RE: Directory existence prevents .exe execution

2008-04-15 Thread Luke Kendall
On 15 Apr, Dyck, David wrote: > how much control do you have on unix side? > (you could create a symlink from ici.exe to ici on unix. True. And I suppose there are only rare programs that would suffer this problem. > what about creating a new name for ici.exe and ici that > could be found o

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-15 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Charles Wilson writes: > Dr. Volker Zell wrote: >> This is the relevant code block in alternatives.c where the above >> file gets read by the function readConfig (buf should hold the >> contents of the above file after the do loop): >> curBufSz = READCONFIG_BUF_INITIALSZ;

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Re: Possible Defect: Long delay in some progam executions

2008-04-15 Thread Luke Kendall
Gregory Rosensteel wrote: Hello, I performed a fresh install of cygwin on windows XP. I am seeing that some commands take a really long time to execute, I was wondering if anyone else is experience this. For example, the 'which' command takes 2s while the 'pwd' command runs just fine. Please s

Directory existence prevents .exe execution

2008-04-15 Thread Luke Kendall
We have the Ici scripting language installed on Windows. Ici expects a directory called "ici" to exist alongside, where various libraries are installedd to provide extra functionality. Unfortunately, under Cygwin, if w try to run the command "ici" we get the error "ici: command not found", be

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: This is the relevant code block in alternatives.c where the above file gets read by the function readConfig (buf should hold the contents of the above file after the do loop): curBufSz = READCONFIG_BUF_INITIALSZ; totalBytesRead = 0; numBytesRead = 0; buf

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Hugh Sasse wrote: > Trying to copy a windows XP NTFS drive to a big disk using cygwin tools > I encounter inaccessible files such as ntusers.dat. tar is not ntuser.dat is the filename of the per-user registry hive (HKEY_CURRENT_USER). It is opened by the system in exclusive mode, so it cannot b

Re: Possible Defect: Long delay in some progam executions

2008-04-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Gregory Rosensteel on 4/15/2008 1:46 PM: | Hello, | I performed a fresh install of cygwin on windows XP. I am seeing | that some commands take a really long time to execute, I was wondering | if anyone else is experience this. For exam

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-15 Thread smr xxxx
FWIW, a little non-Cygwin (VS2008) test app to display results from fstat(0,...) returns the same thing on XP and Vista Ent SP1: 0x2000 which means character special, and not regular. On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:23 PM, smr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done some debugging of tail.exe on

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-15 Thread smr xxxx
I've done some debugging of tail.exe on XP (which works) and Vista Enterprise SP1 (which doesn't), and so far have found two differences when tailing output piped from another program: 1. S_ISREG (stats.st_mode) returns 0 on XP, but 1 on Vista (I haven't yet determined if this is an Enterprise-on

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-15 Thread Sylvain RICHARD
Hugh Sasse wrote: Trying to copy a windows XP NTFS drive to a big disk using cygwin tools I encounter inaccessible files such as ntusers.dat. tar is not particularly verbose about why things fail so I wrote something in Ruby, but I only got about 70% of the contents of the disk across. I suspect

Possible Defect: Long delay in some progam executions

2008-04-15 Thread Gregory Rosensteel
Hello, I performed a fresh install of cygwin on windows XP. I am seeing that some commands take a really long time to execute, I was wondering if anyone else is experience this. For example, the 'which' command takes 2s while the 'pwd' command runs just fine. Please see my sample output below an

file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-15 Thread Hugh Sasse
Trying to copy a windows XP NTFS drive to a big disk using cygwin tools I encounter inaccessible files such as ntusers.dat. tar is not particularly verbose about why things fail so I wrote something in Ruby, but I only got about 70% of the contents of the disk across. I suspect this is a common pr

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-15 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Charles Wilson writes: > I don't know what else to do here. Unless I can reproduce it, I can't > debug it. The only possibility I can think of is this: are you > actually using alternatives-1.3.29a-1, or some older version? The > previous version had a serious bug in a routi

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when "cygwin.bat" is run by Nullsoft-Installer (SOLVED)

2008-04-15 Thread Christoph Herdeg
Hello List, thank you very much for the great efforts you took on to help me solve our problem ( see the OP below). Finally we managed not to solve the problem itself but at least to find a workaround. Still we are not able to identifiy the one of the tree possible parties responsible for the prob

Re: gold star? Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.4-1

2008-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 14 15:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:55:50PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > > csih (cygwin-service-installation-helper) provides a library of shell > > functions that can be used by other cygwin packages that provide servers > > and daemons. It can assist in var

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1

2008-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 14 21:17, Eric Blake wrote: > Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > > > The cost of stat'ing a known symlink (which may involve spinning up a disk > > or > > doing a network access) just to color its target was deemed too expensive > > for > > the default. Coreutils 6.11 is due out this week,

Re: Missing header files

2008-04-15 Thread Robert Eckhoff
If I understand, you're trying to compile wpa_supplicant for use by windows? That's pretty weird...I'd post to this to the wpa_supplicant mailing-list/team. They probably can help you better. AFAIK if_arp.h is part of the linux/bsd kernels only. But, if you're trying to compile targeting w