Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-09 Thread David Dindorp
Dave Korn wrote: If you can tell me how to proceed from here, I'd be happy to throw in a bunch of manhours to try and find out what's wrong. http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPAST Obviously, if I were able to produce a simple testcase, I would have. Duh ;-). There's nothing _obvious_ about

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-09 Thread David Dindorp
I wrote: Cygwin is as complex as a Linux kernel. Christopher Faylor wrote: *snort* Your lack of credibility is showing. Your lifelong devotion to being hateful instead of constructive is showing? Jokes aside, I can't respond to the fact that you don't believe a word I say with anything else

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread David Dindorp
Brian Dessent wrote: Furthermore, threads in the past have expressed the fact that 2.05b has been very stable and both Ronald and others have agreed that any major changes in bash would have to be done very carefully so as not to cause instability. Uhm. No it's not.. Bash 2.05b is so

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread David Dindorp
Brian Dessent wrote: David Dindorp wrote: Uhm. No it's not.. Bash 2.05b is so unstable under Cygwin that it classifies as a volatile chemical. At least if you put it under a lot of pressure - a normal users everyday use it may cope fine with, which is probably how it's used by most people

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread David Dindorp
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 8 12:19, David Dindorp wrote: To be fair, this is probably more a Cygwin DLL problem than a bash problem, or perhaps a bash hasn't kept up with changes in Cygwin because the maintainer haven't had the time problem. It's running quite stable under 1.5.10

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread David Dindorp
If you can tell me how to proceed from here, I'd be happy to throw in a bunch of manhours to try and find out what's wrong. If you are happy to throw a bunch of manhours to try and find out what's wrong, then the solution is obvious -- learn cygwin that well. Manhours. Not entire

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread David Dindorp
If you can tell me how to proceed from here, I'd be happy to throw in a bunch of manhours to try and find out what's wrong. http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPAST Obviously, if I were able to produce a simple testcase, I would have. Duh ;-). -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: 1.5.13:Is it difficult to make cygwin recycle pids when create new process?

2005-04-01 Thread David Dindorp
Merlin Ran wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Doesn't http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00169.html explain it? No. I learned why using two pids from the post, but it still doesn't explain why winpid is always increasing. It's probably a blessing for shells like 'bash' that it *does

pinfo.h crash (#)

2005-03-11 Thread David Dindorp
Description: Bash crashes and leaves a stack dump file. Wanted: Help debugging, information, hints. Application: bash.exe, pid 2716, thread main Crash location: /netrel/src/cygwin-snapshot-20050309-1/winsup/cygwin/pinfo.h:178 Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=61056EBC in

still alive...

2005-03-10 Thread David Dindorp
Seems harmless, just thought I'd ask. What does this error mean? --- agent.sh: line 1: add_process: pid 592 (rm -f $tmpfile0 /dev/null) is still alive --- (Snapshot 20050309 installed couple of minutes ago.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: bash / snapshot combi crash

2005-03-09 Thread David Dindorp
Dave Korn wrote: David Dindorp wrote: Version: Cygwin DLL 2005-03-04 Source location: /netrel/src/cygwin-snapshot-20050304-1/winsup/cygwin/pinfo.h:178 Stack trace: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=[SNIP] End of stack trace (more stack frames may be present) I'd be happy

bash / snapshot combi crash

2005-03-07 Thread David Dindorp
Version: Cygwin DLL 2005-03-04 bash 2.05b-17 Where: Bash script. Code: let fieldno=$counter+1 -x output: ++ let fieldno=0+1 Reproducability: Happened two times so far. Above line runs a couple of hundred times without crashing at first. Doesn't happen in 20050226. Source

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread David Dindorp
Cristopher Faylor wrote: David Dindorp wrote: Bash seems to think that it's child has terminated prematurely. Has anyone experienced something similar? Being precise is one thing you could do. I tried my best. You could also provide cygcheck output as is suggested by http://cygwin.com

Re: how do I know I already havr firewall, and how to set up down

2005-03-01 Thread David Dindorp
First step is to go somewhere else. This is the wrong place for your issues, and you've already been told. Persisting to post irrelevant questions here will only make people ignore you and/or hate your guts. Trust me. It's an evil gang in here, and they will make you suffer. Support for

