XOpenDisplay() in libW11 causes a SIGSEGV if called with NULL displayname.

2003-03-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
This message is intended for the rxvt maintainer. >From the manpage of XOpenDisplay(): display_name Specifies the hardware display name, which determines the display and communications domain to be used. On a POSIX-conformant system, if the display_name is NULL, it defaults to the value of the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, S. L. wrote: > > The Midnight Commander visual shell has been updated to version > > 4.6.0-1. This is major upgrade and the result of more then > > one and a half year of bugfixing and code cleanup. > [...] > > Thanks, and, of course another item on the wishlist (although it

mc-4.6.0-1 slow startup in rxvt was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated:mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Pavel Tsekov (03-03-09 15:34 +0100) > > On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >> Unfortunately there are now some new ones: > >> > >> 1. It takes more than 5 seconds to start mc in a rxvt window - in a &g

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-09 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Unfortunately there are now some new ones: > > 1. It takes more than 5 seconds to start mc in a rxvt window - in a > "normal" console window mc starts immediately. Removing my rxvt > customizations in .Xdefaults has no effect. > > 2. If you start mc

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-08 Thread Pavel Tsekov
is present and the DISPLAY variable is set. This patch was accepted by the MC developers after the release of MC 4.6.0. Pavel Tsekov Midnight Commander maintainer for Cygwin INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://

Re: setup.exe is too small

2003-03-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, DH wrote: > For the love of open source, > is the setup.exe dialog listing the > packages ever going to get bigger? > > I've searched the mailing list and people > complained about this before. > > What is the hold up? > (3 months back I got so frustrated by this I swore off

Re: setup.exe: something besides C++?

2003-03-05 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Joe Buehler wrote: > I don't want to start a huge flamewar, but have any of the setup.exe > developers thought about changing setup.exe so that it is written > in something a little easier to work on, like perl/tk? People have > been asking for various enhancements for quite a

Re: Cygwin setup crashes

2003-03-05 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > Manu wrote: > >>> I've patched and rebuilt. > >>> I have now: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" > >>> This occurs in install.cc, line 173: > >> > Max wrote: > >> Umm. This bug is known to exist, but we don't know how to reproduce > >> it. http

Re: Cygwin setup crashes

2003-03-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > Why have you modified the patch ? > > So that it applies cleanly against setup HEAD. > > Your original patch contains 2 hunks: > 1) remove some code > 2) add it back later in the function > > Hun

Re: Cygwin setup crashes

2003-03-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Why have you modified the patch ? On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > > After a few editing in the Makefiles, (I don't have much time :) > > I've built setup.exe from CVS sources, with debug symbols. > > Please try this patch (against current CVS): > > Index: compress_gz.cc > =

Re: Cygwin setup crashes

2003-03-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > > Call stack: > > 00406816 SETUP.EXE:00406816 compress_gz::destroy() > > compress_gz.cc:472 ... > > free (outbuf); > >if (original) > >> delete original; > > } > > Interesting indeed. Something very weird is happening, if a non-null pointe

Re: arrow keys under mc via SSH with PuTTY

2003-02-20 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > When I press down key, a 'B' charactor appears in the prompt line (the > > > line with a '$' at the most left) and cursor bar doesn't move. And when > > > I press up key, a 'A' appears instead. However, I still have some > > > chances (about 1 out

Re: Question about mixing objects beetween MSVC++ and GCC

2003-02-20 Thread Pavel Tsekov
No, you cannot mix C++ object. GCC and MSVC use different name mangling schemes. However, you can try to wrap the C++ functionality in C functions and link against them. Eventually this will work. On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Eric Jacquemard wrote: > In the FAQ I read that I can mix objects compiled wi

Re: arrow keys under mc via SSH with PuTTY

2003-02-20 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, This problem has been reported by Marcel Telka some time ago: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00485.html Apparently some changes in newer Cygwin versions broke the arrow keys handling in MC 4.5.55. I planned to investigate this problem but couldn't get enough time. Are you establi

