RFC: Setup auto-dependency generation?

2003-06-06 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
I'll just throw this out there to see if it's more burger than bun. This came to mind when I read the libpcre setup.hint is BROKEN thread: Would it be possible for upset or something to automatically generate the setup.hint/setup.ini dependencies, or at least check them? Seems to me that, since

[root@sources.redhat.com: Cron cgf@sourceware cd /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin; /sourceware/infra/bin/cygwin/upset -C -u setup.ini; /usr/local/bin/upx -q -q -q setup.exe || exit 0]

2003-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've fixed this. cgf - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin; /sourceware/infra/bin/cygwin/upset -C -u setup.ini; /usr/local/bin/upx -q -q

Re: [root@sources.redhat.com: Cron cgf@sourceware cd/sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin; /sourceware/infra/bin/cygwin/upset -C-u setup.ini; /usr/local/bin/upx -q -q -q setup.exe || exit 0]

2003-06-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've fixed this. cgf Oops, Sorry. Thanks. Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systems Administrator ABCtales.com / Ubertales.co.uk

Re: Setup auto-dependency generation?

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: I'll just throw this out there to see if it's more burger than bun. This came to mind when I read the libpcre setup.hint is BROKEN thread: Would it be possible for upset or something to automatically generate the setup.hint/setup.ini dependencies, or at least check

Updated fvwm-2.4.16

2003-06-06 Thread Joakim Erdfelt
This is my first time doing this. (so be kind) ;-) I have made a new package for fvwm v2.4.16 It can be found at ... http://joakim.erdfelt.net/cygwin/fvwm/fvwm-2.4.16-1.tar.bz2 http://joakim.erdfelt.net/cygwin/fvwm/fvwm-2.4.16-1-src.tar.bz2 http://joakim.erdfelt.net/cygwin/fvwm/setup.hint

[Updated package] mc-4.6.0-4

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, An updated Midnight Commander package is available. It addresses this problem: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg02119.html As I've already indicated on the main list this is a bug introduced by me and it is specific to the Cygwin version of MC. This version does *NOT*

Re: [Updated package] mc-4.6.0-4

2003-06-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Here are the links: http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/mc-4.6.0-4.tar.bz2 http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/mc-4.6.0-4-src.tar.bz2 Uploaded. Please send an annoucement in a couple of hours Thanks, Elfyn PS- Shall I remove

Re: [Updated package] mc-4.6.0-4

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: PS- Shall I remove 4.6.0-3 ? Ooops! Kill everything except 4.6.0-4. 4.5.xx is too old to be useful. All 4.6.0-x up to -4 have this ftpfs bug.

Updated patchutils...I made a booboo

2003-06-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
I ended up building patchutils and libxml2 under 1.5.0 and am about to upload fixed packages.. Corrina, if you have a minute, could you replace the current binary package with http://exposure.org.uk/cygwin/patchutils-0.2.22-1.tar.bz2 this one? Or would it be better if I bump the release number

Re: Updated patchutils...I made a booboo

2003-06-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:46:43PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: I ended up building patchutils and libxml2 under 1.5.0 and am about to upload fixed packages.. Corrina, if you have a minute, could you replace the current binary package with

Re: Updated patchutils...I made a booboo

2003-06-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Bump the release number - otherwise setup won't notice the change, and will throw md5 errors on local package caches which have an updated setup.ini, but old tarball. Max. Will do. Thanks. Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systems

Re: Updated patchutils...I made a booboo

2003-06-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:46:43PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: I ended up building patchutils and libxml2 under 1.5.0 and am about to upload fixed packages.. Corrina, if you have a minute, could you replace the current binary package with

Re: Updated patchutils...I made a booboo

2003-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:46:43PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: I ended up building patchutils and libxml2 under 1.5.0 and am about to upload fixed packages.. Corrina, if you have a minute, could you replace the current binary package with

Re: Updated patchutils...I made a booboo

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Elfyn McBratney wrote: I ended up building patchutils and libxml2 under 1.5.0 and am about to upload fixed packages.. Corrina, if you have a minute, could you replace the current binary package with http://exposure.org.uk/cygwin/patchutils-0.2.22-1.tar.bz2 this one? Or would it be better if

what is the Status of Native engine?

2003-06-06 Thread mike stout
starting XWin -engine 16 uses the experimental native engine. Is development continuing on this engine?

Re: xhost problem?

2003-06-06 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, You are probably caught from something similar to this:- http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-05/msg00512.html You are probably suffering from the fact that XWin is running in a separate process from your .bat. If you wait until XWin is fully initialised and then run x you

Re: xhost problem?

2003-06-06 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, I've got a newer version of the startup script I use to wait for XWin to finish initialising (multiwindow) before using other commands in the script. Reference:- http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-03/msg00125.html It's a kludge, but it works for me :) Colin attachment:

Re: Build from Sourceforge Xoncygwin

2003-06-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote: I currently have some problems with crosscompiling and BuildServersOnly as BuildServersOnly implies a UseInstalled (because no libs are built) and the rules always add -L/usr/X11R6/lib and -I/usr/X11R6/include which is very wrong. Solved this

Updated fvwm-2.4.16-2

2003-06-06 Thread Joakim Erdfelt
I have made a new package for fvwm v2.4.16 It can be found at ... http://joakim.erdfelt.net/cygwin/fvwm/fvwm-2.4.16-2.tar.bz2 http://joakim.erdfelt.net/cygwin/fvwm/fvwm-2.4.16-2-src.tar.bz2 http://joakim.erdfelt.net/cygwin/fvwm/setup.hint Didn't require any code changes, just a fresh

Xdefaults error

2003-06-06 Thread J S
Hi, I have the following .Xdefaults file: $ cat .Xdefaults xterm*VT100.Translations: #override \n\ KeyF11: string(anonymous) \n\ KeyF12: string(set DISPLAY=32.32.23.23:0) as I'm trying to figure out how to map keys to strings. However when I start up an xterm now I get

Re: Possible X-Wndows problem

2003-06-06 Thread Mark Manning
(Ah! I see that I have to redo the subject line each time in order to thread things!) I had Norton SystemWorks but gave it to my younger brother some time back. So no such luck (unfortunately). I have noticed the memory manager does seem to slowly but surely creep upwards. However, as I

xwinclip/-clipboard - Development on no selection stealing version

2003-06-06 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I have been working with the code for Keith Packard's XFIXES extension. The XFIXES extension includes a new hook in Xserver/dix/dispatch.c that allows functions within the Xserver (such as the XFIXES xtension) to register for a callback when a selection's ownership changes, among other

Window Manager Selection

2003-06-06 Thread William E. Kempf
OK, someone pointed out to me that the -rootless and -multiwindow options can make X on Windows behave much more like native windows. I like this a lot, and might actually start using X for a lot more. However, I'm having difficulties finding a window manager that I like. I want the windows to

Re: Window Manager Selection

2003-06-06 Thread David Rothenberger
William E. Kempf wrote: I want the windows to look and feel as much like the native windows as possible. [snip] Can anyone suggest a window manager for me? Just use -multiwindow. You don't have to (actually you should not) start a window manager when that switch is used. That switch

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygthread.cc

2003-06-06 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-06-05 19:18:33 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygthread.cc Log message: * cygthread.cc (cygthread::terminate_thread): Change system_printf to debug_printf. Patches:

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winnt.h li ...

2003-06-06 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-06-06 00:24:34 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: winnt.h winsup/w32api/lib: test.c Added files: winsup/w32api/include: powrprof.h

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog

2003-06-06 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Branch: cgf-dev-branch Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-06-06 00:33:33 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog Log message: . Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygwin.din fhandle ...

2003-06-06 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-06-06 08:11:19 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin.din fhandler.cc syslog.cc winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin: version.h winsup/cygwin/include/sys: syslog.h Log message:

Assignment received for Micha Nelissen

2003-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
We've received the assignment for Micha Nelissen. That means that any patches are now live, so review away. cgf

[PATCH] Return correct error code on subsequent nonblocking connect

2003-06-06 Thread Thomas Pfaff
Corinna, after our long discussion about interruptible connects i did some checks with nonblocking connects. While the opengroup spec is quite clear (and this time Linux behaves the same) that the first connect should return EINPROGRESS and following connects EALREADY cygwin returns always

Re: sharing hd partition betw Linux and Cygwin

2003-06-06 Thread Soren Andersen
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:54:16AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: Soren Andersen wrote: Now sharing the drive space between the cvs tool (and cpan, too!) works, I think (haven't actually tried cvs yet but had to work on cpan a few minutes ago, and discovered it was suffering from the same

FW: Calling gcc built DLL from .NET (Visual Basic)

2003-06-06 Thread Thomas X. Hoban
Thanks to all who replied. In case anyone is interested, through experiments, here is what I found with passing strings from VB .NET to my cygwin dll. In my vb code, I changed the declaration of the dll function to: Declare Function myTest Lib c:\cygwin\home\Administrator\test_dll\test.dll

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: patchutils

2003-06-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Patchutils is a small collection of programs that operate on patch files. You can use the programs to combine, filter and split, correct output from `cvs diff', list and grep patch files. To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Starting mc or mcedit causes the following assertion violation: ** CRITICAL **: file /tmp/build/mc-4.6.0/src/utilunix.c: line 81 (init_groups): assertion `pwd != NULL' failed. Segmentation fault (core dumped) Hello, As far I as I can

Re: Updated: vim-6.2-1

2003-06-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:44:00PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: The problem is: what GUI? Exactly. An X-based GUI would be an option, but that would require you to run an X server, such as Cygwin-XFree, whenever you want to run gvim. (Also, to have a decent looking GUI, you'd need some

Re: setup problem: only ash comes as /bin/sh

2003-06-06 Thread S . L .
[...] scripts, since the only shell I install is bash, and the only /bin/sh installed by setup is ash. Could this be fixed somehow? How exactly? Ash is a part of the 'Base' category, a minimal Cygwin installation. This means that postinstall scripts et al expect a 'Base' [...] From a

Re: Updated: vim-6.2-1

2003-06-06 Thread Michael Schaap
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have no idea what gvim is actually good for. The non-GUI version runs very nicely inside of xterm or rxvt, so what? For me, mostly force of habit, these days. Mouse support under rxvt is now pretty decent (hmm... looks like dragging the status bar between two split

Today's revision of pcre : possible cause of damage?

2003-06-06 Thread fergus
Sometime in the last couple of hours I ran setup.exe and upgraded pcre and associated bits and pieces. Maybe I did something wrong but now there are real rather than virtual files as follows: \usr\bin\cygpcre-0.dll \usr\bin\cygpcreposix-0.dll \usr\bin\pcregrep.exe

Re: The standard library version in g++

2003-06-06 Thread Markus Mauhart
Alex Vinokur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote ... Martin Gainty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] g++ --version $ g++ --version g++ (GCC) 3.2 20020927 (prerelease) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying

Re: rsync and cygwin paths

2003-06-06 Thread Soren Andersen
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:33:34AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: However for many purposes it's feasible to write some simple-minded heuristics that make the determination about when and how to apply cygpath. I currently use a BASH script that uses a simple case statement to paper over the

Re: setup problem: only ash comes as /bin/sh

2003-06-06 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 23:27, S.L. wrote: From a user point of view, I would create a 'Shells' subcategory for 'Base'. And an intermediate step for setup to manage the /bin/sh issue (when the user chooses more than one shell). Nope. ash is part of base. It's a required component for the

Re: Today's revision of pcre : possible cause of damage?

