Re: Using Unix API in .NET?

2008-02-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
BobSacamano wrote: I have some C code that uses Unix API functions that I would like to use in a .NET program I am building. Is it possiable to compile the code (?with Cygwin?) to a dll and then import the dll into .NET? If so, do you have any advice or resources that could help me? There are

Re: Function stat bug when dealing with symlinks.

2008-02-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Pedro Izecksohn on 2/7/2008 9:01 PM: | struct stat member st_mode is wrongly being set by the stat function to | regular file instead of to symlink. Huh? stat is SUPPOSED to dereference symlinks. Use lstat if you want st_mode to repo

Function stat bug when dealing with symlinks.

2008-02-07 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
struct stat member st_mode is wrongly being set by the stat function to regular file instead of to symlink. I packed a test for download: http://www.izecksohn.com/pedro/c/statbug/statbug.tar.gz To use it: tar -xzvf statbug.tar.gz make My configuration: bash-3.2$ uname -a CYGWIN_N

Using Unix API in .NET?

2008-02-07 Thread BobSacamano
I have some C code that uses Unix API functions that I would like to use in a .NET program I am building. Is it possiable to compile the code (?with Cygwin?) to a dll and then import the dll into .NET? If so, do you have any advice or resources that could help me? -- View this message in context

Re: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2008-02-07 Thread Matt Seitz
"Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 07 February 2008 00:22, Matt Seitz wrote: > >> "Dave Korn" wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I did?! It was email when *I* last saw it! > Sorry for any confusion. I'm using the GMane mail to nntp gateway

Re: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps?

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Leder
Dave Korn wrote: Out of curiosity, what's the problem with just using popen("...") always? I get the feeling you're working up to telling me something I don't want to hear, but I shall carry on regardless... :) [_]popen is fine if you want to execute a process and either just get its std

Re: Cygwin OCFS support (or lack of)

2008-02-07 Thread doron cs
Sure you will have it on Sunday On 2/7/08, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 7 19:07, doron cs wrote: > > [OCFS] > > I have found No hits on Oracle or on cygwin > > Has anyone encountered the issue ? > > Can anyone follow up ? > > None of the base developers of Cygwin has acce

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: atool

2008-02-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
The atool package is now available in the Cygwin distribution. atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar, tar+gzip, zip, bzip2, rar, 7zip, ...). atool is called under several names: * aunpack extracts files from an archive. It overcomes the dreaded "multiple files in arc

RE: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps?

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Korn
On 07 February 2008 18:25, Paul Leder wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> Out of curiosity, what's the problem with just using system("...") >> always? > > I can't, because I need to redirect child I/O onto a socket, which > requires CreateProcess. The Unix code is (relatively) easy, but it's a >

Re: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps?

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Leder
Dave Korn wrote: Out of curiosity, what's the problem with just using system("...") always? I can't, because I need to redirect child I/O onto a socket, which requires CreateProcess. The Unix code is (relatively) easy, but it's a complete nightmare in Windoze. You have to use pipes as well

Re: Cygwin OCFS support (or lack of)

2008-02-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 7 19:07, doron cs wrote: > [OCFS] > I have found No hits on Oracle or on cygwin > Has anyone encountered the issue ? > Can anyone follow up ? None of the base developers of Cygwin has access to an OCFS file system. To get this working in future Cygwin releases, we need somebody (you?) for

Re: Can not log in to recently enabled/configured sshd service

2008-02-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 7 17:51, Dave Korn wrote: > On 07 February 2008 16:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > It's not about speed, it's about problems with Samba remote shares. > > Oh, thanks for the correction :) > > > smbntsec doesn't work well with Samba if you don't run an integrated > > domain environment w

RE: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps?

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Korn
On 07 February 2008 17:51, Paul Leder wrote: > Hmm. I think you're right; I need to give up looking for a robust way to > do this. I think I'll: > > if( > (system(uname) looks sane) && > (system(cygpath -m /bin/sh) returns success)) > use CreateProcess with /bin/sh path returned by

RE: Can not log in to recently enabled/configured sshd service

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Korn
On 07 February 2008 16:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 7 14:46, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 06 February 2008 15:48, Alfred von Campe wrote: >>> On Feb 6, 2008, at 9:55, Dave Korn wrote: >>> How do the perms on /home/av16209/.ssh/* look? How do they look with CYGWIN=smbntsec? >>> >>

Re: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps?