Re: Re: Problem with socket in gcc programming

2003-02-12 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, Please, keep replies on the list - I read it and so do many other people out there. On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Henry wrote: > Thanks very much > > I made a mistake on the cygwin version just now. > > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ZSUHENRY 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i586 unknown

Re: Problem with socket in gcc programming

2003-02-12 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, Works fine here. I'm running your testcase on: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 mordor 1.3.20(0.73/3/2) 2003-02-08 12:10 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin It will help if you provide more infomation about your system environment and the version of Cygwin that you are running. To learn how to do this

Re: Setup hangs repetedly

2003-02-01 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Martin Magnusson wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: > > Please describe exactly where setup hangs. > It happens after download, during install. But it hangs at different > files each time. Somtimes it hangs at 4%, sometimes at 29% etc. > > > Does it hang if you download only first,

Re: Cygwin 1.3.19/bash prompt bug

2003-01-31 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, James Begley wrote: > Hi, > > I have just upgraded to the most recent version (1.3.19) of the cygwin dll, and > I have small, weird problem. The bash prompt no longer shows the username > correctly - see examples below. I am running cygwin from a Win2000 machine,

Cygwin 1.3.19-1 and up: Garbage printed in ls output if the userentry is missing from /etc/passwd

2003-01-31 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, I've just completed a fresh installation of Cygwin on Win2k Pro / SP3. I installed Cygwin as Administrator but then created an user called ptsekov. It happened that I forgot to update the password database after I created the new user. So I've logged in as ptsekov and the first thing I s

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available

2003-01-27 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, Dan Please, try again in some hours. The setup.hint file that accompanies each Cygwin package contained incorrect version information for emacs-X11 and emacs-el. I've fixed this manually and once the setup.ini file is updated, you should be able to get the new versions. Thanks for the h

Re: SFU

2003-01-26 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > Has anyone one on the list attempted the same and had any positive or > > negative experiences with interaction between the two systems. > > Not personally. But I have been told that they cannot live together. If you > search the archives for "posix

Re: Updated: cygwin-1.3.19-1

2003-01-24 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Marcel Telka wrote: > > Napísané d??a 2003.01.24 04:16, (autor: Christopher Faylor): > > I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities > > available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is > > below. > > The problem reported here: > http:/

Re: mkfifo implementation ?

2003-01-14 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, gilles BOURGEOIS wrote: > hi folks, > is mkfifo still not implemented (I read mailing list archive fron end of > 2003) , and I ran mkfifo which return -1 (and does not set errno) in my > code. Yes. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug repo

Re: fcntl() bug? if called second times!

2003-01-13 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, Cygwin doesn't support advisory file locking. It implements file locking via the Win32 api LockFile*. Find out more here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/lockfile.asp And more specifically this part: [...] Locking a portion of a file for shared

Re: [Bug] 1.3.18-1: Problem with arrow keys and rxvt/bash/mc

2003-01-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Marcel Telka wrote: > Hi. > > I'm starting bash in rxvt using this cygwin.bat file: > > =8<=== > chdir \cygwin\bin > > set EDITOR=vim > set VIM=/usr/share/vim/vim61 > set CYGWIN=codepage:oem tty binmode title > rxvt -bg black -fg white -g 120x50+30+80

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] emacs 21.2-10 available

2002-12-20 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On 20 Dec 2002, Jeffery B. Rancier wrote: > Hi, > Was this email a result of an official Gnu ANNOUNCEMENT? > Jeff No, it is Cygwin specific release. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http:

Re: Cannot connect to posix subsystem

2002-12-19 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, a12 wrote: > Hello cygwin gurus, > > First start of cygwin opens a DOS window, and the following > error appears: > posix: cannot connect to posix subsystem Any chance that you've MS's Services For Unix installed on that machine ? > Any hints ? >From the FAQ: Details abou

Re: Compiling GLib 1.2.10 on latest cygwin

2002-12-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, S. L. wrote: > [...] > > > I don't think that sounds like the right solution. > > > > Probably, but I reverted it after compiling libglib.a. > [...] > > There's also a patch in mc's source tree that addresses this package. That > applies to glib source, as it should :) Correct

Re: New setup.exe beta.

