Re: Scanf bug

2004-10-01 Thread Brian Dessent
Ben Wing wrote: > > Somehow or other, sscanf() has gotten messed up in recent Cygwin > installations. I believe this probably belongs on the newlib list, since Cygwin uses newlib for libc. That said, it looks like the following could be your culpret... Or at least, it's the only scanf-related ne

Re: How to write telnet server like program for serial port?

2004-10-01 Thread Brian Dessent
Siegfried Heintze wrote: > I need to write a program similar to a telnet server. A telnet server > asynchronously reads data from a socket and writes it to a > sub-process, and asynchronously reads data from the subprocess and > writes to a socket. My program needs to replace the subprocess with a

Scanf bug

2004-10-01 Thread Ben Wing
Somehow or other, sscanf() has gotten messed up in recent Cygwin installations. Test program, with output: /xemacs/test 2391% cat testscanf.c int main (int argc, char **argv) { int ret, cp1, cp2, endcount; char *p = "0x7d 0x000E "; ret = sscanf (p, "%i %i%n", &cp1, &cp2, &endcount); pr

Re: cron and copying files across drives: how?

2004-10-01 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Cron runs as a different Windows user ("SYSTEM"), so things that work from > >your normal logon may not work from there. > > I put 'cygcheck -s' in a script and ran it from the command line and from a > cron entry and ran the 2 outputs through a diff program. > There w

Re: cron and copying files across drives: how?

2004-10-01 Thread Eric_Zeller
I have not signed up to receive emails from this list, but I read it from the archives, so I would appreciate being cc'd on any responses to this thread. I am also trying to use cron to grab log files everyday from a webserver here at work (names have been changed to increase the difficulty of t

RE: Latest snapshot with XP SP2 and unison and cvs

2004-10-01 Thread Karl M
Hi All... I just tried the latest snapshot (didn't expect a change, but felt obligated to try) with no change. Who submitted the pipe handling code changes? Any chance of a resolution soon? Where would I look to see the changes? What I mean is to look at the before and after? Thanks, ...Karl

How to write telnet server like program for serial port?

2004-10-01 Thread Siegfried Heintze
I need to write a program similar to a telnet server. A telnet server asynchronously reads data from a socket and writes it to a sub-process, and asynchronously reads data from the subprocess and writes to a socket. My program needs to replace the subprocess with a serial port. The telnet server c

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:05:06PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >Peter A. Castro wrote: >>to keep up with the flow. Yes, it may be a little painful if you >>haven't refreshed in a while (say, from the "b20" days :), but you will >>have > >Ah. Cygwin B20.1. Man, those were the days. Cygwin was p

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Peter A. Castro wrote: to keep up with the flow. Yes, it may be a little painful if you haven't refreshed in a while (say, from the "b20" days :), but you will have Ah. Cygwin B20.1. Man, those were the days. Cygwin was practically perfect in every way, bugfree, and featureful. It even made c

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:54:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:22:56 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:15:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> >As I said, I very am familiar w

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > For what it's worth, I'm at this very moment moving my company's build > system away from Cygwin, for precisely reason number 4: I cannot tell > customers which Cygwin version to get. Stock answer: use what's current Cygwin is an ever-changing project a

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:54:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:22:56 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:15:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >As I said, I very am familiar with the effort that goes into releasing >>

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:22:56 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:15:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >As I said, I very am familiar with the effort that goes into releasing > am very > cgf > (who only sees these things after hitting 'y' or when pe

RE: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

2004-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > > Sent: 01 October 2004 18:35 > > > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:29:48PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > > >> -Original Message- > > >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Chris

RE: group name problem

2004-10-01 Thread Jacob Kitzman
Great, I've corrected this by setting permissions on C:\ properly. Thanks for the advice! Jacob -Original Message- From: Pierre A. Humblet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 2:31 PM To: Jacob Kitzman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: group name problem Jacob Ki

[solved] strange "pause" in configure

2004-10-01 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, fortunately I did some more tests before sending the message. I'm writing this *after* having found the problem, but I plan to send the message nonetheless: it could always help people that has the same problem, in the future, and finds this search

Re: group name problem

2004-10-01 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Jacob Kitzman wrote: > > Pierre, > > I noticed that the output differs between running just "id" and "strace -o > trace.txt id": > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ id > uid=1004(dnr) gid=1006(mkgroup) groups=1006(mkgroup) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ strace -o trace.txt id > uid=400(dnr) gid=401(mkpa

