Re: bugreport: cygwin 1.3.6 + bash 2.05a-2 + command completion

2001-12-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:13:50AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: I just updated cygwin and bash. For some reason TAB command completion is now broken. The symptoms are: type a command prefix - say ssh-ad hit TAB watch the window disappear. (I'm running bash in a cmd window on Windows XP Pro).

cygwin-1.3.6-2

2001-12-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
There's a new version of cygwin available. It fixes the /cygdrive == / problems that I could duplicate. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Updated: cygwin 1.3.6-3

2001-12-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've released a new version of cygwin with the getsockopt fix from David RothenBerger. This may also fix the ssh -L problems that were reported. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

cygwin-1.3.6-4 released

2001-12-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
I'm back home and took a look at the completion bug. The fix was simple so I released a new version of cygwin. Thanks, Robert, for providing precise instructiosn for duplicating the problem. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:04:22AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's the thing -- Chris has been offering webspace if folks needed it. BUT, you don't even NEED webspace to port a package. Just port it, promise to maintain it, and upload it to

Re: cygwin 1.3.6-3 and xemacs

2001-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:02:21AM +, Peter Keller wrote: There has also been some confusion in the cygwin mailing list with another problem to do with file completion in bash: see http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00175.html . Fixing the shell file completion problem has NOT

Re: cygwin 1.3.6-3 and xemacs

2001-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:49:36AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:02:21AM +, Peter Keller wrote: There has also been some confusion in the cygwin mailing list with another problem to do with file completion in bash: see http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12

Re: Can't find install-sh or install.sh

2001-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:06:02PM -0800, Stephen Rasku wrote: I am trying to modify the make program to add some extra diagnostics. I have untarred make-3.79.1-src.tar.bz2. When I run ./configure, I get the following: loading cache ./config.cache configure: error: can not find

Re: cygwin 1.3.6-3 and xemacs

2001-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:46:43AM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: I've done a little debugging and here's what I've found out. It appears to be a problem/change to the behavior of cygwin_posix_to_win32_path_list(). When this function is called with a path of the form /cygdrive/z/something, it

Re: Can't find install-sh or install.sh

2001-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:16:58PM -0800, Stephen Rasku wrote: It appears that I was out of date but just barely. I downloaded the old version the day before yesterday. Thanks to Chris and Peter. make-3.79.1-5 was uploaded on 2001-11-25. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

xemacs users -- please try latest cygwin snapshot...

2001-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
I think I at least fixed the problem reported so succinctly by David Rothenberger. Since I didn't have an actual test case for the other problem, I could only take a stab at what it could be, but it's possible that problem is fixed, too. My availability is, again, rather limited in the next day

Re: latest snapshot fixes xemacs problems

2001-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:57:39PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: I am unable to repeat the problems you've described. I tried with the cygwin-inst-20011206.tar.bz2 and with a DLL I compiled myself from the latest CVS sources. The only real differences I can see are that I'm using textmode

cygwin-1.3.6-5 released

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've released a new version of cygwin that just might fix the reported xemacs problems. It will be a while before it shows up on mirrors, but I thought I'd do this before I leave for a few hours. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: problems with dlopen

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:56:43PM +0100, Henning Moll wrote: Again, any suggestions? Look at the cygwin source code? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: cygwin-1.3.6-5 released

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:58:38PM -0600, Eduardo R Larranaga wrote: Please send important notices like this to cygwin-announce - sometimes it is hard keeping up with all the discussions in cygwin and an important item like this could be overlooked. No thanks. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues (was Re: [ python-Bugs-489709 ] Building Fails ...)

