Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > Windows strips trailing spaces and dots (unless the file name > > consists only of spaces). You need a managed mount to > > preserve those; otherwise "foo ", "foo.", "foo. . . . ", "foo", > > and a bunch of other spellings all refer to the same file. > > I atte

Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:31:32AM +, Eric Blake wrote: > From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Moving on to another "non-portable" problem, I want to create a file > > with a space at the end of the name, but cygwin is stripping spaces. > > Despite the comment in the code,

RE: bash prompt problem - some more observations

Eric I have been using a custom bash compiled without multibyte characters for a couple of weeks now without problems. I started with the Cygwin src package version 3.00.16(12)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) and applied the following patch: ---8< --- ./bash-

Re: hang on exit in dig.exe

David Arnstein wrote: > I obtained the official bind (DNS) distribution bind-9.3.1.tar.gz. All I > really want from this distribution is a few utility commands, in > particular, "dig." There are native win32 binaries for bind on isc.org that work fine with Cygwin, if you just want it to work. (I

backing up Cygwin

Hi, what is a good way to backup Cygwin? Through Cygwin, through Windows? Won't I lose the file permissions on files with Windows backup? And turn groups/owners all into how about TGZip or BZIP2 everything from cygwin, is that the best way? I have about 1gig of Cygwin stuff now. -R

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xpdf-3.01-1

René Berber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi A new version of 'xpdf' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: An open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. [snip] Why is xpdf installed in /usr/bin?

Re: Cygwin logo

Brian Dessent wrote: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: Can anyone work an otter or a hippo into the logo? ;-) ;-) ;-) For what it's worth when I made this back in April Reminds me of Barney. ;-) I first had to make the basic logo

Re: Cygwin logo

Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 07:34 -0800, Brian Dessent I first had to make the basic logo . This is not really a new logo but rather the old one, just done in vector format with some round

Re: Hang with 20051205 snapshot while building OOo

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:23:01PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:15:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:16:17PM +0100, Volker Quetschke wrote: > > >We got some new features in the hangs with the 20051205 snapshot > > >when buildi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.6-1

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, zzapper wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:55:51 -0800 (PST), wrote: Fresh from the oven, an updated version of zsh (zsh-4.2.6-1) has been freshly baked and should be at a mirror near you real soon. Hi Peter, I'm getting a few warning messages .zshenv:38: compinit: function d

Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars

From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Moving on to another "non-portable" problem, I want to create a file > with a space at the end of the name, but cygwin is stripping spaces. > Despite the comment in the code, this does seem to be allowed (though > I suspect it may be via NtCrea

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

I'm having three problems with the latest snapshot. -- Problem 1: -- With the 20051207 snapshot, I'm getting recreate_mmaps_after_fork_failed errors from XEmacs.

GV and ghostscript: problems?

With ghostscript-8.15-2 there is a stange behaviour of 'gv' in displaying pdf files. If one uses: $ gv foo.pdf & that works fine. But using: $ gv & and then opening 'foo.pdf' with 'Open' menu item, there is an "Unrecoverable error " of GPL Ghostscript 8.15 This 'gv' behaviour was

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.6-1

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:55:51 -0800 (PST), wrote: >Fresh from the oven, an updated version of zsh (zsh-4.2.6-1) has been >freshly baked and should be at a mirror near you real soon. > Hi Peter, I'm getting a few warning messages .zshenv:38: compinit: function definition file not found colors: fun

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:11:37PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 1.5.19 has also some new functionality over 1.5.18. If you have sources > which take advantage of that stuff if present, we're also interested in > getting feeedback about those: > > - clock_getres, clock_setres. > - fts(3) f

Re: Hang with 20051205 snapshot while building OOo

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:15:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:16:17PM +0100, Volker Quetschke wrote: > >We got some new features in the hangs with the 20051205 snapshot > >when building OOo. > > > >This trace looks a little bit different from the old versions, > >

Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:09:05PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 2 20:38, Eric Blake wrote: > > > I'm trying to create a file (on NTFS) with a CR in the name and getting > > > ENOENT; is it possible for this to work (without a managed mount)? > > > > Welcome to Windows. None of these n

Re: Is this possible to call cygwin dll outside cygwin?

