Re: [ITP] scsh

2007-05-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 28 15:25, Reini Urban wrote: Open-source Unix shell embedded within Scheme 48, running on all major Unix platforms. http://www.scsh.net/ http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/scsh/ # scsh sdesc: Open-source Unix shell embedded within Scheme ldesc: Scsh is a variant of

Re: [ITP] ddrescue 1.3

2007-05-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 18 21:03, Christian Franke wrote: I would like to contribute the GNU ddrescue package: (http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html) During further testing, I found that ddrescue segfaults when reading from /dev/sdX without specifying the correct raw sector size (-b 2048).

Re: [ITP] ddrescue 1.3

2007-05-29 Thread Christian Franke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 18 21:03, Christian Franke wrote: ... I posted a patch to cygwin-patches. Do you want to ITP ddrescue nevertheless? Yes. Meantime I realized that at least on Debian the package and executable are named gddrescue to distinguish it from the older

Re: [ITP] ddrescue 1.3

2007-05-29 Thread Christian Franke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: ... Nice ambiguity. GNU ddrescue is called ddrescue on Fedora, so let's stick to ddrescue. OK. Do you have a new version of the package or is the latest ITP still valid? Latest is still valid. Christian

Re: runtime unpleasantness with setup.exe [please try 2.569]

2007-05-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Servaas Goossens wrote: Part of the unpleasantness is caused by the fact that the message box doesn't contain any details on why the parse error occured. I had the same problem a few month ago while testing my own generated setup.ini. I changed one line in ini.cc and got a message box with

RE: xterm Not Responding after wakeup from hibernate with Vista

2007-05-29 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arnaud Legout Sent: den 28 maj 2007 16:55 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: xterm Not Responding after wakeup from hibernate with Vista Hi, I experience the same problem on my laptop with

Re: xterm Not Responding after wakeup from hibernate with Vista

2007-05-29 Thread Arnaud Legout
Hello, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: This looks like a similar problem I had. In my case I trackedit down to my firewall (kerio) changing that fixed my problem. I don't have kerio on my machine, I am using the vista firewall. Arnaud. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: xterm Not Responding after wakeup from hibernate with Vista

2007-05-29 Thread Scott Hussong
Arnaud Legout Arnaud.Legout at sophia.inria.fr writes: Hi, I experience the same problem on my laptop with vista 32bit ultimate. I can start the X server and open xterms. Everything works fine until my computer enter in sleep or hibernate mode. Then the X-server seems to crash taking

line drawing characters in vt100 xterm

2007-05-29 Thread J. David Boyd
Howdy Sometime, I can connect to a customer system, and the vt100 terminal does a great job of drawing lines. Other time, I get + and - and | characters instead. A clue please? Where do I start troubleshooting this? Dave -- Unsubscribe info:

src/winsup/utils ChangeLog cygpath.cc

2007-05-29 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-05-29 07:54:45 Modified files: winsup/utils : ChangeLog cygpath.cc Log message: * cygpath.cc (do_options): Allow outputflag combined with other basic flags. Only check

src/winsup/cygwin dtable.cc fhandler.cc fhandl ...

2007-05-29 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-05-29 17:25:37 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : dtable.cc fhandler.cc fhandler.h fhandler_disk_file.cc ChangeLog Log message: * dtable.cc

Re: Dumper produces unuseable dumps (fix).

2007-05-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 23:42, Pedro Alves wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Ping! The papers have found their way to our office and are already signed. Great! That's a relief. You said you have an updated patch? Yep. Here it is. human-made-inter-diff: - set lma == 0 - fixed buglet in the

problem with drive letters when running from DOS box

2007-05-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I noticed a strange problem. I tried to run 'cmp' from a DOS box but it could not find the file. cmp d:\Data\file1 e:file2 did simply not see file2 even if I started cmp from e:. As I was off-line when I needed cmp, I wrote my own cmp to compare the files. What surprise. The same

Re: file permissions on vista

2007-05-29 Thread Arnaud Legout
Hello Brian, Brian Dessent wrote: I can't reproduce this. I right click and create a new Notepad file foo.txt, it has the permissions: may be you have deactivated the UAC as morgan suggested? The permissions on a file created with native Windows methods should inherit from the parent

[Fwd: Re: file permissions on vista]

2007-05-29 Thread Arnaud Legout
I forgot to CC the mailing list. ---BeginMessage--- Hello Morgan, morgan gangwere wrote: 1 - Turn Off UAC I turned it off, and now when I create a file, the access rights are u+rwx. Also the user is Administrator, whereas it was my username when I have UAC on. So I suppose that Brian

Re: problem with drive letters when running from DOS box

2007-05-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 27 07:49, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, I noticed a strange problem. I tried to run 'cmp' from a DOS box but it could not find the file. cmp d:\Data\file1 e:file2 Actually we don't expect this to work. The DOS notion of a drive relative working directory isn't supported by Cygwin.