2002-11-27 Thread Pavel Tsekov
> directory (havent tried the other modes yet). Look for a line which looks > like this > in the attached setup.log file: Sorry, forgot the attachments :( -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! setup.log Des

Re: New setup.exe beta.

2002-11-27 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, > We're at that time again, where your testing directly influences the > quality of setup.exe that you get to run. > > So, > at http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/ there is a new setup.exe > snapshot, that is (as far as we know) devoid of major bugs. 1. If i try to install from local d

Re: [Bug: gcc-3.2-1] Cygwin DLL (CVS HEAD) build failure - gcc useswrong include path order.

2002-10-24 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: > I tried to build the Cygwin DLL from CVS, but ran into an error caused by > gcc inserting an unasked for "-isystem > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../../include/w32api" into the > cpp0.exe command line. That path contracts to /usr/include/w32

Re: set up problem

2002-10-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, hazz wrote: > I run cygwin but invoking mc it says IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND THE LIBRARY AT > THE DYNAMIC LINK C:\cygwin\bin\ncurses-test-dll\bin;C:\WINNT\System32 > and on on > the same problem it occourse with lynx This is not exactly the message that you've been shown by the syst

Re: Subdirectory name : release/ELFIO/ or release/elfio/

2002-10-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a recent version of setup.ini the subdirectory for ELFIO named > release/ELFIO/ became release/elfio/. Now (setup-timestamp: 1034885409) it's > back to release/ELFIO/. (Sorry. I just seem to notice this sort of thing, > and then I worry about it.)

Re: File permission problems with new cygwin dll

2002-10-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
> Should be fixed in cvs. I'm generating a snapshot. > > The problem was caused by this change from Pavel Tsekov: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2002-q3/msg00064.html > > I had a nagging feeling that this was a problem when it was checked in. > > My fix s

Re: syslog

2002-10-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Christoffer Walther wrote: > Where is the syslog daemon? > There is no syslog daemon in Cygwin. The Cygwin POSIX emulation layer takes care about syslog requests. On NT like systems it logs to the event manager, on Win9x and ME a file is created in the root of drive C:.

Re: authentication in cygwin

2002-10-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Christoffer Walther wrote: > Hello, I am used to a UNIX environment, I want to setup an ftp server on > my windows 2000 ws. However, I get 'login incorrect' when I attempt to > log in to the ftp server. There seems to be no encrypted passwords in /etc/passwd, > exactly how do

Re: full installation of cygwin

2002-10-01 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Nick Guydosh wrote: > not include gcc). I am not too sure what I did in the first case to get > the full installation - could you give a tip on how to force a full > installation. I haven't seen this question asked for a long time :) Here is how to install all Cygwin pack

RE: Setup 2.249.2.5 Hangs during "Install from Local Directory"

2002-09-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, John Carlyle- Clarke wrote: Please, ask about one problem at a time. Is setup which is causing problems for you or some of the Cygwin packages ? I was under the impression that you're having troubles installing Cygwin due to a setup.exe misbehaving. Now I see that you've

RE: Setup 2.249.2.5 Hangs during "Install from Local Directory"

2002-09-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, John Carlyle- Clarke wrote: > This problem seems to occur when the setup program tries to access a file for >writing for which it does not have permission. Well, is there a chance you know also the name of the file. And is it really a single file or a directory ? Please, d

Re[4]: setup-2.243 Crash / Install from Local Directory / WinXP

2002-05-23 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Robert, Thursday, May 23, 2002, 11:50:10 AM, you wrote: >> thrown from one of these... I can't be sure because it seems >> that the source provided along with the binary snapshot is >> not exactly the same as the one from which the binary was >> compiled... Robert, can you confirm/deny t

Re[7]: setup-2.243 Crash / Install from Local Directory / WinXP

2002-05-23 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Robert, Thursday, May 23, 2002, 11:47:26 AM, you wrote: >> Well, this will fix the problem, but String::substr() will >> still cause a crash if for some reason a NULL pointer is >> passed to it! Btw have you read my mail till the end ? RC> Yes. The String++ implementation currently uses

Re: Fixed Cygwin setup-2.243.exe

2002-05-23 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Sebastian, I could, but you know this won't be supported by the list. Btw you can solve this problem by removing setup.ini from your local package directory - i guess you have one there... Remove only the setup.ini in the root of the local package directory not from any of its subdirectorie

Re[2]: setup-2.243 Crash / Install from Local Directory / WinXP

2002-05-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Cliff, Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 4:22:57 PM, you wrote: CH> Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> C'mon Max, you *know* I need more detail than that. >> >> Install from Local works fine here. Even though it's only a snapshot, I >> wasn't aware of any -bugs- in the release. CH> Why

Re[5]: setup-2.243 Crash / Install from Local Directory / WinXP

2002-05-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Robert, Well, this will fix the problem, but String::substr() will still cause a crash if for some reason a NULL pointer is passed to it! Btw have you read my mail till the end ? Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 4:57:13 PM, you wrote: RC> Thanks Pavel. I've no time to test this tonight, but: [sn

Re[3]: setup-2.243 Crash / Install from Local Directory / WinXP

2002-05-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 2:34:47 PM, you wrote: PT> I can confirm this - here is the output shown from Dr. Mingw JIT: I'm not sure this is the same crash but the crash I'm reporting is easy reproducable and I think it is not the expected behaviour :) Here is more info on it.. The crash is cause

Re[2]: setup-2.243 Crash / Install from Local Directory / WinXP

2002-05-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Max, Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 3:18:57 PM, you wrote: [snip] MB> So... I untar the setup source from cygwin.com/setup-snapshots, ./configure, MB> make Grab the setup source snapshot tarball from http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/ and use the instructions from http://sources.redhat.com

Re[3]: setup-2.243 Crash / Install from Local Directory / WinXP

2002-05-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Pavel, Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 2:34:47 PM, you wrote: PT> Hello Robert, PT> Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 2:20:20 PM, you wrote: RC>> C'mon Max, you *know* I need more detail than that. RC>> Install from Local works fine here. Even though it's only a snapshot, I RC>> wasn't aware of any -bu

Re[2]: setup-2.243 Crash / Install from Local Directory / WinXP

2002-05-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Robert, Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 2:20:20 PM, you wrote: RC> C'mon Max, you *know* I need more detail than that. RC> Install from Local works fine here. Even though it's only a snapshot, I RC> wasn't aware of any -bugs- in the release. I can confirm this - here is the output shown from Dr

Re[2]: Crash during setup

2002-05-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
NW> folder for setup.ini and may possibly be picking up the wrong one. Also, NW> if you are already using a designated folder only for cygwin downloads, NW> then I suggest clearing out what had been created by previous attempts and NW> retry from a different mirror. If this is the case try to s

Re[4]: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Lee, On the 4th setup page (screen) you are prompted for "Local Package Directory". I am interested of the contents of the directory you entered on that screen and in any subdirectories of the above directory which loook like URLs. Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 3:55:32 PM, you wrote: LG> Well

Re[3]: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Lee, Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 2:53:30 PM, you wrote: LG> In two cases, my package dirs contain just setup.ini. LG> In one case, I have etc, which contains three files: last-cache, LG> timestamp, and last-mirror. The latter contains just the URI: LG> ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.re

Re[2]: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Lee, 1. Which is the mirror that you were using when setup.exe hung ? From your description of the problem its not quite clear. 2. Are you doing install from internet or from local directory ? Or maybe it was just a download only run ? 3. Please supply the listing of your download directo

Re[2]: Bug in ln / cygwin1.dll

2002-05-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Chris, Saturday, May 04, 2002, 1:37:30 PM, you wrote: CJ> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CJ> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CJ> Received: (qmail 28537 invoked by alias); 4 May 2002 12:35:44 - CJ> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CJ> Received: (qmail 28534 invoked by uid 8); 4 May 200

Re[2]: 2.194.2.26 Setup

2002-05-03 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Uhhh... Sorry... Now I took a look at the timestamp - this is not the setup.log/setup.log.full pair that we need. The one you need to send can be found in the /var/log directory. DV>> Here they are. There was less then 1Mb of space on the disk, maybe that was DV>> the reason, but when I made som

Re: 2.194.2.26 Setup

2002-05-03 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Dragan, Friday, May 03, 2002, 9:40:47 PM, you wrote: DV> Here they are. There was less then 1Mb of space on the disk, maybe that was DV> the reason, but when I made some 150Mb it still did not work. You say in the subject that you're using 2.194.2.26 but thats not what is written in the s

Re: 2.194.2.26 Setup

2002-05-03 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Dragan, Friday, May 03, 2002, 6:45:39 PM, you wrote: DV> I have almost complete Cygwin installed in d:\cygwin. I downloaded the new DV> Setup and went to http://mirrors.rcn.net to see if there is something new, DV> but it didn't find my previously installed packages. It just offered me th

Re[4]: trouble again downloading.

2002-05-02 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Dave, I can neither confirm, nor deny this behaviour. I've tried hard to reproduce it but to no avail :( I'll take a look at the source code this night - hopefully I'll see something :) The disturbing thing about your issue is that no one (except you) has reported this behaviour. Usually wh

Re[2]: trouble again downloading.

2002-05-01 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Dave, Please, keep replies to the list. Ok - now that all of the questions I've asked you're answered please report what happens when you change the view to 'Partial'. Wednesday, May 01, 2002, 8:28:13 PM, you wrote: d> Hi, d> It's a fresh install, on windows 2k professional. And i am

Re[2]: trouble again downloading.

2002-05-01 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Dave, Wednesday, May 01, 2002, 9:10:28 PM, you wrote: >> Hi, >> Ok, let's see i start setup via run: >> c:\temp\cyg-src\setup >> I select next. Then i select download from internet. Setup then wants to >> know where to place the downloaded files, c:\temp\cyg-src is already in >> the >>

Re: trouble again downloading.

2002-05-01 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello dave, Looking through you setup.log.full I find this: [irc] action=Skip trust=prev installed=none src?=no categories=All, Net [squid] action=Skip trust=test installed=none src?=no categories=All, Web [inetutils] action=Skip trust=test installed=none src?=no categories=All, N

Re[2]: setup with empty proxy password

2002-04-19 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello ljubomir, Thursday, April 18, 2002, 12:08:56 PM, you wrote: lmpc> Sorry for beeing unprecise. My internet acsess setup is solved by an lmpc> "automatic configuration script" proxy server, with an user name, but without lmpc> password (empty password). If I start cygwin setup.exe, and choos

Re: Trouble with inetd (start but doesn't work)

2002-04-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Auricom, Thursday, April 18, 2002, 8:40:14 PM, you wrote: A> The problem is inetd start but I can't telnet or ftp into my computer. A> The answer is "connection refused" when I try to connect to localhost A> or from the net... Do you have the ftp line in /etc/inetd.conf commented ? Is so

Re: setup with empty proxy password

2002-04-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello ljubomir, Thursday, April 18, 2002, 10:34:29 AM, you wrote: lmpc> Just a simple question: How to use setup (IE settings) when proxy password is empty? Your question implies that you're having some kind of troubles using setup.exe but you don't say whats wrong. Would you share the details

[PATCH] cygutils:conv.c: Prevent truncation of file if 0xFF is encountered

2002-04-16 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Chris, Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 12:53:07 PM, you wrote: CJ> Submit my patch instead to cygwin-patches along with a ChangeLog entry, CJ> otherwise it probably won't get incldued. Here it is: I put your name here because this is your patch :) I've taken this info from another patch of your

Re[2]: [PATCH] cygutils:conv.c: Prevent truncation of file if 0xFF is encountered

2002-04-16 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Chris, Monday, April 15, 2002, 10:52:52 PM, you wrote: >> A patch is attached to fix this behaviour. CJ> See my reply on cygwin-patches mailing list. :))) Yeah, saw it already :) It's the right thing to do of course. I didn't thought too much when "hacked" mine - did it in a hurry so we c

Re: setup.exe 2.194.2.24 "Download from Internet" misbehaviour

2002-04-16 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Nikolaus, Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 7:46:56 AM, you wrote: [snip] NS> Q: Is the creation of a site dependent subdirectory holding the modules NS> intended by design? Yes, it is! :) This topic was covered multiple times on the mailing list already, see this thread from 4 April: Question o

[PATCH] cygutils:conv.c: Prevent truncation of file if 0xFF is encountered

2002-04-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello ;) Today a colleague of mine was struck by a bug of dos2unix/unix2dos utilities i.e. if the code encounters 0xFF in the file being processed it erronously thinks that this is the EOF and stops processing. The result is that the original file is truncated to the position of the 0xFF characte

Re[2]: Error compiling cygwin-snapshot-20020409-1

2002-04-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Christopher, Thursday, April 11, 2002, 4:37:27 PM, you wrote: CF> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:10:28AM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >>Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 11:44:44 PM, you wrote: >>> In file included from cygheap.cc:17: >>SH> fhandler.h: In method `select_s

Re: Perhaps a silly question

2002-04-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Jeffrey, Thursday, April 11, 2002, 10:30:49 AM, you wrote: JDW> I performed a download for the latest cygwin release on a win2000 JDW> machine JDW> and it seemed like I got all the packages including the C compilers. JDW> However, JDW> on a win98 machine I have at home, I do not get th

Re: Error compiling cygwin-snapshot-20020409-1

2002-04-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Steve, Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 11:44:44 PM, you wrote: [snip] SH> In file included from cygheap.cc:17: SH> fhandler.h: In method `select_stuff::select_stuff()': SH> fhandler.h:1089: implicit declaration of function `int memset(...)' SH> make: *** [cygheap.o] Error 1 Obviously, this so

Re: regarding compatible OS

2002-04-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Someshwar, Thursday, April 11, 2002, 6:37:37 AM, you wrote: SPlc> Dear Sir/Madam, SPlc> Is this cygwin works on Windows 2000? http://www.cygwin.com - read the section "What Is Cygwin ?". -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http:

Re[4]: Frequent crashes in 2.194.2.22 setup.exe

2002-04-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Eric, Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 5:30:54 PM, you wrote: EH> Pavel> Are you sure that you're using 2.194.2.22 ? EH> Yes, that's what it says on the splash screen. EH> Pavel> Setup.Exe causes Application Error at 0x78001750 EH> Pavel> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-03/ms

Re: getting dos path from cygwin

2002-04-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello ian, Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 2:25:02 PM, you wrote: irg> I am trying to call link.exe on a lib, but it is in my cygwin path and i irg> cannot seem to find a good way to translate my cygwin path into a dos path so irg> ms's silly tools can understand it. irg> any hints? Yes! Use the c

Re[2]: Frequent crashes in 2.194.2.22 setup.exe

2002-04-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Eric, Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 4:41:49 PM, you wrote: EH> I know this behaviour... And a report for the same bug was posted EH> some messages before yours "Cygwin 1.3.10 Setup.exe 2.194.2.22 EH> Install Problems With MSVCRT.DLL and ..." EH> I saw that, but that post describ

Re[2]: Frequent crashes in 2.194.2.22 setup.exe

2002-04-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Cornelia, Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 1:36:51 PM, you wrote: CB> Hello >> Can you read this thread and report back to the list if the CB> situation >> described there matches yours ? I.e. point 21 of the original mail: >> 21. Comes up with dialog box asking if I want the desktop icon CB>

Re[2]: Cygwin 1.3.10 Setup.exe 2.194.2.22 Install Problems With MSVCRT.DLL and source code on Win98

2002-04-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, there! :) Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 10:11:46 AM, you wrote: Ok, found it - its canonicalize_version() in version.cc. There is a pointer 'v' which is modified and then delete[]'d. A trivial patch is attached :) 2002-04-10 Pavel Tsekov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Frequent crashes in 2.194.2.22 setup.exe

