fork.cc (frok::parent) problems after 3-13-06 snapshot

Hello Folks, I origianly posted this problem on the group on Oct.21 2006 under title "1.5.21 Forked background processes". The problem involves forking processes in the background using `backticks` from a sh script. When doing this, the parent and child (backticked) processes will both die shortly

Re: All Files and Directories on a Windows Fileserver Share Act Like Character Special Device

. Reformatted. Also, . Don't feed the spammers. I've removed raw email addressed you quoted from my response. Long, Phillip GOSS wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Long, Phillip GOSS wrote: Hello! On 06-oct-2006 22:44, I up

RE: All Files and Directories on a Windows Fileserver Share Act Like Character Special Device

I do not know _which_ Windows OS the fileservers are running (I only have user access, and no physical access, to them), but it _is_ NTFS that is used. Here is the output of `getfacl' and `cacls' on a directory which works: # file: /s/DUR-SERVICE/Service-Open-Items # owner: LongPhi

Re: All Files and Directories on a Windows Fileserver Share Act Like Character Special Device

Long, Phillip GOSS wrote: Hello! On 06-oct-2006 22:44, I upgraded my Cygwin installation from mirrors.kernel.org. There are two Windows fileservers to which I have access, and which I have mounted, that now show up colored yellow on black, and apparently _are_ being treated as character special

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

mwoehlke wrote: Tim Beuman wrote: Hi Jason, The "Ridiculous amount of stuff" was sent out as atachments but I guess somehow it ended up inline. Sorry for that. Um... Huh. Thunderbird shows it as attachment. The web archive does not. Anyone that knows the mailer software have a guess what we

All Files and Directories on a Windows Fileserver Share Act Like Character Special Device

Hello! On 06-oct-2006 22:44, I upgraded my Cygwin installation from mirrors.kernel.org. There are two Windows fileservers to which I have access, and which I have mounted, that now show up colored yellow on black, and apparently _are_ being treated as character special devices. At first I thought

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

Tim Beuman wrote: Hi Jason, The "Ridiculous amount of stuff" was sent out as atachments but I guess somehow it ended up inline. Sorry for that. Um... Huh. Thunderbird shows it as attachment. The web archive does not. Anyone that knows the mailer software have a guess what went wrong? -- Ma

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

On 10/11/06, Tim Beuman <> wrote: Hi Jason, The "Ridiculous amount of stuff" was sent out as atachments but I guess somehow it ended up inline. Sorry for that. Anyway, I tried to disable all McAfee options (Virus Protection, Spyware protection, SystemGuard Protection, Script scanning and email)

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/10/06, Tim Beuman <> wrote: I still have problems with ssh-agent/ssh-add when I install McAfee. Browsing over the internet didn't yield a working solution. Before I could stop McAfee and it would work but with the latest version of McAfee (version 10?) disabling M

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

Hi Jason, The "Ridiculous amount of stuff" was sent out as atachments but I guess somehow it ended up inline. Sorry for that. Anyway, I tried to disable all McAfee options (Virus Protection, Spyware protection, SystemGuard Protection, Script scanning and email) but to no avail. With the prev

Problem with grace

Hello: I'm not beeing able to run grace in cygwin. I've tried both grace and xmgrace, but I get nothing but the console prompt (no error message). I tried also to start first the xserver and then xmgrace but I get the same result. I even tried to uninstall cygwin and reeinstall it, without su

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

On 10/10/06, Tim Beuman <> wrote: Hi, I still have problems with ssh-agent/ssh-add when I install McAfee. Browsing over the internet didn't yield a working solution. Before I could stop McAfee and it would work but with the latest version of McAfee (version 10?) disabling McAfee doesn't make any

Re: When ssh'd in, cannot run MS compiler /Zi debug option.

Michael Haubenwallner wrote: Mark Charney ieee.org> writes: I suspect I'm missing some "rights". This is an issue for me on multiple machines running Windows Server 2003 x64 or for 32b WinXP. When I try to compile using the debug-option (/Zi) to the Microsoft Visual Studio Pro 2005 compil

RE: Delay in "ls"

On 10 October 2006 21:06, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > There appears to be a stochastic delay in the "ls" program. I used bash's > time function to time how long it takes for ls to do its job (output of "ls" > suppressed): > > real m10.492suser 0m0.030ssys 0m0.030s > real m 0.074s

Re: Very Strange while udp socket polling.

