Did a default update of all selected files under experimental.
When it finished None of the post-install scripts ran. Bash
was missing an entry point, __something (had it typed in a
window, but closed it by accident).
Did file search on cygwin1.dll to see if there were any
duplicates: nope,
Is there a changelog?...(good example from kernel at end of message (long/detailed)
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Sent: Thu, Aug 21, 2003 7:41p
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Subject: 1.5 is coming... please test away!
law find / -name \*.lnk -exec grep -is Documents and Settings {} \; -print
/tmp/oldlinks
find: /pagefile.sys: No such file or directory
C:\bin\find.exe: *** WFSO timed out for after longjmp.
I was trying to find all links that referenced Documents and Settings, since
I moved users to 'home'.
My
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From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 11:39a
I don't know what you mean by beta. If you mean packages installed
when you press the Exp radio button in setup, then that's
how it works.
You pick Exp to install any experimental
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TAM,
Cygwin includes ash, BASH and pdksh (as well as zsh and tcsh), so the
answer is pretty much yes, though with BASH you might want to
investigate its Bourne shell compatibility
Often, after transfering a large number of files, rsync will hang when
done (src + dst on same machine). I remember this being mentioned ages
ago as a problem.
It seems to still be around. Same as it ever was -- all files seem
to be transferred, it just doesn't want to exit when done.
(rsync:
When went to the software list (mirror kernel.org), I saw several pieces of
software that I was a rev or so behind on.
Out of curiosity, I thought I might also see what the newest beta's were.
Problem is that it deselected all of the regular versions that needed
updating.
I would have expected
I may be mis-understanding your question, but you have to be sure
history is enabled on bash and you have HISTFILE set.
CMD.EXE is a different shell with different history semantics.
Under bash, I set 'vi' to 'on' to get get 'vi' compatible editing, but
up/down arrow still work. You also have
I was trying to get cron to work -- it looks like it is
invoking something on a regular basis, however, it is also
trying to send the 1 line of output of cron job to the owner.
In the process it includes the entire environment (in this case
of the user who started cron, me). It includes the
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From: Harig, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue, May 27, 2003 3:03p
To: linda w (cyg); [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: getting cron to work - status too large for sendmail?
cron does not use sendmail for mail delivery.
It uses a small program call ssmtp. Before
trying to get cron
Following, is the output. So since cygwin is trying to support a Posixy-
linuxy-gnuy type environment, does that mean Win32 shouldn't work under
Cygwin? Or should it, since Win32 underlies Cygwin?
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cpan install Win32
Running install for module Win32
Running make for
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
Sent: Sun, Mar 30, 2003 12:26p
To: linda w (cyg)
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: bash bug report? Minor border case:
Linda,
I shan't delve into the intuitiveness of list naming here. There is a
clear
Is bash a cygwin app or a central part of the cygwin DLL?
Guess bash must be part of cygwin. I always thought it was
an app. Silly me.
-linda
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Sent: Sat, Mar 29, 2003 5:22p
To: linda w (cyg)
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED
Valid filename created by app:
\Documents and Settings\law\My
Documents\win\registry2\regtweaks\Kellys_XP_Tweaks\download.com.com\clear\redx\c.gif-ts=-104976066edId=3prtnr=CNET+Networks,+Inc.
oid=3000-2094-10126096ptId=3000onId=2094sId=4asId=10126096pId=10126096asType=Product
exactly 255
Valid filename created by app:
\Documents and Settings\law\My
Documents\win\registry2\regtweaks\Kellys_XP_Tweaks\download.com.com\clear\redx\c.gif-ts=-104976066edId=3prtnr=CNET+Networks,+Inc.
oid=3000-2094-10126096ptId=3000onId=2094sId=4asId=10126096pId=10126096asType=Product
exactly 255
how is this different that 'ccache'?
weird
Has something changed in how exe files are looked up? I thought I
used to be able to do a
'file /usr/bin/ccache' and have it work, but now it needs the .exe --
was I just confused in a linux kinda way?
Linda
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From:
Replies inline below. Incidentally, why did your message arrive twice
from two different From: addresses? And which should the
replies go to?
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One address is subscribed to the list, the other is not.
Normally, if one responds to 'all', it goes to the OP and the list.
If one just
using things in ways they were
never intended to be used...
Thanks for the heads up on basha simple fix for
makewhatis for it's use of /dev/stdX might be to make the first line
#!/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/sh.
Linda
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, linda w (cyg) wrote:
I normally use bash
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Linux, /bin/sh == bash.
On my system, at least, it's not dependant on bash -- they
show up as softlinks to /proc/self/fd/{0|1|2}.
Maybe Cygwin should be renamed CyNUX: Cygwin is Not
Unix or Linux? :-)
Pronounced cynics?
Replies inline below. Incidentally, why did your message arrive twice
from two different From: addresses? And which should the
replies go to?
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Normally, if one responds to 'all', it goes to the OP and the list.
If one just
* Don't downgrade if the curr version is = installed?
I vote yes.
