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2010-09-15 Thread Sudhir S Kudva
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Re: Latest Cygwin X hangs when mouse is used to highlight text

2010-09-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 14/09/2010 20:52, Brian Kelly wrote: Thanks Jon for the quick reply. I attached a new log file generated with an attempt to highlight - followed by the hang. Can you please attach an X server log generated with the additional server option '-logverbose 3' Can you be more detailed about

Re: Latest Cygwin X hangs when mouse is used to highlight text

2010-09-15 Thread Brian Kelly
See attached log run with XWin -logverbose 3 Only the X System hangs - not the whole PC. Other apps continue to work fine. However, **while** the X system is hung, mintty loses it's cut-and-paste capabilities. Once Windows or I with /bin/kill, stop the X system, mintty can once again

Re: Latest Cygwin X hangs when mouse is used to highlight text

2010-09-15 Thread Brian Kelly
Also, notepad can't paste while the X system is in the hung condition. Once it's killed, paste in notepad returns. I can send you the Dr. Watson error reports generated by Windows when it kills the Non-Responsive app - if you would find them at all helpful. Brian -Original Message-

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file.cc

2010-09-15 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-09-15 11:26:10 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file.cc Log message: * fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_base::fstat_by_handle): Fetch number of links and

Re: tinyfugue with python won't compile under cygwin

2010-09-15 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Gwen Morse wrote: About a year ago I was able to get assistance compiling my MUD client Tinyfuge, (snip) gcc -g -O2 -DTFPYTHON  -I/usr/include/python2.6 -DDATADIR=/home/jmorse/share   - c -o command.o command.c (snip) In file included from

Re: tcsh filename substitution bug

2010-09-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 14 20:54, Keith Thompson wrote: % cygcheck -c cygwin tcsh Cygwin Package Information Package Version Status cygwin 1.7.5-1 OK tcsh 6.17.00.1-1 OK I've noticed that certain file matching patterns in tcsh under Cygwin are

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-09-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 14 22:09, John Carey wrote: On Sep 14 09:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I applied the below patch to Cygwin CVS and it appears to work nicely. The only potential race I can think of is, if another thread of the same Cygwin process calls SetCurrentDirectory. I'm inclined to let this

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-09-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 14 22:11, John Carey wrote: On Sep 14 12:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote: True. Implementing a full replacement for SetCurrentDirectory as in your PoC is still an option. However, I can't do that anymore since I'm tainted by reading your code. If you would contemplate to sign a

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Al
Hello, I have another interesting case where .exe magic doesn't work as transparently as one would expect. I have a file python2.6.exe. A script tries to find it with ls python2.?. It is not found. Here the script needs a modification to work with Cygwin, but we can't really say that there is a

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 15 13:40, Al wrote: Hello, I have another interesting case where .exe magic doesn't work as transparently as one would expect. I have a file python2.6.exe. A script tries to find it with ls python2.?. It is not found. Here the script needs a modification to work with Cygwin, but

lyx packaging error?

2010-09-15 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
http://cygwin.com/packages/lyx/lyx-1.6.6-1 The postinstall script is here. etc/postinstall/lyx.sh/lyx.sh Shouldn't it be here? etc/postinstall/lyx.sh - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports:

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Al
True.  In theory we would have to remove .exe and .lnk suffixes from directory listings as well, but that was never the case in Cygwin. That's the way it has always been... isn't a strong argument in development. I guess there are some other reasons to do it this way. If not one should

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 15 15:38, Al wrote: True.  In theory we would have to remove .exe and .lnk suffixes from directory listings as well, but that was never the case in Cygwin. That's the way it has always been... isn't a strong argument in development. It wasn't an argument, it was just a

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 15 15:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 15 15:38, Al wrote: True.  In theory we would have to remove .exe and .lnk suffixes from directory listings as well, but that was never the case in Cygwin. That's the way it has always been... isn't a strong argument in

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Al
I'd love to drop the .exe suffix from readdir(), I'm just not sure what unwelcome side-effects we create. Yes, that's always the point. All programs would break, that are only build against the .exe suffix. Like mine after patching it. :-) Don't know if Cygwin has a testing state to fix those

Some manpages are missing

2010-09-15 Thread DEWI - N. Zacharias
Hi, it seems to me that some manpages are missing: man printf yields the manpage for man 1 printf man 3 printf yields No entry for printf in section 3 of the manual Info printf yields info for Gun utils printf The same for read. But man putc yields the right man page I don't find a system

Re: Some manpages are missing

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/15/2010 08:20 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: Hi, it seems to me that some manpages are missing: Yep. No one has volunteered to write them yet. Do someone know what's going on ?? Would you like to volunteer? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt

Re: AW: [bulk] - Re: Some manpages are missing

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE - redirecting to the list On 09/15/2010 08:29 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: Hi Eric, it seems to me that some manpages are missing: Yep. No one has volunteered to write them yet. That is strange , because they a available under linux. So why should

