Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-2.7.10-3 (shortcut prob)

2003-04-03 Thread Steve O
> no longer works -- it launches the window and hangs without ever > displaying anything. Typing a character crashes it. Your trace shows rxvt receiving a ^G and lots of nulls at startup which is odd. I couldn't tell too much more since your trace looks a lot different than a trace I made. You

Re: compiling gcc 3.2.2 with mingw support

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Warner
There is on the cygwin ftp the gcc-mingw package for the 3.2 version. But it is simply the binary from the gcc 3.2 which are being copied in the directories, there is nothing special (well I didn't find something special). I tried to reproduce it for the 3.2.2 but it doesn't do anything really

RE: su questions

2003-04-03 Thread Rodrigo Serra
Pierre, I try your suggestion and works :). Where I can find the su documentation? The su works but I need su with no password, like root on unix box. I try to set blank password and su no ask for password, but is a serious security hole. I need this because postgresql daemon need run by "postgr

RE: su questions

2003-04-03 Thread Rodrigo Serra
Pierre, The cygwin environment is binmode ntsec tty. This following string is extracted from cygwin1.dll "1.3.22-dontuse-21". Windows is "Windows.NET Server 2003" RC2. This happen only when try to use no password authentication. Thanks Rodrigo -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiling gcc 3.2.2 with mingw support

2003-04-03 Thread Joakim Olsson
I'm going to try the way you did, but I haven't got the time now, maybe a week or so ;-) I would think taht someone must have compiled a gcc 3.x.x with mingw support before, or? /Joakim Olsson SWEDEN - Original Message - From: "Brian Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Rudiyanto Gunawan
From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rudiyanto, I'm replying back to your Hotmail account and Cc'ing the list. The above indicates that your /etc/passwd was not constructed properly for some reason. Are you logging in as a domain user by any chance? I imagine people with deep knowl

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:14:14PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > > Since this is happening on a clean install, I can only assume that there > > > is something wrong with the mkpasswd invoc

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:14:14PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > Since this is happening on a clean install, I can only assume that there > > is something wrong with the mkpasswd invocation... But I'd be very > > interested in Pierre's and

RE: Pipe behavior

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Steven, Perhaps because your program isn't the only one buffering its stdout... Has it occurred to you that "cat" might too? Igor On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Steven Kilby wrote: > Randall, > > Thanks for the response. No, I am not sure that Emacs uses pipes > instead of ptys. I'll have to look

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:14:14PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Since this is happening on a clean install, I can only assume that there > is something wrong with the mkpasswd invocation... But I'd be very > interested in Pierre's and Corinna's opinion on this. Igor, what's your reading o

Re: perl-5.8.0-2 CYGWIN1.DLL:setlinebuf failure

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Greg Matheson wrote: > On Fri, 04 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > > > Greg Matheson wrote: > > > I installed the new perl-5.8.0-2, but > > > > This is with cygwin-1.3.22-1 and earlier versions. > >^^^ > > > No, this version contains setlinebuf. You ei

Re: link dll to VC++

2003-04-03 Thread Martin
Xiao $(BASE)=foo gcc -shared -o cyg$(BASE).so -Wl,--out-implib=lib$(BASE).dll.a \ -Wl,--export-all -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base \ -Wl,--output-def=cyg$(BASE).def $(OBJS) hth, Martin - Original Message - From: "xiao chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursda

Re: Binary patch tool?

2003-04-03 Thread John Williams
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is there a way I can pass these on the command line, without needing a seperate little script file like this? Sure. The easiest for you would probably be vim -b -c ":%s/xygwin1.dll/cygwin1.dll/g|:wq" $f Ain't vim grand? ;-) Indeed. But not just vim, the whole thing. I

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Rudiyanto Gunawan wrote: >From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Rudiyanto, > >Could you please do a clean install using the latest snapshot of setup >that you downloaded (2.348)? Also, please select the gcc-mingw package as >part of that reinstall. The reason for

Getting domain name

2003-04-03 Thread Vishal Jain
Is there a function in cygwin to get the domain of a user in whose security context the application is running? thanks, Vishal _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?