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:54:32PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Anyway, they had a problem after upgrading to a new cygwinish dll (cygncurses?? I think) w.r.t. load-on-fork. There's no way setup/rebase can be used to avoid that problem a_priori...is there? (As I recall, the person did a 'hand

Re: Speaking of debian cygwin

2001-12-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 02:52:34PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: There's another slashdot article: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/04/13552388 Seems the debian-devel folks aren't too happy about this... I'm surprised that this has actually finally happened. This has been in discussion

Re: mount fails

2001-12-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:28:08AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: I know you already have your answer but for the record, this is the wrong list for this post. This is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] type of post. Cygwin-apps is to be used for porters to discuss porting programs. It's not to post questions and

Re: How could I install cygwin without SETUP.EXE?

2001-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:04:11PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: JOSE (GRI) wrote: Hi How could I install Cygwin without SETUP.EXE? You can't. Actually, you can but if you really can't figure out how then you probably shouldn't be considering it. It should be really easy to find instructions

Re: Re: Re Re: Re: UNIX Sockets - Broadcast address

2001-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:20:09PM +, Kay M wrote: I dont know advanced debugging. Sounds like it is time to learn. cgf I just know how to write programs in C. I dont know how to write wrapper functions etc...or any Windows WINSOCK API programming. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Distribution

2001-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 06:34:10PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: In reality I really only need the cygwin and bash base with devel and editor components (in order to teach C Language on win-tel platforms), the others are simply gravy. Thanks again for your assistance! I'm a profane of legal

Re: cygwin fork() rebase solution (was Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues ...)

2001-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:33:50AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Your results are enough for me Jason - I'm happy to include this in setup in some form. Nice job, Jason. Thanks for following this through. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: GPL Violation - VCDImager

2001-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:26:46AM +0100, Andrew Markebo wrote: Isn't a link to cygwin.com enough?? No. What happens if cygwin.com goes away? Then how do people get their source code? You don't rely on other people to satisfy the GPL obligation of providing source code for binaries that you

Re: Distribution

2001-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:38:57PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: If you are in compliance with the licensing of each of the packages that you will be releasing (including the cygwin DLL) then you should be ok. I can only speak in a semi-official capacity for cygwin. The other packages have

Re: bootstrap/5149: gcc-20011217 reads beyond EOF on cygwin

2001-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Werner Tuchan wrote: Weird. The bytes after EOF are a mixture of NULs and 0xc0. Is 0xc0 of special significance in Windows? Is your version of cygwin the latest? I recall some talk about mmap bugs in cygwin. The cygwin version is pretty recent.

Re: rxvt and command prompt

2001-12-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:57:04AM +, Robert White wrote: All I have a problem using rxvt on the Windows 98 platform. I use rxvt over the command prompt because it gives me a useful scrollback facility. I do a lot of database administration on SYBASE and Microsoft servers, and these come

Re: Setup.exe snapshot

2001-12-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 11:59:33PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: * Dependencies will only trigger installation of a package - they won't force an upgrade of an installed package. (with the caveat that in the future versioned dependencies may force upgrades). Isn't this what has consistently

Re: CVS and CR, LF

2001-12-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 08:46:23PM -0800, David Koski wrote: You are correct about the mount points. I mounted in binary mode, then used cvs in bash and it now works correctly. Setting CYGWIN=binmode did not have the same effect. Nor should it. CYGWIN=binmode does not affect files when the

Re: PPP Daemon cygwin

2001-12-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:58:43AM -, Stephano Mariani wrote: Well put! What is this game? Its called commending a well formulated, prompt response. Nice summation! cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bison-1.30-1

2001-12-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
need. Christopher Faylor Cygwin Engineering Manager (and Developer) Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: chmod

2001-12-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:21:05PM -0500, Facey Brian wrote: I am using cygwin 1.3.6-6 on Windows NT 4 Server SP 6 and cannot do a chmod on a file. The permissions just remain the same. I even did a chmod -v 600 on a file. The output showed that the permissions had changed. However, when I

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:28:22AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: = 3) There's a problem with Cygwin-specific libraries residing in /usr/lib. ... I, of course, updated the specs file to accomodate this. My environment now works flawlessly. When OpenLDAP looks for libncurses, it