David Xiao wrote: I found that my library.dll is *only* dependent on "cygwin1.dll", though I can not simply put them into same directory to make them work. Is there any alternative suggestion? Thanks a lot! This is a frequently asked question. See http://www.cygwin.com/faq, and from there, to

Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

- Original Message - From: "Krzysztof Duleba" To: Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:02 PM Subject: Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks Krzysztof Duleba wrote: Hum, I just installed the latest exim on a new machine and can't reproduce what you describe. exim-config created lrwxrwx

Re: gnuplot dependency in octave

On 8-Dec-2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: | What about (which | fails gracefully if gnuplot isn't installed)? Or does octave-forge | already "do the right thing" (tm) with respect to a missing gnuplot (i.e., | print out a meaningful error message

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xpdf-3.01-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > Hi > > A new version of 'xpdf' has been uploaded to a server near you. > > > DESCRIPTION: > > An open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. [snip] Why is xpdf installed in /usr/bin? It looks

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.6-1

Fresh from the oven, an updated version of zsh (zsh-4.2.6-1) has been freshly baked and should be at a mirror near you real soon. This release includes the following: - updated zprofile (based on profile v3.6) - various bug fixes and enhancements. - Note: 4.2.5 was never released for Cygwin be

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: cadaver-0.22.2-1 - Command-line WebDAV client

Hi The package cadaver is now available with the Cygwin distribution: * http://www.webdav.org/cadaver/ (Homepage) * http://www.webdav.org/cadaver/ (Download location) DESCRIPTION: cadaver is a command-line WebDAV client, with support for file upload, download, on-screen displ

Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

Krzysztof Duleba wrote: Hum, I just installed the latest exim on a new machine and can't reproduce what you describe. exim-config created lrwxrwxrwx 1 p-humblet sw 13 Dec 8 10:10 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/bin/exim* (no .exe anywhere) , as one would expect from the line ln -s -f /usr/b

Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

Pierre A. Humblet Hum, I just installed the latest exim on a new machine and can't reproduce what you describe. exim-config created lrwxrwxrwx 1 p-humblet sw 13 Dec 8 10:10 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/bin/exim* (no .exe anywhere) , as one would expect from the line ln -s -f /usr/bin/exi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xemacs-21.4.18-1/xemacs-tags-21.4.18-1/xemacs-emacs-common-21.4.18-1

Hi A new version of 'xemacs' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: A powerful, highly customizable open source text editor and application development system CYGWIN NEWS: * Readded --with-dragndrop and --with-offix to configure Xemacs NEWS: ===

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xpdf-3.01-1

Hi A new version of 'xpdf' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: An open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. CYGWIN NEWS: * Routine update Xpdf NEWS = * Incorporated 1 security patch from the xpdf homepage Added t

Re: Cygwin logo

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 07:34 -0800, Brian Dessent > I first had to make the basic logo > . This is not really a > new logo but rather the old one, just done in vector format with some > rounded edges, beveling, li

Re: Cygwin logo

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:12:58PM +0100, Denis Washington wrote: >V??clav Haisman wrote: >>Denis Washington wrote: >>>I thought it would be nice to polish the Cygwin logo a bit. That's what >>>I did. You can see the result under the adress: >>> >>>http://www.ultimum-projekt.de/cygwin.png >>> >>>I'

Re: Extracting Debug (meta data) from executable images?

Siegfried Heintze wrote: > I looked in c:\cygwin\usr\doc\ELFIO and there is a nice PDF file that refers > to the examples directory. Where is this examples directory? > > What is the relationship between stabs and ELF? ELF is a file format for objects and executables that is used on linux and ot

Re: Extracting Debug (meta data) from executable images?

Siegfried Heintze wrote: > Neither nm, readelf or objdump enumerate the fields of a struct. It looks > like dwarfdump would, but libdwarf does not compile with cygwin/gcc 3.4 or > RedHat8/gcc 3.2. Did you actually try objdump -g like I said? Because as far as I can tell it basically dumps everyt

Re: Cygwin logo

"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: > Can anyone work an otter or a hippo into the logo? ;-) ;-) ;-) For what it's worth when I made this back in April I first had to make the basic logo . This is not really a new logo

Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

- Original Message - From: "Krzysztof Duleba" To: Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 7:36 AM Subject: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks Hi There's something wrong with exim package and exim-config. It creates /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe, which links to /bin/exim.exe, which doesn't exist. T

Re: gnuplot dependency in octave

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, James R. Phillips wrote: > I am starting a new thread on this issue. > > Quoting from > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00319.html : > > >I often use octave and do no plotting at all. Octave starts and runs > >fine if gnuplot isn't installed. (It complains about not be

Re: gnuplot dependency in octave

James R. Phillips wrote: I am starting a new thread on this issue. Quoting from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00319.html : I often use octave and do no plotting at all. Octave starts and runs fine if gnuplot isn't installed. (It complains about not being able to find gnuplot when

Is this possible to call cygwin dll outside cygwin?

