /home/u752359/x-devel/xc/ ? If so, had you had a previous branch, say HEAD, at: /home/u752359/x-devel/xc/ ? Yes? Good. That

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, David Fraser wrote: I can send you code which spawns new processes from a running windows app. Could you send it to the list? /* we must build this string with information about mount points */ const char* command =

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: /* we must build this string with information about mount points */ const char* command = c:\\cygwin\\usr\\x11r6\\xterm.exe -display :0.0; That line and comment are really the crux of my whole argument. It is simple to spawn a process.

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: /* we must build this string with information about mount points */ const char* command = c:\\cygwin\\usr\\x11r6\\xterm.exe -display :0.0; That line and comment are really the crux of my whole argument. It is simple

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:03:37PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: /* we must build this string with information about mount points */ const char* command = c:\\cygwin\\usr\\x11r6\\xterm.exe -display :0.0; That line

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:03:37PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: /* we must build this string with information about mount points */ const char* command = c:\\cygwin\\usr\\x11r6\\xterm.exe

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:22:33PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess. We haven't made that decision yet. Huh. Seems like a no-brainer to me. It's a cygwin program so why not use fork/exec? Then Xwin will be able to use 'wait()' to

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:22:33PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess. We haven't made that decision yet. Huh. Seems like a no-brainer to me. It's a cygwin program so why not use fork/exec? Then Xwin will

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:58:06PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:22:33PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess. We haven't made that decision yet. Huh. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Chris, We discussed this back in May/June. Suhaib mailed me the CDs of his initial work in June as a result of the discussion. I have the CDs, so I don't need to check the archives for proof here. Of course, since then I have been rather tied up with things (wedding, moving, etc.). End of

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Jack Tanner
Start-Run c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -display :0 YES! , this works perfectly. Now could this be added as a right click menu option to the tray? I'd thought about suggesting this before, but I decided against it: it is bad UI. Windows already has a method of starting

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:21:12PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: We discussed this back in May/June. Suhaib mailed me the CDs of his initial work in June as a result of the discussion. I have the CDs, so I don't need to check the archives for proof here. Of course, since then I have been

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Right to all of that, but I am really busy at work right now and this is precisely the sort of discussion that I don't have time to partake in at the moment. Harold Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:21:12PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: We discussed this back in May/June.

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:17:24PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Right to all of that, but I am really busy at work right now and this is precisely the sort of discussion that I don't have time to partake in at the moment. That's ok. I'm done. You can just ignore anything I said. It's your

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ Jack Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Start-Run |c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -display :0 | YES! , this works perfectly. Now could this be added | as a right click menu option to the tray? or hmm during setup of the packages, add an icon for X-server, and local xterm, to

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Peter Colovas
OR, paste the following into a batch file, then put an icon to the batch file on your desktop (or your start menu, etc... the possibilities are endless!). @echo off set path=%PATH%;C:\cygwin\bin cd c:\cygwin\home c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run xterm -display :0.0 -e bash --login Andrew Markebo

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess. We haven't made that decision yet. I'd not set any conditions. If one implements it with fork or with CreateProcess is quite unimportant. bye ago BTW: I'd prefer CreateProcess as it bypasses the

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 95

2003-08-04 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, there is a little problem with gcc 2.95.x. In some files I've got a compiling error like mentioned below: wingc.c: In function `winValidateGCNativeGDI': wingc.c:155: parse error before `fDebugProcMsg' wingc.c:156: `fDebugProcMsg' undeclared (first use in this function) wingc.c:156: (Each

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:01:57PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess. We haven't made that decision yet. I'd not set any conditions. If one implements it with fork or with CreateProcess is quite unimportant.

cygwin-xwin-test95 binary web link ????

2003-08-04 Thread Bovy, Stephen J
The web link for (the binary) of the newest test server series v (95) is pointing to test version (94)

xfree 4.3.0.2 and XftConfig

2003-08-04 Thread Ron Stanonik
Hi, I'm porting an application from linux to cygwin. I upgraded from xfree 4.2 to 4.3 and now xft code list no fonts. It did in 4.2. I tried fontconfig, since that is now available, but it also doesn't list any fonts. I notice that in 4.2 there was an XftConfig in /etc/X11, but there isn't in

Re: rfe: seamless windows integration

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jack, Thanks. Let me tell you, we already have a laundry list of dream features. We just need people to start working on them. Harold Jack Tanner wrote: This is a pipe dream, but it's a pipe dream worth striving for. 1. X should run as a service. There's no reason for it to run as a

