Re: GNU Make 4.0.1 ??? infinite loop on startup

2013-11-02 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2013-10-27 14:51, Christopher Faylor wrote: I downloaded the source code for the above and ran into the problem pretty quickly. make was allocating an ever-increasing amount of memory due to a problem with the processing of eight bit characters with the high-bit set. That caused the

Re: GNU Make 4.0.1 ??? infinite loop on startup

2013-11-02 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2013-11-02 12:36, Rolf Campbell wrote: On 2013-10-27 14:51, Christopher Faylor wrote: I downloaded the source code for the above and ran into the problem pretty quickly. make was allocating an ever-increasing amount of memory due to a problem with the processing of eight bit characters

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: make-4.0-1 (x86 and x86_64)

2013-10-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2013-10-11 13:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made a new version of make available for installation. This is a refresh against the newly released make-4.0. The appropriate contents of the NEWS file for this snapshot are below. [...] * New command line option: --output-sync (-O) enables

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: make-4.0-1 (x86 and x86_64)

2013-10-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2013-10-14 09:35, Andrey Repin wrote: I've tried this using both the 32-bit version and 64-bit version of cygwin 1.7.25 with the same results. Is this happens under mintty or native windows console? Both. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] updated: unison2.40, unison2.45

2013-08-21 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2012-12-10 11:49, Andrew Schulman wrote: The Unison packages for Cygwin have been updated: unison2.40, unison2.45 - new upstream minor updates. Is there any chance you could release a 64-bit build of unison? I've been using the 64-bit build of cygwin for a couple weeks now, and the only

Re: SVN and executable permissions

2012-12-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2012-12-05 20:24, Burton Samograd wrote: bartels bart...@mailme.ath.cx writes: Is there way to specify to svn on the command line or though a config file that these types of files should automatically have executable permissions? svn propset svn:executable *your file Any idea why this

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-28 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2012-06-27 14:17, David Rothenberger wrote: Anyway, I'll have a new release available shortly built against the latest SQLite package, so others that want to use TortoiseSVN can try it. I just upgraded to the -5 package, and turned the TSVN icon caching back on, and it very quickly failed

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2012-06-19 05:29, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Rolf Campbell wrote: $ svn up Updating '.': svn: E200030: disk I/O error, executing statement 'RELEASE s6' svn: E200030: sqlite: unable to open database file svn: E200030: sqlite: unable to open database file $ svn cleanup svn: E200030: disk I/O

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-15 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2012-06-15 06:37, Warren Young wrote: On 6/14/2012 4:00 PM, Garrison, Jim (ETW) wrote: Why would you think that a disk I/O error was either anti-virus or Cygwin related and not... a disk I/O error? Have you looked in your event logs for errors? It is indeed AV related -- a race between

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-15 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2012-06-15 06:37, Warren Young wrote: It is indeed AV related -- a race between SQLite and AV That's one possibility, but check this out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11007024/ tl;dr: someone made the problem go away by rolling my recent 3.7.12 release back to the prior 3.7.3

cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
Recently, I've noticed cygwin svn getting a LOT of errors during operations. I think this started when upgrading from 1.7.14 to 1.7.15, but I can't say for sure. The nature of these errors are as follows: $ svn up Updating '.': svn: E200030: disk I/O error, executing statement 'RELEASE s6'

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2012-06-14 15:55, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 03:48:05PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: $ svn cleanup svn: E200030: disk I/O error, executing statement 'RELEASE s79' Sometimes the errors happen, sometimes not. It seems to be about 50% of the time svn has this type

Re: v1.7.10 -- forked process died unexpectedly

2012-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2012-02-08 11:41, marco atzeri wrote: On 2/8/2012 5:30 PM, Rolf Campbell wrote: I get these sporadic failures in my build system after upgrading to 1.7.10. I can't reproduce these consistently, seems to happen randomly every few dozen builds. mkdir -p output/device/1110/source/ 0

v1.7.10 -- forked process died unexpectedly

2012-02-08 Thread Rolf Campbell
I get these sporadic failures in my build system after upgrading to 1.7.10. I can't reproduce these consistently, seems to happen randomly every few dozen builds. mkdir -p output/device/1110/source/ 0 [main] make 7900 fork: child -1 - forked process died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code