Re: Binary patch tool?

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, John Williams wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, John Williams wrote: > > > >>Hi folks, > >> > >>Is there a binary equivalent to the diff/patch combination? I've > >>written a little shell script to run "cmp -b" over a bunch of files (I'm > >>trying to g

link dll to VC++

2003-04-03 Thread xiao chen
hi,dear all can someone tell me how to link my dll generated by cygwin to VC++? i tried lots of ways but all fails..are they compatible? can someone help me? thank you and wish u all a nice day _ Download Norah Jones, Eminem

Re: su questions

2003-04-03 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:32:04PM -0300, Rodrigo Serra wrote: > > I try to use sshd and whe run "ssh localhost" whit rsa authentication the > output of the command is: > > $ ssh localhost > Last login: Thu Apr 3 15:20:24 2003 from s1.rmserra.com.ar > Fanfare!!! > You are successfully logged in t

Re: su questions

2003-04-03 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:50:06PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > There is no working implementation of 'su' under Cygwin. Use sshd and > "ssh -l name localhost" to switch user contexts. FWIW, su works under the limited conditions outlined below and on Win9X/ME. It is possible to create "Wi

Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Martin
To backup Stephans statement it would be in Microsoft's interest to support 32/64 bit Cygwin. By supporting Cygwin Microsoft would increase and not decrease the installed base of Windows. Back to the fray- Martin - Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAI

RE: Pipe behavior

2003-04-03 Thread Steven Kilby
Randall, Good call. As soon as I started to post the source I realized that I had placed the call to fflush after the sleep. And you were right about cygwin emacs, it is using pty's. Thanks Steven (sorry - signature is forced on me by company) Steven Kilby Lead, Programmer Analyst Vision So

Re: perl-5.8.0-2 CYGWIN1.DLL:setlinebuf failure

2003-04-03 Thread Greg Matheson
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > Greg Matheson wrote: > > I installed the new perl-5.8.0-2, but > > This is with cygwin-1.3.22-1 and earlier versions. >^^^ > No, this version contains setlinebuf. You either have an old cygwin1.dll in > the PATH, or you haven'

RE: Pipe behavior

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Steven, I assume the test program you're using to explore this behavior is pretty concise. Why don't you post it here? Randall Schulz At 16:44 2003-04-03, Steven Kilby wrote: Randall, Thanks for the response. No, I am not sure that Emacs uses pipes instead of ptys. I'll have to look at that.

PERL 5.8.0-2 and Haase_Gerrit/1.3/perl/Tk800.023-1.patch - taking this to Tk800.024

2003-04-03 Thread Alan Miles
All, I am running the latest cygwin dll, setup etc, with Perl 5.8.0-2 (the latest). BTW, I am running cygwin on a Windows 2000 Professional SP2 machine. The PERL package Tk800.023 is now Tk800.024 but Haase Gerrit's patch to get this package to work under Cygwin only works to Tk800.023. Since I

RE: Pipe behavior

2003-04-03 Thread Steven Kilby
Randall, Thanks for the response. No, I am not sure that Emacs uses pipes instead of ptys. I'll have to look at that. I was testing with the cygwin character emacs. What you said makes sense but I have one more question. I modified the code by inserting a call to fflush between the printf's.

Re: Pipe behavior

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Steven, At 16:28 2003-04-03, you wrote: Hello, I have a question about pipe behavior. I wrote a simple program that does a printf, sleeps for 5 seconds and then another printf. If I run the program with the following way: $ ./simple | cat The output is delayed until the program finished. I g

Re: setup.exe final pre-release..

2003-04-03 Thread Alan Dobkin
On 4 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 07:48, Alan Dobkin wrote: > > > > > My question is this: Why is it necessary to scan every package > > > > in the mirror every time setup is run against a local mirror? > > > > Most of the time, I am only installing a single packag

Pipe behavior

2003-04-03 Thread Steven Kilby
Hello, I have a question about pipe behavior. I wrote a simple program that does a printf, sleeps for 5 seconds and then another printf. If I run the program with the following way: $ ./simple | cat The output is delayed until the program finished. I guessed that the pipe is buffered and does

Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:16:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: >>Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what >>he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and everything I >>do know, it ap

Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: >Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what >he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and everything I >do know, it appears to me that API changes are always made with >backwards compatibili

RE: RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Stephan Mueller
Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and everything I do know, it appears to me that API changes are always made with backwards compatibility in mind, and the goal is never to break existing apps -- indeed, t

Re: perl-5.8.0-2 CYGWIN1.DLL:setlinebuf failure

2003-04-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Greg Matheson wrote: > I installed the new perl-5.8.0-2, but > > I am getting the Chinese Windows error message: > CYGPERL5_8_0.DLL file failed to connect to output routine > CYGWIN1.DLL:setlinebuf. > > This is with cygwin-1.3.22-1 and earlier versions. ^^^ No, this vers

setuid(0)

2003-04-03 Thread Vishal Jain
If I am running my application as user A. Then I impersonate as other users. Will seteuid(0) revert to security context of user A? Thanks, Vishal _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?pa

Re: Binary patch tool?

2003-04-03 Thread John Williams
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, John Williams wrote: Hi folks, Is there a binary equivalent to the diff/patch combination? I've written a little shell script to run "cmp -b" over a bunch of files (I'm trying to generate binary patches), but now I'm struggling with a way to actually

perl-5.8.0-2 CYGWIN1.DLL:setlinebuf failure

2003-04-03 Thread Greg Matheson
I installed the new perl-5.8.0-2, but I am getting the Chinese Windows error message: CYGPERL5_8_0.DLL file failed to connect to output routine CYGWIN1.DLL:setlinebuf. This is with cygwin-1.3.22-1 and earlier versions. When I revert to perl-5.8.0-1, the problem goes away. My program is a Mail::

Re: Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:34:41 -0500 Subject: Re: Big Brother is Real On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:28:14AM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: >Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Rudiyanto Gunawan wrote: > >From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Ok, this is very interesting... > >Is this from a clean install, or is this a reinstall? > >Did you happen to install the gcc-mingw package? If so, could you please > >post the logged output of that? >

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Rudiyanto Gunawan
From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ok, this is very interesting... Is this from a clean install, or is this a reinstall? Did you happen to install the gcc-mingw package? If so, could you please post the logged output of that? Oh, and which OS are you running on? The problem arised wh

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Rudiyanto Gunawan wrote: > >From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Rudiyanto, > > > >Could you please check whether the exact files exist, or whether they > >exist with suffix ".done"? Also, please search the log for, say, > >"bzip2.sh" and see if it repeats more than

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Rudiyanto Gunawan
From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rudiyanto, Could you please check whether the exact files exist, or whether they exist with suffix ".done"? Also, please search the log for, say, "bzip2.sh" and see if it repeats more than once. If neither of the above holds, please post the output

perl 5.8.0 debugger requires double ENTER key to act on commands: cygwin 1.3.22

2003-04-03 Thread gavin bowlby
After upgrading from cygwin 1.3.20 to cygwin 1.3.22, the new version of Perl (5.8.0) appears to require 2 ENTER keys to be hit for any command to be acted on by the Perl debugger. The previous version of Perl (5.7.x) on cygwin 1.3.20 did not have this problem. Example session: ===

Re: Binary patch tool?

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, John Williams wrote: > Hi folks, > > Is there a binary equivalent to the diff/patch combination? I've > written a little shell script to run "cmp -b" over a bunch of files (I'm > trying to generate binary patches), but now I'm struggling with a way to > actually apply those ch

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Rudiyanto Gunawan wrote: > >From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The error message was too fast to be seen clearly, but > > > I think it was saying: > > > /etc/postinstall/filename.sh not found > > > > > > I am trying to install all packages. But, I could > > > not

Binary patch tool?

2003-04-03 Thread John Williams
Hi folks, Is there a binary equivalent to the diff/patch combination? I've written a little shell script to run "cmp -b" over a bunch of files (I'm trying to generate binary patches), but now I'm struggling with a way to actually apply those changes. I started writing a little tcl script to d

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Rudiyanto Gunawan
From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The error message was too fast to be seen clearly, but > I think it was saying: > /etc/postinstall/filename.sh not found > > I am trying to install all packages. But, I could > not get it to work even for the default packages. > This was using th

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Rudiyanto Gunawan wrote: > >From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: Rudiyanto Gunawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Postinstall failure: file not found > >Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:27:15 -0500 (EST) > > > >

Re: Problem: SCP and umask ?!

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Duncan Rubinger wrote: > Hi, > > >> I've changed th umask in the profile file to 000 for private reasons > >> and this works fine directly under bash! > >> But if I copy some files using any scp application, the files will be > >> created with 644 as umask! Each file gets rw-r-

Re: Should C/C++ compilers be smart enough to catch this???

2003-04-03 Thread Fred Ma
Måns Rullgård wrote: > Fred Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I had a class member function that returned an object, according to > > the prototype. Also according to the function definition. But, the > > function body didn't actually contain a return statement. Like > > SomeFunc() below: >

RE: Cygwin Python regression testers wanted

2003-04-03 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
Windows 98 SE Ver 4.10 Build $ cygcheck -svr | grep 'DLL version' Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.3.22 $ cd / $ rebaseall zcat: /etc/setup/apache.lst.gz: unexpected end of file $ Tried to uninstall apache because of suspecting wrong rebase beeing run and above file seeming

Re: setup.exe final pre-release..

2003-04-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 07:48, Alan Dobkin wrote: > I do see the status bar and it does update fine as long as I leave > the setup window in the foreground. However, as soon as I click on > another window to let it process in the background, that's when the > behavior I described occurs. I hav

Use of openssh 3.6/3.6.1 seems to make some dos generated stdout drop

2003-04-03 Thread Wheeler, Frederick W (Research)
I've been having a problem with (I think) OpenSSH sshd in Cygwin. I have a project that builds with Nmake, and Nmake calls itself recursively as it works it's way down into subdirectories. When I run nmake from a regular cygwin bash window or from within an rxvt window, it works fine. But, if I

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-03 Thread John Williams
friedman_hill ernest j wrote: I think John Williams wrote: It seems not many people build linux kernels under cygwin - I think if they did, this issue I've found would have been reported earlier, because it's the first step in the kernel configuration process. OK, I've gotta ask -- WHY do you wa

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:49:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:47:39PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >I got a hint lately about stuff working different on 64bit. If a 32 bit > >application is called from a 64 bit application the stack is 0xc000 > >lower than if

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:47:39PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:37:26PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I think the only problem is that Cygwin probably just needs to be debugged >> to see what's going on. If someone wants to send me a nice 64 bit system >> runnin

cygwin, Receive $2,000 daily returning phone calls.

2003-04-03 Thread Libeth
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How would you like to receive $5,000 to $10,000 cash every week starting immediately? All you have to do is return calls from home - to people who have asked to be called -no selling. Please call 618-355-1776 I will personally call you back, and take no more than Two minu

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:37:26PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I think the only problem is that Cygwin probably just needs to be debugged > to see what's going on. If someone wants to send me a nice 64 bit system > running WinXP 64 (or whatever it's called), I'll see what I can do. Coincid

Re: setup.exe final pre-release..

2003-04-03 Thread Alan Dobkin
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > Alan Dobkin wrote: > > > > Each time I run it against a local mirror, it checks the MD5 sum > > of every package in the mirror. This is a time-consuming process > > and, unless the window remains in the foreground the entire time, > > it seems to h

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:37:19AM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: >Can someone elaborate on exactly which APIs have changed incompatibly >(in 64-bit Windows)? > >I'm only mildly familiar with the 64-bit story, but my understanding is >that the the 64-bit APIs are basically the same as 32-bit (with t

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:28:14AM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: >Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, Wow. I had no idea I was so powerful. I think I need a raise. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: h

Re: CVS winsup/testsuite/winsup.api/pthread/condvar9.c failure

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:22:08AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >IIRC, the testsuite uses new-cygwin1.dll, not cygwin1.dll... Hence no >conflict. See winsup/testsuite/cygrun.c. Actually, lately, it is using cygwin0.dll rather than new-cygwin1.dll. FYI, cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: Problem: SCP and umask ?!

2003-04-03 Thread Duncan Rubinger
Hi, >> I've changed th umask in the profile file to 000 for private reasons >> and this works fine directly under bash! >> But if I copy some files using any scp application, the files will be >> created with 644 as umask! Each file gets rw-r--r-- ! Don't know why IP> Two questions: IP> 1) are y

Re: setup.exe final pre-release..

2003-04-03 Thread Robert Collins
Alan Dobkin wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote: Indeed, and here it is: http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.2.10.2.1.exe I haven't experienced any setup crashes, but I have a question about it's behavior when used with the local directory option. Each time I r

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-03 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Rolf, So, I've recieved confirmation that this problem is only with cygwin perl, and not with GNU/Linux perl (5.8). So, please file a bugreport, perlbug is included in the dist. Gerrit Which ports is perlbug for? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsub

Installing CVS built cygwin?

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Ford
Elaborating on my previous question: > How do you developers manage to test run Cygwin versions and then > revert? Obvioulsy, for things like the new 64 bit support, just > swapping cygwin1.dll is not sufficient. I thought I would try the following: install into a temp dir in temp dir do: find

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chuck, I was meaning to write this up earlier, but work keeps getting in the way. When I used your new termcap entry, "less" (when it's displaying output piped to it via its standard input but not when it is given a file name argument) tells me "WARNING: terminal is not fully functional". Here

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Rudiyanto Gunawan
From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rudiyanto Gunawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Postinstall failure: file not found Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:27:15 -0500 (EST) What is the exact message you're getting? What are the packages

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

2003-04-03 Thread Charles Wilson
Randall R Schulz wrote: Can I trouble you to explain why your termcap replaces something so different in the existing /etc/termcap file: cygwin:\ :xn@:op=\E[39;49m:Km=\E[M:te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:tc=linux: I understand that this entry incrementally modifies the "linux" entry. Your

Any progress on named pipes in Cygwin

2003-04-03 Thread Cary Lewis
I had seen a posting that it was hoped that named pipes would be soon available in Cygwin. Has there been any progress? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

Re: Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 12:22 2003-04-03, Timothy C Prince wrote: ... "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company." -- Lily Tomlin __ They may care. I doubt their chances of overtaking linux-ia64 or making back their investment in XP64 this year are overwhelmi

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Rudiyanto Gunawan wrote: > I am hoping that someone could help me. > Yesterday (4/2/03), I tried to update my cygwin, which > I installed last year. However, at the end of > the update, the postinstall script failed. > The error messages implied that the > postinstallation file

Re: Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- From: Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 07:34:20 -0800 Subject: Re: Big Brother is Real Tim, At 07:28 2003-04-03, you wrote: >... > >Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows >XP64, but it seem

Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Rudiyanto Gunawan
I am hoping that someone could help me. Yesterday (4/2/03), I tried to update my cygwin, which I installed last year. However, at the end of the update, the postinstall script failed. The error messages implied that the postinstallation files that were supposed to be inside /etc/postinstall, did no

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Rolf, > So, I've recieved confirmation that this problem is only with cygwin > perl, and not with GNU/Linux perl (5.8). So, please file a bugreport, perlbug is included in the dist. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: CVS winsup/testsuite/winsup.api/pthread/condvar9.c failure

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Ford
Yet more detail below. It is definately a thread cancel failure. thread 1 wait thread 2 wait thread 3 wait thread 4 wait cancel 2 thread 1 run thread 1 awoken 1 thread 2 run thread 2 awoken 2 thread 3 run thread 3 awoken 3 thread 4 run thread 4 awoken 4 thread 5 wait thread 6 wait thread 7 wait t

Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- From: "Stephan Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 10:37:19 -0800 Subject: RE: Big Brother is Real Can someone elaborate on exactly which APIs have changed incompatibly (in 64-bit Windows)? I'm only mildly familiar with the 64-bi

Re: Should C/C++ compilers be smart enough to catch this???

2003-04-03 Thread rrmalloy
Won't -Wreturn suffice? Rich. > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Fred Ma wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I just spent a great number of hours chasing down a > > bug that showed itself on g++ on cygwin, but not on > > g++ on solaris2.5.8. What did it turn out to be? > > > > I had a class member function that retu

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-03 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Rolf, TEST.PL: 1:#!/bin/perl 2:$/ = "\r\n"; 3: 4:open( LOG, "; 9:print $in; Ok, so you get the same results as me. They are both wrong. The script should only print the first line. I just tried something, I made a file like this: "000 a b c \r \r \n

Re: Should C/C++ compilers be smart enough to catch this???

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Fred Ma wrote: > Hello, > > I just spent a great number of hours chasing down a > bug that showed itself on g++ on cygwin, but not on > g++ on solaris2.5.8. What did it turn out to be? > > I had a class member function that returned an > object, according to the prototype. Al

Re: Problem: SCP and umask ?!

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Duncan Rubinger wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm slightly new to this list and would like to say hello at first. > > Unfortunately I've a question too. I'm using WINSCP2 or scp to copy my files > on my Bitvise WinSSHD using cygwin bash for the environment. When I log > in to my account

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Rolf, Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2003 um 23:03 schriebst du: > Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> Hallo Rolf, >> Am Dienstag, 1. April 2003 um 18:13 schriebst du: >>>Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Rolf schrieb: >So, is this a cygwin perl problem? Or has the stock perl decided >to only work with magi

Should C/C++ compilers be smart enough to catch this???

2003-04-03 Thread Fred Ma
Hello, I just spent a great number of hours chasing down a bug that showed itself on g++ on cygwin, but not on g++ on solaris2.5.8. What did it turn out to be? I had a class member function that returned an object, according to the prototype. Also according to the function definition. But, the

Problem: SCP and umask ?!

2003-04-03 Thread Duncan Rubinger
Hi all, I'm slightly new to this list and would like to say hello at first. Unfortunately I've a question too. I'm using WINSCP2 or scp to copy my files on my Bitvise WinSSHD using cygwin bash for the environment. When I log in to my account normally, everything is OK ... I've changed th umask i

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Note that the below was a general statement about API changes, not even referring to XP64 specifically. I do not use the newest Windows, and don't have enough expertise to reason about the specific API changes. These changes do happen (otherwise Cygwin wouldn't have to be "ported" to the newer ver

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Stephan Mueller
Can someone elaborate on exactly which APIs have changed incompatibly (in 64-bit Windows)? I'm only mildly familiar with the 64-bit story, but my understanding is that the the 64-bit APIs are basically the same as 32-bit (with the natural widening of types) but given that the 64-bit API is 'new' i

RE: su questions

2003-04-03 Thread Rodrigo Serra
Igor, thak a lot ... A have new problem. :( I try to use sshd and whe run "ssh localhost" whit rsa authentication the output of the command is: $ ssh localhost Last login: Thu Apr 3 15:20:24 2003 from s1.rmserra.com.ar Fanfare!!! You are successfully logged in to this server!!! Connection to loc

Re: Ever needed a CVS-only shell?

