[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xemacs-21.4.18-2/xemacs-tags-21.4.18-2/xemacs-emacs-common-21.4.18-2

2006-01-18 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'xemacs' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: A powerful, highly customizable open source text editor and application development system CYGWIN NEWS: * Added --with-widgets=lucid to configure Old CYGWIN NEWS:

Whirlpool Corporation, Avaya Inc., Freddie Mac

2006-01-18 Thread Ervin Bautista
Camille, The Gap Enterprise Products Partners L.P. Membership Sign-up http://in.geocities.com/asset_swap_45665 Sincerely, Ervin Bautista -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

inode changed, 9Exception, NetApp share - any coincidence?

2006-01-18 Thread Jan Schormann
Hi guys, since yesterday, I'm experiencing some strange problems, some of which I connect with cygwin, but surely our local setup with shared drives is an issue, too. I'm asking our IT staff at the same time whether anything changed with the server configuration, but cannot tell whether I'll get

RE: inode changed, 9Exception, NetApp share - any coincidence?

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Jan Schormann wrote: a) Since yesterday, when running setup.exe on our own, private, enriched mirror, I get an error message saying Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception Thread: DialogProc Type: 9Exception Message: Package validation failure for

Re: Using VC-compiled Mesa binaries under Cygwin

2006-01-18 Thread Eric Lilja
* * wrote: On 1/17/06, Eric Lilja wrote: * * wrote: Are the import libraries using the cygwin filename conventions? Well, no. Building Mesa with glut creates the following files (which I have copied to the directory of the simple test program I trying to build with compiler supplied with

Malfunctioning of cygpath -H

2006-01-18 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi, The new cygpath 15.1.19-2 writes an additional line in the tty $ cygpath -H $ ** buf C:\WINDOWS\Profiles $ /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Profiles bye R.M. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

RE: Using VC-compiled Mesa binaries under Cygwin

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Lilja wrote: However, doing a nm GLUT32.lib | grep glutPostRedisplay (the first undefined reference), shows: $ nm GLUT32.lib | grep _glutPostRedisplay I [EMAIL PROTECTED] T [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is definitely the MSVC name mangling convention but I think that

RE: Malfunctioning of cygpath -H

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Rodrigo Medina wrote: Hi, The new cygpath 15.1.19-2 writes an additional line in the tty $ cygpath -H $ ** buf C:\WINDOWS\Profiles $ /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Profiles bye R.M. Oops! Someone left some debug print in there! [ Unless someone beats me to it I'll remove this

Re: Using VC-compiled Mesa binaries under Cygwin

2006-01-18 Thread Eric Lilja
Dave Korn wrote: Eric Lilja wrote: However, doing a nm GLUT32.lib | grep glutPostRedisplay (the first undefined reference), shows: $ nm GLUT32.lib | grep _glutPostRedisplay I [EMAIL PROTECTED] T [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is definitely the MSVC name mangling convention

DDD freezes with Open-Source File ...

2006-01-18 Thread Humberto Bortolossi
Greetings! I'm trying to debug a C++/wxWidgets project using DDD under cygwin. However, DDD freezes when I try to open a project file with File-Open Source Indeed, it seems DDD (GDB?) tries to create a list of ALL source files, including the source files of wxWidgets itself. I've

RE: DDD freezes with Open-Source File ...

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Humberto Bortolossi wrote: Greetings! I'm trying to debug a C++/wxWidgets project using DDD under cygwin. However, DDD freezes when I try to open a project file with File-Open Source Indeed, it seems DDD (GDB?) tries to create a list of ALL source files, including the source

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: findutils-4.3.0-1

2006-01-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of findutils, 4.3.0-1, is available for experimental use. NEWS: = This is a new development upstream release. It uses a new algorithm for file traversal, and adds new features that might be withdrawn depending on feedback received,

Solved 9Exception (sorry for the noise) - RE: inode changed, 9Exception, NetApp share - any coincidence?