Re: automated cygwin install

2011-09-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2011-09-09 09:52, Andrew Schulman wrote: In a new installation, we have to write an (ugh) MSDOS CMD script, since bash isn't available. One way around that would be to install just the base, then run a bash script, but I decided to bite the bullet and write a CMD script that would do it

Can't install from ports server (Was: Re: Debug info broken for gcc-4.5.0 (experimental))

2011-07-06 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2011-07-06 04:29, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: GCC 4.5.3 and GDB 7.2 are available in Ports in the meantime. Yaakov I don't know who maintains the ports server, but when I try to use the instructions on http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/ , and use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cygwin-ports

Re: Strange cygpath behavior.

2011-06-24 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2011-06-24 11:44, Fahlgren, Eric wrote: Marco atzeri wrote: you are right, but it is not very useful to translate a windows path in a windows path ... On the contrary, it is exceedingly useful to be able to transform long names (with spaces) into short-form names without spaces. $

Re: fdisk on cygwin

2011-06-17 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2011-06-17 10:27, PRASANTH RAJAGOPAL wrote: Here is my mount info: *J* is the SD card in SD slot and *K* is the USB stick. PRajagop@PRAJAGOP-L02 /proc $ cat mounts D:/CYgWin/bin /usr/bin ntfs binary,auto 1 1 D:/CYgWin/lib /usr/lib ntfs binary,auto 1 1 D:/CYgWin / ntfs binary,auto 1 1 C:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xz/liblzma-devel/liblzma1}-4.999.9beta-11

2010-12-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-04-17 11:57, Charles Wilson wrote: On 4/17/2010 10:42 AM, Rolf Campbell wrote: This release will not compress a file with multiple hard links, even when forced. I'm running an NTFS drive, and my source file has 2 hard-links to it. Running xz -9evf source.txt prints: xz: source.txt

Re: cygcheck bug: symlinks with unix paths are wrongly resolved

2010-10-20 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-10-19 19:17, Arseny Slobodyuk wrote: [snip...] a...@dstar ~ $ ln -s `which cmd.exe` cmd.exe a...@dstar ~ $ cygcheck ./cmd.exe - D:\OTHERBIN\cygwin\cygdrive\d\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe cygcheck: could not find './cmd.exe' cygcheck is not a cygwin application, it's a native windows

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: Fwd: Windows File permissions are not being inherited - Cygwin 1.7 - Windows 7

2010-09-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-09-01 04:00, Harie Ram wrote: The issue that I am currently facing is : the modify permissions given to the INSTALLDIR C:\Cygwin using the msi lock permission table is being inherited through all the subfolders and files. Any new manually created folders and files anywhere within

Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories

2010-08-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-08-26 07:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have another one: $ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo $F$(cygpath -w $F) ; done /dev/sda\\.\PhysicalDrive0 /dev/sda1 \\.\STORAGE#Volume#{781f8bd6-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}#0010#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}

Re: Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

2010-08-23 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-08-23 09:57, Fergus wrote: Somehow diff identifies differences in two identical binary files. In the following example two duplicate files are located (i) in my home directory (/m/home/user) and (ii) at the root of a different drive (D:). [snip] ~ diff -s INTERVAL.pdf /d/INTERVAL.pdf

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

2010-08-20 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-08-20 07:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Thanks for the new strace. After some more experimenting I was finally able to reproduce the issue. The other problem you reported, about df(*), lead me onto the right track. I've checked my changes in to CVS. For testing I provided another test

