Re: new libxml2 / libxslt packages?

2003-01-24 Thread Nicholas Wourms
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering whether there were plans to release new versions of libxml2 and libxslt. The versions that are part of Cygnus now are all rather old (by almost a year in the case of libxslt). The current versions are: libxml2-2.4.23 Jul 22 2002 libxslt-1.0.13 Mar

Re: proposal: ioperm support for Cygwin

2003-01-24 Thread Nicholas Wourms
I don't think this has come up before, but is there any reason why this couldn't be added to the Cygwin dll [either now or at some later date]? The framework appears to be somewhat similar to how we are going about implimenting SysV IPC's. The only issue might be how to deal with the driver

Re: emacs 21.2-12 available

2003-01-24 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Joe Buehler wrote: New GNU emacs package files are available at: http://68.98.182.120:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-12/emacs-21.2-12-src.tar.bz2 http://68.98.182.120:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-12/emacs-21.2-12.tar.bz2

Re: new libxml2 / libxslt packages?

2003-01-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 00:11, Nicholas Wourms wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering whether there were plans to release new versions of libxml2 and libxslt. The versions that are part of Cygnus now are all rather old (by almost a year in the case of libxslt). ... I'm sure

[ITP] rebase

2003-01-24 Thread Jason Tishler
I would like to contribute a stand-alone (non-persistent) rebase to the standard Cygwin distribution. This version is a combination of my main() (i.e., command line interface) and Ralf Habacker's imagehelper library. Note that this version should work on Windows Me and automatically fixes bad

Re: [ITP] rebase

2003-01-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Jason Tishler wrote: 2. non-persistent: rebase DLLs ignoring setup.exe's rebase database (which is essentially today's, MS-like functionality) non-persistent seems to imply that the effects get cancelled out by a reboot. Is this really the case? If not, can we discuss a more self-explanatory

Re: [ITP] rebase

2003-01-24 Thread Jason Tishler
Max, On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:07:43PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Jason Tishler wrote: 2. non-persistent: rebase DLLs ignoring setup.exe's rebase database (which is essentially today's, MS-like functionality) non-persistent seems to imply that the effects get cancelled out by a reboot.

Re: [setup] Inaccurate message: See /setup.log.full

2003-01-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [snip] And I just realized that with all the code I quoted in the past two messages, I might as well have written a patch... *g* Oh, well. And here's that patch. Just for the fun of it... *g* Igor ChangeLog: 2002-10-17 Igor

RE: Crash on startup - debugging info

2003-01-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Takashi, I am not sure that that is causing the crashes, but it definetly could be the cause of problem with the initial SIGSEGV that we get when debugging with gdb. I will try removing those defines and see how things go. Thanks for the tip, Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Default keyboard mapping

2003-01-24 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Alexander == Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander Hi Alexander I want to add automatic keyboard select to XWin. This means XWin will query Alexander the current keyboardlayout from windows and preset the xkb layout and Alexander variant to coresponding values

Re: starting x apps

2003-01-24 Thread thomas graichen
and before i forget: i use the test73 binary of XWin and an up to date cygwin ... t thomas graichen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: windows 2000 (german version), btw. using the run.exe coming with cygwin as suggested by someone else here helped - this way i also get no extra window (i.e. using

RE: xfree and vms

2003-01-24 Thread J S
JS wrote: I've copied over the fonts I found from VMS now, and done the mkfontdir, and xset but when I run the xclock for example, I still get the following messages: ISIS-WORKMC DECW$CLOCK X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string -*-Menu-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1 to

Re: Default keyboard mapping

2003-01-24 Thread Franz Wolfhagen
This is the output I get from your program : KeyboardType: 4: IBM enhanced (101- or 102-key) keyboard KeyboardLayout: 0406 This is how I have specified it in XF86Config : Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout dk My machine is a Thinkpad 770X with

Re: Default keyboard mapping

2003-01-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: That would be extremely cool. I have thought about doing the same thing myself, but I find that I simply do not know enough about keyboard layouts to be able to do this on my own. Hopefully you have better luck than I :) It's quite simple. Now we only need to

Re: Default keyboard mapping

2003-01-24 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Very kool... (you code compiles with -mnocygwin without modifications :)) results on a fr keyboard : KeyboardType: 4: IBM enhanced (101- or 102-key) keyboard KeyboardLayout: 040C comments : WinXP doesnt report this is an extended keyboard (windows keys and power,sleep,wake are present) even

