Re: Cygwin Perl bug -- perldoc Pod::Usage

2005-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 07:02:56PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > The documentation displayed by 'perldoc Pod::Usage' is malformed -- > the majority of the text between ARGUMENTS and EXAMPLES is bold, and > if I exit less when the colon is bold, my terminal gets stuck in > bold. 'reset' and 'cl

Cygwin Perl bug -- pod2usage(-verbose => 0) & pod2usage(-verbose => 1)

2005-01-16 Thread David Christensen
Cygwin: Perl Pod::Usage pod2usage(-verbose => 0) is supposed to display the Pod SYNOPSIS information (ref. 'perdoc Pod::Usage'). See attached script 'test0'. On Debian 3.0r2, it works: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/cygwin-issues/Pod-Usage$ perl test0 Usage: This is the synopsis... On Cyg

Cygwin Perl bug -- perldoc Pod::Usage

2005-01-16 Thread David Christensen
Cygwin: The documentation displayed by 'perldoc Pod::Usage' is malformed -- the majority of the text between ARGUMENTS and EXAMPLES is bold, and if I exit less when the colon is bold, my terminal gets stuck in bold. 'reset' and 'clear' don't fix it. I am unable to find this issue on the mailing

Re: Can "DLL's" & libraries be marked as non-executable?

2005-01-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 08:13:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:38:51AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > >>More to the point, what would "break" in the cygwin environment, > > > > > >Try to chmod 644 any dll

Re: perl 5.8.6

2005-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:36:28PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes schrieb: > >On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:38:38PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: > > > >>Jason Pearce schrieb: > >> > >>>Reini Urban wrote: > >>> > Maybe I'll come to the pending Win32::API problem with the callbacks

Re: Can "DLL's" & libraries be marked as non-executable?

2005-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 08:13:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:38:51AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >>More to the point, what would "break" in the cygwin environment, > > > >Try to chmod 644 any dll and call a program that uses this dll. This > >fails for me (o

Re: Can "DLL's" & libraries be marked as non-executable?

2005-01-16 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:56:57PM -0800, linda w wrote: > I was told I might fix the problem of typing in a partial command name > like "cyg", and the command completion character and getting a long list > of DLL's with a few EXE's thrown in. > > I had been told it could be fixed through adjustme

Re: Can "DLL's" & libraries be marked as non-executable?

2005-01-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:38:51AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>More to the point, what would "break" in the cygwin environment, > >Try to chmod 644 any dll and call a program that uses this dll. This >fails for me (on NT4 with NTFS), if it succeeds for you, fine. Change >the permissions as yo

Re: Can "DLL's" & libraries be marked as non-executable?

2005-01-16 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
linda w wrote: More to the point, what would "break" in the cygwin environment, Try to chmod 644 any dll and call a program that uses this dll. This fails for me (on NT4 with NTFS), if it succeeds for you, fine. Change the permissions as you like it;) Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: Can "DLL's" & libraries be marked as non-executable?

2005-01-16 Thread linda w
Max Bowsher wrote: linda w wrote: Is there some reason cygwin needs to return DLL's as executables, as the underlying OS doesn't require it (having no 'executable bit'). Wrong, actually the underlying OS *does* require it. It may not have mode bits, but it does have ACLs. Before calling me wrong,

Re: new w/20050114 snapshot: chmod updates ctime

2005-01-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 16 09:56, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 12:42:11PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:35:09AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > >With the 20050114 snapshot, chmod is updating a file's ctime. This > > >didn't happen with the 200

Re: __mode_t missing from /usr/include/cygwin/types.h

2005-01-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 16 08:08, Bill Priest wrote: > All, > In trying to compile splint from cvs, I ran into > the problem of __mode_t not being defined. Linux Huh? I never heard about an application which needs __mode_t defined. If you ask me, that's a bug in splint. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: new w/20050114 snapshot: chmod updates ctime

2005-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 12:42:11PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:35:09AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >With the 20050114 snapshot, chmod is updating a file's ctime. This > >didn't happen with the 20050111 snapshot. > > Yes, AFAIK, this is correct behavio

Re: new w/20050114 snapshot: chmod updates ctime

2005-01-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:35:09AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >With the 20050114 snapshot, chmod is updating a file's ctime. This >didn't happen with the 20050111 snapshot. Yes, AFAIK, this is correct behavior, fixed, as mentioned here: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg0

new w/20050114 snapshot: chmod updates ctime

2005-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
With the 20050114 snapshot, chmod is updating a file's ctime. This didn't happen with the 20050111 snapshot. $ cat ctime.sh touch foo.$$ sleep 70 ls -l foo.$$ ls -lc foo.$$ chmod 0644 foo.$$ ls -l foo.$$ ls -lc foo.$$ $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 DHX98431 1.5.13s(0.117/4/2) 20050114 01:55:54 i686 un

__mode_t missing from /usr/include/cygwin/types.h

2005-01-16 Thread Bill Priest
All, In trying to compile splint from cvs, I ran into the problem of __mode_t not being defined. Linux defines it in types.h so that is where I put it. Splint built w/o problems after this change; unfortunately the bug I was hoping would be fixed in CVS wasn't :( Unified diff follows: diff -u

Re: Multiple installations and 3PPs

2005-01-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:11:42AM +, Adrian Cox wrote: >I'm interested in failures that would still occur if the two cygwin >DLLs used different shared memory regions and registry keys. You can satisfy your curiousity. Remember this? http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00730.html

Re: Multiple installations and 3PPs

2005-01-16 Thread Adrian Cox
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 19:42 -0500, Arturus Magi wrote: > Adrian Cox wrote: > > > So what are the other problems? > > Programs picking up the wrong version of the DLL and failing with little > or no explanation available to the user (whom will, likely as not, fail > to provide a useful report

Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2

2005-01-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 15 08:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Seems to me we ought to see if we can't update the symlink() impl such that > this is addressed. I'm betting there's some new attributes or whatever (as > Igor notes) that've been added to symlinks in XP and if we can figure out > what > that is, and

Re: Can "DLL's" & libraries be marked as non-executable?

2005-01-16 Thread Max Bowsher
linda w wrote: Is there some reason cygwin needs to return DLL's as executables, as the underlying OS doesn't require it (having no 'executable bit'). Wrong, actually the underlying OS *does* require it. It may not have mode bits, but it does have ACLs. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwi