On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:31:19AM -0800, Cheng, Chie-Jin wrote:
So where is to download the sunRPC?
On the Sun webpage, for instance. Otherwise, Google is your friend.
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:34:21AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Hi,
Just encountered this strange error message from login:
00:17:39 fred@appel:~$ ssh fred@abbicci
Last login: Tue Mar 5 21:57:38 2002 from appel.flower
Fanfare!!!
You are successfully logged in to this
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From: Bernard Dautrevaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On the same ground, it would be nice if, when creating /etc/passwd and
/etc/group, setup.exe pass the -d flag to mkpasswd/mkgroup;
otherwise,
ntsec is almost unusable for the (vast majority of) NT/2k/XP users
that
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From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:53 AM
To: Bernard Dautrevaux; Stephano Mariani; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
Sorry for not providing a patch, but it should be fairly
straightforward
Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
? But it worked anyway, so it seems. This is on a fresh, curr cygwin
install.
No, it didn't work.
The problem you're seeing results from your inability to change
the user context. You can't do it, your account doesn't have the
permission.
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:20:48AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Hmm, so much for google. You adviced to use login before,
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-03/msg00337.html
have things changed since then?
No. Did you read that article carefully? I've wrote about
special user
Is that NT4 server a DC? If so, try if `mkgroup -d' returns
the Domaenenbenutzer (Domain Users) group.
I just tried `mkgroup -l' on a german NT4 Wkst and I got the group 513:
I get group Domain Users - 10513 in mkgroup -d but no group 513 in mkgroup
-l...
(yes, my PC is a 2k PDC, and
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:51:18AM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
Is that NT4 server a DC? If so, try if `mkgroup -d' returns
the Domaenenbenutzer (Domain Users) group.
I just tried `mkgroup -l' on a german NT4 Wkst and I got the group 513:
I get group Domain Users - 10513 in mkgroup -d
Ouch. Ok, just set the gid to 513 in /etc/group or set your
primary group to 10513 in /etc/passwd and try again.
Creating the group 513 by hand works perfectly, but nonetheless shouldn't
mkpasswd and mkgroup create automatically an usable system?
If I use -d on both I get the correct 10513
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:43:00PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
Ouch. Ok, just set the gid to 513 in /etc/group or set your
primary group to 10513 in /etc/passwd and try again.
Creating the group 513 by hand works perfectly, but nonetheless shouldn't
mkpasswd and mkgroup create
At 07:05 PM 3/5/2002, John Tynefield wrote:
Over many frustrating hours I have been trying to get inetd ( or sshd ) to
work with my Win2K cygwin setup to enable civilized remote access. It
worked great on one of my local systems, but every time I tried to start the
service on a very similarly
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and here it is, for mkgroup.c and
mkpasswd.c:
I have two problems with this patch:
- No ChangeLog entry.
- Do we have a signed copyright assignment from you?
Corinna
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:53:33PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've wrote about special user rights needed...
Ok, so while using login instead of su is possible in some cases (it
seems windows xp is not one of them), easiest is using ssh.
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and here it is, for mkgroup.c and
mkpasswd.c:
I have two problems with this patch:
- No ChangeLog entry.
- Do we
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and here it is, for mkgroup.c and
mkpasswd.c:
I
At 12:02 PM 3/6/2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and
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From: Rick Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:22 PM
To: Bernard Dautrevaux; 'Robert Collins'; Stephano Mariani;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup
--- Bernard Dautrevaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running mkpasswd
-d in such a case would be useful.
This is just an issue for first time installations, right? AFAICT,
/etc/passwd should not be produced if there is
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Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:51 PM
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a
Hi,
I'm looking for a gnome Win2k (Windows 2000) binary, that will run ontop of cygwin.
Has anyone got this working?
Development Envirionment
Windows 2000 SP2
Cygwin 1.3.10
PostgreSQL 7.2
Visual C++ 6.0 EE SP5
Thanx Egon
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Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:30 PM
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:17:02PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK
Partners, Inc) wrote:
At 12:02 PM 3/6/2002, Corinna
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
No, it didn't work. `who' isn't the right way to get your current
user name, try `id'. Basically, login is doing the following:
execlp(pwd-pw_shell, tbuf, 0);
fprintf(stderr, login: no shell: );
perror(pwd-pw_shell);
exit(0);
So, if it couldn't
Bob,
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:28:39PM -, Bob Heckel wrote:
Couldn't find any answers in the Cygwin
mailing list archives. Has anyone else
experienced this? Thanks.
AFAICT, I do not observe this behavior. Note that I use personal a
build of mutt 1.3.24i instead of the standard
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:06:10AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running mkpasswd
-d in such a case would be useful.
