Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
How about this; gamin_check_not_fat() can be an additional condition
to the wrong permissions errors.
Seems to be the best solution to me.
If the disk is FAT there's not point being picky about permissions, as
the files of the user will be readable to every other
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Careful. GetVolumePathName is not available on 9x/Me and NT4. In those
cases you better use a simple string algorithm which shortens the path
to X:\ or \\server\share.
Does it have sense to check if a network share is FAT or not?
On Feb 3 11:11, Lapo Luchini wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Careful. GetVolumePathName is not available on 9x/Me and NT4. In those
cases you better use a simple string algorithm which shortens the path
to X:\ or \\server\share.
Does it have sense to check if a network share is FAT
Here is one package more for review. Exists in Debian.
http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/geoip-bin
http://freshmeat.net/projects/geoip/
Jari
sdesc: IP lookup command line tools that use the GeoIP library.
ldesc: GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country
that any IP
Jari Aalto (Cygwin-wnpp#20060203T1842) wrote:
Here is one package more for review. Exists in Debian.
http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/geoip-bin
http://freshmeat.net/projects/geoip/
Niiice, +1 from me.
Ah, ok, no votes needed, then a review will do.
Expect it withing a few
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My usual dose of morning review. Building from source works fine (this
time even the gtk-doc stuff succeeds) and packaging looks good. I would
say GTG if you accept the following test failures:
First, was your xserver
Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
wget --no-verbose\
http://cygwin.cante.net/geoip/setup.hint \
http://cygwin.cante.net/geoip/geoip-1.3.8-1.tar.bz2.sig \
http://cygwin.cante.net/geoip/geoip-1.3.8-1.tar.bz2 \
I want to start an xterm on my local machine using an
expect script. It works fine when I start X in
'normal' mode (not query or broadcast) but when I
start X in query mode I am unable to start an xterm
using either the -c argument to expect on the command
line, or via a script, even though I am
Since updating Cygwin to the above version using setup.exe, I have not been
able to run either Xwin or WindowMaker:
$startxwin.sh
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Ron Rice Helga Holtmann wrote:
I have already rebooted the computer several times, and have not had
problems running these applications prior to this download. What further
steps do I need to take to fix this?
Uh, did you try doing what the error suggests, searching your system for
cygwin
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum
Module name:winsup
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-02-04 04:31:34
Modified files:
cygwin : ChangeLog dir.cc fhandler_disk_file.cc
Log message:
* dir.cc (mkdir): Reorganize check for trailing dot to return correct
error
Jim Easton wrote:
I hate to display my ignorance like this but where does one find
how-signals-work.txt? Google didn't help me much.
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/?cvsroot=src
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On Feb 2 18:16, Dave Bodenstab wrote:
I searched the mailing list archives and googled, but failed to find
anything specific to XP regarding this...
I am using the latest version (1.5.19-4) of Cygwin.
I had previously ported a unix prog that used mmap to Cygwin. On win2k
it works fine.
snip
Apparently not. According to the man page Once installed, you can use
rsync to any machine that you can access via remote shell. For remote
transfers, rsync uses ssh for its communications
Yes, this is one way that rsync can communicate, in this mode, rsync
uses ssh to start a copy
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On 03 February 2006 02:34, Brian Dessent wrote:
For example, suppose that the user installs Cygwin and then later
installs CygwinBasedCommercialProduct (CBCP from here on.) The CBCP
installer plays nice, notices that the user has Cygwin installed with the
most recent DLL, so it does not
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I am new to Cygwin. I have a very basic question.
There is a tool Driftnet available only for Unix. I want to write it
Hi!
While playing around with an example file of the libxml2 library (2.6.22-1), I
ran into problems using the gdb debugger (I used the ddd and insight front-end,
but the problem also comes up when invoking gdb (GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-12-28-cvs
(cygwin-special)) directly). The example file
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when I run tree.exe on an example xml file inside bash it works fine, but
when
I start the program inside gdb (or ddd), gdb receives a sig fault
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
... One person even reported that a Cygwin bug caused OS wrapping and
he found himself running FreeBSD...
Is that the Blue Screen Of Life?
