Re: 1.3.4 - touch /etc/abc causes BSOD

2002-02-25 Thread Lagstein, Yossi
I'm unable to reproduce the problem without cygwin, the machine doesn't crash if I don't telnet to it first (using cygwin inetd). using "echo "junk" > abc in Cygwin\etc from " does not crash the machine Yossi = > I'm using cygwin 1.3.4 on NT 4 SP6a. > I encounter the following p

RE: 1.3.4 - touch /etc/abc causes BSOD

2002-02-25 Thread Lagstein, Yossi
It may be Microsoft bug, but since The trigger for the BSOD is cygwin, and I'm unable to reproduce it with non cygwin relegated software, I hope that other people that encounter the same or similar problem may have some idea on how to solve the it Yossi -Original Message- From: Robert Co

Re: sem_trywait returns EAGAIN (rather than returning -1 and setting errno)

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:31:41PM -0500, Andrew T. Schnable wrote: >I was doing some pthreads/semaphore work and I tracked down a problem >in my code to a bug in sem_trywait. Posix sem_trywait is defined as >returning -1 and setting errno to EAGAIN if the semaphore would have >blocked. The cygw

Re: Fonts and rxvt

2002-02-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Pat Gunn wrote: > Hi, it seems that the cyg non-XF86 program 'rxvt' is misnamed -- > it's too easy to confuse it with the real thing. It IS the real thing. When DISPLAY=:0, it uses MSWin calls to draw itself. When DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0 (or some other X-ish looking thing) it uses X11 calls to

Re: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Bruce Dobrin wrote: > 1: got message "cannot open (null) for reading." message a couple of > times when installing from a local (network) directory onto a new XP > machine, followed by a failiar message indicating more info in > setup.log.full. Nothing out of the ordinary noted in that f

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils-0.9.9-1

2002-02-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Michael Schaap wrote: > Hi, > > At 05:50 24-2-2002, Charles Wilson wrote: > >> cygutils-0.9.9-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. > > > I checked a bunch of mirrors, but this hasn't shown up yet. > Are you sure it was correctly uploaded, and that > whatever-needs-to-be-done

Fonts and rxvt

2002-02-25 Thread Pat Gunn
Hi, it seems that the cyg non-XF86 program 'rxvt' is misnamed -- it's too easy to confuse it with the real thing. Anyhow, I was wondering if anyone has had any success changing the font that it uses -- I need to get line-drawing characters working so when I telnet to other systems, things display

Re: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Bruce Dobrin
y 25, 2002 4:01 PM Subject: Next version of setup.exe > We've branched the next version of setup.exe, and created a snapshot for anyone willing to be our guinea pigs. > > It is accessible via http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020225.exe. > > Please use this, and r

sem_trywait returns EAGAIN (rather than returning -1 and setting errno)

2002-02-25 Thread Andrew T. Schnable
Greetings, I was doing some pthreads/semaphore work and I tracked down a problem in my code to a bug in sem_trywait. Posix sem_trywait is defined as returning -1 and setting errno to EAGAIN if the semaphore would have blocked. The cygwin implementation returns EAGAIN an leaves errno unchange

Re: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:47:11PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Ross Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> I just tried it and everything seems to be OK. (OS is Windows >> 2000.) >> > >> (Screenshot: http://storm.net.nz/~ross/temp/cygwin1.png) > >Yes, th

RE: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Ross Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I just tried it and everything seems to be OK. (OS is Windows > 2000.) > > (Screenshot: http://storm.net.nz/~ross/temp/cygwin1.png) Yes, there is meant to be an image, but we don't have one. There have been a few s

RE: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Ross Smith
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > We've branched the next version of setup.exe, and created a > snapshot for anyone willing to be our guinea pigs. > > It is accessible via > http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020225.exe. > > Plea

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils-0.9.9-1

2002-02-25 Thread Michael Schaap
Hi, At 05:50 24-2-2002, Charles Wilson wrote: >cygutils-0.9.9-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. I checked a bunch of mirrors, but this hasn't shown up yet. Are you sure it was correctly uploaded, and that whatever-needs-to-be-done-to-get-it-into-cygwin.ini was done? - Micha

RE: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Dr. Carsten Bormann
The full view window looks completely truncated in my Windows98SE. Hard to explain, but of the whole scrollable canvas, only a few lines are visible, and only the first 10 cm or so horizontally. If you scroll, you just get more white space, and if you scroll back, some more of the text is gone. We

Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
We've branched the next version of setup.exe, and created a snapshot for anyone willing to be our guinea pigs. It is accessible via http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020225.exe. Please use this, and report any bugs back to us. We know of one with large fonts, that wi

setup.exe V2.125.2.10 cannot install from local directory

2002-02-25 Thread Thomas Rachel
Hi, I have downloaded the whole set of cygwin packages to a local directory (for saving it on CD) and wanted to install it now from the local directory: from E:\!dnld\cygwin (where I have put the packages) to E:\cygwin (where is my old version of cygwin). But after entering the directories, I am

inetd.exe in the system tray

2002-02-25 Thread Dave Waller
Is there any way to get inetd.exe to run in the system tray? Dave Waller -- 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/

Excessive packages installed by default

2002-02-25 Thread rotaiv
It used to be when ever I install a fresh copy of cygwin, I selected the minimal applications I wanted then ran setup.exe a second time and let it catch any dependencies and updates. This worked fine for many installs until recently. The last time few times I did this, numerous other package

Return code when cygwin1.dll not found

2002-02-25 Thread Tracy A. Kuhrt
[Please cc responses to me, as I am not subscribed to this list.] I have a gcc and binutils port that are hosted under Cygwin. Is there a standard return code that will be returned from the gcc and binutils port when cygwin1.dll is not found? Tracy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com

Re: SSHD fails to start - not responding in a timely fashion

2002-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
No apologies necessary. I think Chris and I just wanted to be sure that you and others didn't get the mistaken impression about this list and it's participants. Personally I feel your inquiries and responses are quite appropriate for this list. I expect other 'regulars' here would agree. So I

inetd.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Dave Waller
I have a need for this on a Windows9x machine. What is the right way to start/stop this automagically? Dave Waller -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Bash screen output pauses....