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:47:38PM +0400, Vadim Melihow wrote: >And after poll >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/ >$ netstat -a -n -o |grep 2860 > UDP0.0.0.0: *:*2860 > UDP127.0.0.1:3074 *:*2860 > > >why 'pol

Re: When ssh'd in, cannot run MS compiler /Zi debug option.

Mark Charney ieee.org> writes: > > I suspect I'm missing some "rights". This is an issue for me > on multiple machines running Windows Server 2003 x64 or for > 32b WinXP. > > When I try to compile using the debug-option (/Zi) to the > Microsoft Visual Studio Pro 2005 compiler: > cl /Zi

Best practices in IT systems management [was RE: Is there a way to install old version cygwin?]

[ Linda, please don't take this post personally; it isn't specifically directed at you or anyone else, it's just that I've been meaning to write a few paragraphs to explain these concepts for some time now, and chosen to piggy-back on your thread because it's equally as good an example as any

Re: Is there a way to install old version cygwin?

Linda Walsh wrote: Eric Blake wrote: For example, it may just be a matter of figuring out which scripts have DOS line endings but reside on binary mounts. --- What was changed recently? Was it that the old, line-read functions quietly removed CR's so bash (et al.) wouldn't see them even on

Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: We're you the one who brought up Unicode earlier? Besides, there are numerous situations where files get transferred with without needing to involve Windows, so stray characters occasionally show up here and there. I'm sure many of us would like support for en

Re: Is there a way to install old version cygwin?

Linda Walsh wrote: Eric Blake wrote: For example, it may just be a matter of figuring out which scripts have DOS line endings but reside on binary mounts. --- Having this issue surprise me, recently, on an upgrade of Bash, I wasn't sure why it had worked before and was not working now. I

Re: Is there a way to install old version cygwin?

Eric Blake wrote: For example, it may just be a matter of figuring out which scripts have DOS line endings but reside on binary mounts. --- Having this issue surprise me, recently, on an upgrade of Bash, I wasn't sure why it had worked before and was not working now. I've never used text

Very Strange while udp socket polling.

Hello, Just very simple program and very strange behaviour int main() { int fd; struct pollfd pds[2]; struct sockaddr_in sai; fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP); sai.sin_family = AF_INET; sai.sin_port= htons();

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated chere-0.7-1

The chere package has been updated. This version fixes a bug when removing context menu items, and makes the context menu items a little bit more explicit. chere is a tool to manage context menu items for starting shells from Windows Explorer. See the man page for detailed instructions. Dave --

Re: SSH: Cygwin->Linux is slow

ppmoore gmail.com> writes: > Has anyone else experience very slow speed when connected from Cygwin to a > SuSE inux box using ssh? > > I'm not talking about the connection time. I mean that when logged onto the > linux box using an xterm, that the time between typing a letter and viewing > the

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8): Scripts on textmode mount get problems with CR characters

Bruun, Peter Michael (HP C&I CME OSS CoE hp.com> writes: > > With release 3.1.8 of Bash, however, it no longer understands Windows > conventions. > > I get: > > Bash is broken in /home/pmb > Bash is broken in C:/Temp > Bash works in /tmp > > > Or have I overlooked something? You overlooked

Bash 3.1.17(8): Scripts on textmode mount get problems with CR characters

For various reasons (like various revision control systems), as described by others elsewhere, some of us prefer to follow the Windows standard of text file lines ending in CRLF when working on windows. It has been one of the main strengths of Cygwin tools, that all of them understood this. With

Re: SSH: Cygwin->Linux is slow

Marko, No I don't run any kind of P2P or Bit Torrent software on the XP box. Thanks, Paul Marko Bozikovic wrote: > > ppmoore wrote: >> Has anyone else experience very slow speed when connected from Cygwin to >> a >> SuSE inux box using ssh? >> >> I'm not talking about the connection time. I

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.0.122-1. This is an update to the latest patchlevel 122. Cygwin Vim still builds from the vanilla sources. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to yo