[1.5] lzip-1.8-1

2009-11-20 Thread JonY
Hi, someone requested lzip for Cygwin 1.5. Here they are: http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/1.5/lzip/lzip-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2 http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/1.5/lzip/lzip-1.8-1.tar.bz2 http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/1.5/lzip/setup.hint Setup.hint: category: Archive

Re: [1.5] lzip-1.8-1

2009-11-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 20 18:17, JonY wrote: Hi, someone requested lzip for Cygwin 1.5. Here they are: http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/1.5/lzip/lzip-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2 http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/1.5/lzip/lzip-1.8-1.tar.bz2 http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/1.5/lzip/setup.hint

Re: psexec does not work under cygwin-X

2009-11-20 Thread Hemal Pandya
Hello, It seems psexec (from sysinternals) does not work correctly under cygwin-X. If I run it at the bash prompt in a command window it completes normally but from a rxvt or xterm window it stops after the first line of output from the remote process. I am trying to write some bash scripts that

Re: Problem with new xinit - console window doesn't open (but bash starts)

2009-11-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/19/2009 11:07 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: More info: If I run startxwin.bat from a CMD.exe command line, the bash console xterm opens just fine. I only have problems starting it from the shortcut. I do see some interesting things in the log file, however: [...] Warning: Missing

Re: XWin stopped working with xorg-server 1.7.1 - no log-file created

2009-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 19/11/2009 16:25, Michael Breuer wrote: For what it's worth, I tracked that down yesterday by looking at the error log on the server - there was a complaint about clipboard - don't recall what... seemed innocuous but figured I'd try turning off clipboard. Viola, it worked. Could you tell me

Re: Problem with new xinit - console window doesn't open (but bash starts)

2009-11-20 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On 11/20/2009 5:48 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/19/2009 11:07 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: More info: If I run startxwin.bat from a CMD.exe command line, the bash console xterm opens just fine. I only have problems starting it from the shortcut. I do see some interesting things in the log file,

Re: 'run xterm' fails to open a window

2009-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 13/11/2009 03:14, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/12/2009 3:17 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 10/11/2009 23:44, Mike Ayers wrote:] Apparently, run.exe is not providing stdout/stderr to dump to. The workaround: [SNIP] C:\mikeC:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/bin sh -c gvim/dev/null 21 C:\mike [/SNIP] Wait,

Re: XWin stopped working with xorg-server 1.7.1 - no log-file created

2009-11-20 Thread Michael Breuer
I've attached the log. Jon TURNEY wrote: On 19/11/2009 16:25, Michael Breuer wrote: For what it's worth, I tracked that down yesterday by looking at the error log on the server - there was a complaint about clipboard - don't recall what... seemed innocuous but figured I'd try turning off

Re: psexec does not work under cygwin-X

2009-11-20 Thread Michael Breuer
Different environment variables are set. I'd suggest in the xterm version saving the env variables (envfile) and then see which one causes the non-X version to stop running psexec. Hemal Pandya wrote: Hello, It seems psexec (from sysinternals) does not work correctly under cygwin-X. If I run

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Wilson
I've integrated Lothar's patch into run2/checkX (along with some other internal changes), and published a test release. Please try run-0.3.1-1 and let me know if it fixes your problems with checkX. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Problem with new xinit - console window doesn't open (but bash starts)

2009-11-20 Thread laxamar
Shouldn't these packages be set as dependents for xorg-server? Ken Brown-6 wrote: On 11/19/2009 11:07 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: More info: If I run startxwin.bat from a CMD.exe command line, the bash console xterm opens just fine. I only have problems starting it from the shortcut.

RE: Problem with new xinit - console window doesn't open (but bash starts)

2009-11-20 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree- ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of laxamar Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 9:38 AM Shouldn't these packages be set as dependents for xorg-server? They're not strict dependencies - a UTF-8 based locale has more requirements than

Re: XWin stopped working with xorg-server 1.7.1 - no log-file created

2009-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 20/11/2009 15:46, Michael Breuer wrote: I've attached the log. Thanks. Can you also please tell me what OS the XDMCP host at 10.0.0.1 is running? Jon TURNEY wrote: On 19/11/2009 16:25, Michael Breuer wrote: For what it's worth, I tracked that down yesterday by looking at the error log

Re: XWin stopped working with xorg-server 1.7.1 - no log-file created

2009-11-20 Thread Michael Breuer
Fedora 12 - kdm for the greeter. Jon TURNEY wrote: On 20/11/2009 15:46, Michael Breuer wrote: I've attached the log. Thanks. Can you also please tell me what OS the XDMCP host at 10.0.0.1 is running? Jon TURNEY wrote: On 19/11/2009 16:25, Michael Breuer wrote: For what it's worth, I

Re: psexec does not work under cygwin-X

2009-11-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Hemal Pandya wrote: Hello, It seems psexec (from sysinternals) does not work correctly under cygwin-X. If I run it at the bash prompt in a command window it completes normally but from a rxvt or xterm window it stops after the first line of output from the

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/20/2009 12:14 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: I've integrated Lothar's patch into run2/checkX (along with some other internal changes), and published a test release. Please try run-0.3.1-1 and let me know if it fixes your problems with checkX. I still have the instability that I reported as

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-20 Thread Gertjan van Noord
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:43:11PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/20/2009 12:14 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: I've integrated Lothar's patch into run2/checkX (along with some other internal changes), and published a test release. Please try run-0.3.1-1 and let me know if it fixes your problems

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/20/2009 2:47 PM, Gertjan van Noord wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:43:11PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/20/2009 12:14 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: I've integrated Lothar's patch into run2/checkX (along with some other internal changes), and published a test release. Please try

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/shlobj.h

2009-11-20 Thread ironhead
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: ironh...@sourceware.org 2009-11-20 15:14:17 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: shlobj.h Log message: 2009-20-10 Chris Sutcliffe ir0nh...@users.sourceforge.net

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winver.h

2009-11-20 Thread ironhead
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: ironh...@sourceware.org 2009-11-20 23:16:40 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: winver.h Log message: 2009-20-10 Dmitry Potapov dpota...@users.sourceforge.net *

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

2009-11-20 Thread ironhead
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: ironh...@sourceware.org 2009-11-20 23:32:27 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: winuser.h winsup/w32api/lib: user32.def Log message: 2009-20-10 Jarkko Sakkinen

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/wingdi.h i ...

2009-11-20 Thread ironhead
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: ironh...@sourceware.org 2009-11-20 23:46:05 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: wingdi.h winuser.h winsup/w32api/lib: comctl32.def Log message: 2009-20-10 Michael James

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/commctrl.h ...

2009-11-20 Thread ironhead
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: ironh...@sourceware.org 2009-11-20 23:54:03 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: commctrl.h winsup/w32api/lib: comctl32.def Log message: 2009-20-10 Heiko Hund

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/sspi.h

2009-11-20 Thread ironhead
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: ironh...@sourceware.org 2009-11-20 23:59:11 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: sspi.h Log message: 2009-20-10 Aleksey Chernov virxk...@users.sourceforge.net *

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winbase.h

2009-11-20 Thread ironhead
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: ironh...@sourceware.org 2009-11-21 00:38:55 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: winbase.h Log message: 2009-20-10 Chris Sutcliffe ir0nh...@users.sourceforge.net

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/iprtrmib.h

2009-11-20 Thread ironhead
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: ironh...@sourceware.org 2009-11-21 00:44:50 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: iprtrmib.h Log message: 2009-20-10 Chris Sutcliffe ir0nh...@users.sourceforge.net

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/wingdi.h

2009-11-20 Thread ironhead
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: ironh...@sourceware.org 2009-11-21 00:55:51 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: wingdi.h Log message: 2009-20-10 Chris Sutcliffe ir0n3...@users.sourceforge.net

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/shlobj.h

2009-11-20 Thread ironhead
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: ironh...@sourceware.org 2009-11-21 03:25:24 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: shlobj.h Log message: 2009-20-10 Chris Sutcliffe ir0nh...@users.sourceforge.net

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/shlobj.h

2009-11-20 Thread ironhead
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: ironh...@sourceware.org 2009-11-21 05:26:02 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: shlobj.h Log message: 2009-20-10 Chris Sutcliffe ir0nh...@users.sourceforge.net

Re: patch: sleep/nanosleep bug

2009-11-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 11/18/2009 1:47 PM: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:13:53PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: 2009-11-18 Eric Blake e...@byu.net * signal.cc (nanosleep): Support 'infinite' sleep times. (sleep): Avoid

execvp() runs programs from cwd even if '.' is not in PATH

2009-11-20 Thread Christian Franke
execvp() and the other 'p' variants of exec run programs also from current directory even if '.' is not in the PATH. The function execvp() simply calls execv(find_exec(path, temp_path_conv_buf), argv). The function find_exec() returns the path unchanged if not found in PATH, execv() runs the file

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

2009-11-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 19 19:42, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:30:39PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 11/19/2009 06:26 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-65. Is anyone

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

2009-11-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 20 10:14, Huang Bambo wrote: I think there maybe some bug with new socket duplication function. While I use ssh to connect remote cygwin, with previous version of cygwin, after type exit command, shell will close and sshd will close the connection forwardly but with 65 version

Re: Problem with fcnlt F_GETLK command

2009-11-20 Thread Jackson
Hi Corrina, Just to confirm that 1.7.0-65 has fixed the issue I was having with F_GETLK.  Many Thanks. Jackson -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

qt3 package not installed?

2009-11-20 Thread Csaba Raduly
Every time I run setup-1.7, the package qt3 3.3.8b-11 (size 1k) is offered for install (there is nothing under Current in the setup GUI, which is probably the cause of the problem) Windows Vista Enterprise Ver 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1 cygceck -s -v -r | grep qt 7002k 2009/06/08

Re: [1.7] su (goldstar)

2009-11-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:46:14PM -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, wrote: Is su supposed to work? ?When I try from an unprivileged account I get: I did the work of visiting the cygwin home page to read the 1.7 FAQ and user guide. Here you are told

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

2009-11-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 20 10:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote: That's annoying. I hate to say that in this case, but could you please check for potential BLODAs per this list: http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda And, for a start, can you please run the below testcase and paste the output

Re: Re: 1.5.25-15: pthread_join deadlocks

2009-11-20 Thread Ryan Johnson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 19 12:29, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, I'm hitting a deadlock with cygwin pthreads when joining on a short-lived thread -- for me the second such thread creation will almost never return. It looks *exactly* like a problem that others noticed as far back as

Fwd: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-20 Thread Adrian May
The cygwin folks will have to use their imaginations because their box doesn't want pictures. Not my problem. -- Forwarded message -- From: Adrian May adrian.alexander@gmail.com Date: 2009/11/20 Subject: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout

Re: execvp() runs programs from cwd even if '.' is not in PATH

2009-11-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 20 09:48, Christian Franke wrote: execvp() and the other 'p' variants of exec run programs also from current directory even if '.' is not in the PATH. If Cygwin doesn't find the executable in $PATH, the string is used literally when calling spawn_guts, which in turn converts the incoming

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-20 Thread mike marchywka
On 11/19/09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 11/19/2009 10:49 PM, Pete Brunet wrote: --- Pete Brunet wrote: I've been trying to build OpenJDK for several weeks now and have never been able to get to the end of the build because of random failures. Last night I

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 20 06:04, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/19/09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Wow! I had a hunch that BLODA could be the cause of the file related problems but it never occurred to me that it could be screwing up environment variables too. Anyone care

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: OpenSSH-5.3p1-1

2009-11-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the Cygwin 1.7 version of OpenSSH to 5.3p1-1. This is a new major upstream release. The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla sources. The official release message of 5.3p1: OpenSSH 5.3 has just been

Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Adrian May wrote: Please don't involve me in your triage process or ask me to send it somewhere else. I've had that several times before and I think it's rubbish to expect a user to navigate a project's internal processes just because you expect them to feel good about contributing to an open

Re: 1.5.25-15: pthread_join deadlocks

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Ryan Johnson wrote: Out of curiosity, how much did removing the racy optimization hurt performance? The patch just yanked it completely iirc. An alternative might be to have the main thread check for single-thread environment only at acquire time, and then release only if it acquired (the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New: {libustr/libustr1/libustr-devel}-1.0.4-11

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Wilson
ustr (Micro string library) is a string API for C. It has tiny overhead over just plain strdup(), is much safer, is easier to use, is faster for many operations, and can be used with read-only or automatically allocated data. You don't even need to link to the library to use it (so there are no

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: {libustr/libustr1/libustr-devel}-1.0.4-2

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Wilson
ustr (Micro string library) is a string API for C. It has tiny overhead over just plain strdup(), is much safer, is easier to use, is faster for many operations, and can be used with read-only or automatically allocated data. You don't even need to link to the library to use it (so there are no