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometime in the last couple of hours I ran setup.exe and upgraded pcre and associated bits and pieces. Maybe I did something wrong but now there are real rather than virtual files as follows: \usr\bin\cygpcre-0.dll \usr\bin\cygpcreposix-0.dll

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [snip] , etc. Do the files /etc/passwd and /etc/group exist on your system ? Yes, but /etc/passwd is somewhat strange, in that my user id (i.e. what is returned by 'id -u') does not match the respective entry in /etc/passwd: $ id -u

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread FischRon . external
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Starting mc or mcedit causes the following assertion violation: ** CRITICAL **: file /tmp/build/mc-4.6.0/src/utilunix.c: line 81 (init_groups): assertion `pwd != NULL' failed. Segmentation fault (core dumped) Okay, Ronald, you're suffering

Re: Today's version of pcre:

2003-06-06 Thread Lester Ingber
I can't start up my cygwin shell due to cygpcre.dll not found, and I cannot get the older 4.1 version under setup to install the older 4.1 as recommended by Max? Thanks. Lester Prof. Lester Ingber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ingber.com

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:28:42PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote ... $ ./sp 2000 Creating file of size 2008K st_size :2056192 st_blocks: 24 $ ls -sl sparse.test 12 -rw-r--r--1 corinna users 2056192 Jun 5 13:54 sparse.test

Re: Today's version of pcre:

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Hall
Lester Ingber wrote: I can't start up my cygwin shell due to cygpcre.dll not found, and I cannot get the older 4.1 version under setup to install the older 4.1 as recommended by Max? Thanks. Lester Try a different mirror or wait a day until the change propogates around to more mirrors is the

Re: Today's version of pcre:

2003-06-06 Thread Brian E. Gallew
Larry Hall wrote: Lester Ingber wrote: I can't start up my cygwin shell due to cygpcre.dll not found, and I cannot get the older 4.1 version under setup to install the older 4.1 as recommended by Max? Easy answer: cd /usr/bin cp cygpcre-0.dll cygpcre.dll -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Today's version of pcre:

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Lester Ingber wrote: I can't start up my cygwin shell due to cygpcre.dll not found, and I cannot get the older 4.1 version under setup to install the older 4.1 as recommended by Max? Hmm - seems like *that* aspect of the setup.hint file was broken as well. Either wait a few hours for the new

Re: Today's version of pcre:

2003-06-06 Thread Lester Ingber
A different mirror worked. Thanks. Lester On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:13:27AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: : Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:13:27 -0400 : From: Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 :

Re: glui.h compilation prb

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Hall
Andre Bleau wrote: Zieg, Mark mark dot zieg at lmco dot com wrote: Andre, I just came across your post regarding GLUI and gcc2/3 under Cygwin: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/27178/match=gluihttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/27178/match=glui Thank you for clarifying that. Do

Re: Mount table in registry

2003-06-06 Thread Sebastian Miele
Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 22 May 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 04:12:37PM +0200, Sebastian Miele wrote: Hi, the user documentation on the mount table (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#MOUNT-TABLE) says that the mount

RE: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Does it work with ext2- or ext3-driven volume, or even a more traditional unix FS ? *More* traditional than ext[23]? Why do you want to compare an *old* FS with a *new* FS as NTFS is? That's like comparing a Ford Model A with a modern Ford Taurus. What is that good for? gcc still

Re: Today's revision of pcre : possible cause of damage?

