Re: Drop Win9x support? (was: Serious performance problems)

2005-06-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Yuk. Top-posting. Reformatted. On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Linda W wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > [snip] > > Again, IMO, it would be ok to make Win9x functionality slower, > > external to the Cygwin DLL, etc, etc, but I don't think dropping it > > altogether is a good idea. > > Igor > > On

Re: Performance problems

2005-06-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:46:52PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >I am talking about cache coherency. It occured to me that I'm using the term "cache coherency" incorrectly here. What I really mean to say is that Windows is in charge of all file operations and so can and does maintain a consis

Re: Performance problems

2005-06-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 08:00:44PM -0700, Linda W wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 03:00:13PM -0700, Linda W wrote: >>>You are technically accurate, but the cygwin layer is a POSIX >>>complient-OS emulation layer by some definition, no? >> >>Yes, but that has nothing to d

Re: Problem with pthreads (serious memory leaks)

2005-06-05 Thread Arash Partow
Hi Chris, You may be right, but I don't remember ever having to wade through 308K worth of code to try to figure out a problem. Searching the archives, I see that you had a program called "ThreadTest" which exposed a stdio memory leak. I still have that program sitting around and it doesn't s

Re: Problem with pthreads (serious memory leaks)

2005-06-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:28:45AM +, Arash Partow wrote: >Hi Chris, > >How many times can we do this dance ? he he he he :) > >The code given is as simple as its gonna get. This is the same >code used by Thomas Pfaff and by YOU to fix previous memory >leaks found in cygwin :) You may be right

Re: Performance problems

2005-06-05 Thread Linda W
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 03:00:13PM -0700, Linda W wrote: You are technically accurate, but the cygwin layer is a POSIX complient-OS emulation layer by some definition, no? Yes, but that has nothing to do with caching. Cygwin is just a DLL. It can't monito

Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable

2005-06-05 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:31:31PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Volker Quetschke wrote: > > > You mean special logic for windows file permissions (ACL?), not only > > using the owner/group/other scheme? > > I think that it recognises files ending in ".exe" and special-cases > them. > > > $ getf

Re: Problem with pthreads (serious memory leaks)

2005-06-05 Thread Arash Partow
Hi Chris, How many times can we do this dance ? he he he he :) The code given is as simple as its gonna get. This is the same code used by Thomas Pfaff and by YOU to fix previous memory leaks found in cygwin :) OK in simple terms this is what I see: I run example1 and open up my taskmanager and

Re: Can't get Exim to send mail

2005-06-05 Thread David Abrahams
"Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I didn't check all your config but you are missing the most important > part, you >>should have under routers: >> >>begin routers >> >>smart_route: >> driver = manualroute >> transport = remote_smtp >> route_list = * smtp.rcn.com >> >> >>That

Re: Can't get Exim to send mail

2005-06-05 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 07:22 PM 6/5/2005 -0500, René Berber wrote: >David Abrahams wrote: > >> I'm hoping someone can help me out. The smtp server I'm forced (by my >> ISP) to use, smtp.rcn.com, sometimes doesn't respond for 20 seconds at >> a time, and since I often send from Gnus -- which is synchronous -- I >> tho

Re: Problem with pthreads (serious memory leaks)

2005-06-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:37:14AM +, Arash Partow wrote: >I'm encountering some memory leaks when using pthreads under cygwin. >As usual the code has been compiled/run on other *nixes (openbsd3.7, >netbsd2.0 and mandrake10.1) and the leak does not seem to occur. > >The system specs are as foll

Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable

2005-06-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Volker Quetschke wrote: > You mean special logic for windows file permissions (ACL?), not only > using the owner/group/other scheme? I think that it recognises files ending in ".exe" and special-cases them. > $ getfacl /cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe > # file: /cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS

Problem with pthreads (serious memory leaks)

2005-06-05 Thread Arash Partow
Hi all, I'm encountering some memory leaks when using pthreads under cygwin. As usual the code has been compiled/run on other *nixes (openbsd3.7, netbsd2.0 and mandrake10.1) and the leak does not seem to occur. The system specs are as follows: 1.) gcc 3.3.3 2.) cygwin dll, snapshots as of: 3

Re: Can't get Exim to send mail

2005-06-05 Thread René Berber
David Abrahams wrote: > I'm hoping someone can help me out. The smtp server I'm forced (by my > ISP) to use, smtp.rcn.com, sometimes doesn't respond for 20 seconds at > a time, and since I often send from Gnus -- which is synchronous -- I > thought I might avoid locking up my Gnus UI by setting u

Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable

2005-06-05 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! $ test -x "/cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe" && echo "executable" executable coreutils have special logic for binaries with .exe suffix, which is why this works. You mean special logic for windows file permissions (ACL?), not only using the owner/group/other scheme? $ perl -e 'if ( !