2006-01-18 Thread Jan Schormann
DaveK wrote on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:25 PM: Jan Schormann wrote: a) Since yesterday, when running setup.exe on our own, private, enriched mirror, I get an error message saying Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception ... Nonetheless, your first move should be to try

Solved partially by findutils 4.3 - RE: inode changed, replaced while being copied

2006-01-18 Thread Jan Schormann
Hi, OK, one down, one to go ;-) New cygcheck.out to show the current config. This one is SOLVED with the (experimental) findutils 4.3: find: //desdata1/divisions/frameworks/share/Tools/BrainTools changed during execution of find (old inode number -411813144, new inode number -457114904,

Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Cliff Hones
I occasionally see the following heap allocation problem. This typically happens when a bash window has been left idle at its prompt for several hours (eg overnight), and occurs on the first command causing an executable to be run. It is independent of the command (as far as I can tell - it

Re: Solved partially by findutils 4.3 - RE: inode changed, replaced while being copied

2006-01-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jan Schormann on 1/18/2006 6:48 AM: Hi, OK, one down, one to go ;-) New cygcheck.out to show the current config. Can you convince your mailer to attach text files with a MIME type of text, rather than application/octet-stream? It

cygcheck.out vs. cygcheck.txt (Was Re: Solved partially by findutils 4.3 - RE: inode changed, replaced while being copied)

2006-01-18 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Eric Blake wrote: According to Jan Schormann on 1/18/2006 6:48 AM: New cygcheck.out to show the current config. Can you convince your mailer to attach text files with a MIME type of text, rather than application/octet-stream? It makes it easier for me to read if the

Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Manel Rodero
Hello, I've been deploying SSH to a lot of Windows Servers (2000 2003) successfully. I've created an unnatended installation of cygwin and some scripts to run ssh-host-config and create the correct authorized_keys file in the local user we need to use public key authentication. But, I have 4

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Holger Krull
The files have these permissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /etc/ssh* -rwxr-xr-x 1 Administrator None 1292 Jan 18 13:44 /etc/ssh_config -rw--- 1 Administrator None 1192 Jan 18 13:44 /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator None 1121 Jan 18 13:44 /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub

RE: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Manel Rodero
Because your are bound by the laws of ntfs access control entrys. Having rights to write to a file doesn't mean you are allowed to change its owner. You need permissions to change the directory the files are in. And getting this right is easier in windows than in cygwin. Use cacls to

RE: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Cliff Hones wrote: 6 [main] ? (2604) C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x48, top 0x4A, reserve_size 126976, allocsize 131072, page_const 4096 98 [main] bash 2160 child_copy: stack write copy failed,

RE: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Manel Rodero
And ... in the problematic server the Administrators group have this privilege: Take ownership of files or other objects (SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege) Allows a user to take ownership of any securable object in the system, including Active Directory objects, NTFS files and folders, printers, registry

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Manel Rodero wrote: Because your are bound by the laws of ntfs access control entrys. Having rights to write to a file doesn't mean you are allowed to change its owner. You need permissions to change the directory the files are in. And getting this right is easier in windows than in cygwin.

Re: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Cliff Hones
Dave Korn wrote: Cliff Hones wrote: 6 [main] ? (2604) C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x48, top 0x4A, reserve_size 126976, allocsize 131072, page_const 4096 98 [main] bash 2160 child_copy: stack write copy

RE: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Chris Taylor wrote: You want to try with the domain administrator account, not the local administrator. If you're logging on as administrator, and log on to is set to the domain, then you are already doing so and something most unusual is occuring - suggestive of an admin removing

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: You want to try with the domain administrator account, not the local administrator. If you're logging on as administrator, and log on to is set to the domain, then you are already doing so and something most unusual is occuring - suggestive of an admin

RE: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Cliff Hones wrote: Dave Korn wrote: (I can see how applications that LoadLibrary a new .dll after they've already been running for a long time and allocated lots of heap might be particularly prone to these remapping failures too). I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here. I

RE: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Simplest workaround would be to always join the machine to the domain first and install cygwin second. And to install as the domain administrator, not the local admin, otherwise you run into this problem, as the OP has done. Probably a domain

