Re: [ITP] ddd-3.3.8

2003-12-08 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
This definitely has my vote - anything that makes debugging easier is a Good Thing IMHO. rlc On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:38:15PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: I would like to contribute and maintain ddd: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ GNU DDD is a graphical front-end for

[Review] dx-4.3.2 (a.k.a. opendx) and dxsamples-4.3.2

2003-12-08 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold I would like to contribute and maintain dx and dxsamples for Cygwin: Harold http://www.opendx.org/ I vote pro. Compiles and installs fine on my system. Packaging looks good. Ciao Volker

Re: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 8 14:14, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Good idea, except that I'd personally prefer a mount point in stead of a symlink but that's just personal preference.. (Personally, I'd prefer that the Cygwin DLL make /WINDOWS a magical mountpoint to the likeness of /dev, /proc, etc. so as to

Re: [Review] dx-4.3.2 (a.k.a. opendx) and dxsamples-4.3.2

2003-12-08 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Volker, Thanks for the vote and the review. I will probably hold off on posting until I replace ImageMagick with GraphicsMagick. Harold Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold I would like to contribute and maintain dx and dxsamples for Cygwin: Harold

[ITP - Ready for review] GraphicsMagick

2003-12-08 Thread Harold L Hunt II
[This package will replace ImageMagick for various reasons. One of those reasons is that the GM folks are committed to provide ABI stability and proper version numbers, whereas IM is not making such a committment and has already made various arbitrary changes to ABI version numbers.] I would like

Re: [ITP - Ready for review] GraphicsMagick

2003-12-08 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Sorry, disregard this repost. I have been having some mailer trouble and thought it didn't get through. I will be posting an updated announcement shortly. Harold

Re: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi, There are a bunch of applications, which, for security reasons, want to set $PATH to a fixed value. This approach is a bit tricky on Windows, since the needed paths to the Windows system directories are not fixed values as it's on POSIX

RE: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Morrison, John
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi, There are a bunch of applications, which, for security reasons, want to set $PATH to a fixed value. This approach is a bit tricky on Windows, since the needed paths to the Windows system directories are not fixed

RE: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Morrison, John wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi, There are a bunch of applications, which, for security reasons, want to set $PATH to a fixed value. This approach is a bit tricky on Windows, since the needed paths

Re: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 8 08:41, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: FWIW, I agree that it's a good idea to have a fixed pointer to the windows directory, but I don't think / is the right place to have it. Could we make it /mnt/WINDOWS or /opt/WINDOWS or something? I don't like cluttering up the root directory

Re: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Bruce Ingalls
This allows to keep the above described code to set $PATH in the affected tools, just by redefining, say _PATH_DEFPATH like this: #ifdef _PATH_DEFPATH #undef _PATH_DEFPATH #define _PATH_DEFPATH /usr/bin:/bin:/WINDOWS/system32:/WINDOWS:/WINDOWS/COMMAND/WINDOWS/system32/Wbem #endif which contains

RE: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Corinna Vinschen wrote on Monday, December 08, 2003 11:29 AM: #ifdef _PATH_DEFPATH #undef _PATH_DEFPATH #define _PATH_DEFPATH /usr/bin:/bin:/WINDOWS/system32:/WINDOWS:/WINDOWS/COMMAND/WIN DOWS/system32/Wbem #endif which contains both, NT and 9x paths. We could perhaps even change

Re: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 8 10:17, Bruce Ingalls wrote: This allows to keep the above described code to set $PATH in the affected tools, just by redefining, say _PATH_DEFPATH like this: #ifdef _PATH_DEFPATH #undef _PATH_DEFPATH #define _PATH_DEFPATH

Re: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 8 16:34, J?rg Schaible wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote on Monday, December 08, 2003 11:29 AM: #ifdef _PATH_DEFPATH #undef _PATH_DEFPATH #define _PATH_DEFPATH /usr/bin:/bin:/WINDOWS/system32:/WINDOWS:/WINDOWS/COMMAND/WIN DOWS/system32/Wbem #endif which contains both, NT and 9x

Re: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:27:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 8 14:14, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Good idea, except that I'd personally prefer a mount point in stead of a symlink but that's just personal preference.. (Personally, I'd prefer that the Cygwin DLL make /WINDOWS a