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:02:46PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:28:22AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: = 3) There's a problem with Cygwin-specific libraries residing in /usr/lib. ... I, of course, updated the specs file to accomodate this. My environment

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 06:46:25PM -0800, Jon Leichter wrote: From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] However , once gcc's specs are changed linking with the libraries they provide will fail - which is what I was talking about. Hmm... I'm not sure why this would be the case. I have

Re: duplicate regexec/regcomp functions detected

2001-12-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:14:04PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: gcc -o test -lpthread main.o [-lcygwin] This will result in multiple defined symbols for WinMain (expected that main.o contains a main function). You can say don't do this, but what about bigger packages like qt. The qt

Re: rebase addon - Bas and Size listing of dll's without rebasing

2001-12-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:50:07PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: -Original Message- From: Jason Tishler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:08:49PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: On analysing this problem I added an option -l to the rebase tool to list dll's imagebase

Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe other URL functionality

2001-12-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 12:22:10AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Isn't automode read-in-text, write in binary? Yes. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe other URL functionality

2001-12-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:07:16AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Won't that cause problems on textmode mounts? It shouldn't. A program sees \n line endings regardless. In text mode the line endings can be either \r\n (CRLF) or \n (LF). So, writing the program with just \n should be fine for

Re: duplicate regexec/regcomp functions detected

2001-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 07:58:49PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: I could be wrong, but I think this is the first complaint I've heard about libpthread.a. The same complaint could be levelled at libm.a. The simple fact of life is that library inclusion order does matter. Cygwin is not the only

Re: duplicate regexec/regcomp functions detected

2001-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: Again, the above link line does not make sense. It's a faulty example. It should look like this: gcc -o test main.o -lpthread [-lcygwin] Ok. I'm officially tired of this discussion now. If we've been arguing for three mail

Re: duplicate regexec/regcomp functions detected

2001-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:56:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:37:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 08:21:43PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: Ralf Habacker wrote The patch for creating libpthread.a is appended. It contains a script names

Re: duplicate regexec/regcomp functions detected

2002-01-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 03:24:49PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: After thinking about this problem a while I had an idea how to solve such problems instead of using simple links from libcygwin.a to libpthread.a and other. The idea was to use the cygwin1.dll as used currently, but to build only

Re: duplicate regexec/regcomp functions detected

2002-01-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 06:52:07PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 11:59:21AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 03:24:49PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: Then search cygdll.a after those symbols and extract only the relevant d000xxx.o from cygdll.a to a

Re: setup.exe splash screen - mini-competition

2002-01-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:41:11PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Firstly, the only prize is seeing your work used. We need an adaptation, or new creation, for the Cygwin Net Release setup.exe. Gary has been following MS user interface guidelines in his reworking of the windowing code, and we now

Re: setup.exe splash screen - mini-competition

2002-01-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:35:17PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:41:01PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:41:11PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Actually, it's probably not feasible but my dream icon would involve an otter. Linus Torvalds likes

Re: Ftp telnet servers for win32

2002-01-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:46:05PM -0800, Mark Wood-Patrick wrote: Are there any good public domain ftp and telnet servers for win32, I would appreciate any pointers. Trick question? http://www.cygwin.com/ cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: setup.exe splash screen - mini-competition

2002-01-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:57:56PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: === - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was thinking something more cartoony but not as anthropomorphic as the other suggestion. What about http://www.bronzepig.com/gallery/mascots

Re: setup.exe splash screen - mini-competition

2002-01-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:04:28PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think something new would be best, actually. I hate to say it, but we'd probably even be safest if the artist assigned the rights for the drawing to Red Hat

Re: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter

2002-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:34:58AM -0600, Stoddard, Isaac A wrote: Our filters can't be the only ones blocking you guys (and other good folks' news) from reaching us. Would someone at your site be interested/able/willing to change the standard announcement text to avoid mentioning that