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Leder
Hmm. I think you're right; I need to give up looking for a robust way to do this. I think I'll: if( (system(uname) looks sane) && (system(cygpath -m /bin/sh) returns success)) use CreateProcess with /bin/sh path returned by cygpath; else use CreateProcess with cmd.exe /c And I'

Re: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps?

2008-02-07 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2008-02-07 16:28Z, Paul Leder wrote: > > [...] I've written an app which runs on Linux and > "Windows". Most of the time on "Windows", it's probably going to be > running on Cygwin/bash. However, there's always going to be someone who > runs it in a DOS box. > > So, my problem is, how do I

Cygwin OCFS support (or lack of)

2008-02-07 Thread doron cs
Hi all . I wish to report a problem concerning Cygwin OCFS support. I have installed Oracle Clusterware on 2 windows 2003 machined connected to a shared storage . Using that configuration I am protecting a single instance Oracle 11g Database . I use a great deal of Cygwin based scripts to maintain

Re: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps?

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Leder
Phil Betts wrote: Just export the variables you want. That's the whole point of the export command. They're not my variables. I've written an app which runs on Linux and "Windows". Most of the time on "Windows", it's probably going to be running on Cygwin/bash. However, there's always going

Re: Can not log in to recently enabled/configured sshd service

2008-02-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 7 14:46, Dave Korn wrote: > On 06 February 2008 15:48, Alfred von Campe wrote: > > On Feb 6, 2008, at 9:55, Dave Korn wrote: > > > >> How do the perms on /home/av16209/.ssh/* look? How do they look with > >> CYGWIN=smbntsec? > > > > Interesting. I had CYGWIN set to "binmode tty ntsec"

RE: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps?

2008-02-07 Thread Phil Betts
Paul Leder wrote on Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:31 PM:: > Eric Blake wrote: > >> Bash has two variable namespaces - shell variables, and environment >> variables. Are you sure SHELL was exported to the environment, and >> not just in the bash shell variable namespace? > > thanks - I had no id

Re: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps?

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Leder
Eric Blake wrote: Bash has two variable namespaces - shell variables, and environment variables. Are you sure SHELL was exported to the environment, and not just in the bash shell variable namespace? thanks - I had no idea there were 2 variable namespaces. It looks like everything I can see

Re: Can not log in to recently enabled/configured sshd service

2008-02-07 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Feb 7, 2008, at 9:46, Dave Korn wrote: It all depends where you keep your home directory. For a home on your local HD, that's fine, but if you have home on a network share, you need 'smbntsec', since ntsec defaults to only cover local drives for speed. Yes, our home directories are o

RE: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Korn
On 07 February 2008 00:22, Matt Seitz wrote: > "Dave Korn" wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I did?! It was email when *I* last saw it! >> My win32 "T:" drive is a netapp share (CIFS with NFS perms) > I'm assuming you mean "T: maps to a CIFS share that points to a volume or > QTre

RE: Can not log in to recently enabled/configured sshd service

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Korn
On 06 February 2008 15:48, Alfred von Campe wrote: > On Feb 6, 2008, at 9:55, Dave Korn wrote: > >> How do the perms on /home/av16209/.ssh/* look? How do they look with >> CYGWIN=smbntsec? > > Interesting. I had CYGWIN set to "binmode tty ntsec" according to > some instructions I found by go

Re: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps?

2008-02-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Leder on 2/7/2008 7:19 AM: | Hi - | | I'm having a problem reading bash environment variables when running a | MinGW app on Cygwin's bash. I'm trying this on the MinGW list as well, | but no luck so far. The basic problem is that SHE

Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps?

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Leder
Hi - I'm having a problem reading bash environment variables when running a MinGW app on Cygwin's bash. I'm trying this on the MinGW list as well, but no luck so far. The basic problem is that SHELL is not visible in environ (or from getenv) on the app, even thought the program was launched f

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: libpq5 (dummy for clisp-2.44-1)

2008-02-07 Thread Reini Urban
I've uploaded a temporary libpq5-8.2.5-1 package with just the file /bin/cygpq5.dll which is a dependency for the recently uploaded clisp-2.44-1 package. You should not install this package by hand, because it does nothing. The new postgresql-8.2.6 or postgresql-8.3.0 package which will be upl