Re: Latest snapshot fixes some reported problems -- please try

2003-03-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made a new snapshot of cygwin available. This is a departure from previous snapshot in that it is built from a branch rather than from the CVS trunk. The branch contains an accumulation of all of the fixes that have shown up on the CVS trunk minus any new 64 bit

Re: user homepath

2003-03-15 Thread Rolf Campbell
Max Bowsher wrote: Ling F. Zhang wrote: another question is really windows 2000 related...I renamed my Administrator account to Admin but all my stuff are still in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator how do I migrate it completely (file and registry and any other necessity) to C:\Documents and

Re: cygwin 1.3.21 breaks ssh terminal interaction

2003-03-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:48:40PM +0100, Loewis Martin von wrote: After upgrading to the latest cygwin, ssh won't ask me for a password anymore in the terminal window that WinCVS 1.3.12.1 opens. I have confirmed that this is the cause of the problem by reverting cygwin

Re: cygwin 1.3.21 breaks ssh terminal interaction

2003-03-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
this with -mno-cygwin and without it, and run it from cmd. The Cygwin app will allocate a new console, the native app won't. Is that the STC you were looking for (or is it not the right problem)? rlc On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:48

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.21-1

2003-03-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 06:02:22PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. - Fix setsid problem where processes did

Re: Weird stuff in /proc/cpuinfo

2003-03-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
Norman Vine wrote: Thanks much better I noticed another quirk though a 'control-C' while % ls /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/ is still printing to the terminal hangs hard WFM -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.21-1

2003-03-12 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. - Fix setsid problem where processes did not correctly detach from a console. (Christopher Faylor) I commonly run a compilation

Re: cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behavior weirdness

2003-03-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
Works for me using rxvt. Richard H. Broberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In non-cygwin unix I'm familiar with being able to do the following in a shell (bash or other): $ nohup long-running-command $ exit and be able to leave it running. However, under

Re: cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behavior weirdness

2003-03-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
Works for me using rxvt. Richard H. Broberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In non-cygwin unix I'm familiar with being able to do the following in a shell (bash or other): $ nohup long-running-command $ exit and be able to leave it running. However, under

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
Well, I maintain an internal mirror for my company, and I use a custom python script to parse our custom setup.ini and fetch the needed packages. But, I never used sources.redhat.com. Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I tried an

Re: Cannot get ^Z to suspend a program

2003-02-10 Thread Rolf Campbell
Samir Gupta wrote: thanks for the reply: I was trying to use CTRL-Z after opening up a windows program (such as emacs -- the windows version or excel) Cygwin cannot control how windows programs handle CTRL+Z. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Cannot get ^Z to suspend a program

2003-02-10 Thread Rolf Campbell
linda w (cyg) wrote: Perhaps silly question, but, why not? Cygwin cannot control how windows programs handle CTRL+Z. I have programs that seem to intercept keyboard keys for use as hotkeys. Couldn't cygwin do something similar? curious... -linda Sure, but those programs hook the key(s) in

RE: Cannot get ^Z to suspend a program

2003-02-10 Thread Rolf Campbell
As I understand it, 'cygwin' does not kill the program, the program kills itself on Ctrl+C. PS: please do not respond to me personally. -Original Message- From: Samir Gupta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 8:39 PM To: Rolf Campbell Subject: RE: Cannot get

Re: Bug Report: isxxx on gcc 3.2

2003-02-10 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gustavo Guerra wrote: Hi std::isgraph(char), std::isalpha(char) and std::alnum(char) are not working correctly on latest cygwin. They return false for á à é í ó ú ç and other characters like that. Regards Gustavo Guerra Looking at newlib/libc/ctype/ctype_.c, it looks like cygwin only handles

Cygwin signal bandwidth

2003-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
While working on a project, I had the need to run a function every millisecond. So, my first attempt was to fork() and then loop sending a signal then delaying 1ms. What I found was that a cygwin process can only receive about 100 signals/sec before it uses up 100% of the processor (on a

Cygwin signal bandwidth

2003-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
While working on a project, I had the need to run a function every millisecond. So, my first attempt was to fork() and then loop sending a signal then delaying 1ms. What I found was that a cygwin process can only recieve about 100 signals/sec before it uses up 100% of the processor (on a

Re: Cygwin signal bandwidth

2003-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
Sorry about the multiple posts, I was trying to use gmane and it delayed delivery of my messages for 90 minutes, so I did the naive thing and sent it two more times. -Rolf Rolf Campbell wrote: While working on a project, I had the need to run a function every millisecond. So, my first

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-6.1.300-1

2003-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
Salvo wrote: I've updated the version of vim to 6.1.300-1. Thanks, but I've tried some mirrors, but still 6.1.2 version is on them. Yup, some mirrors are slow, some are not. The rcn mirrors have it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Shell brace expansion in make works?

