keychain and bash up for grabs?

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
It seems like we are missing maintainers for keychain and bash. There have been bugs reported against each with no responses from maintainers. Private email to the bash maintainer seems to bounce. So, unless Corinna objects or there is a clarification of the status of these packages by tomorrow,

Re: keychain and bash up for grabs?

2005-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 15:28, Christopher Faylor wrote: It seems like we are missing maintainers for keychain and bash. There have been bugs reported against each with no responses from maintainers. Private email to the bash maintainer seems to bounce. So, unless Corinna objects or there is a

Re: keychain and bash up for grabs?

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:56:10PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 15:28, Christopher Faylor wrote: It seems like we are missing maintainers for keychain and bash. There have been bugs reported against each with no responses from maintainers. Private email to the bash maintainer seems

Re: keychain and bash up for grabs?

2005-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 16:08, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:56:10PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Karl M is interested to take over keychain, we discussed this on the cygwin ML already. Yes, sorry. I wasn't paying as close attention to the keychain discussion as I should have

RE: Setup.exe: Installing Packages

2005-03-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
As longs as no one else is responding ... At Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:50 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: Is there any way to install individual packages other than the package selection menu? I personally am quite mouse impaired and wanna use the keyboard to do such things. Any way to pass it

Re: keyboard jams when switching windows tasks

2005-03-03 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Daniel Goertzen wrote: xev behaved correctly when the xev window had focus when I switched to a MS Windows app (I assume correct means that it spewed key and mouseover events) When the Konsole that launched xev was given focus and I did the freezing trick, all output

Re: ignore modifier

2005-03-03 Thread J S
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, J S wrote: Is there a command like IgnoreModifier which you can specify on an individual key basis, so I could say for F1 to F12, ignore when the numlock key is on? Not that I know of. Sorry. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ:

Re: slowdown of command substitution in 1.5.13-1

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:04:15PM +0100, Morche Matthias wrote: My /etc/profile now runs very slow. I've tracked it down to: $ time echo 1 1 real0m0.000s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ time echo `echo 1` 1 real0m10.591s user0m0.015s sys 0m0.031s ...

Re: Alt Gr key, with remote X-windows windows, strange behaviour

2005-03-03 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem: When I want to type a character such as #, { or }, which require using the Alt Gr key on a french keyboard, sometimes, a strange behaviour occurs; sometimes it works nice. It looks like it only happend when using vi or emacs.

winsup/cygwin autoload.cc

2005-03-03 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-03-03 15:12:53 Modified files: cygwin : autoload.cc Log message: restore comment Patches:

src/winsup/doc ChangeLog how-api.texinfo

2005-03-03 Thread joshuadfranklin
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-03-03 16:36:08 Modified files: winsup/doc : ChangeLog how-api.texinfo Log message: Add Pierre's security text. Patches:

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygthread.cc

2005-03-03 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-03-03 16:53:53 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog cygthread.cc Log message: * cygthread.cc (cygthread::detach): Use a slightly higher priority when waiting for

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygwin.din syscall ...

2005-03-03 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-03-03 22:08:13 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin.din syscalls.cc winsup/cygwin/include: utmpx.h winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin: version.h

Re: Building OpenSSH

2005-03-03 Thread Karl M
From: Igor Pechtchanski Subject: Re: Building OpenSSH Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:25:37 -0500 (EST) On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Karl M wrote: Hi All... While tracking down an occasional hang in keychain, I tracked it down to ssh-add...so I wanted to build OpenSSH. More on this when I finish tracking it

Re: Building OpenSSH

2005-03-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Karl M wrote: From: Igor Pechtchanski Subject: Re: Building OpenSSH Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:25:37 -0500 (EST) On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Karl M wrote: I used the following command from the cygwin openssh readme file. ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc

Re: Building OpenSSH

2005-03-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Karl M wrote: From: Igor Pechtchanski Subject: Re: Building OpenSSH Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:25:37 -0500 (EST) On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Karl M wrote: Also, would it be possible for the OpenSSH maintainer to create

keychain service--hanging in ssh-add

2005-03-03 Thread Karl M
Hi All... I tracked it down. It is not a problem with keychain, openssh or cygwin. Occasionally, on this particular laptop (XP SP2), the user can reboot, log in and start a bash shell before all of the services are running or while they are still starting. Gotta love Microsoft. So that was