Re: Default keyboard mapping

2003-01-24 Thread Franz Wolfhagen
I BTW just checkeg Google to see where a list of codes could be found : http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBI/tip4000/rh4094.htm Contains a list and some interesting details about the command window This is the list : '

Re: Default keyboard mapping

2003-01-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Sylvain Petreolle wrote: Very kool... (you code compiles with -mnocygwin without modifications :)) Tried it too. But for me crt2.o was missing :( Just an installation problem. results on a fr keyboard : KeyboardType: 4: IBM enhanced (101- or 102-key) keyboard KeyboardLayout: 040C

Re: Default keyboard mapping

2003-01-24 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
are 105 keyboards with only the windows keys ? That's why I'll set pc105 as default. This will not do any harm, but will enable the windows keys (If the're reported correctly). Special keyboard can be configured with the config file. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remote X, XDMCP, XWin problem

2003-01-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Hans Zimmerman wrote: The output from ls_netdev-w95.exe ls_netdev $Id: ls_netdev.c,v 1.6 2002/11/10 16:14:32 ago Exp $ OS Version: Windows 9x 4.0 Build 67306684 B Querying devices using ioctl lo: family=TCP/IP (0) addr=127.0.0.1 lo: metric=1 mtu=3924 Querying devices using internal

Re: Default keyboard mapping

2003-01-24 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
then we will miss the power,sleep,wake keys ? --- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Sylvain Petreolle wrote: are 105 keyboards with only the windows keys ? pc105 is pc102 + windows keys and pc104 is pc101 + windows keys = Sylvain Petreolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fight

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 74

2003-01-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
, direct link: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/XWin-Test74.exe.bz2 (1202 KiB) Server source, direct link: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/xwin-20030124-1105.tar.bz2 (107 KiB) xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin (all files) diff against Test73 source code: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin

Re: Default keyboard mapping

2003-01-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Franz Wolfhagen wrote: I BTW just checkeg Google to see where a list of codes could be found : http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBI/tip4000/rh4094.htm I have a list with those codes and the corresponding language too. But for most languages I don't know which is the correct xkb layout. And there are

Re: Bizarre server crash

2003-01-24 Thread Brian Gallew
Alexander Gottwald said: I noticed this too. Happens with all apps (I've found) which change resolution. The interesting thing is that it clearly isn't *all* apps that change resolution. I can run Neverwinter Nights (and often do!) concurrently with XFree86 with nary a problem. This may well

RE: xwinclip usage?

2003-01-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Marc, All I can tell you right now is that it has always been a pain to get xwinclip (or any local X client for that matter) to work with XWin.exe when you are using -query for an XDMCP session. I can also tell you that I doubt that the new version of XWin.exe is causing the stand-alone xwinclip

RE: xwinclip usage?

2003-01-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Marc, Thanks for providing some actual data. That is very useful, even though it proved me wrong. However, you did also confirm my suspicion that you were doing something that is altogether naughty and impure: you are using the -ac command-line parameter. The -ac parameter basically tells

Internal client connections to the X Server (for integrating the Windows and X clipboards)

2003-01-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I have been working on a small X Client called xwinclip for the Cygwin/XFree86 project (http://xfre86.cygwin.com) for over a year now. The aim of this program is to provide integration between the Windows clipboard and the X clipboard, but so far the results have been less than stellar. There are

RE: Can't Get XDMCP Login on Mandrake 9.0 Box from XP

2003-01-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Curt, You may have read a lot of FAQs, but did you read: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-mandrake-8.1-xdmc p ? That should help you out. Please email the mailing list if that solves your problem. Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Native GDI

2003-01-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Genneth, There has not been much going on with Native GDI for some time now. The server is at the point where it draws most things correctly usings only spans, but we need to iron out the last few bugs before we can start implementing translations of some of the X graphics functions into GDI

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygwin.din syscall ...

2003-01-24 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-01-24 15:23:15 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin.din syscalls.cc winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin: version.h Log message: * cygwin.din: Export setreuid32, setreuid,

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/ras.h

2003-01-24 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-01-25 00:41:45 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: ras.h Log message: * include/ras.h (RASCONN[AW]): Guard szDeviceType, szDeviceName fields

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/ras.h

2003-01-24 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-01-25 00:47:25 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: ras.h Log message: * include/ras.h (RASCONN[AW]): Add dwSessionId for (WINVER = 0x501).

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_console.cc

2003-01-24 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-01-25 01:17:51 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_console.cc Log message: * fhandler_console.cc (fhandler_console::send_winch_maybe): Reset scroll region if size

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygwin.din fhandler_co ...

2003-01-24 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Branch: cgf-dev-branch Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-01-25 01:18:28 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin.din fhandler_console.cc syscalls.cc cygwin/include/cygwin:

setregid() and setreuid() patch

2003-01-24 Thread Jason Tishler
The attached patch implements setregid() and setreuid() as recommended by Pierre in: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2003-01/msg00115.html Thanks, Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4

Re: setregid() and setreuid() patch

2003-01-24 Thread Jason Tishler
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:55:20AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: The attached patch implements setregid() and setreuid() as recommended by Pierre in: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2003-01/msg00115.html Oops. I just realized that I need to submit a corresponding newlib patch to

Re: setregid() and setreuid() patch

2003-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:55:20AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: The attached patch implements setregid() and setreuid() as recommended by Pierre in: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2003-01/msg00115.html Applied with minor changes: +setreuid (__uid32_t ruid, __uid32_t euid)

Re: setregid() and setreuid() patch

2003-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:21:20AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: Oops. I just realized that I need to submit a corresponding newlib patch to declare setregid() and setreuid(). Too late ;-) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer

Re: setregid() and setreuid() patch

2003-01-24 Thread Jason Tishler
Corinna, On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:26:36PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Applied with minor changes: +setreuid (__uid32_t ruid, __uid32_t euid) ^ __uid16_t Oops, yank and put error. Thanks for cleaning up after me. I've also applied the missing

Re: nanosleep() patch

2003-01-24 Thread Jason Tishler
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:44:02AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I like that patch. Applied. I just realized that nanosleep() is not getting declared. Is the attached patch the best solution? If so, then I will submit a patch to newlib. If not, what is? Thanks, Jason -- PGP/GPG Key:

Re: nanosleep() patch

2003-01-24 Thread Jason Tishler
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:06:27PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I think adding a #if defined(__CYGWIN__) !defined(_POSIX_TIMERS) int _EXFUN(nanosleep, (const struct timespec *rqtp, struct timespec *rmtp)); #endif would be more adequate so far. Adding all missing POSIX timer

Re: How can I set up users?

2003-01-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Baras, Gal wrote: The complete answer to my question was that a user was required in /etc/passwd. To find this user's ID, I had to use 'ls -ln' on some files I owned, then copy the Administrator line, change the ID from 500 to my own (400) and the pw_gecos field to my_domain\my_user_ID. Umm.

DQ Subscriber, Cash in on low mortgage-rates through DirectQlick.com

2003-01-24 Thread Loan Finder
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problems compiling many files with gcj

2003-01-24 Thread magnus persson
when compiling 850 class-files using gcj i get this error: gcj: installation problem, cannot exec `/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/collect2.exe': Invalid argument i used this line: (works ok when compiling one file). gcj -CLASSPATH

PROPOSAL: translate '::' to '.' in arguments to the man command

2003-01-24 Thread Rafael Kitover
I have noticed that some man pages, for example perl modules below the root namespace, are installed as Foo.Bar instead of Foo::Bar because apparently windows file names cannot contain ::. Eg. $ touch 'Foo::Bar' touch: creating `Foo::Bar': Invalid argument This is sufficiently different from

Re: PROPOSAL: translate '::' to '.' in arguments to the man command

2003-01-24 Thread Danilo Turina
Rafael Kitover wrote: I have noticed that some man pages, for example perl modules below the root namespace, are installed as Foo.Bar instead of Foo::Bar because apparently windows file names cannot contain ::. Eg. $ touch 'Foo::Bar' touch: creating `Foo::Bar': Invalid argument This is

RE: PS1 color codes?

2003-01-24 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Excellent - thank you Gareth! Rob :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: cygpath question

2003-01-24 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Howdy Randall, $ cdd C:\Rob\mcd3060\Tri32002\a2 bash: cd: C:Robmcd3060Tri32002a2: No such file or directory In this case, the unquoted backslashes essentially just disappear, since in each case the character they precede is not special. Thank you very much for your reply. I forgot

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:39:21PM -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote: Is there any way to control the versions of programs you get from setup.exe? The cygwin environment is different on almost every machine at our company. It all depends on when you ran the setup program.I have two

Re: Updated: cygwin-1.3.19-1

2003-01-24 Thread Marcel Telka
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://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/threads.html#00485 introduced

