Re: Running Cygwin in background.

2008-01-30 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Jan 30, 2008 11:35 PM, jrtayloriv wrote: > > Sorry, I am not used to Windows at all -- I've only been using Linux for the > past several years and I've forgotten about a lot of things. > > Because of this, it seems that I am having trouble asking the right > question... > > I am talking about h

Re: Running Cygwin in background.

2008-01-30 Thread jrtayloriv
Sorry, I am not used to Windows at all -- I've only been using Linux for the past several years and I've forgotten about a lot of things. Because of this, it seems that I am having trouble asking the right question... I am talking about how to get Cygwin itself to run in the background. Once I

Re: Running Cygwin in background.

2008-01-30 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Jan 30, 2008 6:57 PM, jrtayloriv wrote: > > > > paul.hermeneutic wrote: > > > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00527.html > > > > http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Cygwin+setup+sshd > > > I appreciate the links, but I already know how to set up an SSH server. I > was actually interested

Re: Running Cygwin in background.

2008-01-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
jrtayloriv wrote: paul.hermeneutic wrote: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00527.html http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Cygwin+setup+sshd -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http

Re: Running Cygwin in background.

2008-01-30 Thread jrtayloriv
paul.hermeneutic wrote: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00527.html > > http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Cygwin+setup+sshd > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http:

Re: Graphicks Magic on Vista?

2008-01-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 01/12/2008, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: gm.exe on vista doesn't work Sorry, can't provide any other feedback about your message ATM. :-( Larry are you working the problem of gm not even being able to generate help much less image transf

Re: Graphicks Magic on Vista?

2008-01-30 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 01/12/2008, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: gm.exe on vista doesn't work Sorry, can't provide any other feedback about your message ATM. :-( Larry are you working the problem of gm not even being able to generate help much less image transformation on Cygwin on Vis

Re: cygwin not working well with vista 64

2008-01-30 Thread Ashutosh Singh
Hi, I downloaded the lates cygwin and I still see problems with createProcess. fork() fails in many cases. Editing files is also an issue. Has the issue been punted, should I forget about making cygwin work reliably on windows. I need XWindows badly and would have to mov

RE: bash's builtin "test" command kills bash on Windows Server 2003 R2

2008-01-30 Thread Mr Webber
That was my thought. I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ type -a test test is a shell builtin test is /usr/bin/test -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:15 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: b

Re: bash's builtin "test" command kills bash on Windows Server 2003 R2

2008-01-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Brian J. Johnson wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Brian J. Johnson wrote: Cygcheck output is below. Strace output available on request. (Note that cygcheck shows Microsoft's SUA is installed. It failed the same way before and after I installed SUA.) Thanks, What does 'type -a test'

Re: bash's builtin "test" command kills bash on Windows Server 2003 R2

2008-01-30 Thread Brian J. Johnson
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Brian J. Johnson wrote: I've encountered an odd problem installing cygwin on Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 edition. This is a default installation of cygwin from yesterday on a fresh Windows installation on a Xen VM hosted by SLES10SP1. The installer runs

Re: bash's builtin "test" command kills bash on Windows Server 2003 R2

2008-01-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Brian J. Johnson wrote: I've encountered an odd problem installing cygwin on Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 edition. This is a default installation of cygwin from yesterday on a fresh Windows installation on a Xen VM hosted by SLES10SP1. The installer runs normally, but most of the p

RE: Acronym submission

2008-01-30 Thread Dave Korn
On 30 January 2008 18:12, paul.hermeneutic wrote: > Submission for http://cygwin.com/acronyms/ > > BDFL - Benevolent Dictator For Life. The title appropriate for Guido > van Rossum, author of the Python language included in Cygwin. Well, yeh, but http://cygwin.com/acronyms#OSCA :) cheer

Acronym submission

2008-01-30 Thread paul . hermeneutic
Submission for http://cygwin.com/acronyms/ BDFL - Benevolent Dictator For Life. The title appropriate for Guido van Rossum, author of the Python language included in Cygwin. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

bash's builtin "test" command kills bash on Windows Server 2003 R2

2008-01-30 Thread Brian J. Johnson
I've encountered an odd problem installing cygwin on Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 edition. This is a default installation of cygwin from yesterday on a fresh Windows installation on a Xen VM hosted by SLES10SP1. The installer runs normally, but most of the postinstall scripts fail.

Re: Limitation in PathName

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please keep replies on the list: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 1/30/2008 8:35 AM: | Hi, | | Thanks for replying.. | | Actually,I am facing an issue where I am able to create a folder of | absolute length >250 c

Re: Limitation in PathName

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to hkb83 on 1/30/2008 8:13 AM: | Hi | | Is there any limitation in cygwin regarding the pathnames in opendir/readdir | functions? Only what Windows imposes. Why do you ask? | | Is the pathname limit = PATH_MAX being 260? Yes (for now, be

Limitation in PathName

2008-01-30 Thread hkb83
Hi Is there any limitation in cygwin regarding the pathnames in opendir/readdir functions? Is the pathname limit = PATH_MAX being 260? I am using Win XP SP-2. Regards, Harmeet -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Limitation-in-PathName-tp15183422p15183422.html Sent from t

Re: About linker otions on rebasing

2008-01-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Only using '-Wl,--enable-auto-image-base' in its build makes it work > also after the rebasing and, if I remember correctly, no DLL are created > in its build. You can look at the imagebase value in the .exe with and without being built with that option and I'm quite sure

Re: About linker otions on rebasing

2008-01-30 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Brian Dessent wrote > The image base is only relevant when creating a DLL. When creating an > .exe the issue is irrelevant as all executables have an image base of > 0x004. Brian, Do you remember the problems of Emacs after rebasing? It needs libncurses7 not-rebased. Only using '-Wl,--e

Re: Running Cygwin in background.

2008-01-30 Thread paul . hermeneutic
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00527.html http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Cygwin+setup+sshd -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Running Cygwin in background.

2008-01-30 Thread jrtayloriv
I would like to run Cygwin as a background process in Windows, and access it via an SSH server (which will be running in Cygwin). What I mean is that I do not want to have an open window on the Windows box. I don't care if it shows up in the Task Manager or anything -- I don't need it to be hidden

Re: About linker otions an rebasing

2008-01-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Angelo Graziosi wrote: > I remember an old discussion on cygwin-apps that suggested to add > > -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base auto-import has nothing to do with rebasing and is the default anyway. The only thing that specifying --enable-auto-import does is disable som

About linker options an rebasing

2008-01-30 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I remember an old discussion on cygwin-apps that suggested to add -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base as linker options to avoid some problems with rebasing (adding the above should avoid to rebase, if I remember correctly). But suppose that for an application foo.exe we

About linker otions an rebasing

2008-01-30 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I remember an old discussion on cygwin-apps that suggested to add -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base as linker options to avoid some problems with rebasing (adding the above should avoid to rebase, if I remember correctly). But suppose that for an application foo.exe we

Re: pdksh having problems starting native gvim on Vista x64

2008-01-30 Thread Chris J
Igor Peshansky wrote: > > Can you please post the output of "ls -l /cygdrive/c/vim/vim71/gvim.exe", > "ls -ld /cygdrive/c/vim/vim71", and "ls -ld /cygdrive/c/vim"? Also of > "cygcheck /cygdrive/c/vim/vim71/gvim.exe"? $ pwd /cygdrive/c/Vim $ ls -l vim71/gvim.exe --+ 1 chris None 3048448