2003-06-06 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
This is my fault - sorry :( To fix this, run $ cd /usr/bin $ cp cygpcre-0.dll cygpcre.dll $ cp cygpcreposix-0.dll cygpcreposix.dll in your shell or cd path\to\cygwin\bin copy cygpcre-0.dll cygpcre.dll copy cygpcreposix-0.dll cygpcreposix.dll in cmd/command.com At fault (as already explained

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Hall
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Does it work with ext2- or ext3-driven volume, or even a more traditional unix FS ? *More* traditional than ext[23]? Why do you want to compare an *old* FS with a *new* FS as NTFS is? That's like comparing a Ford Model A with a modern Ford Taurus. What is that good

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: postgresql-7.3.3-1

2003-06-06 Thread Jason Tishler
New News: === I have updated the version of PostgreSQL to 7.3.3-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. It is recommend that 7.3.x users upgrade at their earliest convenience. See the following for the details, if interested:

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:33:46PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote ... On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 01:26:50PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: $ uname -svr CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.0(0.86/3/2) 2003-06-02 00:41 The new sparse file heuristic is being triggered by the way

RE: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Does it work with ext2- or ext3-driven volume, or even a more traditional unix FS ? *More* traditional than ext[23]? Why do you want to compare an *old* FS with a *new* FS as NTFS is? That's like comparing a Ford Model A with a modern Ford Taurus. What is that

RE: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote ... On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 01:26:50PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: $ uname -svr CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.0(0.86/3/2) 2003-06-02 00:41 The new sparse file heuristic is being triggered by the way binutils writes .exe and .dll files. I'm unsure

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Markus Mauhart
Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote ... The next Cygwin version will produce sparse files only if the application decides to write 64K or more beyond EOF. I have to admit that this is IMHO a significant technical improvement, probably removing 9x% of cygwin_sparse' potential technical

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:48:39AM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Wait, no, *100%* of Cygwin users on NTFS are negatively ^^ ?? I'm also on NTFS and I don't suffer, especially after

ssh connection closed

2003-06-06 Thread Jonathan Hudgins
I am running sshd per instructions from /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-3.6.1p1-2.README. I choose no privilege speration at setup time I have also set the following values in sshd_config: PasswordAuthentication yes RhostsAuthentication no RhostsRSAAuthentication no RSAAuthentication no

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:56:05PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: or more beyond EOF) now seems to be a good way to emulate *modern* unix FS capabilities, which are different from unix sparse files, What is the meaning of that argument? What is different? Evidence, not claim, please. So

Re: ssh connection closed

2003-06-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Jonathan Hudgins wrote: I am running sshd per instructions from /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-3.6.1p1-2.README. I choose no privilege speration at setup time I have also set the following values in sshd_config: PasswordAuthentication yes RhostsAuthentication no

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:48:39AM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Wait, no, *100%* of Cygwin users on NTFS are negatively ^^ ?? I'm also on NTFS and I don't

Re: ssh connection closed

2003-06-06 Thread Jonathan Hudgins
Elfyn McBratney wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Jonathan Hudgins wrote: I am running sshd per instructions from /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-3.6.1p1-2.README. I choose no privilege speration at setup time I have also set the following values in sshd_config: PasswordAuthentication yes

Re: group ownership of files

2003-06-06 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
kiwhan chung wrote: Igor, Thank you for replying. Appending ' mkgroup -d' output did not help at all. I think I need to explain a bit. The group and mkpasswd files are modified by me in vain attempt to get the group ownership sync. It obviously did not solve my problem. You can see the

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:48:39AM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Wait, no, *100%* of Cygwin users on NTFS are negatively ^^

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:25:18PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: I threw together a horrible C program to ask Windows whether a file was sparse. .exe and .dll files made with a 1.5.0 Cygwin are. I haven't posted the test program, because it is too messy. [...] I give proof that dll/exe files are

Re: Mount table in registry

2003-06-06 Thread Soren Andersen
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 04:39:31PM +0200, Sebastian Miele wrote: Would making a libmount.a (or, better yet, cygmount.dll) be a good idea? Then programs can link against it and be guaranteed that they can read mounts or verify mount locations. I know Cygwin exports getmntent() and the

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [snip] Okay, Ronald, you're suffering from the UID wrapping problem. Cygwin UIDs are currently 16 bit, so any number higher than 65535 will get wrapped (and did). You can change your UID to any unique