Igor
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Creating links with the same name, but with and without a .exe extension
succeeds, but the one with no extension is later ignored. Here's a
minimal example:
$ ls -l TESTLINK*
ls: TESTLINK*: No such file or directory
$ ln -s /bin/ls.exe TESTLINK
$ ls -l TESTLINK*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 igor root 11 Feb 3
On Feb 3 09:30, Igor Peshansky wrote:
Creating links with the same name, but with and without a .exe extension
succeeds, but the one with no extension is later ignored. Here's a
minimal example:
$ ls -l TESTLINK*
ls: TESTLINK*: No such file or directory
$ ln -s /bin/ls.exe TESTLINK
$ ls
Creating links with the same name, but with and without a .exe extension
succeeds, but the one with no extension is later ignored. Here's a
minimal example:
Did you try this with the latest coreutils 5.93-3?
I just reproduced with stock cygwin 1.5.19 and coreutils 5.93-3. The
behavior
'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19
81 tmp ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 jhedden Domain Users 0 Feb 3 10:27 dummy.txt
82 tmp chmod 666 dummy.txt
83 tmp ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 jhedden Domain Users 0 Feb 3 10:27 dummy.txt
Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
Current System
On Feb 3 08:42, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19
That's not a bug, it's a feature of FAT32. FAT and FAT32 have no way
to keep security information. Convert your filesystem to NTFS if you
want that.
And, just in case somebody mentiones the 'ntea'
On Feb 3 15:06, Eric Blake wrote:
Creating links with the same name, but with and without a .exe extension
succeeds, but the one with no extension is later ignored. Here's a
minimal example:
Did you try this with the latest coreutils 5.93-3?
I just reproduced with stock cygwin
On Feb 3 16:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Feb 3 15:06, Eric Blake wrote:
Creating links with the same name, but with and without a .exe extension
succeeds, but the one with no extension is later ignored. Here's a
minimal example:
Did you try this with the latest coreutils
'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19
Welcome to the wonderful world of FAT32. (NTFS is MUCH nicer).
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod
There are inherently NO permissions on FAT32, with no way
to add it, so cygwin fakes success on chmod without doing
On 30 January 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
On 30 January 2006 18:10, Mark Bevan wrote:
ntfsresize v1.12.1 (libntfs 8:1:0)
ERROR: Device '/cygdrive/e' is mounted read-write. You must 'umount' it
first.
However there doesn't seem to be a way to unmount a disk in cygwin :
$ umount
On Thu Feb 2 22:55:08 2006 Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this the way things are supposed to work on XP?
This is a constraint of the underlying OS, yes. The old implementation
of mmap used up to 1.5.18 didn't support PROT_EXEC at all, it was just
fake. Since 1.5.19,
behavior is the same, and it is cygwin doing it. It appears that when
both TESTLINK.lnk and TESTLINK.exe.lnk exist, lstat(TESTLINK)
is picking up the contents of TESTLINK.exe.lnk rather than the
contents of TESTLINK.lnk.
I have prepared a patch which eliminates this problem, and I'll
Dave Bodenstab wrote:
On Thu Feb 2 22:55:08 2006 Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this the way things are supposed to work on XP?
This is a constraint of the underlying OS, yes. The old implementation
of mmap used up to 1.5.18 didn't support PROT_EXEC at all, it was just
fake.
I would like to modify my program to set the required permissions.
Is the mapping between Cygwin's uname()'s sysname and XP, NT, 98SE,
98, etc. available somewhere? Actually, if I could just tell if the
underlying windows is XP, that would be sufficient I think.
The end of wincap.cc
On 03 February 2006 15:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Feb 3 08:42, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19
That's not a bug, it's a feature of FAT32. FAT and FAT32 have no way
to keep security information. Convert your filesystem to NTFS if you
I've got a weird problem.
We have a private version of C-Kermit that has some changes
so that it gives me readline command recall. Recently
it has started giving me strange behaviour.
If I am in kermit and at the command prompt and I try
to run some regular Cygwin command with an ! like
date,
Hi all:
When I using 'ls' to list the files in a directory, the chinese file names are
becomes '??'.
But, when I press TAB after I typed 'ls', the Chinese file names are displayed
correctly.
