Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-1

2002-11-18 Thread Rolf Campbell
butes of the termios module seem to have disappeared. I really don't know what these are, or what they are used for, but if anyone knows what I can change them to, to make it work, I'd be appreciative. -Rolf Campbell [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-1 From

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-1

2002-11-18 Thread Rolf Campbell
, 2002 3:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-1 Rolf, On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:23:13PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: I tried going back to python-2.2.1-1, and everything started working again. Really? I just tried

RE: dd command problem??

2002-11-18 Thread Rolf Campbell
This is in the User Guide: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html 'a:', or 'a:/' is the name of the root directory of the floppy drive, it in not the name of the device. -Original Message- From: Bizhong Hu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 17,

Recent cygwin (1.3.15) causes make -rsj4 to stop

2002-11-21 Thread Rolf Campbell
Title: Message For months, I've been running "make -rsj4" to perform some build that generally takes about 4 mins. Recently (when I upgraded from 1.3.14 to 1.3.14), this has been killing my machine. After about 2 minutes of the make running, I notice my system becoming very sluggish (like

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.16-1

2002-11-23 Thread Rolf Campbell
This has significantly helped the problems that I was experiencing with make -j4 locking up my system (it no longer does). Now, I've noticed another (possibly independent) problem. I've attached the cygcheck output and the makefile that exhibits the problem. The makefile creates 1000 c-files,

RE: gcc problem?

2002-11-23 Thread Rolf Campbell
This is not a bug in Cygwin or Gcc. Scanf(%s, ...) only reads from the stdin if the input buffer is empty. If you only enter a single word on the first prompt, then it will wait for you to type the 2nd word. If Borland produces different results then maybe they are wrong (or simply different).

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-1

2002-11-23 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Jason Tishler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 7:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-1 Rolf, On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:49:32PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: I have

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.17-1

2002-11-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
When I download that package from http://mirror.rcn.net, it says it is corrupt: Installation error (ø#9612;®#9612;ksum failure for file://long local path omitted/cygwin-1.3.17-1.tar.bz2), Continue with other packages? And yes, the word checksum seems to be spelled with a ® I tried downloading it 4

RE: cygwin 1.3.17-1

2002-11-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
I've checked, and the file is the size expected in setup.ini (1091203 bytes). Also, the md5sum in setup.ini matches the md5sum of the file on mirrors.rcn.net. But, setup 2.249.2.5 still complains about the file being corrupt and won't install it. Oh, wait, it just worked. I don't know why. I

RE: Cygwin official logo ?

2002-11-29 Thread Rolf Campbell
You got my vote. -Original Message- From: Barry Buchbinder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 9:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin official logo ? How about a penguin looking through a window? The penguin is from

RE: Cygwin official logo ?

2002-11-29 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: egor duda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 9:59 AM To: Barry Buchbinder Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin official logo ? BB How about a penguin looking through a window? It'd be clearly misleading. Cygwin is not

RE: problem with chroot causing Cygwin to get confused about the root directory

2002-12-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
When I try chroot . in bash I get: $ chroot . chroot: cannot execute /bin/sh: No such file or directory -Original Message- From: Chris January [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 5:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem with chroot causing Cygwin to

RE: strtof is missing

2002-12-05 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 4:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: strtof is missing On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 20:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Removing the symbol might break

RE: strtof is missing

2002-12-05 Thread Rolf Campbell
Wouldn't it be more helpful to point out that the function is deprecated? -Rolf -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 5:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: strtof is missing On Thu,

RE: Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated

2002-12-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
Your are using textmode mounts. Worx fine with binmode: /home/rcampbell cat a A a a A /home/rcampbell od -tx1 a 000 61 0a 61 0a 004 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: /tmp

2002-12-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
You can mount /tmp to be anywhere (including c:/temp if you want). -Original Message- From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 2:12 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: /tmp I'm intrigued, where would you have it point then ? c:\temp ?

unable to allocate heap

2002-12-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
? The maching doing the build is running 1.3.17. -Rolf Campbell Software Designer Tropic Networks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

Pipelines and return codes

2003-01-12 Thread Rolf Campbell
... But, if gcc fails, sed will still work, thus make will not consider it a failure and will continue. I know there are many ways to avoid this specific problem, already implemented one. Just wanted to let you guys know. -Rolf Campbell Software Designer Tropic Networks -- Unsubscribe info

Return codes and pipelines

2003-01-12 Thread Rolf Campbell
... But, if gcc fails, sed will still work, thus make will not consider it a failure and will continue. I know there are many ways to avoid this specific problem, already implemented one. Just wanted to let you guys know. -Rolf Campbell Software Designer Tropic Networks -- Unsubscribe info