Re: Error linking under Cygwin: fork: can't reserve memory for stack XXX, Win32 error 487

2005-03-03 Thread Martin Egholm Nielsen
Hi, I've ended up here after having rounded the gcc-irc-channel and the crosscompiler mailing-list. The story: I have compiled a gcc crosscompiler hosted under Cygwin using Dan Kegel's Crosstool scripts. However, as my application is growing in size (number of .o files) I suddenly get the

Buiding net-snmp perl in cygwin - Please anyone help me

2005-03-03 Thread Aparna R
I Downloaded net-snmp-5.2.1.tar.gz and it got successfully installed on cygwin. Installed Modules: ActivePerl 5.8.6 Perl that comes with cygwin When Net-SNMP Perl modules are installed in cygwin I am getting following error $perl MakeFile.PL is successful Writing

Re: cp (coreutils) 5.2.1 Corrupts Binary File

2005-03-03 Thread Vincent Rowley
Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha at cs.nyu.edu writes: Two more (probably easier) ways: 1) Run setup.exe and select Unix line endings; then select the Keep mode (switch to the Partial view to make sure no packages will get installed), and complete the installation. The mounts will be switched. 2)

ghostscript/fontconfig issues

2005-03-03 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Hello, I've found the following bugs/issues about the ghostscript and fontconfig packages and their cooperation: - fontconfig segfaults with old fonts in ghostscript (hr*), because they are buggy. AFAIK other ghostscript distributions do not contain them for the same reason. - fontconfig's

Re: ctime: creation or change time?

2005-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 2 13:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, NTFS has no notion of file change time as described in POSIX. Is there any chance of undoing this change? An alternative solution might be to simply use the NTFS file modify time for both the mtime and ctime of the file, since those two

Re: Building OpenSSH

2005-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 00:04, Karl M wrote: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir='$(sbindir)' \ --localstatedir=/var --datadir='$(prefix)/share' --mandir='$(datadir)/man' \ --with-tcp-wrappers The configure complains that commands sbindir and datadir are not defined. Should

Re: keychain service--hanging in ssh-add

2005-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 00:22, Karl M wrote: Corinna...I have not heard back from Hack after I sent him an e-mail a week ago. I am happy to support an updated keychain package, or just place my files in the archives. We can wait a while longer to see if we hear from Hack. Just let me know how you would

Re: keychain service--hanging in ssh-add

2005-03-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Karl M wrote: I tracked it down. It is not a problem with keychain, openssh or cygwin. Occasionally, on this particular laptop (XP SP2), the user can reboot, log in and start a bash shell before all of the services are running or while they are still starting. Gotta love Microsoft. So that

RE: cygstart patch

2005-03-03 Thread Derosa, Anthony CIV NAVAIR 2035, 2, 205/214
OTOH, I can't see anyway around it without ALSO calling strlen() I'm no expert either, but I did use strlen() when allocating the memory (with malloc() and realloc()). So if we successfully allocated enough memory (args != NULL), then the string *rest has some finite length and won't cause

RE: loading of wsock32 disturbs FPU

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Christopher Faylor Sent: 03 March 2005 00:59 I've checked in a patch to cygwin which saves and restores the FPU control register around calls to LoadLibrary. That seems to solve the problem. Confirmed here, but why did you remove the comment? It's still true

Re: Buiding net-snmp perl in cygwin - Please anyone help me

2005-03-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Please start a new thread instead of replying to an unrelated message. More below. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Aparna R wrote: I Downloaded net-snmp-5.2.1.tar.gz and it got successfully installed on cygwin. Installed Modules: ActivePerl 5.8.6 Perl that comes with cygwin This is unclear.