Hi Friends: Let me make this idea clear: I have write a library in cygwin which using POSIX library(such as setsigstack()... etc) Now my another program want to use that library. The program is write in MSVC and "don't know cygwin". It suppose to run outside cygwin, but in native windows. I foun

gnuplot dependency in octave

I am starting a new thread on this issue. Quoting from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00319.html : >I often use octave and do no plotting at all. Octave starts and runs >fine if gnuplot isn't installed. (It complains about not being able >to find gnuplot when the plot command is used.)

Re: Error reported dd'ing close of end of block device with skip

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/8/2005 3:30 AM: > > Hey, cool idea! There's no definition of O_DIRECT in Cygwin so far, but > this sounds like a worthwhile extension, at least for disk and tape > devices, but maybe also for files. This won't be

Re: octave-forge dependency?

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Tony Richardson wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Tony Richardson wrote: > > > > > I often use octave and do no plotting at all. Octave starts and runs > > > fine if gnuplot isn't installed. (It complains about not being able > > > to f

Re: Cygwin logo

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Matthew Persico wrote: > On 12/7/05, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . Thanks. > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > > > > >>Can anyone work an otter or a hippo into the

Re: Cygwin logo

Václav Haisman wrote: Denis Washington wrote: Hi, I thought it would be nice to polish the Cygwin logo a bit. That's what I did. You can see the result under the adress: http://www.ultimum-projekt.de/cygwin.png I've made the logo as SVG with Inkscape. Here's the vector graphic: http://www

exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

Hi There's something wrong with exim package and exim-config. It creates /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe, which links to /bin/exim.exe, which doesn't exist. There is /bin/exim, which links to /bin/exim-4.54-1.exe, but Cygwin .exe magic doesn't apply here, so programs depending on /usr/sbin/sendmail (l

Re: How to setup cgywin on x64

On Dec 8 12:28, Hans Lampl wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install the 64-bit version of cygwin published in the > snapshots directory [...] The what? There's no such thing as a 64-bit version of Cygwin. Cygwin can only run in the WOW64 environment on a 64-bit Windows. I also fail to see

How to setup cgywin on x64

Hi all, I'm trying to install the 64-bit version of cygwin published in the snapshots directory, but due to the lack of any kind of documentation or information how to set it up I'm not able to manage that. I'm running Windows XP x64 with 32-bit cygwin installed that machine. As far as I unde

Re: Error reported dd'ing close of end of block device with skip

On Dec 7 19:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 7 11:55, Loh, Joe wrote: > > QUESTION: > > > > Is there a way in Cygwin to do a read of a block device using "C" that > > does not do a read-ahead? We needed to develop an application that will > > issue the exact transfer size to the target de

Re: Error reported dd'ing close of end of block device with skip

On Dec 7 16:47, Loh, Joe wrote: > Thank you ... This will work. Any plans on supporting O_DIRECT flag in > open()? We believe this effectively gives unbuffered I/O. Please > correct if we are making the wrong assumption. Hey, cool idea! There's no definition of O_DIRECT in Cygwin so far, but t

Re: Cygwin logo

Denis Washington wrote: > Hi, > > I thought it would be nice to polish the Cygwin logo a bit. That's what > I did. You can see the result under the adress: > > http://www.ultimum-projekt.de/cygwin.png > > I've made the logo as SVG with Inkscape. Here's the vector graphic: > > http://www.ultim

Re: octave-forge dependency?

Igor Pechtchanski cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Tony Richardson wrote: > > > I often use octave and do no plotting at all. Octave starts and runs > > fine if gnuplot isn't installed. (It complains about not being able > > to find gnuplot when the plot command is used.) Should t