RE: Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting

2003-01-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 4:06 PM To: Ralf Hauser Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Ralf Hauser wrote: Is there a way to have

sigaction siginfo_t SIGSEGV

2003-01-21 Thread Rolf Campbell
other ways of trapping reads/writes to/from memory regions? -Rolf Campbell Software Designer Tropic Networks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

RE: df failes to list directory-mounted volumes

2003-01-24 Thread Rolf Campbell
Cygwin df does not show Windows mounts, it shows cygwin mounts only. -Original Message- From: Brian McGroarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: df failes to list directory-mounted volumes Windows NT and XP can mount

RE: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-25 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Rafael Kitover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: idea for a new project, libntcmd Currently there is a fundamental divide between the cmd.exe shell and a unix shell, even on windows with

RE: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%

2003-01-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:03 PM To: Elfyn McBratney; cygwin; David Christensen Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE% ... environments

bash $PS1 (display error)

2003-01-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
if the path is wider than the display. -Rolf Campbell Software Designer Tropic Networks Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Jan 31 22:35:01 2003 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin

RE: bash $PS1 (display error)

2003-01-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
the displayed input lines. Randall Schulz At 19:41 2003-01-31, Rolf Campbell wrote: I've noticed several display problems with bash and prompts. Here's an easy way to recreate one of them: (I've marked the lines to alleviate the wrapping problem) #line 1 PS1='$PWD ' #line2 mkdir

RE: bash $PS1 (display error)

2003-02-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: bash $PS1 (display error) At 20:37 2003-01-31, Rolf Campbell wrote: My prompt is (from the script below) PS1='$PWD '. All

RE: bash $PS1 (display error)

2003-02-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
-Original Message- From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:01 PM To: Rolf Campbell; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: bash $PS1 (display error) Rolf, That's hardly surprising. I assumed you encountered the problem because you

RE: 1.3.19: fork() strange memory leak under W2K

2003-02-08 Thread Rolf Campbell
Works for me on Win2000Pro+SP3/PIII. -Original Message- From: Victor Antonovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 5:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 1.3.19: fork() strange memory leak under W2K Hello! Some time ago, when I was using at home

Cygwin signal bandwidth

2003-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
While working on a project, I had the need to run a function every millisecond. So, my first attempt was to fork() and then loop sending a signal then delaying 1ms. What I found was that a cygwin process can only receive about 100 signals/sec before it uses up 100% of the processor (on a

Cygwin signal bandwidth

2003-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
While working on a project, I had the need to run a function every millisecond. So, my first attempt was to fork() and then loop sending a signal then delaying 1ms. What I found was that a cygwin process can only recieve about 100 signals/sec before it uses up 100% of the processor (on a

Re: Cygwin signal bandwidth

2003-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
Sorry about the multiple posts, I was trying to use gmane and it delayed delivery of my messages for 90 minutes, so I did the naive thing and sent it two more times. -Rolf Rolf Campbell wrote: While working on a project, I had the need to run a function every millisecond. So, my first

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-6.1.300-1

2003-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
Salvo wrote: I've updated the version of vim to 6.1.300-1. Thanks, but I've tried some mirrors, but still 6.1.2 version is on them. Yup, some mirrors are slow, some are not. The rcn mirrors have it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Shell brace expansion in make works?

2003-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
William A. Gatliff wrote: I have a Makefile with a command like this: mkdir -p /opt/billgatliff/{usr,lib} Works fine under Linux, but not on the latest Cygwin. Under Cygwin, what I actually get is a directory called {usr, instead of usr. Other variations on this brace expansion (in tar

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: 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

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: 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:

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: 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

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: /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

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: 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

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

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: 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

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: 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: 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

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 #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

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

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: 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

Re: Cannot get ^Z to suspend a program

2003-02-10 Thread Rolf Campbell
Samir Gupta wrote: thanks for the reply: I was trying to use CTRL-Z after opening up a windows program (such as emacs -- the windows version or excel) Cygwin cannot control how windows programs handle CTRL+Z. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Cannot get ^Z to suspend a program

2003-02-10 Thread Rolf Campbell
linda w (cyg) wrote: 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 Sure, but those programs hook the key(s) in

RE: Cannot get ^Z to suspend a program

2003-02-10 Thread Rolf Campbell
As I understand it, 'cygwin' does not kill the program, the program kills itself on Ctrl+C. PS: please do not respond to me personally. -Original Message- From: Samir Gupta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 8:39 PM To: Rolf Campbell Subject: RE: Cannot get

