Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll (Was Re: Wrapping long lines)

2004-07-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Alexander schrieb: Robert McNulty Junior wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll (Was Re: Wrapping long lines) On Fri, 9 Jul

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-14 Thread electa
--- An important test: without -multiwindow, the X window appear. but she hangs sooner. in task manager, now cat.exe is running. (it gets 0% of CPU). if I kill cat.exe via task manager, an Xterm now appear in X window. X is ready now! What is doing cat with X? maybe this is

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startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?

2004-07-14 Thread Listopad, Steve
Using latest cywin, downloaded/installed 07/13/2004. Can reproduce an XP blue screen, by starting a cygwin shell, and typing 'startx'. Scenario 1: New terminal appears. after a little bit of time, the machine will blue screen/reboot. Scenario 2: after startx brings up window, use ssh -X -l

startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?

2004-07-14 Thread Listopad, Steve
[This may be a duplicate; submitted the question before the subscription request; if it is, I apologize] I'm using latest cywin, downloaded/installed 07/13/2004. I can reproduce an XP blue screen, by starting a cygwin shell, and typing 'startx'. Scenario 1: New terminal appears. after a

app crashing on paste

2004-07-14 Thread Jack Tanner
I don't know if this is my own stupidity, or a bug, and if it's a bug, I don't know where the bug lies. X is started using -multiwindow -clipboard. Then I connect to a Fedora Core 2 box with X-forwarding over ssh (using -Y). Then... % quanta QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is

Re: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?

2004-07-14 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Listopad, Steve wrote: Using latest cywin, downloaded/installed 07/13/2004. Can reproduce an XP blue screen, by starting a cygwin shell, and typing 'startx'. This is the first report of a blue screen since a long time. Scenario 1: New terminal appears. after a

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, electa wrote: What is doing cat with X? maybe this is from the xinitrc script. Do you have .xinitrc in your home directory? Hey it's true! I found that I don't have an .xinitrc in home dir I actually ment that call to cat might be in the .xinitrc file. If

Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll

2004-07-14 Thread LDR
Subject: Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll Alexander wrote: Alex, thanks for the pointers, but please review my comments, below. Robert McNulty Junior wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll (Was Re: Wrapping long lines) On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Robert McNulty Junior wrote:

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-14 Thread electa
I have Zonealarm Security Suite I give all requested rights to X program when they asked them, that is: Bash.exe access Internet and Trusted xinit.exe access Internet and Trusted xterm.exe access Internet and Trusted Xwin.exe access Internet and Trusted and listen as server in Internet and

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, electa wrote: I have Zonealarm Security Suite I give all requested rights to X program when they asked them, that is: Bash.exe access Internet and Trusted xinit.exe access Internet and Trusted xterm.exe access Internet and Trusted Xwin.exe access Internet and Trusted

Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll

2004-07-14 Thread Volker Quetschke
LDR wrote: Trying to figure out why GTK is telling me cygX11-6.dll (or something like that) is missing. I get the same error. Do you have the xorg-x11-bin-dlls packages installed? Yes! (snip) There is a bug in the postinstall script, if cygwin/X11R6/bin is not in the system path, the

Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll

2004-07-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
LDR schrieb: There is a bug in the postinstall script, if cygwin/X11R6/bin is not in the system path, the DLL is not found. False. On my system: CYGWIN_ROOT/X11R6/bin is set in the 'PATH' by: - MS SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT - CYGWIN.BAT - profile Then it should work, as it works for

RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?

2004-07-14 Thread Armbrust, Daniel C.
Two questions - is it an ATI video card? And when you say newest drivers - is that the newest drivers from Microsoft, or the newest drivers direct from your vendor? Or maybe media center edition doesn't let you install any drivers unless they are Microsoft approved? In my experience, windows

Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll

2004-07-14 Thread LDR
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I appreciate the efforts of all the Cygwin developers. Thank you, all,again. However, some developers might want to try paying more attention to the documented feedback! -- LDR wrote: There is a bug in the postinstall script, if cygwin/X11R6/bin is not in the system

RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?

