Phantom processes left over

2012-07-04 Thread Richard H Lee
Has anybody come across processes being left over? I'm extending an open source project. The functionality I'm adding is keeping track of running processes. I store the list of active processes in shared memory. When querying the list I also call kill with a 0 signal on all the entries to test

Re: Persistence of file implemented objects

2012-07-01 Thread Richard H Lee
Fifos persist on reboot on Linux or Cygwin. They live on the filesystem. I don't see how POSIX IPC shared memory and semaphores could persist. Sorry, I meant unix/bsd sockets. Regarding the POSIX IPC's, they are stored in /dev . In regular *nix, /dev do not represent "physical" files on the

Persistence of file implemented objects

2012-06-30 Thread Richard H Lee
Various objects like fifo pipes, POSIX IPC shared memory and semaphores that are implemented through the filesystem in cygwin persist when the program abnornally terminates. They also persist through reboots, which is different to the behaviour on linux. This is also different with the case of

Re: FW: gdbserver on cygwin

2012-06-30 Thread Richard H Lee
On 30/06/2012 18:05, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 04:22:03PM +0200, marco atzeri wrote: On 6/30/2012 3:18 PM, Richard H Lee wrote: On 30/06/2012 03:07, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Is it supported yet? > > http://cygwin.com/packag

Re: FW: gdbserver on cygwin

2012-06-30 Thread Richard H Lee
On 30/06/2012 03:07, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Is it supported yet? > > http://cygwin.com/packages/ > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=gdbserver But the gdbserver binary is not available from setup.exe . It does however compile and function correctly from source.

gdbserver on cygwin

2012-06-29 Thread Richard H Lee
As of 2003 gdbserver was not supported on cygwin. Is it supported yet? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

POSIX or SYSV IPC calls on cygwin

2012-06-28 Thread Richard H Lee
I'm looking to use IPC calls on cygwin (shared memory and semaphores). The posix IPC api looks saner (easier), but it looks like it was only brought in in cygwin 1.7 . Am I better sticking to the SYSV IPC api? Or is the POSIX IPC api stable enough to use? -- Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: Anamoly with ioctl() in cygwin 1.7.10

2012-03-09 Thread Lee Collier
The problem is resolved in the snapshot as well. Thanks again. LC -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Anamoly with ioctl() in cygwin 1.7.10

2012-03-08 Thread Lee Collier
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > On Mar 8 11:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > You're trying this on a 64 bit machine, right? Call `peflags -l0' on > > your executable and try again. It should work. > > > Well, I think I have a solution now. I applied a patch to CVS and > I'm just ge

Re: Anamoly with ioctl() in cygwin 1.7.10

2012-03-07 Thread Lee Collier
Jon Clugston gmail.com> writes: > > Don't know if it will fix your problem, but you cannot just create a > mutex on the stack and call "lock" on it. You must initialize it with > "pthread_mutex_init()". > > Jon > > Good catch. I missed that in my haste to scrounge a sample pgm together. With

Anamoly with ioctl() in cygwin 1.7.10

2012-03-07 Thread Lee Collier
Hello, I'm new to cygwin and ran into an anamoly with calling ioctl() that I've not experienced on Linux. It appears that ioctl() behaves as expected when it is called from the main thread; however, it does not when called from a thread created by the main thread. Is this expected behavior when us

Re: Setup not showing any download sites?

2012-02-07 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
th Package Search? I'm running 1.7.10-1 and no problemo. Server, selected could be prob? -- -- Lee Rothstein -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http:

Re: Cannot start Bash after today's update

2012-02-07 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
hieve full sentiency at some point. It's probably complicated enough now to pass a Turing test. A fitting tribute on this -- the 100th anniversary. ;-) -- -- Lee Rothstein -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentatio

Re: Sorry "people" (NOT MY taxonomy!!), but igncr IS flawed

2011-12-17 Thread Lee
sing-language-in-different-ways communication problem. I saw > it earlier and it seemed perfectly polite and proper to me, I honestly can't > see what about it would offend you.) +1 Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.