RE: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Brett Serkez
[snip] I also find the sleep(2000) in heap.cc when the mapping error is detected rather suspicious - is this to avoid a race condition with the parent? Dunno, suspect it may have been something experimental. Take a look at when it arrived in the CVS and check the associated changelog

Re: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 18 10:52, Brett Serkez wrote: [snip] I also find the sleep(2000) in heap.cc when the mapping error is detected rather suspicious - is this to avoid a race condition with the parent? Dunno, suspect it may have been something experimental. Take a look at when it arrived

Re: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Cliff Hones
Dave Korn wrote: Cliff Hones wrote: The parent (the bash shell) has been running (and idle) a long time, but the new child which is being forked is presumably a new windows process. The error relates to the virtual mapping in the new process, so Windows appears to be allocating DLLs or their

Re: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:16:27PM -, Dave Korn wrote: Cliff Hones wrote: [main] ? (2604) C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x48, top 0x4A, reserve_size 126976, allocsize 131072, page_const 4096 [main] bash 2160 child_copy:

Re: replaced while being copied - was ... RE: Solved partially by findutils 4.3 - RE: inode changed, ...

2006-01-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 18 15:47, Jan Schormann wrote: Eric wrote on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:14 PM: In which case, an strace may be interesting to show why stat() is giving different inodes on the same network share file when it has not been modified. Does this help? See attachment. ~$

Re: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Cliff Hones
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:16:27PM -, Dave Korn wrote: Cliff Hones wrote: [main] ? (2604) C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x48, top 0x4A, reserve_size 126976, allocsize 131072, page_const 4096

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Simplest workaround would be to always join the machine to the domain first and install cygwin second. And to install as the domain administrator, not the local admin, otherwise you run into this problem, as the OP has done.

Trouble with cron

2006-01-18 Thread Lst Recv
I'm having trouble using cron on cygwin. I just installed cron using setup.exe. It didn't create any rc.d files, so I started it manually by typing cron at the prompt. (I'm a member of group 0). Although the cron process is running, it doesn't seem to be running my cron job. Any suggestions

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-01-18 Thread Lst Recv
Also, if there is a simpler way that I should be doing this, please let me know. On 1/18/06, Lst Recv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble using cron on cygwin. I just installed cron using setup.exe. It didn't create any rc.d files, so I started it manually by typing cron at the

Re: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:18:09PM +, Cliff Hones wrote: Can this explain failures to initialize executables which don't use threads? I don't know, but I wouldn't have thought 'ls' uses threads. Every cygwin application (and probably every windows application) uses threads. The above

Re: Using VC-compiled Mesa binaries under Cygwin

2006-01-18 Thread Eric Lilja
Eric Lilja wrote: [snip] Check this post I made on comp.video.mesa3d.user that sums up my efforts and results: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mesa3d.user/796 If you have ideas on what more to test, please let me know! I would be eternally grateful! / E -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Cliff Hones wrote: Can this explain failures to initialize executables which don't use threads? I don't know, but I wouldn't have thought 'ls' uses threads. *Everything* uses threads, but many apps only use one thread. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today

RE: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, this kind of error is more likely to be caused by a thread starting prior to cygwin initialization and grabbing cygwin's heap area to use for its stack. Oh, of course! 2 meg of allocation is going to throw everything wy off! cheers,

RE: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:18:09PM +, Cliff Hones wrote: Can this explain failures to initialize executables which don't use threads? I don't know, but I wouldn't have thought 'ls' uses threads. Every cygwin application (and probably every windows application)

RE: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Simplest workaround would be to always join the machine to the domain first and install cygwin second. And to install as the domain administrator, not the local admin, otherwise you run into this problem,

Win CE

2006-01-18 Thread Philippe Laporte
Hi, What toolchain should one use to get cygwin-like functionality for Win CE? I.e. Posix compatibility layer etc (cygwin-wince.dll). Thanks, -- Philippe Laporte Software Gatespace Telematics Första Långgatan 18 41328 Göteborg Sweden Phone: +46 702 04 35 11 Fax: +46 31 24 16 50