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

2010-08-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-08-19 12:28, Eric Blake wrote: On 08/19/2010 08:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hmm, digging through Cygwin's readdir code, I have a vague idea. Eric, does find honor the struct dirent d_type flag? I'm wondering if d_type is erroneously set to DT_REG for some reason. If so, we could

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

2010-08-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-08-19 18:37, Andrey Repin wrote: If ATI is the junction (reparse point, or however you call it) to a top-level directory on another partition, this behavior could be explained by exiting through the window: process enter the partition from the doors (junction), dig it, then trying to

cygwin 1.7.6: df shows wrong (different?) drive information

2010-08-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
When I run df -h dir where dir is part of a native-NTFS-mounted-drive, then df prints details about the root drive (not the mounted drive). This acts differently if the drive is *also* mounted as a separate top-level drive. In that case, if you specify the mount point itself, it prints

Re: Should mintty's copy-on-select option be on by default?

2010-07-29 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-07-29 08:02, Andy Koppe wrote: On 29 July 2010 08:24, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: Thank you for all the answers to my original request below. This was very instructive. In conclusion: - to get middle-mouse paste of the selection with Mintty, Options/Mouse/copy on select had to be

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1

2010-05-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-05-10 06:22, Ken Brown wrote: New releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages are now available, 23.2-1, leaving 23.1-10 as previous. I've been using the native W32 port of emacs for years. I tried using the native cygwin build of it and ran into a problem: I can't seem to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1

2010-05-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-05-13 16:45, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/13/2010 4:31 PM, Rolf Campbell wrote: On 2010-05-10 06:22, Ken Brown wrote: New releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages are now available, 23.2-1, leaving 23.1-10 as previous. I've been using the native W32 port of emacs for years. I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1

2010-05-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-05-13 17:13, Rolf Campbell wrote: On 2010-05-13 16:45, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/13/2010 4:31 PM, Rolf Campbell wrote: On 2010-05-10 06:22, Ken Brown wrote: New releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages are now available, 23.2-1, leaving 23.1-10 as previous. I've been using

Re: cygwin with microsoft remote desktop

2010-05-03 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-05-02 06:57, Eric Friedman wrote: Hi all, I am using windows remote desktop to access cygwin on a remote machine with a disk on my local computer remote mounted, via remote desktop. On the remote machine this disk shows up under my computer but is not assigned a drive letter. How do I

Re: ImageMagick shared libraries missing?

2010-04-22 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-04-22 01:37, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin)reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com writes: On 4/21/2010 11:17 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: 'cygcheck montage' and 'cygcheck convert' should tell you the missing DLLs. Then usehttp://cygwin.com/packages/ or 'cygcheck -p

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xz/liblzma-devel/liblzma1}-4.999.9beta-11

2010-04-17 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-04-11 11:54, Charles Wilson wrote: This is routine update to a more recent git snapshot. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-3 ]] CHANGES (since 4.999.9beta-10) o Update to 2010-Apr-01 git snapshot Wed Mar 31 16:47:25 2010 +0300

1.7.3: remote bash process left after ssh connection dropped

2010-04-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
I run an ssh session between two machines which auto-reconnects when the connection is dropped (it's really just a bash while look that calls ssh). My problem is that after a while, I get an error about being unable to create a tty on the remote system (I'm sorry, but I don't have the exact

Re: Ctrl-D often does not successfully exit rxvt and close it down

2010-04-02 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-03-31 04:50, Fergus wrote: Ctrl-D fails to close down an rxvt terminal window and I am left with the terminal window showing $ exit and not shutting down. The incidence of failures is today about 80%. Anybody else? 1 Now indistinguishably close to 100% but not actually

1.7.1: terminal not passing Ctrl-C to sub-sub cygwin processes

2010-01-15 Thread Rolf Campbell
From within cygwin python, if I call os.system running a cygwin sub-process, and I hit Ctrl-C while that cygwin sub-process is running, the Ctrl-C does nothing (absolutely nothing -- nothing is printed, nothing terminates, no sound is made -- it's as if I didn't press the key at all). I've