Sample outputs:
-
[EMAIL
On 02 February 2006 21:11, Alan Bowler wrote:
I've got a weird problem.
We have a private version of C-Kermit that has some changes so that it
gives me readline command recall. Recently it has started giving me
strange behaviour.
I have had much success running cygwin bash scripts from cron (Kalab's
crons.exe), however on new machines I install cygwin on, the bash scripts don't
run at all.
the scripts are run from crons like
12 12 * * * * c:\cygwin\bin\bash c:\cygwin\tmp\mybash.sh
Is there some enviornment setup I am
Alan Bowler wrote:
If I am in kermit and at the command prompt and I try
to run some regular Cygwin command with an ! like
date, all works fine. However, if I then telnet to
a remote system, escape back to Kermit's command mode
and type !date it just hangs. This used to work.
Well I did
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Cygnut (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL. Thanks.
I have had much success running cygwin bash scripts from cron (Kalab's
crons.exe), however on new machines I install cygwin on, the bash
scripts don't run at all.
the scripts are run from
Hi,
I installed Cygwin on my Windows XP with SP2.
C:\ssh.exe -version
OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005
I searched the mailing archives and browsed through the user guide, but
did not find what I was looking for.
All I need is just the simple sequenced instructions on how to use
Thanks Igor. I already uninstalled crons and did this
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
cygrunsrv -S cron
I put a simple script in there like this
51 * * * * /tmp/doit.sh
ran crontab `cat the above file`
crontab -l yields above
net stop cron
net start cron i realize this may not be
I upgraded to Cygwin 1.5.19-4 and my application started dying while
initializing. As I started debugging it, I ran across the SEGV in
pthread_key_create issue that has already been discussed on this list.
I dutifully typed continue, then my app got to main(). (My app uses
std::string.) My app
On 03 February 2006 19:22, Jeff R. Allen wrote:
I upgraded to Cygwin 1.5.19-4 and my application started dying while
initializing. As I started debugging it, I ran across the SEGV in
pthread_key_create issue that has already been discussed on this list.
I dutifully typed continue, then my
Hi,
I use a rather long (many-argument) rxvt command line in one of my
shortcuts, and am apparently hitting the arbitrary 20-argument limit that
run imposes. Can this limit please be increased?
I'll look into submitting a patch that does away with the fixed limit on
the number of arguments, but
Dave Korn wrote:
On 02 February 2006 21:11, Alan Bowler wrote:
I've got a weird problem.
We have a private version of C-Kermit that has some changes so that it
gives me readline command recall. Recently it has started giving me
strange behaviour.
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Cygnut (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
Thanks Igor. I already uninstalled crons and did this
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
cygrunsrv -S cron
Why not /usr/bin/cron-config?
I put a simple script in there like this
51 * * * * /tmp/doit.sh
You forgot to redirect
Tawfik, Sameh E SamehTawfik at fairisaac.com writes:
All I need is just the simple sequenced instructions on how to use
C:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe from Windows XP to login to a Linux server without
being prompted with a password?
I know it can be done, but it's frustrating to just find the
koool, that explains much better...thanks a lot.
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 Eric Blake wrote :
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I am new to Cygwin. I have a
thanks, I didn't know about the config script, I had to chmod group passwd and
a couple of other things.
Thanks again.
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I have encountered a strange bug when starting Microsoft Word when it
is started by the
cygstart command, e.g. cygstart Index.doc, with the current version
of the Cygwin dll.
The symptoms are as follows:
1. Word appears to start normally, and the file can be edited on screen.
2. However, when
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Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 00:10:02 -0800
From: Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Select()
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Brian Dessent wrote:
Jim Easton wrote:
I hate to display my ignorance like this but
ok, I spoke too soon, it runs but when I log off it doesn't. I am admin level.
There are no logs. What can I check ?
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On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, David Picton wrote:
I have encountered a strange bug when starting Microsoft Word when it is
started by the cygstart command, e.g. cygstart Index.doc, with the
current version of the Cygwin dll.
The symptoms are as follows:
1. Word appears to start normally, and the
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Cygnut (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
Again, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL. Thanks.
ok, I spoke too soon, it runs but when I log off it doesn't. I am admin
level. There are no logs. What can I check ?
Check here:
Problem reports:
Hi,
I dont know much about networking so if there is
something obvious with this, let me know.
When I ssh from Cygwin to another machine, and then
close the Cygwin window without logging out, my
connection to the machine still remains active by
this second part I mean that
On Feb 3 16:29, Eric Blake wrote:
behavior is the same, and it is cygwin doing it. It appears that when
both TESTLINK.lnk and TESTLINK.exe.lnk exist, lstat(TESTLINK)
is picking up the contents of TESTLINK.exe.lnk rather than the
contents of TESTLINK.lnk.
I have prepared a patch
On Feb 3 13:30, Alan Bowler wrote:
Alan Bowler wrote:
If I am in kermit and at the command prompt and I try
to run some regular Cygwin command with an ! like
date, all works fine. However, if I then telnet to
a remote system, escape back to Kermit's command mode
and type !date it just
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Feb 3 13:30, Alan Bowler wrote:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM
No hang here.
I'm not very good at digging through archives,
but I did eventually find
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00424.html
which discusses a hang, (but no fix)
when ZoneAlarm
snip
I'm not very good at digging through archives, but I did eventually
find http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00424.html which
discusses a hang, (but no fix)
Right, never found a fix. I did however find that ZoneAlarm treats
localhost and 127.0.0.1 differently, atleast in
Jeff R. Allen wrote:
I upgraded to Cygwin 1.5.19-4 and my application started dying while
initializing. As I started debugging it, I ran across the SEGV in
pthread_key_create issue that has already been discussed on this list.
If you want to try weeding out the false SIGSEGVs from the real
O. Olson wrote:
Hi,
I don’t know much about networking – so if there is
something obvious with this, let me know.
When I ssh from Cygwin to another machine, and then
close the Cygwin window without logging out, my
connection to the machine still remains active – by
this second
Hi,
i'm trying to use cygwin's cvs in server-mode for another application
I get the following error, but on a linux-system, everything is fine!
E cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv784/.
error No such file or directory
Please note, that the error is: no such file or directory
So i tested mkdir on
Sven Köhler wrote:
i'm trying to use cygwin's cvs in server-mode for another application
I get the following error, but on a linux-system, everything is fine!
E cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv784/.
error No such file or directory
Already discussed:
i'm trying to use cygwin's cvs in server-mode for another application
I get the following error, but on a linux-system, everything is fine!
E cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv784/.
error No such file or directory
Already discussed:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/threads.html#01207
Right. I missed the . in the original message. The change that
prompted this behavior seems to be
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2005-q3/msg00224.html. I'm assuming the
motivation for this patch was to duplicate Linux's behavior (which doesn't
allow trailing . in a path passed to mkdir).
The funny thing is that the
directory in the message *is* created before the commands are even read,
and yet cvs still complains that it can't create it because of ENOENT.
I think, that ENOENT is wrong! It should be EEXIST. Perhaps cvs would
ignore EEXIST, but now complains about ENOENT.
I
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 05:11:08AM +0100, Sven K?hler wrote:
As i demonstrated, my Linux returns the error file already exists
instead of cygwin's no such file or directory. So the problem is
perhaps gone, if cygwin becomes more Linux-like once again ;-)
I just checked in a fix to make cygwin
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Sven Köhler wrote:
i'm trying to use cygwin's cvs in server-mode for another application
I get the following error, but on a linux-system, everything is fine!
E cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv784/.
error No such file or directory
As Brian said, this was already reported.
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 05:11:08AM +0100, Sven K?hler wrote:
As i demonstrated, my Linux returns the error file already exists
instead of cygwin's no such file or directory. So the problem is
perhaps gone, if cygwin becomes more Linux-like once
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:44:22PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
Yes. Looks like Cygwin is too hasty in assigning the error number: Linux
only returns ENOENT if the directory doesn't already exist, but Cygwin
will always return it for a trailing dot argument. The same with rmdir,
where it would
Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Sven Köhler wrote:
i'm trying to use cygwin's cvs in server-mode for another application
I get the following error, but on a linux-system, everything is fine!
E cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv784/.
error No such file or directory
As Brian said, this
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