2003-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
William A. Gatliff wrote: I have a Makefile with a command like this: mkdir -p /opt/billgatliff/{usr,lib} Works fine under Linux, but not on the latest Cygwin. Under Cygwin, what I actually get is a directory called {usr, instead of usr. Other variations on this brace expansion (in tar

RE: 1.3.19: fork() strange memory leak under W2K

2003-02-08 Thread Rolf Campbell
Works for me on Win2000Pro+SP3/PIII. -Original Message- From: Victor Antonovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 5:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 1.3.19: fork() strange memory leak under W2K Hello! Some time ago, when I was using at home

RE: bash $PS1 (display error)

2003-02-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: bash $PS1 (display error) At 20:37 2003-01-31, Rolf Campbell wrote: My prompt is (from the script below) PS1='$PWD '. All

RE: bash $PS1 (display error)

2003-02-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:01 PM To: Rolf Campbell; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: bash $PS1 (display error) Rolf, That's hardly surprising. I assumed you encountered the problem because you

bash $PS1 (display error)

2003-01-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
if the path is wider than the display. -Rolf Campbell Software Designer Tropic Networks Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Jan 31 22:35:01 2003 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin

RE: bash $PS1 (display error)

2003-01-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
the displayed input lines. Randall Schulz At 19:41 2003-01-31, Rolf Campbell wrote: I've noticed several display problems with bash and prompts. Here's an easy way to recreate one of them: (I've marked the lines to alleviate the wrapping problem) #line 1 PS1='$PWD ' #line2 mkdir

RE: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%

2003-01-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:03 PM To: Elfyn McBratney; cygwin; David Christensen Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE% ... environments

RE: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-25 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Rafael Kitover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: idea for a new project, libntcmd Currently there is a fundamental divide between the cmd.exe shell and a unix shell, even on windows with

RE: df failes to list directory-mounted volumes

2003-01-24 Thread Rolf Campbell
Cygwin df does not show Windows mounts, it shows cygwin mounts only. -Original Message- From: Brian McGroarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: df failes to list directory-mounted volumes Windows NT and XP can mount

sigaction siginfo_t SIGSEGV

2003-01-21 Thread Rolf Campbell
other ways of trapping reads/writes to/from memory regions? -Rolf Campbell Software Designer Tropic Networks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

RE: Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting

2003-01-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 4:06 PM To: Ralf Hauser Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Ralf Hauser wrote: Is there a way to have

Pipelines and return codes

2003-01-12 Thread Rolf Campbell
... But, if gcc fails, sed will still work, thus make will not consider it a failure and will continue. I know there are many ways to avoid this specific problem, already implemented one. Just wanted to let you guys know. -Rolf Campbell Software Designer Tropic Networks -- Unsubscribe info

Return codes and pipelines

2003-01-12 Thread Rolf Campbell
... But, if gcc fails, sed will still work, thus make will not consider it a failure and will continue. I know there are many ways to avoid this specific problem, already implemented one. Just wanted to let you guys know. -Rolf Campbell Software Designer Tropic Networks -- Unsubscribe info

unable to allocate heap

2002-12-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
? The maching doing the build is running 1.3.17. -Rolf Campbell Software Designer Tropic Networks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

RE: /tmp

2002-12-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
You can mount /tmp to be anywhere (including c:/temp if you want). -Original Message- From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 2:12 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: /tmp I'm intrigued, where would you have it point then ? c:\temp ?

RE: Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated

2002-12-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
Your are using textmode mounts. Worx fine with binmode: /home/rcampbell cat a A a a A /home/rcampbell od -tx1 a 000 61 0a 61 0a 004 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: strtof is missing

2002-12-05 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 4:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: strtof is missing On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 20:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Removing the symbol might break

RE: strtof is missing

2002-12-05 Thread Rolf Campbell
Wouldn't it be more helpful to point out that the function is deprecated? -Rolf -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 5:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: strtof is missing On Thu,

RE: problem with chroot causing Cygwin to get confused about the root directory

2002-12-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
When I try chroot . in bash I get: $ chroot . chroot: cannot execute /bin/sh: No such file or directory -Original Message- From: Chris January [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 5:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem with chroot causing Cygwin to

RE: Cygwin official logo ?

2002-11-29 Thread Rolf Campbell
You got my vote. -Original Message- From: Barry Buchbinder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 9:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin official logo ? How about a penguin looking through a window? The penguin is from

RE: Cygwin official logo ?

2002-11-29 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: egor duda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 9:59 AM To: Barry Buchbinder Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin official logo ? BB How about a penguin looking through a window? It'd be clearly misleading. Cygwin is not

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.17-1

2002-11-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
When I download that package from http://mirror.rcn.net, it says it is corrupt: Installation error (ø#9612;®#9612;ksum failure for file://long local path omitted/cygwin-1.3.17-1.tar.bz2), Continue with other packages? And yes, the word checksum seems to be spelled with a ® I tried downloading it 4

RE: cygwin 1.3.17-1

2002-11-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
I've checked, and the file is the size expected in setup.ini (1091203 bytes). Also, the md5sum in setup.ini matches the md5sum of the file on mirrors.rcn.net. But, setup 2.249.2.5 still complains about the file being corrupt and won't install it. Oh, wait, it just worked. I don't know why. I

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.16-1

2002-11-23 Thread Rolf Campbell
This has significantly helped the problems that I was experiencing with make -j4 locking up my system (it no longer does). Now, I've noticed another (possibly independent) problem. I've attached the cygcheck output and the makefile that exhibits the problem. The makefile creates 1000 c-files,

RE: gcc problem?

