setup RFC: Ditch homegrown http/ftp code and use a library?

2004-11-12 Thread Max Bowsher
I'm looking at the networking code in setup at the moment, as part of the grand Disentangle logic and GUI code project. The current code is extremely bare-bones. At some point, it would be nice to add resumable downloading, and I'm wondering whether it would be more sensible to grab and

Re: setup RFC: Ditch homegrown http/ftp code and use a library?

2004-11-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Max Bowsher wrote: Indeed, libcurl was one which came to mind. I've yet to play with it, but one thing I'm a little worried about is it being *too* extensive - I don't want setup.exe to grow very much. I'm certainly going to look into libcurl, but I'm open to other possibilities too.

X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Jani Tiainen
I tried to install development headers (xorg-x11-devel, version 6.8.1.0-1). When I selected package I only get nothing to be installed message. No headers, nothing. Package itself is downloaded to setup directory. -- Jani Tiainen

Re: Mozilla ready compiled, but not operational

2004-11-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
bruno patin wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi, I have some mozilla binaries, the application starts and the usual window is displayed, but it does nothing, if an URL is entered in the address bar and I hit enter, nothing happens, menus are displayed ok, but clicking on an entry does nothin,

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: I tried to install development headers (xorg-x11-devel, version 6.8.1.0-1). When I selected package I only get nothing to be installed message. No headers, nothing. Package itself is downloaded to setup directory. Are you sure you did not selected

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Jani Tiainen
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: I tried to install development headers (xorg-x11-devel, version 6.8.1.0-1). When I selected package I only get nothing to be installed message. No headers, nothing. Package itself is downloaded to setup directory. Are you sure

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Jani Tiainen
Jani Tiainen wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: I tried to install development headers (xorg-x11-devel, version 6.8.1.0-1). When I selected package I only get nothing to be installed message. No headers, nothing. Package itself is downloaded to setup

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: Jani Tiainen wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: I tried to install development headers (xorg-x11-devel, version 6.8.1.0-1). When I selected package I only get nothing to be installed message. No

updating to latest cygwin broke X

2004-11-12 Thread Stephen More
I have been running cygwin with xorg 6.7.0 and it has been flawless. Tonight I updated cygwin with all the latest packages. The update displayed error: mfw.exe Unable to Locate DLL. But at the end it said it completed successfully. So I tried startxwin.bat... failed could not find XWin. So I

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Jani Tiainen
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: Jani Tiainen wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: I tried to install development headers (xorg-x11-devel, version 6.8.1.0-1). When I selected package I only get nothing to be installed

Re: updating to latest cygwin broke X

2004-11-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Stephen More wrote: I have been running cygwin with xorg 6.7.0 and it has been flawless. Tonight I updated cygwin with all the latest packages. The update displayed error: mfw.exe Unable to Locate DLL. But at the end it said it completed successfully. So I tried

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: Please send the output of cygcheck -c and /var/log/setup.log (maybe only the part from the most recent install) as attachment. bye ago Excerpt from last run. You can clearly see that it really does (or at

Re: updating to latest cygwin broke X

2004-11-12 Thread Stephen More
It appears that a reboot after a failed setup has fixed some things but not all. A fresh install will now work. I have also tried to rescue my old install by using reinstall, X will now start but looks very strange. Black has replaced colors like my text. So now in my xterm I have long black

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Jani Tiainen
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: Please send the output of cygcheck -c and /var/log/setup.log (maybe only the part from the most recent install) as attachment. bye ago Excerpt from last run. You can clearly see that it really

RE: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Alexander, same situation here. I took Install fom Internet, verified that in the downloaded archive are all files available, but none of them made it to the directory. Also tried to uninstall all packages from X11 category and installed them again - nothing, the core packages put their

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:27:51AM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote: I tried to install development headers (xorg-x11-devel, version 6.8.1.0-1). When I selected package I only get nothing to be installed message. No headers, nothing. Package itself is downloaded to setup directory. I repackaged some

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:13:34AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:27:51AM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote: I tried to install development headers (xorg-x11-devel, version 6.8.1.0-1). When I selected package I only get nothing to be installed message. No headers, nothing.

