Re: [PATCH] Proposed clarification of the snapshot installation FAQ

2006-01-12 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 1/11/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: As mentioned in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00537.html, here's a patch to the FAQ to clarify the section on installing snapshots. I didn't know whether the various *.texinfo files are still used, so I ported the modifications there as well, just in

Re: [Patch]: Changes to how-programming.texinfo

2005-07-15 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 7/15/05, Brian Dessent wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Btw, the other license provision in the cygwin licensing web page was really meant as a way to accommodate other, already existing projects. So do we want to change the wording at all? Last I checked RHEL and FC were *still*

Re: [Patch] Loading cygwin1.dll from MinGW and MSVC

2005-06-04 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 6/3/05, Max Kaehn wrote: This patch contains the changes to make it possible to dynamically load cygwin1.dll from MinGW and MSVC applications. The changes to dcrt0.cc are minimal and only affect cygwin_dll_init(). I've also added a MinGW test program to testsuite and a FAQ so people will

Re: [Patch] Loading cygwin1.dll from MinGW and MSVC

2005-06-04 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 6/4/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: If you want to me to revert the patch, please let me know. Otherwise, please just massage it as you see fit. No, not a problem. I'll just edit it a bit.

Re: ssp.c (usage): Add missing linefeed.

2004-05-30 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I went ahead and applied this. It doesn't appear to break anything. :) On Mon, 24 May 2004 05:11:51 +0100, John Paul Wallington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2004-05-24 John Paul Wallington [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ssp.c (usage): Add missing linefeed. --- ssp.c 14 Feb 2004 19:43:07

Re: [UG Patch] kmem and check_case typo

2004-05-30 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:22:20 -0500, Brian Ford wrote: Ok, then shouldn't we apply the following patch to the users guide? (plus a typo fix) Applied with the planned for development euphamism.

Re: [UG Patch] kmem and check_case typo

2004-05-24 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:22:20 -0500, Brian Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 May 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 20 09:22, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: BTW, should /dev/kmem work also? No, only /dev/mem and /dev/port are working. /dev/kmem is still looking for a

Re: Are cygwin-ug and cygwin-api-int used?

2004-01-20 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:45:20PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: I would like to remove two build targets from winsup/doc/Makefile.in: cygwin-ug/cygwin-ug.html cygwin-api-int/cygwin-api-int.html As far as I can tell, these are not used for anything and have

Added Quick Start to Users' Guide

2004-01-15 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I just checked in a couple patches to the Users' Guide. The big news is two short Quick Start sections focused on those with Windows or Unix experience. 2004-01-15 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * setup-net.sgml: Add internet-setup id anchor. * overview.sgml: Update

Many updates to winsup/doc

2004-01-11 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I just committed several changes to winsup/doc. Most are small edits to various sections of the User's Guide, but there are two that I should draw attention to. First, I updated the DTD declaration in the sgml.in files to the official DocBook 4.2 SGML DTD, added a new DSSSL stylesheet called

Are cygwin-ug and cygwin-api-int used?

2004-01-11 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I would like to remove two build targets from winsup/doc/Makefile.in: cygwin-ug/cygwin-ug.html cygwin-api-int/cygwin-api-int.html As far as I can tell, these are not used for anything and have references to the GNUPro release. This would not effect the net release versions of

Re: mkpasswd and mkgroup

2003-04-05 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Pierre A. Humblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Corinna, Hmm. I feel like I'm eavesdropping. Following remarks made on the list this patch - allows to specify several domains at once with -d I just don't understand this one. Can someone be logged into multiple domains at once? - only

Improve setup-net.sgml based on comments

2003-03-23 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I checked in some changes. 2003-03-23 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * setup-net.sgml: Improve setup.exe documentation Index: setup-net.sgml === RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/doc/setup-net.sgml,v retrieving

Patched doc/setup-net.sgml

2003-03-22 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I just committed a big pactch to doc/setup-net.sgml that more or less documents setup.exe. Resulting HTML can temporarily be seen at: http://iocc.com/~joshua/cygwin/setup-net.html 2003-03-22 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * setup-net.sgml: Document setup.exe

