Re: where to find archives?

Mohankumar Periasami wrote: > Could you plz let me know where can I find the cygwin tar package > archives (say 1.15.x)? The only versions that are officially supported are the current and previous version. But if you look on the mirrors there are often older versions as well. I just took a loo

where to find archives?

Could you plz let me know where can I find the cygwin tar package archives (say 1.15.x)? Regards, Mohankumar -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Unable to run even simple batch scripts any more

Eric Backus wrote: Matthew Woehlke users.sourceforge.net> writes: Dennis Simpson wrote: Three of us updated to latest windows cygwin last week, and none can run even simple .sh scripts any more. Prior version was 6 months ago. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-12/msg00026.html Next

Re: Unable to run even simple batch scripts any more

Matthew Woehlke users.sourceforge.net> writes: > Dennis Simpson wrote: > > Three of us updated to latest windows cygwin last week, and none can run > > even simple .sh scripts any more. Prior version was 6 months ago. > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-12/msg00026.html > > Next time

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:04:57PM -0500, Chuck wrote: >Dennis Simpson wrote: >> One co-worker downloaded the latest Windows cygwin last week. His "ls" >> command now consistently does not return anything, regardless of what >> directory he is in. This is in addition to not being able to run shel

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: HD scan shows no errors. I'm beginning to think I need to remove and reinstall every cygwin package, but I'm not certain that will fix it either. I've

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

Dennis Simpson wrote: > One co-worker downloaded the latest Windows cygwin last week. His "ls" > command now consistently does not return anything, regardless of what > directory he is in. This is in addition to not being able to run shell > scripts any more, either. > > The other two of us t

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Chuck wrote: >> I'd buy into the HD-getting-ready-to-fail argument more if I saw >> weirdness on Windows too, but I don't. At least not yet. Plus scans of >> the HD with both Tuneup Utilities and Windows itself are not turning >> anything up. > WAG but have you looked at the

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Chuck wrote: >> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Chuck wrote: >>> >>> HD scan shows no errors. >>> >>> I'm beginning to think I need to remove and reinstall every cygwin package, but I'm not certain that

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

Dennis Simpson wrote: One co-worker downloaded the latest Windows cygwin last week. His "ls" command now consistently does not return anything, regardless of what directory he is in. This is in addition to not being able to run shell scripts any more, either. For the problem with running sh

Re: pasting into an ssh connection painfully slow... sometimes

On 2/8/07, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 2/8/07, Lev Bishop wrote: > On 2/8/07, Lev Bishop wrote: > > > When I get some time I'll redo those patches against the latest cygwin > > version. In the meantime, if netscreen provides a sysctl > > net.inet.tcp.ackonpush or some way to disable delayed ac

Re: Unable to run even simple batch scripts any more

Dennis Simpson wrote: Three of us updated to latest windows cygwin last week, and none can run even simple .sh scripts any more. Prior version was 6 months ago. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-12/msg00026.html Next time RTFRA. Oh, and STFLA; this particular horse died a *lng* t

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

One co-worker downloaded the latest Windows cygwin last week. His "ls" command now consistently does not return anything, regardless of what directory he is in. This is in addition to not being able to run shell scripts any more, either. The other two of us that upgraded last week to the late

Re: Download Cygwin???

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian D wrote: > Hi, > > ...I live in Fox, Alaska. High-speed internet is not an option at this > point. > Trying to install Cygwin via the usual setup.exe method fails because my > internet connection likes to have problems far too many times du

Unable to run even simple batch scripts any more

Three of us updated to latest windows cygwin last week, and none can run even simple .sh scripts any more. Prior version was 6 months ago. test 1: y.sh #!/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/bash.exe cd ../working pwd results: $ ./y.sh : No such file or directorying(note: "directorying" should be "di

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

Chuck wrote: $ cd /cygdrive $ ls $ ls -a . .. c g h k s $ ls -a $ ls -a Hmm. Can't replicate this on my system. Nor can I replicate your other report, about "corrupted" ls output. You should definitely report a problem in the format described by http://cygwin.com/problems.html. Read

