Re: fork failure?

2009-10-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Dave Korn wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > >> I have a hunch that an STC (okay, less-hellaciously-complicated test >> case) could be developed, using just GNU pth and avoiding all the >> libassuan/gnupg gobbledygook. > > Oh yuck. So there's this alternative user-land pthreads library that runs

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.1-1

2009-10-16 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/17 Eric Backus: > In passing, I'll note that xterm on my very old and out-of-date SuSE linux > installation uses DEL, so matches your new version of mintty Yeah, I think the GNU people managed to browbeat Linux distros into standardising on ^? some time ago. >> The workaround is to stick

Re: fork failure?

2009-10-16 Thread Dave Korn
Charles Wilson wrote: > I have a hunch that an STC (okay, less-hellaciously-complicated test > case) could be developed, using just GNU pth and avoiding all the > libassuan/gnupg gobbledygook. Oh yuck. So there's this alternative user-land pthreads library that runs a scheduler within a single

Re: fork failure?

2009-10-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: > 1) look at the parent's stack trace when it is inside fork(). Ditto > its return address. > 2) after the child longjmp's back into fork() from dll_crt0_1, > look at its stack trace and return address. (although I can't > really catch it that early. I can o

1.7.0-62: segfault when PATH is not set

2009-10-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, I've installed all the Cygwin-1.7.0 packages uptodate, on my Windows XP machine. I do experience a segmentation fault whenever i launch a program when the PATH is not set. When PATH is badly set (but set), nothing happens (and the result is OK). See below how to reproduce. When i

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.1-1

2009-10-16 Thread Eric Backus
Andy Koppe gmail.com> writes: > 2009/10/16 Eric Backus: > > Unfortunately, cygwin's terminfo/termcap entries for XTERM say that the > > backspace key returns ^H.  This can be seen by looking in /etc/termcap for > > xterm, and finding the 'kb' property for that entry, or by running 'infocmp > > xt

RE: [1.7] windows 7 with networked drives - ls failure and mount -c does not stick...

2009-10-16 Thread Paul J. Ghosh
My mistake. I read through the documents - thanks! So, without any entries in /etc/fstab and with no modifications done via mount is 'ls' supposed to work on a networked drive? I am finding that it gives an error. What am I doing wrong? Both B: and N: are networked drives. I can change direct

Re: short success story

2009-10-16 Thread paul . hermeneutic
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 16:46, James Fuller wrote: > Just a FWIW post. > I am a novice at Linux and know very little about cygwin but I did > have success with BaCon an experimental endeavor located here. > http://www.basic-converter.org/ > > Here is the discussion on how I got it working > http:/

short success story

2009-10-16 Thread James Fuller
Just a FWIW post. I am a novice at Linux and know very little about cygwin but I did have success with BaCon an experimental endeavor located here. http://www.basic-converter.org/ Here is the discussion on how I got it working http://www.allbasic.info/forum/index.php?topic=794.0 James -- Problem

Rsync link-dest not working for a host with the most recent rsync/cygwin 1.7

2009-10-16 Thread Chris Francy
It appears something about the about rsync or the 1.7 version of cygwin is preventing the --link-destination function of rsync from working. Files that have not been changed at all should be linked together. On the hosts still running a cygwin 1.5 version of rsync the link-destination seems to wo

Re: fork failure?

2009-10-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Dave Korn wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > >> ModLoad: 75bd 75c7a000 C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll > > Say, what's that doing there? Might like to check who's pulling it in, just > in case something's gone all win32 on you that shouldn't be. It appears to be pulled in by winsock2, whic

Re: fork failure?

2009-10-16 Thread Dave Korn
Charles Wilson wrote: > ModLoad: 75bd 75c7a000 C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll Say, what's that doing there? Might like to check who's pulling it in, just in case something's gone all win32 on you that shouldn't be. > ModLoad: 6c1b 6c1b5000 C:\Windows\system32\avgrsstx.dll Let's

Re: fork failure?