Re: Issues with TCP Window Scaling Factor and Cygwin Daemons

2011-12-15 Thread Lee
On 12/15/11, Dave Korn wrote: > On 15/12/2011 05:23, Lee wrote: >> On 12/14/11, David Groves wrote: >>> I am having some issues with cygwin applications (specifically sshd) >>> and TCP Window Scaling Factors. I am using OpenSSH client on either a >>> Debian Li

Re: Issues with TCP Window Scaling Factor and Cygwin Daemons

2011-12-14 Thread Lee
65535 and a widow scale of zero. Use putty from the dos prompt to ssh to the same machine and that has a window size of 65535 and a window scale of 2 Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

2011-06-14 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
the `date' program. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

2011-06-14 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Apparently you didn't actually read the whole thread here. Apparently I did. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

2011-06-14 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
using my homegrown format for date I think this works (and personally I rather like my invention... :-). -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Question about exception when running gVIM 7.2

2011-06-08 Thread Lee Merrill
Saxon, Will sage.com> writes: > > My script works, but if I do run it from a command window it generates a stack dump: > > Exception: STATUS_GUARD_PAGE_VIOLATION at eip=61020137 I had a similar problem, what fixed it for me was to move /cygwin to /cygwin.save and re-insta

File Name Case Sensitivity & Globbing! Was: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-27 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
> You got that wrong. The CYGWIN=glob:... option only affects how > globbing is performed on the command line arguments if the Cygwin > process has been started from a native Windows process. Full stop. I acknowledged *my* MISTAKE. I do so again. > Now, actual filename case sensitivity is an en

Re: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-26 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 5/26/2011 3:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:28:53PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote: Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option: glob:noignorecase What follows is an edited transcript of my confusion about trying to find the command "xwin&

Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Lee Rothstein
Incomplete Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics -- I did notice in latex.log that it references a file: "latex.aux". Is the file name extension a problem? Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-26 Thread Lee Rothstein
alue Cygwin more, not less. Creating the illusion of a coherent *NIX environment on Windows is non-trivial. Thanks, Cygwin developers. Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Uns

Re: Using Cygwin Emacs

2011-05-16 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
click on emacs (setup says it's 23.3.2). 3. If that doesn't work, my guess would be to follow the reporting instructions at the end of every message. 4. And if all else fails, read the friendly manual. Castigation, denigration and mastication cheerfully accepted(tm), -- Lee Maschmey

Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?

2011-05-10 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
/dev/tty but that's by-the-by and probably belongs in a different thread anyway. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Doc

Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?

2011-05-10 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
IN variable. I'll remove it and see what happens. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cyg

Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?

2011-05-09 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
the Cygwin text, not all can. Narrator is a part of the Windows OS; it's on every Windows computer. It can't see the text in Cygwin at all. I've included the brltty developers on this message and will send them Corinna's original so you may hear from somebody who knows what

I think there's an error in the boxes postinstall script

2011-04-21 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Hi all, Attached is a typescript that I hope shows the error I keep getting from /etc/postinstall/boxes.sh. I'm running Cygwin 1.7.9-1 on Windows XP. Everything is, or certainly is intended to be, fully updated. HTH, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woo

/etc/apache.new?

2011-04-01 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
e and apache.new directories. diff -r shows that the contents are identical. Will cygcheck get mad if I rename apache.new to apache, or are both supposed to be there? Thanks, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports:

Probably dumb question about apropos

2011-03-15 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
(1) - Awk to Perl translator alias [] (3) - declare symbolic aliases for perl data B [] (3) - The Perl Compiler ... What's that [] stuff? It doesn't happen on Ubuntu. Castigation, denigration and mastication cheerfully accepted. ~tm -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayn

Re: directories named '...' (dotdotdot) do not work

2011-02-02 Thread Lee Rothstein
CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 GW2 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin Conceivably, this could be a bug that might be important, but I have to ask: How good an idea is it to name a directory '...'? Let me take a crack at an answer: About as good an idea as embedding s

setup from a list of packages rather than interactive selection?

