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2003-12-31 Thread Steve Coleman
Not sure how many people out there have seen this. Any idea how this might affect the Cygwin/X project? /XFree86's release engineer David Dawes has announced that a majority of the XFree86 core team has voted in favour of my proposal to disband the core team.

Re: How to set breakpoints before mainCRTStartup?

2003-12-22 Thread Steve Coleman
Dalibor Topic wrote: Dalibor Topic wrote: Hi all, in my attempts to fix an ugly bug in kaffe on Cygwin, the bug I'm trying to squish turned out to be triggered by something that happens *before* main is called. snip Since I'd like to know what modifes that opcode, I hope to be able to set

Re: Q: ACE library for cygwin?

2003-10-23 Thread Steve Coleman
Heiko Nardmann wrote: Did anyone build the ACE library for Cygwin already? The offical ACE take on cygwin is that it has been ported but is currently unsupported. My understanding is that it can be done in MinGW mode using cygwin tools as the build environment. See:

Re: linux/*.h include files

2003-10-17 Thread Steve Coleman
Flavio Rabello de Souza wrote: I´m trying to compile a C program under cygwin but it uses some linux include files. (#include linux/in.h and #include linux/if_ether.h) On my cygwin system I have both netinet/in.h and net/if.h . These are the 'standard' includes that they probably should have

Re: linux/*.h include files

2003-10-17 Thread Steve Coleman
Flavio Rabello de Souza wrote: But i still getting an error :( Looks like its not completelly implements the linux/if_ether.h and linux/in.h :) the error message i got: $ gcc -o sniffer sniffer.c sniffer.c: In function `main': sniffer.c:14: error: `PF_PACKET' undeclared (first use in this

Re: 'dig', 'nslookup' etc?

2003-10-03 Thread Steve Coleman
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There must be something wrong with your system, Yes, indeed there is! I checked it out on my machine here at work and it does work fine. It would not be the first time my box at home made me look/sound stupid on this list - lol. When its not completely catatonic

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

2003-08-05 Thread Steve Coleman
Graham Lamont wrote: perl -MCPAN -e shell Anybody experience similar ? I've been having problems with the latest version of Perl (5.8.0-3) while running/installing from CPAN on WinME. Using the previous version (5.6.1-2) seems to work fine for me when installing from CPAN. I'm not sure

Re: 1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23?

2003-08-04 Thread Steve Coleman
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:59:56PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Am Samstag, 2. August 2003 um 17:23 schriebst du: I am still unable to build Perl and I haven't found the problem yet. I'm seeking for volunteers to help tracking down this problem. I'm sorry

Re: GPL alert ? http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/

2003-07-28 Thread Steve Coleman
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:52:36AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not only that, but this appears to go even further. By essentially compiling all these GNU utilities into one executable, there's a violation of the GPL to the extent that the code used to do that

Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shells competefor input with user program!

2003-07-22 Thread Steve Coleman
Sam Steingold wrote: I am not using fork(). just plain exec(). If thats the case then the exec() you are linking is not behaving as a POSIX exec() call, because if it did you would not still have two processes to even compete for the I/O streams. The first process image would be replaced by

Re: Spammers watching this user forum

2003-07-18 Thread Steve Coleman
Earnie Boyd wrote: When you bounce that type of SPAM then you are participating in the DoS. I agree completely with this statement, and although I though the idea of wpoison was technically cool it also does nothing to ebb the tide, and in fact only increases the level of the floodwaters by

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Steve Coleman
Randall R Schulz wrote: I think we have to work with the legal system, not try to subvert it. Microsoft has a right to set the licensing terms it wants. We have a right to tell them to go to hell. Currently however, and as you note, the power relationship is highly skewed. It ain't easy to

Re: Ping program?

2003-03-31 Thread Steve Coleman
Hopkins, Samuel wrote: I need the sourcecode to modify. =( If you *must* have a ping program that does something *special* then you might want to look at libpcap (www.tcpdump.org) and libnet (www.packetfactory.net) libraries then you should be able to implement whatever functionality you

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

2003-03-05 Thread Steve Coleman
Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Joe Buehler wrote: 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? But then, it would become _huge_. You'd have to download a bunch of other