Cygwin/X

2006-09-18 Thread Salvador Fernández
A fatal error has ocurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please Help me. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/

Re: Cygwin/X

2006-09-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Salvador Fernández wrote: A fatal error has ocurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please Help me. Sure thing. Please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines found here: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry Hall

Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Francis Rossi
Hello, I wonder whether there are plans about creating a special filesystem for Cygwin. I think it would be a very useful thing, for practical reasons. The problem with the folder Cygwin is installed to is that when you're looking for some files on your hard disk, that directory takes a lot of

Re: rsync 2.6.6.1 changed ACL behaviour?

2006-09-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Mattias wrote: Using rsync to update my web site on a Windows 2003 Server using the following command rsync --archive --stats /cygdrive/c/data/publish/ -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cygdrive/c/Inetpub/ssc2 Worked fine for a year. Great! Stopped working recently. rsync doesn't set the ACL

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread George
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:44:52PM +0400, Francis Rossi wrote: The problem with the folder Cygwin is installed to is that when you're looking for some files on your hard disk, that directory takes a lot of time in the search because of dozens of thousands files, especially in /usr. Sounds

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Francis Rossi wrote: Hello, I wonder whether there are plans about creating a special filesystem for Cygwin. I think it would be a very useful thing, for practical reasons. The problem with the folder Cygwin is installed to is that when you're looking for some files on your hard disk, that

MINGW GCC WIN64 port?

2006-09-18 Thread William Deegan
All, This may be a little off topic, but I beleive there's enough of an audience here to make it worthwhile. One of my clients is interested in getting MINGW working on win64. We're considering engaging codesourcery to do the work. Anyone out there interested/able to co-funding the work?

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Jim Drash
On 9/18/06, Francis Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I wonder whether there are plans about creating a special filesystem for Cygwin. I think it would be a very useful thing, for practical reasons. The problem with the folder Cygwin is installed to is that when you're looking for some

Re: MINGW GCC WIN64 port?

2006-09-18 Thread Jim Drash
One of my clients is interested in getting MINGW working on win64. We're considering engaging codesourcery to do the work. Anyone out there interested/able to co-funding the work? why not ask the Mingw developers: www.mingw.org -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Wes S
On 18 Sep 2006 at 15:44, Francis Rossi wrote: for practical reasons. The problem with the folder Cygwin is installed to is that when you're looking for some files on your hard disk, that directory takes a lot of time in the search because of dozens of thousands files, especially in /usr.

Re: MINGW GCC WIN64 port?

2006-09-18 Thread mwoehlke
William Deegan wrote: This may be a little off topic, but I beleive there's enough of an audience here to make it worthwhile. One of my clients is interested in getting MINGW working on win64. We're considering engaging codesourcery to do the work. Anyone out there interested/able to co-funding

RE: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Francis Rossi
Hi, I answer to everyone in the same post, sorry I there's no names with each quote.. $ time find -name iostream -print ./lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/include/c++/iostream ./lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/iostream real0m3.644s user0m0.812s sys 0m2.859s Hardly a

Stacktrace in cygwin gdb after uncaught exception

2006-09-18 Thread Ryan Boder
In Linux, if I am using gdb on a program and it throws an exception that is not caught, I can then get a stack trace with the bt command. In Cygwin, the program just exists and I see the following line: Program exited with code 0400. Is it possible to get a stacktrace in gdb for an uncaught

Re: MINGW GCC WIN64 port?

2006-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:26:31PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: William Deegan wrote: This may be a little off topic, but I beleive there's enough of an audience here to make it worthwhile. One of my clients is interested in getting MINGW working on win64. We're considering engaging codesourcery to do

Re: Stacktrace in cygwin gdb after uncaught exception

2006-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 06:16:51PM +, Ryan Boder wrote: In Linux, if I am using gdb on a program and it throws an exception that is not caught, I can then get a stack trace with the bt command. In Cygwin, the program just exists and I see the following line: Program exited with code 0400.

Re: Stacktrace in cygwin gdb after uncaught exception

2006-09-18 Thread Ryan Boder
Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin.com writes: gdb does not just exit with an uncaught exception. It responds to a SIGSEGV the same way as linux. Hmm, I guess that's good that it's supposed to be doing what I want it to, but I can't get it to work. If I debug this

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Jim Drash
I meant uninstall takes minutes not install. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Jim Drash
So let me get this right. Because Windows Search is slow you want have cygwin put its files a different partition? Cygwin's setup put the files exactly where you told it. It suggested C:\cygwin to you but you did not have to put them there. You made the choice and it is very easy to move them

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Jim Drash wrote: So let me get this right. Because Windows Search is slow you want have cygwin put its files a different partition? Cygwin's setup put the files exactly where you told it. It suggested C:\cygwin to you but you did not have to put them there. You

RE: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Dave Korn
On 18 September 2006 19:37, Francis Rossi wrote: As would mounting and/or deleting a separate Windows partition, no? No, because the virtual Cygwin partition would be one Windows file. One file is much easier to delete than the whole C: drive, isn't it? Two words: Quick Format.

Re: cygwin installation batch file?