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:58:38PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:23:28PM +0100, Christian Mueller wrote: I don't want to use ntsec because I use my Cygwin home directory for Cygwin *and* Windows programs and ntsec

cygwin1.dll

2003-01-24 Thread jim . a . davidson
Sirs, We are proposing to use the Red Hat OpenSSH package on our NT/W2K servers but some concerns have been raised re. the Cygwin1.dll shared memory vulnerability. As the only Cygwin application running on these machines will be OpenSSH I am not sure how significant a risk may exist. Can you

AW: cygpath question

2003-01-24 Thread Harald Kierer
All of this brings me to the rather depressing conclusion that I cannot make the same shortcut in cygwin that I often use in cmd.exe: copying a path from Windows Explorer, alt-tabbing to the command prompt, typing cd with the left hand then right clicking with the right hand and

Request for development: Samba port to ...

2003-01-24 Thread peetz
Subject: Request for development: Samba port to ... Groups: comp.protocols.smb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all, Note: I'm not trying to start a flame war. You might find my request just ridiculous. You might have seen it before and laughed about it or even didn't take it for

Re: Tastatur Problem: rxvt und less/vi

2003-01-24 Thread roneau
rxvt -backspacekey ^h Hat mein Problem gelöst! Thanks ;-) Either: Launch rxvt with rxvt -backspacekey ^h Or: Inside rxvt, do stty erase ^? -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Updated: cygwin-1.3.19-1

2003-01-24 Thread Doug VanLeuven
I found vi can be tamed by having a vimrc file in /usr/share/vim/vimrc to cover users that don't have a ~/.vimrc I copied in the vimrc_example, but any vimrc that turns off vi compatibility mode works. Even an empty vimrc turns off vi compatibility. Don't know amout mc. IMHO, timing is

GCJ Thread.start called but threads not available

2003-01-24 Thread Bart Lamot
Hi all, After i compile my java program using gcj in cygwin and execute the output file i get Thread.start called but threads not available When I check GCJ it seems it has been build with thread support (see below). I compile using: gcj --main=Test -g0 -o test *java A Test.java which is

cygpath bug converting really long filenames

2003-01-24 Thread Jesper Eskilson
Hi! The attached shell-script causes cygpath to malfunction by trying to convert a long string of z:s using 'cygpath -w'. It begins by trying z, then zz, and so on. When trying more than 240 z:s, the result becomes garbled. For example: 246

Signal 11

2003-01-24 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
SOrry for crossposting. Gcc 3.3=branch give me a Signal 11. here's the error snip gcc -g -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing- prot otypes -Wtraditional -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGENERATOR_ FILE -o gengtype.exe \ gengtype.o gengtype-lex.o

Re: File locking???

2003-01-24 Thread nanorobot
Its some function in C for file locking. Some servers use it. maybe fcntl_lock -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:53:28PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: The hello is created with `touch hello`; the `world` with explorer. Content-Description: output of ls total 46 -rw-rw-rw-1 RLandhee Aucun 0 Jan 24 14:51 hello -rwxrwxrwx1 65535Aucun 0 Jan

RE: PROPOSAL: translate '::' to '.' in arguments to the man command

2003-01-24 Thread Ian R. Chesal
Try perldoc instead of man for help with Perl modules. It reads the POD embedded in the modules and does the :: to / or \ translation for you. For example: perldoc File::Basename Would give you the POD embedded in /lib/perl5/5.6.1/File/Basename.pm. It's also a good way to: a) make sure

Mmap and semaphores?

2003-01-24 Thread Elliot Mednick
Hello, I'm try to write a client server application that used shared memory and asemaphores. Appended is a simple test case. It works under Solaris using the -lposix4 library. But it doesn't work under Cygwin. Given the lack of any otherquestions about this, I imagine that I'm doing something

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:53:28PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: The hello is created with `touch hello`; the `world` with explorer. Content-Description: output of ls total 46 -rw-rw-rw-1 RLandhee Aucun 0 Jan 24 14:51

Re: Accessing Uberbaum

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:27:52AM -0600, Robert McNulty Junior wrote: Could someone tell the right way to call Uberbaum? No. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:28:08PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Yes, I am a member of the administrators group. No, the administrators group is not mentioned in /etc/passwd (but it is in /etc/group) Add it using mkpasswd -l and everything's fine. It's added automatically when

RE: Accessing Uberbaum

2003-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Original Message: - From: Robert McNulty Junior [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:27:52 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Accessing Uberbaum Could someone tell the right way to call Uberbaum? Well, I call him Sam but it's probably more proper to call him 'Mr.

Re: cygwin Release process

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:55:54AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:39:21PM -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote: Is there any way to control the versions of programs you get from setup.exe? The cygwin environment is different on almost every machine at our company. It all

RE: Accessing Uberbaum

2003-01-24 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
i meant the cvs directory on sources.redhat.com. I'm outa here. Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Accessing Uberbaum

RE: cygwin Release process

2003-01-24 Thread Steve Fairbairn
How cliquey? I reckon us outsiders should make a mass exodus if Christopher *in-most-mother-esq-tone-I-can-manage* fails to explain himself. -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 January 2003 15:34 Actually, in a way, I guess I did say it. cgf

RE: Accessing Uberbaum

2003-01-24 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Sorry. I meant the directory uberbaum on sources.redhat.com uberbaum. I'll reset my enviroment here back to the way I had it. Later Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:31 AM To:

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:28:08PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Yes, I am a member of the administrators group. No, the administrators group is not mentioned in /etc/passwd (but it is in /etc/group) Add it using mkpasswd -l and

Re: How can I set up users?

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:26:48AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message: - From: Baras, Gal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:09:04 +1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How can I set up users? Despite your style, thank you for your

Re: cygwin Release process

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:39:46PM -, Steve Fairbairn wrote: How cliquey? I reckon us outsiders should make a mass exodus if Christopher *in-most-mother-esq-tone-I-can-manage* fails to explain himself. It's simple: Corinna works for me. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Accessing Uberbaum

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:38:53AM -0600, Robert McNulty Junior wrote: i meant the cvs directory on sources.redhat.com. You reference it like any other cvs directory on sources.redhat.com. There is no magic. I'm outa here. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: cygpath bug converting really long filenames

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:35:16PM +0100, Jesper Eskilson wrote: Hi! The attached shell-script causes cygpath to malfunction by trying to convert a long string of z:s using 'cygpath -w'. It begins by trying z, then zz, and so on. When trying more than 240 z:s, the result becomes garbled. For

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:51:31PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: However, shouldn't the -E option have changed the mode of the world file? My mount table shows noexec for /home and world is still executable - as is the doe file I just created with Explorer, but not the john file I

RE: Accessing Uberbaum

2003-01-24 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
OK. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Accessing Uberbaum On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:38:53AM -0600, Robert McNulty Junior wrote: i meant

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:51:31PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: However, shouldn't the -E option have changed the mode of the world file? My mount table shows noexec for /home and world is still executable - as is the doe file I just

Re: cygwin1.dll

2003-01-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sirs, We are proposing to use the Red Hat OpenSSH package on our NT/W2K servers but some concerns have been raised re. the Cygwin1.dll shared memory vulnerability. As the only Cygwin application running on these machines will be OpenSSH I am not

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Corinna, I'll have to go home (the working day here has ended) but if you want, I do have an XP box at home with Cygwin on it, so I could do some more tests there if it is of any use to you. (If not, I'll just enjoy the week-end). Otherwise, I'll be happy to continue any testing of any Cygwin

RE: cygpath question

2003-01-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
Rob, All is not lost. If you simply drag an icon for a file system entity and drop it in a Cygwin window, it will get quotes _as necessary_! Nice, actually. The syntax will still be Windows, including backslashes, but actually Cygwin will handle this correctly. And in case you're not aware of

setup.exe 2.249.2.5 problems

2003-01-24 Thread Shane Owenby
Hi, I am trying a fresh install of a freshly downloaded Cygwin install (setup.exe version 2.249.2.5) on an WinXP box. However, when I get to the step after Select your Internet Connection the setup program pops up the Can't get a list of download sites dialog box. other relevant data: my

df failes to list directory-mounted volumes

2003-01-24 Thread Brian McGroarty
Windows NT and XP can mount volumes on directory mount points instead of or in addition to drive letter mount points. If a directory mount point is used, df delays for an abnormally long time prior to output, then fails to produce the complete listing. Using XP's tools to unmount the

Re: undefined reference to `__getreent'

2003-01-24 Thread Takayoshi Shimizu
This is a rather old subject, but there seem to be no replies yet. I encountered the same problem recently, and have just escaped from that. The compile option -D__linux__ is the cause. There are some header files which use __linux__ in them. But cygwin environment (that corresponds to

anyone have implicit linkage of gcc DLLs working in Visual C?