Re: Bug Report: isxxx on gcc 3.2

2003-02-10 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gustavo Guerra wrote: Hi std::isgraph(char), std::isalpha(char) and std::alnum(char) are not working correctly on latest cygwin. They return false for á à é í ó ú ç and other characters like that. Regards Gustavo Guerra Looking at newlib/libc/ctype/ctype_.c, it looks like cygwin only handles

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
Well, I maintain an internal mirror for my company, and I use a custom python script to parse our custom setup.ini and fetch the needed packages. But, I never used sources.redhat.com. Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I tried an

Re: cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behavior weirdness

2003-03-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
Works for me using rxvt. Richard H. Broberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In non-cygwin unix I'm familiar with being able to do the following in a shell (bash or other): $ nohup long-running-command $ exit and be able to leave it running. However, under

Re: cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behavior weirdness

2003-03-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
Works for me using rxvt. Richard H. Broberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In non-cygwin unix I'm familiar with being able to do the following in a shell (bash or other): $ nohup long-running-command $ exit and be able to leave it running. However, under

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.21-1

2003-03-12 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. - Fix setsid problem where processes did not correctly detach from a console. (Christopher Faylor) I commonly run a compilation

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.21-1

2003-03-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 06:02:22PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. - Fix setsid problem where processes did

Re: Weird stuff in /proc/cpuinfo

2003-03-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
Norman Vine wrote: Thanks much better I noticed another quirk though a 'control-C' while % ls /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/ is still printing to the terminal hangs hard WFM -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: cygwin 1.3.21 breaks ssh terminal interaction

2003-03-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:48:40PM +0100, Loewis Martin von wrote: After upgrading to the latest cygwin, ssh won't ask me for a password anymore in the terminal window that WinCVS 1.3.12.1 opens. I have confirmed that this is the cause of the problem by reverting cygwin

Re: cygwin 1.3.21 breaks ssh terminal interaction

2003-03-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
this with -mno-cygwin and without it, and run it from cmd. The Cygwin app will allocate a new console, the native app won't. Is that the STC you were looking for (or is it not the right problem)? rlc On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:48

Re: user homepath

2003-03-15 Thread Rolf Campbell
Max Bowsher wrote: Ling F. Zhang wrote: another question is really windows 2000 related...I renamed my Administrator account to Admin but all my stuff are still in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator how do I migrate it completely (file and registry and any other necessity) to C:\Documents and

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.21-1

2003-03-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm looking forward to seeing someone debug what the problem is here. Me too. Just to be clear: I don't know emacs. I'm not refusing to work on the problem. I don't know how to duplicate it and I don't have the time to track it down now if I did. Ok, had some time to

Re: Latest snapshot fixes some reported problems -- please try

2003-03-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made a new snapshot of cygwin available. This is a departure from previous snapshot in that it is built from a branch rather than from the CVS trunk. The branch contains an accumulation of all of the fixes that have shown up on the CVS trunk minus any new 64 bit

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gawk-3.1.2-1

2003-03-17 Thread Rolf Campbell
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I've updated the version of GNU awk to 3.1.2-1. This is a official release update. The Cygwin release is based on the original sources with just one tweak to regex.c which disallowed building gawk under Cygwin 1.3.21. Why would you tweak it to make it not build under

Re: allocating large amounts of memory fails

2003-03-20 Thread Rolf Campbell
Michel G rimminck wrote: I have been trying to run my application under cygwin 1.3.22, but I have some problems with memory allocation with malloc() under gnuC. I have set heap_chunk_in_mb to 4095 in order to assign cygwin more memory. But for some reason I can not allocate more than 1536 Mb. My

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
Robert Collins wrote: A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed. The new version is available from http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.exe (binary) and

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

2003-03-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
You mean cygpath -w -p /bin, because he said I need to determine the native path to the directory containing cygwin1.dll John Morrison wrote: You didn't say whether you wanted it for a script or exe, for a script... cygpath -w -p / works for me :) J. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 03:15, Rolf Campbell wrote: Robert Collins wrote: A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed. The new version is available from http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

2003-03-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Elfyn McBratney wrote: But as cgf (the Really Cool Manager) said the registry keys are not to be relied on as they might not be there forever. Yeah but what I'm saying is that there should be a commitment to at least one registry entry which denotes the [active]

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

2003-03-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
Francis Litterio wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Secondly, if I could get my users to set their ApplicationPaths I could as easily get them to set their PATHs. The real world situation is that this is not the case and neither PATH nore ApplicationPaths are set. Here's an idea: Traverse the