RE: Error linking under Cygwin: fork: can't reserve memory for stack XXX, Win32 error 487

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Martin Egholm Nielsen Sent: 03 March 2005 08:42 However, as my application is growing in size (number of .o files) I suddenly get the following fault message from collect2.exe when trying to link them all together: $ powerpc-405-linux-gnu-gcj --main=foo.Main

RE: cygstart patch

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Charles Wilson Sent: 03 March 2005 06:59 Derosa, Anthony CIV NAVAIR 2035, 2, 205/214 wrote: I found a small bug and added a feature to the cygstart utility, which is part of the cygutils package. The feature that I added removes the limit on the length of the

Re: how to stop cron logging into NT eventlog ?

2005-03-03 Thread kagemaru
Hello, Sadly, the - at the beggining of the crontab does not work, it keeps loggin in the eventlog. Thanks for your help ! Best regards, Emmanuel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: perl 5.8.6: unable to compile PAR 0.87

2005-03-03 Thread Kevin Everets
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:29:55PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: This is an already known issue with the first 5.8.6 perl including the Win32CORE parts. It was released an update to fix this issue, please upgrade to the latest release. Yup, sorry. perl-5.8.6-1 was what I was using, and

RE: cygstart patch

2005-03-03 Thread Derosa, Anthony CIV NAVAIR 2035, 2, 205/214
Dave, you're right! I was forgetting the NUL in realloc. I'm surprised that the original fix has been working for me. What do you think about Chuck's concerns regarding strcat() vs. strncat()? So, after adding 1 to the realloc line, the patch follows (I *didn't* regenerate this with diff, is

RE: cygstart patch

2005-03-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Derosa, Anthony CIV NAVAIR 2035, 2, 205/214 wrote: What do you think about Chuck's concerns regarding strcat() vs. strncat()? I'm no expert either, but usually the purpose of strncat() is to avoid a buffer overrun when copying an arbitrary-sized string into a

RE: cygstart patch

2005-03-03 Thread Derosa, Anthony CIV NAVAIR 2035, 2, 205/214
Mind the spaces/tabs in the *original* code. As long as what you edited in your newly-added (or replacement) code, it should still apply. Igor, thanks. I didn't modify the original - only my changes. I asked because I didn't know if the diff format contains some checksum that would be messed

RE: cygstart patch

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Derosa, Anthony CIV NAVAIR 2035, 2, 205/214 Sent: 03 March 2005 14:22 Dave, you're right! I was forgetting the NUL in realloc. I'm surprised that the original fix has been working for me. What do you think about Chuck's concerns regarding strcat() vs.

Re: keychain service--hanging in ssh-add

2005-03-03 Thread Karl M
From: Brian Dessent Subject: Re: keychain service--hanging in ssh-add Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 04:16:23 -0800 Karl M wrote: I tracked it down. It is not a problem with keychain, openssh or cygwin. Occasionally, on this particular laptop (XP SP2), the user can reboot, log in and start a bash

Re: loading of wsock32 disturbs FPU

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:15:08PM +1300, Danny Smith wrote: cgf wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:37:42PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 2 15:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 2 13:33, Dave Korn wrote: Hm. We probably need to put a finit instruction into the autoload code somewhere.

Problem with bash under cygwin 1.5.13

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Waltman
Hi, I frequently start multiple copies of bash at the same time when first logging in to my computer. As of the latest update of the cygwin package when I start more than one bash at the same time (without waiting for the prompt to appear in the first one) I get a stack dump in the second window:

RE: cygstart patch

2005-03-03 Thread Derosa, Anthony CIV NAVAIR 2035, 2, 205/214
But there is an important _process_ problem. It is the number one sin of CVS to checkin anything other than ***exactly*** the code that you compiled and tested, so you aren't excused from having to re-compile and re-test the code with the +1 = +2 modification applied to it, and at that