2003-04-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Lapo Luchini wrote: > Today I finally solved one of the problems that I have since a long > time: how to let people access CVS via SSH but not give them shell access. > > It was *much* easier than expected, but real strange for a person that > uses Windows a lot: it wouldn't certainly permit to hav

Re: CVS winsup/testsuite/winsup.api/pthread/condvar9.c failure

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > I tried on XP and i was not able to reproduce. > Can you dig a little deeper ? > More info. It is the first cancel that is failing: cancel thread 2 awoken 1 thread 1 awoken 2 thread 2 awoken 3 thread 3 awoken 4 thread 4 cancel thread 7 awoken 5 thread 5

Re: su questions

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Rodrigo Serra wrote: > Hello, > > I try to use "su" command and every time the command asks password and fail. > :( > > My questions is > su commands works? > I need especial permissions to run su?, I try SYSTEM account whit the same > result. > The group wheel is needed? > > T

su questions

2003-04-03 Thread Rodrigo Serra
Hello, I try to use "su" command and every time the command asks password and fail. :( My questions is su commands works? I need especial permissions to run su?, I try SYSTEM account whit the same result. The group wheel is needed? Thank -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

Re: bug with setup.exe: saw tetex-beta even though I did not select prev

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thi is by design. We have a single namespace for all packages, even if > > they don't have [curr] elements. In fact prev only elements get > > promoted to curr. > > Ah, I didn't know that. That's unfor

RE: Cygwin Python regression testers wanted

2003-04-03 Thread Jimmy Retzlaff
Jason Tishler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Please post instead of sending private email. OK >On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:48:24AM -0800, Jimmy Retzlaff wrote: >> Python 2.2.2 (#1, Mar 9 2003, 08:18:26) >> [GCC 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)] on cygwin >> >> The output is attached. >> >> ... >> 172 test

Re: Cygwin Python regression testers wanted

2003-04-03 Thread Jason Tishler
Jimmy, Please post instead of sending private email. On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:48:24AM -0800, Jimmy Retzlaff wrote: > I'm not at all experienced with Cygwin Python (I use win32 Python and > have cygwin around for various utilities), but I have an XP Pro system > and thought I'd give it a shot. I

Re: Cygwin Python regression testers wanted

2003-04-03 Thread Jason Tishler
Skip. Please post instead of sending private email. On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:17:40AM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote: > I won't really be able to add anything to what you already know, since > my Windows box runs Win2k, however, I'll work my way through the > process just to stay in sync. I do hav

Re: bug with setup.exe: saw tetex-beta even though I did not selectprev

2003-04-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thi is by design. We have a single namespace for all packages, even if > they don't have [curr] elements. In fact prev only elements get > promoted to curr. Ah, I didn't know that. That's unfortunate, in this case. The old tetex-beta and texmf* packa

Remaking and running a single testsuite test?

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Ford
Is there an easy way, short of running the whole testsuite again? I am having a problem figuring it out. Thanks. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info: http:

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Tim Prince wrote: > > > Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows > > XP64, but it seems Microsoft would rather lose out to linux and HPUX > > than let their customers run cygwin. It may be they don't understand > > how many cu

Re: CVS winsup/testsuite/winsup.api/pthread/condvar9.c failure

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > > > I tried on XP and i was not able to reproduce. > > Can you dig a little deeper ? > > Sure. Two questions though. > > First, any pointers on where or how to start? I just thought you might > have some specific q

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Tim Prince wrote: Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, but it seems Microsoft would rather lose out to linux and HPUX than let their customers run cygwin. It may be they don't understand how many customers depend on cygwin, which is their fault too, since

Ever needed a CVS-only shell?

2003-04-03 Thread Lapo Luchini
Today I finally solved one of the problems that I have since a long time: how to let people access CVS via SSH but not give them shell access. It was *much* easier than expected, but real strange for a person that uses Windows a lot: it wouldn't certainly permit to have a .BAT as a shell... --

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Steve Coleman wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: I think we have to work with the legal system, not try to subvert it. Microsoft has a right to set the licensing terms it wants. We have a right to tell them to go to hell. Currently however, and as you note, the power relationship is highly skewed.

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