Re: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 8 11:06, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:27:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 8 14:14, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Good idea, except that I'd personally prefer a mount point in stead of a symlink but that's just personal preference.. (Personally,

Re: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:15:01PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 8 11:06, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:27:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 8 14:14, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Good idea, except that I'd personally prefer a mount point in stead of

RE: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Corinna Vinschen wrote on Monday, December 08, 2003 4:42 PM: Just one side note: Are you sure, that the orthography of all these subdirectories is the same for all Windows plattforms (at least with VFAT or NTFS)? You might get problems with the strict setting otherwise. The above given

Re: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 8 08:41, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: FWIW, I agree that it's a good idea to have a fixed pointer to the windows directory, but I don't think / is the right place to have it. Could we make it /mnt/WINDOWS or /opt/WINDOWS or something? I

Re: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:54:14PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: perhaps /cygdrive/WINDOWS would be another alternative. Let me say it more clearly -- there will be no magic in cygwin1.dll for this. cgf

Re: [ITP] ddd-3.3.8

2003-12-08 Thread Mark Blackburn
Harold, How do you generate setup.ini? Is there a script somewhere or do you generate it by hand? Mark Blackburn Harold L Hunt II wrote: I would like to contribute and maintain ddd: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ GNU DDD is a graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB,

Re: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:54:14PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: perhaps /cygdrive/WINDOWS would be another alternative. Let me say it more clearly -- there will be no magic in cygwin1.dll for this. cgf As I see it, there is no conceptual

[Review] ddd-3.3.8

2003-12-08 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold Ronald, Harold Did you point setup.exe to the address given, install it, and run it? Harold If so, that would be enough of a review for me. I just want to make Harold sure it works on someone else's installation. I just downloaded

libsmi-0.4.2 [Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-12-05]

2003-12-08 Thread Harold L Hunt II
[I haven't heard from Abe yet regarding this package, so I am just going to post it as-is within a few hours unless someone requests that I not do that.] I fixed the Lib category in the setup.hint file, which should have been Libs. You can point Cygwin's setup.exe to the following address to

[ITP - Ready for review 2] GraphicsMagick

2003-12-08 Thread Harold L Hunt II
[This is an update that needs to be reviewed again.] I would like to contribute and maintain GraphicsMagick: http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ Tester's Notes == You can point Cygwin's setup.exe to the following address to download and test the GraphicsMagick package:

Generating setup.ini files [Was: Re: [ITP] ddd-3.3.8]

2003-12-08 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Mark, Mark Blackburn wrote: Harold, How do you generate setup.ini? Is there a script somewhere or do you generate it by hand? I use the 'upset' script that is contained in Cygwin's CVS tree. All of the developers use this and it is the same script that creates the setup.ini file for the

Re: [Review] ddd-3.3.8

2003-12-08 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Thanks for reviewing this Volker. See notes below. Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold Ronald, Harold Did you point setup.exe to the address given, install it, and run it? Harold If so, that would be enough of a review for me. I just want to

upset and the setup.exe package server

2003-12-08 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I know that it doesn't come up very often, but we have had the occasional question about upset before Mark's. For the last while I've been jotting things down and this got me to put up a web page about the Package Server, how to create a local mirror, and how to create a custom mirror at:

Re: upset and the setup.exe package server

2003-12-08 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Joshua, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: I know that it doesn't come up very often, but we have had the occasional question about upset before Mark's. For the last while I've been jotting things down and this got me to put up a web page about the Package Server, how to create a local mirror, and

Re: upset and the setup.exe package server

2003-12-08 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: I know that it doesn't come up very often, but we have had the occasional question about upset before Mark's. For the last while I've been jotting things down and this got me to put up a web page about the Package Server, how to create a local mirror, and

RE: HSBC ENQUIRY.