2009-10-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Dave Korn wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: >> Help? > > Trashed stack? > >> I note that procmon indicates that the child process exited with code >> -1073741783, which in hex is 0xc029. If that's an NTSTATUS value, >> then it means STATUS_INVALID_UNWIND_TARGET, but that might be a red herrin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.1-1

2009-10-16 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/16 Warren Young: > Well, on Linux consoles, the term type is "linux".  Presumably this is one > of the reasons they felt they needed a separate term type. > > Maybe MinTTY should be emulating something other than xterm, which doesn't > have this backspace problem?  I don't mean something va

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.1-1

2009-10-16 Thread Warren Young
Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/10/16 Eric Backus: Unfortunately, cygwin's terminfo/termcap entries for XTERM say that the backspace key returns ^H. xterm does still send ^H, but I agree both xterm and its termcap entry ought to be changed to match the new Cygwin 1.7 default and the Linux world. I sh

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.1-1

2009-10-16 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/16 Eric Backus: > Unfortunately, cygwin's terminfo/termcap entries for XTERM say that the > backspace key returns ^H.  This can be seen by looking in /etc/termcap for > xterm, and finding the 'kb' property for that entry, or by running 'infocmp > xterm' and looking for the 'kbs' property. >

Re: fork failure?

2009-10-16 Thread Dave Korn
Charles Wilson wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: >> Which appears ok, as far as it goes. 'Course, something dies eventually >> because I never do get to gpg-agent's "exec()" of pinvoke, after that fork. > > Well, bad news. In the kernel, the child gets right up to the return > statement in fork(), re

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.1-1

2009-10-16 Thread Eric Backus
Andy Koppe gmail.com> writes: > CHANGES > === > > Keyboard: > - The default backspace keycode now is ^? rather than ^H, to make > Ctrl+H available as a shortcut for other purposes, particularly as the > help key in emacs. The backspace keycode option is gone. Instead, the > DECBKM control se

Re: fork failure?

2009-10-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: > Which appears ok, as far as it goes. 'Course, something dies eventually > because I never do get to gpg-agent's "exec()" of pinvoke, after that fork. Well, bad news. In the kernel, the child gets right up to the return statement in fork(), returning 0. But it never reaches

Re: make 3.81 - Exiting with 5 jobserver tokens available; should be 4!

2009-10-16 Thread paul . hermeneutic
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:29, Jonathan Grant wrote: > Hello > Anyone else see this output below? > > Please include my email address in replies as I am not on this list > Regards, Jon > > > C:\src>make -j4 > > ./src/test.c(56) : C0200 (E) No prototype function > make[1]: *** [obj/test.o] Error 1

make 3.81 - Exiting with 5 jobserver tokens available; should be 4!

2009-10-16 Thread Jonathan Grant
Hello Anyone else see this output below? Please include my email address in replies as I am not on this list Regards, Jon C:\src>make -j4 ./src/test.c(56) : C0200 (E) No prototype function make[1]: *** [obj/test.o] Error 1 make: *** [../../../common/itron/code] Error 2 make: INTERNAL: Exiting w

Re: `cygwinpath -D' could not display the Chinese character

2009-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 16 10:11, wynfield wrote: > > > The patch would probably solve the same problem for displayging Japanese > characters. I hope so. The problem was that the "special folders" like the Windows system directory were still read using the ANSI version of the Win32 function. This affected all

Re: [1.7] windows 7 with networked drives - ls failure and mount -c does not stick...

2009-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 16 00:00, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: > First off - thanks Corinna - the rxvt/run issue on Windows 7 is > resolved with 1.7 - thread: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-10/msg00372.html > > Now onto reporting bugs...  I am running cygwin  1.7.0-62 on Windows 7. > > 'ls' on network drives is faili

Re: [1.7] Case-sensitive programs exist but cannot both be run

2009-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 15 23:01, Yaakov S wrote: > It appears that two EXEs can coexist (with the registry setting) but only > whichever one was so named first will be run: > [...] > Bug? Limitation? If it hurts, don't do that? Limitation. While we can do everything with files using native NT calls, we can't

Re: fork failure?

2009-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 15 15:20, Charles Wilson wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > > ... who leaves a copy in the -src tarball instead. > Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks, Dave. > > I guess that kinda makes sense; you need the exact source for the .dbg > to work anyway. I'd been rolling my CVS dir back to the specified

Re: fork failure?

2009-10-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> Charles Wilson wrote: >>> I'm not familiar at all with procmon (sysinternals, right?) but I'll >>> look into it. >> Yep, it's dead useful for making sure that stuff at least starts up, and >> you >> can often get a clue how far the code has got by seei