Re: Patched doc/setup-net.sgml

2003-03-22 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 02:11:32PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: I just committed a big pactch to doc/setup-net.sgml that more or less documents setup.exe. Resulting HTML can temporarily be seen at: http://iocc.com/~joshua/cygwin/setup

Re: Patched doc/setup-net.sgml

2003-03-22 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to update the cygwin web pages if you want. OK... how? CVS - :ext:cygwin.com:/cvs/cygwin I've got this ready to go, but there are quite a few small differences between the ones in htdocs/cygwin-ug-net and my cygwin-ug-net, I

Re: Patched doc/setup-net.sgml

2003-03-22 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:47:08PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Is this going to matter? No. Committed. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your

Re: utils.sgml (was Re: mkpasswd mkgroup)

2003-03-01 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
At 02:45 PM 2/25/2003 -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Any progress on documenting these in utils.sgml? On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:43:20AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Yes! Thanks Pierre! I checked this in with only a small grammatical change. ? utils.sgml-orig ? utils.sgml-patch

Re: Produce beeps using soundcard

2003-02-13 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
From 'man bash': escape sequences, if present, are decoded as follows: \a alert (bell) Wouldn't this be better called bell or alert? --- Vaclav Haisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, this small patch adds an ability to produce beeps (\a) using soundcard by

heap_chunk_in_mb patch

2003-02-05 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I committed this patch to document heap_chunk_in_mb. 2003-02-05 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * setup-net.sgml: Add setup-maxmem section * setup2.sgml: New section setup-maxmem to document heap_chunk_in_mb Index: setup-net.sgml

doc patch for CYGWIN codepage=, regtool

2003-02-02 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
but it would be great to get patches for utils.sgml whenever a util is patched, or at least a heads-up. 2003-02-02 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * cygwinenv.sgml: Add section for CYGWIN codepage:[ansi|oem] * dll.sgml: Add pointer to GCC website for more information

Re: doc patch for CYGWIN codepage=, regtool

2003-02-02 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Incidentally, does anyone know where the source of the regtool manpage is? It should be patched accordingly, but I couldn't find it. (Also replied to in [EMAIL PROTECTED]) From /usr/doc/Cygwin/cygwin-doc-1.3-2.README : - The two intro pages (intro.1 and intro.3) were written by hand

grammar in doc/ntsec.sgml

2002-10-22 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I applied this patch to fix the grammar issues mentioned here: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-10/msg01293.html I also applied the earlier patch to doc/dll.sgml mentioned: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2002-q4/msg7.html ChangeLog: 2002-10-22 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL

User's Guide DLL building patch

2002-10-16 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
. ChangeLog (this is in the doc subdir): 2002-10-16 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * dll.sgml: Clarify discussion of building dlls. --- dll.sgml-orig 2002-10-15 22:48:29.0 -0500 +++ dll.sgml2002-10-15 23:31:47.0 -0500 @@ -39,19 +39,18 @@ For this example

Re: YACP

2002-06-22 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
. I'm not intimate with getopt but it looks like the flag part of long_options struct should be set to NULL if you're using the optarg. ChangeLog: 2002-06-22 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * cygpath.cc (long_options): Add dos and mixed, correct close, file and type to use

YACP

2002-06-20 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
, and various cleanup in usage(). ChangeLog: 2002-06-18 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * cygpath.cc (usage): Clean up usage output (more). (main): Change --type option to --mixed; remove '/* nothing */'. Make UNIXy output default. --- cygpath.cc-orig Thu

Re: YACP

2002-06-20 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
should mean short-name as well. So should I put together another patch to do this as well? And BTW, is the UNIXy default OK? --- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 06:17:21PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: YACP (Yet Another Cygpath Patch) The major change

Re: passwd edited /etc/passwd patch

2002-06-13 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:18:15PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: + /* Try getting a Win32 username in case the user edited /etc/passwd */ + if (ret == NERR_UserNotFound) + { +if ((pw = getpwnam (user))) + cygwin_internal

passwd edited /etc/passwd patch

2002-06-11 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
-06-11 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * passwd.c (GetPW): Handle case of user-edited /etc/passwd with cygwin_internal (CW_EXTRACT_DOMAIN_AND_USER, ...) --- passwd.c-orig Tue Jun 11 20:13:51 2002 +++ passwd.cTue Jun 11 19:59:17 2002 @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ details

Re: Patch for sub-second resolution in stat(2)

2002-06-06 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
You know, I had some trouble with this, too. Maybe it would be worth adding to contrib.html that attaching a ChangeLog.txt file works well to preserve formatting? --- Conrad Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attach the ChangeLog entry to the mail, make sure

ssp.c patch

2002-06-05 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
is only a few lines. I could leave the --version part out but this made more sense to me. P.S. I also found two variable-name typos in the run_program (char * cmdline) function and fixed it. ChangeLog: 2002-06-03 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ssp.c (version): New global variable

Re: passwd help/version patch

2002-05-30 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
with. 2002-05-30 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * passwd.c (extract_nt_dom_user): New function. (GetPW): Try to look up Win32 username in case of NERR_UserNotFound. --- passwd.c-orig Thu May 30 20:05:05 2002 +++ passwd.cThu May 30 20:54:10 2002 @@ -28,6 +28,7

Re: ps help, version patch

2002-05-28 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good formatting, wrong date == extremely minor problem. Applied. Thanks. cgf After getting some sleep, I also noticed this line in my usage function: With options, %s outputs the long format by default\n, prog_name, prog_name); which

ps help, version patch

2002-05-27 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Here is the --help, --version patch for ps. With, I hope, a proper ChangeLog. 2002-05-13 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ps.cc (prog_name): New global variable. (longopts): Ditto. (opts): Ditto. (usage): New function. (print_version): New

setfacl version patch

2002-05-23 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
first and then the options in alphabetical order. You might want to take a look and make sure I didn't screw anything up in the description. 2002-05-23 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * setfacl.c (usage) Standardize usage output. Change return type to static void

mount --version pathc

2002-05-22 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Here is a --version patch for mount. I also alphabetized longopts, opts, and the getopt case statement. ChangeLog: 2002-05-22 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * mount.cc (version) New global variable. (usage) Standardize usage output. Accomodate new version option

Re: getfacl help/version patch

2002-05-21 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:33:01PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Here is a patch to getfacl that adds longopts for all options, standardizes the usage output, and adds the GNU standard --version option. I'm all for it but the patch doesn't apply cleanly against current CVS. Could

Re: long-option kill patch

2002-05-13 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 08:30:09PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Is there something wrong with the patch for kill.cc? It's a very simple patch: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2002-q2/msg00146.html I'd be happy to fix

stackdump.sgml new file

2002-04-03 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I was thinking about writing some updated documentation as requested lately on the mailing list (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-03/msg01633.html) I've started by writing a new file to document the existance of the cygwin_stackdump() function. ChangeLog: 2001-04-03 Joshua Daniel Franklin

mkpasswd patch

2002-03-19 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
/msg00339.html I forgot the attachment the first time and never heard anything more... Thanks. Changelog: 2001-03-19 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * mkpasswd.c (usage): Simplify usage output. Generalize to allow use for help. Correct '?' typo to 'h'. (longopts

new mkgroup patch

2002-03-16 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Here is a new patch that retains the multiple fprintf's instead of using a multiline one in the usage function. Also adds version option, etc.: 2002-03-16 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * mkgroup.c (usage): Simplify usage output. Generalize to allow use for help

Re: mkgroup usage/version patch

2002-03-14 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I'm going with the decision to add a version information I don't understand why you changed - the usage output method. I don't like to have a big multiline format string in fprintf. Well, I could just as easily changed all the lines to

mkgroup usage/version patch

2002-03-13 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * mkgroup.c (usage): Simplify usage output. Generalize to allow use for help. Correct '?' typo to 'h'. (longopts): Add version option. (opts): Add 'v' version option. (print_version): New function. (main

Re: big kill patch (adds list/help/version)