Can't get Exim to send mail

2005-06-05 Thread David Abrahams
Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me out. The smtp server I'm forced (by my ISP) to use, smtp.rcn.com, sometimes doesn't respond for 20 seconds at a time, and since I often send from Gnus -- which is synchronous -- I thought I might avoid locking up my Gnus UI by setting up an Exim daemon to send

I'm having the same problem

2005-06-05 Thread Jeremy
I'm having the exact same problem. I have tried installing on two different machines and get the same error running setup. I get the error that cygint1-3.dll cannot be found. Is there somewhere I can download that dll individually and insert it into the path to keep setup happy? -- Unsubscribe

Re: Drop Win9x support? (was: Serious performance problems)

2005-06-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 12:52:58AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Well, *eventually* cygwin will be dropping cgf and corinna support. > >Is that another way of saying "over my dead [or MIA] body"? I really don't know what I was trying to say, actually. :-) Maybe I was sa

Re: cygwin 1.5.17-1: apache and rebaseall

2005-06-05 Thread Joel Denny
In case it might be of help to someone else, I have found a solution to my problem. I googled cygwin-1.5.12-1.tar.bz2 and found it for download from: http://sourceware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/sourceware.org/cygwin/release/cygwin/ I then installed it in the same manner as a snapshot (using the inst

Re: Re: OpenSSH starting, but not listening...

2005-06-05 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Sawyer, Christopher (2005-06-05 21:40 +0100) > Listen pal... I didn't subscribe to this list to get bashed, so beat off. > > I asked for help from the list. If this is the wrong place, then so be it, > put it nicely and I'll take my question elsewhere. As I said: you're line length is way b

RE: Re: OpenSSH starting, but not listening...

2005-06-05 Thread Sawyer, Christopher
Listen pal... I didn't subscribe to this list to get bashed, so beat off. I asked for help from the list. If this is the wrong place, then so be it, put it nicely and I'll take my question elsewhere. I'm tired of reading through openssh.README, event viewer or the /var/log/messages or even t

Re: Drop Win9x support? (was: Serious performance problems)

2005-06-05 Thread Linda W
One wouldn't have to suffer much in performance... see http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg00087.html. Dynamic library linking is relatively cheap -- cheaper if the user has the option to pre-install the lib for their OS-flavor. Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Just a datapoint. WinXP does *

Re: OpenSSH starting, but not listening...

2005-06-05 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Sawyer, Christopher (2005-06-05 18:13 +0100) You could improve on the length of your lines. You definetely *should* improve on that. > I've installed the latest from www.cygwin.com file://www.cygwin.com? No. > on my Windows 2003 server. I configure it as stating in various > configuration

Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable

2005-06-05 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > When I test e.g. mozilla.exe which I'm not the owner: Good point. Changing the ownership of java.exe made perl to print "executable" in case of rwx-- permissions. Regards Krzysztof Duleba -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable

2005-06-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Volker Quetschke wrote: > $ test -x "/cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe" && echo "executable" > executable coreutils have special logic for binaries with .exe suffix, which is why this works. > $ perl -e 'if ( ! -x "/cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe" ) {print "not > executable";}' > not execu

Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable

2005-06-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Krzysztof Duleba wrote: Volker Quetschke wrote: I stumbled over the following problem, perl's -x doesn't recognize some files as executable, even though they are and test -x does. It works for me if the file is group or world executable. Works for me anyway, as

Re: no vswprintf

2005-06-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gadi Bergman wrote: Hello, I cannot compile my C++ program on Cygwin with g++ because vswprintf is not available. This function is implemented on the Linux machine I am working with. Is there any way to make it work on Cygwin? The wchar functions needed are missing in newlib. Gerrit -- =^..

Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable

2005-06-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Krzysztof Duleba wrote: Volker Quetschke wrote: I stumbled over the following problem, perl's -x doesn't recognize some files as executable, even though they are and test -x does. It works for me if the file is group or world executable. Works for me anyway, as long as I am probing a Cyg

OpenSSH starting, but not listening...

2005-06-05 Thread Sawyer, Christopher
I've installed the latest from www.cygwin.com on my Windows 2003 server. I configure it as stating in various configuration docs. The service starts and seems to be working correctly... but upon a netstat -an, the service is not LISTENING on any port. I have it set for the default of 22.

Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable

2005-06-05 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Volker Quetschke wrote: > I stumbled over the following problem, perl's -x doesn't recognize > some files as executable, even though they are and test -x does. It works for me if the file is group or world executable. $chmod a-x java.exe; ls -l java.exe -rw---+ 1 Administratorzy Brak 45161 M

perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable

2005-06-05 Thread Volker Quetschke
I stumbled over the following problem, perl's -x doesn't recognize some files as executable, even though they are and test -x does. (The following example uses nsis.exe but something like java.exe would show the same problem.) Examples: $ test -x "/cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe" && echo "e

ginstall problem with doxygen

2005-06-05 Thread Alireza Ghasemi
Hello, When compiling doxygen-1.2.13 I got the following error: " Checking for GNU install tool... not found! GNU version of install is required: this is part of the fileutils package: see http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/fileutils.html"; Whereas I have both install.exe and ginstall.exe in my

grep problem

2005-06-05 Thread Alireza Ghasemi
Hello, While compiling rcsoccersim ,in configuration phase I got he following error: "configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing depfiles commands grep: lseek: Invalid argument"

Re: LXR on cygwin?

2005-06-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gene Smith wrote: I am interested in running LXR (source browser) on a Windows 2k laptop with cygwin. I have installed lxr-0.9.3 on a couple of linux machines with no problem. LXR, written in perl, uses the following helper applications: apache exuberent ctags glimpse (or swish-e) mysql (or

Re: nedit 5.4 and 5.5 - locale not supported problem

2005-06-05 Thread Ireneusz R. Janiszewski
-Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 12:09 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: nedit 5.4 and 5.5 - locale not supported problem Hello, I am trying to use nedit 5.5 or 5.4 with locale "pl" but I have encountered problem, which I cannot solve. The nedit reports "locale not suppor