Re: Using a DLL built with cygwin in VC++

Papasha wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use a DLL created with cygwin in my VC++ project. First of all, have you read the Cygwin FAQ (specifically, *all* the questions in the Programming FAQ? Read the caveats about linking Cygwin DLLs into VC++ programs. Specifically, Q 16. After you have unde

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Chuck wrote: I'd buy into the HD-getting-ready-to-fail argument more if I saw weirdness on Windows too, but I don't. At least not yet. Plus scans of the HD with both Tuneup Utilities and Windows itself are not turning anything up. WAG but have you looked at the event log? -- Andrew DeFaria

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: HD scan shows no errors. I'm beginning to think I need to remove and reinstall every cygwin package, but I'm not certain that will fix it either. I've already reinstalled both coreutils and cyg

Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function

Andrew Makhorin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I detected a strange bug in the standard function gettimeofday. >> It *sometimes* reports the time which being expressed as the integer >> number of milliseconds is *less* than the time obtained *earlier* >> with the same function. >> >> The expression 100 *

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > I am not used the latest / greatest DaemonTools however since I am > under the impression that it has become adware if you don't buy it. > > -Jason > It includes adware. You can unselect it in the installer. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscri

Re: POSIX->Windows conversion for vars other than PATH, etc?

Hello, Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...is there a way to tell Cygwin that variables other than PATH, etc > (i.e. arbitrary, user-specified variables) should be converted from > POSIX format to Windows format when spawning a non-POSIX application? There is an option in cyg-wrapper

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> I have no idea what this Daemon tools thing is. Hooks into the file >> system. Gee that's beginning to sound like a root-kit! > > Last I checked, it is a program to allow you to mount CD images as "real > drives". Since it is supposed to make them

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Chuck wrote: >> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> Have you checked if you can do similar operations with DOS commands? I >>> believe what you're seeing here is a hardware (probably disk) problem. >>> Years ago I had a failing disk pick off files randomly for a while until

Re: POSIX->Windows conversion for vars other than PATH, etc?

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:38:59AM -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >...is there a way to tell Cygwin that variables other than PATH, etc >(i.e. arbitrary, user-specified variables) should be converted from >POSIX format to Windows format when spawning a non-POSIX application? > >If not, would it be

POSIX->Windows conversion for vars other than PATH, etc?

...is there a way to tell Cygwin that variables other than PATH, etc (i.e. arbitrary, user-specified variables) should be converted from POSIX format to Windows format when spawning a non-POSIX application? If not, would it be acceptable to add such a feature if I were to submit a patch for it

Re: cygwin-1.5.24-2: cygpath -w --long-name scrambles non-existing filename

On Feb 12 17:45, Bernhard Leiner wrote: > Hi, > > I experience a problem that has already been reported (and solved) > several months before: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00861.html > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00878.html > > My output: > > $ cygpath -v > cygpa

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

On 2/12/07, Matthew Woehlke wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I have no idea what this Daemon tools thing is. Hooks into the file > system. Gee that's beginning to sound like a root-kit! Last I checked, it is a program to allow you to mount CD images as "real drives". Since it is supposed to make

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Andrew DeFaria wrote: I have no idea what this Daemon tools thing is. Hooks into the file system. Gee that's beginning to sound like a root-kit! Last I checked, it is a program to allow you to mount CD images as "real drives". Since it is supposed to make them look "real" enough to even fool

cygwin-1.5.24-2: cygpath -w --long-name scrambles non-existing filename

Hi, I experience a problem that has already been reported (and solved) several months before: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00861.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00878.html My output: $ cygpath -v cygpath (cygwin) 1.42 Compiled on Jan 31 2007 $ cygpath -w -l 12345

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Chuck wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: which makes me think that maybe its the writing to stdout that's failing. At this point I'd suggest SpinRite: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm Haven't tried spinrite yet but I did do a "thorough" check of the drive using Tuneup Utilities. That's the one t

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Have you checked if you can do similar operations with DOS commands? I believe what you're seeing here is a hardware (probably disk) problem. Years ago I had a failing disk pick off files randomly for a while until the whole thing finally went. Is the

