Re: setup.exe: feature request with patch

2006-03-10 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Dr. F. Lee wrote: I deploy cygwin using unattended (http://unattended.sf.net/) and wpkg (http://www.wpkg.org/). It's useful for me to be able to specify additional packages to be installed on the command line.

Re: cygwin setup.exe reverse-video bug

2006-03-10 Thread Robert J. Cristel
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Robert J. Cristel on 3/6/2006 6:55 AM: settings - control panel - display - appearance - Scheme - High Contrast Black (Extra Large) Now run setup and you cannot read from the main program selection widow. Try to

Re: cygwin setup.exe reverse-video bug

2006-03-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Robert J. Cristel wrote: Here's a workaround: settings - control panel - display - appearance - item -window - font color palette is now activated select something that's not white Or you could just use a setup.exe snapshot with the fix. Brian

SECURITY: tar (CVE-2006-0300)

2006-03-10 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A malicious tar archive could trigger a Buffer overflow in GNU tar, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. Solution: apply this patch to 1.15.1:

SECURITY: tetex (CVE-2005-3193)

2006-03-10 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 teTeX includes vulnerable XPdf code to handle PDF files, making it vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code. Solution: apply this patch:

Re: SECURITY: tar (CVE-2006-0300)

2006-03-10 Thread Eric Blake
A malicious tar archive could trigger a Buffer overflow in GNU tar, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. Thanks for the heads up. I'll get on that right away, although it may be a day or two before I have the next compilation uploaded. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin tar

Xwin parm -silent-dup-error

2006-03-10 Thread Dominique Brazziel
What is the function of the Xwin parameter '-silent-dup-error'? I see it in startxwin.bat and startxwin.sh, but it is not documented anywhere (that I can find). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: listen/accept/fork behavior problem between cygwin1 1.5.18 and cygwin1.dll 1.5.19

2006-03-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 9 17:54, BRC wrote: Hi, I have a perl based server that creates a TCP listen socket in a parent process, then forks off an N-child process pool that normally accepts connections round-robin style alla apache 1.3. Everything worked great when I was based on cygwin1.dll version

RE: Bug in dlopen() (or following) code in Cygwin1.dll v 1.5.19-4

2006-03-10 Thread Gary Zablackis
--- Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this point I'm stopping. If you post a fixed testcase, I'll take a look at it. cheers, DaveK Dave, Attached is a fixed testcase. tar -jxf CrashTest.bz2 will create directory CrashTest with the testcase. I have included a log with

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gawk-3.1.5-3

2006-03-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of gawk to 3.1.5-3. This is a bugfix release. It solves a textmode issue when reading input from stdin. If you have general questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: cygwin at cygwin dot com. I would appreciate it if you would use this

bug coreutils-5.94-1 : ls does not show correct background colors for directories

2006-03-10 Thread Mak, Howard
Given LS_COLORS='di=01;34' TERM=cygwin Problem is mkdir tmp ls --color=yes will display a weird green background for the directories. This occurs for corcoreutils-5.94-1 but not in coreutils-5.3.0-9. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks. - Howard --

curses.h location in cygwin install?

2006-03-10 Thread Robin Lin
Hi everyone, I'm trying to use the curses library, and I can't seem to locate where the curses.h file is. I've tried to reinstall the curses packages several times, and I still can't locate the file. It's just not where everyone says it should be (\usr\include\ncurses). I don't even see an

Re: curses.h location in cygwin install?

2006-03-10 Thread Bob Rossi
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:38:57AM -0800, Robin Lin wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to use the curses library, and I can't seem to locate where the curses.h file is. I've tried to reinstall the curses packages several times, and I still can't locate the file. It's just not where everyone

Re: curses.h location in cygwin install?

2006-03-10 Thread Tony Richardson
Robin Lin rslin at ucdavis.edu writes: I'm trying to use the curses library, and I can't seem to locate where the curses.h file is. I've tried to reinstall the curses packages several times, and I still can't locate the file. It's just not where everyone says it should be

Re: bug coreutils-5.94-1 : ls does not show correct background colors for directories

2006-03-10 Thread Eric Blake
Given LS_COLORS='di=01;34' TERM=cygwin Problem is mkdir tmp ls --color=yes will display a weird green background for the directories. Not a bug. And reading the list archives first would have shown that just yesterday, this VERY SAME QUESTION was raised:

1.5.19 - Cygwin / ssh server / windows 2003

2006-03-10 Thread Le Foll, Olivier
Hello, I have a problem using OpenSSH under Cygwin on a W2K3 server and I didn't find any valid solution on web even there are a lot of messages. My problem : I deployed cygwin (DLL 1.5.19) with openssh 4.3p2 on several w2k3 servers and behaviour is the same : It is possible to connect to

Re: bug coreutils-5.94-1 : ls does not show correct background colors for directories

2006-03-10 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Eric Blake wrote: Given LS_COLORS='di=01;34' TERM=cygwin Problem is mkdir tmp ls --color=yes will display a weird green background for the directories. Not a bug. And reading the list archives first would have shown that just yesterday,