Re: rsync problems with snapshots

2007-05-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 27 22:25, Angelo Graziosi wrote: I want to flag that with the Cygwin snapshots (those of 1.7 version) there is this problem using rsync: - $ rsync -av --delete ftp.dante.de::CTAN/systems/win32/miktex /tmp receiving

Re: problem with drive letters when running from DOS box

2007-05-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 27 07:49, Erich Dollansky wrote: I noticed a strange problem. I tried to run 'cmp' from a DOS box but it could not find the file. cmp d:\Data\file1 e:file2 Actually we don't expect this to work. The DOS notion of a drive relative it works perfectly

Re: problem with drive letters when running from DOS box

2007-05-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 27 07:49, Erich Dollansky wrote: I noticed a strange problem. I tried to run 'cmp' from a DOS box but it could not find the file. cmp d:\Data\file1 e:file2 Actually we don't expect this to work. The DOS notion of a drive

RE: [Spam?]Re: problem concating () to a large file

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Milne
Hi Eric Were you able to reproduce the problem I encountered with dd? Cheers Peter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: problem with drive letters when running from DOS box

2007-05-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 29 13:03, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 27 07:49, Erich Dollansky wrote: I noticed a strange problem. I tried to run 'cmp' from a DOS box but it could not find the file. cmp d:\Data\file1 e:file2 Actually we don't expect this to work. The DOS

Re: rsync problems with snapshots

2007-05-29 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Any chance that you start debugging this? Sorry, but I have not a great experience with debugging, so when I detect some problems I flag them to the list hoping that someone more expert look at them. Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: rsync problems with snapshots

2007-05-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 29 15:21, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Any chance that you start debugging this? Sorry, but I have not a great experience with debugging, so when I detect some problems I flag them to the list hoping that someone more expert look at them. Maybe this is a

Re: File Permissions on Vista [could be how to deal with UAC?]

2007-05-29 Thread morgan gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnaud Legout wrote: I forgot to CC the mailing list. Subject: Re: file permissions on vista From: Arnaud Legout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 09:46:52

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: tcsh-6.15.00-3

2007-05-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've uploaded an experimental version 6.15.00-3 of tcsh to cygwin.com. This version is supposed to solve problems with DOS lineendings when using tcsh as login shell. A typical problem are broken or hanging rsync calls with tcsh as (remote) login shell. The problem is that Cygwin's tcsh is

Re: file permissions on vista

2007-05-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Arnaud Legout wrote: Hello Brian, Brian Dessent wrote: I can't reproduce this. I right click and create a new Notepad file foo.txt, it has the permissions: may be you have deactivated the UAC as morgan suggested? The permissions on a file created with native Windows methods should

freetype update?

2007-05-29 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hi, Can we have a freetype update, LilyPond 2.12 will require at least 2.1.10? Greetings, Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: rsync problems with snapshots

2007-05-29 Thread morgan gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 29 15:21, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Any chance that you start debugging this? Sorry, but I have not a great experience with debugging, so when I detect some problems I flag them to the list

Re: [Spam?]Re: problem concating () to a large file

2007-05-29 Thread Eric Blake
Peter Milne peter.milne at netspeed.com.au writes: Hi Eric Were you able to reproduce the problem I encountered with dd? Yes - and it looks like there is indeed a cygwin bug, unrelated to my newlib patch to stdout. $ cd /tmp $ dd bs=1 seek=4540030013 if=/dev/zero of=huge count=1 $ ls -l

Re: rsync problems with snapshots

2007-05-29 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Maybe this is a good chance to gain some debugging skills? May you suggest how to start ? TIA, Angelo. (I forgot to write that rsync -av --delete ftp.dante.de::CTAN/systems/win32/miktex /tmp works fine with 1.5.24-2 and 1.5.24-2 rebuilt with recent

Re: echo with no line feed

2007-05-29 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sat, 26 May 2007, John wrote: I can't get: #! /bin/sh echo Type file name: \c read FNAME echo $FNAME # to work without the line feed (using or ' quotes in the echo). Any tips? '\c' is an escape sequence that prompts 'echo' to disable the trailing newline. However, you have to tell

Re: [Spam?]Re: problem concating () to a large file

2007-05-29 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: Somehow, when the file size is huge, cygwin is not properly propogating that an O_APPEND bit (0x9 in the flags printed from F_GETFL) means that the initial offset of fd 1 is the end of the file. (And it would be nice if strace would show the initial

Re: problem concating () to a large file

2007-05-29 Thread Brian Ford
On Sat, 26 May 2007, Eric Blake wrote: But in classic open source mindset, the release will be sooner if you help. Only microscopically in this case, since to my knowledge there is no public list of release criteria or open issues that need addressing before releasing 1.7.0. -- Brian Ford

Slightly off-topic, but...

2007-05-29 Thread Eric Lilja
Hi, I've installed qt-win-opensource-4.2.3-mingw.exe from trolltech and I'm using the tools installed by cygwin to develop Qt programs. Well, one could argue I'm not really using cygwin because I have to pass -mno-cygwin when compiling otherwise I get errors for non-trivial programs. Anyway,

Re: [Spam?]Re: problem concating () to a large file

2007-05-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 29 15:28, Eric Blake wrote: Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: Somehow, when the file size is huge, cygwin is not properly propogating that an O_APPEND bit (0x9 in the flags printed from F_GETFL) means that the initial offset of fd 1 is the end of the file. (And it would be

Re: Slightly off-topic, but...

2007-05-29 Thread morgan gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Lilja wrote: Hi, I've installed qt-win-opensource-4.2.3-mingw.exe from trolltech and I'm using the tools installed by cygwin to develop Qt programs. Well, one could argue I'm not really using cygwin because I have to pass -mno-cygwin when

RE: Slightly off-topic, but...

2007-05-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29 May 2007 16:52, morgan gangwere wrote: easy way: 1 - compile as normal 2 - after qmake finishes, COPY cygwin1.dll mingwm10.dll and qtui.dll (or someshizzat like that) to the OUTPUT directory of your build. now you can run all this from just doulble clicking it in Windows. Wrong, and

Re: [Spam?]Re: problem concating () to a large file

2007-05-29 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: assert (0 == lseek (open(existing, O_WRONLY | O_APPEND), 0, SEEK_CUR)); Can you give me a pointer? http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/open.html The file offset used to mark the current position within the file

RE: Slightly off-topic, but...

2007-05-29 Thread Dave Korn
Sigh. This post is a fine example of exactly why we're removing the -mno-cygwin option: for some reason, despite it being very plainly called no cygwin, people just refuse to believe that the stuff it creates has NO CYGWIN in it. On 29 May 2007 16:46, Eric Lilja wrote: Hi, I've installed

RE: Slightly off-topic, but...

2007-05-29 Thread Mark Moriarty
Eric Lilja wrote: Hi, I've installed qt-win-opensource-4.2.3-mingw.exe from trolltech and I'm using the tools installed by cygwin to develop Qt programs. Well, one could argue I'm not really using cygwin because I have to pass -mno-cygwin when compiling otherwise I get errors for

Re: [Spam?]Re: problem concating () to a large file

2007-05-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 29 15:28, Eric Blake wrote: Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: Somehow, when the file size is huge, cygwin is not properly propogating that an O_APPEND bit (0x9 in the flags printed from F_GETFL) means that the initial offset of fd 1 is the end of the file. (And it would be

Re: Slightly off-topic, but...

2007-05-29 Thread morgan gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Korn wrote: On 29 May 2007 16:52, morgan gangwere wrote: easy way: 1 - compile as normal 2 - after qmake finishes, COPY cygwin1.dll mingwm10.dll and qtui.dll (or someshizzat like that) to the OUTPUT directory of your build. now you can

Re: Slightly off-topic, but...

2007-05-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Eric Lilja wrote: Hi, I've installed qt-win-opensource-4.2.3-mingw.exe from trolltech and I'm using the tools installed by cygwin to develop Qt programs. Well, one could argue I'm not really using cygwin because I have to pass -mno-cygwin when compiling otherwise I get errors for non-trivial

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: ddrescue-1.3-1

2007-05-29 Thread Christian Franke
The GNU ddrescue package is now part of the Cygwin distribution. http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html Important note for Cygwin (= 1.5.24-2): When reading from a raw device with sector size 512 Bytes, it is required to specify the exact sector size with the '-b' option. (for

Re: [Spam?]Re: problem concating () to a large file

2007-05-29 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: I fixed both bugs in CVS. It's rather disappointing that SetFilePointer (handle, 0, NULL, FILE_END); fails for files 4Gigs. It's actually required that the offset_high pointer is a valid pointer to a LONG containing 0. Oh well.