Re: 1.7.1: terminal not passing Ctrl-C to sub-sub cygwin processes

2010-01-15 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-01-15 18:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 05:00:37PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: From within cygwin python, if I call os.system running a cygwin sub-process, and I hit Ctrl-C while that cygwin sub-process is running, the Ctrl-C does nothing (absolutely nothing

Re: Un-attended install ALL

2006-10-05 Thread Rolf Campbell
Vinod K Gupta wrote: We have a local mirror of selected packages from which we install cygwin on user machines. When we perform un-attended installation using setup.exe -q -L -l -R... the installer installs only the Base packages. How can we tell setup to install ALL available packages?

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-28 Thread Rolf Campbell
Malcolm Nixon wrote: * Some translate files to a Local format (CR/LF on Windows). FCOL, what on earth does an rcs think it's playing at, tampering with your data? Any rcs that doesn't give you back exactly what you put into it is just plain buggy. Nobody asked for a automatically mangle

Re: simply cygwin1.dll

2006-09-21 Thread Rolf Campbell
When I've had this problem, it's been a permission issue. If you use wget or some other cygwin tool to download the snapshot, then it will not set the exec permissions. But when you copy a file using explorer, it will set the exec permissions. Christopher Layne wrote: May seem sort of

coreutils 5.97; mkdir -p; mkdir: cannot create directory `name': File exists

2006-08-22 Thread Rolf Campbell
I believe there is a race-condition in mkdir -p. Specifically, if the directory does not exist *yet* when stat is called on line #98 of coreutils-5.97/lib/mkdir-p.c, but the directory *does* exist by the time line #190 of the same file calls mkdir(), then the program will error with File

Re: coreutils 5.97; mkdir -p; mkdir: cannot create directory `name': File exists

2006-08-22 Thread Rolf Campbell
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: Rolf Campbell I believe there is a race-condition in mkdir -p. Specifically, if the directory does not exist *yet* when stat is called on line #98 of coreutils-5.97/lib/mkdir-p.c, but the directory *does* exist by the time

Re: cygwin1.dll possible bug

2006-02-20 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gland Vador wrote: Eric Blake wrote: What about the newest one? I have tried almost all snapshots available on this page. I went until the oldest in order to track on which snapshot it broke. The newest one doesn't work for me. When I launch a dos batch file in the bash, it tries to

1.5.20s (20060206): Ctrl+C, rxvt and non-cygwin programs

2006-02-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
1. Run bash in rxvt. 2. Run strace sleep 10. 3. Press Ctrl+C. Nothing seems to receive the ^C at all (both strace and sleep run to completion). I cannot reproduce this problem using bash in a windows console. This is not a regression from 1.5.19. But I recall it working a while ago

Re: how to get a coredump [was RE: Asterisk Cygwin]

2005-10-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: Add error_start:/usr/bin/dumper.exe to your CYGWIN environment variable. Is there a reason why this isn't the default? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: 1.5.12 ssh hangs on some machines when stdout has content

2005-10-25 Thread Rolf Campbell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: As I've said before, http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00086.html. This result from the search I suggested looks promising, if only to get the setup options: http://www.maths.lth.se/help/windows/cygwin/. See also /var/log/setup.log after setup --help (yes, it does

Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
Herb Martin wrote: I didn't install Exim 4.54 into another location; someone else mentioned an alternate locationa and I (perhaps incorrectly) mentioned that I had downloaded and compiled it FROM another location. The make install was run normally and the specially compiled (make options) is in

cygrunsrv --list Access is denied (Was: Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced)

2005-10-18 Thread Rolf Campbell
Eric Blake wrote: I use this handy little script on my machine to help me stop (and restart) all services: $ cat serv #!/bin/bash usage='serv: manage cygwin services during cygwin upgrades usage: serv {--help|--stop|--start}' case $# in 1) case $1 in --help|-h) echo $usage; exit 0 ;;

Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv

2005-10-12 Thread Rolf Campbell
Eric Blake wrote: I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same issue. When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an instance of

Re: sshd install problems | WinXP Pro system

2005-09-11 Thread Rolf Campbell
Evan Cooch wrote: 2. modifed the env variables by adding a variable named CYGWIN with value ntsec tty Not necessary. Then why is it specified in http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html Because that web page is wrong, that's why. -- Unsubscribe info:

1.5.17: chroot-ed make adds // to ${MAKE}

2005-06-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
I'm trying to do a chroot-ed make which uses the content of the ${MAKE} variable. What I'm finding is the value of ${MAKE} has two slashes '//' at the beginning, so any attempt to use it failes (looks like a network share). I've created a directory, expanded cygwin-1.5.17-1.tar.bz2 into it,

Re: 1.5.17: chroot-ed make adds // to ${MAKE}

2005-06-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
Rolf Campbell wrote: I'm trying to do a chroot-ed make which uses the content of the ${MAKE} variable. What I'm finding is the value of ${MAKE} has two slashes '//' at the beginning, so any attempt to use it failes (looks like a network share). I've created a directory, expanded cygwin

Re: Unison 2.10.2 fast update check broken?

2005-05-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
Marcus Picasso wrote: Seems that Cygwin port of the unison file synchronizer does not do the -fastcheck very well. Transcript follows: ... Can somebody confirm / explain this behaviour? I have a large tree that I'm synchronizing across two hard-disks, and got suspicious when re-running

rsync throttling (Was: children of init ignore STOP and CONT signals)

2005-02-22 Thread Rolf Campbell
Sam Inala wrote: Cygwin 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) on W2K SP4 Not all signals are ignored. The TERM and INT signals correctly terminate the process. I would like to send STOP and CONT to throttle the CPU usage of a rsync process. I want to avoid spawning a bash process to start rsync because it is

Re: gmake -r -p -n problem on fast computers: erroneous thread activa tion

2005-02-17 Thread Rolf Campbell
Upgrade your cygwin to the newest snapshot, that has that problem fixed. Guerte Yves-r57319 wrote: Hi, I have problems with gmake on the new computers I use (and not with the same Cygwin version with older computers). I do gmake -r -p -n and parse the output to get some variables content. The

Re: hyperthreading fix try #2

2005-02-12 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm not claiming that it is right now. I haven't tried a make -j test yet. I just thought it was time to release another try on the world again: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ To help preserve my tenuous grasp on sanity, please reply to *this thread* when reporting

20050208 snapshot = yay! (Was: Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1)

2005-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
Rolf Campbell wrote: This test does fail (in the same way) on non-hyperthreaded machines (Win2000Pro on a PIII). But, this is a regression from 1.5.12 (that test runs fine on the non-HT machine with 1.5.12. There was (maybe still is) a problem with running make -j without the max task counter

Re: 20050208 hyperthreading bug is back ?

2005-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
CV wrote: Summary: I reported before that the 20050206 snapshot appeared to fix the hyperthreading bug for me. Now it seems that the next snapshot 20050208 broke it again. Result: --- after 700 to 1000 files bash hangs with the following error message: 2 [exiting thread] bash 3328

Re: 20050208 hyperthreading bug is back ?