2002-02-25 Thread Peter Klemm
Cygwin Users, I have seen the bash output pause on several machines running Win2000 and NT 4.0. When running a build that has considerable output the bash window sometimes hangs. By simply typing the remaining output scrolls by and everything appears normal again. Has anyone else seen this beh

vi and nano running under rxvt term.

2002-02-25 Thread Aaron J. Outhier
--cut-- $ nano Error opening terminal: xterm. --cut-- Also, vi/vim inserts "A", "B", "C", & "D" instead of moving the cursor under "I" or "A" mode (that is, after pressing "A" or "I", cursor keys act strange). cygcheck output attached. = Sincerely, Aaron J. Outhier [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: SSHD fails to start - not responding in a timely fashion

2002-02-25 Thread Scott Mulroy
My apologies. I didn't mean to offend anyone or imply anything. I merely did not understand the nature of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address--it could have been, for example, an automated distribution of work load in which no one other than the individual replying actually sees the conversation. I d

Re: SSHD fails to start - not responding in a timely fashion

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:03:17PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >>I will try re-enabling the Computer Browser and Server services to see >>if I have any luck and I will continue to investigate further service >>dependencies. If you have anything further or anyone else in your >>su

SOTBOMT Re: dumb question: where is gcc?

2002-02-25 Thread Robert Praetorius
[Semi Off Topic But On Meta Topic] > It's worthwhile to make a check of the email archives too when looking > for information like this. It's a far more complete resource than the > FAQ, albeit more wordy and with some additional noise. ;-) Gets me to thinking. . . I see lots of pointers t

JPL Group

2002-02-25 Thread JPL Group
Sorry for the cold email but I appreciate you may normally be bombarded by telephone calls throughout the day. JPL Group specialise in the placement of SOFTWARE/HARDWARE DSP, EMBEDDED ENGINEERS suitable for Software/Hardware Houses and Major Electronic Manufacturers. Innovations in Digital Sig

Re: Hi

2002-02-25 Thread Peter Buckley
You need to use the setup.exe program that is available from cygwin.com to download and install any of the packages that come in the cygwin distribution. Simply select "gcc" from the list of packages to download and install, and it will install it correctly. HTH, Peter Deshmukh N. Gopaul wrot

Hi

2002-02-25 Thread Deshmukh N. Gopaul
Hello, I installed cygwin on my PC (intel PIII) running winXP. I want now to install a C compiler like GCC, so that I can run some C programs. I cannot install GCC from the tar file because it needs a c compiler itself for its installation. Where should I begin? I downloaded Borland free C compi

autoconf 2.52a-1: M4PATH not being honoured through wrapper script.

2002-02-25 Thread James Harvey
I've been converting some of our build system to use the cygwin autotools recently, and I think I've come across a bug in the autoconf/autoheader wrapper scripts (I assume these may occur in the other auto* scripts, but these are the specific ones I use). Our build script sets up M4PATH to the lo

Re: SSHD fails to start - not responding in a timely fashion

2002-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:18 PM 2/23/2002, Scott Mulroy wrote: >On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > >->This strikes me like a service dependency issue. There has been some >->discussion of this on the list. You might want to look into this. Because >->services start in different sequences

Reading console input from Java under Cygwin shell (was Re: inputstream!)

2002-02-25 Thread David P. Caldwell
Pramod: >if i write a simple java program that uses a BufferedReader reader object >wrapped from System.in and then try to read a line from user and then echo >it back, cygwin for some reason already has stuff on the stream and so >without waiting for the user to type something in the program fet

Re: printing from cygwin-xfree remote printer

2002-02-25 Thread Bernard Revet
Dear Christopher I thought that I could send my problem to Cygwee-Xfree mailing list as it is under cygwin-Xfree that I cannot print . If you succed to print under Cygwin-Xfree, I would appreciate to know how you do it? Thanks for your help Best regards Yours Bernard -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: /dev/clipboard protection fault on Win98

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:35:12AM -0500, Soren Andersen wrote: >I have been forgetting to write in about this. In cannot use /dev/clipboard on Win98; >anything redirected to it causes a fault (Windows error box). > >Anybody else having troubles like this? Not me. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Signal handling (cygrunsrv)

2002-02-25 Thread anviscov
Hi, I'm trying to run as a service 2 exe with cygrunsrv. The first exe goes ok starting and stopping, the second (which handles 1 COM), gets an error 1053 when stopping it. Looking at signal processing I noticed that the first does not handle SIGTERM, instead the second does handle it. The signal

SSHD and Computer Browser problems on Win2000

2002-02-25 Thread rotaiv
I just spent several days trying to get my sshd to work on Windows 2000. It was working fine then one day, for no apparent reason, it would not start and time out when I tried to start the service. Not only that, the "Computer Browser" service was also terminating and not started either. T

RE: Make 3.79.1 - dependency checking & previous versions

2002-02-25 Thread John Segrave \(x3254\)
Larry - thanks for those files. I think we have our issue sorted: when we use the FSF win32 port of make 3.79.1, dependency checking works fine - when we use the cygwin port of make 3.79.1, it doesn't. For the moment we can get away with using the FSF port, but as soon as I get time I'll try to