RE: serial ports

Dave Korn wrote: > Well then, that's a really good argument for just using the builtin > access that cygwin provides through /dev/ttySx instead, isn't it? > The way Oliver's original post reads suggests that he was just thrown > off by not seeing any devices under the virtual /dev dir, but that > d

Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

Steven Brown wrote: So, time for phase 2: C++ programs are also affected by gcc bug #24196[1] (passing std::string between exes and dlls), which causes hard to track down crashes. This was discussed in an earlier thread[2] and the conclusion seemed to be that building with --enable-fully-dyn

Re: emacs debugging conundrum

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:59:48PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Any ideas on how I should go about debugging a core dump, when the dump >doesn't occur under the debugger? Is it more likely to be a cygwin bug, >or an app bug? I am experimenting with C

RE: ntsec

On 22 April 2006 22:59, Robert Thomas beau Hayes Link wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:52:41PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> Do you mean some magical force siezes control of your body and stops you >> from typing every time you go to enter the word "chmod"? > Thanks for your tongue-in-cheek tong

emacs debugging conundrum

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any ideas on how I should go about debugging a core dump, when the dump doesn't occur under the debugger? Is it more likely to be a cygwin bug, or an app bug? I am experimenting with CVS emacs, and the build process fails when it gets to this command

Re: ntsec

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:52:41PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > Do you mean some magical force siezes control of your body and stops you > from typing every time you go to enter the word "chmod"? Thanks for your tongue-in-cheek tongue-lashing. I'll spend some time getting my head around cygcheck an

RE: regarding a problem that you know how to fix

On 22 April 2006 15:40, Robert J. Cristel wrote: > Hello Corinna, I'm not Corinna! > mingw-install-20060210 > is experiencing a problem > "tar: ssl/man/man1/md2.1.lnk: Cannot > utime: Permission denied" > with win98 that you solved a while back > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg009

regarding a problem that you know how to fix

Hello Corinna, mingw-install-20060210 is experiencing a problem "tar: ssl/man/man1/md2.1.lnk: Cannot utime: Permission denied" with win98 that you solved a while back http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg00901.html We would like to apply the same medicine that you found. What would you su

Re: Launch APP over SSH

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Wesley Smith on 4/21/2006 1:59 PM: > PS > > I also get the message WARNING: terminal is not fully functional . > How do I get rid of this? Usually, this is an indication that the remote machine does not have a termcap/terminfo database

Re: Redirecting bash stdin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Dave on 4/21/2006 11:45 AM: > I'm trying to get a mingw GUI application to pipe commands to cygwins > bash by redirecting its stdin as described here > . Why not just spawn bash with command line a

Re: htonl, htons, ntohl and ntohs types

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Samuel Thibault on 4/21/2006 6:17 AM: >> >> The Xint32_t typedef's uses long instead of int: > > That's on purpose: on windows, ints are 16bits. Maybe in Microsoft, but this is the cygwin list, and in cygwin, ints are 32 bits. And until

Re: Troubles with bash/sh and ctrl-break

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Anil Arora on 4/21/2006 12:15 AM: > 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

Re: What library to link for replacing lockf by _locking?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please don't commandeer threads. If you are starting a new subject, start a new thread rather than replying to an existing one. According to James Wong (Infrasys) on 4/20/2006 9:29 PM: > I followed an idea from the previous mailing list > (http://www

RE: serial ports

On 22 April 2006 06:26, David Christensen wrote: > Oliver Vecernik wrote >> I'd like to use the serial port from perl on my notebook. > > Try the Win32::SerialPort Perl module: > > http://members.aol.com/Bbirthisel/SerialPort.html > > > I used it in the past and it worked great, but I had

RE: ntsec

On 22 April 2006 05:51, Robert Thomas beau Hayes Link wrote: > Greetings, > > I've poked around in the faqs and other docs but have not been able to > solve my proble, which is that for the first time in serveral cygwin > installs I a not able to chmod 755 any of my files. Do you mean some mag