Re: [BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

2008-12-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 12:06:40AM +, Eric Blake wrote: >David Rothenberger acm.org> writes: >>It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly read-only. >>The sequence of steps below shows that "chmod 444 file1" does not make >>the file read-only in Cygwin 1.7, while it does in Cygw

Re: [BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
On 12/31/2008 3:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:31:43PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly read-only. The sequence of steps below shows that "chmod 444 file1" does not make the file read-only in Cygwin 1.7, while

Re: [BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
On 12/31/2008 4:06 PM, Eric Blake wrote: David Rothenberger acm.org> writes: It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly read-only. Are you perchance running as an Administrator, and therefore you have backup privileges? Yes. If so, then you have root-like power, and cygwin

Re: [BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

2008-12-31 Thread Eric Blake
David Rothenberger acm.org> writes: > > It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly > read-only. The sequence of steps below shows that "chmod 444 file1" > does not make the file read-only in Cygwin 1.7, while it does in > Cygwin 1.5. It may have something to do with the Read Only

Re: [BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

2008-12-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:31:43PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: >It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly >read-only. The sequence of steps below shows that "chmod 444 file1" >does not make the file read-only in Cygwin 1.7, while it does in >Cygwin 1.5. It may have something to

[BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly read-only. The sequence of steps below shows that "chmod 444 file1" does not make the file read-only in Cygwin 1.7, while it does in Cygwin 1.5. It may have something to do with the Read Only DOS attribute. This is set by Cygwin 1.5 but not

Inconsistency with sort -n?

2008-12-31 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
`sort -n' and `sort -g' work inconsistently with 0 and -0 if there are leading spaces. Sometimes -0 is before 0, as I would expect, and sometimes it is afterwards. Adding `-b' does not seem to help. Is this where I should report it or should I go upstream? In case you are wondering why I want

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {serf,libserf0_0,libserf0-devel}-0.2.0-2

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
The serf packages have been rebuilt for Cygwin 1.7. More information about serf can be found at http://code.google.com/p/serf/. DESCRIPTION: The serf library is a C-based HTTP client library built upon the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library. It multiplexes connections, running the

Re: find assert (was Re: [1.7] System reboot (udfs.sys),...)

2008-12-31 Thread Gregory Sharp
> assertion "state.type != 0" failed: file "/usr/src/findutils-4.5.3-1/src/findutils-4.5.3/find/ftsfind.c", line 475, function: consider_visiting > > This is apparently caused by a symlink that looks like this: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 cgf None 6 Jul 9 2005 n -> //none I confirm the assert in f

Re: [1.7] System reboot (udfs.sys), cygwin 1.7

2008-12-31 Thread Gregory Sharp
> > >Any ideas what is going on? > > We need the information here: > > > > http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > cygcheck.out is attached (52K) > > strace.out is attached (180K) > > I also wonder about a bug in udfs. The version 5.0.2195.7006 > is what I got by ordinary patching with "Windows Up

Re: after recent update, svn tools exiting with code 57

2008-12-31 Thread Dave Steenburgh
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:45 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 12/31/2008 10:33 AM, Dave Steenburgh wrote: >> From time to time, I use setup.exe to update all the packages I have >> installed. After doing that earlier today, I found out that svn, >> svnadmin, and svnserve (and presumably all oth

Re: after recent update, svn tools exiting with code 57

2008-12-31 Thread Dave Steenburgh
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Dave Steenburgh wrote: >> >> I haven't been able to find any info related to this problem; >> hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. >> >>> From time to time, I use setup.exe to update all the packages I have >> >> insta

RE: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Thorsten Kampe wrote on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:40 AM: > you have to use "start". Or "cygstart.exe"? > Windows has a GUI setting for user and system variables (which is > quite lenthy to access). Start Menu => Settings => Control Panel => System (applet) => Advanced (t

