Re: doxygen details
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Ryunosuke Satoh wrote: I update doxygen-package. Uploaded.
Re: Nevermind (was: RE: Rob: Setup build Q)
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 16:27, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: make 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g' 'CXXFLAGS=-O0 -g' Yep. And configuring with that should work too. The Makefile sets warning flags, not optimisation levels or debug. It does that via AM_CFLAGS. Cheers, Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: setup feature request
Hi Max, just a final thought on the 'keep' sutff (maybe you've gone ahead and coded it already, so then you forget about this). This is on the question to put 'keep' in the spin control or a radio button. we had kris so maybe it makes more sense to add a 'keep' to this sequence, than kris to add a 'keep' radio button. Then there's a nice distinction: kris - radio buttons signify 'trust level' kris - default et al signify what you want to do. max I don't like it. Setup's clicky spin control things are not the easiest max thing to use. I would much prefer a radio button. I now think that putting 'keep' as a radio button on the same level as 'current' and 'experimental' is actually bad (sorry, I suggested it myself!). If you intreprete it as a trust level, you invalidate the 'install' setting of the spin control, as 'install' shouldn't do anything in that case. I think this is a serious source for confusion. By the way, an alternative to the spin control would be to have a drop-down list for every category, with the list of settings in there: upgrade to current versions upgrade to experimental versions keep remove (or uninstall) install current install experimental reinstall Less clicking, more familiar user interface, but more programming work I guess. All the best, Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http://www.irsl.org/~kris
Re: setup feature request
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Kris Thielemans wrote: KT just a final thought on the 'keep' sutff (maybe you've gone ahead and coded KT it already, so then you forget about this). This is on the question to put KT 'keep' in the spin control or a radio button. we had I coded it and sent a patch to this list a while ago, but Robert didn't like the radio button either. Don't worry about lost time, though, the patch was truly trivial (*1 line* of actual logic, and the rest was renaming the button from Prev to Keep) KT kris so maybe it makes more sense to add a 'keep' to this sequence, than KT kris to add a 'keep' radio button. Then there's a nice distinction: KT kris - radio buttons signify 'trust level' KT kris - default et al signify what you want to do. KT KT max I don't like it. Setup's clicky spin control things are not the easiest KT max thing to use. I would much prefer a radio button. KT KT I now think that putting 'keep' as a radio button on the same level as KT 'current' and 'experimental' is actually bad (sorry, I suggested it KT myself!). KT If you intreprete it as a trust level, you invalidate the 'install' setting KT of the spin control, as 'install' shouldn't do anything in that case. I KT think this is a serious source for confusion. I have a different opinion. First, note that the radio buttons don't act like radio buttons at all. When you click them, they alter the state of all the packages spin controls to meet the criteria of that button. I.e. they really should be action buttons, not radio buttons. With that in mind, Keep does fit with Curr and Exp. I agree that if the radio buttons actually acted like radio buttons, to modify a hypothetical AutoUpgrade action, then Keep does not fit so well with them. KT By the way, an alternative to the spin control would be to have a drop-down KT list for every category, with the list of settings in there: KT upgrade to current versions KT upgrade to experimental versions KT keep KT remove (or uninstall) KT install current KT install experimental KT reinstall KT KT Less clicking, more familiar user interface, but more programming work I KT guess. Ah yes. I've been secretly vowing that one day I would make drop-downs out of those spinny things since I first set eyes upon them. Max.
Re: doxygen details
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:58:29AM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Ryunosuke Satoh wrote: I update doxygen-package. Uploaded. Correct me if I'm wrong but was that two packages with the same name uploaded to sources.redhat.com? I don't think that's correct, if so. We shouldn't be offering the same package with different contents to users even if the changes to the package were minimal. We can let it go this time, but next time, please don't do that. cgf
Re: doxygen details
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but was that two packages with the same name uploaded to sources.redhat.com? I don't think that's correct, if so. We shouldn't be offering the same package with different contents to users even if the changes to the package were minimal. We can let it go this time, but next time, please don't do that. Sorry, I did wrong. I'll never do this again. I thought that since the announcement was not sent it is safe to upload under the same name.
Re: doxygen details
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:52:10PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but was that two packages with the same name uploaded to sources.redhat.com? I don't think that's correct, if so. We shouldn't be offering the same package with different contents to users even if the changes to the package were minimal. We can let it go this time, but next time, please don't do that. Sorry, I did wrong. I'll never do this again. I thought that since the announcement was not sent it is safe to upload under the same name. No big deal. I have done the same myself but I've always ended up thinking that it is best to be very rigorous about changing the -n number whenever there is a package change. cgf
Re: Cygwin - Apache https' fork problems!
When I try to run apache command with ssl configure in the httpd.conf file, I received the following error: [Mon Dec 2 16:26:26 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.24 (Cygwin) configured -- resuming normal operations [Mon Dec 2 16:26:26 2002] [notice] Accept mutex: pthread (Default: pthread) [Mon Dec 2 16:50:25 2002] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down fork: Resource temporarily unavailable httpd: unable to fork new process As you can see above, httpd server was running and I shut it down and then I restarted it with ssl info in the httpd.conf file! After experimenting with for a while, I discovered that when I just add the following line to the httpd.conf file, LoadModule ssl_module lib/apache/new/libssl.dll, I would still get this forking error. I initially installed apache apache_mod_ssl together and then I went back to re-install apache_mod_ssl using the following command: tar xjvf apache-mod_ssl-2.8.8-1.3.24-1.tar.bz2 from the instructions in file /usr/doc/Cygwin/mod_ssl-2.8.8-1.3.24-1.README. I was not able to perform the following commands in this document because I was not able to find the configure command? Maybe I am blind or screwed up here?: - cd mod_auth_ssl-X-Y ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs make cd pkg.sslmod mv libssl.so libssl.dll /usr/sbin/apxs -i -a -n ssl libssl.dll that configure is from mod_ssl's source tree. I'm not sure what the fork()ing problem may be causing. Can you instruct me how the problem can be reproduced?! Stipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Wapme Systems AG Vogelsanger Weg 80 40470 Düsseldorf Tel: +49-211-74845-0 Fax: +49-211-74845-299 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.wapme-systems.de --- wapme.net - wherever you are
setup.exe and HTTP Host header
I've discovered that in some cases I'm not getting the response that I expect from the HTTP request that setup.exe issues. I believe my particular case is probably a misconfiguration of the Apache server that hosts my website, but in any case I think it might make the setup.exe user experience a little better if, when generating the HTTP Host: header, that it shouldn't include the (optional) port parameter if it is the default port of 80. Here's an example of my problem... This is pretty much what setup.exe is sending: telnet abraham.backus.com 80 GET /setup.ini HTTP/1.0 Host: abraham.backus.com:80 ...spits back some default stuff from netidentity.com, the company that hosts my site... This is what works with the way the web server is configured: telnet abraham.backus.com 80 GET /setup.ini HTTP/1.0 Host: abraham.backus.com ...spits back the content of my setup.ini... I've attached a patch for nio-http.cc that should help setup.exe work through this problem. I haven't been able to unit test this fix as I can't seem to get setup.exe to build. This sounds familiar so I will of course search the archives for why I can't get it to build :) thanks! -Abe cygwin-setup.patch Description: Binary data
Installing LessTif breaks XFree86