RE: group name problem

2004-10-01 Thread Jacob Kitzman
Pierre, I noticed that the output differs between running just "id" and "strace -o trace.txt id": [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ id uid=1004(dnr) gid=1006(mkgroup) groups=1006(mkgroup) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ strace -o trace.txt id uid=400(dnr) gid=401(mkpasswd) groups=401(mkpasswd) I've attached trace.t

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Eric Hanchrow
For what it's worth, I'm at this very moment moving my company's build system away from Cygwin, for precisely reason number 4: I cannot tell customers which Cygwin version to get. -- The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic backgrou

RE: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

2004-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: 01 October 2004 18:35 > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:29:48PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > >> Sent: 01 October 2004 18:23 > >

Re: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:29:48PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor >> Sent: 01 October 2004 18:23 > >> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:19:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> >Just having "mount.exe" and "cygwin1.dll" in t

RE: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

2004-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: 01 October 2004 18:23 > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:19:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >Just having "mount.exe" and "cygwin1.dll" in the same > directory and running > >"mount" should be adequate. >

Re: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:19:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:08:48PM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote: >>Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>..snip.. If you have cygwin programs available to you, then use the mount command. If the only output

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:15:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >As I said, I very am familiar with the effort that goes into releasing am very cgf (who only sees these things after hitting 'y' or when perusing the archives months later...) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwi

Re: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:08:48PM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote: >Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >..snip.. >>> If you have cygwin programs available to you, then use the mount >>> command. If the only output from the mount command is of the >>> "noumount" variety then cygwin isn't

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:52:15AM -0500, Fred Kulack wrote: >On 10/01/2004 at 12:31:34 AM, cygwin-owner wrote: >Every O/S and application I've used had a release number for the whole >thing; Cygwin should as well. >--- end of excerpt --- > >At a minimum, I think that's quite an oversimplification

RE: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

2004-10-01 Thread Hughes, Bill
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: ..snip.. >> If you have cygwin programs available to you, then use the mount >> command. If the only output from the mount command is of the >> "noumount" variety then cygwin isn't installed in any meaningful way. > > Personally I would consider t

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: 01 October 2004 17:24 > This assumes that somehow the cron-2.6.2 EOF issue (I'm not familiar > with this and don't recall seeing it mentioned here) He meant rsync, not cron, and he meant EOL, not EOF, but

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Fred Kulack
On 10/01/2004 at 12:31:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every O/S and application I've used had a release number for the whole thing; Cygwin should as well. --- end of excerpt --- At a minimum, I think that's quite an oversimplification and perhaps factually untrue? Have you used a Linux distribu

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:31:26PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: >cygwin blah.. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR >Per the Cygwin FAQ (http://cygwin.com/faq.html): >"If you are looking for the version number for the whole Cygwin >release, there is none. Each package in the Cygwin rele

Re: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

2004-10-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:51:01PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to run an idea past the list. I want to write a shell script to test if Cygwin has been installed on the machine running the shell script. I do this by running a shell (from a network inst

Re: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:51:01PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I just wanted to run an idea past the list. > >I want to write a shell script to test if Cygwin has been installed on >the machine running the shell script. > >I do this by running a shell (from a network install of Cygwin if >nece

RE: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-01 Thread Hughes, Bill
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >>> Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is >>> USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell >>> Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. >>> Running Windows XP. >> [snip] >> >

RE: seg-vios from gcc program at execv() on Windows XP

2004-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > > Sent: 01 October 2004 15:31 > > > > Almost; right issue, wrong problem. It turned out not that there > > > wasn't a terminating NULL but that there was an extra one, one pa

Re: Windows person trying to use Cygwin

2004-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Marcos Rebelo wrote: > I'm finding two annoying problems in Cygwin > > 1º) I can't have the Num Lock activated otherwise the arrow keys don't work. > 2º) with nedit I can select text with the mouse, but not with the keyboard. > > I don't know if the problems are related. 1) Yo

Re: group name problem

2004-10-01 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Jacob Kitzman wrote: > > Pierre A. Humblet ieee.org> writes: > > > > ... > > > > What are the permissions of /etc/group ? > > > > Pierre > > Permissions on /etc/group are: > > $ ls -l /etc/group > -rw-rw-r--1 Administ None 562 Sep 30 16:57 /etc/group > > I also tried the same p

RE: seg-vios from gcc program at execv() on Windows XP

2004-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: 01 October 2004 15:31 > > Almost; right issue, wrong problem. It turned out not that > there wasn't a > > terminating NULL but that there was an extra one, one past where it > > should have been! This kind of

[OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is > > USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell > > Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. > > Running Windows XP. > [snip] > > (EIGHT USB 2.0 connectors? Wow

Re: seg-vios from gcc program at execv() on Windows XP

2004-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Richard Troy wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > Note that the code is _rock_solid_ on Linux/Unix/Mac OSX, and on all > > > earlier versions of Windows we've ever tried it on. We've _never_ seen it > > > seg-vio before. > > > > Please provide a compl

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

2004-10-01 Thread Patrick Samson
--- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 30 23:41, Patrick Samson wrote: > > Now, when it's wrong, I can see: > > good morning (error=4)! > > Error 4 is EINTR on the return of msleep(). > > Subsequently semop() returns with this EINTR. > > Are you set up to build cygwin? If so, could you > please

Re: group name problem

2004-10-01 Thread Jacob Kitzman
Pierre A. Humblet ieee.org> writes: > ... > > What are the permissions of /etc/group ? > > Pierre > > Permissions on /etc/group are: $ ls -l /etc/group -rw-rw-r--1 Administ None 562 Sep 30 16:57 /etc/group I also tried the same permissions having changed group ownership to

Re: Excessive CPU load (cygrunsrv.exe, tail.exe, etc)

2004-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Steve B wrote: > > [snip] > > Another thing I noticed, after reading Andrew DeFaria post, was that > > csrss.exe would be using 25% of the CPU while the cygwin processes would hog > > about %75 of the CPU. I'm not sure what csrss.exe is, > > http://www.

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

2004-10-01 Thread Patrick Samson
--- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 1 06:05, Patrick Samson wrote: > > > > --- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > On Sep 30 23:41, Patrick Samson wrote: > > > > Now, when it's wrong, I can see: > > > > good morning (error=4)! > > > > Error 4 is EINTR on the return of msleep(). > > > > Subseq

Windows person trying to use Cygwin

2004-10-01 Thread Marcos Rebelo
I'm finding two annoying problems in Cygwin 1º) I can't have the Num Lock activated otherwise the arrow keys don't work. 2º) with nedit I can select text with the mouse, but not with the keyboard. I don't know if the problems are related. How can I resolve them? Thanks for any help Marcos -

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

2004-10-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 1 06:05, Patrick Samson wrote: > > --- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Sep 30 23:41, Patrick Samson wrote: > > > Now, when it's wrong, I can see: > > > good morning (error=4)! > > > Error 4 is EINTR on the return of msleep(). > > > Subsequently semop() returns with this EINTR. > > > >

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 1 14:16, Dave Korn wrote: > Or you can take option b), and pay someone to do this work for you: I'm > sure Red Hat would still be glad to discuss terms for Cygwin support contracts. Absolutely. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David Christensen > Sent: 01 October 2004 06:31 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR, then please don't go and manually enter any either! > Per the Cygwin FAQ (http://cygwin.com/faq.html): > > "If yo

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Max Bowsher
David Christensen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Per the Cygwin FAQ (http://cygwin.com/faq.html): "If you are looking for the version number for the whole Cygwin release, there is none. Each package in the Cygwin release has its own version. The packages in Cygwin are continually improving, thanks to th

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

2004-10-01 Thread Patrick Samson
--- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 30 23:41, Patrick Samson wrote: > > Now, when it's wrong, I can see: > > good morning (error=4)! > > Error 4 is EINTR on the return of msleep(). > > Subsequently semop() returns with this EINTR. > > Are you set up to build cygwin? If so, could you > please

Re: libtool convenience libs problem

2004-10-01 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Reini, >> There is also a thread n the archives where Charles explains why the >> pass_all flag is not default for Cygwin. > yes, that would be interesting to read, because I'm wondering what > prevents libtool on cygwin to ignore the duplication of efforts > providing PIC (in .libs) and non

Re: libtool convenience libs problem

2004-10-01 Thread Reini Urban
Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: So do I have to rebuild flex just to support a dynamic lib, which uses some parser generator support? 2000-01-19 Thomas Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * ltmain.in: rewrite of the ILD code, merge linking code for programs, libraries and objects, allow linking

RE: Cygwin df -l option has wrong sense?