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:20:52PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 20 06:04, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/19/09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Wow! I had a hunch that BLODA could be the cause of the file related problems but it never occurred to me that it could

Re: 1.5.25-15: pthread_join deadlocks

2009-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:01:00AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Ryan Johnson wrote: Out of curiosity, how much did removing the racy optimization hurt performance? The patch just yanked it completely iirc. An alternative might be to have the main thread check for single-thread environment only

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 20 09:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:20:52PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 20 06:04, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/19/09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Wow! I had a hunch that BLODA could be the cause of the file related

Re: execvp() runs programs from cwd even if '.' is not in PATH

2009-11-20 Thread Christian Franke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: This is a bug and the fix is easy, but it's not a regression, so we should better stick to it until after 1.7.1. Agree - this should not block 1.7.1. Christian -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Fwd: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 06:56:06PM +0800, Adrian May wrote: The cygwin folks will have to use their imaginations because their box doesn't want pictures. Not my problem. Their box doesn't want pictures. After staring at that statement for a minute or two, I've concluded that means that you had

Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-20 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
Hi! Actually it's a pretty old version of mc which is no longer supported, but if it's reproducible on latest master, then we might want to have a look at it. Mind you, however, that no one is using cygwin over here, so you'll have to have quite a bit of involvement in the process for us to fix

Re: BLODA problem while configuring [solved]

2009-11-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/18/2009 12:24 PM, Ken Brown wrote: I've recently started getting write errors (Device or resource busy) at random times while building I never definitively tracked this down, though I suspect AVG 9.0 was the culprit. But installing cygwin-1.7.0-65 solved the problem. Thanks, Corinna!

Avail for test: run2-0.3.1-1

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Wilson
run2-0.3.1-1 is now available as a test release. It is intended to fix the problems reported in these threads: checkX problems http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-10/msg00143.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-11/msg00101.html and incorporates a fix from Lothar Brendel. If there are

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-20 Thread mike marchywka
On 11/20/09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 20 09:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:20:52PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 20 06:04, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/19/09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Wow! I had a hunch that BLODA

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:19:57PM -0500, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/20/09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 20 09:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:20:52PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 20 06:04, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/19/09, Larry Hall (Cygwin)

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-20 Thread mike marchywka
On 11/20/09, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:19:57PM -0500, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/20/09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 20 09:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:20:52PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:04:01PM -0500, mike marchywka wrote: I guess my point is that there is nothing cygwin can do if windoze doesn't do it. But, that was why I asked what the OP was actually complaining about. In may case, IIRC, I got garbage in the windoze variables rather than just some

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-20 Thread mike marchywka
On 11/20/09, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:04:01PM -0500, mike marchywka wrote: I guess my point is that there is nothing cygwin can do if windoze doesn't do it. But, that was why I asked what the OP was actually complaining about.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {ncurses/libncurses9/libncurses-devel/ncurses-demo}-5.7-15

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: Eric Backus wrote: I'm getting a segmentation fault when I try to use tput. The program runs successfully if you just ask it for a version number, or if asked for a non- existent capability, but gets a seg fault when asked about a real capability. $ tput sgr0

Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-20 Thread /dev/rob0
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 08:57:57AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Adrian May wrote: Please don't involve me in your triage process or ask me to send [snip drivel] Go to hell, you rude jerk. This is a VOLUNTEER project. You are [snip rant] I created an acronym, SWEET, and a Web page, for

Cron on Windows 7 as a Service Does Not Execute Jobs

2009-11-20 Thread randomerror
All, I can't seem to get cron to execute jobs under Windows 7 (Ultimate.) Here are the things I've done... Installed cygwin for all users, and fixed some permission problems. Configured sshd and it works fine. Configured exim (without running it as a

Re: Cygwin 1.7 setup on Win7 fails with Unable to extract /etc/ -- the file is in use.

2009-11-20 Thread Alexander Quinn
No takers? Before coming here, I spent a good 6-8 hours working on it, read the FAQ (http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.html), searched with Google, checked the list archives, and read the guide to asking questions. I know my question was long but the Cygwin web page said detailed questions are

Re: win7 specific probs; examples; and poor solutions

2009-11-20 Thread Linda Walsh
Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/20 Linda Walsh: Some things are obviously not cygwin related. But sometimes it seems like cygwin isn't able to see files that I can see there with explorer. We'd of course need concrete examples for this. I'd love to give you examples, but unless I am sure

Re: New package: lzip-1.8-1

2009-11-20 Thread JonY
On 11/19/2009 21:26, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: JonY sent the following at Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:18 AM JonY sent the following at Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:36 AM Version 1.8-1 of lzip has been uploaded. lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA

[1.7] .exe append weirdness

2009-11-20 Thread JonY
Hi, I'm using a win64 target cross compiler under Cygwin. I noticed all the stripped dlls will eventually end with .exe. I am on 32bit Windows XP sp3, Cygwin 1.7.0-64. (Upgrading to -65 causes system shared memory version mismatch detected for all Cygwin apps, its another issue altogether.

Re: Cron on Windows 7 as a Service Does Not Execute Jobs

2009-11-20 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 06:43 PM 11/20/2009, randomerror wrote: All, I can't seem to get cron to execute jobs under Windows 7 (Ultimate.) Here are the things I've done... Installed cygwin for all users, and fixed some permission problems. Configured sshd and it works

Re: Cron on Windows 7 as a Service Does Not Execute Jobs

2009-11-20 Thread Janos Szatmary
This is CYGWIN_NT-6.1 host 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin Since this was a test for a stable environment I didn't want to use a beta release. Yes, user is the user name, which I created specifically for testing (you may notice some output shows janos which is my actual account I

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

2009-11-20 Thread Huang Bambo
Sorry for my bad expression. I mean the fd duplicated by fork() will not be close by both parent and child. The following code listen on port , parent process fork a child to handle the incoming socket and then close the socket. The child sleep 3 second and close the incoming socket. The

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

2009-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:03:05PM +0800, Huang Bambo wrote: Sorry for my bad expression. I mean the fd duplicated by fork() will not be close by both parent and child. The following code listen on port , parent process fork a child to handle the incoming socket and then close the socket. The

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

2009-11-20 Thread Huang Bambo
I don't think it's a SO_LINGER situation, at least there's no data to send in my test code. 2009/11/21 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:03:05PM +0800, Huang Bambo wrote: Sorry for my bad expression. I mean the fd duplicated by fork() will

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-completion-1.1-1

2009-11-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash-completion, 1.1-1, is now available for cygwin 1.5; a corresponding release for those testing cygwin 1.7 will be available shortly. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Changes since the prior release are attached. For

Re: win7 specific probs; examples; and poor solutions

2009-11-20 Thread Jerry DeLisle
On 11/20/2009 06:24 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/20 Linda Walsh: Some things are obviously not cygwin related. But sometimes it seems like cygwin isn't able to see files that I can see there with explorer. We'd of course need concrete examples for this. I'd love to

Re: win7 specific probs; examples; and poor solutions

2009-11-20 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/11/21 Linda Walsh: I still haven't figured out why -- but the values for cygdrive prefix won't stay stored. That's because you now have to set it in /etc/fstab to make it permanent, e.g.: none /mnt cygdrive binary 0 0  I did THAT, as part of my debugging.  I copied over the line from

Re: win7 specific probs; examples; and poor solutions

2009-11-20 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-11-20, Linda Walsh wrote: Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/20 Linda Walsh: I've had changes made to files disappear Again, vague hand-waving is no help here. --- No waiving of hands was necessary. But a concrete example (using find+file to look text files under /prog/vim (/Program

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

2009-11-20 Thread Huang Bambo
2009/11/21 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:03:05PM +0800, Huang Bambo wrote: Sorry for my bad expression. I mean the fd duplicated by fork() will not be close by both parent and child. The following code listen on port , parent process

[1.7] Updated: OpenSSH-5.3p1-1

2009-11-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the Cygwin 1.7 version of OpenSSH to 5.3p1-1. This is a new major upstream release. The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla sources. The official release message of 5.3p1: OpenSSH 5.3 has just been

[1.7] New: {libustr/libustr1/libustr-devel}-1.0.4-11

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Wilson
ustr (Micro string library) is a string API for C. It has tiny overhead over just plain strdup(), is much safer, is easier to use, is faster for many operations, and can be used with read-only or automatically allocated data. You don't even need to link to the library to use it (so there are no

Updated: bash-completion-1.1-1

2009-11-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash-completion, 1.1-1, is now available for cygwin 1.5; a corresponding release for those testing cygwin 1.7 will be available shortly. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Changes since the prior release are attached. For