Security advisory: curl

2005-10-23 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 cURL is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. Solution: upgrade to 7.15.0. Workaround until solved: Disable NTLM authentication by not using the --anyauth or --ntlm options when using cURL (the command

Re: web browser for cgywin

2005-10-23 Thread Reid Thompson
Charles Li wrote: Can someone recommend a decent, and easy to build, web browser for cgywinX? Thanks. __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: web browser for cgywin

2005-10-23 Thread Eliah Kagan
On 10/23/05, Reid Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Li wrote: Can someone recommend a decent, and easy to build, web browser for cgywinX? Thanks. dillo graphical, small fast missing some features links text elinks text links2 http://links.twibright.com/ graphical --

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygheap.h cygtls.cc dc ...

2005-10-23 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-10-23 23:47:45 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog cygheap.h cygtls.cc dcrt0.cc dtable.cc dtable.h sigproc.cc sync.h times.cc Log message: *

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog

2005-10-23 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-10-24 00:02:05 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog Log message: add missing ChangeLog entry Patches:

Re: Socket read problem on Windows XP Pro Cygwin

2005-10-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 22 21:50, Todd Rearick wrote: Brian Dessent brian at dessent.net writes: What I was trying to emphasize is that passing COM4 to open() in a Cygwin program sets you up for a world of hurt... Brian It's even worse than you think. In this case...COM4 is not even a real serial

Scalability problem with Pthread Read/Write Locks

2005-10-23 Thread Johan De Taeye
My multi-threaded application is creating a lot of pthread_rwlock objects to protect access to my objects. I am noticing that this doesn't scale up well. As the number of active objects being created/changed/deleted increases into the thousands, the runtime performance degrades very badly. When

clipboard error with 20051020 snapshot

2005-10-23 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Hi This is an informal report as I've seen this message only once. Maybe you'll be able to understand what went wrong. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 duli2 1.5.19s(0.141/4/2) 20051020 10:37:08 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin $ cat 305.cpp /dev/clipboard 3191 [main] cat 28784 set_clipboard: Couldn't

Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required

2005-10-23 Thread zzapper
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:46:04 +0100, wrote: Hi $ cygpath -d c:/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer c:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1 I've just had another case where the I had to use the short form, is the short form the real name? I think I've may be mislead you, I think my problem was more that when theres

Re: setting baud for USB serial adaptors

2005-10-23 Thread tns1
tns1 wrote: WinXP SP2, cygwin 5.19 snapshot Once I grabbed the latest cygwin snapshot and made sure I had the coreutils 5.9xxx, I could finally use stty to set the baud of my built-in COM port, but it does not work for my USB serial adaptors. Any ideas? After more reading, I see that the

Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:15:14PM +0100, Chris Taylor wrote: Herb Martin wrote: Eric Blake wrote: Herb Martin wrote: So what is the method to teach Setup that the file has been updated. Have you tried simply uninstalling the Cygwin package? If you installed the new one into another

Re: Problem: find not traversing /cygdrive/X properly?

2005-10-23 Thread Kevin Autrey
I tried the lastest snapshot cygwin.dll - no changes - find still failed. So, I bit the bullet and re-installed my Cygwin installation. Same problem: I can't do a 'find' from a top-level /cygdrive/X directory (and it seems to affect ONLY 'find' when searching from the top-level /cygdrive/X

Error creating files in /tmp

2005-10-23 Thread Alastair Burnett
Hi, I have an 'interesting' problem - we have some software tools which require cygwin. For various reasons, we can't install cygwin on a local machine - all that the tools require is the cygwin1.dll and bash.exe, in theory at least. The tools and cygwin dependancies are all running from a

Re: intercepting serial comms

2005-10-23 Thread tns1
tns1 wrote: Is is possible to redirect the serial comms of a program after it has already launched and opened /dev/com1? If not, is it possible to create virtual serial ports under cygwin? To do this under linux I believe you need to add a kernel module. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Hang with 20051018 (3rd version) snapshot while building OOo

2005-10-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:48:05AM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: Volker Quetschke wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:45:30PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: (snip) Given the number of changes that have been made to cygwin, particularly in /proc handling, it's very

Re: Cygwin ssh prob

2005-10-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Paul-Kenji Cahier wrote: Hello all, I have noticed a problem occuring when ssh-ing and was unable to confirm what was the cause. Basically when pasting a lot of text through an ssh connection the windows will freeze, until the connection is disconnected. I've experienced it with all sorts of

Re: Cron Problems with Cygwin

2005-10-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
CWS Informatics [Sas] wrote: I am having trouble getting the cron to run properly under Windows 2000 and XP with cygwin. I have searched through several threads on the mailing list, including these most relevant ones: The solutions did not overly work, although they did help me progress a

Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-23 Thread Chris Taylor
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:15:14PM +0100, Chris Taylor wrote: Herb Martin wrote: Eric Blake wrote: Herb Martin wrote: So what is the method to teach Setup that the file has been updated. Have you tried simply uninstalling the Cygwin package? If you

question about raw sockets

2005-10-23 Thread Fernando Barsoba
Hi all, I'm working with raw sockets and I get the following error: `IP_HDRINCL' undeclared (first use in this function) I have been looking at the archives to see if raw sockets were supported.. but I couldn't find a straight answer. Does cygwin support raw sockets? Why am I getting this

Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required

2005-10-23 Thread Brian Dessent
zzapper wrote: I've just had another case where the I had to use the short form, is the short form the real name? I think I've may be mislead you, I think my problem was more that when theres an interaction between *nix scripts environment. Sometimes even quoting doesn't seem to carry the

Re: Error creating files in /tmp

2005-10-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Alastair Burnett wrote: Now, when I run the tools from another mapped drive - say a g: drive, I initially got the error about not being able to find a /tmp directory, so I simply did 'mkdir /tmp' and got past this. However, now the tools bail out because it can't create a file in /tmp -

Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required

2005-10-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 05:04:23PM +0100, zzapper wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:46:04 +0100, zzapper wrote: Hi $ cygpath -d c:/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer c:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1 I've just had another case where the I had to use the short form, is the short form the real name? No,

Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-3

2005-10-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:37:08PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: With the snap 20051019 13:12:47 the command 'cp -p' of coreutils 5.90-3 works fine. A curiosit. The recent snapshots contain also mingw-runtime and w32api: is there a special reason for this? Um, they changed?

Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:34:30AM +0100, Chris Taylor wrote: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:15:14PM +0100, Chris Taylor wrote: If you reinstalled all of exim, you don't really need the cygwin version.. So you want to edit the /etc/setup/installed.db and give it an