Re: Buiding net-snmp perl in cygwin - Please anyone help me

2005-03-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Aparna R wrote: I Downloaded net-snmp-5.2.1.tar.gz and it got successfully installed on cygwin. Installed Modules: ActivePerl 5.8.6 Perl that comes with cygwin When Net-SNMP Perl modules are installed in cygwin I am getting following error $perl MakeFile.PL is

cron copy on network drives

2005-03-03 Thread Paul Hodor
Hi, I am trying to set up a cron service to update some directories on a network drive, but I ran into a problem. This copy command works from the command-line: cp -a -u -v //mydrive/myshare/dir1/* //mydrive/myshare/dir2 log 21 However, if I run it with cron I get the following error: cp:

Slow pipes after upgrade cygwin 1.5.12-1-1.5.13-1 when running boinc

2005-03-03 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
With boinc running [EMAIL PROTECTED] at lowest priority ( uses 100% cpu but yields easily) simple pipes takes a long time. Example: from a bash prompt echo hello|grep -v xyz with boinc running and 1.5.13-1 takes about 7 seconds. if i stop boinc it takes parts of a second. after downgrade to

Re: cron copy on network drives

2005-03-03 Thread Bryan Thrall
From: Paul Hodor Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:13:36 -0800 (PST) Hi, I am trying to set up a cron service to update some directories on a network drive, but I ran into a problem. This copy command works from the command-line: cp -a -u -v //mydrive/myshare/dir1/* //mydrive/myshare/dir2 log 21 However,

Re: cron copy on network drives

2005-03-03 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:13 AM 3/3/2005, you wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up a cron service to update some directories on a network drive, but I ran into a problem. This copy command works from the command-line: cp -a -u -v //mydrive/myshare/dir1/* //mydrive/myshare/dir2 log 21 However, if I run it with cron I

Re: Slow pipes after upgrade cygwin 1.5.12-1-1.5.13-1 when running boinc

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:36:00PM +0100, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: With boinc running [EMAIL PROTECTED] at lowest priority ( uses 100% cpu but yields easily) simple pipes takes a long time. Example: from a bash prompt echo hello|grep -v xyz with boinc running and 1.5.13-1 takes about 7 seconds.

Re: Slow pipes after upgrade cygwin 1.5.12-1-1.5.13-1 when running boinc

2005-03-03 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
Christopher Faylor skrev: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:36:00PM +0100, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: With boinc running [EMAIL PROTECTED] at lowest priority ( uses 100% cpu but yields easily) simple pipes takes a long time. Example: from a bash prompt echo hello|grep -v xyz with boinc running and

Re: Slow pipes after upgrade cygwin 1.5.12-1-1.5.13-1 when running boinc

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:26:44PM +0100, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: Christopher Faylor skrev: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:36:00PM +0100, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: With boinc running [EMAIL PROTECTED] at lowest priority ( uses 100% cpu but yields easily) simple pipes takes a long time. Example:

RE: Slow pipes after upgrade cygwin 1.5.12-1-1.5.13-1 when running boinc

2005-03-03 Thread Morche Matthias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... If I had to guess, I'd say that boinc is putting itself into a high priority class for some reason and is eating cpu cycles, causing cygwin's pipe reading code to stall. I've made a change to cygwin to put it's pipe reading code into a slightly higher priority

RE: Problem with bash under cygwin 1.5.13

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Andrew Waltman Sent: 03 March 2005 15:12 Hi, I frequently start multiple copies of bash at the same time when first logging in to my computer. As of the latest update of the cygwin package when I start more than one bash at the same time (without waiting for

Re: Slow pipes after upgrade cygwin 1.5.12-1-1.5.13-1 when running boinc

2005-03-03 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
to cygwin to put it's pipe reading code into a slightly higher priority class. This change is in the latest snapshot: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ cgf No change with cygwin1-20050303.dll.bz2 or cygwin-inst-20050303.tar.bz2 -- Bengt-Arne Fjellner 0910-58 53 69 -- Unsubscribe info

RE: Problem with bash under cygwin 1.5.13

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Dave Korn Sent: 03 March 2005 17:48 Original Message From: Andrew Waltman Sent: 03 March 2005 15:12 However, if I wait for eash instance of bash to come to a command prompt I can start the 2nd, 3rd, etc. bash window. This behavior started after

chere doesn't cd to directory

2005-03-03 Thread Wayne Johnson
I just discovered chere. I'd been using my own version called bash here, but chere is so much easier to install. One problem though. Where I do the chere Bash here menu entry, it starts the bash in the home directory. I dug through the xhere script and found the export CHERE_DIR=`cygpath -u