2002-04-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Eric, Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 6:09:35 AM, you wrote: EH> The last bunch of times that I've run setup, it gets an access EH> violation. Here's the dump from Dr. Watson (I've omitted the symbol EH> table because it's huge, but can easily send it to anyone who's EH> interested): I know

Re: Cygwin 1.3.10 Setup.exe 2.194.2.22 Install Problems With MSVCRT.DLL and source code on Win98

2002-04-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello rjlpub, Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 4:03:24 AM, you wrote: rkrc> Two major problems (summary): rkrc> 1. Setup.exe (2.194.2.22) ends with a invalid page fault against MSVCRT.DLL rkrc> (details below) on my Windows 98 machine, before complely fininshing the rkrc> install. I have not investi

Re: gcc linker not producing executable

2002-04-09 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Dennis, Tuesday, April 09, 2002, 6:52:37 AM, you wrote: DM> messages at all. In fact, if I ask to use gcc to link, it will even delete DM> the -o file if it already exists. I'm forced into using gcc to compile DM> only, then ld to link. DM> Any ideas about what could be causing this? J

Re: Cannot locate col command in any current packages.

2002-04-08 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Sunday, April 07, 2002, 9:32:10 AM, you wrote: dd> Greetings, dd> If anyone could tell me if the col command is dd> available for the cygwin environment, I would dd> appreciate it. I've looked through all of the Use this link to find out: http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: what am I doing wrong?

2002-04-08 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Eli, Seems like you're missing the mutt package. Run setup.exe and check if it is installed. Sunday, April 07, 2002, 10:58:45 PM, you wrote: EK> $ echo hello | mutt -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] EK> Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.). EK> Could not send the message. EK> or

Re[2]: Question on the new behavior of setup.exe

2002-04-05 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Doug, Friday, April 05, 2002, 2:51:16 PM, you wrote: DW> Hi, DW> It appears that the problem with downloads on the W2k PC is the DW> result of one or more problems on the PC itself and between W2k DW> PC's in general and the NT Domain Server. The download dir is on DW> a server share and

Re[4]: WinXP users without password and cygwin_logon_user

2002-04-05 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Robert, Friday, April 05, 2002, 1:22:28 PM, you wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 9:04 PM >> Well, I think this doesn't help much with XP home - it >> doesn't all

Re[3]: WinXP users without password and cygwin_logon_user

2002-04-05 Thread Pavel Tsekov
[snip] RC>> There is a policy setting - prevent logons with blank passwords except RC>> for console users. You could try flipping that and see what happens. PT> Well, I think this doesn't help much with XP home - it doesn't allow PT> you to edit policies :) Or at least I can't find the tool whi

Re[2]: WinXP users without password and cygwin_logon_user

2002-04-05 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Corinna, Friday, April 05, 2002, 12:46:26 PM, you wrote: CV> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:52:26AM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >> Hello, there! :) >> >> I want to raise this issue again... In short >> on my WinXP Home cygwin_logon_user fails to log >> use

Re[2]: WinXP users without password and cygwin_logon_user

2002-04-05 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Robert, Friday, April 05, 2002, 12:50:26 PM, you wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:52 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: WinXP users without password and cygwin_logo

WinXP users without password and cygwin_logon_user

2002-04-05 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, there! :) I want to raise this issue again... In short on my WinXP Home cygwin_logon_user fails to log users without password set (or empty passwords - I dont know which is correct to be said). Is this a known issue ? The failed Win32 API is LogonUser. I red the MSDN docu on this API but i

Re[2]: setup.exe and mirror list question

2002-04-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
ow what it would be called. A shell tool would empower me to automate the resource editing after each new setup.exe is SP> downloaded (yipee!). SP> Thanks, SP> Scott SP> -----Original Message- SP> From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] SP> Sent: Wednesday, Apri

Re: Question on the new behavior of setup.exe

2002-04-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Doug, Thursday, April 04, 2002, 12:50:04 PM, you wrote: DW> Hi, DW> Back on 25Mar2002, Robert Collins replied to a posting which mentioned DW> an oddly named subdir in a local hosts download dir. Earlier today, I tried DW> to dowload the latest updates to a local dir with the newest setu

Re: GCC failing with no error message

2002-04-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Jerome, Thursday, April 04, 2002, 10:58:32 AM, you wrote: JK> Hello, JK> I just reinstalled Cygwin from the Net with all packages that I JK> believe are needed to use GCC. When invoked, GCC fails (return a JK> non-zero exit code) with printing any error message. [snip] JK> Cygwin Win95

Re: setup.exe and mirror list question

2002-04-02 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Scott, Tuesday, April 02, 2002, 6:44:47 PM, you wrote: SP> Robert (or anyone), SP> Regarding the setup.exe "Choose a Download Site" page: SP> What I am doing right now is running an internal Cygwin mirror, updated every 24h via rsync. When a user runs setup.exe from my mirror, I'd like

Re: corrupted cygwin startup.

2002-03-29 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello dave, Friday, March 29, 2002, 3:48:25 AM, you wrote: d> Hello, d> I've got a win2k box with cygwin on it. Apparently something got d> corrupted somewhere, i can no longer run cygwin, the shortcut does nothing. d> I'm thinking it's an association issue, can someone tell me what file d>

Re: Cygwin 1.3.10 : problems with make (3.79.1) when using windows mode (--win32 switch)

2002-03-28 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Falser, Thursday, March 28, 2002, 9:50:39 AM, you wrote: FK> Hello. FK> Since my upgrade to the latest make and cygwin a previously working makefile stopped to work. FK> The make program tries to execute the commandline directly and cygwin execvp() could not find the file. FK> The comm

Re[2]: Space in username error; stomped newbie

2002-03-27 Thread Pavel Tsekov
t; I tried setting the U-user bit for the account I want to use but always get R> a "incorrect login" with or without it. 1. Assume I have a user called Pavel Tsekov on my XP 2. mkpasswd -l -u 'Pavel Tsekov' outputs this (on one line): Pavel Tsekov:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1009:

Re: setup.exe problem

2002-03-27 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Jonas, Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 9:04:51 AM, you wrote: Please, provide some more information on the choices you've made on the various pages of the setup program. JE> When I try to install Cygwin with the latest setup.exe (2.194.2.21) it JE> hangs after I have selected a mirror server

Re: Space in username error; stomped newbie

2002-03-27 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Rincewind, Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 4:28:29 AM, you wrote: R> My login name in Win XP have a space in it wich is no good so I want to R> force CygWin to use another account that doesn't ahve that problem. [snip] Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/login.README - it contains information on how to map

Re[2]: [Possible BUG and a fix] Re[2]: Setup.Exe causes Application Error at 0x78001750

2002-03-23 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Robert, Saturday, March 23, 2002, 5:34:28 AM, you wrote: RC> Thanks for taking the time to look at this - I really appreciate that. RC> BTW: If it's reproducible, tell me the steps and I'll look too. Also, if RC> it's reproducible, try building with -DDEBUG. Yep! I found a way to reprodu

Re[2]: Anonymous ftp on 1.3.9

2002-03-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Andrew, Saturday, March 23, 2002, 1:17:02 AM, you wrote: [snip] AD> Now to get it working on my home PC where there is no domain controller. AD> This is on Windows XP. >> I've >> determined that creating a user without a password to be used by >> ftpd doesnt work on WinXP (maybe others t

[Possible BUG and a fix] Re[2]: Setup.Exe causes Application Error at 0x78001750

2002-03-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Ok - more inf... I think I've found the problem... site_list_type::init (...) [snip some code] char *dp = new char[2 * newurl.size() + 3]; while (dot != dots) { if (*dot == '.' || *dot == '/') { char *sp; if (dot[3] == 0) *dp++ = '~';/* sort .com/.edu/

Re: Setup.Exe causes Application Error at 0x78001750

2002-03-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, I want to notify all interested people that I've undoubtfully located the function which causes this problem - it's __builtin_vector_delete, and more specifically a call to free() inside its code. As I cant reproduce currently this behaviour on my machine I'm stuck to looking at the sourc

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