This is just an issue for
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I've never seen setup run mkpasswd or mkgroup when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
exist, so I believe you're right, Chris, in saying that this is just a first
time setup issue. Personally, I just didn't want to see a first time user
around here get stuck with a 30 minute install process because setup
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:25:30AM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote:
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From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 09:51
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux
Hi!
Don´t know if it´s right here but I wasn´t succesful at news.postgresql
yet :( ...
Ok, main thing is: I downloadedinstalled postgresql 7.2 (it seemed to
be the new official package back then) recently and all of the stuff it
needs.
ipc-daemon works (it did nothing foolish so far).
Then
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:12:11AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
You imply that somebody has the ability to change user context! If so
then who is that somebody (USER)?
I have to tell that each week (day?) again, apparently. It's SYSTEM.
It's my understanding that the only thing(s) that use
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:32:24PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
Sorry, click on the wrong button and send a private mail to Corinna... :-)
Unlikely since I'm using the mailing list address in my From:
field. Just reply to my mailings and even Outlook sends
only one message to the list...
I installed cygwin and have been using it pretty much as it came out of
the box (on an NT4 box).
As installed (with the bash shell), it displays light green on black
background and I'm going blind. I searched the faq, etc., and found all
sorts of stuff about setting colors in vim or emacs, but
Barry,
If you're using the Windows console, open the properties dialog, either of
the shortcut you use to start your Cygwin shell or of an existing window
(use the window menu) and view the Colors pane. There you can control the
foreground (text) and background colors for plain text (i.e.,
Sorry, but I'm a unix-newbie:
My /etc/passwd file is in fact a 0-byte file.
But when I type what you suggest
mkpasswd -d /etc/passwd
it just sits there for a long time (and so I kill it with Ctrl-C.
And 'man mkpasswd' says it knows not what I ask.
???
BG
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Hmm... I thought that when cygwin was installed, it did mkpasswd -l
/etc/passwd, so there was at least something in /etc/passwd. Do you in
fact have a file in c:\cygwin\bin named mkpasswd.exe?
It actually should just sit there for a long time when you do mkpasswd
-d /etc/passwd. It is
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:17:21PM -0500, Peter Buckley wrote:
Hmm... I thought that when cygwin was installed, it did mkpasswd -l
/etc/passwd, so there was at least something in /etc/passwd. Do you in
fact have a file in c:\cygwin\bin named mkpasswd.exe?
It actually should just sit
Christopher Faylor wrote:
The code in setup.exe seems to indicate that mkpasswd and mkgroup will
not be run if the corresponding files already exist. I was asking if
people were actually seeing this happen after a first-time install.
I see mkpass -l run each and every time Cygwin is
Aha. Sounds like it might be a problem with the space in the name. I am
not sure how to work around that with mkpasswd. But you could probably
do a mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd (I didn't realize you weren't in a
domain environment).
You can also try Corinna's suggestion about mkpasswd -u Barry
Michael A Chase wrote:
I recently messed with the function that does that, so I can confirm that it
only runs mkpasswd and mkgroup if the corresponding files don't exist.
When did this come about? Because every time I reinstall Cygwin it does
indeed run mkpasswd -l. I wonder, since our
I should have thought of that, but having done it, it doesn't stick -- the
next prompt restores the dim light-green-on-black.
So I think it's my prompt that is 'insisting' on the dimness.
The prompt strings are
PS1=$'\\[\\033]0;\\w\\007\n\\033[32m\\]\\u@\\h \\[\\033[33m\\w\\033[0m\\]\n$ '
I have updated the version of CRON in cygwin/contrib to 3.0.1-5.
This version adds a postinstall script which creates the /var/cron
and /var/cron/tabs directories on installation. This should lower
the chance that cron creates these directories with wrong mode
and ownership.
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:12:11AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
You imply that somebody has the ability to change user context! If so
then who is that somebody (USER)?
I have to tell that each week (day?) again, apparently. It's SYSTEM.
Sorry, I saw that the
At 04:44 PM 3/6/2002 -0500, Peter Buckley wrote:
Aha. Sounds like it might be a problem with the space in the name. I am
not sure how to work around that with mkpasswd. But you could probably
do a mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd (I didn't realize you weren't in a
domain environment).
You can also
Hi Karl,
does your file have a formfeed at end?
If not, you may create a helper file and try
cat file ff prn
Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
-Original Message-
From: Karl M [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 00:39
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Is there an easy and fast way to get the count of domain members only?
