Re: please test ptys and ttys in the latest snapshot

2006-06-03 Thread Karl M
Hi All... Problem resolved with 6/4 (0517 GMT) snapshot. Thanks, ...Karl From: "Karl M" Subject: Re: please test ptys and ttys in the latest snapshot Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:52:55 -0700 Hi All... I just tried the 5/29, 6/1, 6/2 and 6/3 (0724 GMT) snapshots on XP SP1 and SP2. They all r

Re: mv does copy instead of rename

2006-06-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Richard Foulk wrote: In an Active Directory environment Windows Explorer was refusing to rename a directory, presumably because the directory was open by another process. Why are you presuming this? Didn't Windows report why this was not being done? On trying mv under Cygwin to rename the

converse of cygwin_attach_handle_to_fd()?

2006-06-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, cygwin_attach_handle_to_fd() lets create a cygwin fd on top of a windows handle. When calling close() on the fd, the windows handle is closed too. Is there any way to close the fd without closing the underlying handle? (i.e. the converse of cygwin_attach_handle_to_fd(), actually) The same que

mv does copy instead of rename

2006-06-03 Thread Richard Foulk
In an Active Directory environment Windows Explorer was refusing to rename a directory, presumably because the directory was open by another process. On trying mv under Cygwin to rename the directory, mv seemed to just hang. It was a large directory and mv was actually copying the files to the ne

Re: window resizing not updating COLUMNS and LINES

2006-06-03 Thread Ehud Karni
On Wed, 31 May 2006 18:47:24 -0500, mwoehlke wrote: > > > > 'export COLUMNS' is needed for 'printenv COLUMNS' to work, > > since in the printenv case you need the variable to be > > transferred to the child printenv process. > > Ok, that makes sense, although my understanding is that if the child

Re: please test ptys and ttys in the latest snapshot

2006-06-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
e -a" and the prompt just returns, no output, no error. -- Ooops, I have to correct myself. Several tries late uname hangs. The same strange behaviour also happens with the 20060603 snapshot. I even could reproduce the same The instruction at "0x6100365f" referenced memory at "

Re: please test ptys and ttys in the latest snapshot

2006-06-03 Thread Karl M
Hi All... I just tried the 5/29, 6/1, 6/2 and 6/3 (0724 GMT) snapshots on XP SP1 and SP2. They all run on XP SP2. On XP SP1, only 5/29 and 6/1 run. The 6/2 and 6/3 snapshots momentarily flash a window and go away. If I launch them from a CMD window (duplicating the commands from the cygwin.b

Re: rm not honoring directory access permissions

2006-06-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Nellis, Kenneth wrote: I recently noticed that rm will delete a file without proper regard to the access permissions of the containing directory. Researching the archives, I see that this subject was touched on ("POSIX compliance of unlink(2)") in February 2005, but the discussion seemed to veer

FW: 200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates "No space left on device"

2006-06-03 Thread David Christensen
Cygwin: Turning off Windows 2003 SBS quotas on the hard drive fixes the problem. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygw

Re: rlogin or telnet from Unix to WinXP

2006-06-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 07:35:14AM -0700, Freddy Jensen wrote: >This is a question that I am sure many folks have the answer to, >because I can imagine that people do this all the time. I just have >never had the time to get it set up: > >I wan't to be able to rlogin (and rshd) from my Unix machin

Re: rlogin or telnet from Unix to WinXP

2006-06-03 Thread Brett Serkez
Use secure shell (openssh), the r protocols are deprecated due to security concerns. Secure shell is a drop in replacement for the r protocols (mostly) with much better security and has become the standard. There is a secure shell deamon that can be run under Cygwin and should do what you want.

apache hanging in latest cygwin 1.5.19-4

2006-06-03 Thread Andrew
Just spent the last 2 days trying to figure out why cygwin apache 1.3.33-2 hangs after awhile, especially when running with php 4.4.2 DSO. It seems to be a cygwin socket problem introduced from cygwin 1.5.18 -> 1.5.19. Others have found this problem too: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-04/ms