perl Win32::TieRegistry broken on Vista -- perl v5.10.0, TieRegistry v0.25

2009-12-14 Thread Neil Mowbray
Folks, TieRegistry produces no values for keys. In below $key is defined but %$key is empty. Indeed it does work for any key not just LMachine/Software. This code works correctly with ActiveState perl. example use Win32::TieRegistry(Delimiter => '/', ArrayValues => 0); $key = $Reg

Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Blake wrote: > Finally, I feel justified continuing to argue the merits of programs offered > as > part of the cygwin distribution on the cygwin mailing list, but I don't think > it is appropriate to argue the merits of proprietary non-cygwin programs on > the > cygwin list. It's not

Re: [1.7] hard link error on FAT32 with zsh

2009-12-14 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Thorsten Kampe on 12/14/2009 5:22 AM: That's why. FAT32 does not support hardlinks. Well, then why don't I get this error with the latest 1.5 DLL? It's the same thumb drive, the same installati

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: clisp-2.48-3

2009-12-14 Thread Reini Urban
Reini Urban schrieb: I've recompiled clisp plus the subpackages clisp-clx, clisp-gtk2 and clisp-gdi, released hereby as 2.48-3. Oops, bad testing. clisp -K full does not start, because svm.dll is (again, sigh) not executable. The immediate fix is: chmod +x /usr/lib/clisp-2.48/full/svm.dll I

Re: ttyfier (was: Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application)

2009-12-14 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: > > Thanks, I had't heard of ttyfier. Interesting stuff! More > comprehensive than my 'conin' attempt because it tranlates output as > well as input. > I downloaded the sources and built it. My first try at using it wasn't very convincing: it didn't display anything and I had

Re: Broken link in FAQ

2009-12-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 14 12:07, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > On > http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.mirror > and > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.mirror > the link to > http://wget.sunsite.dk/ > is broken. > > It should probably point to > ht

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: doxygen-1.6.1-1

2009-12-14 Thread Warren Young
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://doxygen.org/ License : GNU GPL Doxygen is a program source code documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL, Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and D. CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE == "id"s refer to Doxyg

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sqlite3-3.6.2-1

2009-12-14 Thread Warren Young
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://sqlite.org/ License : Public Domain (no, really!) SQLite is a C library providing local database storage with a SQL interface. Unlike most SQL database systems, SQLite does not accept connections from remote users. Access to the databa

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: clisp-2.48-3

2009-12-14 Thread Reini Urban
I've recompiled clisp plus the subpackages clisp-clx, clisp-gtk2 and clisp-gdi, released hereby as 2.48-3. No jit, no multithreading. Changes in 2.48-3: * recompile with gcc4-4.3.4-3 and new libsigsegv-2.8-1 for cygwin 1.7 Older Changes: 2.48-2 * chmod +x /usr/lib/clisp-2.48/full*/svm.dll * fi

Re: home page problem

2009-12-14 Thread msahin
It looks like everthing is fine now. Thanks anyway. Mehmet Alinti Dave Korn Václav Haisman wrote: On 14.12.2009 13:39, msahin itu.edu.tr wrote: I cannot get acces to cygwin home page from home. It says that "Access is forbiden". What should l do? Wait. It is a scheduled outage:

Broken link in FAQ

2009-12-14 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
On http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.mirror and http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.mirror the link to http://wget.sunsite.dk/ is broken. It should probably point to http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ or maybe http://mirrors.dotsrc

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libsigsegv{2}2.8-1

2009-12-14 Thread Reini Urban
Eric Blake's SEH chain corruption fixes for libsigsegv on cygwin are now in the official libsigsegv-2.8 release. Successfully tested with clisp. The DLL revision is bumped from 1 to 2. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00881.html It's a small library for handling page faults in user mo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ctags-5.8-1

2009-12-14 Thread Warren Young
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ License : GNU GPL Ctags generates an index (or tag) file of language objects found in source files that allows these items to be quickly and easily located by a text editor or other utility. A tag signifies a lang

Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Eric Blake
Marc Girod gmail.com> writes: > Renaming a label type is an O(0) operation. There's no such thing as O(0). > It doesn't depend on the number of labels of that type applied. Just because renaming a label is O(1) doesn't make applying the label in the first place O(1). I want a VCS that tracks

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-14 Thread Eric Lilja
Marc Girod wrote: Hello, I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin. In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user for an interactive decision. I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X --emacs shell or xterm-- or the Cygwin terminal

Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: > > That's a workaround, not a solution. Any VCS that requires an O(n) (n as > the number of files being labeled) labeling post-processing pass in order > to create enough records in the database to track commits atomically, when > there are O(1) solutions like git where commi

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Empty/white-space output when display Chinese characters in GBK charset encoding?

2009-12-14 Thread LiuYan 刘研
Thank you Andy, you are right. I tried the following, they all shown something instead of empty/white-spaces 1. added 'chcp 850' in cygwin.bat file (before bash log, 2. put gwin window into full-screen mode(Alt+Enter) 3. changed the font of Cygwin window to 'New SimSun' Andy Koppe wrote: > >

Re: Unable to read history on latest Cygwin

2009-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 03:12:02PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Thorsten Kampe (Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:07:52 +0100) > >Please ignore, should have gone to the Zsh mailing list. Sorry. ARGH. Sorry for MY addition to the confusion. I KNOW that I ALWAYS should read the whole thread before responding

Re: Unable to read history on latest Cygwin

2009-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 03:07:52PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >Hi, > >the new Cygwin 1.7 release is soon to be released. According to Cygwin >Project Co-Leader Corinna Vinschen, Cygwin will drop "fake support" for >emulating hardlinks on FAT32: "Hardlinks on FAT [...] have been faked in >1.5 b

Re: home page problem

2009-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:18:02PM +, Dave Korn wrote: >V?clav Haisman wrote: > >> On 14.12.2009 13:39, msahin itu.edu.tr wrote: >>> I cannot get acces to cygwin home page from home. It says that "Access >>> is forbiden". >>> What should l do? >> Wait. >> >> It is a scheduled outage:

Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/14/2009 07:21 AM, Eric Blake wrote: That's a workaround, not a solution. Any VCS that requires an O(n) (n as the number of files being labeled) labeling post-processing pass in order to create enough records in the database to track commits atomically, when there are O(1) solutions like g

Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/14/2009 07:21 AM, Eric Blake wrote: That's a workaround, not a solution. Any VCS that requires an O(n) (n as the number of files being labeled) labeling post-processing pass in order to create enough records in the database to track commits atomically, when there are O(1) solutions like g

Re: New mirror

2009-12-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/14/2009 07:16 AM, Andreas Worbs wrote: Hello, here are the facts about our mirror: * URL of mirror: http://artfiles.org/cygwin.org * