RE: How to compile a .LIB with cygwin for use in MS Visual C

2001-02-28 Thread robert . jan . schutten
On 02/28/2001 18:08:41 Dautrevaux wrote: >I'm not sure of the exact procedure to follow, but at least you must use >-mno-cygwin when compiling this kind of code (and you must check the the >mingw32 support is properly installed, depending on your cygwin version). >This was already discussed a numb

Minicom 1.83.1

2001-02-28 Thread Enoch Wu
Hello, I have compiled binaries to run on Cygwin/Win98. It is located at http://www.eskimo.com/~ewu/cygwin/ Looks almost as good as PROCOMM. By the way the GNU debugger is great. I would have spent much more time on this porting if it were not for gdb. Actually, for software coded by someone

Re: problemas

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 07:38:26PM -0700, fcocepedes wrote: >hi: > >well i install cygwin in windows 98 from the local directory (download >setup.exe) > > i restart windowsbut it tell me about bash.exe have relation with cygwin1.exe >and a problem _ctype_what it is. > >how a use bash.ee because i

problemas

2001-02-28 Thread fcocepedes
hi: well i install cygwin in windows 98 from the local directory (download setup.exe) i restart windowsbut it tell me about bash.exe have relation with cygwin1.exe and a problem _ctype_what it is. how a use bash.ee because i cant use it. not run. what i have do? please contact me soon as y

SSH in CVS

2001-02-28 Thread Matt Linton
Greetings, Cygwin developers. Before you kill this mail, I should state that I've read the FAQ and the posting from Patrick Doyle explaining exactly why Cygwin hangs and makes you type Ctrl-C to kill an SSH process after using SSH to bring a CVS repository to your system. My question is thus: A

Windows expertise needed: what are MinSPs

2001-02-28 Thread David A. Cobb
Working in Xemacs-i686-pc-Cygwin-21.1.13 and a [virtual] host of Cygwin tools, when up popped the devil - BSOD - and said: Stack Frames nearly exhausted, try increasing MinSPs in SYSTEM.INI, MinSPs = 4 So, first thing today I tried launching Cygwin and the whole darn system just stalled.

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:32 AM >Subject: Re: New symlinks. > >> The other thing is that I try extremely hard to limit the

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:32 AM Subject: Re: New symlinks. > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 08:26:27AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >>On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:52:44PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:29:54PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:22:32PM +0100, Heribert Dahms wrote: > >> Yeah, and what should > >> find . | xargs ls -ld > >> find implicitly and write explicitly? > > > >It should implicitely fin

Re: spawn hangs for non-Cygwin programs

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 06:47:32PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:24:10PM -0800, Bob Wilson wrote: >>I have a Cygwin program that contains the following call to invoke a >>child process: >> >>pid = spawnvp((int)_P_NOWAIT, argv[0], argv); >> >>Sometime between Cygw

Re: spawn hangs for non-Cygwin programs

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:24:10PM -0800, Bob Wilson wrote: >I have a Cygwin program that contains the following call to invoke a >child process: > >pid = spawnvp((int)_P_NOWAIT, argv[0], argv); > >Sometime between Cygwin 1.1.4 and 1.1.8 it seems to have stopped >working. If the child is anot

Re: Memory problem

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:15:23PM +0100, Peter Boncz wrote: >Christopher, > >Some applications like to make use of so-called "anonymous virtual memory" >for allocating (huge) chunks of memory outside the malloc heap. In unix this >functionality is usually available through mmap()-ing on the speci

Re: Problems using gdb?

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:28:33PM -0500, Robinow, David wrote: >> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:40:05AM -0800, Andy Piper wrote: >> > >> >My experiences with gdb 5.0 have been generally bad. I had >> to rewrite >> >cygwin unexec for xemacs to

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:29:54PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:22:32PM +0100, Heribert Dahms wrote: >> Yeah, and what should >> find . | xargs ls -ld >> find implicitly and write explicitly? > >It should implicitely find foo and explicitely write `foo' >since th

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:16:43PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >At 01:57 PM 2/28/2001, Ehud Karni wrote: >>Don't assume Windows native users are ignorant ! We are not talking >>about the layperson here (S/he uses packages, not commands), we are >>speaking of developers, most of th

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:57:21PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote: >On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:58:32 +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> People that only use the Windows GUI would be confused by the ".lnk" >> extension if shown by cygwin, but as we don't show it by default there's no >>

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 08:26:27AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >>On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:52:44PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: another icon ;^). Don't underestimate people using Windows; most of them are not idiots and are used to Windows idiosyncrasisms, so when using cygwin they

Re: Can't build Make from source because Windows header filesmoved to /usr/include/w32api?

2001-02-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jonathan Kamens wrote: > > If I download the Cygwin Make source and try to compile it from > source, it fails to compile because gcc (2.95.2-7) can't find > windows.h. > > It appears that the include files in the w32api package were recently > moved from /usr/include to /usr/include/w32api. At

Re: Documentation on sockets and threads API

2001-02-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > At 02:22 PM 2/28/2001, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > > >Is there an relationship between > >http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xns/recv.html and the cygwin > >implementation of (for example) recv? > > Don't know. Haven't looked. > IIRC, it

RE: Problems using gdb?

2001-02-28 Thread Bush, David
Other than several DLL relocations due to collisions with dynamically allocated memory, it seems to work. -Original Message- From: Andy Piper To: Bush, David; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Sent: 2/28/01 1:40 PM Subject: RE: Problems using gdb? At 12:46 PM 2/28/01 -0500,

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:22:32PM +0100, Heribert Dahms wrote: > Yeah, and what should > find . | xargs ls -ld > find implicitly and write explicitly? It should implicitely find foo and explicitely write `foo' since that is given from find to xargs. Corinna My point is simply iff somebod

Re: Better diagnostics in mmap.cc

2001-02-28 Thread Jason Tishler
Gene, On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:13:51AM -0500, Gene Spleen wrote: > Short history and explanation: > > According to my Makefile, I'm using 1.09 > My purpose of using ipc-daemon is to get postgresql to work > on NT (4.0). Unfortunately, fork() is failing trying to remap > shared memory segments

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:06 AM Subject: Re: New symlinks. > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:52:44PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> another icon ;^). Don't underestimate people usi

RE: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Heribert Dahms
Yeah, and what should find . | xargs ls -ld find implicitly and write explicitly? Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -Original Message- > From: Corinna Vinschen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:07 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: New

spawn hangs for non-Cygwin programs

2001-02-28 Thread Bob Wilson
I have a Cygwin program that contains the following call to invoke a child process: pid = spawnvp((int)_P_NOWAIT, argv[0], argv); Sometime between Cygwin 1.1.4 and 1.1.8 it seems to have stopped working. If the child is another Cygwin program, then everything is fine. If the child was comp

Re: /usr/bin/autoscan incorrectly configured.

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Hadfield
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:56:59AM -0800, Andy Piper wrote: > > Its looking for perl in /usr/local/bin Which reminds me: when ssh (2.3.0p2) is called with option "FallBackToRsh=yes" or "UseRsh=yes" it looks for rsh in /usr/local/bin. --- Mark Hadfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://katipo.niwa

Re: dir file not updated

2001-02-28 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 02:54 PM 2/28/2001, Andy Piper wrote: >The /usr/info/dir file installed by cygwin does not reflect the info files available >in that directory. I guess fixing this properly would require fixing setup. Yes, this is a known problem. See 'info error "dir: No such file or directory"': http:

Can't build Make from source because Windows header files moved to /usr/include/w32api?

2001-02-28 Thread Jonathan Kamens
If I download the Cygwin Make source and try to compile it from source, it fails to compile because gcc (2.95.2-7) can't find windows.h. It appears that the include files in the w32api package were recently moved from /usr/include to /usr/include/w32api. At least, that's my best guess; perhaps t

RE: Documentation on sockets and threads API

2001-02-28 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 02:22 PM 2/28/2001, Siegfried Heintze wrote: >Larry, > >Ugghh... Ok, thanks. I can download source and look at it. Do I have it >already with the automated default installation procedure? If you selected source for the cygwin package, you'll have the version that goes with the DLL you have.

dir file not updated

2001-02-28 Thread Andy Piper
The /usr/info/dir file installed by cygwin does not reflect the info files available in that directory. I guess fixing this properly would require fixing setup. andy -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

RE: Problems using gdb?