2006-09-18 Thread Mike
On 2006-09-17, Mike Verstegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, a few apologies... - I just joined this mailing list, so this reply is cobbled together using the original message from the archives. - Though I've used cygwin for several years as an administrative user, I'm brand new to using

Re: ncftpbatch log entry

2006-09-18 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Hi Larry, Here is some output of bash shell. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/KCM $ cd / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ ls -l total 9 dr-xr-xr-x 1 0 root 0 Jan 1 1970 cygdrive What do I do to give myself permission to write to this directory? Thanks in advance for your help Yours Sincerely Stephen

Using Source

2006-09-18 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Hi All, I have downloaded the souorce for ncftp In /usr/src I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src $ ls -l total 1748 -drwxrwx---+ 24 Stephen Users 0 Sep 18 11:17 inetutils-1.3.2-35 -rwxr-x---+ 1 Stephen Users 210118 Jun 7 2004 ncftp-3.1.7-1.patch -rwxr-x---+ 1 Stephen Users 10483 Jun

Re: MINGW GCC WIN64 port?

2006-09-18 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:26:31PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: William Deegan wrote: This may be a little off topic, but I beleive there's enough of an audience here to make it worthwhile. One of my clients is interested in getting MINGW working on win64. We're

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 18 September 2006 19:37, Francis Rossi wrote: As would mounting and/or deleting a separate Windows partition, no? No, because the virtual Cygwin partition would be one Windows file. One file is much easier to delete than the whole C: drive, isn't it? Two words: Quick

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Francis Rossi wrote: it can take hours, for the same reason. I think it could be resloved by creating a separate partition for /usr and placing it into a separate file with virtual filesystem like on VMWare or Bochs. When Cygwin is started this partition would be mounted like Windows disks

Re: MINGW GCC WIN64 port?

2006-09-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Jim Drash wrote: One of my clients is interested in getting MINGW working on win64. We're considering engaging codesourcery to do the work. Anyone out there interested/able to co-funding the work? why not ask the Mingw developers: www.mingw.org He did that first:

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/18/2006, Francis Rossi wrote: No one on this list has vocalized such a plan AFAIK. I'm glad to hear that, Larry, that's why I decided to post it here. This thought came to my mind more than one time while dealing with Cygwin (for 3-4 years). If disk access times for large

Re: Using Source

2006-09-18 Thread René Berber
Stephen Grant Brown wrote: I have downloaded the souorce for ncftp In /usr/src I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src $ ls -l total 1748 -drwxrwx---+ 24 Stephen Users 0 Sep 18 11:17 inetutils-1.3.2-35 -rwxr-x---+ 1 Stephen Users 210118 Jun 7 2004 ncftp-3.1.7-1.patch -rwxr-x---+ 1

Re: ncftpbatch log entry

2006-09-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU. Reformatted. Stephen Grant Brown wrote: - Original Message - From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com ^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks.

Read not honouring -r?

2006-09-18 Thread Irwin, Doug
All, I am working on a script which monitors mounts for free space. It does this by reading from a config file (surprise) consisting of mount, threshold, threshold. One would expect a read -r fs t2 t3 to process this without attempting to expand slashes. But I can't seem to get this bit

Read not honouring -r?

2006-09-18 Thread Irwin, Doug
All, I am working on a script which monitors mounts for free space. It does this by reading from a config file (surprise) consisting of mount, threshold, threshold. One would expect a read -r fs t2 t3 to process this without attempting to expand slashes. But I can't seem to get this bit

Re: Read not honouring -r?

2006-09-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Irwin, Doug wrote: All, I am working on a script which monitors mounts for free space. It does this by reading from a config file (surprise) consisting of mount, threshold, threshold. One would expect a read -r fs t2 t3 to process this without attempting to expand slashes. But I can't seem

RE: Read not honouring -r?

2006-09-18 Thread Irwin, Doug
Hi Larry, Sorry about the double post - the mailserver reported that it had (a) stripped the attachments and (b) blocked the post. It obviously lied. If you call it with pdksh instead you should get: / 200 200 200 200 200 200 sr/bin 200 200 usr/lib 200 200 So it sounds pdksh related.

Re: Read not honouring -r?

2006-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:16:31PM +0930, Irwin, Doug wrote: Sorry about the double post - the mailserver reported that it had (a) stripped the attachments and (b) blocked the post. It obviously lied. The sourceweare.org mail server never says that it stripped attachments and doesn't lie about

fontconfig imagemagick

2006-09-18 Thread Wynfield Henman
While building ImageMagick ImageMagick-6.2.9, I found out the the currently distributed cygwin fontconfig version to be too old (version 2.2 or so). and two years of developed have resulted in a (as of now) fontconfig-2.4.1. I found that this also builds well in the cygwin developement

Cygwin as SSH Client Problem

2006-09-18 Thread Panos Katergiathis
Hello all I am using cygwin as ssh client in order to administrate a linux machine. All is ok, except when running (on the remote machine) programs like Midnight Commander, whereas the lines (ncurses?) appear as garbage. When running Midnight Commander locally (via cygwin) such lines appear

RE: Cygwin as SSH Client Problem

2006-09-18 Thread David Christensen
Panos Katergiathis wrote: I am using cygwin as ssh client in order to administrate a linux machine. All is ok, except when running (on the remote machine) programs like Midnight Commander, whereas the lines (ncurses?) appear as garbage. I've run into similar problems with top when ssh'ing