Re: Some manpages are missing

2010-09-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 15 08:22, Eric Blake wrote: On 09/15/2010 08:20 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: Hi, it seems to me that some manpages are missing: Yep. No one has volunteered to write them yet. There are info pages available for the functions provided by newlib: $ info printf Corinna --

Re: ssh from linux to cygwin + CUI + Ctrl-C

2010-09-15 Thread Chan Kar Heng
Hi there. I use cygwin to ssh into numerous systems very often, such as AIX, HP UX, Solaris, DEC Alpha. I've always managed to send ctrl-c (by pressing ctrl-]) to the app running on that platform. There was only 1 rare case when it didn't. Not sure what you mean by native apps... If you

1.7.7-1: tcsh occasionally hanging

2010-09-15 Thread Geo Pertea
Since upgrading to cygwin 1.7 recently I have been experiencing sporadic failures of cygwin tcsh initialization: when opening new shell terminals (I start Cygwin using mintty.exe -e /bin/tcsh) they sometimes hang indefinitely. I have the same cygwin setup installed on two computers (both

Re: ssh from linux to cygwin + CUI + Ctrl-C

2010-09-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:31:16PM +0800, Chan Kar Heng wrote: Ilia K. wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Chan Kar Heng wrote: I've had the same problem in the past. Posted a temporary solution here: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00403.html This is an interesting hack, but

Re: ssh from linux to cygwin + CUI + Ctrl-C

2010-09-15 Thread Chan Kar Heng
Hi there. Sorry. I misread your mail. For those native apps, perhaps you can try sending SIGINT to that CUI app using kill? Else, find a Windows app that is capable of pushing a Ctrl-C into the keyboard buffer. If you know some programming, it's not difficult to write if you know the correct

Re: ssh from linux to cygwin + CUI + Ctrl-C

2010-09-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:47:34PM +0800, Chan Kar Heng wrote: Chan Kar Heng wrote: I use cygwin to ssh into numerous systems very often, such as AIX, HP UX, Solaris, DEC Alpha. I've always managed to send ctrl-c (by pressing ctrl-]) to the app running on that platform. There was only 1 rare

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Al
For instance, this one:  Either we always remove the .exe suffix from a file, or we have to check for each file with a .exe suffix, whether it's executable or not. Probably without checking it. No sane program would use the .exe suffix as extension of a mere textfile. What would be the ideal

1.7.7 ln .exe magic

2010-09-15 Thread Rolf Campbell
test case--- From bash, in an empty directory: $ ln /bin/ls t $ ls t.exe Why does the resulting hard link have a '.exe' suffix on it? I thought that cygwin .exe magic was only appending when listing a file? -- Problem reports:

Re: 1.7.7 ln .exe magic

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/15/2010 11:03 AM, Rolf Campbell wrote: test case--- From bash, in an empty directory: $ ln /bin/ls t $ ls t.exe Why does the resulting hard link have a '.exe' suffix on it? I thought that cygwin .exe magic was only appending when listing a file? If

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/15/2010 12:23 PM, Al wrote: For instance, this one: Either we always remove the .exe suffix from a file, or we have to check for each file with a .exe suffix, whether it's executable or not. Probably without checking it. No sane program would use the .exe suffix as extension of a mere

Re: 1.7.7-1: tcsh occasionally hanging

2010-09-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 15 11:32, Geo Pertea wrote: Since upgrading to cygwin 1.7 recently I have been experiencing sporadic failures of cygwin tcsh initialization: when opening new shell terminals (I start Cygwin using mintty.exe -e /bin/tcsh) they sometimes hang indefinitely. [...] if ( -r

Behaviours of Terminal Versus Script when using

2010-09-15 Thread delbydev
Hello Have hunted all over for this one but it seems no one else has reported the issue - maybe because they don't use the feature or there is something awry with my installation I write scripts that dart in and out of databases I bind my Oracle connection string into a number of variables in

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Al! I have another interesting case where .exe magic doesn't work as transparently as one would expect. I have a file python2.6.exe. A script tries to find it with ls python2.?. It is not found. I'm fairly certain, that the script is bugged in this specific case. It should be

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Al
1.) When a file is made executable .exe is appended, but only visible from Windows API. How would this work with non-Cygwin programs?  They wouldn't be handled under (1). Depends on how you install or mount them. But yes, as a prerequest there would be two types of filessystem handling.

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Al
I'm fairly certain, that the script is bugged in this specific case. It should be looking for python2.* instead. Minor version could have any length... potentially. (And yes, I know, there wouldn't be .10 for now) Definitly not. It would also find python2.6-config which is not wanted. It

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Al! For instance, this one:  Either we always remove the .exe suffix from a file, or we have to check for each file with a .exe suffix, whether it's executable or not. Probably without checking it. No sane program would use the .exe suffix as extension of a mere textfile. What

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Al! I'm fairly certain, that the script is bugged in this specific case. It should be looking for python2.* instead. Minor version could have any length... potentially. (And yes, I know, there wouldn't be .10 for now) Definitly not. It would also find python2.6-config which is