2001-02-28 Thread Robinow, David
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:40:05AM -0800, Andy Piper wrote: > > > >My experiences with gdb 5.0 have been generally bad. I had > to rewrite > >cygwin unexec for xemacs to get the june gdb release to not > complain. The > >4.18/9 releases w

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Bob McGowan
I havn't seen this suggestion (maybe there's a good reason): how about adding a 'links' option to the CYGWIN variable? When set, it sets behaviour to show the .lnk extension. Default not set, don't show the extension. Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:58:32PM +0100, Be

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:57 PM 2/28/2001, Ehud Karni wrote: >Don't assume Windows native users are ignorant ! We are not talking >about the layperson here (S/he uses packages, not commands), we are >speaking of developers, most of them with experience (even if it is >not UNIX experience). I don't use explorer at all

Re: can you help me how to do chmod in cygwin shell

2001-02-28 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:42 PM 2/28/2001, Chandra Adari wrote: >Hi Cygwin, > >Can any one help me how to do chmod in cygwin shell, Any help would be >appreciated. Reading the user guide/FAQ will give you invaluable insight. Don't expect every piece of relevant information to mention chmod or have that as its m

RE: Memory problem

2001-02-28 Thread Peter Boncz
Christopher, Some applications like to make use of so-called "anonymous virtual memory" for allocating (huge) chunks of memory outside the malloc heap. In unix this functionality is usually available through mmap()-ing on the special file /dev/null or thourgh a special mmap() flag. In my applicat

RE: Documentation on sockets and threads API

2001-02-28 Thread Siegfried Heintze
Larry, Ugghh... Ok, thanks. I can download source and look at it. Do I have it already with the automated default installation procedure? Is there an relationship between http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xns/recv.html and the cygwin implementation of (for example) recv? I thought t

Re: SSH client & NT Emacs

2001-02-28 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
* 2001-02-27 Keith Amidon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> list.cygwin * Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | I'm trying to use the cygwin openssh port within NT Emacs (the port | available at http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html) | using the ssh.el and tramp packages. I have OpenSSH setup (vers

Re: Problems using gdb?

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:40:05AM -0800, Andy Piper wrote: > >My experiences with gdb 5.0 have been generally bad. I had to rewrite >cygwin unexec for xemacs to get the june gdb release to not complain. The >4.18/9 releases worked fine for me. > Thank you for sharing. I suppose it is too muc

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Ehud Karni
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:58:32 +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People that only use the Windows GUI would be confused by the ".lnk" > extension if shown by cygwin, but as we don't show it by default there's no > problem. OTOH people used to CMD.exe will be used to the lnk

Re: Better diagnostics in mmap.cc

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:19:51AM -0500, Charles S. Wilson wrote: >Gene Spleen wrote: >> >> Short history and explanation: >> >> According to my Makefile, I'm using 1.09 >> My purpose of using ipc-daemon is to get postgresql to work >> on NT (4.0). Unfortunately, fork() is failing trying to re

Re: Make hung in WaitForMultipleObjects inside Cygwin

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:57:22AM -0500, Jonathan Kamens wrote: >Another approach I'm considering is to compile both cygwin1.dll and >make with debugging symbols and install them without stripping. If I >do that, and then Make hangs and I attach to it with gdb, will I >be able to get a useful ba

Re: Memory problem

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 06:12:25PM +0100, Peter Boncz wrote: > >Christopher, > >My statement is about NT vs Unix, and has nothing to do with Cygwin (or its >sbrk implementation). > >This is just me speaking out of experience with the exacltly the same >(memory hungry) application on NT and on vari

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:58:32PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 5:06 PM >> To: Cygwin >> Subject: Re: New symlinks. >> >> >>On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:52:44PM +0100, Cor

can you help me how to do chmod in cygwin shell

2001-02-28 Thread Chandra Adari
Hi Cygwin, Can any one help me how to do chmod in cygwin shell, Any help would be appreciated. Chandra. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

RE: Problems using gdb?

2001-02-28 Thread Andy Piper
At 12:46 PM 2/28/01 -0500, Bush, David wrote: >Exactly what sort of problems are you having? I'm pretty much >up to date with Cygwin and I can debug at least some xemacs >processes. My 21.2.45 build seems OK although I only stepped >a little way in. The temacs in my gtk-xemacs-21.2 tree goes >a

RE: Problems using gdb?

2001-02-28 Thread Bush, David
Andy, Exactly what sort of problems are you having? I'm pretty much up to date with Cygwin and I can debug at least some xemacs processes. My 21.2.45 build seems OK although I only stepped a little way in. The temacs in my gtk-xemacs-21.2 tree goes a little way that then hangs up just inside m

msql 3.0 compile

2001-02-28 Thread HotMail
Would anyone know what the bug is for msqladmin.c? Perhaps I should be using a higher level of gcc debug? dale -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Making Make build multiple targets in a single compiler invocation

2001-02-28 Thread Jonathan Kamens
I seem to recall that someone mentioned on this list recently that one way to speed up Make is to make it specify multiple source files in a single compiler invocation, rather than using a separate compiler invocation for every file being compiled, to reduce the number of spawns. Now, when I want

Re: SSH client & NT Emacs

2001-02-28 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Keith Amidon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And then a blinking cursor. I can type commands, and they are > executed on the server, I get output, etc. However, I do *not* get a > command prompt. This makes using the remote window somewhat > difficult. Furthermore, because the tramp package depends

RE: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 5:06 PM > To: Cygwin > Subject: Re: New symlinks. > > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:52:44PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> another icon ;^). Don't underestimate people usin

RE: Memory problem

2001-02-28 Thread Peter Boncz
Christopher, My statement is about NT vs Unix, and has nothing to do with Cygwin (or its sbrk implementation). This is just me speaking out of experience with the exacltly the same (memory hungry) application on NT and on various Unixes. My experience is that the VirtualAlloc() implementation i

RE: How to compile a .LIB with cygwin for use in MS Visual C

2001-02-28 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 4:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to compile a .LIB with cygwin for use in MS Visual C > > > Hi all, > > I am trying to compile library using cygwin. This librar

Re: SSH client & NT Emacs

2001-02-28 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:27 PM 2/27/2001, Keith Amidon wrote: >I'm trying to use the cygwin openssh port within NT Emacs (the port >available at http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html) >using the ssh.el and tramp packages. I have OpenSSH setup (version >2.3.0p1) and operating fine in a cygwin bash pr

Re: Documentation on sockets and threads API

2001-02-28 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:57 PM 2/27/2001, Siegfried Heintze wrote: >Hi Folks, > I hope this is the correct mailing list. > I looked thru the Cygwin Users Guide and API refernence and found mention >of the socket API and the PThread API. But it was pretty brief. Where can I >find more detailed information that desc

Re: tcpforwarding under NT

2001-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:43:25PM +0100, Mag. M. Faffelberger wrote: > any help would be very kind, cause i don't know what to do else. What about debugging the problem using `sshd -d' and `ssh -v' options? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cy

Re: ntsec

2001-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:50:22PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > This will definitely added to the upcoming 2.5.0p2. ^^^ 2.5.1p2 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regar

Re: Make hung in WaitForMultipleObjects inside Cygwin

2001-02-28 Thread Jonathan Kamens
It gets curiouser and curiouser. After I sent the log fragment I just sent, we got more strace output in the log, but even after that output, process 1118 is still hanging around apparently doing nothing and the build is still hung. Below is the additional strace output we got and a list of all

Re: Better diagnostics in mmap.cc

2001-02-28 Thread Gene Spleen
>From: "Charles S. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Gene Spleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Better diagnostics in mmap.cc >Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:19:51 -0500 > >Gene Spleen wrote: > > > > Short history and explanation: > > > > According to my Makefile, I'm using

Re: Make hung in WaitForMultipleObjects inside Cygwin

2001-02-28 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Apparently, duplicating this problem under smake was easier than we thought it would be :-). Shortly after we started running builds under smake to try to catch this hang, it appears to have recurred. The Make PID that is hung is 1118. I don't want to include it here since it's almost 4Mb uncomp

