Re: [1.7] cygpath broken?

2009-04-16 Thread Greg Couch
Thank you Corinna for looking into this. So I tried rebuilding cygwin1.dll in 1.7 with gcc-4 from the instructions in http://cygwin.com/cvs.html and http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin, and while the make didn't finish (perl hung -- "... fatal error - unable

Re: fstab.d/username

2009-04-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Jerome Haltom wrote: > Using the textual user name is very bad form on Windows, as it is > subject to change. The settings *should* be stored in the registry or > the user's AppData\Local directories. These are mapped properly even > when the user's name changes. You can also use the user's SID ra

fstab.d/username

2009-04-16 Thread Jerome Haltom
Using the textual user name is very bad form on Windows, as it is subject to change. The settings *should* be stored in the registry or the user's AppData\Local directories. These are mapped properly even when the user's name changes. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

[1.7] flock change breaks autotools 'make -j2'

2009-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
This change in cygwin 1.7: - File locking is now advisory, not mandatory anymore. The fcntl(2) and the new lockf(2) APIs create and maintain locks with POSIX semantics, the flock(2) API creates and maintains locks with BSD semantics. POSIX and BSD locks are independent of each other. is ca

Re: UTF-8 problem/bug with Cygwin 1.7

2009-04-16 Thread Gunnar Degnbol
David Korn skrev: I have a strange problem with UTF-8 characters when running bash from the Windows command line. I hoped it would go away with the new Cygwin 1.7.0-46, but it is still there. Now I have simplified it down to setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and running bash -c "echo £" (where '£' can

1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets

2009-04-16 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
I do a 'ping' in my profile of an Internet server to see if the network is up when I bring up the first terminal session/login. I'm getting the following error: ping: socket: Operation not permitted It doesn't matter what pingable node I try. They all fail. 'type' reveals that this is '/bin

dll (.so) not compile

2009-04-16 Thread Joaquim Pedro França Simão
Hello, I was trying to compile lighttpd, compile and install normal, but when I would start, it appeared could not load the module (the program). I also compile the php and the same thing does not compile dll (.so), every time a file installs "name.a," where it should install a dll (or ".so"). Wh

Problems running a vbscript from cron

2009-04-16 Thread Derek Wallace
Hi All, I have written a simple vbscript. Its purpose is to convert an excel .xls file to .csv. The script runs fine under Cygwin. > cscript xls2csv.vbs myexcel.xls myexcel.xls I am trying to get the script to be run every night by setting up a cron job. I have the cron service running and ive

Re: [openssh] unnatended instalation + forcing service account

2009-04-16 Thread Julio Costa
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 17:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >          [ "${opt_force}" = "yes" ] && opt_f=-f >          [ -n "${user_account}" ] && opt_u="-u ""${user_account}""" >          csih_select_privileged_username ${opt_f} ${opt_u} > > Shouldn't the last line read > >          csih_select_pri

Re: UTF-8 problem/bug with Cygwin 1.7

2009-04-16 Thread Dave Korn
Gunnar Degnbol wrote: > I have a strange problem with UTF-8 characters when running bash from > the Windows command line. I hoped it would go away with the new Cygwin > 1.7.0-46, but it is still there. Can't reproduce this with either -45 or -46: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C)

Re: [openssh] unnatended instalation + forcing service account

2009-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 17:13, Julio Costa wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 16:38, Julio Costa wrote: > > > > I'm a bit in the busy side right now, but you can count with that > > patch until tomorrow, at most. > > > > Here it is (in attachment). > > ~ $ cygcheck -c openssh > Cygwin Package Information > Pack

UTF-8 problem/bug with Cygwin 1.7

2009-04-16 Thread Gunnar Degnbol
I have a strange problem with UTF-8 characters when running bash from the Windows command line. I hoped it would go away with the new Cygwin 1.7.0-46, but it is still there. Now I have simplified it down to setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and running bash -c "echo £" (where '£' can be any non-ascii ch

Re: [openssh] unnatended instalation + forcing service account

2009-04-16 Thread Julio Costa
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 16:38, Julio Costa wrote: > > I'm a bit in the busy side right now, but you can count with that > patch until tomorrow, at most. > Here it is (in attachment). ~ $ cygcheck -c openssh Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus openssh

Re: IPC,FORK on Windows 2008 Server

2009-04-16 Thread Yarlagadda Suresh
Thanks a lot. The problem is resloved. Cheers, Y.Suresh Kumar. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 15 12:20, Yarlagadda Suresh wrote: >> Is this problem fixed in release 1.7.0-46? > > Yes, sure.  I just forgot to mention it in the release announcement. > > > Corinna

Re: WTF/database still needs updating

2009-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 15 13:11, Lee D.Rothstein wrote: > --On Wednesday, April 15, 2009, Owen Rees noted: > > >--On Wednesday, April 15, 2009 09:03:57 -0400 Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > > > >> ISHFRTT not in WTF database. > > > >It is the first-person form of YSHFRTT (which is in OLOCA). > > > > YSHFRTT is not in th

Re: popup consoles on Windows 7

2009-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 15 22:15, Andy Koppe wrote: > Corinna Vinschen: > > If the above code also allocs a console window when run from a non-cygwin > > (mingw) application, then this should be reported as a bug to Microsoft. > > I can confirm this one now. This little test opens a console window on > 7, but not