Re: Error linking under Cygwin: fork: can't reserve memory for stack XXX, Win32 error 487

2005-03-03 Thread Martin Egholm Nielsen
Hi, However, as my application is growing in size (number of .o files) I suddenly get the following fault message from collect2.exe when trying to link them all together: $ powerpc-405-linux-gnu-gcj --main=foo.Main *.o

Re: Slow pipes after upgrade cygwin 1.5.12-1-1.5.13-1 when running boinc

2005-03-03 Thread David Rothenberger
shell, it completed quickly with 1.5.13. The latest 20050303 snapshot fixed this problem for me. It also fixed the problem I was having with BOINC. -- David Rothenbergerspammer? - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG/PGP: 0x7F67E734, C233 365A 25EF 2C5F C8E1 43DF B44F BA26 7F67 E734 To stand

Re: chere doesn't cd to directory

2005-03-03 Thread Wayne Johnson
Wayne Johnson wdtj at yahoo.com writes: One problem though. Where I do the chere Bash here menu entry, it starts the bash in the home directory. I dug through the xhere script and found the export CHERE_DIR=`cygpath -u $2` commented out. If I comment it back in, I get an error because

RE: Problem with bash under cygwin 1.5.13

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Waltman
However, if I wait for eash instance of bash to come to a command prompt I can start the 2nd, 3rd, etc. bash window. This behavior started after updating the cygwin library to the latest revision (1.5.13). I'm running with current code (built from CVS earlier today) and I can't reproduce

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: psmisc-21.5-1

2005-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have uploaded psmisc-21.5-1. The psmisc package contains utilities for managing processes on your system: pstree, killall and fuser. The pstree command displays a tree structure of all of the running processes on your system. The killall command sends a specified signal (SIGTERM if nothing is

Re: [SPAM] mkpasswd (249): [5] Access is denied. #workaround speculation on cause

2005-03-03 Thread Tom Rodman
The workaround I'm considering is: to build a list of only the user logon names we need for /etc/passwd (a fairly small subset of the domain), and then write a shell script (driven by this list) to repeatedly call mkpasswd -l -d -u USERNAMEHERE /etc/passwd. A co-worker speculates that Microsoft

Problems instaling perl Net::Pcap module

2005-03-03 Thread SonOfLilit
I hope this is the right place to post this. The steps I went through: * d/l it * extract * cd to dir * d/l WinPcap developer kit and put ./lib to my /lib/Pcap and ./include to my /usr/include, without replacing 2-3 .h headers that I already had * $ perl Makefile.PL INC=-I/usr/include

cannot set time - cvs checkout breaks after installing cygwin-1.5.13-1

2005-03-03 Thread Jacek Piskozub
Hi, After installing cygwin-1.5.13-1 I cannot build Mozilla anymore. During updating the mozilla tree using cvs I receive cannot set time errors. The updated files have (wrongly) the current time, instead of the expected original timestamp when they were checked into the cvs tree. That would

Re: ctime: creation or change time?

2005-03-03 Thread Eric Melski
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 2 13:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, NTFS has no notion of file change time as described in POSIX. Is there any chance of undoing this change? An alternative solution might be to simply use the NTFS file modify time for both the mtime and ctime of the file,

Re: ctime: creation or change time?

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:50:56PM -0800, Eric Melski wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 2 13:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, NTFS has no notion of file change time as described in POSIX. Is there any chance of undoing this change? An alternative solution might be to simply use the NTFS

Re: cron copy on network drives

2005-03-03 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 10:49 AM 3/3/2005 -0600, Bryan Thrall wrote: From: Paul Hodor Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:13:36 -0800 (PST) Hi, I am trying to set up a cron service to update some directories on a network drive, but I ran into a problem. This copy command works from the command-line: cp -a -u -v

Re: ctime: creation or change time?