Re: Make hung in WaitForMultipleObjects inside Cygwin

2001-02-28 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 10:57 AM 2/28/2001, Jonathan Kamens wrote: >Another approach I'm considering is to compile both cygwin1.dll and >make with debugging symbols and install them without stripping. If I >do that, and then Make hangs and I attach to it with gdb, will I >be able to get a useful backtrace showing whi

Re: Better diagnostics in mmap.cc

2001-02-28 Thread Charles S. Wilson
Gene Spleen wrote: > > Short history and explanation: > > According to my Makefile, I'm using 1.09 > My purpose of using ipc-daemon is to get postgresql to work > on NT (4.0). Unfortunately, fork() is failing trying to remap > shared memory segments between parent and child. Oh yeah -- now I

Re: Better diagnostics in mmap.cc

2001-02-28 Thread Gene Spleen
Short history and explanation: According to my Makefile, I'm using 1.09 My purpose of using ipc-daemon is to get postgresql to work on NT (4.0). Unfortunately, fork() is failing trying to remap shared memory segments between parent and child. My guess from other experience with shared memory I'

Re: Memory problem

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:26:56PM +0100, Peter Boncz wrote: >Hi Tony, > >NT is a bit more vulnerable regarding memory fragmentation than most Unixes. >If you want 450MB in one big array, it may happen that the memory space has >become so fragmented, there is no 450MB slot available anymore in the

Re: ntsec

2001-02-28 Thread Michael Erdely
Whew! Glad I'm not going crazy. Thanks, as always, for your hard work in making such a GREAT product! I use Cygwin/OpenSSH everyday! -ME - Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:50 AM Subject: Re: n

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:52:44PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> another icon ;^). Don't underestimate people using Windows; most of them are >> not idiots and are used to Windows idiosyncrasisms, so when using cygwin >> they can adapt :-) > >I wonder... > >*restrain sarcasm* > >...anyway, you

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:08:00PM -0800, Lothan wrote: >> I'm not sure what qualifies as a dirty secret but the whole principle >> of Cygwin is that it hides things from the user. You really can't >> make this argument if you're talking about Cygwin. > >What kinds of things does Cygwin hide from

Make hung in WaitForMultipleObjects inside Cygwin

2001-02-28 Thread Jonathan Kamens
We're seeing occasional hangs in our builds where Make hangs in a call to WaitForMultipleObjects inside cygwin1.dll, but we don't know what it's waiting for because it in fact has no child processes to wait on. I determined where Make is hung by attaching to it with the Developer Studio debugger.

Re: ntsec

2001-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:52:34AM -0500, Michael Erdely wrote: > OK... Maybe _I_ misunderstood the original poster's point. > > But, yesterday, I was setting up SSHD on a server. In my /etc/passwd file, > I wanted to use "admin" instead of "administrator" since "admin" is less > typing. But I

Re[2]: lseek() misbehaving.

2001-02-28 Thread Egor Duda
Hi! Wednesday, 28 February, 2001 Jesper Eskilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JE> Egor Duda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> i've checked in the patch for fhandler_dev_floppy::lseek several hours >> ago. your program behaves correctly with my current cvs build of >> cygwin1.dll you can wait for a ne

_popen gives no output when run from a remote session

2001-02-28 Thread Keith Starsmeare
The following code when compiled -mno-cygwin doesn't work as expected from a remote telnet session, but works correctly when on the local machine: #include int main() { char psBuffer[128]; FILE *output; if ((output = _popen("nm a.exe", "r")) == NULL ) exit(1); while(!feof(output))

How to compile a .LIB with cygwin for use in MS Visual C

2001-02-28 Thread robert . jan . schutten
Hi all, I am trying to compile library using cygwin. This library compiles perfectly with gcc on various unix platforms and with the cygwin version on gcc on a MS-windows machine. Also usage of this library is working perfectly on all these platforms. Now the problem: I would like to use the co

AW: tcpforwarding under NT

2001-02-28 Thread Mag. M. Faffelberger
hi, unfortunately this doesn't work neither. maybe i describe the situation more exactly: - on the server the sshd runs - another machine has to establish a connection - when connecting, it shall open a tunnel on a port (e.g. 1) - on that port i have to establlich a tcp-forwarding connection

Re: lseek() misbehaving.