Re: Build problems - unistd.h

2007-05-29 Thread Scott Peterson
Eric, when I try make CC=gcc -E I get this error in the output: .libs/dbus-glib.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized I'm building dbus-glib from source and I get this error when I make: In file included from /usr/include/unistd.h:4, from

Re: Build problems - unistd.h

2007-05-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Scott Peterson wrote: Eric, when I try make CC=gcc -E I get this error in the output: .libs/dbus-glib.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized You just created an .o file consisting of the output of the preprocessor. That's obviously not going to work in the context of make where

howto use ramdrive to speed-up cygwin

2007-05-29 Thread Hans Horn
Group, Could somebody give me a few pointers as to how to use/configure a ramdrive to speed-up cygwin. There was a posting a few weeks ago (http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00121.html) in which Brian Dessent mentions that he is using a ramdrive for building gcc. Brian, would you

Re: echo with no line feed

2007-05-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Igor Peshansky on 5/29/2007 9:20 AM: '\c' is an escape sequence that prompts 'echo' to disable the trailing newline. However, you have to tell 'echo' to look for escape sequences, i.e., echo -e Type file name: \c Except that POSIX

Re: howto use ramdrive to speed-up cygwin

2007-05-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Hans Horn wrote: Could somebody give me a few pointers as to how to use/configure a ramdrive to speed-up cygwin. There was a posting a few weeks ago (http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00121.html) in which Brian Dessent mentions that he is using a ramdrive for building gcc.

Re: Build problems - unistd.h

2007-05-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Scott Peterson wrote: Here's the content of the intermediate file dbus-binding-tool-glib.i: Did you really have to send a 350 KB message to thousands of people? Some people consider that a little wasteful when exactly one line of all of that was relevant. If you're going to do that at least

Re: Build problems - unistd.h

2007-05-29 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2007-05-30 00:12Z, Scott Peterson wrote: Here's the content of the intermediate file dbus-binding-tool-glib.i: [major snip] On 2007-05-29 02:07Z, you had written: In file included from /usr/include/unistd.h:4, from dbus-binding-tool-glib.c:39:

Re: Build problems - unistd.h

2007-05-29 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Greg Chicares wrote: On 2007-05-30 00:12Z, Scott Peterson wrote: Here's the content of the intermediate file dbus-binding-tool-glib.i: [major snip] On 2007-05-29 02:07Z, you had written: In file included from /usr/include/unistd.h:4, from dbus-binding-tool-glib.c:39:

Re: howto use ramdrive to speed-up cygwin

2007-05-29 Thread Hans Horn
Brian Dessent wrote: Hans Horn wrote: Could somebody give me a few pointers as to how to use/configure a ramdrive to speed-up cygwin. There was a posting a few weeks ago (http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00121.html) in which Brian Dessent mentions that he is using a ramdrive for

more on Re: bash process substitution (list) [spot the difference]

2007-05-29 Thread B. K. Oxley (binkley)
I am exploring how process substitution works on Cygwin. I have scripts which run fine on Linux but not on Windows XP. Why does one of these scripts produce an error and the other does not? Script #1: $ cat a #!/bin/bash function f() { echo $1 cat $1 } f (echo OK) $ ./a

Re: more on Re: bash process substitution (list) [spot the difference]

2007-05-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
B. K. Oxley (binkley) wrote: I am exploring how process substitution works on Cygwin. I have scripts which run fine on Linux but not on Windows XP. Why does one of these scripts produce an error and the other does not? Script #1: $ cat a #!/bin/bash function f() { echo $1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.9-3

2007-05-29 Thread Eric Blake
mode, but which were masked by a cygwin bug that was present up until the 20070529 snapshot. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/coreutils-6.9/. DESCRIPTION: GNU coreutils provides a collection of commonly used utilities essential to a standard POSIX environment

Re: more on Re: bash process substitution (list) [spot the difference]

2007-05-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to B. K. Oxley (binkley) on 5/29/2007 9:05 PM: Why does one of these scripts produce an error and the other does not? function f() { echo $1 shell builtin, and it does not touch the fifo (try replacing this with /bin/echo to see the

Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

2007-05-29 Thread Jean-Pierre Bogler
Hello all, I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin. My OS is Win2k SP 2. I have downloaded the latest version of setup.exe (2.510.2.2) and stored it into C:\cyginstall. I started the installation with administrator rights. Then I went through the installation

Updated [experimental]: tcsh-6.15.00-3

2007-05-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've uploaded an experimental version 6.15.00-3 of tcsh to cygwin.com. This version is supposed to solve problems with DOS lineendings when using tcsh as login shell. A typical problem are broken or hanging rsync calls with tcsh as (remote) login shell. The problem is that Cygwin's tcsh is

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: ddrescue-1.3-1

2007-05-29 Thread Christian Franke
The GNU ddrescue package is now part of the Cygwin distribution. http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html Important note for Cygwin (= 1.5.24-2): When reading from a raw device with sector size 512 Bytes, it is required to specify the exact sector size with the '-b' option. (for

Updated: coreutils-6.9-3

2007-05-29 Thread Eric Blake
mode, but which were masked by a cygwin bug that was present up until the 20070529 snapshot. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/coreutils-6.9/. DESCRIPTION: GNU coreutils provides a collection of commonly used utilities essential to a standard POSIX environment