2004-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hughes, Bill > Sent: 01 October 2004 11:40 > > >>> P.S. The mount type fix is still on my TODO list :-( > > Aren't TODO lists wonderful? :-) > They certainly are, that's why I have so many. :-) I especially like the whooshing soun

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

2004-10-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 30 23:22, Patrick Samson wrote: > --- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Sep 30 00:12, Patrick Samson wrote: > > > I built the DLL another way, and now have: > > > $ cygcheck ./dp40.dll > > > .\dp40.dll > > > D:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll < > > > C:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.DLL

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

2004-10-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 30 23:41, Patrick Samson wrote: > Now, when it's wrong, I can see: > good morning (error=4)! > Error 4 is EINTR on the return of msleep(). > Subsequently semop() returns with this EINTR. Are you set up to build cygwin? If so, could you please test the following patch to cygserver and if

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Jörg Schaible
David Christensen wrote on Friday, October 01, 2004 7:31 AM: [snip] > I would like to request that this policy be reversed -- that > there be a version number for the entire Cygwin release. > Every O/S and application I've used had a release number for > the whole thing; Cygwin should as well. R

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 1 05:08, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > 1. Roll up your sleeves, get to work, and let the list know when you're > done. "The maintainers" (yes, I'm looking at you Chris) will at best see > this as a threat to their little fifedom, and the only "help" you'll get > will be in the form of snide

Re: libtool convenience libs problem

2004-10-01 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Reini, > So do I have to rebuild flex just to support a dynamic lib, which uses > some parser generator support? 2000-01-19 Thomas Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * ltmain.in: rewrite of the ILD code, merge linking code for programs, libraries and objects, allow linking of sha

RE: Cygwin df -l option has wrong sense?

2004-10-01 Thread Hughes, Bill
Hughes, Bill wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ..snip.. >> Certainly ":" is reserved in Windows for use only with drive letters. > > Not strictly true - the colon is also used in NTFS for streams > (or data forks). > I realise this is not directly applicable to whether a drive is local but it'

Windows person trying to use Cygwin

2004-10-01 Thread Marcos Rebelo
I'm finding two annoying problems in Cygwin 1º) I can't have the Num Lock activated otherwise the arrow keys don't work. 2º) with nedit I can select text with the mouse, but not with the keyboard. I don't know if the problems are related. Thanks for any help Marcos -- Unsubscribe info: ht

Re: cygwin locale broken? (was: Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies)

2004-10-01 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Yang, >> And if it is working for X it should not be too hard to get it working >> in Cygwin too. > Yes, I think so. But we need somebody to do this. You are the one! Please send a bugreport to the newlib list. Include your simple testcase as you did before, thats it. Maybe there are some w

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> I would like to request that this policy be reversed -- that > there be a version number for the entire Cygwin release. > Every O/S and application I've used had a release number for > the whole thing; Cygwin should as well. > > > I would especially like to request that there be a "stable"

RE: A good way to test if Cygwin isn't installed?

2004-10-01 Thread Hughes, Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just wanted to run an idea past the list. > > I want to write a shell script to test if Cygwin has been installed on > the machine running the shell script. > > I do this by running a shell (from a network install of Cygwin if > necessary). > > If Cygwin is installe

RE: Cygwin df -l option has wrong sense?

2004-10-01 Thread Hughes, Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..snip.. > Certainly ":" is reserved in Windows for use only with drive letters. Not strictly true - the colon is also used in NTFS for streams (or data forks). ..snip.. >> P.S. The mount type fix is still on my TODO list :-( They certainly are, that's why I have so m

X not recognizing keyboard input

2004-10-01 Thread Mike Kenny - BCX - Infrastructure Services
If I have directed this e-mail to an incorrect list, please inform me rather than flaming me and I will go and stand in the corner for an hour or so and then re-send to the correct list. I am trying to use cygwin to provide X access to a linux system. On the cygwin system I execute $ xhost + $ x

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

2004-10-01 Thread Patrick Samson
--- Patrick Samson wrote: > With the third condition (pgAdmin) everything was > fine the whole night. And there is only 4 > "good night!" messages in the middle of the night. > I guess this is because of one of the cron tasks > scheduled around 3AM to do maintenance tasks such > as VACUUM, pg_dump