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: I threw together a horrible C program to ask Windows whether a file was sparse. .exe and .dll files made with a 1.5.0 Cygwin are. I haven't posted the test program, because it is too messy. #include windows.h #include stdio.h main(int argc, char *

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:25:18PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: I threw together a horrible C program to ask Windows whether a file was sparse. .exe and .dll files made with a 1.5.0 Cygwin are. I haven't posted the test program, because it is too messy. [...] I give

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: This may be a Cygwin-specific problem. On Cygwin, /etc/passwd doesn't play as key a role as it does on other Unix systems (e.g., it's not required for logging in on the console). Thus, it's quite possible that someone will attempt to run other

Cygwinperl tar on Win9x (really tar)

2003-06-06 Thread Soren Andersen
Hello Cygwinauts, I'd like to report a problem I encountered recently try to run CPAN(.pm) on Cygwinperl to ... you know what CPAN does. My system is Win98 and I suspect from absence of reports concerning this that somehow this isn't affecting people on other-derived M$ Windows platforms. All of

Re: Cygwinperl tar on Win9x (really tar)

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Soren Andersen wrote: Hello Cygwinauts, I'd like to report a problem I encountered recently try to run CPAN(.pm) on Cygwinperl to ... you know what CPAN does. My system is Win98 and I suspect from absence of reports concerning this that somehow this isn't affecting people on other-derived

Re: Cygwinperl tar on Win9x (really tar)

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Hall
Max Bowsher wrote: Soren Andersen wrote: Hello Cygwinauts, I'd like to report a problem I encountered recently try to run CPAN(.pm) on Cygwinperl to ... you know what CPAN does. My system is Win98 and I suspect from absence of reports concerning this that somehow this isn't affecting people on

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:03:34PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:25:18PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: I threw together a horrible C program to ask Windows whether a file was sparse. .exe and .dll files made with a 1.5.0 Cygwin are. I haven't posted

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:56:05PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: But nevertheless send me an email in case you find out more about since when typical unix/linux FSs support holes inside files ! Traditional UNIX has done this for at least 10 years. And, since I'm sufficiently trustworthy, I don't

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Hall
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:56:05PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: But nevertheless send me an email in case you find out more about since when typical unix/linux FSs support holes inside files ! Traditional UNIX has done this for at least 10 years. And, since I'm

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, At 10:44 2003-06-05, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:56:05PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: But nevertheless send me an email in case you find out more about since when typical unix/linux FSs support holes inside files ! Traditional UNIX has done this for at least 10

RE: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sickle Neil Young sez: KEEP ON ROCKIN' IN THE CYGWIN! NER NERNER NERR NER NER, NER NER NER NER NER!!! The word 'NER', in Swedish, is the same as the English 'DOWN'... though NOT pronounced the way an englishman do

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 11:04:08AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: Chris, At 10:44 2003-06-05, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:56:05PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: But nevertheless send me an email in case you find out more about since when typical unix/linux FSs support holes

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:29:51PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:03:34PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:25:18PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: I threw together a horrible C program to ask Windows whether a

AUX (RE: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files)

2003-06-06 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 6:41 PM support aux as the filename, or support '\' in filenames? The It isn't just AUX... $ echo AUX.info TEST bash: AUX.info: No such file or directory $ echo LPT TEST $ echo

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:41:18PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: 2) In all other details (including restricted characters in filenames), Cygwin uses the underlying filesystem's conventions. If we go out of our way to be compatible with Linux in this aspect, why not also support aux as

Re: SEGV in conv_path_list_buf_size with xemacs-21.5-b13 and cygwin-1.3.22-1

2003-06-06 Thread Pete McCann
cgf writes: Note that name = 0x0. Did this code mean to say if (!name)? Or maybe, if (!name || !*name)? No. This should never be null but it can be empty. Ok. Also, there is code in syscall.cc (stat_worker()) that looks similar to what we saw before (it accesses fh-get_win32_name()):

Re: SEGV in conv_path_list_buf_size with xemacs-21.5-b13 and cygwin-1.3.22-1

2003-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:25:56PM -0500, Pete McCann wrote: int __stdcall stat_worker (const char *name, struct __stat64 *buf, int nofollow, path_conv *pc = NULL) __attribute__ ((regparm (3))); So, nofollow and pc should have both been 0 coming in (although I see pc

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Christopher Faylor wrote: There has been very little actual data provided here Here is some data, using the program from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00321.html I remade the executables in an old version of inetutils. The numbers below show that only the larger ones are sparse (so

Installing new pcre broke less

2003-06-06 Thread Joel Rubin
When I installed the new pcre package (from installationdir\setup.exe) it deleted c:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre.dll and created c:\cygwin\usr\bin\cygpcre-0.dll Less would no longer work for lack of cygpcre.dll Copying c:\cygwin\usr\bin\cygpcre-0.dll to the old address c:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre.dll fixed

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:29:51PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: I assumed you would trust someone telling you whether the read-only attribute of a file was set, without needing to see further evidence? To me, this is an equivalent situation. Nope. I wouldn't. I'd ask

File size error in ls

2003-06-06 Thread Andrews Harold G Maj USAFA/DFCS
All, I was a little surprised to see the following when I did an ls -l. total 2368673 -rw-rw-rw-1 Harold.A mkgroup 4071856 Jun 5 10:48 2001-fall.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-rw-1 Harold.A mkgroup 12910850 Jun 5 10:53 2002-fall.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-rw-1 Harold.A mkgroup 12568393 Jun 5 10:59

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:48:29PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: There has been very little actual data provided here Here is some data, using the program from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00321.html THANK YOU. Gold star for Pierre. I remade the

Re: Updated: vim-6.2-1

2003-06-06 Thread Soren Andersen
Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:15:25PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:44:00PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: The problem is: what GUI? Exactly. {...} Not me ;-) I have no idea what gvim is actually good for. The non-GUI version runs very nicely inside of xterm or rxvt,

question re cygpcre.dll error message

2003-06-06 Thread Bruce Elmegreen
Dear Christopher, I downloaded setup.exe for cygwin from http://cygwin.com then ran it and installed from archive.progeny.com This had no problem. When I clicked on the desktop icon, I got a box with this error message: This application has failed to start because cygpcre.dll was not found.

shell returns

2003-06-06 Thread Ed Hoeffner
Hi I've installed the latest cygwin incarnation and would like to be able to execute windows commands after running a shell. Something along the line: net use disk letter: \\server\share tcsh -c run backup shellscript here net use /delete disk letter: I've tried both tcsh and bash, but the

openssl commandline tools always output in text mode

2003-06-06 Thread Patrick Eisenacher
Heyho, openssl's commandline tools always output in text mode, no matter what your mount type is, be it binary or text. Is this a bug or a feature? ;o) I wonder whether I can convince openssl to generate its output according to my mount type, which is binary for me. Currently I postprocess

win32api_NtQuerySystemInformation compiling problem

2003-06-06 Thread Alex Pyltsov
Hi, I've just try to use native w32api function NtQuerySystemInformation, but linker fail with following. Is this something trivial I am missing? Thanks for any help. cat test.c #include windows.h #include ddk/ntapi.h int main(void) { char buf[65535]; int len;

Re: File size error in ls

2003-06-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Andrews Harold G Maj USAFA/DFCS wrote: All, I was a little surprised to see the following when I did an ls -l. total 2368673 -rw-rw-rw-1 Harold.A mkgroup 4071856 Jun 5 10:48 2001-fall.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-rw-1 Harold.A mkgroup 12910850 Jun 5 10:53

cygwin dll missing

2003-06-06 Thread filip Van den Bulck
Hi there, i have just installed the CygWin program, when i opend it, it said it = was missing a DLL file, cygpcre.dll , i seem to be unable to config = things, how can i fix this? thank you and greetz filip -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

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