Installing LessTif-0.93.18-3 creates a directory in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 named app-defaults. This overrides the symbolic link placed there by XFree86-lib post install pointing to /etc/X11. Amongst other things this breaks XCalc. Regards, Graham Bloice
Re: xkbcomp.exe segfaults
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Alexander Skwar wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Well, how is xkbcomp.exe called, so that it segfault? Does really nobody have an idea? There are some commandlines for xkbcomp in the archives. AFAIR the xkbcomp is called in a similar way from the server. try this one: xkbcomp -xkm -m de /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /tmp/de.xkm bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: Installing LessTif breaks XFree86
Graham Bloice wrote: Installing LessTif-0.93.18-3 creates a directory in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 named app-defaults. This overrides the symbolic link placed there by XFree86-lib post install pointing to /etc/X11. Amongst other things this breaks XCalc. So finally we got the culprit ;) which was already discussed in that thread: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-11/msg00200.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-11/msg00216.html -- DECODON GmbHphone: +49(0)3834 515231 W.-Rathenau-Str. 49a fax: +49(0)3834 515239 17489 Greifswaldemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany web: www.decodon.com
Re: xkbcomp.exe segfaults
So sprach Alexander Gottwald am 2002-12-02 um 14:29:24 +0100 : try this one: xkbcomp -xkm -m de /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /tmp/de.xkm Okay, it also segfaults. I've called it from a DOS cmd prompt like this: strace --output=c:\temp\2xkb-strace.txt c:\cygwin\etc\X11\xkb\xkbcomp.exe -xkm -m de /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /tmp/de4.xkm Please see the strace output at http://message-center.info/stuff/2xkb-strace.txt). /tmp/de4.xkm did not get created. xkbcomp also seg faults with STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION, when I call it from the Cygwin bash shell. Any further ideas about why xkbcomp segfaults? Thanks a lot, Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.biz |Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.biz - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 3 days 23 hours 6 minutes
Re: xkbcomp.exe segfaults
Alexander Skwar wrote: Please see the strace output at http://message-center.info/stuff/2xkb-strace.txt). /tmp/de4.xkm did not get created. xkbcomp also seg faults with STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION, when I call it from the Cygwin bash shell. I've took a look on the trace, but could not find anything that seemed to be the cause for the crash. The last action was close() on /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86, so I'd suggest installing all files in /etc/X11/xkb again. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc support in cygwin, take 3.
Hi! Monday, 02 December, 2002 egor duda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ed 2002-12-02 Egor Duda [EMAIL PROTECTED] ed * cygwin/lib/pseudo-reloc.c: New file. I guess i should put it to the public domain, so that mingw folks can also use it. Egor.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19 pseudo-reloc.c Description: Binary data
Re: --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc support in cygwin, take 3.
egor duda wrote: Hi! Monday, 02 December, 2002 egor duda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ed 2002-12-02 Egor Duda [EMAIL PROTECTED] ed * cygwin/lib/pseudo-reloc.c: New file. I guess i should put it to the public domain, so that mingw folks can also use it. Is it usable without Cygwin? Earnie.
Re: --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc support in cygwin, take 3.
Hi! Monday, 02 December, 2002 Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EB egor duda wrote: Monday, 02 December, 2002 egor duda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ed 2002-12-02 Egor Duda [EMAIL PROTECTED] ed * cygwin/lib/pseudo-reloc.c: New file. I guess i should put it to the public domain, so that mingw folks can also use it. EB Is it usable without Cygwin? Yes. It doesn't use any cygwin functionality. Recent binutils should export __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST__ and __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST_END__ symbols for all PE-based targets, including Mingw. I'm not that familiar with Mingw internals, but you just have to add a call to _pei386_runtime_relocator() to the application startup (to the crt2.o, IIRC) and link with pseudo-reloc.o. Egor.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
Re: --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc support in cygwin, take 3.
Hi! Monday, 02 December, 2002 Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EB egor duda wrote: Hi! Monday, 02 December, 2002 Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EB egor duda wrote: Monday, 02 December, 2002 egor duda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ed 2002-12-02 Egor Duda [EMAIL PROTECTED] ed * cygwin/lib/pseudo-reloc.c: New file. I guess i should put it to the public domain, so that mingw folks can also use it. EB Is it usable without Cygwin? Yes. It doesn't use any cygwin functionality. Recent binutils should export __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST__ and __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST_END__ symbols for all PE-based targets, including Mingw. I'm not that familiar with Mingw internals, but you just have to add a call to _pei386_runtime_relocator() to the application startup (to the crt2.o, IIRC) and link with pseudo-reloc.o. EB So, should this be a part of binutils instead of Cygwin? No. It's a part of runtime environment. It just uses some information binutils provide. Egor.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
Re: --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc support in cygwin, take 3.
Two issues: (1) the licensing problem, (2) the advisability of mingw pseudo-reloc. Item (1) here, item (2) in a separate message. CF I'm not sure that public domain is going to work with the cygwin license. ED IANAL, but i can't see why not. Here's why: in order for code to be incorporated into cygwin, copyright ownership -- not merely a license to use -- must be assigned to Red Hat. Red Hat then has the authority to release the code under whatever license it wants: totally proprietary non-GPL, if it wants to. Red Hat could even release that code under a license that says Everyone on the planet can freely use this code -- except for Egor Duda -- even though Egor Duda originally contributed the code. See, because you must assign *ownership* of the code to Red Hat, you no longer have ANY rights or priveleges with respect to that code. So, if it is to be included in Mingw, then *Red Hat* must explicitly release that part of the code under a public domain license, not you -- assuming it goes into cygwin first. OTOH, if you, Egor Duda, do NOT assign ownership to Red Hat, but instead release the code as public domain FIRST, then mingw is free to take it. Also, Red Hat is free to take it as well -- but they do not have ownership of the code; they simply are using it as they would any other public domain code. Which means Red Hat has the right to re-release it under their proprietary cygwin license and under the GPL. But, I am not sure how your (Egor's) pre-existing assignment form for continuing contributions affects this. Does the assignment kick in automatically, since this was developed against the cygwin source dist? So, IANAL, but it seems that the right way to do this is for you to release the code as public domain, and then for someone else -- cgf? -- to adapt it to the cygwin build system for assimilation. -- Chuck
Re: PATCH: Implementation of functions in netdb.h
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 02:28:41PM +1300, Craig McGeachie wrote: On 18 Nov 2002 at 20:24, Christopher Faylor wrote: The sources in the release need the *CVS* version of w32api. See? Problems already. Indeed. Problems. I'll see what I can do to get CVS read access. FYI, we've received your assignment. Looking forward to a patch against CVS sources. Btw, the copyright notice should only list the current year, 2002, for any new file. cgf
Re: --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc support in cygwin, take 3.
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:30:24PM +0300, egor duda wrote: 2002-12-02 Egor Duda [EMAIL PROTECTED] * cygwin/lib/pseudo-reloc.c: New file. * cygwin/cygwin.sc: Add symbols to handle runtime pseudo-relocs. * cygwin/lib/_cygwin_crt0_common.cc: Perform pseudo-relocs during initialization of cygwin binary (.exe or .dll). I'm rapidly approaching the I-don't-care-anymore state for this but I am not clear on why we need to add the changes to cygwin.sc. This is for people who want to link the cygwin DLL without using the appropriate header files which label things as __declspec(dllexport) or using the appropriate libcygwin.a, right? Why should that matter? cgf
Re: --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc support in cygwin, take 3.
ed Question: How can one distinguish console application from GUI one?
ed What is the best wording for the error message?
Here's an example. If GetConsoleWindow is available (W2K or XP) it uses
that; otherwise, it uses a different kludge.
The idea is you'd call has_console() or
GetConsoleWindow()/GetConsoleWindow2() only once, and your app would
cache the result. However, since Egor's use would be to display/print
an error message and die, I don't suppose that matters much...
works as expected in all these cases:
gcc -o has_console.exe has_console.c
gcc -mwindows -o has_console.exe has_console.c
gcc -mno-cygwin -o has_console.exe has_console.c
gcc -mno-cygwin -mwindows -o has_console.exe has_console.c
Note that all that matters is how the app was *compiled*. If you happen
to run an app that was compiled with -mwindows by typing its name in a
bash shell, it still thinks its a GUI app, and uses MessageBox to
display the error message.
If you want it to detect how it was called (e.g. exec'ed by an
interactive bash shell, or clicked in Windows Explorer) then you've got
to use a different solution.
--Chuck
#include stdio.h
#include math.h
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500
#include windows.h
int has_console(void);
HWND GetConsoleWindow2(void);
int main (int argc, char * argv[]) {
int console = -1;
console = has_console();
if (console) {
printf(This is a console application);
} else {
MessageBox(NULL, This is a GUI application,
MessageBox, MB_ICONSTOP);
}
return ( 0 );
}
int has_console(void) {
int retval = -1;
int get_console_window_avail;
/* poor man's wincap */
OSVERSIONINFO version;
memset (version, 0, sizeof version);
version.dwOSVersionInfoSize = sizeof version;
GetVersionEx (version);
get_console_window_avail = 0;
if (version.dwPlatformId == VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT) {
if (version.dwMajorVersion == 5) { // w2k or wxp
get_console_window_avail = 1;
}
}
get_console_window_avail = 0;
if (get_console_window_avail) {
if (GetConsoleWindow() == NULL) {
retval = 0;
} else {
retval = 1;
}
} else {
if (GetConsoleWindow2() == NULL) {
retval = 0;
} else {
retval = 1;
}
}
return ( retval );
}
HWND GetConsoleWindow2(void) {
char *letdig = ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789;
char consoleTitle[1024];
char testTitle[1024];
char randTitle[25];
HWND retval;
double a, b;
int index;
int n;
if (! GetConsoleTitle(consoleTitle, 1023))
return NULL;
for (n=0; n 20; n++) {
a = (((double) rand()) / (((double) RAND_MAX)+1)); // 0 = a 1
index = (int) floor(36.0 * a); // 0 = index = 35
randTitle[n] = letdig[index];
}
randTitle[20] = '\0';
// Temporarily change the title of this console to something unique
if (! SetConsoleTitle( randTitle ))
return NULL;
while( 1 ) {
// wait until the console title has really changed
if (! GetConsoleTitle(testTitle, 1023)) {
SetConsoleTitle(consoleTitle); // try to clean up
return NULL;
}
if (strncmp(randTitle, testTitle, 1023) == 0)
break;
Sleep(50); // use Win32 Sleep() to wait 50ms
}
retval = FindWindow (0, randTitle);
SetConsoleTitle( consoleTitle );
return retval;
}
max user processes
hi, Can I recompile or rebuild the cygwin source so that I can set the maximum process per user id to 500? If yes, how? Which is the source that I should change? Hope that you can help out. Thanks in advance. Regards, Lee __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygwin official logo ?
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:32:46PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: If there is going to be an animal mascot for cygwin it should be an otter. That's ok with me but my intend is to find a neat animal (there are lots of them besides otters and koalas) which isn't already on an O'Reilley book. I thought koalas aren't. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: max user processes
Hi! Monday, 02 December, 2002 Lee Tuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LT Can I recompile or rebuild the cygwin source so that I LT can set the maximum process per user id to 500? If LT yes, how? Which is the source that I should change? LT Hope that you can help out. If you want it, you'll have to implement it yourself, i.e. you have to modify cygwin sources to support such feature. I suppose it might be tricky, so i suspect nobody can point you a file which can be easily changed to add such functionality. I should warn you, however, that if your goal is to prevent malicious user from eating up system resources, then your restriction won't help. User can always start more processes using native syscalls (CreateProcess()), which cygwin cannot control. Egor.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygwin's autoconf?
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 11:36, Soren A wrote: At the very LEAST, something that does what AM_MAINTAINER_MODE causes, should have been the *default* for all autotool'd packages, and only by significant contortions should it have been made possible to cause all that default behavior to get activated. But instead it's the other way around, and users are at the mercy of package maintainers' ignorance or awareness of the importance of (at the very MINIMUM) placing AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in their configuration file. Soren, please don't rant on the wrong list. Firstly, few people here are autotool gurus, and thus your erroneous statements may go uncorrected (see below for the correction). Secondly, this is a CYGWIN list, not a autotool design philosophy list. Now, for the problem reported the root problem here is *NOT* autotools brokenness. It's CVS being broken (unless I'm seriously mistaken). The autotools very carefully set datestamps on the files that depend on each to ensure they don't rebuild automatically on user machines. CVS records the files as all having the datestamp of the commit AFAIK... I've seen this behaviour before. There are three solutions, none of which need AM_MAINTAINER_MODE. 1) Commit the generated files into CVS in date order, to preserve the semantics of the dependency graph. 2) Give the *users* tarballs to download, generated via 'make dist' which enforces the date stamps as well. 3) Remove all the autotool generated files from CVS, tell developers or hacking-users to bootstrap their CVS based copy, and all other users to get a nightly snapshot (created via make dist). (Best of all options, IMO). AM_MAINTAINER_MODE is dangerous because it can easily lead to dependency problems when a user patches some autotool file, and then doesn't run the appropriate autotool to update. So, avoid AM_MAINTAINER_MODE whenever possible. 'Nuff said, getting off the shoebox now. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
VNC/ssh connection freezes, so does PC
Hello, I'm using TightVNC1.2.2 on WinME to connect to a TightVNC server on a remote sunbox via cygwin's OpenSSH_3.5p1 (on both sun and WinME). It works for anywhere from 10 minutes to about 2 hours, then everything freezes. The computer is totally unresponsive. I can bring up the task manager, but can't tab through the fields and buttons. Often, not even the 3-finger salute works. The cygwin version is DLL version 1.3.15, Dll epoch 19. I am going through Sympatico's highspeed ADSL. I also have ZoneAlarm 3.1.395, Norton AV 2001, and Trojan Hunter Guard. Nothing else is running at the time of the crash. It also happens when the laptop is directly connected to the school LAN (no ADSL). I suspect it's ssh because it only started some time in the last week or so. Our ssh service (on the sun boxes) was itself undergoing some overhaul until about a week ago. Because the timing of the crash is unpredictable, this is hard to verify. Has anyone else experienced this problem? I realize that WinME is the worst possible OS, and I will soon spend the time to install something else, but I used this method of connection for almost a year without this problem. Thanks for any feedback. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
FAQ now misleads about cygcheck output
On Sunday 1 Dec 02, Jason C. Johnston writes: For the Cygwin FAQ maintainer: Quoted from the FAQ under Posting Guidelines -- Details about your Cygwin setup, accomplished by pasting the output of 'cygcheck -s -v -r' into your message. (Do not send the output as a file attachment.) Right. Sorry, I'll fix that. Recent discussion suggests the advice is now obsolete. It may also be an idea to state that the now-desirable attachment should not be compressed. Thanks, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Question about Cygwin license
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:22:01PM -, Chris January wrote: Can standard GPL v2 code be included in Cygwin? No. It's incompatible with the Cygwin license. What if I look at how that code does something and then write my own implementation? What if the two implementations are very similar? In theory, by looking into the sources you are tainted. What if I tell someone else on the mailing list how to do it? Shouldn't be a problem. If that person then writes it's own implementation, it's ok. A howto isn't code. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Problem with CYGWISH