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Have you checked if you can do similar operations with DOS commands? I > believe what you're seeing here is a hardware (probably disk) problem. > Years ago I had a failing disk pick off files randomly for a while until > the whole thing finally went. > > Is there

Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function

Andrew Makhorin wrote: I detected a strange bug in the standard function gettimeofday. It *sometimes* reports the time which being expressed as the integer number of milliseconds is *less* than the time obtained *earlier* with the same function. ...how often is "often"? Also what version of Win

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> which makes me think that maybe its the writing to stdout that's failing. >> >> > At this point I'd suggest SpinRite: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm Haven't tried spinrite yet but I did do a "thorough" check of the drive using Tuneup Utilities. That's the one that req

Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Carlo Florendo wrote: > Windows could be accurate up to 15 ms or perhaps a little bit more. > However, it is very difficult to achieve less than 15 ms or microsecond > accuracy with windows due to the limitation on the OS itself. Our > extensive tests on windows clocks and ti

tar --exclude not working

Experts, I'm using tar (GNU tar) 1.16.1 and have an archive with the following entries. Files/report1.html Files/report2.html Files/report3.html Files/report4.html D:/Bkp/sol/ D:/Bkp/sol/test1.pl D:/Bkp/sol/test2.pl D:/Bkp/sol/test3.pl Whenever, I try to exclude files starting with "D:/" its not

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Chuck wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Chuck wrote: At first I thought my recent problems with cygwin were limited to the occasional "ls" command listing nothing. Run it again an it works (usually). Now the problems are getting worse. I tried to "rm" a file that I own and it didn't fully delete it.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated:lftp-3.5.9-1

> > lftp ftp.microsoft.com > lftp: host name resolve timeout I'm not able to reproduce this problem: $ lftp ftp.microsoft.com lftp ftp.microsoft.com:~> ls dr-xr-xr-x 1 ownergroup 0 Jan 25 11:03 bussys dr-xr-xr-x 1 ownergroup 0 Jan 25 11:18 deskapps dr-xr-xr

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Chuck wrote: >> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> Chuck wrote: > > > >> >> HD scan shows no errors. > > > >> I'm beginning to think I need to remove and reinstall every cygwin >> package, but I'm not certain that will fix it either. I've already >> reinstalled both c

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Chuck wrote: >> At first I thought my recent problems with cygwin were limited to the >> occasional "ls" command listing nothing. Run it again an it works >> (usually). Now the problems are getting worse. I tried to "rm" a file >> that I own and it didn't fully delete it. It

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

Frodak wrote: > Back up your stuff. > > This happened to me before days before ntfs.sys > deleted itself. I then asked my boss for a new > hard-drive and then did a fresh windows install. > > I had bizarre issues. > > Amongst what you described that happened for a while, > the following occurr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me

I'm not sure if it has reached the consciousness of the general Cygwin user base yet but I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of the fact that we will be ripping out support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me in the next version of Cygwin, which will be version 1.7.0. This has bee

Re: Probllem with New GDB/Eclipse

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:53:35AM +, Charles Tubbs wrote: >Brian Dessent dessent.net> writes: >>Doyle Rhynard wrote: >>>When others depend upon what you do, the old maximum for physicians >>>should apply also: "First, do no harm". My suggestion is to roll back >> >>That logic would only appl

Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:00:38AM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote: >Andrew Makhorin wrote: >>Hi, >> >>I detected a strange bug in the standard function gettimeofday. >>It *sometimes* reports the time which being expressed as the integer >>number of milliseconds is *less* than the time obtained *earlie

pthread_cond_timedwait

Hi, I have tried to use the pthread_cond_timedwait, but it doesn't seem to work properly. It returns immediately with a return value of 116 (ETIMEDOUT) even if I set the timeout period to e.g. 10 seconds. I have locked the mutex and initialized the condition variable before the invokation is m

Re: svn on cygwin related problem.

Hello, I think I spotted a bug which happen on the subversion package provided for cygwin. I encountered the following problem while exporting the content of my Subversion repository. In the repository, I have a directory T which contains another file called X.exe and a directory called X. When