2002-11-23 Thread Rolf Campbell
This is not a bug in Cygwin or Gcc. Scanf(%s, ...) only reads from the stdin if the input buffer is empty. If you only enter a single word on the first prompt, then it will wait for you to type the 2nd word. If Borland produces different results then maybe they are wrong (or simply different).

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-1

2002-11-23 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Jason Tishler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 7:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-1 Rolf, On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:49:32PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: I have

Recent cygwin (1.3.15) causes make -rsj4 to stop

2002-11-21 Thread Rolf Campbell
Title: Message For months, I've been running "make -rsj4" to perform some build that generally takes about 4 mins. Recently (when I upgraded from 1.3.14 to 1.3.14), this has been killing my machine. After about 2 minutes of the make running, I notice my system becoming very sluggish (like

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-1

2002-11-18 Thread Rolf Campbell
butes of the termios module seem to have disappeared. I really don't know what these are, or what they are used for, but if anyone knows what I can change them to, to make it work, I'd be appreciative. -Rolf Campbell [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-1 From

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-1

2002-11-18 Thread Rolf Campbell
, 2002 3:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-1 Rolf, On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:23:13PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: I tried going back to python-2.2.1-1, and everything started working again. Really? I just tried

RE: dd command problem??

2002-11-18 Thread Rolf Campbell
This is in the User Guide: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html 'a:', or 'a:/' is the name of the root directory of the floppy drive, it in not the name of the device. -Original Message- From: Bizhong Hu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 17,

RE: 1.3.12: gcc bug: variable named end

2002-10-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
Doesn't this mean that gcc is not a true ANSI compiler? Shouldn't that variable be __end or something to conform with ANSI rules? -R -Original Message- From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:rrschulz;cris.com] Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 1:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Dumper.exe doesn't work with libintl2-0.11.5-1. Was: RE: Another problem using GDB

2002-10-18 Thread Rolf Campbell
-0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: When I try to use dumper, I get an msgbox The procedure entry point dcgettext__ could not be located in the dynamic link library cygintl-2.dll. http://cygwin.com/packages/ Search for cygintl-2.dll Install that package. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http

RE: gcc builds executables but they're not executable?

2002-10-18 Thread Rolf Campbell
Your /etc/passwd file is not valid. I fixed mine using mkpasswd -du mywinusername /etc/passwd, I'm not sure what the 'right thing' to do is. -Rolf -Original Message- From: Lane, Frank L [mailto:frank.l.lane;boeing.com] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 7:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: GDB always receives sigsegv with cygwin 1.3.13-2

2002-10-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
always receives sigsegv with cygwin 1.3.13-2 On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 07:37:31PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: I tried it with 2 different executables (both C++, both compiled with GCC3.2). I tried it with both the stock gdb (20010428-3) the one listed as experimental (20020718-1). I

RE: GDB always receives sigsegv with cygwin 1.3.13-2

2002-10-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
Both. -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GDB always receives sigsegv with cygwin 1.3.13-2 On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:20:18AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: I tried

RE: GDB always receives sigsegv with cygwin 1.3.13-2

2002-10-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GDB always receives sigsegv with cygwin 1.3.13-2 On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:14:24PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: It stops at _libkernel32_a_iname with Unable to Read Instruction at 0x77e88207

RE: GDB always receives sigsegv with cygwin 1.3.13-2

2002-10-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:53 PM On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:21:14PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: GDB does not 'crash', so it does not produce a traceback. The only traceback that I can get

RE: File permission problems with new cygwin dll

2002-10-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
] Subject: Re: File permission problems with new cygwin dll On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:23:25PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: That fixed all of my problems! mkpasswd -du mywindowslogin /etc/passwd, and then gcc started producing programs that were executable again. Wow. I'm amazed. I

RE: starting a cygwin app from a Windows Service

2002-10-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I don't know. I think it would be far simpler to have something like: #ifdef __CYGWIN__ # define READTEXT rt #else # define READTEXT r #endif . . . FILE fp = fopen (foo, READTEXT); Doesn't

GDB always receives sigsegv with cygwin 1.3.13-2

2002-10-15 Thread Rolf Campbell
I tried it with 2 different executables (both C++, both compiled with GCC3.2). I tried it with both the stock gdb (20010428-3) the one listed as experimental (20020718-1). I also tried it with both 1.3.13-2 1.3.12-4. The test was, set a breakpoint at the first line of main (done by default

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