2002-03-11 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No lectures, please. If you want to get rid of a goto, fine. 'twas a joke. Sorry. I'm sorry but 'kill -l' has an established way of working. How does the linux kill program handle this? RedHat's prints a list like 1) SIGHUP 2) SIGINT

Re: big kill patch (adds list/help/version)

2002-03-11 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does the linux kill program handle this? RedHat's prints a list like 1) SIGHUP 2) SIGINT 3) SIGQUIT 4) SIGILL 5) SIGTRAP 6) SIGABRT 7) SIGBUS 8) SIGFPE ... Looks hard-coded to me, but I didn't look at

(small) kill.cc patch

2002-03-11 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Here is a patch that moves the functions in kill.cc to the top. That's all it does. This is for consistency with the other utils. 2001-03-11 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * kill.cc (usage) move to top of file (getsig) ditto (forcekill) ditto

long-option patch for kill.cc

2002-03-11 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
(not getopt), so I didn't really find what I was looking for. This patch changes the option-handling in kill to use a switch instead of if/else if/else clauses. It also enables basic long-option handling. 2001-03-11 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * kill.cc (main): Handle options

long-option patch for kill.cc

2002-03-11 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Um. And here's the patch. __ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ --- kill.cc-origMon Mar 11 19:48:34 2002 +++ kill.cc Mon Mar 11 19:55:19 2002 -1,6 +1,6 /* kill.cc -

big kill patch (adds list/help/version)

2002-03-10 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
for this, or would it have to be hard-coded? 2002-03-10 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * kill.cc (sig0) New function. Process signals given on command line. (usage) Generalize to allow use for help. Describe options. (list_signals) New fucntion. (print_version) New

getfacl.c help/version patch

2002-03-09 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
-03-09 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * getfacl.c (usage) Standardize usage output. Change return type to static void. Add exit point within function. (longopts) Added longopts for all options. (print_version) New function. (main) Accommodate

dumper.exe help/version patch

2002-03-08 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
compilers. 2002-03-09 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * dumper.cc (usage) Standardize usage output. Generalize to allow use for help. (longopts) New struct. Added longopts for all options. (print_version) New function. (main) Change getopt to getopt_long

Re: cygpath copyright/version patch

2002-03-07 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:56:34PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Changelog: 2002-02-27 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * cygpath.cc (print_version): New function. (main): Accommodate new version function. Initialize 'o

Re: version information for cygcheck

2002-02-27 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Warren Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: -z, --version output version information and exit I used -z since -v is --verbose. It could also have no character option if that would be better. Why not -V? No no no. Makes much too much sense

Re: version information for cygcheck

2002-02-27 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Warren Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: -z, --version output version information and exit I used -z since -v is --verbose. It could also have no character option if that would be better. Why not -V? No no no. Makes much too much sense

Re: help/version patches

2002-02-27 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's no need for a loop. There really shouldn't be any need to accommodate the missing colon but it doesn't hurt too much to add a test case. I've checked in a modified version of your patch. I cleaned up some of the non-GNU formatting,

RE: help/version patches

2002-02-26 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] +const char *revision=$Revision: 1.22 $; This is suspect: The revision string can look like $Revision:$ in some circumstances - see man co again - which

Re: help/version patches

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Adding version numbers is not a bad idea (although, I can't honestly think of a time when it would have helped to have this information). Adding version numbers in the middle of the program, in the middle of a text string is, IMO, a bad idea. The version number should be at the top of the

Re: help/version patches

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Adding version numbers is not a bad idea (although, I can't honestly think of a time when it would have helped to have this information). Adding version numbers in the middle of the program, in the middle of a text string is, IMO, a bad idea. The version number should be at the top of the

Re: help/version patches

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Adding version numbers is not a bad idea (although, I can't honestly think of a time when it would have helped to have this information). Adding version numbers in the middle of the program, in the middle of a text string is, IMO, a bad idea. The version number should be at the top of the

Re: help/version patches

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Adding version numbers is not a bad idea (although, I can't honestly think of a time when it would have helped to have this information). Adding version numbers in the middle of the program, in the middle of a text string is, IMO, a bad idea. The version number should be at the top of the