Dear all, I'm using the latest cygwin release on a windows 2000 system. After having started cygwish and typing tk_getOpenFile, I get a response that an internal win32 error occured - of type CDERR_INITIALIZATION. Searching the net for any reasons didn't show any results yet. And Microsofts documentation only mentions, that this error usually occurs when there are problems with the memory resources. (very helpful! - especially the usual - and no concrete description on the meaning of this error message). So I doubled the memory from 128 to 256 MByte - without any result. So - is there anybody out there who had the same problem with CYGWISH and who knows a solution? Best regards -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
defaults
Hi all. This has been at the back of my mind for awhile now since having to do something for /etc/profile.default. What I'm thinking of is a directory structure containing default files and a script which, if the original of the default file doesn't exist, copies it. I'm specifically thinking of: /etc/apache.new/access.conf.default /etc/apache.new/httpd.conf.default /etc/apache.new/magic.default /etc/apache.new/mime.types.default /etc/apache.new/srm.conf.default /etc/bash.bashrc.default /etc/enscript.cfg.default /etc/exim.conf.default /etc/mime.conf.default /etc/profile.default /etc/skel/[initial user files here] /etc/squid.conf.default I think creating... /etc/defaults/etc/apache/access.conf /etc/defaults/etc/apache/httpd.conf /etc/defaults/etc/apache/magic /etc/defaults/etc/apache/mime.types /etc/defaults/etc/apache/srm.conf /etc/defaults/etc/bash.bashrc /etc/defaults/etc/enscript.cfg /etc/defaults/etc/exim.conf /etc/defaults/etc/mime.conf /etc/defaults/etc/profile /etc/defaults/etc/skel/[initial user files here] /etc/defaults/etc/squid.conf and the script... #!/bin/bash cd /etc/defaults for f in `find . -type f`; do fDest = `echo $f | sed 's/^\.//g'` echo $f $fDest if [ ! -f $fDest ]; then echo Using the default version of $fDest cp $f $fDest else echo $fDest is already in existance, not overwriting. fi done There are however, a few problems which need to be overcome. The first is that this script, although best as a postinstall, would have be executed _after every install_. The other would be to get people to use it ;) Well, that's my mental thoughts on paper(?!). Any comments? would it be worth doing? J. --LongSig It's so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the Devil when he is the only explanation of it. === Information in this email and any attachments are confidential, and may not be copied or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor disclosed to any third party without our permission. There is no intention to create any legally binding contract or other commitment through the use of this email. Experian Limited (registration number 653331). Registered office: Talbot House, Talbot Street, Nottingham NG1 5HF -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Doxygen-1.2.18-1
Doxygen 1.2.18-1 is now available. HP: http://www.doxygen.org Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, IDL (Corba, Microsoft, and KDE-DCOP flavors) and to some extent PHP and C#. See http://www.doxygen.org/manual.html for more information. Ryunosuke Satoh mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin doxygen maintainer *** INFORMATION ON UPDATING CYGWIN *** 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 setup and answer all of the questions. In the US, ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ is a reliable high bandwidth connection. In Germany, ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus/ is usually pretty good. In the UK, http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/ is usually up-to-date within 48 hours. If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package then you can either wait for the site to be updated or find another mirror. The setup.exe program will figure out what needs to be updated on your system and will install newer packages automatically. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general. If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have trouble, please use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ml/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygwin official logo ?
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:32:46PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: If there is going to be an animal mascot for cygwin it should be an otter. That's ok with me but my intend is to find a neat animal (there are lots of them besides otters and koalas) which isn't already on an O'Reilley book. I thought koalas aren't. How about a jackalope :) Corinna -- Peter A. Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cats are just autistic Dogs -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygwin official logo ?
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:55:37AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:32:46PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: If there is going to be an animal mascot for cygwin it should be an otter. That's ok with me but my intend is to find a neat animal (there are lots of them besides otters and koalas) which isn't already on an O'Reilley book. I thought koalas aren't. I don't know what O'Reilley has to do with anything. We can use whatever we want. Ya know, I don't recall anyone saying Oh no, Linus, a penguin is a bad idea! when he said he liked penguins... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: defaults
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:56:03PM -, Morrison, John wrote: The first is that this script, although best as a postinstall, would have be executed _after every install_. The other would be to get people to use it ;) Well, that's my mental thoughts on paper(?!). Any comments? would it be worth doing? Here's how _update-info-dir does it: sdesc: Generate info/dir file automatically category: _PostInstallLast requires: texinfo ash autodep: usr/info/.* incver_ifdep: yes You'd probably want something like: sdesc: Conditionally move default files to proper location category: _PostInstallLast requires: ash autodep: etc/defaults/.* incver_ifdep: yes This would run automatically whenever packages are downloaded and installed in one shot. It wouldn't run if someone downloads everything and then installs piecemeal, though. The script to move the files would be the only thing in the package and it would be a post-install script. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygwin official logo ?
Corinna Vinschen wrote: That's ok with me but my intend is to find a neat animal (there are lots of them besides otters and koalas) What about a stitch? In the movie they say it looks like a koala and I'm sure O'Reilly didn't use it on their books. :) Jehan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
When will we see chkconfig and xinetd?
Sergei? thanks in advance. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygwin official logo ?
Christopher Faylor wrote: Please grant me this one conceit. Linus likes penguins. I like otters. If there is going to be an animal mascot for cygwin it should be an otter. Bummer, I was going to suggest a baby swan (i.e., a cygnet). So, will it be a river otter or a sea otter? -Jerry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package: rxvt-2.7.9-2
Hi, rxvt is a terminal program that can be used instead of the windows command shell. It does not require an X server. This release fixes some multibyte character issues and is built with --enable-languages, thanks to a series of patches from Cole Lin. It also re-enables xpm support, thanks to a heads-up from Frank-Michael. -steve -Installation Instructions- 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 setup and answer all of the questions. 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 setup and answer all of the questions. Note that we do not allow downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update. In the US, ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ is a reliable high bandwidth connection. In Germany, ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus/ is usually pretty good. In the UK, http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/ is usually up-to-date within 48 hours. If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package then you can either wait for the site to be updated or find another mirror. If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. I implore you to READ this information before sending email about how you tried everything to unsubscribe. In 100% of the cases where people were unable to unsubscribe, the problem was that they hadn't actually read and comprehended the unsubscribe instructions. If you need to unsubscribe from cygwin-announce or any other mailing list, reading the instructions at the above URL is guaranteed to provide you with the info that you need. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygwin official logo ?