RE: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Jörg Schaible
Christopher Faylor wrote on Friday, November 12, 2004 4:27 PM: [snip] So, the solution is try again. Just one more bit of data: I rectified the problem at ~12:30AM EST 2004-10-11 so the new packages should be on most mirrors soon if they are not there already. Apologies for the

Swiss keyboard layout support

2004-11-12 Thread Marc
I am using X/Cygwin, which I just updated, and there seems to be a problem with the Swiss keyboard layout definition (at least the Swiss French). (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 100C (100c) (EE) Keyboardlayout Swiss French (100C) is unknown Note that the layout is installed, as

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:35:01PM +0100, J?rg Schaible wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote on Friday, November 12, 2004 4:27 PM: [snip] So, the solution is try again. Just one more bit of data: I rectified the problem at ~12:30AM EST 2004-10-11 so the new packages should be on most mirrors

Re: Mozilla ready compiled, but not operational

2004-11-12 Thread bruno patin
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: bruno patin wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi, I have some mozilla binaries, the application starts and the usual window is displayed, but it does nothing, if an URL is entered in the address bar and I hit enter, nothing happens, menus are displayed ok, but clicking on an

X startup failure

2004-11-12 Thread Arijit Mukherjee
Hi I just installed a fresh version of Cygwin on my WinXP machine. But I am not able to use the X11 utilities. Attemtping to execute startxwin.bat results in an error which says Unable to find XWin, although the path is properly set. The reason is, XWin is not at all installed, although I have

new Cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-12 Thread Lester Ingber
I was wrong in assuming this was a cygwin base problem. It must be a cygwin-xfree problem. I have no problems I can see in a cygwin console window, only in an xterm (or rxvt) window running under XWin -unixkill -emulate3buttons -clipboard -multiwindow -silent-dup-error Lester

Re: X startup failure

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:19:49PM -, Arijit Mukherjee wrote: Hi I just installed a fresh version of Cygwin on my WinXP machine. But I am not able to use the X11 utilities. Attemtping to execute startxwin.bat results in an error which says Unable to find XWin, although the path is properly

Re: new Cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-12 Thread Lester Ingber
After seeing the posting by Christopher Faylor (posted after mine), I checked mirrors.rcn.net (my usual default), and it seems I already am up to date, and my problem still persists. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= I was wrong in assuming this was a cygwin base

Re: Mozilla ready compiled, but not operational

2004-11-12 Thread bruno patin
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: bruno patin wrote: If you have enough RAM (1 GB) you could compile it too and then run it with gdb. I'm not in a hurry and I'll be out of town the next week. I try to update my sources and my patchfile to offer a patch which will apply against a recent nightly-snapshot

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: Please send the output of cygcheck -c and /var/log/setup.log (maybe only the part from the most recent install) as attachment. bye

X-Cygwin with Zone Alarm 5+

2004-11-12 Thread Faisal Zubair Qureshi
I was able to run cygwin xserver with zonealarm 5 + by reducing Internet Zone Security setting to medium. - faisal.

XWin -multiwindow and XEmacs/gnuclient -- cannot get autoraise

2004-11-12 Thread Harold Bamford
Greetings, I cannot get a running instance of XEmacs to raise to the top when it opens a new file via gnuclient. I believe this is a misconfiguration of my X server which is why I am posting a help message here rather than with an XEmacs newsgroup. I am running XWin -multiwindow -clipboard

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Jani Tiainen
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: Please send the output of cygcheck -c and /var/log/setup.log (maybe only the part from the most recent install) as attachment. bye

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:19:12AM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: Please send the output of cygcheck -c and /var/log/setup.log (maybe

