Using FIFO's in Cygwin.

2015-03-04 Thread Houder
Hi Corinna, Just a question ... (and certainly NOT a request for a snapshot at the end of the day). Or a confirmation, if you like ... A server-client example (using FIFO's) from LPI (Linux Programming Interface, M. Kerrisk), chapter 44.8, fails on Cygwin. Below the example as an STC, which

Re: HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies [GOLDSTARS]

2015-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 19:23, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: On Mar 3 15:59, Warren Young wrote: On Mar 3, 2015, at 1:25 PM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin-rdbxbdvo6bxqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Mar 3 13:23, Warren Young wrote: On Mar 3, 2015, at 2:11 AM, Corinna

Re: Using FIFO's in Cygwin.

2015-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Henri, On Mar 4 18:18, Houder wrote: Hi Corinna, Just a question ... (and certainly NOT a request for a snapshot at the end of the day). Or a confirmation, if you like ... A server-client example (using FIFO's) from LPI (Linux Programming Interface, M. Kerrisk), chapter 44.8,

Re: [ATTN MAINTAINER] python

2015-03-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: The problem here is how the Windows stack works. Stack reserve is the initial size of the reserved virtual memory space used for the stack of the main thread. By default that's 2 Megs. There were in fact two threads at the point of the SEGV, one in the kernel DLL

Re: [ATTN MAINTAINER] python

2015-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 19:22, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: The problem here is how the Windows stack works. Stack reserve is the initial size of the reserved virtual memory space used for the stack of the main thread. By default that's 2 Megs. There were in fact two threads at the

Re: [ATTN MAINTAINER] python

2015-03-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: The problem is, a stack overflow is correctly handled as SEGV from the POSIX perspective. But there should have been the right info available. If you run this under strace, you get an exception 0xc0fd or 0xc228, STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW or

Re: Cygwin hangs up if several keys are typed during outputting a lot of texts.

2015-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 19:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Takashi, Oh, btw. I wouldn't be too unhappy if we could move the discussions about Cygwin implementation details to the cygwin-developers mailing list. The cygwin mailing list should be reserved for the more user-centric stuff, me thinks. Thanks,

Re: Cygwin hangs up if several keys are typed during outputting a lot of texts.

2015-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Takashi, On Mar 4 13:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 4 20:34, Takashi Yano wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 15:44:26 +0100 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: To check buffer space before WriteFile() is one idea, but it is not smart, I suppose... I think that's

Re: HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies [GOLDSTARS]

2015-03-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: On Mar 3 15:59, Warren Young wrote: On Mar 3, 2015, at 1:25 PM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin-rdbxbdvo6bxqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Mar 3 13:23, Warren Young wrote: On Mar 3, 2015, at 2:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen

Re: [ATTN MAINTAINER] python

2015-03-04 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 3/4/2015 10:23 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: DLL version? Did you call addr2line to see where 0001801C2F96 is (hint: requires cygwin-debuginfo) in the DLL? This might give a clue. /mnt/share/maint (1962) uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.3 Cygwin 1.7.35(0.286/5/3) 2015-02-27

Re: Man page for XWin

2015-03-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 16:22 -0500, K Stahl wrote: With the release of xorg-server-*1.17.1-2 there was a change (for security measures) to disable TCP communications (the -nolisten tcp command line switch). It would be nice if the man page for XWin would document this behavior. Like with the

Re: [ATTN MAINTAINER] python

2015-03-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: I presume Corinna asked for this: $ addr2line.exe -a 0001801C2F96 -e /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll Then that's giving us this: /mnt/share/maint (1964) addr2line.exe -a 0001801C2F96 -e /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll 0x0001801c2f96

Re: HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies [GOLDSTARS]

2015-03-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
On Mar 4 19:23, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: On Mar 3 15:59, Warren Young wrote: On Mar 3, 2015, at 1:25 PM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin-rdbxbdvo6bxqt0dzr+alfa-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Mar 3 13:23, Warren Young wrote: On

Re: [ATTN MAINTAINER] python

2015-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 20:55, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: The problem is, a stack overflow is correctly handled as SEGV from the POSIX perspective. But there should have been the right info available. If you run this under strace, you get an exception 0xc0fd or 0xc228,

Re: Using FIFO's in Cygwin.