2003-01-24 Thread Todd West
I'm experimenting with using Cygwin and gcc -shared to build Windows DLLs which are called by code compiled by VC6.0 SP5 or the Intel C 7.0 plug-in for VC. I've using some very small stubs of test code and DLLs extracted from Atlas 3.4.1. Implicitly linked calls go down fine at compile and link

Re: setup.exe 2.249.2.5 problems

2003-01-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Shane Owenby wrote: I am trying a fresh install of a freshly downloaded Cygwin install (setup.exe version 2.249.2.5) on an WinXP box. However, when I get to the step after Select your Internet Connection the setup program pops up the Can't get a list of download sites dialog box. other

Re: setup.exe 2.249.2.5 problems

2003-01-24 Thread a
*cough* I tracked the problem down to a ZoneAlarm firewall problem. Even though ZoneAlarm wasn't running at the time it was still blocking setup.exe from reaching the Internet. (ZoneAlarm must persistently cache its deny rules) Sorry for the false bug report, Shane On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at

updatedb and /cygdrive/c

2003-01-24 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Two problems with Cygwin and updatedb: 1. updatedb terminates with /usr/bin/find: . changed during execution of /usr/bin/find. This happens unless called with '--prunepaths=/cygdrive' (/cygdrive is a real directory). 2. I'm calling updatedb with '--prunepaths=/cygdrive /cygdrive/c/CDROM

[ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available

2003-01-24 Thread Joe Buehler
GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available. Changes: - fixed problem with DOC file causing LISP documentation functions to fail; X and non-X emacs now have separate DOC files New users please be aware: - You will want tty included in your CYGWIN environment variable setting, and probably binmode.

RE: df failes to list directory-mounted volumes

2003-01-24 Thread Rolf Campbell
Cygwin df does not show Windows mounts, it shows cygwin mounts only. -Original Message- From: Brian McGroarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: df failes to list directory-mounted volumes Windows NT and XP can mount

idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Rafael Kitover
Currently there is a fundamental divide between the cmd.exe shell and a unix shell, even on windows with Cygwin. A source project can of course support a native windows build using a makefile with make --win32, or using dmake (http://search.cpan.org/author/GSAR/dmake-4.1pl1-win32). Or configure

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Rafael Kitover wrote: Currently there is a fundamental divide between the cmd.exe shell and a unix shell, even on windows with Cygwin. A source project can of course support a native windows build using a makefile with make --win32, or using dmake

RE: cygpath question

2003-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm lost! ;-) Drag and drop for me on W2K to bash does get me the windows file name but it's not escaped or quoted. So you must have some cool setting there that I don't have. What is it? Do tell! ;-) BTW, I'm up-to-date with everythig as of 1/21 and I'm currently running a snapshot Cygwin

RE: anyone have implicit linkage of gcc DLLs working in Visual C?

2003-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm actually quite interested in this topic but when using the -mno-cygwin switch, you're really not using Cygwin functionality at all. In that respect, you're probably better off on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list rather than this one. Larry Original Message: - From: Todd West

RE: cygpath question

2003-01-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
Larry, Finally! Something to hold out as an advantage of the console over RXVT! Actually, on my system, dropping on RXVT from Windows Explorer, whether file or directory, with or without spaces, nothing happens at all. It all works fine in a character (console) window. It works there even

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:37:38PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: 2) I could be wrong, but I don't think you are going to get that much enthusiam about this. I think the idea of a plugin for zsh or bash (does bash allow plugins?) is sort of interesting. It could be a cygwin package. Of course, *I'm*

RE: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Rafael Kitover
-Original Message- From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:38 PM 2) support cmd.exe builtins like del/copy/exists/etc, and execute dos batch files. Things like if and goto, because they're only useful in batch, would present little problem as

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:09:43PM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote: Really? Or would it simply delay them learning the knowledge to function in an environment that does not make specific allowances for them? Well, the goal would be for new cygwin users, who often have little knowledge of UNIX, to

RE: cygpath question

2003-01-24 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Howdy Randall, Click and drag method == Actually, on my system, dropping on RXVT from Windows Explorer, whether file or directory, with or without spaces, nothing happens at all. OK - I found this too (I have never used rxvt before, so I am not aware of any advantages

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 06:24:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:09:43PM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote: Really? Or would it simply delay them learning the knowledge to function in an environment that does not make specific allowances for them? Well, the goal

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