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Can it just default to 'keep', and if the user overrides it,
then they get what they choose? I mean if a user installs a beta
and something breaks for them, they might want to go back.
-linda
Thus skipping it would be a bad habit to get into.
Rob
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On the other hand, using it and having it hang isn't exceptionally
useful. Maybe that behavior will get sorted out down the line as
well ((hope), since don't know why it hangs...unresponsive to ctl-c).
Linda
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Sent: Sun, Mar 09, 2003 8:43a
To: John Morrison; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?
John Morrison wrote:
BTW, apart from colours, what would you store? Whether the
Dangitthought I sent this out again
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From: Robert McNulty Junior [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sat, Mar 08, 2003 9:28p
To: linda w (cyg); [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: when is next release of setup.exe
Linda, reconfigure your program and include
something
somewhere, but I wouldn't worry about it. Just an oddity
Linda
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From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun, Mar 09, 2003 1:53p
To: Max Bowsher
Cc: linda w (cyg); [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: --disabled-shared = hang?
On Mon, 2003-03-10
I really _think_ (maybe I don't know what I want), but I think I
want to setup my cygroot - c:\.
Now I know this isn't recommended, but why/whynot? The
only reason I heard, which sounded a bit weak, was, Well what if
some new program comes in and creates a /usr, /var, /tmp...etc
TLD? Then it
I normally use bash and this works in bash:
echo hello stderr /dev/stderr
echo hello stdout /dev/stdout
But in /bin/sh:
$ echo hello stderr /dev/stderr
cannot create /dev/stderr: directory nonexistent
$ echo hello stdout /dev/stdout
cannot create /dev/stdout: directory nonexistent
$
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From: Gary R. Van Sickle
%Program Files% = /usr/local/bin would be a disaster
wrapped in a tragedy
wrapped in a thin candy shell. You'd have .exe's from Hell
to breakfast in
Program Files,
which is pretty contrary to normal Windows
practice.
Well, /opt was my other choice
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From: Igor Pechtchanski
Cygwin setup compiles fine with Cygwin gcc.
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Pardon me, kind sir, but I have a itty bitty teensie weensie
problem with this:
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/setup-0'
Making all in bz2lib
make[2]:
The problem is, way back then when 2.249.2.5 was release, gcc3 didn't exist
yet. The setup code from then didn't comply strictly enough to C++ standards
===
Heresy!! Not compliant with standards...how could they?! I'm
ashamed to be hobnobbin' with such types...ignoring
Igor helpfully said:
The CVS version is trivial to compile - just follow the instructions at
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html.
Igor
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Ever had someone give you directions and tell you you can't
miss it?...:-)
Then max chimed in with some more details...
cvs
: Robert McNulty Junior [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sat, Mar 08, 2003 8:58p
To: linda w (cyg); 'Max Bowsher'; 'Igor Pechtchanski'
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: when is next release of setup.exe
Try --disable-shared
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Subject: Re: setup.exe is too small
It is indeed a natural assumption that the phrase to demand that
something be done is addressed to me, that I was demanding that
something be done.
, relax. And pay attention. The whole thread was
about people who did seem
bash-2.05b$ find /cygdrive/d -name 'find.exe'
/cygdrive/d/cygwin/bin/find.exe
What were you trying to find under your cygwin dir?
Hmmmnow I'm not getting a duplication of the error...
But i've seen updatedb terminate, *seemingly*, prematurely with a
message:
/usr/bin/find: . changed
I notice that when I do a find C:\\, or a find /cygdrive/c,
I don't get files under my cygwin dir. Why is that? I could
imagine that it might judge them as separate file systems and might
exclude them if I used find -xdev..., but seems that /cygdrive/c
or C:\\ should give whole disk?
I
Job control and signals for Cygwin processes are areas pretty
internal to Cygwin. they are also pretty complex. IMO, it's
hard to talk much about adding some feature to them without the
context of what's already there. If you can put your suggestions
in that context, I expect you'll
I stumbled onto this trying to rename a dir from
Mydir to mydir (w/o capital M)
mv Mydir mydir
starts copying Mydir into Mydir/mydir.
But it's not just the 'caps' that are the issue since:
mv mydir mydir
will start copying mydir into itself
On lnx, I get:
mv:
Sure, but those programs hook the key(s) in a global fashion,
not just
from individual programs. So, Cygwin could hook the Ctrl+Z key, but
what would it do then, how would it know which process to suspend?
I'm not sure that cygwin could 'suspend' a non-cygwin process
even if it
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
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From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
The TTY's have gotten fancier, but its still mostly ascii text in terminal windows
though it could be mean if it was a
conspiracy...) :-)
It is. Pblblblblt!
Igor
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From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I've found that it's always easy to look back at a previously
made design decision and question it, especially when one
wasn't involved in the
design discussion that weighed the current needs with the
benefits and
Interesting...wonder why they wouldn't just create pseudo devices in /dev and do the
normal unix mount thing? Seems odd to complicate the simple namespace model
needlessly by adding a special syntax.