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Jani Tiainen
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:13:34AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:27:51AM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote: I tried to install development headers (xorg-x11-devel, version 6.8.1.0-1). When I selected package I only get nothing to be installed

Mozilla patch

2004-11-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
bruno patin wrote: Ok I'm dowloading he source files. I don't think I will be ready to work before tomorrow because of my testing of the install procedure and as my connection is not as fast as thunder and as my daughters live on it a lot (ah msn messenger :-( )and as I have to download a

Re: Problems with ssh and tunnelling with cygwin 1.5.12

2004-11-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Nicholas Wisniewski wrote: Hello, I'm trying ssh and tunnel to various machines. I can ssh just fine without tunnelling (i.e. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]). When I try to tell ssh to tunnel (ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]), it prompts me for my password, and then hangs. This is an

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/ddk/winddk.h

2004-11-12 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-11-12 08:26:44 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include/ddk: winddk.h Log message: * include/ddk/winddk.h (ExAllocateFromPagedLookasideList,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: docbook-xml42-4.2-3

2004-11-12 Thread Patrick Eisenacher
Hi Marcel, Marcel Telka schrieb: Since I expected problems with my /etc/xml/catalog file, I kept an eye on it. And indeed it got corrupted by the update. Here is what happened: - the new publicId was inserted ok - the location of the DTD was updated ok - existing entries were not altered What

Re: looking for an arm9 cross-compiler

2004-11-12 Thread niac78
Quoting Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 05:20 AM 11/10/2004, you wrote: Hi, I used to work with Linux and I'm trying Cygwin. Does anyone know if there's an existing cross compiler for arm9 package? I could not find it in the package list. Otherwise, what is the solution? Do I have to

Re: library `/usr/lib/libncurses.la' was moved.

2004-11-12 Thread Reini Urban
Charles Wilson schrieb: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Getting this warning: libtool: link: warning: library `/usr/lib/libncurses.la' was moved. $ cat /usr/lib/libncurses.la [...] # Directory that this library needs to be installed in: libdir='/usr/src/ncurses/ncurses-5.4/.inst/usr/lib' Hmmsorry I

libpng issues

2004-11-12 Thread Marco Alanen
After successfully porting our application from Linux to cygwin, most of the functions work, except for one thing - png images. As soon as I call png_create_read_struct, the application will imediately hang and start using up all available CPU power. This happens with both libpng10 and

perl-5.8.5-3 Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch coredump

2004-11-12 Thread Reini Urban
Gerrit, or someone else Could you please try to run this with perl-5.8.5-3 cpan Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch perl -mPod::Simple::HTMLBatch -ePod::Simple::HTMLBatch::go \ @INC /www/docs/perl/pod2html For me it always dumps core at the same place. When writing pods/perltoc.html: ... script

Re: perl-5.8.5-3 Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch coredump

2004-11-12 Thread Reini Urban
Reini Urban schrieb: Gerrit, or someone else Could you please try to run this with perl-5.8.5-3 cpan Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch perl -mPod::Simple::HTMLBatch -ePod::Simple::HTMLBatch::go \ @INC /www/docs/perl/pod2html For me it always dumps core at the same place. When writing pods/perltoc.html: ...

Re: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Kamen TOMOV
On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: Kamen TOMOV wrote: The parent process is started as a windows server. Then it executes cygwin's fork. When I try to kill any of these with kill() it returns No such pid. Are you sure you're not confusing Cygwin PIDs with Win32 PIDs? In order

Re: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Kamen TOMOV
Hi, On Thu, Nov 11 2004, Dave Korn wrote: Don't know if you just forgot to send this reply to the list as well as to me, but see the first paragraph of http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00424.html for a list of reasons why to always send replies to the list. Yes, I'm sorry. I

Re: perl-5.8.5-3 Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch coredump

2004-11-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Reini Urban wrote: perl -mPod::Simple::HTMLBatch -ePod::Simple::HTMLBatch::go \ @INC /www/docs/perl/pod2html For me it always dumps core at the same place. When writing pods/perltoc.html: [...] And it is not an error on parsing the problematic file. perltoc.pod is by far the largest file with

Re: libpng issues

2004-11-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Marco Alanen wrote: After successfully porting our application from Linux to cygwin, most of the functions work, except for one thing - png images. As soon as I call png_create_read_struct, the application will imediately hang and start using up all available CPU power. This happens with both

Re: updating to latest cygwin broke X

2004-11-12 Thread Doctor Bill
Christopher, sometimes it is a good idea to look past the immediate request. While the question is not necessarily appropriate for this list, there is an answer that is appropriate for this list. Stephen, here is what you can do to resolve your problem. 1. Collect as much information you can

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.12-1

2004-11-12 Thread D. N. Knisely
This load fixed one of those strange network problems for me as well. Name service (gethostbyname) did not work in processes spawned out of CGI scripts running under apache. I was guessing it was something missing in the environment, but could not track it down to SYSTEMROOT. Now it works again.

RE: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Kamen TOMOV Sent: 12 November 2004 12:40 On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: Kamen TOMOV wrote: The parent process is started as a windows server. Then it executes cygwin's fork. When I try to kill any of these with

Re: libpng issues

2004-11-12 Thread Marco Alanen
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Marco Alanen wrote: After successfully porting our application from Linux to cygwin, most of the functions work, except for one thing - png images. As soon as I call png_create_read_struct, the application will imediately hang and start using up all available CPU power.

FYI: Reboot is needed after a failed setup.

2004-11-12 Thread Stephen More
I ran setup to update all my older packages. I hit an error: mfw.exe Unable to Locate DLL. This must have corrupted something because from this point forward nothing was working as expected, reinstalls and brand new fresh installs were not working correctly. After a reboot, I could succesfully

Re: libpng issues

2004-11-12 Thread Marco Alanen
Some simple code: #include stdio.h #include png.h int main(int argc, char **argv) { png_structp png_ptr = png_create_read_struct (PNG_LIBPNG_VER_STRING, NULL, NULL, NULL); return 0; } Compiled with: gcc -o pngtest pngtest.c -mno-cygwin -mwin32 -mwindows -lpng

RE: libpng issues

2004-11-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Marco Alanen Sent: 12 November 2004 13:56 Compiled with: gcc -o pngtest pngtest.c -mno-cygwin -mwin32 -mwindows -lpng ^^^ Not a cygwin problem then. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a

Re: libpng issues

2004-11-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Marco Alanen wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Marco Alanen wrote: After successfully porting our application from Linux to cygwin, most of the functions work, except for one thing - png images. As soon as I call png_create_read_struct, the application will imediately hang and start using up all

Re: libpng issues

2004-11-12 Thread Marco Alanen
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Marco Alanen Sent: 12 November 2004 13:56 Compiled with: gcc -o pngtest pngtest.c -mno-cygwin -mwin32 -mwindows -lpng ^^^ Not a cygwin problem then. cheers, DaveK So where

Re: libpng issues

2004-11-12 Thread Marco Alanen
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Marco Alanen wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Marco Alanen wrote: After successfully porting our application from Linux to cygwin, most of the functions work, except for one thing - png images. As soon as I call png_create_read_struct, the application will imediately

RE: libpng issues

2004-11-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Marco Alanen Sent: 12 November 2004 14:11 Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Marco Alanen Sent: 12 November 2004 13:56 Compiled with: gcc -o pngtest pngtest.c -mno-cygwin -mwin32

Re: looking for an arm9 cross-compiler

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:33:01AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 05:20 AM 11/10/2004, you wrote: Hi, I used to work with Linux and I'm trying Cygwin. Does anyone know if there's an existing cross compiler for arm9 package? I could not find it in