Fwd: testing snapshot

2005-03-01 Thread David Dindorp
sync_with_child: child 3276(0x118) died before initialization with status code 0x80 30328 [main] bash 4428 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for longjmp agent.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable David Dindorp wrote: So far a couple of things have popped up in testing. Only

Re: how do I know I already havr firewall, and how to set up down

2005-03-01 Thread David Dindorp
Trust me. It's an evil gang in here, and they will make you suffer. Awww, shucks, we're not evil, we're just mean (http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM). :-) I dunno. I agree that this is off-topic but claiming that people will hate your guts seems a little hyperbolic to me. I stand corrected.

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread David Dindorp
Christopher Faylor wrote (quotes rearranged wildly): If you are running your own version of bash, then all bets are off. Just double-checked. BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(1)-release'. I thought I was running 3.00 on Cygwin (I am on all other platforms), but apparently I was just making an ass of

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread David Dindorp
Dave Korn wrote: David Dindorp wrote: Just double-checked. BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(1)-release'. I thought I was running 3.00 on Cygwin (I am on all other platforms), but apparently I was just making an ass of myself on a public mailing list (again?) Welcome to our world! Version number

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread David Dindorp
In the meanwhile, does anybody have any comments to offer regarding this? (Besides stop asking, that is...) Bash hangs. Both occurrences have been at the same specific script line, and both produce similar gdb output. Script line: lffields[$counter]=`echo $lfline|cut -d'|' -f$fieldno`

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-02-28 Thread David Dindorp
Bash seems to think that it's child has terminated prematurely. Has anyone experienced something similar? Evidence: See the order of execution in the script below, compare with what bash does (further below). Version: snapshot 20050226 / bash 3.0. If I'm grossly missing anything from my error

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-02-28 Thread David Dindorp
Dave Korn wrote: Hmm. You appear to have told tar to create the output archive in the root directory of the filing system. Hm, actually $arcrfname contains a full path, including /cygdrive/c/... I cut it from the script and output because it made it entirely unreadable (partly related to my

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-02-28 Thread David Dindorp
Cristopher Faylor wrote: David Dindorp wrote: Bash seems to think that it's child has terminated prematurely. Has anyone experienced something similar? Evidence: See the order of execution in the script below, compare with what bash does (further below). Version: snapshot 20050226 / bash 3.0

Re: Command-Line Mail Client?

2005-02-22 Thread David Dindorp
Mike Dillinger wrote: I was wondering if there is a command-line mail client for Cygwin? There's smtppush. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot...)

2005-02-22 Thread David Dindorp
Christopher Faylor wrote: If that was really true, you'd be using a snapshot by now. Ok, ok, I can take a hint (sort of). I'll give up trying to drill down bugs in 1.5.10. Has the problem been found that results in this error?: MapViewOfFileEx(0x188, in_h 0x188) failed, Win32 error 6 At

Re: cygwin bughunt (Jip-hee!)

2005-02-18 Thread David Dindorp
Christopher Faylor wrote: Ah, yes! You're the you don't want people to debug cygwin because you aren't spoon feeding me debugging information guy! That is nowhere near what was said. I said you should provide debugging versions of Cygwin, since large software packages are hell to build. I

Re: cygwin bughunt (Jip-hee!)

2005-02-17 Thread David Dindorp
Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, we do. We provide the source code. It's easy to build. You are right; I was wrong. Building Cygwin is easy. (At least when it comes to newer versions :-p.) It even compiles under itself. *impressed*. It's been a few weeks, and I've tested with the debug

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-26 Thread David Dindorp
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Umm, that was my bad. The thing is, --enable-debugging really produces a developer debug version, with extra tracing, etc. If all you want is a version of DLL with all the symbols (i.e., unstripped), the regular build produces that as well. Cristopher Faylor wrote:

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-26 Thread David Dindorp
Ack! Apologies for the formatting. The company I'm employed at uses Outlook (thereby MS-WORD) for e-mail. Here's what I wanted to say: The FAQ entry 105 links to entry 102 under how to compile. Shouldn't this point to 104 instead? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: cygwin bughunt (using snapshot)