[ANNOUNCEMENT] sourceware.cygnus.com alias for sources.redhat.com going away

2002-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
We've kept the old sourceware.cygnus.com host name around for two years now but it is going away very soon. So, if you are using the name sourceware.cygnus.com for ftp, email, rsync, ssh, web, etc., please change over to using sources.redhat.com ASAP. Just to be clear, you'll still continue to

Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2002-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:52:43PM +0100, Michael Rumpf wrote: I further investigated the bash CTRL-C problem and found out that pressing CTRL-C in the bash is nearly the same as CTRL-BREAK. I tried all the CYGWIN=tty/notty/empty combinations but that did not change anything... [snip] The cmd

Re: Question

2002-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:32:02PM +1030, Mike Fahlbusch wrote: At 09:06 AM 1/3/02 -0600, you wrote: Is it practicable to run Xwindows under cygwin on a 386 PC (so I can have two screens). Also could you post the commands you use to get the xterm talking to the solaris box. Although I once

Re: sources.redhat.com alias for sources.redhat.com going away

2002-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:18:57AM -0500, Roth, Kevin P. wrote: What about cygwin.com? Is that a more-or-less permanent alias for sources.redhat.com? I've always wondered why you always referred to the redhat address, when the cygwin one seems to be used more (it appears you sent your

Re: .deb distribution/configuration/maintenance

2002-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:03:10AM -0700, Tim Heath wrote: I have heard that dselect and apt-get have been ported to cygwin. I am very interested in this package distribution and management system. Can anyone please tell me how to setup a .deb package on cygwin that I might deploy on a client

Re: Cygpath -u Produces Junk When Given Empty Argument

2002-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 08:28:27AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: I invoked cygpath -u with an empty string by mistyping a quoted environment variable name. It produced 10 garbage characters: Jonathan Kamens submitted a patch to fix this a couple of weeks ago. It will be in the next cygwin

Re: process memory limit

2002-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:33:36PM -0700, John A. Turner wrote: [member of the Valiantly Trying to Ask Intelligently club...] I've been investigating an apparent limitation on process memory, and I've gone about as far as I can without asking for some advice. Brief Summary - it

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sourceware: ed-0.2-1

2002-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
-announce or any other mailing list, reading the instructions at the above URL is guaranteed to provide you with the info that you need. Christopher Faylor Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation

Re: texconfig and ed

2002-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 03:36:15AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I fetched the sources from GNU and build it because it is needed really often. Builds straight forward OOTB. [snip] It isn't distributed with Cygwin, but I think it should. Me too. It is an oversight that it is *not* distributed.

Re: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter

2002-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:03:19AM -0800, Joshua Franklin wrote: Well, I guess I'll post this to the cygwin list then. I thought the whole point of a mailing list was to have a place where people could get a problem solved and others can search for the same problem later. I knew of a way around

Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2002-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:08:51PM -0500, Gregory W. Bond wrote: I agree that this behavior should be considered a bug since the bash cygwin behavior differs from bash behavior on other unix platforms. This has caused headaches for our project too. Hmm. How does bash on other unix platforms

Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2002-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:30:33PM -0500, Gregory W. Bond wrote: (I just returned from vacation so excuse me for responding to an old message but I really feel compelled to respond to this one...) Why did you Cc me when I specifically set the Reply-To to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and am obviously

Re: Heimdal 0.4e and cygwin

2002-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:32:31PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: A dialog comes up saying: The procedure entry point ___progname could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll. This happens if the binary is in /usr/local/bin. Same binary in /usr/bin or /usr/heimdal/bin works just

Re: Tricky cygwin license question

2002-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:43:14PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: Hi, I have a few questions about Cygwin licensing, and the last one I think is kind of tricky. I run a software distribution system in Lucent that automatically distributes hundreds of tools, mostly open source tools but also some

Re: Did I hear you folks might be interested in POSIX threads?