Re: 1.7.7 ln .exe magic

2010-09-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Rolf Campbell! test case--- From bash, in an empty directory: $ ln /bin/ls t $ ls t.exe Why does the resulting hard link have a '.exe' suffix on it? I thought that cygwin .exe magic was only appending when listing a file? It's quite

Re: .exe magic reloaded 2

2010-09-15 Thread Al
You didn't read my reply to the end, but I accept your explanation. Still, that specific point of code is suspicious for my taste of fool-proof'ness. Sure you could reflect about the length of minor versions here. But does that address the original topic? :-) After python 2.7 there is 3.x

Re: Behaviours of Terminal Versus Script when using

2010-09-15 Thread Heath Kehoe
On 9/15/2010 12:18 PM, delbydev wrote: Hello Have hunted all over for this one but it seems no one else has reported the issue - maybe because they don't use the feature or there is something awry with my installation I write scripts that dart in and out of databases I bind my Oracle

FW: Behaviours of Terminal Versus Script when using

2010-09-15 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
delbydev sent the following at Wednesday, September 15, 2010 1:18 PM Hello Have hunted all over for this one but it seems no one else has reported the issue - maybe because they don't use the feature or there is something awry with my installation I write scripts that dart in and out of

Security Warning: Re: Behaviours of Terminal Versus Script when using

2010-09-15 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 15.09.2010 19:18, schrieb delbydev: Hello Have hunted all over for this one but it seems no one else has reported the issue - maybe because they don't use the feature or there is something awry with my installation I write scripts that dart in and out of databases I bind my Oracle

Re: Some manpages are missing

2010-09-15 Thread Bengt Larsson
DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: Hi, it seems to me that some manpages are missing: man printf yields the manpage for man 1 printf Actually they are available but there seems to be something wrong with the packaging. There is a combined entry for `sprintf', `fprintf', `printf', `snprintf',

Re: Some manpages are missing

2010-09-15 Thread Bengt Larsson
I wrote: Actually they are available but there seems to be something wrong with the packaging. There is a combined entry for `sprintf', `fprintf', `printf', `snprintf', `asprintf', `asnprintf', but there is only a filename for sprintf. You can see it with man sprintf. Further enlightenment comes

Re: Some manpages are missing

2010-09-15 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 15.09.2010 16:41, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Sep 15 08:22, Eric Blake wrote: On 09/15/2010 08:20 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: Hi, it seems to me that some manpages are missing: Yep. No one has volunteered to write them yet. There are info pages available for the functions provided

Compiling C++ code using libpq-fe.h (PostgreSQL library) in Cygwin

2010-09-15 Thread Julia Jacobson
Hello everybody out there using Cygwin, When trying to compile C++ code using PostgreSQL's libpq-fe.h by the command g++ -I/usr/include -L/lib -lpq my_program.cpp, I get error messages like undefined reference to '_PQconnectdb'. Could anyone help me to find a way to solve this problem. Thanks

Re: Compiling C++ code using libpq-fe.h (PostgreSQL library) in Cygwin

2010-09-15 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2010-09-15 21:50Z, Julia Jacobson wrote: When trying to compile C++ code using PostgreSQL's libpq-fe.h by the command g++ -I/usr/include -L/lib -lpq my_program.cpp, I get error messages like undefined reference to '_PQconnectdb'. Assuming that '-lpq' provides the unresolved symbol,

awk gsub problem

2010-09-15 Thread Lee
I don't know if this is just a problem with the cygwin version of awk, me misunderstanding something or what, but it looks like gsub isn't working correctly in awk: $ sh /tmp/test.awk s= ::0:: should = ::S0:: $ cat /tmp/test.awk awk ' BEGIN { s=Serial0 gsub([a-z],,s) printf(s= ::%s::

Re: Reinstalled gcc, make, automake: now BASH stackdumps LR

2010-09-15 Thread SJ Wright
Dave Korn wrote: On 14/09/2010 19:47, SJ Wright wrote: Might there be something else a little off? The text from the latest stackdump: Stack trace: Frame Function Args The rest is blank. Should I be concerned, or is this something that will work itself out? This

rpcbind port

2010-09-15 Thread Matt W. Benjamin
Hi Cygwin folk/Charles Wilson, Thanks very much for the work on libtirpc. I've found from reading that there is a port of rpcbind to Cygwin, which compiles, but hasn't been packaged. Rather than re-port the pacakge, I wondered if the port was available as is. I would be happy to assist

Re: Reinstalled gcc, make, automake: now BASH stackdumps LR

2010-09-15 Thread SJ Wright
Dave, all: I'm just wondering why bash, or any shell, in Cygwin, or any environment where it was able to run, would bother creating stack-dump files with headers but no data. I haven't got the knowledge to parse and peruse the cygcheck.out file I created, but I did take a close look at my

Re: Problem with Network Drives

2010-09-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/15/2010 7:43 PM, Xristos Karvouneas wrote: Hi All, I am having a problem with a network share under Windows XP. I can run mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l -d /etc/group fine, but if I do an ls -l on the network share I get the following: -rw-r--r-- 1 104