Jehan wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: That's ok with me but my intend is to find a neat animal (there are lots of them besides otters and koalas) What about a stitch? In the movie they say it looks like a koala and I'm sure O'Reilly didn't use it on their books. :) Yeah, that's a good idea. Let's infringe on a Disney copyright. They don't usually mind that sort of thing, do they? Geez, what's wrong with otters? It doesn't matter if O'Reilly has used various otters on a collection of [Java|HTML|???] books -- as long as we're not copying THEIR otter design. (Because they've used it on books covering a range of subjects, there's no brand identity like camel == Perl) Besides, give O'Reilly another few years, and they will run out of mammals and start using insects...or plants. The only company that uses an animal mascot, and that believes that ONLY they are allowed to use ANY representation of that species as a mascot regardless of similarity to their own version, is...oh yeah, Disney... What was that about 'stitch'? Otters are cute and playful, and surely cgf deserves a say in this given his steerage of the project. Should he start talking about sprinking holy otter pee on the codebase prior to each kernel release, like Linus does, just to push otters into the zeitgeist? (mebbe not. otter pee doesn't have quite the same alliterative punch as penguin pee) 'Course, it's all moot until somebody with artistic talent (e.g. not me) actually draws something... P.S. anybody remember the oil-slicked otter that Berke Breathed drew in Bloom County? He was a spokesman for Exxon after the Valdez incident in the 80's...shunned as a sell-out by the other members of the cast... -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
¿ QUIERES GANAR DINERO POR INTERNET ??
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Re: cygwin official logo ?
Don't even think about it. It's under Disney copyright, and the word agressive doesn't come close to describing how Disney protects their copyrights. - Barry -Original Message- From: Jehan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:35 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cygwin official logo ? Corinna Vinschen wrote: That's ok with me but my intend is to find a neat animal (there are lots of them besides otters and koalas) What about a stitch? In the movie they say it looks like a koala and I'm sure O'Reilly didn't use it on their books. :) Jehan __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
PostgreSQL 7.3 Package for Cygwin
Does anyone have a PostgreSQL 7.3 binary package for Cygwin? PostgreSQL version 7.3 was just recently released. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2002-11/msg4.php -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
There seems to be a long running defect in the implementation of ls.exe. It shows windows system hidden files - which it shouldn't do by default. On Unix systems files are hidden by placing a period in front of the filename (ie, .profile), but in the windows world files are not routinely hidden this way but are more commonly hidden by setting the hidden attribute on the file. Shouldn't ls.exe honor the file system attribute and not show the hidden windows files? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: When will we see chkconfig and xinetd?
The packages are being reviewed. If you need the packages ASAP, you'll find them at http://users.rcn.com/sokhapkin/release/ -Original Message- From: Jim Drash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: When will we see chkconfig and xinetd? Sergei? thanks in advance. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygwin official logo ?
Charles Wilson wrote: Yeah, that's a good idea. Let's infringe on a Disney copyright. They don't usually mind that sort of thing, do they? [...] What was that about 'stitch'? Sorry, sorry, I was just kidding. I always found the girl in the movie had a funny of saying I think it's a koala. Seeing the word here just reminded me of it. Maybe I should have use a ;) instead of :). Otherwise, I have nothing against the otters. Actually I find the koala a little too lazy to be a good mascoot (but Stitch isn't by the way... no, please, don't hit me me, I was kidding again). If anyone wants my opinion, I would select an animal that has a meaning to cygwin more than its cuteness, like Gerald's cygnet, or the enigneer's mascott the beaver. Otters are fine there too since they do use tools (for those who don't know, they use rocke as a hammer with their belly as an anvil and shells in between) Jehan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
Wendell Pinegar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a long running defect in the implementation of ls.exe. It shows windows system hidden files - which it shouldn't do by default. On Unix systems files are hidden by placing a period in front of the filename (ie, .profile), but in the windows world files are not routinely hidden this way but are more commonly hidden by setting the hidden attribute on the file. Shouldn't ls.exe honor the file system attribute and not show the hidden windows files? It it really a big deal? Worth patching fileutils to make special allowance for? There is no unixy analogue, so Cygwin can't help here. Personally, I don't see the point of patching fileutils to do this - but that's just an opinion. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package: rxvt-2.7.9-2
Shift-KP- and Shift-KP+ no longer change the font size in Windows mode. The hotkeys work fine in X-Window mode. -Original Message- From: Steve O [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package: rxvt-2.7.9-2 Hi, rxvt is a terminal program that can be used instead of the windows command shell. It does not require an X server. This release fixes some multibyte character issues and is built with --enable-languages, thanks to a series of patches from Cole Lin. It also re-enables xpm support, thanks to a heads-up from Frank-Michael. -steve -Installation Instructions- 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 setup and answer all of the questions. 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 setup and answer all of the questions. Note that we do not allow downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update. In the US, ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ is a reliable high bandwidth connection. In Germany, ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus/ is usually pretty good. In the UK, http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/ is usually up-to-date within 48 hours. If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package then you can either wait for the site to be updated or find another mirror. If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. I implore you to READ this information before sending email about how you tried everything to unsubscribe. In 100% of the cases where people were unable to unsubscribe, the problem was that they hadn't actually read and comprehended the unsubscribe instructions. If you need to unsubscribe from cygwin-announce or any other mailing list, reading the instructions at the above URL is guaranteed to provide you with the info that you need. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
Wendell, That is at the very best a matter of opinion and I don't think your opinion is widely shared. In particular, the mixing of file system models in the ls source code that would be required to implement your suggestion would render ls a horse of a different color and would set a poor precedent for Cygwin tool source code where the bar is fairly high for emplacing Cygwin-specific code. If you examine the ls source, you'll find it blissfully free of Cygwin-specific featuring. The Windows hidden attribute has no direct counterpart in Unix / POSIX file systems, and hence cannot readily be reflected in the file information structures (see stat(2)--use one of the on-line POSIX manual resources) used by Unix file systems. Modifying the name to have a leading period would be a ghastly thing to do. Basically, what you suggest is not really feasible and you'll have to learn to live with this defect. Randall Schulz Mountain Veiw, CA USA At 09:01 2002-12-02, Wendell Pinegar wrote: There seems to be a long running defect in the implementation of ls.exe. It shows windows system hidden files - which it shouldn't do by default. On Unix systems files are hidden by placing a period in front of the filename (ie, .profile), but in the windows world files are not routinely hidden this way but are more commonly hidden by setting the hidden attribute on the file. Shouldn't ls.exe honor the file system attribute and not show the hidden windows files? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
How to make setup.exe download everything?
I recently tried to use setup.exe to download everything from the latest Cygwin release, but setup.exe only lets me download packages that are not already installed. I need to download everything so I can instal Cygwin on a non-networked machine, can anyone tell me how to use setup.exe to download packages that I already have installed? -- Francis Litterio [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://world.std.com/~franl/ GPG and PGP public keys available on keyservers. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: how to be superuser on W98 ?
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Don Sharp wrote: joel fernandez wrote: Thank you for your help, But I read this doc before sending the mail, and I don't understand why I can't have root permissions. Don't fret. It isn't the lack of root permissions that is hiding /usr/bin and /usr/lib. It's the fact that they are virtual directories, a figment of the Cygwin imagination. /dev is also a virtual directory. FYI, nothing in Cygwin prevents one from creating *actual* directories for /dev, /proc, /usr/bin and /usr/lib. This way they will show up in the directory listing of '/'. Igor If you type $ mount G:\\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) G:\\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) c:\tmp on /tmp type system (binmode) G: on / type system (binmode) It shows the existence of /usr/bin and /usr/lib but the mount points don't have to be real directories. HTH Don Sharp Even though I know that W98 has problem with security. the result of ls / is : bin cygwin.bat cygwin.ico etc home lib sbin tmp usr var and ls /usr writes : X11R6doci686-pc-mingw32 info man share ssl var autotool i686-pc-cygwin include local sbin src tmp thanks bye jo -- Initial Header --- From : Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date : Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:19:30 + Subject : Re: how to be superuser on W98 ? Hi, Because there is a lack of a security model in win9x (95,98,Me) the user logged in is effectively the su (superuser). If im understanding you correctly, you mean you cant see /usr/lib when you ls / (???) Can you see usr? Take a look at the manual, this will give you more info on this topic and is also a good source of you have problems: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html (manual) http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html#OV-HI-WIN9XNT Elfyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Could somebody help me be THE superuser on my computer based on W98 ? the only line I have in /etc/passwd is : fernandez::500:544::/home/fernandez:/bin/bash and in /etc/group : unknown::544: So, I can access, for example, to /usr/lib, but I can't see this directory when I launch ls / Which means I only have user permissions. Thanks for aswering and sorry for the noise, if you think it is. bye jo -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Water molecules expand as they grow warmer (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: PostgreSQL 7.3 Package for Cygwin
Daniel, On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:37:15AM -0500, Daniel Morgan wrote: Does anyone have a PostgreSQL 7.3 binary package for Cygwin? PostgreSQL version 7.3 was just recently released. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2002-11/msg4.php Thanks for the heads up. I will release a Cygwin PostgreSQL 7.3 at my earliest convenience. Sorry, no ETA. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: FAQ now misleads about cygcheck output
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Jason C. Johnston wrote: For the Cygwin FAQ maintainer: Quoted from the FAQ under Posting Guidelines -- Details about your Cygwin setup, accomplished by pasting the output of 'cygcheck -s -v -r' into your message. (Do not send the output as a file attachment.) Recent discussion suggests the advice is now obsolete. It may also be an idea to state that the now-desirable attachment should not be compressed. FYI Jason C. Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] I submitted a patch for this a while ago, but it didn't seem to make it into the FAQ... Any news on that? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Water molecules expand as they grow warmer (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to make setup.exe download everything?
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:02:03 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If what you mean is to download *all* of the cygwin release you can do that using the cygwin installer (http://cygwin.com/setup.exe) option `Download From Internet' and set your download directory to wherever on the windows filesystem you want to store the downloaded release. Just click through the skip's in the package selector on all of the packages. If your doing this to put on data medium, e.g. CD-ROM's, the directory structure setup.exe creates (url encoded mirror urls) aren't compatible with JOILET standard. Im my situation dealing with standalone machines I just archive the directory containing the release and burn it to a cdr. I'd suggest creating a directory to hold release/, setup.exe, and setup.ini. Sometimes setup.exe doesn't react well to looking in x:\ directly. It is also useful to have setup.exe and setup.ini in your base directory. Original Message: - From: Francis Litterio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:08:21 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to make setup.exe download everything? I recently tried to use setup.exe to download everything from the latest Cygwin release, but setup.exe only lets me download packages that are not already installed. I need to download everything so I can instal Cygwin on a non-networked machine, can anyone tell me how to use setup.exe to download packages that I already have installed? -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
In our instance the reason this an issue is that we call the ls.exe utility from PHP web code and have found that Windows XP is creating system hidden files in some of our subdirectories (usually the XP auto-created thumbnail databases). We have also found other ls.exe implementations that do properly ignore hidden files. The MKS Toolkit for instance does properly ignore these file types. It just seems odd that ls.exe shows files that would not be listed with standard command line dir. I agree that the proper way to implement this in cygwin would be to hide system hidden files by default and have a switch to allow ls.exe to show these files if requested (like ls --show-hidden-files and ls --show-system-files). -Original Message- From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:29 AM To: Wendell Pinegar; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files Wendell Pinegar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a long running defect in the implementation of ls.exe. It shows windows system hidden files - which it shouldn't do by default. On Unix systems files are hidden by placing a period in front of the filename (ie, .profile), but in the windows world files are not routinely hidden this way but are more commonly hidden by setting the hidden attribute on the file. Shouldn't ls.exe honor the file system attribute and not show the hidden windows files? It it really a big deal? Worth patching fileutils to make special allowance for? There is no unixy analogue, so Cygwin can't help here. Personally, I don't see the point of patching fileutils to do this - but that's just an opinion. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
Hi, Perhaps a utility analogous to getfacl and setfacl for Windows-specific file system properties is in order. If done properly, it could be used by those few who need to restrict output of other commands w.r.t. to Windows properties not otherwise accessible in Cygwin. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 13:09 2002-12-02, Wendell Pinegar wrote: In our instance the reason this an issue is that we call the ls.exe utility from PHP web code and have found that Windows XP is creating system hidden files in some of our subdirectories (usually the XP auto-created thumbnail databases). We have also found other ls.exe implementations that do properly ignore hidden files. The MKS Toolkit for instance does properly ignore these file types. It just seems odd that ls.exe shows files that would not be listed with standard command line dir. I agree that the proper way to implement this in cygwin would be to hide system hidden files by default and have a switch to allow ls.exe to show these files if requested (like ls --show-hidden-files and ls --show-system-files). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
Hi, Try to remember that cygwin is a unix emulation layer for windows that tries to emulate unix in as many respects as possible. To change the ls source to accomadate for something windows uses to hide files, sometimes unknown from its users, would not be unix like. But saying that if your requirement is to have such an ls facility, that you must have, you could of course edit the source files to add your `windows' style hiding of files. As you mentioned it is used from php so why not check whether or not skip files in your script. Elfyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message: - From: Wendell Pinegar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:09:02 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files In our instance the reason this an issue is that we call the ls.exe utility from PHP web code and have found that Windows XP is creating system hidden files in some of our subdirectories (usually the XP auto-created thumbnail databases). We have also found other ls.exe implementations that do properly ignore hidden files. The MKS Toolkit for instance does properly ignore these file types. FYI the MKS toolkit is designed for windows and not a posix system, And thus will support these windows features. In order to do this in cygwin changes would have to be made to stat to detect these files. It just seems odd that ls.exe shows files that would not be listed with standard command line dir. The dir command is built-into windows shells. Again follows the hiding rules. I agree that the proper way to implement this in cygwin would be to hide system hidden files by default and have a switch to allow ls.exe to show these files if requested (like ls --show-hidden-files and ls --show-system-files). -Original Message- From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:29 AM To: Wendell Pinegar; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files Wendell Pinegar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a long running defect in the implementation of ls.exe. It shows windows system hidden files - which it shouldn't do by default. On Unix systems files are hidden by placing a period in front of the filename (ie, .profile), but in the windows world files are not routinely hidden this way but are more commonly hidden by setting the hidden attribute on the file. Shouldn't ls.exe honor the file system attribute and not show the hidden windows files? It it really a big deal? Worth patching fileutils to make special allowance for? There is no unixy analogue, so Cygwin can't help here. Personally, I don't see the point of patching fileutils to do this - but that's just an opinion. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'
...
CW function pdfv () {
CW cygstart /d/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ 5.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe
CW \`cygpath -w -a $1`\
CW }
I get the same Dr. Watson when I try the above. I agree, I don't
think it's cygstart, but it feels like there is a race condition or
mutex issue exposed when I directly invoke acrord32 (with or without
cygstart) vs. when I invoke IE and have IE invoke acrord32.
: $ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 US1-ASRINIVASAN 1.3.17(0.67/3/2) 2002-11-27 18:54 i686 unknown
W2K, Acroread 5.0.5 9/24/2001
-andre.
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Re: cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'
BB What happens using plain start (C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\start.exe)? I can't seem to find start.exe on my W2K box. -andre. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Try to remember that cygwin is a unix emulation layer for windows that tries to emulate unix in as many respects as possible. To change the ls source to accomadate for something windows uses to hide files, sometimes unknown from its users, would not be unix like. Personally I like the idea. It could be implemented as yet another option that the user could choose to use but would be off by default. After all ps has the -W option which is distinctly Windows only, no? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:39:58PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Perhaps a utility analogous to getfacl and setfacl for Windows-specific file system properties is in order. If done properly, it could be used by those few who need to restrict output of other commands w.r.t. to Windows properties not otherwise accessible in Cygwin. What's wrong with an 'attrib' wrapper using cygpath? That's not much work at all. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
Chris, I suppose that would be an adequate basis for constructing something with the effect I imagined. Realistically, if I cared about being able to do this, I'd probably wrap the Windows attrib command in a script that would allow it to accept Cygwin's POSIX paths and to allow it to act like find with a hypothetical --attrib option. In other words, to list only those files bearing a particular attribute pattern. Fortunately, I've never had to care about this and the Windows attrib command is barely in my working vocabulary, which is no doubt why I didn't think of it instead of suggesting a new tool. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 17:13 2002-12-02, you wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:39:58PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Perhaps a utility analogous to getfacl and setfacl for Windows-specific file system properties is in order. If done properly, it could be used by those few who need to restrict output of other commands w.r.t. to Windows properties not otherwise accessible in Cygwin. What's wrong with an 'attrib' wrapper using cygpath? That's not much work at all. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
Andrew, Cygwin uses stock ls source code. Cygwin's ps is entirely it's own--it's all distinctly Cygwin. I still think an orthogonal approach is what's called for here. Otherwise, the number of commands that could reasonably be expected to have this sort of functionality would be much to large to each be so modified. As Chris F. just suggested, something based on the Windows-supplied attrib command would fit the bill. Randall Schulz Mountain View At 17:07 2002-12-02, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Try to remember that cygwin is a unix emulation layer for windows that tries to emulate unix in as many respects as possible. To change the ls source to accomadate for something windows uses to hide files, sometimes unknown from its users, would not be unix like. Personally I like the idea. It could be implemented as yet another option that the user could choose to use but would be off by default. After all ps has the -W option which is distinctly Windows only, no? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygwin's autoconf?
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in 1038820917.2953.13.camel@lifelesswks:">news:1038820917.2953.13.camel@lifelesswks: On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 11:36, Soren A wrote: At the very LEAST, something that does what AM_MAINTAINER_MODE causes, should have been the *default* for all autotool'd packages, and only by significant contortions should it have been made possible to cause all that default behavior to get activated. But instead it's the other way around, and users are at the mercy of package maintainers' ignorance or awareness of the importance of (at the very MINIMUM) placing AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in their configuration file. Soren, please don't rant on the wrong list. Firstly, few people here are autotool gurus, and thus your erroneous statements may go uncorrected (see below for the correction). Secondly, this is a CYGWIN list, not a autotool design philosophy list. I think I shall keep my own counsel WRT to what to post, and where ;-). AM_MAINTAINER_MODE is dangerous because it can easily lead to dependency problems when a user patches some autotool file, and then doesn't run the appropriate autotool to update. So, avoid AM_MAINTAINER_MODE whenever possible. You are an Autotools guru, Robert. Based on my past surveys of the Autoconf List archives, I have the impression that you may have contributed more code to Autoconf chums (?) than anyone else in Cygwin. The trouble with Autotools is that more so than any software I have ever encountered, it seems historically (at least up until now) to *demand* that the *user* become a *guru* in order to use it reliably (ESPECIALLY on Cygwin, which is why this disc. is not OT for this List). So the distinction we might make in debate like this, between users and gurus, is a bit articifial or at least problematical and debateable. Nonetheless I have to start by pointing out: what the HECK is a user doing patching some Autotool file?!? This big issue affects everyone who uses packages which their creator has build-configured with GNU Autotools. That means base Cygwin itself here, and probably the majority of other official Cygwin packages maintained by the various package maintainers. It means that anyone who who wants for some reason (figuring out how to fix a bug they've encountered, just improving performance somehow, whatever) build from source is affected. So I AM going to use a little bandwidth to delve into some aspects. The point about users is this: the theory WAS that a user (one who builds the package from source code for installation to their own system, but _that's all_) wouldn't even have to HAVE the intermediate Autotools files for that package. Just the sources themselves (a given) and a configure and a Makefile.in (and also maybe a config.h.in, depending). As soon as you start talking about users needing to work with intermediate (input) Autotools files (some are: Makefile.am, configure.in|ac, config_h.in|ac), you are already talking about somebody who isn't a user anymore. With the majority of the packages I have messed around with, that were not already ported and part of Cygwin distros (and some that were), I have had to leave the ranks of the users category and join the ranks of the hackers-of-build-conf in order to succeed. I think that this has been so common an experience for so many people that we forget that the line between user and hacker ever existed, or why. I assert that this is wrong and needs to be corrected. If the theory was that the user doesn't need to have the Autoconf files, then how does it look when the user runs ./configure and what gets output is a Makefile that requires *Autotools intermediate files* as prerequisites to build package targets?!? I'll tell you what it looks like: BROKEN-NESS. _It is broken_. If that isn't broken then your definition of broken and any common-sense one are very much at odds. Before it looks like I am not addressing your point: if you are distributing a patch (say it is probably a unified diff format) that modifies Autotools files (and maybe a bunch of others), then I have to wonder why. OK, so your answer is that something in those Autotools build files is in need of correction. So that the build configuration for the package can be updated (fixed). So the category of persons who is *receiving* your patch is ... WHO? NOT users, but hackers. By definition. So by definition a hacker[-on-the-build-config] is someone who either has the *full competence and knowledgeability* to be hacking on the build configuration files, or they are not qualified to be in the hacker category. By definition. This is the reality of the situation with Autotools. Builds based on them are so complex (and fragile, therefore the complexity fairly often gets exposed to the user category of persons) that half-way competence with Autotools is nearly worse than complete ignorance. Your theoretical user who runs a patch that updates Autotools files but doesn't pay
Re: cygwin telnet issues from dos prompt tera term
Greetings, OOPS! SORRY! Paul R [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:47:48 +0100 Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:30:41AM +, Elfyn McBratney wrote: Hi, [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings Cygwin Support, Oh and, btw., this is *NOT* official cygwin support. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a public mailing list. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'
On 2-12-2002 23:57, Charles Wilson wrote:
Andre Srinivasan wrote:
I noticed sometime in August or September that I could no longer
invoke acroreader (v5.0.5) via cygstart or directly from AcroRd32 if I
wanted to view a document. If I do invoke either, I get a Dr. Watson
(which I've appended). On the otherhand, if I invoke IE and pass it
the file to open, acroread starts fine within IE.
I've appended the drwtsn32 file.
Thanks.