Re: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:41:08PM -, Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:18:09PM +, Cliff Hones wrote: Can this explain failures to initialize executables which don't use threads? I don't know, but I wouldn't have thought 'ls' uses threads. Every

Re: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 18 11:57, Christopher Faylor wrote: 1.5.19 may have aggravated this problem since Corinna's changes to mmap now use VirtualAlloc'ed space for privately mmapped areas. For some inexplicable reason, this causes more of this type of collision. I would swear that once a program uses a

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Simplest workaround would be to always join the machine to the domain first and install cygwin second. And to install as the domain administrator, not the local admin, otherwise you run into

RE: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Manel Rodero
Hi all, SOLVED! If I use the 'Administrator' local account the script ssh-host-config fails when trying to chown the /etc/ssh* files. But, if I use the 'Administrator' domain account then the script works (i.e. this user can chown the files to the SYSTEM account). The only thing this domain

Re: Trouble with cron (Attn: base-files maintainer)

2006-01-18 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Lst Recv wrote: I'm having trouble using cron on cygwin. I just installed cron using setup.exe. It didn't create any rc.d files, so I started it manually by typing cron at the prompt. (I'm a member of group 0). Although the cron process is running, it doesn't seem to

Re: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Cliff Hones
Christopher Faylor wrote: ... One scenario that I have seen is that a thread gets started when someone hits CTRL-C while a forked process is starting up. Since only one thread can execute at a time when a process is in DLL initialization, the other thread's stack gets allocated but it hangs

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-01-18 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Lst Recv wrote: I'm having trouble using cron on cygwin. I just installed cron using setup.exe. It didn't create any rc.d files, so I started it manually by typing cron at the prompt. (I'm a member of group 0).

RE: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: One scenario that I have seen is that a thread gets started when someone hits CTRL-C while a forked process is starting up. Since only one thread can execute at a time when a process is in DLL initialization, the other thread's stack gets allocated but it hangs

RE: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Manel Rodero wrote: Why? Because its primary group is mkgroup-l-d. So I need to change this first by running mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l. In this manner this domain account can create /home/pkuser and then create here a .ssh directory with the authorized_keys I need to implement public key

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.19-1

2006-01-18 Thread Sam Steingold
* Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-16 22:36:19 -0500]: corinna: Emulate linux version of realpath now when I have a file foo.exe, realpath(foo) returns foo instead of foo.exe also: $ ls -l /proc/self/exe 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 sds mkgroup-l-d 0 Jan 18 2006 /proc/self/exe - /usr/bin/ls*

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.19-1

2006-01-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 18 12:27, Sam Steingold wrote: * Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-16 22:36:19 -0500]: corinna: Emulate linux version of realpath now when I have a file foo.exe, realpath(foo) returns foo instead of foo.exe also: $ ls -l /proc/self/exe 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 sds mkgroup-l-d

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: I'm not sure that power users have the ability to change ownership in this way.. Actually, I'm not sure either. If Power Users isn't enough, it would need to be a local admin. This discussion reminds me of an article I read recently:

find reports an internal system loop on cygdrive

2006-01-18 Thread Brian Keener
Thanks to all for any and all assistance. I need a little help. I've searched the FAQ and the archives (probably not with the right keywords which is why I can't find the fix) but I did find references to this problem but they all seem to be old and also fixed but seem to have been related to

Building Cygwin from CVS

2006-01-18 Thread Cliff Hones
It's rather a long time since I tried building my own cygwin from CVS. With the new release out, I thought I'd give it a try, as I imagine HEAD is very close to 1.5.19-2. I followed the instructions in the FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin A few

Re: Building Cygwin from CVS

2006-01-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 18 18:28, Cliff Hones wrote: It's rather a long time since I tried building my own cygwin from CVS. With the new release out, I thought I'd give it a try, as I imagine HEAD is very close to 1.5.19-2. I followed the instructions in the FAQ:

