Re: cygheap problems, 20040326 snapshot

2004-04-03 Thread Mark Blackburn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 08:27:32PM -0500, Mark Blackburn wrote: Brian Ford wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Mark Blackburn wrote: No it isn't. I recently tried my own build of cygwin: Could you possibly build it with the attached patch and report the strace output? Also,

Re: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files.

2004-04-03 Thread David Fritz
Charles Wilson wrote: [...] (2) it's an attempt to prevent users from permanently scrogging binary files. See: d2u, on a binary file, is an irreversible operation. So, if you do "d2u *" you'll probably kill something deep inside some binary file, and you can't fix it -- unless some minimal s

Re: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files.

2004-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Charles Wilson wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > > > I was pretty stunned to find d2u didn't have the same effect as tr -d. A > > few seconds work in the debugger, however, made it clear. > > > > Right inside conv.c, in the main convert (...) function, there's an > > attempted o

Re: Problem quiting from emacs under cygwin

2004-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 07:43:39PM +0200, Anton Erasmus wrote: >On 2004/04/03 at 07:25 Anton Erasmus wrote: >>The C-x C-c sequence to quit from emacs does not appear to work under >>cygwin. >>When pressing the C-c C-x, it just beeps at the C-x. > >As often happens I found the answer with google aft

/etc/passwd -> /proc/mkpasswd

2004-04-03 Thread Gerald Villemure
I wonder if it would be possible to do something like this: /etc/passwd -> /proc/mkpasswd /etc/group -> /proc/mkgroup These sym links would make the 2 files dynamic and would simplify setup somewhat. We could use a CYGWIN environment variable to set whether /proc/mkpasswd would run with -l or -d

Re: Problem quiting from emacs under cygwin

2004-04-03 Thread Anton Erasmus
On 2004/04/03 at 07:25 Anton Erasmus wrote: >Hi, > >The C-x C-c sequence to quit from emacs does not appear to work under >cygwin. >When pressing the C-c C-x, it just beeps at the C-x. As often happens I found the answer with google after another 5 minutes of searching. (Using exit instead of qui

Problem quiting from emacs under cygwin

2004-04-03 Thread Anton Erasmus
Hi, The C-x C-c sequence to quit from emacs does not appear to work under cygwin. When pressing the C-c C-x, it just beeps at the C-x. Regards Anton Erasmus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: Loading gcc-compiled DLL with Java (JNI) crashes when using newer (>1.5.5) cygwin1.dll

2004-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 06:32:16AM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: >On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Hans Horn wrote: > >> this was something I did try out as well. However, the dll produced with >> "-no-cygwin" was just as "bad" as before. >> Then I recalled faintly reading some discussion a while back, t

Re: Cygwin install automation.

2004-04-03 Thread Pan Shizhu
Alejandro Sánchez Acosta wrote: Hello, I need to install cygwin in some machines but I don't want to use a internet connection for that. I have tried to copy the ftp dir entries with the downloaded packages to the other computers and run setup.exe with a local installation without any luck. Anywa

Running Nessus security scanner on Cygwin

2004-04-03 Thread Abhijit Bhaware
Hello, I am using Cygwin(1.5.8-1) to run the Nessus security scanner. I have compiled the Nessus server on Cygwin running on Windows XP, and have successfully executed various plugins. I have come across a couple of problems with the Nessus on Cygwin(1.5.8-1), which dont appear when I run it on li

Re: Loading gcc-compiled DLL with Java (JNI) crashes when using newer (>1.5.5) cygwin1.dll

2004-04-03 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Hans Horn wrote: > this was something I did try out as well. However, the dll produced with > "-no-cygwin" was just as "bad" as before. > Then I recalled faintly reading some discussion a while back, that > "mingw-gcc != gcc -no-cygwin" (don't remember details, though). -no-cy