SetTimer Bug report

Hello. It must be bug, But Im not sure... In WinXP all works fine.. but then I use Windows 2003 works strange with lastest version cygwin1.dll(file version 1.5.19-cr-0x5ef) but works fine with oldest verstion, like 1.5.18 from 2005.07.02. Description: When use SetTimer in Win2003 Application

Troubles with bash/sh and ctrl-break

I recently upgraded from cygwin 1.36 to the latest version, and it looks like bash is causing some troubles for me. I am using a windows batch file to start up a shell script which in turn starts up java. My startserver.bat is as so... SETLOCAL SET _dir=%~dp0 sh.exe "%_dir%\startserver.sh" %* E

Re: serial ports

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Oliver Vecernik wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to use the serial port from perl on my notebook. This port is > connected via an usb-adapter and referred as COM4: on Windows. I > couldn't find any /dev/ttySx and I'm not sure if this is even supported. > Is this possible under Cyg

RE: netcat lacks socks support?

Great! Let me know if you succeed in compiling it under cygwin. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/netcat-lacks-socks-support--t1459349.html#a4020553 Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

Re: useradd & user ids

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Steve Kelem wrote: > Igor Peshansky said the following on 4/20/2006 12:24 PM: > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Steve Kelem wrote: > > > > > How do I set my user & group id to a specific value? I would like > > > it to match the uid & gid assigned by Linux on our main server. If > > >

serial ports

Hi, I'd like to use the serial port from perl on my notebook. This port is connected via an usb-adapter and referred as COM4: on Windows. I couldn't find any /dev/ttySx and I'm not sure if this is even supported. Is this possible under Cygwin? -- Oliver Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Curr

What library to link for replacing lockf by _locking?

I followed an idea from the previous mailing list (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-talk/2004-q4/msg00136.html) on emulating lockf by _locking provided by Windows standard runtime library. However, the binary executable crashes everytime it runs. I did the following and don't know if it has co

Re: cygwin and multi-gnome-terminal-1.6.

Eric Blake wrote: When i try compile a multi-gnome-terminal-1.6 from http://multignometerm.sourceforge.net/ I receive a error: checking for dlopen... yes checking for Configure Easter Egg version >= 3.14... found Ooh, I love Easter egg hunts. And what's with that version number resembli

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

Are you sure about that? Me memory is 1G total, what's recommended values for the parameter? I 'd like to try again. On 4/20/06, Alexander J. Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Perl wrote: > > >I follow the workaround and increase the values by adding two zero to > >each of 3 parameters of

Re: useradd & user ids

Igor Peshansky said the following on 4/20/2006 12:24 PM: On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Steve Kelem wrote: How do I set my user & group id to a specific value? I would like it to match the uid & gid assigned by Linux on our main server. If my local settings match the main server's, then ssh works mor

Cygwin increasing windows timer resolution

It appears that cygwin is increasing the timer resolution on windows. Does anyone know the reason behind this as it does have a significant impact on the cpu usage of applications. Steve This e.mail is private and confidential between Multipla

Re: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup

Natalia (Tasha) Belfiore wrote: > When I hit "next", it went to the grey "Progress" screen and started > to download, then an error box popped up that said: > > cygwin setup > Unable to get setup.ini from > > > I hit the "ok" button, and it took

Re: Cygwin and Interix interoperability?

Corinna Vinschen wrote: We're already having two different symlink types, one of them U/Win compatible. I'm, too, not really interested in adding another one(*), especially when there's no documentation and, TTBOMK, no Win32 API. True; it might require linking against Interix (yuck), which is

Re: Windows 95 support ?

Christopher Faylor, le Thu 20 Apr 2006 16:51:43 -0400, a écrit : > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:42:14PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >I tried to install cygwin on win95 this afternoon, but setup.exe can't > >start, because it is linked with MSVCRT.DLL, which is not available > >under windows 95. >

Re: Windows 95 support ?

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:42:14PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >I tried to install cygwin on win95 this afternoon, but setup.exe can't >start, because it is linked with MSVCRT.DLL, which is not available >under windows 95. MSVCRT.DLL or its variant has been available since Windows 3.1, AFAIK. I'

Re: how to get my app to find a dynamic library

mwoehlke wrote: Thomas Preisler wrote: My main app 'main.c' is in one directory and I have a dynamic library 'cygmylib.dll' in a subdiretory 'tmp'. I can compile and link my main app fine but having trouble running it. It complaints about not being able to find the dynamic library. I have tr

Windows 95 support ?