2010-12-10 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
I vaguely remember a discussion, here, about how to install using 'setup.exe' from a list of packages contained in a file which is then "pointed to" on the command line. I see the '-p' option in 'setup', and although I know how to put the list ('Pkg_List.txt') after the -p in bash (i.e. '-p \"$(ca

Re: problem with find in newly Updated: findutils-4.5.9-2

2010-12-07 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
find --version works fine for me. Perhaps it's time for the -srv... -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Document

Re: Problem with Bash regex test case sensitivity

2010-12-04 Thread Lee Rothstein
On 12/4/2010 5:34 PM, Lee wrote: On 12/4/10, Lee Rothstein wrote: On 12/4/2010 10:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 4 10:05, Lee wrote: >> On 12/3/10, Eric Blake wrote: Here's my takeaway, given Corinna's interesting and complete context, and my intents. (My i

Re: Problem with Bash regex test case sensitivity

2010-12-04 Thread Lee
On 12/4/10, Lee Rothstein wrote: > On 12/4/2010 10:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Dec 4 10:05, Lee wrote: > > >> On 12/3/10, Eric Blake wrote: > >>> Read the FAQ. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash/, E9. > > >> Which sa

Re: Problem with Bash regex test case sensitivity

2010-12-04 Thread Lee Rothstein
On 12/4/2010 10:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 4 10:05, Lee wrote: >> On 12/3/10, Eric Blake wrote: >>> Read the FAQ. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash/, E9. >> Which says the en_US locale collates the upper and lower case >> letters like th

Re: Problem with Bash regex test case sensitivity

2010-12-04 Thread Lee
On 12/4/10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 4 10:05, Lee wrote: >> On 12/3/10, Eric Blake wrote: >> > Read the FAQ. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash/, E9. >> >> Which says the en_US locale collates the upper and lower case letters like >> this

Re: Problem with Bash regex test case sensitivity

2010-12-04 Thread Lee
On 12/3/10, Eric Blake wrote: > On 12/03/2010 07:11 PM, Lee wrote: >>> Or, is this a bug? > > No, but a "feature" of your locale. Set 'export LC_COLLATE=C', and use > LANG rather than LC_ALL for all your other locale defaults, in your > ~/.bashrc if yo

Re: Problem with Bash regex test case sensitivity

2010-12-03 Thread Lee
On 12/3/10, Lee Rothstein wrote: > Having some problems with bash case-sensitive regexes, so I wrote > this little test. ... snip ... > Do I have some Bash or Cygwin parameter set that engenders case > insensitivity? Probably the same thing I ran into with LANG != C try this

Re: Portable Cygwin: replacing drivename in a text file

2010-11-24 Thread Lee
o @rem mountvol to find out the volume name @rem c:\TrueCrypt\TrueCrypt.exe /q /v \\?\Volume{..output from mountvol..}\ /l X .. invoke app .. c:\TrueCrypt\TrueCrypt.exe /q /dX HTH, Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: trojans in cygwin

2010-11-03 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Monika, Cygwin 1.7.5 is not the newest version. That's now 1.7.7. Are you sure you have the newest setup.exe and that it came from a reliable source? -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports:

Re: Is part of gcc3 missing?

2010-11-03 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
- Original Message - From: Andy Koppe Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 16:56 Subject: Re: Is part of gcc3 missing? On 2 November 2010 19:57, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: Gentlefolk, For the past couple years or more I've been building a program, brltty, from its subversion develo

Re: Is part of gcc3 missing?