Re: libpng issues

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 03:14:41PM +0100, Marco Alanen wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Marco Alanen wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Marco Alanen wrote: After successfully porting our application from Linux to cygwin, most of the functions work, except for one thing - png images. As soon as I

Re: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 01:53:35PM -, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Kamen TOMOV Sent: 12 November 2004 12:40 On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: Kamen TOMOV wrote: The parent process is started as a windows server. Then it

Re: packages that should be in the cygwin distribution but aren't

2004-11-12 Thread Mark Ord
Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin.com writes: A line, since gmane *thinks* I'm top posting. I found this thread looking for any info on starting bind successfully as a service (anyone?), hence the delayed reply... This is an off-the-top-of-my-head list of standard

Re: updating to latest cygwin broke X

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:34:16AM -0500, Doctor Bill wrote: Christopher, sometimes it is a good idea to look past the immediate request. While the question is not necessarily appropriate for this list, there is an answer that is appropriate for this list. Wow, two clueless chides in less than

Re: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Kamen TOMOV
On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Dave Korn wrote: Waittaminnit. You're saying that the spawned processes _aren't_ cygwin processes? Well then you're entirely barking up the wrong tree. Cygwin can't magically make win32 programs signal-aware. The issue of not having a pid for it is utterly

Re: packages that should be in the cygwin distribution but aren't

2004-11-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher Faylor wrote: bind I have bind here, please someone grab it and make a package from this initial port, the server needs more testing: http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/DNS/bind-9.2.2/ coreutils mailx ping sendmail screen In some cases we have packages which offer similar-but-not-identical

Re: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 05:29:45PM +0200, Kamen TOMOV wrote: On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Dave Korn wrote: Waittaminnit. You're saying that the spawned processes _aren't_ cygwin processes? Well then you're entirely barking up the wrong tree. Cygwin can't magically make win32 programs

drand48() (and erand48) returns only zeros

2004-11-12 Thread meadmaker1066-cyg
drand48 and erand48 return only 0.0 no matter how many times I call them. The code works fine on the Linux computers at school, and the compiler does not report any errors or warnings. The mailinglist archives seem to have cases where these functions are missing entirely or return errors, but

new Cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-12 Thread Lester Ingber
I cannot determine why, but with the new Cygwin base I just installed, a utility I have used for quite a few years, dired [http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/file-tools.html#dired], now freezes my window. A `top` shows that CPU usage quickly climbs to maximum values. I have to guess that

new Cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-12 Thread Lester Ingber
I was wrong in assuming this was a cygwin base problem. It must be a cygwin-xfree problem. I have no problems I can see in a cygwin console window, only in an xterm (or rxvt) window running under XWin -unixkill -emulate3buttons -clipboard -multiwindow -silent-dup-error Lester

Re: new Cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Lester Ingber wrote: I cannot determine why, but with the new Cygwin base I just installed, a utility I have used for quite a few years, dired [http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/file-tools.html#dired], now freezes my window. A `top` shows that CPU usage quickly climbs to maximum values.

RE: new Cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-12 Thread Arijit Mukherjee
It's in the installeable packages (forgot which one) - but I have it too... Arijit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase Sent: 12 November 2004 16:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: new Cygwin has memory problems? Lester

Re: new cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 05:41:31PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Lester Ingber wrote: I cannot determine why, but with the new Cygwin base I just installed, a utility I have used for quite a few years, dired [http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/file-tools.html#dired], now freezes my window.

Re: new Cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-12 Thread Aaron Miller
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Lester Ingber wrote: I cannot determine why, but with the new Cygwin base I just installed, a utility I have used for quite a few years, dired [http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/file-tools.html#dired], now freezes my window. A `top` shows that CPU usage quickly

Re: new cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher Faylor wrote: Hey cool, you have top? $ top bash: top: command not found Where can I get it? http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=procps%2Fprocps-010801-2grep=top%5C.exe I really need to install this package, thanks. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: packages that should be in the cygwin distribution but aren't

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:41:23PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: bind I have bind here, please someone grab it and make a package from this initial port, the server needs more testing: http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/DNS/bind-9.2.2/ coreutils mailx ping sendmail screen

Re: new cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 05:58:00PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Hey cool, you have top? $ top bash: top: command not found Where can I get it? http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=procps%2Fprocps-010801-2grep=top%5C.exe I really need to install this

Re: perl-5.8.5-3 Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch coredump

2004-11-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit wrote: Reini Urban wrote: perl -mPod::Simple::HTMLBatch -ePod::Simple::HTMLBatch::go \ @INC /www/docs/perl/pod2html For me it always dumps core at the same place. When writing pods/perltoc.html: [...] And it is not an error on parsing the problematic file. perltoc.pod is by

Re: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Kamen TOMOV
On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 05:29:45PM +0200, Kamen TOMOV wrote: That's a great idea. I'll stick with it and will rewrite the application to start the daemons from the cygwin's shell. That would make my life much easier because instead of rewriting

Re: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 07:32:40PM +0200, Kamen TOMOV wrote: It's for sure that there are some things that are not quite clear, but in a nutshell: We have a daemon compiled with cygwin's fork, kill, etc. 1st scenario: - the daemon gets started as a Windows service - the daemon forks

stty-bug? / Question

2004-11-12 Thread Andreas
Hallo! 1) Sometimes Ctrl-C doesn't work (perhaps binary output destroys the terminal?) resetting this with stty -a intr ctrl-C doesn't work, whereas other keys work! - Is it possible to use the Break-Key (Ctrl-Pause)? stty -a: speed 115200 baud; rows 30; columns 80; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit =

Re: drand48() (and erand48) returns only zeros

2004-11-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, meadmaker1066-cyg wrote: drand48 and erand48 return only 0.0 no matter how many times I call them. The code works fine on the Linux computers at school, and the compiler does not report any errors or warnings. [anip] #include stdlib.h #include cmath #include

Re: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 07:32:40PM +0200, Kamen TOMOV wrote: On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 05:29:45PM +0200, Kamen TOMOV wrote: That's a great idea. I'll stick with it and will rewrite the application to start the daemons from the cygwin's shell. That

Re: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Kamen TOMOV
On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: You have not provided the information requested in http://cygwin.com/problems.html, despite being asked. FWIW, what you describe would make sense if you are logged in under Terminal Services and you do not have the Create Global Name privilege.

Re: new cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-12 Thread Karl M
From: Christopher Faylor Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: new cygwin has memory problems? Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:17:59 -0500 On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 05:58:00PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Hey cool, you have top? $ top bash: top:

RE: drand48() (and erand48) returns only zeros

2004-11-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of meadmaker1066-cyg Sent: 12 November 2004 15:42 drand48 and erand48 return only 0.0 no matter how many times I call them. The code works fine on the Linux computers at school, and the compiler does not report any errors or warnings.

Re: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Kamen TOMOV
On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: *Why* are you calling cygwin_winpid_to_pid on the pids? If you are getting the pid from the return value of fork they are cygwin pids. You don't call cygwin_winpid_to_pid on them. A normal cygwin program should not be using

Re: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:02:05PM +0200, Kamen TOMOV wrote: On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: *Why* are you calling cygwin_winpid_to_pid on the pids? If you are getting the pid from the return value of fork they are cygwin pids. You don't call cygwin_winpid_to_pid on them.

RE: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Kamen TOMOV Sent: 12 November 2004 17:33 We have a daemon compiled with cygwin's fork, kill, etc. 1st scenario: - the daemon gets started as a Windows service - the daemon forks (calling the cygwin's version of fork()) and as

Re: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 06:11:08PM -, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Kamen TOMOV Sent: 12 November 2004 17:33 We have a daemon compiled with cygwin's fork, kill, etc. 1st scenario: - the daemon gets started as a Windows service

Re: drand48() (and erand48) returns only zeros

2004-11-12 Thread Teun Burgers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drand48 and erand48 return only 0.0 no matter how many times I call them. Indeed. Calling srand48 to set the seed helps, but should not be necessary. Teun #include stdlib.h #include stdio.h int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int i; srand48(0); for (i = 0; i 20;

Re: drand48() (and erand48) returns only zeros

2004-11-12 Thread meadmaker1066-cyg
Thanks for the prompt reply! At 12:55 PM 11/12/2004 -0500, you wrote: If you're using C++, why use stdio functions? The program has some modules from an older C program and some from a C++ program. I just hadn't converted all of the code. I left the headers in because in my finished program I'd

Re: drand48() (and erand48) returns only zeros

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 07:35:29PM +0100, Teun Burgers wrote: meadmaker1066-cyg drand48 and erand48 return only 0.0 no matter how many times I call them. Indeed. Calling srand48 to set the seed helps, but should not be necessary. From the linux man page: The srand48(), seed48() and

RE: howto register process

2004-11-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Pierre A. Humblet Sent: 12 November 2004 18:34 AFAIK all Cygwin processes (even those started by Windows) and their subprocesses give full access to Administrators. If you observe that this isn't true, please report it. What, even

Re: drand48() (and erand48) returns only zeros - SOLVED

2004-11-12 Thread meadmaker1066-cyg
Thanks Igor, Dave and Teun! I was missing the call to srand48(0); that unlocked both drand48 and erand48. My code (at least the random number part) is now working. In case anyone else is trying to do something similar a working snippet is below. Thanks to everybody who took time to help! Robert

Re: /cygdrive command line completion?

2004-11-12 Thread Fred Kulack
One option might be to just use a cygdrive prefix of /. Its a bit more natural to me. cd /c/Program\ Files Of course, your mileage may vary and I'd guess it may not always work depending on how the mounts versus cygdrive prefixes are parsed. mount -u -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /

Re: libpng issues

2004-11-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Marco Alanen wrote: Yes it's installed, otherwise it wouldn't compile nor run :) Please contact the distributor of your MinGW libpng since this library is not distributed with Cygwin it is not supported here. Ok. I just thought that since it's included in the cygwin installer, someone here

Blas

2004-11-12 Thread Dr Jekyll
Hi, It seems to me that BLAS is not installed on my cygwin (although I chose all packages). I now that I can install ATLAS but still I don't know whether there is any Cygwin ported Blas library? My best regards. JK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

How do I change my user name?

2004-11-12 Thread Samuel Hund
Unfortunately I need to change my user name on cygwin from the one used by XP. I tried adding a mkgroup and useradd, but neither worked. Can you help? sam -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: How do I change my user name?

2004-11-12 Thread Ken Dibble
You should be able to manually edit /etc/passwd. Just change your username there. Regards, Ken Samuel Hund wrote: Unfortunately I need to change my user name on cygwin from the one used by XP. I tried adding a mkgroup and useradd, but neither worked. Can you help? sam -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: packages that should be in the cygwin distribution but aren't

2004-11-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:41:23PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: bind I have bind here, please someone grab it and make a package from this initial port, the server needs more testing: http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/DNS/bind-9.2.2/ coreutils mailx

Re: packages that should be in the cygwin distribution but aren't

2004-11-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:41:23PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: bind I have bind here, please someone grab it and make a package from this initial port, the server needs more testing: http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/DNS/bind-9.2.2/ coreutils mailx

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: docbook-xml42-4.2-3

2004-11-12 Thread Marcel Telka
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:03:49AM +0100, Patrick Eisenacher wrote: I attached two catalogs. The first one was my original xml catalog before the update. The latter one is the one after the update. Note: I reconstructed the latter one from memory, so order of elements could vary, but it shows

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