2005-03-03 Thread Eric Melski
Christopher Faylor wrote: I understand that you're trying to be POSIX-like, but I wonder if doing so at the cost of compatibility with the host OS is wise. To be sure, the implementation you have chosen will break some Windows applications. It seems to me that ultimately you are emulating

1.5.13-1 setup does not complete

2005-03-03 Thread N. Brad Garrett
When I try to install the latest cygwin (this is my first time trying to install it), it downloads the list of mirrors fine. But then no matter which mirror I choose, it gets about 80% done before displaying this message in an alert box: (null) line 6: syntax error, unexpected LT, expecting

Re: ctime: creation or change time?

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:14:28PM -0800, Eric Melski wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I understand that you're trying to be POSIX-like, but I wonder if doing so at the cost of compatibility with the host OS is wise. To be sure, the implementation you have chosen will break some Windows

Re: cygstart patch

2005-03-03 Thread Charles Wilson
Anthony -- I've applied this patch. Thanks! -- Chuck Derosa, Anthony CIV NAVAIR 2035, 2, 205/214 wrote: But there is an important _process_ problem. It is the number one sin of CVS to checkin anything other than ***exactly*** the code that you compiled and tested, so you aren't excused from

Re: Buiding net-snmp perl in cygwin - Please anyone help me

2005-03-03 Thread Aparna R
Hello, Currently I uninstalled activeperl and I am having cygwin perl alone and correspondingly I changed the Path variable to D:\cygwin\bin. Herewith I am attcahing the output of perl Makefile.PL, make and cygcheck -svr $cd net-snmp5.2.1/perl $perl Makefile.PL Writing Makefile for

Re: ctime: creation or change time?

2005-03-03 Thread Eric Melski
Christopher Faylor wrote: Your arguments would be a little more persuasive if you did more than postulate the surety of breakage and actually pointed to real breakage or, at least, demonstrated how a windows application would be harmed by cygwin's handling of ctime. The motivating example for my

Re: Make a Shared Library using Makefile

2005-03-03 Thread Pradip Jadav
And ya Dllexport and Dllimport are required in source code I mean should include in my own header files? I read that The main problems are caused by the fact that Windows DynamicLinked Libraries (DLL s) assume some specific information to be introduced in the source code directly, while

Re: Make a Shared Library using Makefile

2005-03-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Pradip Jadav wrote: And ya Dllexport and Dllimport are required in source code I mean should include in my own header files? I read that The main problems are caused by the fact that Windows DynamicLinked Libraries (DLL s) assume some specific information to be introduced in the

Re: Keeping cygwin updated on remote systems

2005-03-03 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Remote Desktop is not available on them. I can already use VNC tunneled through SSH to manually run setup.exe. What I really need is a way to update the files that have changed and run the install scripts without running setup.exe. -Jason On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:24:50 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay

Re: Keeping cygwin updated on remote systems

2005-03-03 Thread Brian Dessent
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: Remote Desktop is not available on them. I can already use VNC tunneled through SSH to manually run setup.exe. What I really need is a way to update the files that have changed and run the install scripts without running setup.exe. You can google/search

Re: ctime: creation or change time? cannot set time error

2005-03-03 Thread Jacek Piskozub
The problem described in the following post to this mailing list earlier today sounds like it is caused by Cygwin's new treatment of ctime: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00165.html Since the CVS in question is a cygwin version, if this really is a problem with ctime then it seems

Re: cannot set time on FAT32 - after installing cygwin-1.5.13-1

2005-03-03 Thread Jacek Piskozub
After installing cygwin-1.5.13-1 I cannot build Mozilla anymore. During updating the mozilla tree using cvs I receive cannot set time errors. The updated files have (wrongly) the current time, instead of the expected original timestamp when they were checked into the cvs tree. That would not

New package: psmisc-21.5-1

2005-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have uploaded psmisc-21.5-1. The psmisc package contains utilities for managing processes on your system: pstree, killall and fuser. The pstree command displays a tree structure of all of the running processes on your system. The killall command sends a specified signal (SIGTERM if nothing is