2005-01-25 Thread David Dindorp
Cristopher Faylor wrote: Again, this doesn't address your immediate concern. A snapshot is your best bet. Using the snapshot in the test environment, I now get these errors: sleep.exe (1924): *** MapViewOfFileEx(0x188, in_h 0x188) failed, Win32 error 6 Any ideas why this occurs? Can you

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-25 Thread David Dindorp
Cristopher Faylor wrote: Actually, we do. We provide the source code. It's easy to build. On your particular system which is tuned to do precisely this, maybe. If it's as easy as you say, I'll spend some more time on it. Have you even tried it? No. For a couple of reasons. 1. Prior

Re: cygwin bughunt

2005-01-21 Thread David Dindorp
It's a bit more complicated than that, but thank you for the valuable input :-). Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dindorp Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 1:13 PM To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: cygwin

Re: cygwin bughunt (fyi)

2005-01-21 Thread David Dindorp
Christopher Faylor wrote: David Dindorp wrote: The snapshots page says that it's a stripped version. Who should I trust, the snapshot page or the FAQ? You should trust me when I tell you that the snapshots haven't been stripped recently. You sound authoritative. I'll do that. There's

Re: cygwin bughunt (more FAQ stuff)

2005-01-21 Thread David Dindorp
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Well, how about this then: [snip] Here's my shot at what would've helped me a lot when I initially faced problems. Of course providing as much info as below will only leave you with more newbies crying 'cygwin_split_path() : 0x61073e06' or such. + More

Re: cygwin bughunt (out-of-the-box debugging)

2005-01-21 Thread David Dindorp
Bill Hughes wrote: I don't think I'm putting this very well, but it may make the FAQ easier if the standard advice is to load the snaphot and use that for debugging, it removes a separate layer of potential problems in building the dll. And there's still the issue that problems that are

Re: cygwin bughunt (using snapshot)

2005-01-21 Thread David Dindorp
Again, this doesn't address your immediate concern. A snapshot is your best bet. Using the snapshot in the test environment, I now get these errors: rm.exe (2512): *** MapViewOfFileEx(0x1D0, in_h 0x1D0) failed, Win32 error 6 awk.exe (1164): *** MapViewOfFileEx(0x1B0, in_h 0x1B0) failed, Win32

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread David Dindorp
Corinna Vinschen wrote: IMHO you're looking from the wrong direction. People capable of debugging the Cygwin DLL are usually also capable of building it. The only reason that the above is true is because you do not provide the means for people to debug the Cygwin DLL properly. I'm wondering

cygwin bughunt

2005-01-20 Thread David Dindorp
Does no-one have any information on this? Have I failed to follow the cygwin.com posting guidelines properly? Too little information? Help! :-) Regards /david -Original Message- Hi I need some information on how to debug Cygwin processes. We have a partially cygwin-based project,

Re: Technical support

2005-01-20 Thread David Dindorp
From what I've seen, it's a very clean install, also easily removable. It might mess up existing applications which use cygwin though. To see if you've got any such you could try and scan your harddrive for cygwin1.dll, or check the registry for the existance of these keys:

Re: cygwin bughunt

2005-01-20 Thread David Dindorp
Larry Hall wrote: I have the following suggestions/questions: 1. Did you try a Cygwin 1.5.12 or even a snapshot? No. I'm using 1.5.10, and it still smells *real* fresh, I think ;-). Also, the problem only occurs on a customer system which unfortunately I can't go around and upgrade all the

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-20 Thread David Dindorp
David Dindorp wrote: Tracking it down with GDB to cygwin_split_path() : 0x61073e06 was easy. Christopher Faylor wrote: Since cygwin isn't built with debugging symbols, the symbols that you do see in gdb are basically meaningless. Isn't there any way to compile the debugging symbols

Trying to pin cygwin crash bug; need a bit of help

2005-01-14 Thread David Dindorp
Hi I need some information on how to debug Cygwin processes. We have a partially cygwin-based project, which are having some problems. The cygwin part of the project has some scripts running in a bash process. The scripts seem to run fine for a random amount of time. Sometimes it's mere minutes