In a message of Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:27:15 -0500 Received on Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:31:27 +0100
George Dinwiddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to: Chris Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >In spite of the fact that the Cygwin CVS client continues to function, the >root problem is apparently in the handling of named pipes within the >cygwin1.dll file. Running "cygcheck -s" on an installation of the latest >version of Cygwin includes the results: > 1111k 2004/09/05 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll > Cygwin DLL version info: > DLL version: 1.5.11 > DLL epoch: 19 > DLL bad signal mask: 19005 > DLL old termios: 5 > DLL malloc env: 28 > API major: 0 > API minor: 116 > Shared data: 4 > DLL identifier: cygwin1 > Mount registry: 2 > Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions > Cygwin registry name: Cygwin > Program options name: Program Options > Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 > Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags > Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix > Cygdrive default prefix: > Build date: Sat Sep 4 23:17:09 EDT 2004 > Shared id: cygwin1S4 > >I renamed cygwin1.dll to cygwin1.5.11.dll and copied the dll from another >machine (working under WinXP SP2). Now the "cygcheck -s" output includes: > 1100k 2004/03/19 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll > Cygwin DLL version info: > DLL version: 1.5.9 > DLL epoch: 19 > DLL bad signal mask: 19005 > DLL old termios: 5 > DLL malloc env: 28 > API major: 0 > API minor: 112 > Shared data: 4 > DLL identifier: cygwin1 > Mount registry: 2 > Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions > Cygwin registry name: Cygwin > Program options name: Program Options > Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 > Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags > Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix > Cygdrive default prefix: > Build date: Thu Mar 18 23:05:18 EST 2004 > Shared id: cygwin1S4 > >I do not know if this change of DLL will cause problems for other Cygwin >components, but it has allowed CvsNT (and derived clients WinCVS and >TortoiseCVS) and Eclipse CVS to operate. Interesting. On my Win98 box cvs also only works with 1.5.9. I've replaced the newer cygwin1.dll's with the 1.5.9 because of that. Maybe you want to post this to the Cygwin mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe). Check the archives at http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin Michael _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