2004-07-14 Thread Listopad, Steve
Daniel, Will have to check on the brand of the video card; it's a laptop, and since I didn't piece it together, I can't remember off the top of my head. It's a GeForce 5600 go blah blah something-or-other (i.e. I'm at work, and can't look it up :) ). Wasn't aware of current ATI problems, but

RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?

2004-07-14 Thread Listopad, Steve
Alexander, SNIP This is the first report of a blue screen since a long time. Leave it to me to find a way to blue-screen Windows :) SNIP maybe the network driver is the cause. Not sure, but to be honest, I wasn't thinking in that direction, so I appreciate the suggestion. I

logitech mx-900 middle button

2004-07-14 Thread Jeffrey J. Gray
Hi, has anyone been able to get the logitech mx900 mouse to pass the middle button (or any of the other buttons besides 1 and 3) to cygwin/xfree? I see an old post in 2002 saying that some logitech drivers offered a 'middle button' setting, but on my Logitech/Setpoint utility there are

Re: logitech mx-900 middle button

2004-07-14 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Jeffrey J. Gray wrote: Hi, has anyone been able to get the logitech mx900 mouse to pass the middle button (or any of the other buttons besides 1 and 3) to cygwin/xfree? I see an old post in 2002 saying that some logitech drivers offered a 'middle button' setting,

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_raw.cc

2004-07-14 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-07-14 13:51:17 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_raw.cc Log message: * fhandler_raw.cc (fhandler_dev_raw::raw_write): Remove buffered write entirely. Patches:

src/winsup/mingw ChangeLog Makefile.in mingwex ...

2004-07-14 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-07-14 23:44:50 Modified files: winsup/mingw : ChangeLog Makefile.in winsup/mingw/mingwex: Makefile.in winsup/mingw/profile: Makefile.in Log message: * Makefile.in

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_registry.cc

2004-07-14 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-07-15 02:07:16 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_registry.cc Log message: * fhandler_registry.cc (registry_listing): Correct typo.

winsup/mingw ChangeLog mingwex/fwide.c

2004-07-14 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-07-15 02:43:19 Modified files: mingw : ChangeLog mingw/mingwex : fwide.c Log message: * mingwex/fwide.c: Include stdio.h to resolve FILE usage. Patches:

Re: cygwin: /proc and /cygdrive insvisible

2004-07-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* GARY VANSICKLE (2004-07-14 04:50 +0200) Mit freundlichen Grüssen, ? With friendly Grüssen. Thanks for the translation ;-). I just wanted to point him to the conclusion that his mail template is a bit unappropriate for an english speaking mailing list. Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.

2004-07-14 Thread Ashwin N
GARY VANSICKLE wrote: Well, if you're using outlook/outlook express, there's a program called Outlook-quotefix or OE-quotefix, depending on which you're using. They latch into outlook/oe to provide this functionality. Are you sure this is true? I downloaded it and can't get it to provide

Re: Firewall issue

2004-07-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Michael Sullivan (2004-07-14 02:16 +0200) I hope someone can help me. I'm using Cygwin on an old PC with 1.2gig hard drive and 24MB RAM (pathetic I know.) I'm using the PC as a holding area for backups so that I don't have to write the backups to CD every day. The network card in the PC

scp with DOSish paths

2004-07-14 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hello, can anything be done (environmetn variable, option ?), that would allow scp to support DOSish absolute paths? $ pwd /cygdrive/c $ scp 'C:\test\file.txt' host:/target/ ssh: C: no address associated with name $ scp '\test\file.txt' host:/target/ \test\file.txt: No such file or directory

Re: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Reini Urban
Igor Pechtchanski schrieb: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Reini Urban wrote: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs forever. According to MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/perfmon/base/the_hkey_performance_data_key.asp): ...although you use the registry to collect performance

RE: bfd_get_section_size() undeclared

2004-07-14 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Bas van Gompel Sent: 10 July 2004 05:43 To: cygwin Cc: Sean McCune Subject: Re: bfd_get_section_size() undeclared Op Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:03:20 +0100 schreef Dave Korn in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: : -Original Message- :