RE: Building Cygwin from CVS

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Cliff Hones wrote: . When I ran the tests, I got five unexpected failures (devdsp, msgtest, pthread-cancel1, semtest and shmtest). Is this to be expected :-). Is the smiley there to indicate that you already understand perfectly well that these tests would require cygserver to

Re: Building Cygwin from CVS

2006-01-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Cliff Hones wrote: . It would be useful to mention in the FAQ which packages need to be installed to perform the build. I expect everyone will realise make, gcc, binutils etc. are required, but I found I needed cocom (for shilka) which I'd not come across before, and

Re: Building Cygwin from CVS

2006-01-18 Thread Cliff Hones
Dave Korn wrote: Cliff Hones wrote: . When I ran the tests, I got five unexpected failures (devdsp, msgtest, pthread-cancel1, semtest and shmtest). Is this to be expected :-). Is the smiley there to indicate that you already understand perfectly well that these tests would

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.19-1

2006-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:10:27PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 18 12:27, Sam Steingold wrote: * Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-16 22:36:19 -0500]: corinna: Emulate linux version of realpath now when I have a file foo.exe, realpath(foo) returns foo instead of

Re: Building Cygwin from CVS

2006-01-18 Thread Cliff Hones
Brian Dessent wrote: Cliff Hones wrote: . It would be useful to mention in the FAQ which packages need to be installed to perform the build. I expect everyone will realise make, gcc, binutils etc. are required, but I found I needed cocom (for shilka) which I'd not come across

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: orpie 1.4.3-1

2006-01-18 Thread Schulman . Andrew
A new version of the orpie package is available in the Cygwin distribution. Changes in version 1.4.3-1: * New upstream release: fixes two bugs including one possible crash. To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads

Re: Building Cygwin from CVS

2006-01-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Do you want to write a few words yourself and send an appropriate docs patch to the cygwin-patches list? You know, http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PTC If anyone feels like rewording that section, it might be a good time to mention the peculiarities of the sourceware CVS

Re: Building Cygwin from CVS

2006-01-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Cliff Hones wrote: Well, maybe it is a timestamp problem, but the make did fail trying to regenerate devices.cc using the gendevices script. After I'd installed cocom it worked, and overwrote devices.cc in the src/winsup/cygwin directory. That does sound like a timestamp issue then. I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.19-2

2006-01-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 17 16:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 17 14:16, Pierre Bogossian wrote: rsh doesn't seem to work anymore since I upgraded to cygwin-1.5.19-2. Running a simple commande like rsh localhost echo blah just hangs forever. I can't tell if the problem comes from rsh command or from the

cron - Application Event Log

2006-01-18 Thread Herman Poon
Hi, I would like to suppress logging of tasks by cron in the Windows Application Event log. I want to schedule a task that runs frequently but do not want the Event log to quickly grow. I did search the Cygwin mailing list archive and found this:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.19-1

2006-01-18 Thread Sam Steingold
* Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-18 19:10:27 +0100]: On Jan 18 12:27, Sam Steingold wrote: * Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-16 22:36:19 -0500]: corinna: Emulate linux version of realpath now when I have a file foo.exe, realpath(foo) returns foo instead of

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.19-1

2006-01-18 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Sam Steingold wrote: here is a simple test case: int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { char executable[MAXPATHLEN]; realpath(argv[0],executable); if (open(executable,O_RDONLY|O_BINARY,0644) 0) return 1; else return 0; } it worked (returned 0) before and it

Boost 1.33.1 documentation

2006-01-18 Thread Bruno Martínez
Hi. The documentation for the boost package is incomplete. The link to the libraries docs from /cygwin/usr/share/doc/boost-1.33.1-1/index.htm doesn't work, and the documentation for several libraries is missing. For example, there's no documentation for multi_index. Regards, Bruno

RE: Building Cygwin from CVS

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Brian Dessent wrote: Cliff Hones wrote: Well, maybe it is a timestamp problem, but the make did fail trying to regenerate devices.cc using the gendevices script. After I'd installed cocom it worked, and overwrote devices.cc in the src/winsup/cygwin directory. That does sound like a