Re: after recent update, svn tools exiting with code 57

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
On 12/31/2008 10:33 AM, Dave Steenburgh wrote: > From time to time, I use setup.exe to update all the packages I have > installed. After doing that earlier today, I found out that svn, > svnadmin, and svnserve (and presumably all other svn tools) are > exiting with code 57 and no error message, wi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {apr1,libapr1,libapr1-devel}-1.3.3-2

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
apr1 has been rebuilt for Cygwin 1.7. NEWS: = Please see http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-1.3 for more details about the changes since 1.2.11, the previous Cygwin release of this package. DESCRIPTION: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to c

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.5 and 1.7] Updated: which-2.20

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
which-2.20-1 for Cygwin 1.5 and which-2.20-2 for Cygwin 1.7 are now available. NEWS: = New upstream release. DESCRIPTION: Which is a utility that prints out the full path of the executables that bash(1) would execute when the passed program names would have been entered on the s

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {subversion,subversion-apache2,subversion-devel,subversion-perl,subversion-python,subversion-ruby}-1.5.5-1

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version of subversion is now available for download. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See CHANGES (URL below) for more information. IMPORTANT: This release will silently upgrade your Subversion working copies to the 1.5 format, rendering them unusable with previous major version

Re: after recent update, svn tools exiting with code 57

2008-12-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Dave Steenburgh wrote: I haven't been able to find any info related to this problem; hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. From time to time, I use setup.exe to update all the packages I have installed. After doing that earlier today, I found out that svn, svnadmin, and svnse

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {aprutil1,libaprutil1,libaprutil1-devel}-1.3.4-2

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
aprutil1 has been rebuilt for Cygwin 1.7. NEWS: = Please see http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-UTIL-1.3 for more details about the changes since 1.2.10, the previous Cygwin release of this package. This package includes plugins for ldap, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3. It is still link

after recent update, svn tools exiting with code 57

2008-12-31 Thread Dave Steenburgh
I haven't been able to find any info related to this problem; hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. >From time to time, I use setup.exe to update all the packages I have installed. After doing that earlier today, I found out that svn, svnadmin, and svnserve (and presumably all ot

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Andy Koppe
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Yes, but there's the complication of "CYGWIN=" settings that have to be set before the Cygwin DLL even loads. Thanks for pointing that out. For that matter, MinTTY could also provide GUI access to bash command line flags, a way to change the login shell by modify

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Andy Koppe
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Andy Koppe wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package. It sounds like it would get enough votes. That would be great. I'll need to read up on the package submission requireme

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Andy Koppe
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Ideally it would be a .msi that installs just the exe and the readme >> into %PROGRAMFILES%\MinTTY and puts a shortcut to the exe directly >> into Start Menu\Programs. > > Please don't make this the only way to install this. Some of us (e.g., > yours tr

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Andy Koppe
Thorsten Kampe wrote: ?? That's how Windows Cmd.exe works. If rxvt does something different then it does some magic and it would definitely irritating to me if cmd would /not/ keep a Window open until mintty is closed. If you want the "old" behaviour of the command.com/Windows 9X environment, y

Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line

2008-12-31 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Subject: Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line You also need Cygwin's installation path in your Windows PATH variable. Thanks Larry. I already had that set up (C:\cygwin\bin) as well as C:\cygwin\lib but I can still only lau

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:39:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Christopher Faylor (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:05:35 -0500)> >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:44:36PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: >> > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package. It sounds like it >>

Re: Mouting network drives from Cygwin ssh client

2008-12-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jeenu V wrote: Thanks for the link. I removed the default CYGWIN sshd service and ran: cygrunsrv --install sshd --path /usr/sbin/sshd.exe --user jeevis01 --args '-D' --env 'CYGWIN="ntsec" It asked for my password and installed successfully. However I couldn't start the service, and my /var/log

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Warren Young wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: What do any of the programs you've listed have to do with ssh? Not a thing. But if we can't tolerate two ssh implementations, why can we tolerate two command line web page fetchers? Or two FTP clients? Or two web clients? Or two graphics

Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line

2008-12-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * John Emmas (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:13:20 -)> Is it possible to run a Cygwin GUI app (i.e. requiring 'X') from a DOS terminal, as opposed to a bash terminal? After starting the X server I tried "cygstart path/to/my/program" but nothing happened. The app runs fine if I

Re: native emacs and manual page

2008-12-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
peter360 wrote: 2 If I start emacs from cygwin bash shell, I get a popup window stating "c:\Program Files\GNU\emacs-22.3\bin\cmdproxy.exe the NTVDM CPU has encoutered an illegal instruction. ... Choose 'Close' to terminate the application" I know very little about emacs (I'm not a user) but th

RE: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Andy Koppe wrote on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 5:49 PM: > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> 5a. I'm good with Windows installers. You want I should whip one up >> for you? > > That would be great, since I haven't got a clue about how to do that. > Ideally it would be a .msi that installs just the exe a

RE: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Warren Young > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > I think the only reason to use cygwin.bat is to set the cygwin > > environment variable before bash starts. There's no way to do that > > with a shortcut is there? > > In this case, it could be one of MinTTY's settings, because > it

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:43:04 -0500)> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:34:52PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> I think the only reason to use cygwin.bat is to set the cygwin > >> environment variable before bash starts. There's no way to do that > >> wi

RE: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Hi Barry, > From: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:26 AM: > > 5. It needs a regular Windows installer. > > 5a. I'm good with Windows installers. You want I should > whip one up > > for you? > > Just curious: Why does this need "a

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:05:35 -0500)> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:44:36PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package. It sounds like it > >> would get enough votes. > > > > That would be great. I'll need to

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Pendell (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:21:40 -0500)> > Robert Pendell wrote: > > It runs on 1.7 but does not appear to execute the shell as a login one. > > I use bash and .bash_profile never gets executed when using MinTTY > > directly. I can help you debug it if you wish. > > I stand corrected

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Andy Koppe (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:00:29 +)> > Robert Pendell wrote: > > I modified cygwin.bat to execute mintty. > > Looks like mintty doesn't detach completely on it's own > > Yep, that's a known issue (number 4 in the issue tracker), and I haven't > yet worked out how to do this properly.

Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line

2008-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* John Emmas (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:13:20 -)> > Is it possible to run a Cygwin GUI app (i.e. requiring 'X') from a DOS > terminal, as opposed to a bash terminal? After starting the X server > I tried "cygstart path/to/my/program" but nothing happened. The app > runs fine if I start it from a

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Andy Koppe
On the options dialog box, an apply button would be a good Addition. Agreed. I've entered issue 12 for this. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: permission denied problem

2008-12-31 Thread Markus Schönhaber
sowiso: >> That was the first thing I tried but didn't help. ls -l shows the >> permission as "-rxwr-xr-x+", but I am still getting the permission > I wonder if the "+" means that the file is in currently in use? No, it means that ACLs are set for the file. man getfacl Regards mks -- Unsubs

Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line

2008-12-31 Thread John Emmas
Is it possible to run a Cygwin GUI app (i.e. requiring 'X') from a DOS terminal, as opposed to a bash terminal? After starting the X server I tried "cygstart path/to/my/program" but nothing happened. The app runs fine if I start it from a bash terminal. John -- Unsubscribe info: http://

Re: permission denied problem

2008-12-31 Thread sowiso
- Original Message - From: "peter360" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:12 AM Subject: Re: permission denied problem > > chmod a+x ./gnupt-w32cli-1.4.9.exe > > > > > > That was the first thing I tried but didn't help. ls -l shows the > permission as "-rxwr-xr-x+", but I am stil

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Andy Koppe wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package. It sounds >> like it >> would get enough votes. > > That would be great. I'll need to read up on the package submission > requirements and proc

Re: permission denied problem

2008-12-31 Thread peter360
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: > > > chmod a+x ./gnupt-w32cli-1.4.9.exe > > That was the first thing I tried but didn't help. ls -l shows the permission as "-rxwr-xr-x+", but I am still getting the permission denied message. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/permissio