Even still, just because one wants to have more traditional unix names doesn't
preclude the
Cygwin targets POSIX compatibility wherever possible. Any
discussion about paths that ignores the POSIX standards will
need to be reviewed with POSIX in mind. It's easier to do
that up front.
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What were the _original_ design goals of Cygwin -- i.e. as
sponsored by RedHat?
Cygwin's primary purpose is to provide a UNIX environment for
Windows. Although it can be used in other ways, the basic
purpose is not to provide a stepping stone to helping port
programs to native Windows. Things like Win32 path names and
accommodating pure-win32 processes are
From: Christopher Faylor
I am not clear on why we are devoting so much time to what is
required for a straight win32 environment in a cygwin mailing
list. As odd as it sounds, this seems somewhat off-topic to
me. Or at least uninteresting.
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I'm sorry. I thought the cygwin
So I think a fix could to change F::S::Win32 to convert all win32
pathseperators to unix pathseperators, and hand it off to F::S::Unix
to do the actual catfile(), etc calls...
Sounds fine, as long as we still do the right thing when
handed paths with backslashes in them (i.e. result should
.
Linda
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From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: January 03, 2003 02:40a
To: linda w (cyg)
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Perl pathname parsing, File::Spec, proposed fix
Hallo linda,
Am Dienstag, 31. Dezember 2002 um 03:18 schriebst du
A bit late to the party, I know, but wanted to chime in on the Cygwin
File::Spec discussion. I'm 'cc'ing the cygwin list as a heads up for any
interested parties.
A more satisfactory mapping is to base Cygwin on Win32, not Unix.
Cygwin, as an OS interface _partially_ supports posix mapping --
I was searching for a perl module. Locate turned up 2 copies in:
/lib/perl/5.6.1
and
/lib/perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi
There are 469 identical objects between the two directories, 75 extra objects
in cygwin-multi, with only the parent's pod directory missing from the
cygwin-multi dir.
Perl
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Greg Matheson
Sent: December 30, 2002 04:01p
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2 copies of perl includes?
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, linda w (cyg) wrote:
I was searching for a perl module. Locate turned up 2 copies in:
/lib/perl
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From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
5.8? Is that available in cygwin-x86? I don't recall it being an
option on recent downloads, but I may have missed it. I do
have it on
my gnunix systems though.
As a test version. It will show in the click
Does anyone see a problem with the following proposed change in the
Perl lib dir?
It seems the Win32 handles both forward and backward slashes and
no special module for Cygwin is needed.
Linda
--- File/Spec.pm2001-08-21 17:16:14.0 -0700
+++ File/Spec.pm2002-12-30
Hello Sören,
From Soren A
What you expected File::Spec to do perhaps seemed intuitive and
natural,
===
Least surprise' is a valuable design principle. I try to design things
knowing that 2-3 months from now I'll likely have forgotten all the details of
why I did something a certain
This may be somewhat arcane/tedious, but...
But Unix does have a concept of a mount point (device) and
path from the mount point. Conceivably, one could view the mount
point itself as a local host name for the volume (local,
remote or a
device) with path being location on
Note that Cygwin, like Unix, doesn't have a concept of
volume. Everything except network paths (//host/dir) are
based on a single root directory.
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But Unix does have a concept of a mount point (device) and
path from the mount point. Conceivably, one could view the
mount point
File::Spec is supposed to provide a OS independent way of parsing and
creating pathnames. For example, a 'splitpath' can product a volume
$dir and $file.
I'm not sure what constitutes a volume but I'd think C: D: would count
as separate.
Under cygwin, it only handles/parses unix pathnames but
Thanks!
The documentation was incorrect. Cygwin honors most of the
stty settings, even with CYGWIN=notty.
Now about those other problems. Am I the only one that has
this problem? or does no one try using remote displays or local
combo of X and MS-Win Windows.
-l
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A bit weird, but the CYGWIN env var says that if it doesn't
contain TTY, it will default to MS-DOS defaults of control-z for end
of file yet I don't have CYGWIN set and control-d seems to work
as my end-of-file while control-z does not.
Is the documentation correct, or does the -i
A problem, I notice with xterm's, I notice that if I start 'xterm', then any
control-c I press in the base window (running bash) is sent to all xterm children (but
not grandchildren). Control-c _in_ an xterm seems to only be sent to the window one
typed control-c into (as would be normally
I seem to have run into a problem.
I have been trying to chase down a case where when I use
'ssh' from bash from cygwin (98 or XP), when I was pressing
control-c, I lost the ssh session and ended back up at the local
cygwin prompt. It's as if though the ssh session didn't trap the
control-c.
Hi, pretty new to the list though have been using cygwin for several months
now, first under win98, and now under XP.
This may have been covered elsewhere -- sorry, but I
doubt I will have enough time to read all the archives of
all the lists despite what the warnings say
Somehow, something I've done in my environment seems to cause a problem
with control-c handling.
A control-c gets sent to any sub-shells and right through 'ssh' -- very
annoying:
I tried the cygwin X server, but at the time it wanted to own the whole desktop and
didn't behave in a civilized
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