RE: Building Cygwin from CVS

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Hmm. My local copy of devices.cc regenerated itself today as well, although I didn't notice it fly past in the build. Mystery solved. Cgf updated devices.h and regenerated devices.cc back in December, but overlooked doing the regenerate when he reverted the change the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.19-1

2006-01-18 Thread Sam Steingold
* Brian Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-18 14:06:19 -0600]: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Sam Steingold wrote: here is a simple test case: int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { char executable[MAXPATHLEN]; realpath(argv[0],executable); if (open(executable,O_RDONLY|O_BINARY,0644) 0) return 1;

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.19-1

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Sam Steingold wrote: not only cygwin drops extension from argv[0] (as your bug report says), That's not a bug, it's a vital feature. Consider all those Unix-y programs that perform different functions according to the filename you invoke them with. Most of them just use if (!strcmp

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.19-2

2006-01-18 Thread Pierre Bogossian
On Jan 17 16:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 17 14:16, Pierre Bogossian wrote: rsh doesn't seem to work anymore since I upgraded to cygwin-1.5.19-2. Running a simple commande like rsh localhost echo blah just hangs forever. I can't tell if the problem comes from rsh command or from

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.19-1

2006-01-18 Thread Sam Steingold
* Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-18 20:37:30 +]: Sam Steingold wrote: not only cygwin drops extension from argv[0] (as your bug report says), That's not a bug, it's a vital feature. Consider all those Unix-y programs that perform different functions according to the filename

Re: cron - Application Event Log

2006-01-18 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Herman Poon wrote: I would like to suppress logging of tasks by cron in the Windows Application Event log. I want to schedule a task that runs frequently but do not want the Event log to quickly grow. I did search the Cygwin mailing list archive and found this:

Re: problen with run command and the environment

2006-01-18 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Jeff Hardy wrote: I have updated my windowsxp with the latest cygwin and this breaks several scripts I have that use the run command to start xterms without consoles. I have tried to track the problem down and at least one problem is that if I type run env /tmp/xxx and

Re: find reports an internal system loop on cygdrive

2006-01-18 Thread L. A. Walsh
Do you have a directory named cygdrive in your root? Normally, you shouldn't. For example, if I type ls /proc*, I get: ls: /proc*: No such file or directory But if I type: ls /proc, I see: 1024 cpuinfo meminfo registry statversion 608 loadavg partitions self uptime --- Why?

Re: find reports an internal system loop on cygdrive

2006-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:21:42PM -0800, L. A. Walsh wrote: Do you have a directory named cygdrive in your root? Normally, you shouldn't. Not so: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-01/msg00016.html cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: [ADMINISTRIVIA] Please don't use 'cygwin at cygwin dot com' as an email address

2006-01-18 Thread L. A. Walsh
Mea culpa...*irk*...it wasn't _intentional_... It's a Tbird extension that's supposed to pick *my* address out of headers that just put cygwin@cygwin.com on the From addr instead of my domain. *Irk*...Haven't seen that behavior before. I wouldn't have noticed it except that this time the email

Re: [ADMINISTRIVIA] Please don't use 'cygwin at cygwin dot com' as an email address

2006-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:29:38PM -0800, L. A. Walsh wrote: Mea culpa...*irk*...it wasn't _intentional_... It wasn't just you. There really isn't any reason for anyone to fess up about this. I just wanted to let people know that it is a bad idea. We don't really have to discuss it any further

Re: find reports an internal system loop on cygdrive

2006-01-18 Thread Linda A. Walsh
Oh, sorry Brian -- flash update. Have you upgraded in the past 45 hours? Then you might have the newest feature implemented by Christopher. Is there any logic to doing this for /proc and /cygdrive and not /dev? At least now everyone can get the drive loop detected message I've been getting

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-runtime-3.9-2

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
I've made a new version of the mingw-runtime available for download. Note: There are no code changes since the -1 release. The purpose of this release is to address the issue of the new Cygwin release accidentally including some of the mingw-runtime files. To update your installation, click on