2002-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:58:40AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: From: Mark Paulus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 4:30 AM Subject: Re: Did I hear you folks might be interested in POSIX threads? Where do we stand with pthreads support? I ran into this

Re: CGF: please review my logic Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2002-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:00:33AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] It succeeds! (I'm running a slightly modified cygwin here, which as the patch at the end of this email shows (in combination with the source :}) should always

Re: CGF: please review my logic Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2002-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:15:11AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are looking for the stub code, it's in spawn_guts, around line 1078 in the current sources. Line 1078 is the EOF for spawn.cc (current CVS

Re: uninstall target for cygwin/Makefile.in

2002-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:24:44AM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: on working with temporay cygwin builds and installations I missed an uninstall option of a local build and installed cygwin.dll. The appended patch added this functionality to cygwin/Makefile. If someone find this useful to

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:45:53AM +, David Starks-Browning wrote: On Tuesday 8 Jan 02, Gerrit P. Haase writes: David, 2002-01-08 12:22:14, du schriebst: It probably is worth adding something to the FAQ about this. I think `rxvt' should be the default shell for Cygwin after a

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:29:09PM +0530, Kiran Prakash wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:39:39 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: cygwin's pty emulation does not work with every windows application. I don't think we should default to using rxvt for this reason. cygwin's pty emulation doesnt even

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:52:17AM -0500, John Peacock wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: The problem is that we'll be switching the I need a scrollbar!s with the Where is the output from some random windows command?. cygwin's pty emulation does not work with every windows application. I don't

Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:00:16PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: FWIW this patch (Chris where should I put the in_stub declaration) There is already an indicator that an execed process is running -- hExeced, so I don't think you need the 'in_stub' thing. However, it seems to me that this

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
No personal cygwin email, please. On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:45:00PM +0530, Kiran Prakash wrote: cygwin's pty emulation doesnt even work with some cygwin apps (for example talk, the message telling the user about the talk is swallowed) Uh. Yeah. Right. Swallowed. Sure. cgf Seriously,

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:29:14PM -0500, Soren Andersen wrote: This lack of sponsorship maybe is also part of the noted tendency for minGW priciple persons to manifest some, uhh, let's say testiness. I've been reading the mingw mailing lists for a while and I really don't see anything like

Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:43:41AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: I have to think about the race issues here. It seems like you can't get away without some kind of additional communication between the parent and the child. True. The problem is that we can't communicate with non-cygwin children.

Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:57:04AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, I think the easiest fix for the current problem is just to do a 'signal (SIGINT, SIG_IGN)' prior to calling CreateProcess, restoring the previous signal

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:55:12PM -0500, Soren Andersen wrote: On 8 Jan 2002 at 19:14, Christopher Faylor wrote: They don't seem to have anyone like me, for instance. :-) I don't know what to make of that, precisely. It doesn't seem to me that you manifest particularly obnoxious behavior. I

Re: Cross compiler

2002-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:07:54AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From: Kei OHSHIRO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Roland I want to compile some of my programs on UNIX with the target set to cygwin. Can anybody tell me if I need any special packages for this? We

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:50:46AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: Hi Cygwin folks, having seen some references to pdksh on the list today I think I must have a coming out now. I've been working with David Korn and Glenn Fowler some weeks ago to get the real ksh93 and all the other ATT stuff

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:25:53AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: Sorry. That's not how it works. If you have patches to provide, check out the cygwin web page. Click on the Contributing link. I know about that. Ok. Then that's the way to go. Just follow the procedures in

Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2002-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:16:04PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm specifically trying not to do the TRUE thing, though, since AFAICT it isn't always appropriate. If you want to SIG_IGN the signal, then it is: When a CTRL+C

Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2002-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
There is a snapshot up there now which seems to work ok. Again, many thanks to Robert Collins for tracking this down. Although I said I wasn't overly interested in tracking this down myself, I was interested in seeing the lessening in email traffic that I hope this fix engenders. I do expect

Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:59:54PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: I was going back over this thread before checking in a change to see if I'd missed something. I just realized that I didn't address this concern. Don't know if it matters but... The difference between the SIG_IGN way and the

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:45:51PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is it OK to send patches to 1.3.3-2 or should I move them to 1.3.6 first? I would suggest to move them to the latest from CVS. If you're always working against the latest from CVS you don't get hit too much by changes from other

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:18:04AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: If you've actually looked at the UWIN sources, this is not enough. IANAL either, but I believe that this means you've been tainted. That means that we can't use your patches. Sorry. I've never had the chance to look at

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:37:41PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:13:01AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: Glenn found some test cases where mmap() failed and has also written a nice test program. I will get this to you later. He also states that the value

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:40:19PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:18:04AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: If you've actually looked at the UWIN sources, this is not enough. IANAL either, but I believe that this means you've been tainted. That means that we

Re: FW: ast on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:12:43AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: Chris, I know you don't like private mail. No, I don't. I am redirecting this to the project mailing list. But, could this statement from Glenn tame you a bit... If anyone looked at sources which have any restrictive license

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:03:43AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: I'm not sure but I don't think it matters if the sources are proprietary. Maybe this is getting incredibly picky but if you adapted algorithms from other non-GPL compliant programs then that is probably an issue, too. I

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:03:44AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: FWIW, I'm checking on this internally now. Please do so. I will. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:04:47AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: It's not a major change. SUSv2 doesn't say that you have to use /bin/sh for a shell. It even says that $SHELL can name the user's favorite shell. Every UNIX system that I've ever seen uses /bin/sh. The SUSv2 says that system

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:31:49PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:03:43AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: I'm not sure but I don't think it matters if the sources are proprietary. Maybe this is getting incredibly picky but if you adapted algorithms from other non

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:52:01PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From: Jon Leichter [EMAIL PROTECTED] AC_CHECK_TOOL checks for tools with a ${host} prefix. AC_CHECK_PROG does not. In my opinion, this serves as another example that one cannot count on a configure

Re: gcc version 2.95.3-5: assert() does not work as expected

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:17:52PM +0100, Torrisi Fabio wrote: Dear maintainers, Please consider the following bug: Problem: assert does not work as written in the manual symptom: If I register a signal handler for SIGABRT it does not get called by assert Yes, that was definitely a problem.

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:53:07AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: And, I'm sorry but it really looks to me like you'd need a release from ATT indicating that any patches you provided to us are unemcumbered by this license. I don't see how you can sign away the rights to any

Re: 1.3.6 ssh Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket

2002-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:33:04PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: I thought me toos are not welcomed on this list :P That's what I thought, too! HTH, cgf Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:02:24AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:50:53AM -0800, Daryl

[OT] Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about cvs co -r bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:24:49PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: Why do I keep thinking about hen's teeth? Perhaps because after nearly 100 million years, Kollar, E. J. and Fisher were able in 1980 to grw some? see http://zygote.swarthmore.edu/prox1.html for description and even of

Re: Off Topic clutching at straws - Interix

2002-01-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:45:45PM +, Robert White wrote: Sorry as this is way off topic, but I know the product Interix has been mentioned in passing on this list in the past. Does anyone know how to go about debugging the message Cannot connect to Interix subsystem whenever I try to run

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2002-01-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
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Re: Windows XP and cygwin's heap

2002-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:25:22PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: I doubt he has a older version of the DLL. But maybe the is some program that installed an older version without him ever knowing it was used, I'll tell him to search his hard-disk for cygwin1.dll's Thats actually quite

Re: Windows XP and cygwin's heap

2002-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 05:52:15AM -0500, Laurence F. Wood wrote: What approach is being used in 1.3.7 or what module is responsible for this in the cygwin1.dll? We use DLLs quite a bit and have experimented with a variety of mechanisms to detect similar forms of DLL conflict. A small amount of

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