Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-22 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Thomas Baker wrote: The /bin/pdksh script sequence that is causing problems is: [snip] The obvious question is: do you still get the error if you replace pdksh with bash, or is the problem pdksh-specific? When you reduce this to a minimal testcase, are there bits of that

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-22 Thread Thomas Baker
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:56:33PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: The /bin/pdksh script sequence that is causing problems is: [snip] The obvious question is: do you still get the error if you replace pdksh with bash, or is the problem pdksh-specific? When you reduce this to a minimal

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-15 Thread Thomas Baker
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 06:03:42PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Lewis Hyatt wrote: These machines have an anti-virus program, but the same one I have been using for the past two or three years. The filenames either have no extension, or .txt. That's most likely the problem anyway,

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-14 Thread Thomas Baker
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:07:09AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I would be grateful if someone could suggest a way to test this. Would it make sense (and is it possible) to replace the Cygwin kernel or the coreutils package (because of mv) with earlier versions and see if the script

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 14 08:22, Thomas Baker wrote: I would be grateful if someone could suggest a way to test this. Would it make sense (and is it possible) to replace the Cygwin kernel or the coreutils package (because of mv) with earlier versions and see if the script works then? You should first create

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-14 Thread Lewis Hyatt
These machines have an anti-virus program, but the same one I have been using for the past two or three years. The filenames either have no extension, or .txt. That's most likely the problem anyway, what happens if you turn it off? -Lewis -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Lewis Hyatt wrote: These machines have an anti-virus program, but the same one I have been using for the past two or three years. The filenames either have no extension, or .txt. That's most likely the problem anyway, what happens if you turn it off? This is possible, particularly if the

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-13 Thread Robert Pendell
Morgan Gangwere wrote: /!\ WOOGA WOOGA /!\ Possible Stupid human Error! /!\ OOOPS OOOPS /!\ if the copy of xp is new enough, its got a funky little tool called the Windows Malware Detection And removal Tool (a freind of mine who is an MS MVP has had the same problem as you just under a

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-13 Thread Thomas Baker
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:03:14AM -0600, René Berber wrote: [snip] However, the other problem (see below) has occurred -- sporadically -- on three different machines, all running German or English-language versions of XP, two with SATA disks and one with an ATA disk, all with freshly

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-13 Thread Thomas Baker
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:38:03PM -0500, Morgan Gangwere wrote: if the copy of xp is new enough, its got a funky little tool called the Windows Malware Detection And removal Tool (a freind of mine who is an MS MVP has had the same problem as you just under a different circumstance.) I'll

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-13 Thread Thomas Baker
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:58:31AM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: One other thing I wanted to add to this was make sure the drives are not overheating. Some drives will actually shut down or begin to act erratically if they get too hot. I discovered this when doing work with my external

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-13 Thread Thomas Baker
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 06:06:21PM +0100, Thomas Baker wrote: if the copy of xp is new enough, its got a funky little tool called the Windows Malware Detection And removal Tool (a freind of mine who is an MS MVP has had the same problem as you just under a different circumstance.) I

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-13 Thread Thomas Baker
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 05:59:01PM +0100, Thomas Baker wrote: The speed is not the problem, it could be the usual suspect: an anti-virus, unlikely because the data written is not executable but it could be adding an extraneous delay between data written and data read. I'll ask the guy who

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-12 Thread Thomas Baker
René Berber wrote: [snip] I have searched FAQs and mailing lists for problems with timeout and the like but find nothing obviously relevant. [snip] I have seen that problem and it has nothing to do with Cygwin. The problem is with SATA drives and Window's asynchronous unbuffered disk

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-12 Thread René Berber
Thomas Baker wrote: [snip] However, the other problem (see below) has occurred -- sporadically -- on three different machines, all running German or English-language versions of XP, two with SATA disks and one with an ATA disk, all with freshly downloaded installations of cygwin.[snip] OK,

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-12 Thread Morgan Gangwere
/!\ WOOGA WOOGA /!\ Possible Stupid human Error! /!\ OOOPS OOOPS /!\ if the copy of xp is new enough, its got a funky little tool called the Windows Malware Detection And removal Tool (a freind of mine who is an MS MVP has had the same problem as you just under a different circumstance.) I took

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-11 Thread René Berber
Thomas Baker wrote: [snip] I have searched FAQs and mailing lists for problems with timeout and the like but find nothing obviously relevant. [snip] I have seen that problem and it has nothing to do with Cygwin. The problem is with SATA drives and Window's asynchronous unbuffered disk I/O,