Hi, I tried to install cygwin on win95 this afternoon, but setup.exe can't start, because it is linked with MSVCRT.DLL, which is not available under windows 95. Isn't cygwin supposed to run on Windows 95 too? Regards, Samuel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pro

Re: Cygwin and Interix interoperability?

On Apr 20 13:04, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:59:49AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: > >I saw a few comments roughly on this topic when I searched the > >archives, but nothing 100% definite, so I thought I'd ask... Are there > >any plans of making Cygwin more compatible with Inte

Re: how to get my app to find a dynamic library

Thomas Preisler wrote: My main app 'main.c' is in one directory and I have a dynamic library 'cygmylib.dll' in a subdiretory 'tmp'. I can compile and link my main app fine but having trouble running it. It complaints about not being able to find the dynamic library. I have tried just about ever

how to get my app to find a dynamic library

I'm using Cygwin on Windows XP. gcc version 3.4.4. My main app 'main.c' is in one directory and I have a dynamic library 'cygmylib.dll' in a subdiretory 'tmp'. I can compile and link my main app fine but having trouble running it. It complaints about not being able to find the dynamic library.

Re: Cygwin backwards compatibility break with WinMain and GetCommandLine (was Re: WinMain() not getting cl...)

Just to close the loop on this subject: Corinna more or less convinced me that breaking backwards compatibility isn't a good idea at this time. So, I've introduced the previously-mentioned kludge into cygwin sources. So, recent snapshots have reverted to the slow method for filling out command lin

Re: useradd & user ids

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Steve Kelem wrote: > How do I set my user & group id to a specific value? I would like it to > match the uid & gid assigned by Linux on our main server. > If my local settings match the main server's, then ssh works more > smoothly. Do you mean the name or the numeric value?

Re: Can't print because .lnk makes printer name invalid

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Rockefeller, Harry wrote: > I had our UNIX administrator work on this for a couple of days. He > totally reinstalled Cygwin. The problem still exists. This has nothing to do with Cygwin -- the link is probably on the server share... Can you "ls" it and see what the permiss

Re: sshd

Steve Kelem wrote: > The instructions for sshd (/usr/share/doc/openssh/README.privsep) The first instructions you should read are those in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README; if you follow those you use ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config which take care of setting everything else so you don't

RE: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup --file

Hello sorry-- forgot the attachment last time Thanks, Tasha -Original Message- From: Igor Peshansky Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:52 PM To: cygwin AT cygwin.com Cc: Natalia (Tasha) Belfiore Subject: RE: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup On Tue, 18 Apr 2006,

RE: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup

Hello After solving some other computer problems, I followed your instructions exactly below, going to the mirrors.kernel.org ftp site to install. By clicking on "skip" (thanks to whomever said that I should do that), I was able to select the things I wanted. When I hit "next", it went to the gr

sshd

The instructions for sshd (/usr/share/doc/openssh/README.privsep) include the following: You should do something like the following to prepare the privsep preauth environment: # mkdir /var/empty # chown root:sys /var/empty # chmod 755 /var/empty # groupadd sshd # useradd -g sshd

Re: Cygwin and Interix interoperability?

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:58:25PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:59:49AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >>>Are there any plans of making Cygwin more compatible with Interix >>> (and especially the (and especially the SFU/SUA NFS clients)? >> >>No, there are

useradd & user ids

How do I set my user & group id to a specific value? I would like it to match the uid & gid assigned by Linux on our main server. If my local settings match the main server's, then ssh works more smoothly. Thanks, Steve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Cygwin and Interix interoperability?

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:59:49AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: Are there any plans of making Cygwin more compatible with Interix >> (and especially the (and especially the SFU/SUA NFS clients)? No, there are no plans. I can't speak for Corinna, but, personally, I have no

Re: Cygwin and Interix interoperability?

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:59:49AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >I saw a few comments roughly on this topic when I searched the >archives, but nothing 100% definite, so I thought I'd ask... Are there >any plans of making Cygwin more compatible with Interix (and especially >the SFU/SUA NFS clients)? No,

Cygwin and Interix interoperability?

