Re: Intermittent perl crash

2007-12-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Michael Kairys wrote: "Reini Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Known problem and easy to fix. Download the rebase package, read the readme, stop all cygwin services and run rebaseall in ash. Thank you for the timely reply! However I am stuck on what shoul

Re: Intermittent perl crash

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Kairys
"Reini Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Known problem and easy to fix. Download the rebase package, read the readme, stop all cygwin services and run rebaseall in ash. Thank you for the timely reply! However I am stuck on what should be a simple step: reba

Re: Starting native windows GUI app via ssh.

2007-12-17 Thread Clayton Holloway
Sweet, it worked. and to think it was something as simple as a check box in a windows dialog box. thanks Brian Keener wrote: Clayton Holloway wrote: Sounds good to me. I doubt this is a standard ssh option so I wouldn't know what to add in the config. Would you mind pasting the config

Re: Starting native windows GUI app via ssh.

2007-12-17 Thread Brian Keener
Clayton Holloway wrote: > Sounds good to me. > I doubt this is a standard ssh option so I wouldn't know what to add in > the config. > > Would you mind pasting the config that enables this or, if you don't > remember which config option it is, the whole sshd_config. I believe they are referring

Re: Running dovecot under Cygwin

2007-12-17 Thread René Berber
Ronny wrote: > i am trying to get imap server "dovecot" running under cygwin. > > Compiling the server finished without any errors. > But running the server does not work. > > As far as i can see, dovecot runs a master process, that uses execv to > launch a child (auth) process. The child proces

Re: Starting native windows GUI app via ssh.

2007-12-17 Thread Clayton Holloway
Sounds good to me. I doubt this is a standard ssh option so I wouldn't know what to add in the config. Would you mind pasting the config that enables this or, if you don't remember which config option it is, the whole sshd_config. Thanks. :) Roger Wells wrote: A few weeks I asked for hel

Re: Starting native windows GUI app via ssh.

2007-12-17 Thread Roger Wells
A few weeks I asked for help with the same problem. The advice that worked (I think) was to be sure that the installation of sshd was such that it is allowed to interact with the desktop. In any case I have it working in my situation so let me know if you need more help. HTH Brian Mathis wro

Re: Intermittent perl crash

2007-12-17 Thread Reini Urban
2007/12/17, Michael Kairys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I apologize in advance for the scanty information here; I'm hoping someone > can suggest how to narrow this down. > > I've begun using Cygwin Perl regularly in the past few days (previously used > only AS) and I'm finding fairly simple scripts crash

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: nano-2.0.6-1

2007-12-17 Thread Lapo Luchini
Version 2.0.6-1 of nano has been uploaded. nano is a text editor designed as a clone of pico, but rewritten from scratch to be faster and smaller while having greater functionality. You can find information about new features here: http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.0/NEWS If you have questions

Re: Starting native windows GUI app via ssh.

2007-12-17 Thread Brian Mathis
On Dec 17, 2007 3:20 PM, Clayton Holloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it at all possible to start a native windows application(GUI) via ssh > and have it actually appear on the windows box? > > No matter what app I run via ssh (firefox, notepad, etc) the process is > listed in the task manager,

Re: Intermittent perl crash

2007-12-17 Thread Brian Mathis
On Dec 17, 2007 3:22 PM, Michael Kairys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Michael Kairys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > By "fairly simple" I mean ones I'm working on that at this point are only > > reading arguments and doing string operations. > > Sorry, one mor

Starting native windows GUI app via ssh.

2007-12-17 Thread Clayton Holloway
Is it at all possible to start a native windows application(GUI) via ssh and have it actually appear on the windows box? No matter what app I run via ssh (firefox, notepad, etc) the process is listed in the task manager, but is nowhere to be found on the screen. If X were in use here, I'd just

Re: Intermittent perl crash

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Kairys
"Michael Kairys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] By "fairly simple" I mean ones I'm working on that at this point are only reading arguments and doing string operations. Sorry, one more thing, and probably "the" thing: system("notepad &"); So this is clearly fork

Re: VM and non-blocking writes

2007-12-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 17 19:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 17 12:28, Lev Bishop wrote: > > If we keep having to work > > around more issues like this, perhaps we'd be better off bypassing the > > afd layer entirely, by setting SO_SNDBUF to 0, using overlapped IO, > > and managing buffers ourselves. I'm sur

Re: VM and non-blocking writes

2007-12-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 17 12:28, Lev Bishop wrote: > On Dec 16, 2007 9:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Dec 16 14:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Lev, are you interested in reworking your patch (minus the pipe stuff) > > > to match current CVS? Is there any gain in raising SO_SNDBUF/SO_RCVBUF > > > t

Re: mmap failing

2007-12-17 Thread Wayne Christopher
My test program is attached. This example works but in my real program the same write+close+mmap sequence did not. It appears that calling fsync before the close sometimes avoids the error but not always. This is Cygwin 1.5.24(0.156/4/2). Any thoughts? Thanks, Wayne Corinna Vinschen w

Re: VM and non-blocking writes

2007-12-17 Thread Lev Bishop
On Dec 16, 2007 9:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 16 14:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I'm contemplating the idea to workaround this problem in Cygwin (not > > for 1.5.25, but in the main trunk) by caping the number of bytes in a > > single send call, according to the patch Lev sent

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: joe 3.5-2 -- Fast and simple editor which

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:17:12 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: >CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE >== > >Removed termidx.exe. According to debian 2.8-16 changelog entry: >"Since joe doesn't use termcap (but terminfo), termidx can be removed". Uhm... From joe-3.5.tar.gz/joe-3.5/INSTALL:

Intermittent perl crash

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Kairys
I apologize in advance for the scanty information here; I'm hoping someone can suggest how to narrow this down. I've begun using Cygwin Perl regularly in the past few days (previously used only AS) and I'm finding fairly simple scripts crashing intermittently with this message: 3 [main] perl

RE: Running dovecot under Cygwin

2007-12-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17 December 2007 15:28, Ronny wrote: >> I don't but you might be able to get some clues from looking at strace >> output. > > Well, i never used strace, so i do not know what it says me. > I just give you the output. > Could you have a look on it? Thanks a lot. What is /home/Administrator/

Re: Running dovecot under Cygwin

2007-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:08:47PM +0100, Ronny wrote: > Hi, > > i am trying to get imap server "dovecot" running under cygwin. > > Compiling the server finished without any errors. > But running the server does not work. > > As far as i can see, dovecot runs a master process, that uses execv to >

Running dovecot under Cygwin

2007-12-17 Thread Ronny
Hi, i am trying to get imap server "dovecot" running under cygwin. Compiling the server finished without any errors. But running the server does not work. As far as i can see, dovecot runs a master process, that uses execv to launch a child (auth) process. The child process is killed immedeatl

Re: making executable independent of cygwin with gcc

2007-12-17 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2007-12-17 10:23Z, Marko Loparic wrote: > > Is there a way to create an executable from a C source that will run > on windows without cygwin? See the answer to "How do I compile a Win32 executable that doesn't use Cygwin?" in the FAQ. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

making executable independent of cygwin with gcc

2007-12-17 Thread Marko Loparic
Hi, Is there a way to create an executable from a C source that will run on windows without cygwin? The gcc command I use is simply: gcc -I. -lm -g -o unit_comm $(objects) The error I get when running the program in a windows system without cygwin is: "This application has failed to start be

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.25-7

2007-12-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've put Cygwin 1.5.25-7 out of test. This is now the new release version. Changes since version 1.5.25-5: - Fix return value of poll(). - Fix file position in append mode for non-Cygwin processes. - Fix missing definition of struct iovec when including sys/socket.h. - tzset is now thread saf