Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-28 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU again. Reformatted. The entry just defines TOFU: Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, Text

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 24 11:08, Jonathan Lanier wrote: One completely wild guess would be that there is some attribute associated with the process that might expose the native symlinks, possibly for improved compatibility with SFU/Posix and CIFS; Cygwin processes are ordinary Win32 processes, just linked

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-25 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU again. Reformatted. The entry just defines TOFU: Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, Text Oben, Fullquote Unten). A combination of top posting

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU again. Reformatted. The entry just defines TOFU: Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, Text Oben, Fullquote Unten). A

RE: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-25 Thread Jonathan Lanier
(PCYMTNQREAIYR, TOFU, grokked; apologies - haven't been on this list for about 9 years...) One completely wild guess would be that there is some attribute associated with the process that might expose the native symlinks, possibly for improved compatibility with SFU/Posix and CIFS; Cygwin

Re: TOFU (was: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin)

2006-10-25 Thread Matthew Woehlke
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU again. Reformatted. The entry just defines TOFU: Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, Text Oben, Fullquote Unten). A

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-25 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Jonathan Lanier wrote: If anyone could direct me to an ftp or http archive of the older Cygwin distributions, it would be much appreciated. Thanks! See: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=q=%22cygwin+time+machine%22btnG=Search Particularly:

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-25 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as guidelines in http://cygwin.com/problems.html. Care to offer a patch The submitting a patch guidelines seem to refer to program patches... since this is only an HTML update, here it is.

Problem reporting (was 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin)

2006-10-25 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/25/06, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as guidelines in http://cygwin.com/problems.html. Care to offer a patch The submitting a patch guidelines seem to refer to program patches...

Re: Problem reporting (was 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin)

2006-10-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 03:07:19PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/25/06, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as guidelines in http://cygwin.com/problems.html. Care to offer a patch The

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-25 Thread Matthew Woehlke
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as guidelines in http://cygwin.com/problems.html. Care to offer a patch? The submitting a patch guidelines seem to refer to program patches... since this is only

Re: Problem reporting (was 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin)

2006-10-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 03:07:19PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/25/06, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as guidelines in http://cygwin.com/problems.html.

Re: Problem reporting (was 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin)

2006-10-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 06:28:37PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 03:07:19PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/25/06, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 22 22:56, Jonathan Lanier wrote: Brief summary, before I get into details: Cygwin 1.5.21-1 on WinXP SP2 was working perfectly, until a new CIFS server was installed on our LAN. [...] The common factor to all failures: they are all symbolic links on the CIFS server. Typical failure

RE: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Jonathan Lanier
I can't help to think this is a bug in the CIFS server, rather than a bug in Cygwin. That is a tempting conclusion to reach; unfortunately I don't think it's the right one, nor do I think this bug has to blamed on just one or the other. Notice that I ran these tests 3 times, each compiled in a

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Jonathan Lanier wrote: Also, because (I know the FAQ says not to say this, but I think it's useful information in this case) we have a much older version of Cygwin (cygcheck reports v1.5.14) that works flawlessly with CIFS and does not suffer the same problems. So, at the very least, it appears

RE: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Jonathan Lanier
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Woehlke Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:53 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin Jonathan Lanier wrote: Also, because (I know the FAQ says not to say this, but I think it's useful information

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jonathan Lanier wrote: Well, I thought of that - first rule of debugging, calculatus eliminatus. I tried it; but, attempts to use the older DLLs with newer apps (or vice-versa) result in corrupted shared memory, and force me to reboot my WinXP box. I've been under the impression that

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Champ Mendis
to run in DOS mode but it failed. I will also try the same thing as Jonathan says. Thanks, Champ - Original Message - From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:47 AM Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
. Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:47 AM Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin Jonathan Lanier wrote: Well, I thought of that - first rule of debugging, calculatus eliminatus. I tried it; but, attempts to use the older DLLs with newer apps (or vice-versa) result

RE: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Jonathan Lanier
. Thanks. Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:47 AM Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin Jonathan Lanier wrote: Well, I thought of that - first rule of debugging, calculatus eliminatus. I tried it; but, attempts to use the older DLLs with newer apps

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Yikes! Ditto - http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU. Reformatted. Champ Mendis wrote: - Original Message - From: Larry Hall

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Champ Mendis
- From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:58 PM Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin You too. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU. Reformatted. Jonathan Lanier wrote: -Original Message- From

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
^^ And, more importantly, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR again. Let's not make life any easier for spammers, eh? Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:58 PM Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin You too. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU. Reformatted. Jonathan

1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-23 Thread Jonathan Lanier
Brief summary, before I get into details: Cygwin 1.5.21-1 on WinXP SP2 was working perfectly, until a new CIFS server was installed on our LAN. Since then, some apps won't run, directories won't list, and many Cygwin-compiled applications are failing to recognize the correct file size, including

RE: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-23 Thread Jonathan Lanier
Sorry for the duplicate post; my mail filter indicated that it had blocked my outgoing message due to the attachment. Apparently, it didn't. :) - Jonathan Lanier -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-22 Thread Jonathan Lanier
Brief summary, before I get into details: Cygwin 1.5.21-1 on WinXP SP2 was working perfectly, until a new CIFS server was installed on our LAN. Since then, some apps won't run, directories won't list, and many Cygwin-compiled applications are failing to recognize the correct file size, including