Re: scp with DOSish paths

2004-07-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 14 10:59, J?rg Schaible wrote: Hello, can anything be done (environmetn variable, option ?), that would allow scp to support DOSish absolute paths? Nope. $ pwd /cygdrive/c $ scp 'C:\test\file.txt' host:/target/ ssh: C: no address associated with name foo:bar is the rsh/csh

RE: scp with DOSish paths

2004-07-14 Thread Jörg Schaible
Corinna Vinschen wrote on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:45 PM: Background: scp is called by a Java application (Maven) and I cannot even wrap the call with a script. Sure you can. Create a script called scp which is in Maven's $PATH before /usr/bin. No. Been there, done that. But a call to

Re: scp with DOSish paths

2004-07-14 Thread ahnkle
Jörg Schaible wrote: Hello, can anything be done (environmetn variable, option ?), that would allow scp to support DOSish absolute paths? $ pwd /cygdrive/c $ scp 'C:\test\file.txt' host:/target/ ssh: C: no address associated with name scp `cygpath -u 'C:\test\file.txt'` host:/target/ ahnkle --

Re: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Reini Urban wrote: Igor Pechtchanski schrieb: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Reini Urban wrote: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs forever. According to MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/perfmon/base/the_hkey_performance_data_key.asp): [snip]

Re: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar

2004-07-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 10 10:36, a111 wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Did you try the -M or --multi-volume option of tar? Corinna Yes, I did. I even tried to force tape size to number below the size of floppy disk -- no success. I have experience with C, so I think I could find a problem,

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:47 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote: Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:16 PM 7/13/2004, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appear to have both exim and ssmtp installed; but I see that /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink to /usr/bin/ssmtp. Fair enough, if interesting. In

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 14 10:31, Larry Hall wrote: At 12:47 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote: Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:16 PM 7/13/2004, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appear to have both exim and ssmtp installed; but I see that /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink to

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Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:07 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote: On Jul 14 10:31, Larry Hall wrote: At 12:47 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote: Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:16 PM 7/13/2004, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xxx wrote: I appear to have both exim and ssmtp installed; but I see that /usr/sbin/sendmail is a

RE: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 14 July 2004 04:22 Ok, the theory washed out. The code above is actually simply buggy. When RegQueryValueEx is called (2 lines below the arrow), the size parameter is uninitialized, so, in effect, it

Re: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 14 17:58, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 14 July 2004 04:22 Ok, the theory washed out. The code above is actually simply buggy. When RegQueryValueEx is called (2 lines below the arrow), the size

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 14 12:45, Larry Hall wrote: At 11:07 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote: I don't think cron should contain a dependency to ssmtp though. It would be the same as to have a dependency to exim. Well, I brought it up since it explicitly creates the link to ssmtp. An easier alternative would

[OT] RE: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: 14 July 2004 18:15 On Jul 14 17:58, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 14 July 2004 04:22 Ok, the theory washed out. The code

Re: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 14 17:58, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 14 July 2004 04:22 Ok, the theory washed out. The code above is actually simply buggy. When RegQueryValueEx is

fopen()/fclose() turns off compression

2004-07-14 Thread Jeff
I wrote about this issue before, but now I have something specific to report. I'm running the latest Cygwin on WinXP Pro SP1, and have my HDD formatted NTFS. I also have it set to compress all new and modified files (compression set for the HDD, inheritable to all directories and files). fopen

HOWTO build debug version of the cygwin dll with no optimisation?

2004-07-14 Thread Dave Korn
Ok, it doesn't mention how to do this in the user guide. It doesn't say how to do this in the FAQ. It doesn't say how to do it on the website's how-to-contribute page. It doesn't say how to do this in the sources. I've searched at google. I've searched at the list archive. And the GNU

RE: [ADMIN] cygwin package search temporarily disabled

2004-07-14 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 13 July 2004 02:21 On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:18:00PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Folks, the Search package list functionality on http://cygwin.com/packages/ has been temporarily disabled due to

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:17 PM 7/14/2004, you wrote: On Jul 14 12:45, Larry Hall wrote: At 11:07 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote: I don't think cron should contain a dependency to ssmtp though. It would be the same as to have a dependency to exim. Well, I brought it up since it explicitly creates the link to ssmtp.

RE: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Since Dave is not subscribed to cygwin-developers anyway, I'll continue this here. More below. On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 14 July 2004 04:22 Ok, the theory washed out. The code above is

RE: [OT] RE: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: 14 July 2004 18:26 Well, the thread's more-or-less over now, I would have thought. Heh. It occurs to me to correct that typo while we're at it. Should have done that first time round. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Dave Korn wrote: [snip] In particular, the fact that you see a SEGV the second time round - which is what my analysis above demonstrates should happen if the size variable is NOT reinited each time round the loop - makes

Developer's list archive policy - was Re: [OT] RE: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:25 PM 7/14/2004, you wrote: Still, I've sent in a subscription request anyway [Note Cc!]. I've never paid much attention to that list before. I notice that even the list archive is closed if you aren't subbed - surely that's a bit WJM? I can understand having subscribers-only posting

RE: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 14 July 2004 19:30 I concur; that is bad code. The variable unambiguously needs initialising, and since RegQueryValueEx damages it, it needs to be re-set each time round the loop. Not quite true. Turns out RegQueryValueEx

Re: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 14 14:29, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Since Dave is not subscribed to cygwin-developers anyway, I'll continue this here. More below. Ok. That's why I wrote mildly OT. Can't for a while. Can you do me a favor and submit this as a fix, if you have a copyright assignment for Cygwin? If

Re: HOWTO build debug version of the cygwin dll with no optimisation?

2004-07-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 14 18:43, Dave Korn wrote: Ok, it doesn't mention how to do this in the user guide. It doesn't say how to do this in the FAQ. It doesn't say how to do it on the website's how-to-contribute page. It doesn't say how to do this in the sources. I've searched at google. I've searched

Re: fopen()/fclose() turns off compression

2004-07-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 14 10:18, Jeff wrote: I wrote about this issue before, but now I have something specific to report. I'm running the latest Cygwin on WinXP Pro SP1, and have my HDD formatted NTFS. I also have it set to compress all new and modified files (compression set for the HDD, inheritable to all

mmapped memory lost after fork

2004-07-14 Thread Tenedor Roquefort
I'm using Cygwin 1.5.10-3 and have found what seems to be a fork/mmap bug. I have two examples where a forked child cannot access memory that was mmapped by the parent. The problem seems to arise when the parent munmaps some pages (different from the ones the child will try to access) before

RE: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Dave Korn wrote: [some comments snipped below] -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 14 July 2004 19:30 However, the fix is not as simple as inserting a size = bufalloc; just before the RegQueryValueEx. When I do that, I get a SIGSEGV

maintaner of gcc

2004-07-14 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Who's maintaining GCC for Cygwin? Ours is getting old. Gcc 3.4.1 came out a couple of weeks ago. I could go ahead and compile it, but I don't know where the patches are to make it use -mno-cygwin. Mingw is using Gcc 3.4.0 as a candidate. I seen our version of 3.4.0, as experimental, but could not

C99 complex numbers in cygwin?

2004-07-14 Thread dgun
I'm trying to port a program to cygwin that uses the C99 complex number standard and the complex.h library (carg, csin, etc.). According to the gcc web page, this is mostly implemented in gcc 3.0 and above, but I can't find it in the cygwin gcc package. Is this on purpose or an oversight? I

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread Robert R Schneck
Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think cron should contain a dependency to ssmtp though. It would be the same as to have a dependency to exim. And why should cron.README contain hints about how to set up ssmtp? That's the job for the ssmtp README, isn't it? It might save

RE: C99 complex numbers in cygwin?

2004-07-14 Thread Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to port a program to cygwin that uses the C99 complex number standard and the complex.h library (carg, csin, etc.). According to the gcc web page, this is mostly implemented in gcc 3.0 and above, but I can't find it in the cygwin gcc package. Is this on

/usr/share/doc/Cygwin (Was Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Robert R Schneck wrote: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think cron should contain a dependency to ssmtp though. It would be the same as to have a dependency to exim. And why should cron.README contain hints about how to set up ssmtp? That's the job

Re: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin (Was Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Robert R Schneck wrote: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Whoops, and a (very belated) http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR to both of us... :-) Igor --

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread luke . kendall
On 14 Jul, Robert R Schneck wrote: I also see that my /etc/ssmtp directory is completely empty. Someone on the list mentioned /usr/local/exim/README.Cygwin, but there is no /usr/local/exim directory on my machine. You should have read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-2.60.9.README.

Re: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin (Was Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-14 Thread luke . kendall
On 14 Jul, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Yep, that would be a very good idea. In particular, it should point out that the information in the READMEs in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin takes precedence over that in the package READMEs and manpages. Maybe even an FAQ entry like I've followed

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread Robert R Schneck
Larry Hall wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Methinks that a correct approach (for a given value of correct) would be to create the symlink in an ssmtp postinstall script. That's what exim does, too. Creating the symlink in the cron postinstall script was a hack at one point. I'd be happy to get

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread luke . kendall
On 14 Jul, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: exim -oi luke /tmp/sample I got this error: set{u,g}id failed: 22 2004-07-14 10:48:44 unable to set gid=544 or uid=18 (euid=11021): privilege not needed (Which I assume means the opposite: that some privilege *is*

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 10:14 AM 7/15/2004 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 Jul, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: (That message was rejected by the list spam filter, I hope this one will make it through) exim -oi luke /tmp/sample I got this error: set{u,g}id failed: 22 2004-07-14 10:48:44

Re: C99 complex numbers in cygwin?

2004-07-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:38:12AM +1000, Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to port a program to cygwin that uses the C99 complex number standard and the complex.h library (carg, csin, etc.). According to the gcc web page, this is mostly implemented in gcc

Re: HOWTO build debug version of the cygwin dll with no optimisation?

2004-07-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 08:48:36PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 14 18:43, Dave Korn wrote: Ok, it doesn't mention how to do this in the user guide. It doesn't say how to do this in the FAQ. It doesn't say how to do it on the website's how-to-contribute page. It doesn't say how to

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:44:45AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I also noticed that the exim man page doesn't mention that it can replace sendmail That's the standard exim man page, wrong list.. or that it creates a symlink to sendmail. exim doesn't. That symlink is created by

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread Robert R Schneck
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Luke Kendall wrote: or that it creates a symlink to sendmail. exim doesn't. That symlink is created by the cygwin specific exim-config script under explicit user control. That avoids possible conflicts with postinstall scripts. Hmmm. So perhaps the appropriate new

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread luke . kendall
On 14 Jul, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Thanks for the feedback. The problem is that the exim startup code thinks that you are a privileged user (see privileged 1 above). It does that by checking that you have the Create Token privilege (you have not answered my question about having

Re: [OT] RE: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

2004-07-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 07:28:19PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: 14 July 2004 18:26 Well, the thread's more-or-less over now, I would have thought. Heh. It occurs to me to correct that typo while we're at it. Should have done

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-14 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 12:02 PM 7/15/2004 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 Jul, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Thanks for the feedback. The problem is that the exim startup code thinks that you are a privileged user (see privileged 1 above). It does that by checking that you have the Create Token

UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

2004-07-14 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, I'm trying to find the best approach to solve a bug reported against NEdit: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=873188group_id=11005atid=111005 The reporter complains that NEdit cannot open files from network shares using Cygwin's double-slash notation. That is not

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

2004-07-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 05:32:32AM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: I'm trying to find the best approach to solve a bug reported against NEdit: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=873188group_id=11005atid=111005 The reporter complains that NEdit cannot open files from network

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

2004-07-14 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Christopher Faylor wrote (2004-07-15 06:15): On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 05:32:32AM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: I know that NEdit is not the only application ignoring multiplied slashes, so I wonder how this is normally handled with Cygwin. Indeed, a simple test on Linux seems to indicate that

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

2004-07-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:48:36AM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: Hi, * Christopher Faylor wrote (2004-07-15 06:15): On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 05:32:32AM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: I know that NEdit is not the only application ignoring multiplied slashes, so I wonder how this is normally handled