Re: [PATCH] patch.cc: cygdrive_getmntent () - Unify behaviour with fhandler_cygdrive

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 06:11:17PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:53:21PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Here is a simple patch which makes the behaviour of getmntent () consistent with the one of fhandler_cygdrive. The reason this is there is to avoid long delays in mount

Re: #define question

2003-08-04 Thread Rob Clack
Perfect answer, thank you! I moved the COBJMACROS definition to the top of the file and was able to remove the #include objidl.h entirely, so clearly it's being included by some other file. Thanks! Rob Original Message Subject: Re: #define question Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003

OT: flame? (RE: 1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23?)

2003-08-04 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 10:33 PM -- LATE ADDITION -- Before I begin: Please! Don't reply to this. This is just my way of getting some frustration off my shoulders. No offence intended nor implied. -- E.O.A.

Re: 1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23?

2003-08-04 Thread Jason Tishler
Gerrit, On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:32:58PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Am Sonntag, 3. August 2003 um 18:54 schriebst du: As Jason points out in the release notes, even after being rebased, Python cannot pass any of the threads or ^^ Python also cannot be built with Cygwin 1.5.1? I

FWIW: lynx problem disappeared

2003-08-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
FWIW, the problem I reported in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01057.html seems to have gone away in current Cygwin CVS HEAD JTYMLTK (*) rlc * JTYMLTK: Just Thought You Might Like To Know - useful addition to the OLOCA? -- -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Problems with man

2003-08-04 Thread Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR)
Hi, Ok, something else to try. From sh, try: $ d:/cygwin/bin/cat /etc/passwd $ /cygdrive/d/cygwin/bin/cat /etc/passwd Does either command work? Nope: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sh \[\033]0;\w\007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ d:/cygwin/bin/cat /etc/passwd

Re: bug in setup.exe for postgresql-7.3.4-1

2003-08-04 Thread Jason Tishler
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:25:43AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Seth Rubin wrote: Myself (and Jason) are thinking there's an issue with the cygwin setup. Maybe I'm being naive, but all this seems is an issue with chmod and/or copy not being done properly on the postgres.exe file during

RE: Problems with man

2003-08-04 Thread Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR)
Hello, Below is the output from getfacl: # file: /usr/bin/tbl # owner: Administrators # group: mkgroup_l_d user::--- group::--- mask:rwx other:--- # file: /bin/cat # owner: Administrators # group: mkgroup_l_d user::--- group::--- mask:rwx other:--- # file:

pthreads problem under Me (was Re: 1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23?)

2003-08-04 Thread Jason Tishler
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:54:38PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote: Perl-5.8 is not working at all on WinME and, despite my best efforts, I am unable to debug the problem because the race condition happens before the dubugger can hook. As Jason points out in the release notes, even after being

Re: Cursor is frozen in Vim and Emacs

2003-08-04 Thread Larry Hall
stuart gear wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2003 Christopher Faylor wrote: So, I use ansi as an example of an incorrect TERM setting and you set the TERM to ansi. I tried a couple of term settings and nothing changed. I tried ansi and suddenly I am able to type and move around, so I left it there.

Re: FWIW: lynx problem disappeared

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:32:18PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: FWIW, the problem I reported in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01057.html seems to have gone away in current Cygwin CVS HEAD current Cygwin CVS HEAD meaning what? Is it fixed in 1.5.1? Is it fixed in the

Re: FWIW: lynx problem disappeared

2003-08-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:33:16AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:32:18PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: FWIW, the problem I reported in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01057.html seems to have gone away in current Cygwin CVS HEAD current

Re: FWIW: lynx problem disappeared

2003-08-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
FWIW, it's fixed in 1.5.1 HTH rlc On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:09:09PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:33:16AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:32:18PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: FWIW, the problem I reported in

1.5.1 issue?