2001-02-28 Thread Jesper Eskilson
Egor Duda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i've checked in the patch for fhandler_dev_floppy::lseek several hours > ago. your program behaves correctly with my current cvs build of > cygwin1.dll you can wait for a new snapshot, or build cygwin1.dll from > current cvs yourself, and check if it solve

Re: lseek() misbehaving.

2001-02-28 Thread Jesper Eskilson
Egor Duda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i've checked in the patch for fhandler_dev_floppy::lseek several hours > ago. your program behaves correctly with my current cvs build of > cygwin1.dll you can wait for a new snapshot, or build cygwin1.dll from > current cvs yourself, and check if it solve

Re: lseek() misbehaving.

2001-02-28 Thread Egor Duda
Hi! Wednesday, 28 February, 2001 Jesper Eskilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JE> read() read 32 bytes (requested 32) from fd 3 JE> === JE> b8 c0 7 8e d8 b8 0 90 8e c0 b9 0 1 29 f6 29 ff fc f3 a5 ea 19 0 0 90 bf f4 3f 8e d8 8e d0 JE> === ... JE> read() read 32 bytes (requested 32) from fd

lseek() misbehaving.

2001-02-28 Thread Jesper Eskilson
I've discovered what looks like bug in lseek(). Consider the following program, which basically tries to read the first 32 bytes of /dev/fd0 twice, lseek():ing to the beginning between each read(). The output is: bash$ ./rawdisk /dev/fd0 Filename = /dev/fd0 Doing lseek(3, 0, 0). lseek() succeede

Re: ntsec

2001-02-28 Thread Michael Erdely
OK... Maybe _I_ misunderstood the original poster's point. But, yesterday, I was setting up SSHD on a server. In my /etc/passwd file, I wanted to use "admin" instead of "administrator" since "admin" is less typing. But I didn't/couldn't change the Administrator Windows 2000 account name. So, I

Re: ntsec

2001-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 07:49:42AM -0500, Michael Erdely wrote: > But, Corinna, from /usr/doc/Cygwin/login.README: > Now you may use `domuser' as your login name with telnet!!! What do you want to say? That's correct, you can use login with telnet which is started from inetd which in turn is

Re: tcpforwarding under NT

2001-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:22:06PM +0100, Mag. M. Faffelberger wrote: > then i tried: > ssh -f -n -R 1:host:port user@host"./sleep 3600" > > but there was no port 1 opened on my system. AFAICS you want to use -L. ssh -L 1:host:port [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:41:56AM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > > If "foo.lnk" is a valid shortcut, then I would say the real > > file "foo" should win. That is, the shortcut would be invisible. > > That is IMHO the only consistent behaviour; together with cygwin refusing to > create a li

Re: fpTeX and Cygwin

2001-02-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
"Charles S. Wilson" wrote: > > Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > > The FHS would have these installed in a /opt/package-version directory > > with symlinks in /usr/local/bin and etc.. I would suggest that we could > > go with this for the contrib directory. However, my preference for this > > is /opt/pa

Re: ntsec

2001-02-28 Thread Michael Erdely
But, Corinna, from /usr/doc/Cygwin/login.README: Now you may use `domuser' as your login name with telnet!!! This is possible additionally for local users, if you don't like your NT login name ;-) You only have to leave out the domain: locuser::1104:513:John Doe,U-user,S-1-5-21-..

Re: Tix/Tk with Expect

2001-02-28 Thread Georgios Petasis
On ??? 28 ??? 2001 11:19, you wrote: > Could someone please advise as to the best way to incorporate Expect with > wish or tixwish. (Or even vice versa) > > I have installed the sources for both Tcl/Tk and Expect, and run > configure/make/make install on both. > When I run /usr/local/bin/expect, p

1.1.8: problem building expect

2001-02-28 Thread Norihito Kokai
Hello,my name is Kokai. Please help me. In script of expect: while {[gets $file line] != -1} { puts $line } Execute resoult: can not find channel named "stdout" while executing "puts $line" (file "./test.exp" line 19) The script cannot write to "stdout". In old version,The

RE: Memory problem

2001-02-28 Thread Peter Boncz
Hi Tony, NT is a bit more vulnerable regarding memory fragmentation than most Unixes. If you want 450MB in one big array, it may happen that the memory space has become so fragmented, there is no 450MB slot available anymore in the 2GB or virtual memory space that you have at your disposition. s

tcpforwarding under NT

2001-02-28 Thread Mag. M. Faffelberger
hi, i have established a connection between 2 machines with sshd/ssh. now i have to open a tcp-port for exchanging information between the two machines. i tried the following: in my sshd_config i made the entries: - AllowTcpForwarding yes - GatewayPorts yes then i tried: ssh -f -n -R 1:ho

RE: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Bjoern Kahl AG Resy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 8:07 PM > To: Cygwin > Subject: Re: New symlinks. > > In short: > > Let existing Win-name be "foo.lnk": > > posix- > name | valid shortcut | not shortcut > ---

Re: Memory problem

2001-02-28 Thread Stephen C. Biggs
Check it out you seem to have an old version of Cygwin somewhere else... Look at all the "... hides..." warnings about c:\cygnus\cygwin~1\h- i586~1\ in your cygcheck output. Do something about this, and your problems might just go away. On 28 Feb 2001, at 10:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >

Re: RSA authentication

2001-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:15:35AM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:43:59 +0100, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You can log in using RSA only to the user account which has started > > sshd. So if you need to logon as admin, start sshd as service under > > adm

Memory problem

2001-02-28 Thread Tony_LELIEVRE
Here I am again ! (see my former message VirtualAlloc failed : 26/02/2001 09h21) I have now installed CygWin 1.1.8 on NT 4.0. I have a finite element program in c++ which works on SGI. I want it to work on NT. I compiled this program with cygwin, using the bash and the new library gcc-3 : ever

Re: chmod

2001-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:34:17AM +0100, Mag. M. Faffelberger wrote: > hi, > > where can i find a listing of poosible modes and their meanings for "chmod" Command line: man chmod Webbrowser: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/chmod.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: ntsec

2001-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Sorry folks but you both are missing the obvious: To change the user context in NT/W2K you need special user rights which are NOT given to Administrator by default. Only LocalSystem (=SYSTEM) has this rights. Description in /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README. Corinna On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at

Re: Patch submission for AltGr handling

2001-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:39:36PM -0800, Jason Tiller wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > Actually, I have no problems with having both ALT keys generate a > > meta. I would rather not add to the plethora of CYGWIN options if > > we can help it. > [...] > from the changes

Re: /usr/bin/autoscan incorrectly configured.

2001-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:56:59AM -0800, Andy Piper wrote: > Its looking for perl in /usr/local/bin Thanks for the hint. I've updated it. Should be on the mirrors tomorrow. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer

Tix/Tk with Expect

2001-02-28 Thread philw
Could someone please advise as to the best way to incorporate Expect with wish or tixwish. (Or even vice versa) I have installed the sources for both Tcl/Tk and Expect, and run configure/make/make install on both. When I run /usr/local/bin/expect, package names only shows Expect and Tcl. /usr/loc

Re: RSA authentication

2001-02-28 Thread Ehud Karni
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:43:59 +0100, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can log in using RSA only to the user account which has started > sshd. So if you need to logon as admin, start sshd as service under > admin account. Any other user has to use password authentication > or has

Re: New symlinks.

2001-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:32:01PM -0500, McCunney, Dennis wrote: > Why not treat the new symlinks like Unix "." files: the .lnk extension is > not shown in a standard directory list, but _will_ be shown by "ls -a", or > if the user provides the explicit file name to ls. That's my point. Not with

chmod

2001-02-28 Thread Mag. M. Faffelberger
hi, where can i find a listing of poosible modes and their meanings for "chmod" thanx matthias -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

[Please Test]: Full bind-8.2.3 cygwin port package publicly available

2001-02-28 Thread Stephen C. Biggs
... at ftp://biggs-ports.sourceforge.net/pub/biggs-ports/bind-8 ... please test and advise... More patches to come. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple