Performance of 1.7

2008-05-07 Thread Rob Bosch
I've been testing cygwin 1.7 on Server 2008 with rsync. First, the install went flawlessly. I'm just using a standard path of E:\cygwin...no fstab issues. Compiling rsync worked without a hitch. The rsync version is 3.02 with the preallocate patch applied. The patch takes advantage of the posi

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

2008-05-07 Thread Mark
Cheers everyone for all you help and comments, it's really appreciated. All the best Mark -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cyg

ssh hanging on some connections

2008-05-07 Thread Richard Foulk
Aloha, Has anyone figured out why ssh is hanging sometimes? Saw it mentioned in some back archives, but no answers. Just installed the latest Cygwin today and now I've got the ssh hang problem when I access a particular Linux box over the Internet. It connects okay, though much slower than anot

Re: /dev/fd0 no medium found and does not exist?

2008-05-07 Thread Adam McCarthy
I do aplogize for that, I should have remember about spam and quoting raw email addresses. I don't know why I forget some times, I guess I'm just used to replying on newsgroups but I do know I need to get GMail to stop quoting the emails that were sent or at least the email addresses. > http://cygw

Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:03:19PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On May 2 20:27, Nefastor wrote: >> >> Your trick worked as advertised, and on the first try, thank you very much >> :handshake: >> >> Anyone know where this problem with tcsetattr() comes from ? Is it >> documented or specific to

Re: /dev/fd0 no medium found and does not exist?

2008-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 7 10:56, Adam McCarthy wrote: > Oh and I uninstalled my old Cygwin, which was probably at least a year > and a half old and it believe I broke it in some places, but did a > completely new Cygwin and Cygwin runs much faster and now dd > if=image.dd of=/dev/fd0 works just fine. Good to read

Re: inetutils 1.5 / ftpd problem: 426 Data connection: No buffer space available.

2008-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 7 20:28, antony baxter wrote: > Corinna, > > > IIUC, the testcase should exhibit the problem OOTB. HAVE_MMAP is > > defined and LARGE_TRANSFER_BLOCKSIZE is set to 32K. I did what you > > wrote above, I built server and client, added the example port to > > /etc/services, created the Real

Re: inetutils 1.5 / ftpd problem: 426 Data connection: No buffer space available.

2008-05-07 Thread antony baxter
Corinna, > IIUC, the testcase should exhibit the problem OOTB. HAVE_MMAP is > defined and LARGE_TRANSFER_BLOCKSIZE is set to 32K. I did what you > wrote above, I built server and client, added the example port to > /etc/services, created the ReallyBigFile from /dev/urandom as above... > > Howeve

Re: /dev/fd0 no medium found and does not exist?

2008-05-07 Thread Adam McCarthy
Oh and I uninstalled my old Cygwin, which was probably at least a year and a half old and it believe I broke it in some places, but did a completely new Cygwin and Cygwin runs much faster and now dd if=image.dd of=/dev/fd0 works just fine. On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Adam McCarthy <[EMAIL PRO

Re: /dev/fd0 no medium found and does not exist?

2008-05-07 Thread Adam McCarthy
Well, I had to do dd if=floppyimage of=/dev/fd0 but other than that, I don't need /dev/fd0. On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 6 21:12, Adam McCarthy wrote: > > \\.\a: on /dev/fd0 type system (binmode) > > This sort of device mount is deprecated

Re: 2.573.2.2 wget not possible creating files with question mark ? in name

2008-05-07 Thread Richard Campbell
On 5/7/08, Richard Campbell wrote: > On 5/7/08, Pander wrote: > > Also, Pander, I'm an idiot, but don't do what I just did and quote full email addresses. Sorry. See http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR -Richard Campbell. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: 2.573.2.2 wget not possible creating files with question mark ? in name

2008-05-07 Thread Richard Campbell
On 5/7/08, Pander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When using cygwin 2.573.2.2 wget on Windows XP Professional 2002 SP 2 it > is not possible for wget to write or update files with questionmark ? in > name. ? is an illegal character in the native windows filesystems. Cygwin has a feature to automat

2.573.2.2 wget not possible creating files with question mark ? in name

2008-05-07 Thread Pander
Hi all, When using cygwin 2.573.2.2 wget on Windows XP Professional 2002 SP 2 it is not possible for wget to write or update files with questionmark ? in name. Also it is not possible to extracting tar files in cygwin containting the results of wget done on a POSIX machine. A special build of wg

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

2008-05-07 Thread Warren Young
Mark wrote: I had thought that by modifying my etc/profile to pick up mingw istead of the GCC bundled in cygwin If that's the limit of your goal, then yes, it can be done, but it's a bit more involved than just changing the PATH. Here's the Bourne shell script I use, which I call 'mingw':

tar failing hard link creation

2008-05-07 Thread tommi . sairo
Hi, There is something mysterious in tar with Cygwin when archive contains hard links. Similar issues have been reported earlier: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-12/msg00251.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-01/msg00705.html In my case, a colleague was trying to extract a pre-built

Re: pkill script

2008-05-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tom Van Looy on 5/7/2008 3:54 AM: | | alias uptime="systeminfo | grep -i 'system up time'" Why not just use the procps package, so you can get uptime.exe? (Upstream coreutils also provides an uptime executable, but I have intentionally

Re: inetutils 1.5 / ftpd problem: 426 Data connection: No buffer space available.

2008-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 1 01:57, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Apr 30 01:58, Charles Wilson wrote: >>> If [disabling mmap] *does* fix the problem, it may point to an issue with >>> cygwin-1.5's mmap implementation, or with XP's handling of the underlying >>> NtCreateSection()...mmap is no

Re: How to backup Cygwin packages list?

2008-05-07 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Richard Ivarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to backup the packages list of my current Cygwin installation, ie > the config files which list which packages Cygwin got installed. > > So that I could take this configuration file(s) to another PC with f

How to backup Cygwin packages list?

2008-05-07 Thread Richard Ivarson
Hi, I'd like to backup the packages list of my current Cygwin installation, ie the config files which list which packages Cygwin got installed. So that I could take this configuration file(s) to another PC with fresh Cygwin installation and get the same Cygwin programs I use on the other PC.

Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 2 20:27, Nefastor wrote: > > Your trick worked as advertised, and on the first try, thank you very much > :handshake: > > Anyone know where this problem with tcsetattr() comes from ? Is it > documented or specific to Cygwin ? (or both ?) The reason is probably: Nobody ever implemented i

Re: /dev/fd0 no medium found and does not exist?

2008-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 6 21:12, Adam McCarthy wrote: > \\.\a: on /dev/fd0 type system (binmode) This sort of device mount is deprecated for many years. Read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id319619 OTOH, what are you trying to do? /dev/fd0 is only for raw device access. If you just wan

pkill script

2008-05-07 Thread Tom Van Looy
Hi list I first want to thank everyone that helped to develop Cygwin, I really really really like it. Screenshot: http://ctors.net/pub/zsh_cygwin.png :-) Two nice aliases I use for Windows are uptime and pkill: alias uptime="systeminfo | grep -i 'system up time'" pkill is a bash script in my ~

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2008-05-07 Thread carmelohurst57276
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2008-05-07 Thread carmelohurst57276
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