2003-08-04 Thread Charles Wilson
When (re)compiling some of my packages, I noticed that (some) signals are not being propagated to children. That is: $ ./my-package-ver-rel.sh build Hit ^C I'm returned to my bash prompt, but the make continues in the background. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: FWIW: lynx problem disappeared

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:09:09PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:33:16AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:32:18PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: FWIW, the problem I reported in

Re: FWIW: lynx problem disappeared

2003-08-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:27:19AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:09:09PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:33:16AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:32:18PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: FWIW, the

Re: ftw()

2003-08-04 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Christopher, Am Montag, 4. August 2003 um 03:38 schriebst du: On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 09:29:49PM -0400, Samuel Thibault wrote: At http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/cygwin/ftw.c http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/cygwin/ftw.h an almost unmodified version of newlib/libc/sys/linux/ftw.c can be

rooted? - http://thinstall.com/

2003-08-04 Thread Jim Drash
It looks as if thinstall.com got rooted. I hope that this was not a Cygwin user as this is a very nasty thing to do. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

flag to turn of CRLF conversion

2003-08-04 Thread Sven Khler
hi, i read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html and searched for a flag that turns of CRLF conversion. For example setxkbmap.exe from the XFree packages still crashes if i CRLF conversion is globally turned on with cygwin's setup.exe. I could put any entry into the Registry to

Re: 1.5.1 issue?

2003-08-04 Thread Rolf Campbell
I have seen this as well. Difficult to reproduce (seems to work correctly 99% of the time). I was running a 1.5.0 snapshot (from several weeks ago) when I saw it. Charles Wilson wrote: When (re)compiling some of my packages, I noticed that (some) signals are not being propagated to

Re: loading DLLs created with Cygwin into Sun JDK

2003-08-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ville, At 10:33 2003-08-03, Ville Herva wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:24:33AM -0400, you [Norman Vine] wrote: Marcus G. Daniels writes: Incidentally, does anyone know of a Windows application that can be used to see the VM maps in a given process. (Like in Linux, with

Error while running tcsh

2003-08-04 Thread Kishor Kulkarni
Hi, I am a newbie in this. I am trying to install latest cygwin on Windows 2000. I have used Cygwin DLL release version 1.3.22-1. While installing the cygwin, the some of the post-install scripts gave me this message: The procedure entry point __getreent could not be located in the dynamic

Re: ftw()

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:54:21PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Christopher, Am Montag, 4. August 2003 um 03:38 schriebst du: On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 09:29:49PM -0400, Samuel Thibault wrote: At http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/cygwin/ftw.c http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/cygwin/ftw.h an

Re: Error while running tcsh

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:55:15AM -0700, Kishor Kulkarni wrote: I am a newbie in this. I am trying to install latest cygwin on Windows 2000. I have used Cygwin DLL release version 1.3.22-1. While installing the cygwin, the some of the post-install scripts gave me this message: The procedure

Re: 1.5.1 issue?

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:20:01AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: I have seen this as well. Difficult to reproduce (seems to work correctly 99% of the time). I was running a 1.5.0 snapshot (from several weeks ago) when I saw it. And I've seen this on linux as well. I guess I should send email

Re: Error while running tcsh

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:09:34AM -0700, Kishor Kulkarni wrote: Thanks Christopher!! But where (and which) is the LATEST version of cygwin1.dll ? On rethinking this, it sounds like you included test versions of some program or library and you have a version mismatch between the cygwin DLL and

Re: ftw()

2003-08-04 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Christopher, Am Montag, 4. August 2003 um 18:01 schriebst du: There is a ftw.c ftw.h included in the wu-ftpd sources in the support directory, BSD licensed: * Copyright (c) 1988 Regents of the University of California. * All rights reserved. http://anfaenger.de/ftw/ftw.c

Re: ftw()

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:42:31PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Am Montag, 4. August 2003 um 18:01 schriebst du: Just to be clear: I'm not volunteering to do any work on this other than offer opinions on whether the code is appropriate for inclusion for cygwin. And, is this BSD version

Re: Error while running tcsh

2003-08-04 Thread Larry Hall
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:09:34AM -0700, Kishor Kulkarni wrote: Thanks Christopher!! But where (and which) is the LATEST version of cygwin1.dll ? On rethinking this, it sounds like you included test versions of some program or library and you have a version mismatch

Re: 1.5.1 issue?

2003-08-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:20:01AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: I have seen this as well. Difficult to reproduce (seems to work correctly 99% of the time). I was running a 1.5.0 snapshot (from several weeks ago) when I saw it. And I've seen

Re: 1.5.1 issue?

2003-08-04 Thread Charles Wilson
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: FWIW, I've seen this in 1.3.22 (with both tty and notty), so it's not a regression. Okay, if it's not a regression then it is not a 1.5.1 issue per se. Party on, dudes. As far as seen this on linux -- I had never seen it before(*) on linux or cygwin, so I thought I'd

Re: 1.5.1 issue?

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:36:10PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: FWIW, I've seen this in 1.3.22 (with both tty and notty), so it's not a regression. Okay, if it's not a regression then it is not a 1.5.1 issue per se. Party on, dudes. As far as seen this on linux -- I had

Re: pthreads problem under Me (was Re: 1.5.x goes current on2003-08-23?)

2003-08-04 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:35:57 -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: The attached *may* be affecting threads under Perl too. Specifically, the following: pthread_cond::Signal: Released too many threads - X now X originally I'm willing to work with the Cygwin pthreads developers to help track

[BUG] pututline () rxvt: rxvt leaves stale utmp entries

2003-08-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On rxvt startup two utmp entries are created - the first one is created by Cygwin and the second one is created by rxvt itself: $ who Administ tty1 Aug 5 01:26 (MORDOR) Administ tty2 Aug 5 01:26 (:0) After rxvt shutdown: $ who Administ tty2 Aug 5 01:26 (:0)

Re: ftw()

2003-08-04 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 09:29:49PM -0400, Samuel Thibault wrote: At http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/cygwin/ftw.c http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/cygwin/ftw.h an almost unmodified version of newlib/libc/sys/linux/ftw.c can be found along its header. These come from the

Re: 1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23?

2003-08-04 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Nicholas, [SNIP] Perl-5.8 is not working at all on WinME and, despite my best efforts, I am unable to debug the problem because the race condition happens before the dubugger can hook. As Jason points out in the release notes, even after being rebased, Python

CYGWIN version of the popular Unix script command

2003-08-04 Thread tonykam
Hello, Would you please tell me where to find the unix equivalent of script command for capturing screen outputs? I did compile the one from Redhat linux in misc-util but failed. Appreciated your help. Thanks, Tony -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: mount (1) man page - inccorect description of -c option

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:02:51AM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: The description of the --change-cygdrive-prefix option states that By default, the cygdrive-prefix applies only to the current user. Currently, mount changes by defult the system prefix. Hmm. I thought I had nuked all of these. Guess

Re: cygwin to backup Windows data

2003-08-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Robert Citek wrote: A chemist friend of mine at the FDA has some questions about Cygwin and how it interacts with Windows. Below is his e-mail message to me which he asked to forward to the list if I felt it would help. I have some questions of my own to ask him, but thought I would put it

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-04 Thread Larry Hall
Ville Herva wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0400, you [Larry Hall] wrote: Please *attach* your cygcheck output next time rather than including it in the text of your message. Sorry. I suggest the following two changes. 1. Remove 'ntea' from your CYGWIN environment variable.

Re: Mail Archives are Your Friend...

2003-08-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Matthew O. Persico wrote: A plug for http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/ (hopefully read by newbies) And if you can't get htdig (or whatever that form uses) to grok your search, there's also google. I've found that you can search just mailing-list archives with google by prepending

Mail Archives are Your Friend...

2003-08-04 Thread Matthew O. Persico
A plug for http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/ (hopefully read by newbies) While trying to build a package, I got an error on gcc switch -fnative-sources. I pumped that into the search engine at the mail archives and the first entry that popped up had the solution in the summary - didn't even

Re: Mail Archives are Your Friend...

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 07:45:33PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Matthew O. Persico wrote: A plug for http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/ (hopefully read by newbies) And if you can't get htdig (or whatever that form uses) to grok your search, there's also google. I've found that you can search

Re: Mail Archives are Your Friend...

2003-08-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Brian Dessent wrote: Matthew O. Persico wrote: A plug for http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/ (hopefully read by newbies) And if you can't get htdig (or whatever that form uses) to grok your search, there's also google. I've found that you can search just

Re: cygwin to backup Windows data

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:34:24PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Robert Citek wrote: A chemist friend of mine at the FDA has some questions about Cygwin and how it interacts with Windows. Below is his e-mail message to me which he asked to forward to the list if I felt it would help. I have some

Re: [BUG] pututline () rxvt: rxvt leaves stale utmp entries

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:58:46PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Given the good problem description and the simple test case, this shouldn't be hard to fix. I'll see what I can do. The behavior that you've described has bugged me for a while. I'm glad that you tracked down what was going on.

Re: 1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23?

2003-08-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Nicholas Wourms wrote: Plus, I don't care *at all* for all that colorful shit in XP. It looks like that stuff is part of the new UI, so the prospects of getting rid of that crap looks slim. FWIW, it's very simple to make all that go away in XP. You just choose the Windows Classic setting