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
Robert Collins wrote: A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed. The new version is available from http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.exe (binary) and

Re: accessing drives at block level in win98

2003-03-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I have searched but have been unable to solve the following problem: Can win98 access /dev/sda directly? the article here suggests that only NT+ can do this??? http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html That article is correct. You can't do

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

2003-03-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
And about searching for bin/cygwin1.dll. You could first try C:\cygwin\bin\ (which should match 99% of all cases), Sorry. I count for more than 1% ;-) just this time; to break your assumption Software packages belong in C:\Program\* and nowhere else (Note that this is equal to C:\Program

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-29 Thread Rolf Campbell
Robert Collins wrote: Regarding XFree auto-installation... Cygwin Package Information ... libPropList 0.10.1-3 This requires XFree86-base. So setup is doing the right thing. Rob Well, unistalling that makes this setup work the same as the old setup. So, does this setup do

Re: 1.3.22: (gcc) problem using gettimeofday with -mno-cygwin

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Rob Siklos wrote: Hello, I am trying to compile the following trivial program: #include stdio.h #include sys/time.h int main() { struct timeval tv; gettimeofday(tv, NULL) ; printf(%ld %ld\n, tv.tv_sec, tv.tv_usec); return 0; } When I use gcc with no options, everything

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:10, Vince Hoffman wrote: Ok, well this is 'not good' :}. At what point does it crash? At start before any window appears. Shuttting down cygwin services made no difference. let me know if there is any more i can do to help the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: perl-5.8.0-2 release has been uploaded to sourceware -- it should be on the mirrors soon. Several problems with this version. A bunch of my scripts have stopped working, and when I tried to figure out why, I got some very strange behavior from the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-2.7.10-1

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
The icon associated with the rxvt window has changed (to the windows icon). Steve O wrote: rxvt is a terminal program that can be used instead of the windows command shell. It does not require an X server. Geoff Wing has recently released rxvt 2.7.10, a development version that disables features

RE: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
So, is this a cygwin perl problem? Or has the stock perl decided to only work with magic ENV variables? -Original Message- From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 3:30 PM To: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2 Hallo Rolf

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Max Bowsher wrote: Rolf Campbell wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:10, Vince Hoffman wrote: Ok, well this is 'not good' :}. At what point does it crash? At start before any window appears. Shuttting down cygwin services made no difference. let me know

OT: disk structure (was Re: Determining the location of a Cygwininstallation)

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rolf Campbell Software packages belong in C:\Program\* and nowhere else (Note that this is equal to C:\Program Files\* on ENGLISH Win98. Ahhh... yeah. So, what is the rest of the disk

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Peter Davis wrote: I recently switched from Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 to Windows XP. I installed cygwin freshly on both systems. Now I'm noticing that on both systems, .bashrc seems to be completely ignored. I haven't changed this file at all, but suddenly the aliases I define and export are

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: P.S. On an unrelated note, the use of shell functions is recommended over the use of aliases. Why is that? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Peter Davis wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:15:13 -0500 Rolf Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Davis wrote: I recently switched from Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 to Windows XP. I installed cygwin freshly on both systems. Now I'm noticing that on both systems, .bashrc seems to be completely

Re: bash hang ( G:\Cygwin\bin\find.exe: *** WFSO timed out for afterlongjmp)

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Elfyn McBratney wrote: Hi, I've seen this quite a lot of hangs over the last 3-4 months when doing large find's and it's not always easy reproduce and normally occurs when find has finished and returned, but not always. If you run the following from a bash prompt (seen it in cmd.exe and rxvt) and

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Rolf schrieb: So, is this a cygwin perl problem? Or has the stock perl decided to only work with magic ENV variables? I don't see the problem in the latest Perl (5.9.0) and I'm trying to figure out how it can be fixed, in the meantime, please try to use the magic

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
Peter Davis wrote: Ok. There ain't much worth cracking my system for anyway. Here's the /etc/passwd file from one machine below. Thanks for any help with this! -pd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote: Peter Davis wrote: Ok. There ain't much worth cracking my system for anyway. Here's the /etc/passwd file from one machine below. Thanks for any help with this! -pd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:17:48AM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: Peter Davis wrote: Ok. There ain't much worth cracking my system for anyway. Here's the /etc/passwd file from one machine below. Thanks for any help with this! -pd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
Peter Davis wrote: To recap, this same exact .bashrc file used to work, on my previous Windows(2000) machine. Now, on WinXP, it doesn't. In fact, even if I explicitly type source~/.bashrc at the shell prompt, it doesn't work. This is because ~ expands to ${HOME}, which is /cygdrive/c/home. I

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