bash status?

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
After instructing someone to upgrade to the newer version of bash to fix the problem with pid reuse, I see that bash-2.05b-17 is still in test state. I seem to recall that Pierre may have had more patches for bash beyond what is in bash-2.05b-17, although I don't see any in the cygwin-apps

Re: bash status?

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:01:32AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: After instructing someone to upgrade to the newer version of bash to fix the problem with pid reuse, I see that bash-2.05b-17 is still in test state. I seem to recall that Pierre may have had more patches for bash beyond what is

Re: Update: perl-Win32-GUI, perl-libwin32

2005-03-01 Thread Reini Urban
Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: gcc -shared -o ODBC.dll -Wl,--out-implib=libODBC.dll.a -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--stack,8388608 \ -s -L/usr/local/lib CMom.o Constant.o CResults.o ODBC.o Odbc.res

Re: Startup problems with startx/xinit

2005-03-01 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Steve Horne wrote: Hello Alexander, I have just tried disabling my virus scanner but this has not resolved my problem. Any other suggestions, please ? Sorry. I'm broke on it. You might try Xming which uses a different network library. Maybe this helps

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

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

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header

2005-03-01 Thread John Morrison (Cygwin)
On Mon, February 28, 2005 9:51 pm, Gerrit P. Haase said: The user may want to use a different directory as repository and build directory. It should be done during the initial configuration, however I'm not sure if is worth the time to implement it. Since there are two or three rreports

Fwd: testing snapshot

2005-03-01 Thread David Dindorp
Hi I sent the posting below to the list once, but apparently it was blocked. Here it is again. (test.bat renamed to see if that will get the message through..) Pointers, hints or help all graciously accepted :-). -Forwarded Message- Anybody have any idea how to pursue the bug quoted

system call

2005-03-01 Thread Muzero
hi to all, i have a problem with C system() call: When i try to compile and execute a simple program like this: int main() { system(dir); return 0; } On CYGWIN shell it works without problems...but when i try to execute it without cygwin enviroment (on dos shell) system call

Re: system call

2005-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 09:58, Muzero wrote: When i try to compile and execute a simple program like this: int main() { system(dir); return 0; } dir is a cmd.exe builtin. Try `system(cmd /c dir);' Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin

Re: system call

2005-03-01 Thread Muzero
Thanks for your reply but it still do not work... the problem is thant under cygwin the execution of dir works fine but i have to run the program in an enviroment WITHOUT cygwin: it's in the DOS shell that the system() call do not works and return with code number 127. In the final application,

Re: system call

2005-03-01 Thread Brian Dessent
Muzero wrote: Thanks for your reply but it still do not work... the problem is thant under cygwin the execution of dir works fine but i have to run the program in an enviroment WITHOUT cygwin: it's in the DOS shell that the system() call do not works and return with code number 127. In

RE: system call

2005-03-01 Thread Ross Boulet
Thanks for your reply but it still do not work... the problem is thant under cygwin the execution of dir works fine but i have to run the program in an enviroment WITHOUT cygwin: it's in the DOS shell that the system() call do not works and return with code number 127. In the final

Re: getopt required_argument (Was Re: regtool - 1.8 - Core dump)

2005-03-01 Thread Alexander Joerg Herrmann
Well, it's just a matter of adding a check for optarg being NULL and printing an appropriate message (e.g., if (optarg == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, Missing key-value separator\n); usage(); } ). Yup looks easy but I may better patch the DLL to use

Re: GUI apps through ssh

2005-03-01 Thread artem_ave
Thanks a lot, X11Forwarding worked just fine. The only thing is that default DISPLAY value is set 'solaris:10.0' which is not accessible. So I had to change it manually to 'localhost:10.0'. And it worked finally. How can I get the proper set by default? Many thanks indeed, Artem A. Avetisyan.

Re: POSIX compliance of unlink(2)

2005-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 28 22:45, Eric Blake wrote: 1.5.12 and the latest snapshots allow unlinking a file contrary to POSIX rules. The addition of CYGWIN=traverse was not enough to fix this issue. Unlink is required to fail with EACCES if the file is contained in a directory without write permission.

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:08:04AM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Cristopher Faylor wrote: Christopher Anyway, this sounds a lot like the bash problem which has been discussed here over the last several months (most heavily in the October time frame). If you aren't running bash-2.05b-17 then

could you assist please!

2005-03-01 Thread Chang Grant
Good day I am Mr.Chang Grant of Greatvista chemicals.We are a group of businessmen who deal on raw materials and export into Canada,America/Europe. We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our costumers in America/Europe as well as making

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header

2005-03-01 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:51:44PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: John Morrison wrote: On Mon, February 28, 2005 12:19 pm, Stephan Petersen said: Hi Gerrit, thanks for your and all the others' replies. - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path mounted in

Re: system call

2005-03-01 Thread Muzero
It works! thanks a lot!!! :) Muzero Have you tried adding the -mno-cygwin option when you compile the program. This should eliminate the need for the cygwin environment at run time. Ross -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 07:58:53AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I went through the archives for October (anything related to bash), but couldn't find anything that seems related to me. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction (subject, link, anything)? Sorry, no. I'm not going to

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:35:30AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 07:58:53AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I went through the archives for October (anything related to bash), but couldn't find anything that seems related to me. Would you mind pointing me in the right

Re: Make a Shared Library using Makefile

2005-03-01 Thread Pradip Jadav
hello, I am back here... In the journey of making SHARED dll's, i have been lost somewhere in my path... but during these days i found a post searched in google like this... You are using some classes which are kept in some library. It is not enough to add h-file with these classes, We

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

2005-03-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, David Dindorp wrote: 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

Re: getopt required_argument (Was Re: regtool - 1.8 - Core dump)

2005-03-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Alexander Joerg Herrmann wrote: Well, it's just a matter of adding a check for optarg being NULL and printing an appropriate message (e.g., if (optarg == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, Missing key-value separator\n); usage();

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

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:18:47AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, David Dindorp wrote: 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

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.

new mirror of cygwin

2005-03-01 Thread julien
Hi, I represent Helvetic Association for Open Source Developpement and I would like to let you know I have been setting up a mirror for you is ready. My mirror is up you can reach it at http://cygwin.mirror.fr Its location is Neuchatel in Switzerland. The update of the mirror is daily. Best

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header

2005-03-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: If they want a different directory, it still doesn't hurt to force ~/.cpan to binmode (except in so far as it uses up the AIUI limited number of mounts). I'd advocate putting it in a postinstall script. Yes, it does sometimes. There used a

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

2005-03-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:18:47AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, David Dindorp wrote: First step is to go somewhere else. This is the wrong place for your issues, and you've already been told. Other than that, I agree with

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header

2005-03-01 Thread John Morrison
On Tue, March 1, 2005 2:47 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: If they want a different directory, it still doesn't hurt to force ~/.cpan to binmode (except in so far as it uses up the AIUI limited number of mounts). I'd advocate putting it in a

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 Dave Korn
Original Message From: David Dindorp Sent: 01 March 2005 15:17 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

stupid noobquestion(clear)

2005-03-01 Thread Alexander Thurban
Is there a command for clearing the console? Can't get cls,clr,clear to work :( / Acke -- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. - Friedrich Nietzsche -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: mmap and MAP_FIXED

2005-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 16:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 06:35, Eric Blake wrote: While you are at it, POSIX requires an update to underlying file's ctime sometime between mmap(... MAP_SHARED, PROT_WRITE ...) and the corresponding munmap() or msync() if the mapped region was written to. If

Re: POSIX compliance of unlink(2)

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:45:59PM +, Eric Blake wrote: 1.5.12 and the latest snapshots allow unlinking a file contrary to POSIX rules. The addition of CYGWIN=traverse was not enough to fix this issue. Unlink is required to fail with EACCES if the file is contained in a directory without

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: stupid noobquestion(clear)

2005-03-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Alexander Thurban wrote: Is there a command for clearing the console? Can't get cls,clr,clear to work :( Which terminal? If the regular CMD window, clear works just fine (as long as it's installed, see http://cygwin.com/packages/). If you use bash, you can also try

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:42:52PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: 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

Unison, OpenSSH and Cygwin (with the latest snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Karl M
Hi All... After seeing an e-mail from Corinna in the cygwin patches list on the ssh problem on XP, I tried the 20050228 snapshot on an XP SP2 machine. I am happy to report for the archives that Unison and OpenSSH work together with Cygwin on an XP SP2 machine with all of the current MS patches

RE: stupid noobquestion(clear)

2005-03-01 Thread Ross Boulet
Is there a command for clearing the console? Can't get cls,clr,clear to work :( / Acke Did you download and install the clear package? Its under Utils. Ross -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

RE: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Christopher Faylor Sent: 01 March 2005 15:49 On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:42:52PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: 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

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 16:02, Dave Korn wrote: Oh well. Time to install U/WIN? Micro$fot are thinking of renaming that. It's now going to be called THEY/WIN/WE/ALL/LOSE. You mean Interix, don't you? U/Win is from ATT. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding

RE: stupid noobquestion(clear)

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 01 March 2005 15:48 On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Alexander Thurban wrote: Is there a command for clearing the console? Can't get cls,clr,clear to work :( Which terminal? If the regular CMD window, clear works just fine (as long as it's

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: Problem running cygrunsrv with non SYSTEM accounts ($HOME problem?)

2005-03-01 Thread Aitken, Sean
See update below... I have been fighting a problem with trying to run SSHD on a Windows Server 2003 box. I have been able to narow the problem down a bit. I did post earlier to day, but have stumbled across what appears to be a strong lead on the solution. Facts: - With 'runas', I am

Re: GUI apps through ssh

2005-03-01 Thread Satish Balay
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, artem_ave wrote: Thanks a lot, X11Forwarding worked just fine. The only thing is that default DISPLAY value is set 'solaris:10.0' which is not accessible. So I had to change it manually to 'localhost:10.0'. And it worked finally. How can I get the proper set by default?

Re: Re; Problem running xgettext after compiling gettext 0.14.1 with gcc 3.3.3

2005-03-01 Thread Peter Rehley
On Feb 25, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Danny Smith wrote: From: Peter Rehley Hi, I am working on a project where I had to recompile gettext using gcc 3.3.3. I'm using cygwin 1.5.12. It compiled without issues but when I went to run some of the programs, a windows dialog box pops up showing the following

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.13-1

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grep-2.5.1a-2

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of 'grep' available for download. This updates the package to the latest version available from ftp.gnu.org. The previous (inexplicably unannounced) 2.5.1a-1 release did not allow grep -P. This version corrects that mistake. For a brief description of this package, and

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.13-1

2005-03-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.13-1

2005-03-01 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads

fontconfig segfault

2005-03-01 Thread Bertalan Fodor
In /etc/fonts/local.conf I set: dir/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/dir When I start fc-list, I get Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x610b4b68 in random () from /bin/cygwin1.dll I've attached (trimmed) strace of it. If I left only some fonts there, it runned without error, so I

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygrunsrv-1.0.1-1

2005-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated cygrunsrv to version 1.0.1-1. This is a bugfix release. Thanks to Chris Faylor for fixing a problem which could result in an unexpected premature stopping of the service thread when stopping the service. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing

emacs and network

2005-03-01 Thread shih lin
when I tried emacs, it response cygungif-4.dll was not found, reinstall may solve the problem so I reinstall it still is the same thing my emacs is 21.3.50-2 any one know download which package , can install lsof commnad? many tries but fail to using aol's public ip, first, what is filtered mean

Re: emacs and network

2005-03-01 Thread Brian Dessent
shih lin wrote: when I tried emacs, it response cygungif-4.dll was not found, reinstall may solve the problem so I reinstall it still is the same thing my emacs is 21.3.50-2 The cygwin package search page is http://cygwin.com/packages/. Use it. If you type cygungif and press search you'll

Updated: cygwin-1.5.13-1

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run

Updated: grep-2.5.1a-2

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of 'grep' available for download. This updates the package to the latest version available from ftp.gnu.org. The previous (inexplicably unannounced) 2.5.1a-1 release did not allow grep -P. This version corrects that mistake. For a brief description of this package, and