Re: problen with run command and the environment

2006-01-18 Thread Jeff Hardy
Thanks for your reply. I'll attach next time. I'll accept what you say, but even environment variables that are in my windows environment are not in the environment of programs run under run. By environment, I mean that if you type set in a cmd window, you get the windows environment. Practically

Re: problen with run command and the environment

2006-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:55:20PM -0800, Jeff Hardy wrote: Thanks for your reply. I'll attach next time. I'll accept what you say, but even environment variables that are in my windows environment are not in the environment of programs run under run. By environment, I mean that if you type set

Re: problen with run command and the environment

2006-01-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Jeff Hardy wrote: I'll accept what you say, but even environment variables that are in my windows environment are not in the environment of programs run under run. By environment, I mean that if you type set in a cmd window, you get the windows environment. Practically none of those

Re: Using VC-compiled Mesa binaries under Cygwin

2006-01-18 Thread * *
On 1/18/06, Eric Lilja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Eric Lilja wrote: However, doing a nm GLUT32.lib | grep glutPostRedisplay (the first undefined reference), shows: $ nm GLUT32.lib | grep _glutPostRedisplay I [EMAIL PROTECTED] T [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using VC-compiled Mesa binaries under Cygwin

2006-01-18 Thread * *
On 1/18/06, * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/18/06, Eric Lilja wrote: Uuggh! Sorry about the e-mail address AGAIN! Nothing like realizing .17 seconds after hitting send. Dave Korn wrote: Eric Lilja wrote: However, doing a nm GLUT32.lib | grep glutPostRedisplay (the first

Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-18 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
I searched the main cygwin archives found a thread on installing Cygwin using Linux. It recommended just WGET-ing or FTP-ing the whole release directory along w/ setup.exe setup.ini get on with it. However I poked around on ftp.ale.org observed that there were usually 2 copies

Re: [PATCH] Proposed clarification of the snapshot installation FAQ

2006-01-18 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 1/13/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: It would be nice to have a sample batch file that automated the cygwin1.dll replacement, too. I've prettied up a batch file I use for installing cygwin-inst-* snapshots, and added stuff to handle spacey pathnames and inetd (which AIUI isn't always

[Fwd: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....]

2006-01-18 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
-- William A. Mahaffey III -- The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man. -- Gen. George S. Patton ---BeginMessage--- I searched

Re: Win CE

2006-01-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Philippe Laporte wrote: Hi, What toolchain should one use to get cygwin-like functionality for Win CE? I.e. Posix compatibility layer etc (cygwin-wince.dll). The following google search unearths for me the only relevant conversation on this list that I recall:

Re: find reports an internal system loop on cygdrive

2006-01-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/18/2006, Brian Keener wrote: When I attempt to do a find as in: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ find / -name *winrc* -print I get the following: find: Filesystem loop detected; `/cygdrive/c/cygwin' has the same device number and inode as a directory which is 3 levels higher in the filesystem

RE: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-18 Thread David Christensen
William A. Mahaffey III wrote: I searched the main cygwin archives found a thread on installing Cygwin using Linux. ... I'm curious -- why would you want to install Cygwin on GNU/Linux when most GNU/Linux distributions already include GNU tools? David -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-18 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: I searched the main cygwin archives found a thread on installing Cygwin using Linux. It recommended just WGET-ing or FTP-ing the whole release directory along w/ setup.exe setup.ini get on with it. However I poked around on

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:17:43PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: William A. Mahaffey III wrote: I searched the main cygwin archives found a thread on installing Cygwin using Linux. ... I'm curious -- why would you want to install Cygwin on GNU/Linux when most GNU/Linux distributions

Where's the announcement?

2006-01-18 Thread Eric Lilja
I just ran setup.exe to get the latest mingw-runtime (3.9-2), and I noticed it also upgraded my cygwin 1.5.19-2 to 1.5.19-3 but I never saw that update being announced...the mirror I used was ftp.cise.ufl.edu / E -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

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