Hi, list, I saw a few comments roughly on this topic when I searched the archives, but nothing 100% definite, so I thought I'd ask... Are there any plans of making Cygwin more compatible with Interix (and especially the SFU/SUA NFS clients)? Specifically, I would be interested in two things: 1)

Cygwin Installation Freezes

Hello, I am fairly new to cygwin. I tried installing it using the http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe link. Other than the default packages, I also selected some development utilities to allow me to compile in C. I am downloading the packages fine, however whenever I get to the installation portion

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: util-linux-2.12r-2

Leeuw van der, Tim wrote: I haven't seen any discussion on this, but I do wonder why does util-linux bring in a dependancy on Perl? /usr/bin/chkdupexe: perl script text executable /usr/bin/scriptreplay: perl script text executable I've so far avoided installing Perl and don't feel like instal

Can't print because .lnk makes printer name invalid

I had our UNIX administrator work on this for a couple of days. He totally reinstalled Cygwin. The problem still exists. However, I created a workaround which may be of benefit to others. With a postscript file or output from a2ps use this command cat $i.ps | $HOME/bin/print.pl and this perl

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: util-linux-2.12r-2

Hi, I haven't seen any discussion on this, but I do wonder why does util-linux bring in a dependancy on Perl? I've so far avoided installing Perl and don't feel like installing it now either. And it seems that Perl in turns brings in a dependancy on both libdb4.2 *and* libdb4.3 - this doesn't like

RE: script in cygwin

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > > > On 20 April 2006 09:09, Jim Easton wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > A way back (22 Feb 2006) I asked about script in cygwin. > > ${PACKAGE} > > > On my last update

RE: Arbitraily Banning Maintainers From Mailing Lists Which They Need To Perform Their Duties

On 20 April 2006 13:26, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > [Follow-ups set to cygwin@, since the arbitrary banning of maintainers, or "Arbitrary" is not an accurate description of a ban that was done for a clearly-defined reason. Gary, you could have TITTTL'd the thread but you just *had* to have the

Re: ssh and a particular client

"Brett Serkez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> So, it almost seems as if the ^Q is the problem. Except that ^Q means start >> transmission, not stop, and no key presses get me out of being stuck, except >> for ^D to exit the session. >> >> Any ideas of where I should start looking? > > Try ad

RE: script in cygwin

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 20 April 2006 09:09, Jim Easton wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > A way back (22 Feb 2006) I asked about script in cygwin. > ${PACKAGE} > > On my last update lo and behold in comes script - how nice. :-) >

Re: bash completion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Nahor on 4/19/2006 10:58 AM: > Hi, > > I have the following prompt in bash (Gentoo style): > PS1='\[\033[01;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[01;34m\]\w $ \[\033[00m\]' > > When I press to get the list of possible completion on the command > lin

Arbitraily Banning Maintainers From Mailing Lists Which They Need To Perform Their Duties

[Follow-ups set to cygwin@, since the arbitrary banning of maintainers, or anyone else for that matter, from Cygwin mailing lists is most certainly of grave concern to the Cygwin community at large.] > From: Christopher Faylor > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 1:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subj

RE: packages for groupadd and useradd commands

On 20 April 2006 10:53, Harmin Rueda wrote: > Hi: > > Can anybody tell me which packages do I need to install in order to > execute the following commands: > > groupadd > useradd To do this on cygwin, you need to add the user accounts and groups in windows, then regenerate your passwd and gro

packages for groupadd and useradd commands

Hi: Can anybody tell me which packages do I need to install in order to execute the following commands: groupadd useradd Thank you Harmin Rueda -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: h

RE: script in cygwin

On 20 April 2006 09:09, Jim Easton wrote: > Hi All, > > A way back (22 Feb 2006) I asked about script in cygwin. ${PACKAGE} > On my last update lo and behold in comes script - how nice. :-) ${PACKAGE} > I don't

Re: script in cygwin

Hi All, A way back (22 Feb 2006) I asked about script in cygwin. On my last update lo and behold in comes script - how nice. :-) I don't know who to thank but thank you nevertheless. I notice one minor difference between the cygwin version and the version I am used to on several Unix OSs. That