Setup (or an postinstall script) could then check against a sensible limit
(100 or 1000?) and warn and ask:
There are 31415 domain members! I'll not load them unless you go to lunch
now... 8-)
Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL
Peter Buckley wrote:
Regardless, to me it's still would be a large security hole if all one
needs to do is:
$ echo + ~/.rhosts
to be able to abuse rsh to do something under somebody else's user ID
is it not?
rsh is inherently insecure. Attempts to make it secure are not
On 5 Mar 2002 at 22:34, Tim Prince wrote:
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 17:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I was just wondering if there is any existing code that's perhaps part of
the Cygwin code base or else known to some readers, that will allow
querying of the CPU type?
I'd
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Rick Rankin wrote:
Depends on how you define harmless. We have a *huge* domain, and
mkpasswd
-d can take a very long time (20 - 30 minutes) to complete, so I
definitely
wouldn't want to
Using Cygwin DLL 1.3.10.
1. Close all Cygwin programs
2. Open bash
3. Type: cd /cygdrive
4. Type ls
I get a listing of C:\ instead
5. Type bash
6. Type: cd /cygdrive
7. Type ls
I get a listing of available drives as I should.
Can someone else confirm this is a problem?
I have a patch to fix it
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 13:46
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
Michael A Chase wrote:
I recently messed with the function that does that, so I can confirm
that it
Tom Lauren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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So, this is what initdb offered me:
__
$ initdb -D /usr/share/postgresql/data/
basename: not found
grep: not found
grep: not found
sed: not found
The program 'postgres'
bash-2.05a$ pwd
/russ/scripts
bash-2.05a$ cd .../.
bash-2.05a$ pwd
/russ/scripts/...
... is this a bug do I have a virus?
I've posted a patch to cygwin-patches that corrects this.
Regards
Chris
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Using Cygwin DLL 1.3.10.
Likewise. (On Win2K.)
1. Close all Cygwin programs
2. Open bash
3. Type: cd /cygdrive
4. Type ls
I get a listing of C:\ instead
5. Type bash
6. Type: cd /cygdrive
7. Type ls
I get a listing of available drives
Hello,
I have recently compiled xdvi22.53 under cygwin1.3.9, but
I am having problems running it. The runtime error is:
xdvi: fcntl F_SETOWN: Invalid argument
- mktexpk --mfmode cx --bdpi 300 --mag 'magstep(0.5)'
--dpi 329 cmsl10 '3'
setsid: Not owner
xdvi: fcntl F_SETOWN: Invalid argument
Nicolae,
A 128 megabyte realloc fails? No kidding??
There is a Cygwin-wide allocation limit that defaults, if I recall
correctly, to 128 megabytes. There is a registry entry that overrides this
default called HEAP_CHUNK_IN_MB.
Here are the details, excerpted from an email by Scott A. Hill
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From: Andrew DeFaria [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Michael A Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 16:29
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
Michael A Chase wrote:
The test has been in the code for quite a while, I tweaked the test so
it wouldn't
Hi, gentleman, could you do me a favour?
I had some trouble in running a C program.
[C source code is]
- from here
#include stdio.h
int main() {
char *a = I am a teacher;
char *b = You are a student;
printf(string_a = %s\nstring_b = %s\n, a, b);
copy_string(a, b);
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:35:07PM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote:
It wouldn't be very hard to add /etc/passwd.lnk and
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Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:09 PM
Subject: stackdump about C language
Hi, gentleman, could you do me a favour?
I had some trouble in running a C program.
You are trying to overwrite a static memory area.
Hello,
[ No Cygwin-specific issues here. ]
The compiler and / or linker are allowed to place those string literals in
read-only storage, and apparently gcc under Cygwin does just that.
If you modify your program like this:
-==-
#include string.h
char *strsave(char *);
int main() {
//
I believe that the 128 megabyte realloc failure is a consequence
(memory leak - maybe) of the other errors:
xdvi: fcntl F_SETOWN: Invalid argument, setsid: Not owner
I am getting these errors first, and then I watch the memory being
slowly flooded. By no means xdvi should go to 128Mb. I
There can be multiple causes for this behavior depending upon the
implementation of the C compiler. In all cases, you are over-writing an
area of storage allocated for the contents of the *a pointer. This area
may be in a initialized data segment (usually read-only), in a data
segment, or even
Thanks for replying!
Is /usr/bin in your current path?
yes, everything´s fine
Did you select the sh-utils/grep/sed/et
al. packages when you installed cygwin?
also yes. this in fact was my first idea, but sed itself seems to work...
...it looks like it needs postgres.exe in the same
Thanks for replying!
Is /usr/bin in your current path?
yes, everything´s fine
Did you select the sh-utils/grep/sed/et
al. packages when you installed cygwin?
also yes. this in fact was my first idea, but sed itself seems to work...
...it looks like it needs postgres.exe in
Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
These user rights are by default only given to SYSTEM regardless
of the NT version. XP differs only by requiring less of these
user rights in one of the needed system calls.
Ok, but I can't seem to add specific rights to users with this version
of
Is there any HOWTO how to setup X font server under cygwin on Win2k?
I've noticed that the line
dir :7100
in the /etc/X11/XftConfig has no effect.
Thanks,
Sergei Lodyagin.
Is there any HOWTO how to setup X font server under cygwin on Win2k?
I've noticed that the line
dir :7100
in the /etc/X11/XftConfig has no effect.
I don't know about xfs on cygwin, but on *nices xfs config is
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/ cant't remember file name or on Xfree 4.x
is
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Sergei Lodyagin wrote:
Is there any HOWTO how to setup X font server under cygwin on Win2k?
I've noticed that the line
dir :7100
in the /etc/X11/XftConfig has no effect.
XftConfig? afair this was introduced after xfree 4.2.0 release.
Before and in xfree 4.2.0 the
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Sergei Lodyagin wrote:
Alexander and Sergey,
I have no problems with starting up xfs and my /etc/X11/fs/config is OK.
I have problems with accessing this server from the X server. It seams
like it has
predefined font path and I don't known how to change it.
In
Hi,
The Mirror subtree:
mirrors.rcn.net
mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/binaries/4.2.0
is missing the file Xvar.tgz
I picked it up from
/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/binaries/4.1.0/Xvar.tgz
maybe it will work, maybe i won't? In anycase could you drop the correct file
in
Hi,
I'm trying to install cygwin/XFree86. I have run into trouble during the last
two steps of the installation procedure, contained in the following document.
Installation Details for XFree86[tm] 4.2.0
The XFree86 Project, Inc
16 January 2002, Abstract
(AKA INSTALL)
Development Environment
There is no ldconfig on Cygwin.
You set the PATH enviroment up to point to /usr/X11R6/bin
Alan.
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:42:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install cygwin/XFree86. I have run into trouble during the last
two steps of the installation procedure,
There is no Xvar.tgz on Cygwin either. Cygwin has no /var directory.
Alan.
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:46:45PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
The Mirror subtree:
mirrors.rcn.net
mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/binaries/4.2.0
is missing the file Xvar.tgz
I picked it up
Hi, has anybody installed xdvi on XFree86/cygwin?
I have tried it using xdvi 22.53 downloaded from
http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/xdvi.html
ftp.math.berkeley.edu
and it gives runtime errors. Does anybody have a
success story?
Nic.
Hi,
I'm looking for a gnome, cygwin-XFree86 Win2k (Windows 2000) binary, that
will run ontop of cygwin. I noticed discussion in the mailing list, but was
wondering if anyone has a working version gnome, on cygwin-xfree86, or
native Win 2k gnome? I must have missed something?
Yes, you missed something:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ported-software.html
Harold
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Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:37 PM
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Subject: Gnome Win 2000 Cygwin-XFRee86
You can't. You can read the PDF instead.
Harold
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Subject: RE: cygwin-xfree 4.2.0 installation problem
Hi,
Where can I get a zipped up version of the
This patch:
2002-03-05 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* include/mswsock.h (TP_*): Add new defines.
(TRANSMIT_PACKETS_ELEMENT): Define new structure.
(WSAMSG): Likewise.
(WSACMSGHDR): Likewise.
(DisconnectEx): Add new prototype.
(WSARecvMsg): Likewise.
This patch fixes the bug that allows cd .../. to succeed.
2002-03-07 Christopher January [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* path.cc (chdir): Modify check for 2 dots to work on all path
components.
dots.patch
Description: Binary data
ChangeLog
Description: Binary data
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:39:28AM -, Chris January wrote:
This patch fixes the bug that allows cd .../. to succeed.
This isn't a bug. It's how Windows works.
cgf
This patch fixes the bug that allows cd .../. to succeed.
This isn't a bug. It's how Windows works.
It breaks. Try it. You get dumped in a non-existent directory. Windows
ignores runs of dots. Unix treats them as non-existent files. At present
Cygwin has a mixture of both (treat last
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From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: Patch for cd .../. bug
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:39:28AM -, Chris January wrote:
This patch fixes the bug that allows cd .../. to
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:20:36PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
Anyway, it seems reasonable to me to use unix behaviour for cygwin with
this.
Ok. I guess you're right. This is the same thing as disallowing the
windows idiocy of foo/. succeeding when foo is a file.
I just added a small patch
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:56:34PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
Changelog:
2002-02-27 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* cygpath.cc (print_version): New function.
(main): Accommodate new version function. Initialize 'o' to prevent warning.
Applied with some minor tweaks.
I
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