2010-11-02 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
chmod 755 /usr/bin/set-gcc-default-* Yes, I did that ages ago. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

Re: sometimes ~ and $HOME contain different values

2010-11-02 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Hi Giorgos, My ~ and $HOME were never the same until I modified /etc/passwd to point to the directory I wanted to use. (I think there's something in the User's Guide to this effect, though I got it from the mailing list.) HTH, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing C

Re: Installing Pine

2010-10-24 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
me to move on. WRT your comment on 'set', why would 'set' have any info to bear on installable packages? Sorry for my ignorance. Lee On 10/24/2010 11:00 AM, ROGER CARSLEY wrote: Apologies if I have missed the obvious but as a newby I was expecting to be able find that installing

Re: date.exe have some time advance to system time

2010-10-24 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 10/24/2010 4:43 AM, Kirill Yarosh wrote: $ date ; cmd /c echo %TIME% I thought that perhaps, the clock was updating via the net, induced by the 'cmd' date request, so, I tried: $ date ; cmd /c 'echo %TIME%' ; date Sun, Oct 24, 2010 10:52:17 AM 10:52:07.45 Sun, Oct 24, 2010 10:52:17 AM $

Re: Bash Completion Install/Configure ; was: Re: Bash problems, strace, performance, etc.

2010-10-23 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 10/22/2010 5:47 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/22/2010 03:41 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 10/22/2010 12:32 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> On 21 October 2010 22:22, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: The original complaint which is now solved (I think) had nothing to do with Bash completion.

Re: Bash problems, strace, performance, etc. -> More details on cause (?)

2010-10-22 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 10/22/2010 12:32 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 21 October 2010 22:22, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: >>> do you have bash-completion, if yes, get rid of it and try again. >> >> Bash completion is installed on my system but never loaded; i.e., >> /etc/bash_completion is

Re: Bash problems, strace, performance, etc. Solved! (?)

2010-10-21 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
re of my anti-virus as a potential snag, I've completely spaced on these errant ghost app sessions, such as Adobe Reader, in this case. See my comments, below. On 10/21/2010 7:40 PM, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > Le 21/10/2010 23:22, Lee D. Rothstein a écrit : >> On 10/21/2010 1:22 A

Re: Bash problems, strace, performance, etc.

2010-10-21 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
ication, and repository for all the best aggregate wisdom of the above (The weasel word, "largely", is *largely* due to 'info' vs 'man'! Every man [not 'man'] has his hamartia, and RSM&#

Re: Bash problems, strace, performance, etc.

2010-10-19 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 10/19/2010 5:46 PM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: I'm confused. Something is wrong with my Cygwin configuration that has slowed Cygwin operation down drastically. The performance issue follows several problems with 'bash' that occurred while running nested scripts. The residual

Re: Perl Modules?

2010-10-15 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 10/15/2010 4:58 PM, Csaba Raduly wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: >* What are the standard paths for Perl Modules on Cygwin? ... HTH, Csaba Most helpful. Thank you. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Perl Modules?

2010-10-15 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
ine perl module specification? Tons of Googling have led nowhere (lots of misses) on the above "issues". Yes, I know, too much shell scripting makes Lee a perl-dull boy. ;-) Thanks, Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygw

Re: nodosfilewarning not working

2010-10-13 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 10/13/2010 1:58 AM, Autotoonz wrote: Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: If you mean that batch file 1 sets the CYGWIN environment variable and then directly runs batch file 2, then that works too. That's how environment variables work - once you set an environment variable it is inherited by all s

Inconsistency in handling a DOS path between subversion commands

2010-09-29 Thread 이희승 (Trustin Lee)
I'm using Cygwin's subversion package instead of the native win32 build provided by CollabNet. It seems to work very well with UNIX-like paths, but some commands doesn't seem to play well along with DOS paths. Please take a look into the following log - 'svn info' works fine with a DOS path but 's

Re: Have idea for titlebar tweak -- need help with syntax

2010-09-27 Thread Lee Rothstein
See attachment. Invoke in your profile as: . set_prompt.s # This script must be sourced from the user's profile # set_prompt.s: set the bash prompt # By Vitek Gite and Lee Rothstein, 2008-05-22, 06:46 PM. # Vitek supplied the article and the comments, here. Lee # supplied the exact escape sequ

Re: awk gsub problem

2010-09-19 Thread Lee
On 9/18/10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 18 11:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Sep 17 22:30, Lee wrote: >> > On 9/16/10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > > On Sep 15 18:30, Lee wrote: >> > >> I don't know if this is just a problem

Re: awk gsub problem

2010-09-17 Thread Lee
On 9/16/10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 15 18:30, Lee wrote: >> I don't know if this is just a problem with the cygwin version of awk, >> me misunderstanding something or what, but it looks like gsub isn't >> working correctly in awk: >> $ sh /tm

awk gsub problem

2010-09-15 Thread Lee
licenses/. $ --- on a Linux box & it works the way I expected: % sh /tmp/test.awk s= ::S0:: should = ::S0:: % awk --version GNU Awk 3.1.5 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2005 Free Software Foundation. ... snip ... Regards, Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories

2010-08-26 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Windoze or Cygwin), but what's the deal, do you think? Thx, Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Building a custom cygwin1.dll library

2010-08-23 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 8/22/2010 2:30 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:32:47PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: Is it possible to build a custom cygwin1.dll library? I'm in the process of setting up a Win2K8 or Win2K3 server, and I would like to install a personalized install of Cygwin there. No

Re: perl-ming does not install properly

2010-07-20 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 7/20/2010 4:55 AM, David Sastre wrote: 2010/7/20, Lee D. Rothstein: from 'cygcheck -c': Missing file: /usr/share/man/man3/SWF::Action.3pm.gz from package perl-ming Missing file: /usr/share/man/man3/SWF::BinaryData.3pm.gz from package perl-ming Missing file: /usr

perl-ming does not install properly

2010-07-20 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
from 'cygcheck -c': Missing file: /usr/share/man/man3/SWF::Action.3pm.gz from package perl-ming Missing file: /usr/share/man/man3/SWF::BinaryData.3pm.gz from package perl-ming Missing file: /usr/share/man/man3/SWF::Bitmap.3pm.gz from package perl-ming Missing file: /usr/share/man/man

Another cygcheck issue?

2010-07-08 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
nied. /bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'QWAVE': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. /bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'RpcSs': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. /bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'WPFFontCache_v0400': Win32 error 5 Acc

Re: mutt and perl-ming

2010-07-02 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 7/2/2010 9:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 1 17:14, Lee Rothstein wrote: I got bitten by the misconfig of gnome-canvas on kernel.org. That plus, bandwidth shenanigans by Comcast, and probably some errors in my recovery process left me with a bunch of missing pieces from sundry

Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

2010-06-24 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 6/24/2010 3:05 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 02:41:12PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote: On 6/24/2010 11:37 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Is there a problem with gnomecanvas2 package? setup.exe hasn't changed since April so it's hard to see how a

Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

2010-06-24 Thread Lee Rothstein
On 6/24/2010 11:37 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:53:19AM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote: On 6/24/2010 7:42 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner [mailto:cygwin-owner] On Behalf Of Gregg Levine Sent: Thursday, June 24

Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

2010-06-24 Thread Lee Rothstein
On 6/24/2010 7:42 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Gregg Levine Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 1:48 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors On Tue, Jun

Re: New Mintty Beta via setup

2010-06-05 Thread Lee Rothstein
On 6/5/2010 10:21 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: Lee Rothstein wrote: On my sys, uninstalled the old one, and installed nada, zilch, niemands, zip, bupkis, nothing, the null set. For some reason, when the test version is selected in setup.exe, the checkbox in the 'Bin?' (as in "Binary&

Re: New Mintty Beta via setup

2010-06-05 Thread Lee Rothstein
#x27;em. Remember the motto, here, won't you: WJM ! not at all seriousLee On 6/5/2010 6:10 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: On my sys, uninstalled the old one, and installed nada, zilch, niemands, zip, bupkis, nothing, the null set. Nice one, Andy! Trying to build the suspense for those

New Mintty Beta via setup

2010-06-05 Thread Lee Rothstein
On my sys, uninstalled the old one, and installed nada, zilch, niemands, zip, bupkis, nothing, the null set. Nice one, Andy! Trying to build the suspense for those addicted to mintty? ;-) minttylessLee :-( -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:

Re: List configuration?

2010-04-29 Thread Lee Rothstein
On 4/29/2010 11:31 AM, Ben Kamen wrote: The newer thunderbird (I think starting with version 3) has a button "Reply to List" I try to remember to use that. -Ben Thanks for the heads up on TB 3. Works like a charm -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: List configuration?

2010-04-29 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
That was unfair to that other person. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs

List configuration?

2010-04-29 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Hi folks, The user's guide requests that people reply to the list, but the default headers are set up to reply to the sender. This seems a bit strange. I know it's been this way for ages but I do get tired of realizing I forgot to change the recipient. -- Lee Maschmeyer W

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/28/2010 12:12 PM, Sastre wrote: >>> 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein >>> FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. I actually didn't say that, but I alluded to it. >> Fair enough. >> Two options, then: >> >>

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
david sastre wrote: New package "makeself-2.1.5-2" has been uploaded. makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is. The archive will then unc

Re: sh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487

2010-04-23 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
though. My neighbor recently told me they had discovered 167 viruses on his machine. He's now a bit wiser and not that much poorer. :-) -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FA

Re: Setup: Could the list of items be in the tab order?

2010-04-09 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
I obviously wrote this before reading Corinna's responses in a different thread. Please let this one die. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Setup: Could the list of items be in the tab order?

2010-04-09 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
idering possibilities here's one to at least throw out. :-) Thanks, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Ctrl+R breaks `less' searches

2010-04-05 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
something which requires regular expressions to be off, I'll never find it unless I first search for something that doesn't require Regex-off. I sent the cygcheck output with the original report last week. Do you need another one? Have fun, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State Univers

WTF & NEW acronyms Was: Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-04 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Andrew Defaria spake: ... the people at work are a lot more point and clickly if you know what I mean. These get my vote: PACy -- point and clicky OR: GUIPy -- GUI prone Sy -- scripty (gnuish?) OR: CLIO -- Command line-oriented WWNN -- "if you know what I mean" OR "wink, wink, nudge, nudg

Re: Non-canonical mode input via tcsetattr(), under mintty console

2010-02-27 Thread Dave Lee
Sorry for forgetting 3 things. 1. I was testing on cygwin 1.7. 2. I was running the latest version of mintty (0.5.8-1). 3. I have included an output from cygcheck here. Thanks. --- On Sun, 2/28/10, Dave Lee wrote: > Hi all, > > I was testing a program that uses non-canonical mode in

Non-canonical mode input via tcsetattr(), under mintty console

2010-02-27 Thread Dave Lee
e source. I suspected this is a bug shown under mintty (but not standard console). Is it the case? Thanks, Dave Lee. termex.c Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Problem in calling _stat() on Cygwin 1.7

2010-02-27 Thread Dave Lee
e assume what _XXX() does, and that _XXX() behaves the same as XXX()? Thanks for help. Dave Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: h

Problem in calling _stat() on Cygwin 1.7

2010-02-27 Thread Dave Lee
mpilation (and gave wrong result). Is it a problem with _stat(), or did I make a mistake in the 2nd argument in calling _stat()? Thanks for help. Dave Lee. cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygw

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-26 Thread Lee Rothstein
Steven Monai wrote: Hi folks, Consider this command line transcript: -- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 hostname 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin $ cygcheck -c cygport Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygport

Re: Git-gui and ssh key authenication

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Lee
Hi again, I hope this replies to the right thread. I forgot to say I'm using Mintty. When it asks me for my passphrase it asks me from the Mintty console I ran the "git gui" command from. Two things happen here, my passphrase is displayed as I type it and when I quit the git-gui, only every other

Git-gui and ssh key authenication

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Lee
Hi cygwin, I'm not sure if this goes in the cygwin-apps list of here. I'm running Cygwin 1.7.1 on XP SP3 Pro. I'm having problems getting git-gui to use my ssh key. I can run git-gui fine. But when I try to clone from my repo it asks for my ssh passphrase. I'm assuming that this is because it ca

Re: Redirecting $TEMP or a certain directory to /tmp

2010-01-12 Thread Lee Rothstein
help). As always, YMMV. #!/bin/bash # tmpdir: resilient TeMPorary Directory Inquisition Reporter # 'tmpdir' "finds" a master temporary directory (MTD) -- the directory in # which temporary files and directories of an appication's session are # stored. With certain op

re: HOME environment variable set in Windows

2010-01-08 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
No need to unset Windows variables, just set it in cygwin.bat. Something like: set HOME=c:\cygwin\home\myid gets turned into $HOME=/home/myid -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: changing cygwin's console window title

2010-01-07 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
27;\007\033'"]1;$@"$'\007'; } export PROMPT_COMMAND='settitle "Cygwin Bash shell"' -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: rxvt and strange characters from man

2010-01-07 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
ad of a terminal and the following works for me: alias man="LANG=c man" So far I haven't discovered any flaws. It even works (after a whole 1 tests! :-) in woman. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem

Re: Generating and rendering Cygwin docs. (new thread)

2010-01-04 Thread Lee Rothstein
Corinna, Christopher, et al.: Can you help out here: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 01/04/2010 10:56 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: >> * I'm about to do a review of the Cygwin docs. I'd really like to >> do that from a single PDF file per doc (FAQs, User Guide, API >&

Generating and rendering Cygwin docs. Was" Re: [PATCH] avoid 404 link for propietary cygwin license in userguide

2010-01-04 Thread Lee Rothstein
to get from Docbook to a format of my choice, including?: > PS/PDF? > man nroff/troff/groff source? > XHTML/CSS? > Or, if that's documented somewhere, point me at it, please. * If it's not documented, and you can give me even some vague pointers, I'd be happy to

Re: 1.7.1: Does 'chere' work with Vista 64b? Can't tell by me.

2010-01-03 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Dave wrote: Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Dave wrote: > Check HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Shell\cygwin_bash. It's value should > be the context menu item text, "Mintty Bash" Value was null. > It should have one subkey, command, whose value is the command to

Re: Symbolic links problem with cygwin 1.7.1 in 64-bit Win7 Command Prompt

2010-01-01 Thread Lee Rothstein
b896768.aspx) (Admittedly, a kludge, but this is Windows, after all. ;-)) Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: BSOD after major release

2010-01-01 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
failures.) Yeh. A falling hippo will do that to your park zone. Youse guys wanna be careful there, somebody might burn it down! It had to happen. MITMDTPTP. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: BSOD after major release

2009-12-31 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 12/31/2009 08:40 AM, Sergey Ivanov wrote: >> After installing new major release of cygwin i obtained bsod >> Bad_pool_Header on the stage post-installing. As usual i installed >> everything (full installation). >> Is it possible to check which package wrong? > BS

Re: 1.7.1: Does 'chere' work with Vista 64b? Can't tell by me.

2009-12-31 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Dave wrote: > Lee D. Rothstein wrote: >> > It's been a while since I've had to look at chere. Bottom line - there >> > haven't been any previous reports of failures on Vista 64 bit (and I >> > don't have a 64-bit system available to

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