2005-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
CV wrote: Rolf Campbell thats.unpossible at gmail.com writes: CV wrote: after 700 to 1000 files bash hangs with the following error message: 2 [exiting thread] bash 3328 cygthread::stub: erroneous thread activation, name is NULL And it appears I spoke too early before. I too, still see

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
Volker Bandke wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolf, a) Your test case fails on my machine as well, right at the beginning b) I seem to remember that there was/is a separate problem with make - -j, even on non-hyperthreasd machines. Unfortunately I cannot search

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-06 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: [...] Anyway, I took a look at the pipe handling code for the 457th time and this time I saw a couple of obvious flaws in my logic. The synchronization was all off. Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreading problems. I have run three invocations of the scripts

Re: update on hyperthreading system for cgf

2005-01-21 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:16:51PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Hasn't anyone put together a nice $400 system? How about $417.50? http://secure.newegg.com/app/WishR.asp?ID=1251752 You need to provide the hard drive, CD-ROM drive, floppy

Re: ls /dev/*

2004-11-03 Thread Rolf Campbell
Andrew DeFaria wrote: While, you are welcome to redefine /cygdrive any way you want, the unix paradigm does not put filesystems under /dev. That is for devices. To me, a disk drive IS a device. YMMV! :-) A disk drive is a device, but /cygdrive/c is not a disk-drive. It's a file-system contained

Re: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

2004-10-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Schmidt Sent: 25 October 2004 22:56 Mark Paulus wrote: Have you tried using a -- to indicate end of arguments to cygstart: cygstart -- tail --version Thanks! No, I hadn't, and that works great. I still find the

Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)

2004-10-20 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:26:58AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: An rsync session that consistantly works on the Oct 7 snapshot fails consistantly on the Oct 10 snapshot. Try it with the October 20 snapshot. I had the same problem with rsync (although I would have sworn

Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)

2004-10-18 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: For those who haven't been following along at home, it looks like a change I just made to select() may solve the dreaded slows down to a crawl with Symantec AntiVirus problem. This may also improve the performance of things that use sockets slightly. So, I'd appreciate

Re: Compilation errors not shown properly in Cygwin

2004-08-20 Thread Rolf Campbell
Rajagopalan, Karthik wrote: Hi Cygwin_Techies, I have been trying to install working packages of Cygwin for our current project but fails in every attempt with some issues. Currently I find the Cygwin doesn't report the compilation errors from Microsoft Visual Studio C Compiler. Let me explain

Basic C/C++ (Was: 1.5.10: problems relocating structures with function pointers)

2004-07-21 Thread Rolf Campbell
Justin Schoeman wrote: I have discovered what may be a bug in the linker/relocater in cygwin (or, more likely, I am doing something stupid again). When I use a structure containing function pointers, and this structure is placed in an archive, then the function pointer becomes NULL. As an

Re: Extending long threads

2004-07-10 Thread Rolf Campbell
GARY VANSICKLE wrote: There's three reasons people knee-jerk against HTML email: 1. It isn't ASCII (i.e. the Back in my day a child would open up a gift and within seconds he'd either burst into flames or lose a limb! That's the way it was and we liked it![1] Defense). 2a. There isn't an email

Re: two instances of a.exe on dual processor - still only 50% performance

2004-07-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
Brian Dessent wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thanks for this tip. I tried it out and indeed there is a Set Affinity option in the Taskmanager. Apparently, this option lets you assign one or more of the 4 virtual processors to a particular task. (W2K seems to have this concept of virtual

Re: two instances of a.exe on dual processor - still only 50% performance

2004-07-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
Ken Thompson wrote: At 01:24 PM 7/7/2004, Rolf Campbell wrote: Sorry Brian, that is bogus. I'm running one HT processor right now. The combined CPU utilization is not an actual display of usage, but theoretical usage, based on scheduling. It's really how much of the CPU was NOT being used

1.5.10-3: make -j6: read jobs pipe: No such file or directory. Stop.

2004-05-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
First, this is not a regression to any recent cygwin (it has been a problem for a while (I've tried it on every snapshot as they came out for the past 2 months), I know it did work is 1.3.17, but I also know that is not terribly useful info). I finally produced a test case that exhibited the

Re: /bin/rm lots of files

2004-05-03 Thread Rolf Campbell
I suspect this is a command-line too long problem, but I can't say for sure since you didn't really provide any details. If I'm correct, then you cannot change the limit easily. You should either delete the files in smaller lists, or if you are trying to delete all files in a directory you

Re: recompiling cygwin dll problems

2004-04-28 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: Bingo! I guess I should have put an and in my first two statements. You can only have *1* DLL built from the Cygwin source resident and running at any one time. It wasn't clear to me that this is what you were doing, otherwise I would have told you that this is a

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-17 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: FWIW, I found ANOTHER race yesterday while running the cygwin test suite. So, it's back to square one for testing since it was in low level code which could affect everything. And, this race has been there since I screwed up in September 2001. Lovely. Well, I can't

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-15 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I have been running the make -j cygwin breaker for about ten hours now with no hangs, no segvs, and no strange error exits. I'm sure this is just because of the magical way in which I have my system set up but could anyone confirm or deny whether that this snapshot

Re: Using gcc 3.3.3

2004-03-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
Building gcc (natively) always requires a working gcc to be present, how else would it compile itself? Ben Taylor wrote: What I don't get is why when I built 3.3.3 using 'make' and then 'make install' (it failed to do 'make bootstrap') it relied on the fact that cygwin was installed in the first

Re: Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out

2004-03-08 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I made a fix last night that allowed me to run this for 2500+ iterations. Of course, I have managed to do that before without error, so that doesn't mean much, I guess. Backing the change out resulted in a 'virtual memory exhausted' error in less than a hundred

Re: please try the latest snapshot

2004-03-08 Thread Rolf Campbell
Volker Quetschke wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: The latest snapshot should fix virtual memory exhausted errors that were reported when running make -j. I am close to releasing cygwin 1.5.8 so I want to verify that this is fixed. OK, did that, and got a freeze after 196 iterations. Still using

Re: Snapshot 20040306: make hangs

2004-03-08 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: If you want to analyze the strace yourself and offer comment, then please do so. Sending strace snippets is normally useless. 99% of the time, people send the equivalent of a photo of an accident scene with the thought that the picture will show why the accident

Re: Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out

2004-03-03 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: No, but I'll try to catch one. (I removed the strace from my script.) Ok, caught two already. (Produced with attached script + Makefile) Not much to there, unfortunately. Out of curiousity, can you duplicate this problem with the snapshot? I see that this is your own

Re: gcc 2.95

2004-03-02 Thread Rolf Campbell
gcc version 3.3 works fine, gcc v2.95 was broken on cygwin and nobody wanted to fix it, so it was discontinued. Erick Castillo wrote: Need to install gcc 2.95 on the latest cygwin release. gcc version 3.3... does not work properly. Where could i find 2.95 if not through the simple cygwin

Re: Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out

2004-03-02 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:27:33PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: I can reproduce with that snapshot, but I get slightly different results. Here is the stderr output from 1052 runs, but the strange thing is that even when I get errors, the task continues to run. It

Re: Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out

2004-03-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
I can reproduce with that snapshot, but I get slightly different results. Here is the stderr output from 1052 runs, but the strange thing is that even when I get errors, the task continues to run. It seems somehow that the return code of the errored run gets lost or something. This is

Re: Snapshot 20040221: make hangs on XP

2004-02-25 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: --- t.sh --- #!/bin/bash export C=1 while make -j ; do C=$(($C+1)) ; done echo Failed after $C runs 12 --- end of t.sh --- The script failed with: $ ./t.sh freeze.out /bin/sh: line 1: sleep: No such file or directory make: *** [12.pp] Error 127 make: *** Waiting for

Re: Snapshot 20040221: make hangs on XP

2004-02-25 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I tried running that script again, here were my results: Feb14: more than 10,000 iterations (never failed, just got bored of watching it) Feb17: more than 270 (still running) Feb18: Froze after 12, 41, 6 Feb20: Froze after 9, 2, 4 Feb21: Froze after 1, 5, 4 Out of

Re: Snapshot 20040221: make hangs on XP

2004-02-25 Thread Rolf Campbell
Volker Quetschke wrote: And, just for completeness, I built and ran a CVS version from about an hour ago, and it has not failed yet (350 iterations). So, maybe someone already fixed this problem after Feb21. No, not for me. I'm using the same version, see my other mail, but it seems very hard

Valentine's snapshot rules (was: Re: latest CVS: make hangs on XP (with HT))

2004-02-15 Thread Rolf Campbell
. Rolf Campbell wrote: I tried using lates CVS too, here are the results: Time to freeze: 761 and 409 iterations This is MUCH better than before, but it still does freeze (althought a big difference now is that when make freezes, it consumes no CPU). I'm speculating it has something to do

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Rolf Campbell
Jamshid Afshar wrote: I just installed Cygwin. What kind of executable is zcat.exe? It doesn't show up when I dir c:\cygwin\bin\zc* (only zcmp), but I see it's 19 bytes in Explorer. It works fine within bash, but I want UNIX utilities I can use in the regular Windows Command Prompt. $ ls -l

latest CVS: make hangs on XP (with HT)

2004-02-10 Thread Rolf Campbell
Volker Quetschke wrote: Just FYI, I build a cygwin dll from current cvs (last winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog entry 2004-02-09 Ralf H.) with debugging enabled and rerun this script. It didn't freeze, I stopped it after 1588 iterations, but it produced one stackdump and wrote some errors from make to

Re: 'errno' bug in cygwin+samba

2004-02-08 Thread Rolf Campbell
First of all, learn to include the correct headers, and to write valid C-code. Here's what you meant to type. #include sys/stat.h #include sys/types.h #include fcntl.h #include unistd.h #include stdio.h int main() { if(mkdir(test, 0777) 0) perror(mkdir1); if(mkdir(test, 0777) 0)

Re: 1.5.8s: make hangs on XP (with HT)

2004-02-06 Thread Rolf Campbell
Rafael Kitover wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rolf Campbell Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 8:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 1.5.7: make hangs on XP (with HT) I've been trying to narrow the problem I've been having with make

Re: 1.5.8s: make hangs on 2000 (no HT)

2004-02-06 Thread Rolf Campbell
Rolf Campbell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rolf Campbell Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 8:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 1.5.7: make hangs on XP (with HT) I've been trying to narrow the problem I've been having

Re: strange thing for execlp() function

2004-01-24 Thread Rolf Campbell
kaiduan xie wrote: Hi,all, I just want to use execlp to invoke another program from a program. It works on Linux, but it stucks on Cygwin. Acutally, this is a very very very simple program: #include stdio.h #include sys/types.h #include unistd.h #include errno.h #include string.h int main() {

Re: printf does not print long long ints properly

2004-01-23 Thread Rolf Campbell
ll is the long long prefix. Daniel Jeliski wrote: when I compile the following program: #include stdio.h main() { long long i; i=100; i*=100; printf(%Ld,i); return 0; } I get the following: -727379968 instead of the expected 1 I am using gcc 3.3.1 the same code works nicely

Re: regtool freezes on XP (Was: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.6-1)

2004-01-20 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:48:52PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: I think the problem is bash, not regtool. The following script also displays the problem: ---begin script--- #!/bin/sh ls ---end script--- Does the latest snapshot fix this problem? Yes, yes it does.

1.5.7s: gdb crash on exit

2004-01-20 Thread Rolf Campbell
I just realized that gdb (at least on my machine) always crashes if you attach to any process, then try to quit. Rolf Campbell wrote: I've noticed a problem with the snapshot (it's not limited to the snapshot, it was there in 1.5.6 as well). The problem may have been in 1.5.5 as well

regtool freezes on XP (Was: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.6-1)

2004-01-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
When I run this script *not* from another cygwin program (Windows Run menu as bash -c scriptname.sh, or from W32 GNU Emacs) ---begin script #!/bin/sh echo -n Getting location... regtool get '\' ---end script I get the expected output: Getting location...Unknown key prefix. Valid prefixes

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