The following works for me
(cygwin kernel version 1.3.17-1, W2k, Acroread 5.0.1 3/27/2001)
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 KHELDAR 1.3.17(0.67/3/2) 2002-11-27 18:54 i686 unknown
in ~/.bashrc (ignore stupid mailer-induced linewrap)
function pdfv ()
{
cygstart /d/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ 5.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe
\`cygpath -w -a $1`\
}
What's wrong with just
$ cygstart whatever.pdf
? ;-)
BTW, I don't see anything in your drwatson dump that implicates
cygstart. Everything on the stack seems to be inside windows DLLs.
Any comments, Michael?
( Michael Schaap cygwin_start AT mscha DOT org )
Oh, wait, that's me! ;-)
I'm pretty sure that it's not cygstart related. Cygstart doesn't really
do anything except tell Windows to start a program or open a file.
One difference between starting a program from Cygwin and from Explorer,
is the environment, most notably the $PATH. This might cause different
DLLs to be found.
Anyway, Andre also has problems when starting the reader directly, I
assume from the start menu (i.e. Explorer). So, it seems that this is
not a Cygwin problem at all.
That makes this problem off-topic for this mailing list :-) , but I
would try the following standard Microsoft troubleshooting steps:
1. Reboot, and see if the problem goes away
2. Uninstall and re-install Acrobat Reader, and see if it goes away
HTH,
- Michael
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Re: cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'
On 3-12-2002 0:28, Andre Srinivasan wrote: BB What happens using plain start (C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\start.exe)? I can't seem to find start.exe on my W2K box. No such thing on W2K. start is a cmd.exe builtin. You could try: $ cmd /c start - Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'
I am inclined to believe it is AcroRd induced.
Even so, if I use the Cygwin command prompt (bash/rxvt), and manually navigate to the
appropriate directory, AcroRd32.exe launches just fine with start (NT4). So, if
your
program is setting the working directory correctly (pwd), then it should be starting
AcroRd32.exe without a problem.
Cygstart ($cygstart ...) works as well. Assuming, of course, you are actually
in the pwd
that includes acrord32.exe.
uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-4.0 TALIESIN 1.3.17(0.67/3/2) 2002-11-27 18:54 i686 unknown
Paul G.
On 2-12-2002 23:57, Charles Wilson wrote:
Andre Srinivasan wrote:
I noticed sometime in August or September that I could no longer
invoke acroreader (v5.0.5) via cygstart or directly from AcroRd32
if I wanted to view a document. If I do invoke either, I get a Dr.
Watson (which I've appended). On the otherhand, if I invoke IE and
pass it the file to open, acroread starts fine within IE.
I've appended the drwtsn32 file.
Thanks.
The following works for me
(cygwin kernel version 1.3.17-1, W2k, Acroread 5.0.1 3/27/2001) $
uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 KHELDAR 1.3.17(0.67/3/2) 2002-11-27 18:54
i686 unknown
in ~/.bashrc (ignore stupid mailer-induced linewrap)
function pdfv ()
{
cygstart /d/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\
5.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe
\`cygpath -w -a $1`\
}
What's wrong with just
$ cygstart whatever.pdf
? ;-)
BTW, I don't see anything in your drwatson dump that implicates
cygstart. Everything on the stack seems to be inside windows DLLs.
Any comments, Michael?
( Michael Schaap cygwin_start AT mscha DOT org )
Oh, wait, that's me! ;-)
I'm pretty sure that it's not cygstart related. Cygstart doesn't
really do anything except tell Windows to start a program or open a
file.
One difference between starting a program from Cygwin and from
Explorer, is the environment, most notably the $PATH. This might
cause different DLLs to be found.
Anyway, Andre also has problems when starting the reader directly, I
assume from the start menu (i.e. Explorer). So, it seems that this is
not a Cygwin problem at all.
That makes this problem off-topic for this mailing list :-) , but I
would try the following standard Microsoft troubleshooting steps:
1. Reboot, and see if the problem goes away
2. Uninstall and re-install Acrobat Reader, and see if it goes away
HTH,
- Michael
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Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
Randall R Schulz wrote: Andrew, Cygwin uses stock ls source code. Cygwin's ps is entirely it's own--it's all distinctly Cygwin. Makes sense. Still I would like ls to do it (in my case by default). You see I'm one of those, I guess, few Windows users who actually uses hidden files and likes to have them hidden in the Explorer and, correspondingly in ls. So I just live with this defect. Hacking up a wrapper around ls to use attribe would be a little work, if one wanted to insure other ls semantics including color and the like (IOW do it right). Maybe someday I'll do this... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'
Andre, Whatever your problems are, they're local to your system. Although I'm usually loathe to make (or accept) this suggestion as a means to correct problems, perhaps you should re-install Acrobat Reader. By the way, version 5.1 is out, so perhaps you could upgrade while you're at it (if you have not already done so). Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 21:41 2002-12-02, Andre Srinivasan wrote: e What happens when you run acrobat directly from the cygwin terminal e without using cygstart? or what about running e \winnt\system32\cmd.exe /K \path\to\acrobat? Invoking 'acrord32 foo.pdf' directly from a cygwin terminal (rxvt) causes a Dr. Watson. Invoking it via 'cmd /k 'c:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe' foo.pdf' also causes a Dr. Watson. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: gcc-3.2-3: bootstrap build fails (HAVE_DECL_GETOPT not in config.h?)
Hi All, Has there been a resolution to this issue? I can't see any answeres in the previous posts. Regards, Anurag On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:14:59 +1100 Nigel Stewart Fiona Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, I have encountered the same problem on my setup. Regards, Nigel Stewart Trying to build gcc-3.2-3 from scratch. Have the near latest versions of everything in cygwin (see cygcheck.out). /home/mhcox/projects/build/gcc-3.2-3/gcc/xgcc -shared-libgcc -B/home/mhcox/p rojects/build/gcc-3.2-3/gcc/ -nostdinc++ -L/home/mhcox/projects/build/gcc-3. 2-3/i686-pc-cygwin/libstdc++-v3/src -L/home/mhcox/projects/build/gcc-3.2-3/i 686-pc-cygwin/libstdc++-v3/src/.libs -B/home/mhcox/projects/install/i686-pc- cygwin/bin/ -B/home/mhcox/projects/install/i686-pc-cygwin/lib/ -isystem/home/mhcox/projects/install/i686-pc-cygwin/include -I/usr/src/gcc-3.2-3/lib stdc++-v3/../gcc -I/usr/src/gcc-3.2-3/libstdc++-v3/../include -I/home/mhcox/ projects/build/gcc-3.2-3/i686-pc-cygwin/libstdc++-v3/include/i686-pc-c ygwin -I/home/mhcox/projects/build/gcc-3.2-3/i686-pc-cygwin/libstdc++-v3/inc lude - I/usr/src/gcc-3.2-3/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++ -g -O2 -fno-implicit-templates -W all -Wno-format -W -Wwrite-strings -Winline -fdiagnostics-show-location=once -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -g -c /usr/src/gcc-3.2-3/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/pure.cc -o pure.o cc1plus: warning: -ffunction-sections may affect debugging on some targets In file included from /usr/include/unistd.h:8, from /usr/src/gcc-3.2-3/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/pure.cc:34: /usr/src/gcc-3.2-3/include/getopt.h:115: declaration of C function `int getopt()' conflicts with /usr/include/sys/unistd.h:125: previous declaration `int getopt(int, char* const*, const char*)' here -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