2015-03-04 Thread Houder
Q: is the model of the FIFO in Cygwin different from the one used in Linux? Note: the question is about the model for FIFO's in blocking mode ... Non-blocking complicates things even more ... FIFOs in Cygwin are using Windows named pipes, and the implementation was never really complete

Re: [ATTN MAINTAINER] python

2015-03-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: DLL version? Did you call addr2line to see where 0001801C2F96 is (hint: requires cygwin-debuginfo) in the DLL? This might give a clue. /mnt/share/maint (1962) uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.3 Cygwin 1.7.35(0.286/5/3) 2015-02-27 17:19 x86_64 Cygwin /mnt/share/maint (1963)

Man page for XWin

2015-03-04 Thread K Stahl
With the release of xorg-server-*1.17.1-2 there was a change (for security measures) to disable TCP communications (the -nolisten tcp command line switch). It would be nice if the man page for XWin would document this behavior. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [cygport] pkg_info.cygport: correct search order for Perl dependencies

2015-03-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 23:08 +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: pkg_info.cygport: correct search order for Perl dependencies * lib/pkg_info.cygpart: Correct search order for Perl dependencies and suppress auto-generation of Perl dependencies when NO_PERL_DEPS is defined. Dependency generation

octave/gnuplot fails with new cygwin dll.

2015-03-04 Thread GEORGE BARRICK
subject: octave/gnuplot fails with new cygwin dll. / 2015.03.05.00:53:06 UT Hey Cygwin folks, I just downloaded and installed the new Cygwin-1.7.35-1 and found this minor difficulty with my favorite software, GNU Octave. Prior to installation of the new

Re: HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies [GOLDSTARS]

2015-03-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/04/2015 02:41 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: Huh? The plush hippos are always pink! Awarded! http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#CV Should I get anything for taking the orphaned grep/gperf/bison/diffutils/gzip when cgf left? (A single gold star is plenty for me; that plush hippo is above and

XFIG not working

2015-03-04 Thread Hisham Sueyllam
Last time I used xfig was about 10 months ago and it was working fine, when I tried to use it recently I kept getting: can't open display: localhost:0. The xterm is working fine under xwin and I can run emacs fine from there, so I am not sure what the problem is? I am using a 32 bit windows 7

Bug? attempt to suspend = kill process?

2015-03-04 Thread Linda Walsh
I usually run the the windows version of 'Gvim' as it will run even when there is no 'X' running... Usually, to get it to go into the background like it does on linux, it runs an alias in bash: alias gvim='setsid gvim' So it background's appropriately. I had to try something out with a

Re: HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies [GOLDSTARS]

2015-03-04 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 4, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/04/2015 02:41 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: Huh? The plush hippos are always pink! Awarded! http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#CV Should I get anything for taking the orphaned grep/gperf/bison/diffutils/gzip when cgf left?

[Fwd: ImageMagick update to 6.9.0-9. So-name bump: libMagick++-6.Q16.so.3 - libMagick++-6.Q16.so.6]

2015-03-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
Marco, Well, that didn't take long, see attached. (Not that I'm surprised, given their history.) Before you update ImageMagick to upstream 6.9.0-9, you'll need to (re)build the current release (or a newer one prior to 6.9.0-9) and split the DLLs into libMagickCore6_2 (which OBSOLETES

Re: [cygport] pkg_info.cygport: correct search order for Perl dependencies

2015-03-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov Selkowitz writes: Could you provide more detail here so I can better understand the problems? There are lots of Perl distributions that can optionally use some module when available. I often have those modules installed since I need them for testing or something else entirely and then

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygport-0.18.0.1-1

2015-03-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
I have uploaded a new version of cygport to the Cygwin distribution and the Fedora/EPEL Cygwin copr. Highlights in this version: * A new 'upload' command for package maintainers; * Split debuginfo symbol files are now compressed, saving considerable disk space once installed; * Improved

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf2.5-2.69-3

2015-03-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * autoconf2.5-2.69-3 Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems

Updated: autoconf2.5-2.69-3

2015-03-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * autoconf2.5-2.69-3 Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems

Re: Mirroring Cygwin UK

2015-03-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 08:42 -0800, ray sison wrote: Can you repost our mirror for the UK http://mirrors-uk.go-parts.com/cygwin/ The instructions for Mirror Administrators should answer your question: https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html#mirroradmin -- Yaakov -- Problem reports:

Re: [ATTN MAINTAINER] python

2015-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 07:06, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: Increasing the stack reserve size of the python executable to 0x40 on 32bit and 0x80 on 64bit avoids the SEGV. I'm not sure if this indicates an error in Python itself or simply a too restricted configuration. Maybe

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dialog-1.2-20150225-1

2015-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 08:32, Thomas Wolff wrote: Yaakov Selkowitz wrote to cygwin-announce: The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * dialog-1.2-20150225-1 * libdialog12-1.2-20150225-1 * libdialog-devel-1.2-20150225-1 Dialog is a script-interpreter which provides a set

Re: HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies [GOLDSTARS]

2015-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 15:59, Warren Young wrote: On Mar 3, 2015, at 1:25 PM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: On Mar 3 13:23, Warren Young wrote: On Mar 3, 2015, at 2:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: Now that we have so many goldstars in circulation,

Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released Cygwin 1.7.35-1. This release comes with a bunch of changes and bugfixes collected since 1.7.34-6. The major changes are - Performance improvements in the new account handling per https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping - New

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog include/cygwin/ver ...

2015-03-04 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2015-03-04 11:46:02 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin: version.h Log message: * include/cygwin/version.h (CYGWIN_VERSION_DLL_MINOR): Bump to 36.

Re: Cygwin hangs up if several keys are typed during outputting a lot of texts.

2015-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 20:34, Takashi Yano wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 15:44:26 +0100 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: 1) Buffer of named pipe gets full-filled by a lot of data written by slave side. 2) WriteFile() in fhandler_pty_master::doecho(), which is called from master

src/winsup/doc ChangeLog posix.xml

2015-03-04 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2015-03-04 11:44:07 Modified files: winsup/doc : ChangeLog posix.xml Log message: * posix.xml (std-bsd): Add issetugid. Patches:

Re: Cygwin hangs up if several keys are typed during outputting a lot of texts.

2015-03-04 Thread Takashi Yano
a solution. How can we resolve this problem? -- Takashi Yano takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp cygwin-test.patch.20150304 Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released Cygwin 1.7.35-1. This release comes with a bunch of changes and bugfixes collected since 1.7.34-6. The major changes are - Performance improvements in the new account handling per https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping - New

Cygwin Mintty 3 windows shows up Windows 8/10

2015-03-04 Thread Bertrand Caplet
Hey guys, I've a problem since I switched from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (I tested on windows 8 same problem). When I launch a Cygwin terminal (mintty) It shows up 3 windows instead of one. 2 Blank Windows : Mintty.exe and Cygwin terminal and the last real terminal. Do you have any tricks for

Re: Cygwin Mintty 3 windows shows up Windows 8/10

2015-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 12:38, Bertrand Caplet wrote: Hey guys, I've a problem since I switched from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (I tested on windows 8 same problem). When I launch a Cygwin terminal (mintty) It shows up 3 windows instead of one. 2 Blank Windows : Mintty.exe and Cygwin terminal and the last

Re: Cygwin Mintty 3 windows shows up Windows 8/10

2015-03-04 Thread Bertrand Caplet
Update Cygwin. This is a fallout from the Windows 10 change of the OS version from 6.4 to 10 in the latest 9926 build. This has been fixed in Cygwin 1.7.34-6. Corinna Oh, thanks a lot. My version wasn't so old so I didn't update before. Sorry for the inconvenience ! Regards, -- CHUNKZ.NET

Re: Display issue

2015-03-04 Thread Michael DePaulo
(I know that cygwin-xfree is deprecated. But I believe I should continue this existing conversation on it.) On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Maarten Hoes hoes.maar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On 1-3-2015 19:15, Michael DePaulo wrote: I just tried to reproduce this, but I was unable to. The