2003-12-08 Thread kevin.lawton
Could this be a spam harvester's latest tactic ? What makes me think this ? - well, three points really: 1) It was sent out at 3am on a Saturday morning ! 2) The poor English. The word 'intestate' is an adjective not a noun, so one wouldn't die 'in intestate' one would just die

Re: -nounixkill doesn't seem to work (Was Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace)

2003-12-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: xmodmap -e keycode 22 = BackSpace This, however, not only didn't change anything (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace still exited X), but also crashed XWin.exe. I doubt the stack dump is of any use with a non-debug version of XWin, but I can provide it if

display bug

2003-12-08 Thread Bruce Ingalls
I noticed an interesting bug. When I started emacs from my xterm, then dragged the xterm window out of the way, during the time that emacs was taking a long time to launch, the emacs display was being written to both windows. When I clicked on the title bar of the xterm, then both the emacs

Requesting a debug XFree86 snapshot (Was Re: -nounixkill doesn't seem to work)

2003-12-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: xmodmap -e keycode 22 = BackSpace This, however, not only didn't change anything (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace still exited X), but also crashed XWin.exe. I doubt the stack dump is of any use with a

Re: DDD 3.3.8 recipe - was - RE: libtool created import libs broken? was RE: DDD 3.3.8 (i686-pc-cygwin) gets `Segmentation fault

2003-12-08 Thread Arnaud Desitter
Hi, A few suggestions: Related to #pragma interface and gang, could you submit a bug report to the gcc folks ? As far as ddd is concerned, you could write an autoconf test that makes sure that #pragma ... does not create a link failure and patch properly the ddd source code. #ifndef __CYWIN__ all

Re: Requesting a debug XFree86 snapshot (Was Re: -nounixkill doesn't seem to work)

2003-12-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Could you or Harold please post a debug snapshot somewhere? I've uploaded a debugbuild to http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/XWin.exe.bz2 It is from my development tree and _NOT_ intended to replace the latest release. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Lesstif] INSTALL.html#compile_Windows

2003-12-08 Thread Brian Ford
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Danny Backx wrote: Hmm, maybe I didn't read some message carefully enough to figure out that this was a complete and working patch set, not work in progress. At the time, a lesstif DLL for Cygwin was still a work in progress, all be it an iminent one. But, the Xt/Xmu/Xaw

Re: Requesting a debug XFree86 snapshot (Was Re: -nounixkill doesn't seem to work)

2003-12-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Could you or Harold please post a debug snapshot somewhere? I've uploaded a debugbuild to http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/XWin.exe.bz2 It is from my development tree and _NOT_ intended to replace the latest

Re: Requesting a debug XFree86 snapshot (Was Re: -nounixkill doesn't seem to work)

2003-12-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Could you or Harold please post a debug snapshot somewhere? I've uploaded a debugbuild to http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/XWin.exe.bz2 It is from my development tree and _NOT_

Re: [Xoncygwin-cvs] CVS Update: cygwin-xfree-doc (branch: trunk)

2003-12-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Alexander Gottwald wrote: I'll do this but I am busy the next days too. So this may last until next weekend or even later. But lets see how far I get on monday. I've finished the hw/xwin directory. Harold and Kensuke, can you please take a look if I've not removed changes (eg. to the new

Re: [Xoncygwin-cvs] CVS Update: cygwin-xfree-doc (branch: trunk)

2003-12-08 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander Gottwald wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: I'll do this but I am busy the next days too. So this may last until next weekend or even later. But lets see how far I get on monday. I've finished the hw/xwin directory. Harold and Kensuke, can you please take a look if I've not removed

Re: [Xoncygwin-cvs] CVS Update: cygwin-xfree-doc (branch: trunk)

2003-12-08 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander, Oh, I get it, you have been preparing for a commit, but you have not committed yet, right? I see no commits yet, so I suspect that this is the case: http://pdx.freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/?cvsroot=xorg Harold Harold L Hunt II wrote: Alexander

Re: [Xoncygwin-cvs] CVS Update: cygwin-xfree-doc (branch: trunk)

2003-12-08 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Ugh, I keep getting confused. Forgot to look at the CYGWIN tag: http://pdx.freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/?cvsroot=xorgonly_with_tag=CYGWIN So, the changes have been committed. This is good. Now I need to figure out why no emails were sent to xorg-commit.

Re: [Xoncygwin-cvs] CVS Update: cygwin-xfree-doc (branch: trunk)

2003-12-08 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Oh my! I didn't realize that Kensuke had already started committing patches to the tree! This is neat. Please disregard all of my responses to Alexander's earlier questions. Harold

Re: [Xoncygwin-cvs] CVS Update: cygwin-xfree-doc (branch: trunk)

2003-12-08 Thread Kensuke Matsuzaki
Alexander, It seems like new rootless code were partly overwritten by old code, and Neither New and old rootless mode does't work. Kensuke Matsuzaki

src/winsup/w32api include/winuser.h include/co ...

2003-12-08 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-12-08 22:41:44 Modified files: winsup/w32api/include: winuser.h commctrl.h shlguid.h wingdi.h shlobj.h winsup/w32api/lib: shell32.c winsup/w32api :

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog pinfo.cc

2003-12-08 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-12-09 03:27:06 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog pinfo.cc Log message: * pinfo.cc (_pinfo::set_ctty): Don't copy over existing ctty if it is active. Patches:

Re: [Patch]: Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole (part 1).

2003-12-08 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 10:24:31PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: It's mostly fine (rxvt and notty) but starting the following from DOS creates a slew of warning from the handler protection code (below). However the shell is functional. tty reports /dev/tty,

Re: [Patch]: Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole (part 1).

2003-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:10:10PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Either myself-set_ctty should be smarter, or fhandler_tty_slave::dup could see if it's about the ctty and simply copy it. I stared at the set_ctty code a long time trying to understand why it went out of its way to do the ctty

Re: [Patch]: Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole (part 1).

2003-12-08 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 10:46 PM 12/8/2003 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 10:28 PM 12/8/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Does that solve the problem? Yes, but now I see another one: open_fhs is off. fhandler_tty_slave::close: decremented open_fhs -1 I have to stop for now. One minor thing:

Re: Accident: deleted installed.db

2003-12-08 Thread fergus
cd /etc/setup echo INSTALLED.DB 2 installed.db ls *.lst.gz | sed -e 's/^\(.*\)\.lst\.gz$/\1 \1-0.tar.bz2 0/' installed.db Thank you. This worked and saved a lot of effort. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Again: *** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5. Terminating.

2003-12-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo, Is there a snapshot available with a cygwin1.dll which can handle this problem? A new Cygwin release including this patch is scheduled? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

httping 0.0.3 make error

2003-12-08 Thread svartsjel
Hi, I didn't work with make so far, and would like to install httping 0.0.3 by Folkert van Heusden (http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/httping) for the current Cygwin release. Did anyone manage to compile this program? I read the FAQ items concerning make and verified that MAKE_MODE is set to

Recommend zsh

2003-12-08 Thread zzapper
Hi Y'All I always feel threatened when something I've spent ages learning appears to be superceded. Anyway I made the plunge and switched from bash to zsh (change cygwin.bat , zsh --login -i). I feared rewriting all my existing scripts, but in fact they are still using a bash bang. The transition

Re: lack of libgen.h in Cygwin (dirname+basename). Solved? + statvfs.h

2003-12-08 Thread Luis Torres
Hello Gerrit, Danke.Thanks for the hint. I downloaded it and it works fine (at least compile/linked without warnings ...). That is a much satisfactory solution. I had grabbed some code for dir/basename but they were non standard, and would oblige me to change the calls to those functions ...

[PATHC] for w32api/sql.h (was: Re: w32api/sql.h broken?)

2003-12-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Rafael wrote: I just tried compiling: #include windows.h #include sql.h int main() { return 0; } with: gcc -mno-cygwin and it worked fine. So it's a conflict with the cygwin headers sqltypes.h somewhere, I'll try to figure it out. Just received this patch for sql.h:

Re: httping 0.0.3 make error

2003-12-08 Thread Dirk Sondermann
Hallo Michael, try make CC='gcc -ansi' or replace the first line of the makefile by CC=gcc -ansi. 'strip' will not be able to find the resulting executable unless the line strip httping is replaced by strip httping.exe . Dirk -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Again: *** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5. Terminating.

2003-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 8 11:42, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo, Is there a snapshot available with a cygwin1.dll which can handle this problem? A new Cygwin release including this patch is scheduled? Did you try the latest ones? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding

RE: Invalid program file name, pif file

2003-12-08 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
Yahoo can send attached files. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 1:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Invalid program file name, pif file [snip] I have a free yahoo.com email account.

Re: Again: *** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5. Terminating.

2003-12-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Corinna wrote: On Dec 8 11:42, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo, Is there a snapshot available with a cygwin1.dll which can handle this problem? A new Cygwin release including this patch is scheduled? Did you try the latest ones? I downloaded today and have still this package here:

Re: [PATHC] for w32api/sql.h (was: Re: w32api/sql.h broken?)

2003-12-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Rafael wrote: I've thought about doing that, but mingw and Cygwin use the same w32api headers, and mingw (aka gcc -mno-cygwin) does not understand w32api/foo. However, this works: --- sql.h 2003-12-08 04:20:17.328125000 -0800 +++ sql.h.new 2003-12-08 04:19:36.71875 -0800 @@ -10,7

RE: Cygwin on windows2003 Server

2003-12-08 Thread Amit RATHEE
I do Remsh on two different servers and the results are: 1)Windows 2000 server : Passed 2)Windows 2003 server : Permission denied. All the things are similar in both the case.I am using 1005.5.0.0 as cygwin1.dll Can anyone please help what to do? With Warm Regards, Amit Rathee --

Re: Again: *** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5. Terminating.

2003-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 8 15:52, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I have not tried a snapshot yet. That's what I was talking about. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. --

Re: lack of libgen.h in Cygwin (dirname+basename). Solved? + statvfs.h

2003-12-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Luis wrote: Hello Gerrit, Danke.Thanks for the hint. I downloaded it and it works fine (at least compile/linked without warnings ...). That is a much satisfactory solution. I had grabbed some code for dir/basename but they were non standard, and would oblige me to change the calls to

cp: will not create hard link

2003-12-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
To the Cygwin mailing list: Back in January, Thomas Baker (who is BCC'd on this) posted a question about a large call to cp giving an error message about not being able to create a hard link. Ref: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00890.html. I've just upgraded cygwin from 1.3.22-1

Problem in getting the latest version

2003-12-08 Thread Amit RATHEE
I tried to Reinstall the Latest version of Cygwin1.5.5 on the web. It Installs everything but in the last it gives an error message that cygwin cannot start as cygwin1.dll could not be located. With Warm Regards, Amit Rathee 099-6069 -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Cygwin on windows2003 Server

2003-12-08 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Amit RATHEE wrote: I do Remsh on two different servers and the results are: 1)Windows 2000 server : Passed 2)Windows 2003 server : Permission denied. All the things are similar in both the case.I am using 1005.5.0.0 as cygwin1.dll Can anyone please help what to do?

Re: about xfig and ghoscript

2003-12-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Nathalie Henrich wrote: Dear Igor, Thank you for your reply and explanations. Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Well, the first thing to check is: does the file exist? Is it readable? yes, the file exist and can even be opened in xfig when it is the first image to be

Re: system call socket, bind etc not working

2003-12-08 Thread Brian Ford
Please set your mailer to line wrap at = 80 characters. Thanks. On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Nikhil Bhargava wrote: I have installed latest version of cygwin for writing programs in c on gcc like environment. But i am not able to get the support for many system calls like socket(), bind() and all SVR5

Re: Problems with setup handling of gcc-core gcc-testsuite

2003-12-08 Thread Brian Ford
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, David A. Cobb wrote: I couldn't find this in the archives, but the two packages gcc-core gcc-testsuite, which are distinguished by being source-only, never get registered as installed. Setup has now re-installed them about 6 times. I know, I don't need to select them;

still cannot read /cygdrive/c

2003-12-08 Thread cygwin
I am having the same problem. Please also see: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00742.html $ mount E:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) E:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) E:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)

setup.exe Can't get list of download sites

2003-12-08 Thread Gene Ballard
Hi, Trying to install cygwin using setup.exe on a Win2K PC but get error Can't get list of download sites. Make sure your network settings are correct and try again. I have disabled antivirus and firewalls. I use a cable modem with a Linksys router issues static ips to each pc. No problem

Re: still cannot read /cygdrive/c

2003-12-08 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am on the 1116 snapshot -rwx--+ 1 jakezNone 1081698 Nov 16 03:23 cygwin1.dll Bingo! 2003-11-19 Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] * dtable.cc (build_fh_pc): Resurrect accidentally removed DEV_CYGDRIVE_MAJOR case.

Re: Problems with setup handling of gcc-core gcc-testsuite

2003-12-08 Thread David A. Cobb
Brian Ford wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, David A. Cobb wrote: I couldn't find this in the archives, but the two packages gcc-core gcc-testsuite, which are distinguished by being source-only, never get registered as installed. Setup has now re-installed them about 6 times. I know, I don't need

Re: Problems with setup handling of gcc-core gcc-testsuite

2003-12-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:10, David A. Cobb wrote: Well, I read that. It doesn't sound like the same thing. The first time I saw it, I explicitly selected Install the gcc-core. However, it keeps showing up as something to be installed. It still shows with the new or omitted packages

Re: Problems with setup handling of gcc-core gcc-testsuite

2003-12-08 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, David A. Cobb wrote: Brian Ford wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, David A. Cobb wrote: I couldn't find this in the archives, but the two packages gcc-core gcc-testsuite, which are distinguished by being source-only, never get registered as installed. Setup has now re-installed

Re: Problems with setup handling of gcc-core gcc-testsuite

2003-12-08 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:10, David A. Cobb wrote: The first time I saw it, I explicitly selected Install the gcc-core. However, it keeps showing up as something to be installed. It still shows with the new or omitted packages view. My hypothesis

statvfs vs statfs - replacement for f_frsize?

2003-12-08 Thread Luis Torres
Hello, The question is posted again,starting a new thread. I changed code from another platform that relied on statvfs.h. However the struct statfs, does not have f_frsize and I replaced it by f_bsize, but apparently this creates problems, and I am getting strange numbers, like 1999 Mb, when

Re: Problems with setup handling of gcc-core gcc-testsuite

2003-12-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:22, Brian Ford wrote: I think he and I just want clicking on all-install to not continually download those two packages. I didn't ever hand select them to begin with. I just get them continually for free. Ah, well thats deliberate behaviour. Hmm, I'll think about it.

Re: #pragma inteface - was - RE: DDD 3.3.8 recipe - was - RE: lib tool created import libs broken? was RE: DDD 3.3.8 (i686-pc-cygwin) get s `Segmentation fault

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Campbell
Related to #pragma interface and gang, could you submit a bug report to the gcc folks ? Related to #pragma interface, It appears to be a known problem: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg01066.html I do intend to push on it somewhat, as I agree that #ifndef __CYWIN__ is certainly

Re: setup.exe Can't get list of download sites

2003-12-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Gene Ballard wrote: Hi, Trying to install cygwin using setup.exe on a Win2K PC but get error Can't get list of download sites. Make sure your network settings are correct and try again. I have disabled antivirus and firewalls. I use a cable modem with a Linksys router

RE: setup.exe Can't get list of download sites

2003-12-08 Thread Gene Ballard
Hi, Trying to install cygwin using setup.exe on a Win2K PC but get error Can't get list of download sites. Make sure your network settings are correct and try again. I have disabled antivirus and firewalls. I use a cable modem with a Linksys router issues static ips to each

Re: Anonymous ftp - ls hangs

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:43:16PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I decided to resurrect anonymous ftp on a server here under Cygwin and managed to get it working again except that when one ftp's and types ls the ls hangs. I search the list and found one person having a

Re: Invalid program file name, pif file

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew DeFaria
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emailed AOL directly, to see if there was an option to disable auto compressing files. This is the response I got... Based on your mail, you want to disable the option in automatically decompressing files when sending a large file as an attachment. Unfortunately,

Re: Problem with pthreads and signaling, behavior broken...

2003-12-08 Thread Marcus Van Der Beek
Hi Arash, I've downloaded the tests and dlls both from you're site and last few cygwin snapshots and CONFIRMED your results. There is a major bug in both the signaling during threads and also the problem of accumulating handles. Just by looking at the various changes in the snapshots it seems cgf

Re: Problem with pthreads and signaling, behavior broken...

2003-12-08 Thread Arash Partow
hello marcus, thanx for your confirmation, however i don't think its a good idea to be blaming anyone for these bugs, they are a natural occurrence during development and of course addition of new features. In any case could you please tell me how you ascertained the accumulating handles count,

Re: Problem with pthreads and signaling, behavior broken...

2003-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:09:37PM +, Marcus Van Der Beek wrote: I've downloaded the tests and dlls both from you're site and last few cygwin snapshots and CONFIRMED your results. There is a major bug in both the signaling during threads and also the problem of accumulating handles. Just by

Memory Management on AMD64 in 32-bit mode

2003-12-08 Thread Benson Margulies
I happen to have access to a an AMD64 system running Windows. All the cygwin shells fail to fork with the following. I'd be willing to try coding and running a patch if the experts would care to offer an idea of what to try. $P$Gls C:\cygwin\bin\zsh.exe: *** fork: can't reserve memory for stack

Re: cp: will not create hard link

2003-12-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:51:48 -0500, I wrote: To the Cygwin mailing list: Back in January, Thomas Baker (who is BCC'd on this) posted a question about a large call to cp giving an error message about not being able to create a hard link. Ref:

Re: Memory Management on AMD64 in 32-bit mode

2003-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:30:17PM -0500, Benson Margulies wrote: I happen to have access to a an AMD64 system running Windows. All the cygwin shells fail to fork with the following. I'd be willing to try coding and running a patch if the experts would care to offer an idea of what to try. Sorry

Re: cp: will not create hard link

2003-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:43:32PM -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I think I've tracked this down. My path contained an old version of cp.exe, ahead of the newly installed one. It must have been incompatible with the newly installed cygwin dll. It doesn't work that way. New dlls always work with

Re: Problem with pthreads and signaling, behavior broken...

2003-12-08 Thread Sherly Smith
Hi, I've tried the latest snapshot 8th of december, that doesn't seem to show the handel issue arash was talking about (which i think chris fixed), however the signal problem with SIGINT is there. The behavior i see is as follows, after the 1st 700 threads have been created, i press ctrl+c

Re: Problem with pthreads and signaling, behavior broken...

2003-12-08 Thread Marcus Van Der Beek
Hi Chris, I've tried the latest snapshot 8/12/2003, that dll doesn't seem to have the win32-hndl problem that was seen in previous versions of the dll, but it is still exibiting the signalling problems. Marcus I fixed a handle leak problem last night. I don't suppose that it occurred to

Re: cp: will not create hard link

2003-12-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 20:18:50 -0500, you wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:43:32PM -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I think I've tracked this down. My path contained an old version of cp.exe, ahead of the newly installed one. It must have been incompatible with the newly installed cygwin dll. It

Re: Problem with pthreads and signaling, behavior broken...

2003-12-08 Thread Arash Partow
Hi Chris, I have to agree with marcus, the dll from the 8th still has the signalling issue. you have to let the threadtest run for a bit, meaning let it get to around 3k-4k of threads being created, at that point the SIGINT does not seem to fire. Arash

Re: Problem with pthreads and signaling, behavior broken...

2003-12-08 Thread Arash Partow
Hello Sherly, I haven't tried the ThreadTest on a solaris system however ive e-mailed someone that does have access to one, they will try it i'll get the results back to you, but out of interest what do you think the solaris system will do? and how do you think that behaviour will relate to

reading mutt mail folders in outlook express?

2003-12-08 Thread Ajay Simha
Hi, There are times I can use outlook express or some thing with a gui. Is there a way I can open my inbox (/var/spool/mail/asimha) and my folders ~asimha/mail with something like outlook express? I know I can do this with netscape mail (netscape 4.7). Thanks, /ajay From listening comes

Re: g++ link errors

2003-12-08 Thread Dean Scarff
Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: Your compile displays gcc version 3.2.3 but cygcheck output says you have 3.3.* installed. May I suggest that you try to uninstall+reinstall the gcc packages? Though: I'm not sure this will help you. Yep, the problem seemed to be that all the 3.2.3 stuff was in

Re: Problem with pthreads and signaling, behavior broken...

2003-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:01:56AM +, Arash Partow wrote: Hello Sherly, I haven't tried the ThreadTest on a solaris system however ive e-mailed someone that does have access to one, they will try it i'll get the results back to you, but out of interest what do you think the solaris system

Re: g++ link errors

2003-12-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:14 PM 12/8/2003, Dean Scarff you wrote: Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: Your compile displays gcc version 3.2.3 but cygcheck output says you have 3.3.* installed. May I suggest that you try to uninstall+reinstall the gcc packages? Though: I'm not sure this will help you. Yep, the problem

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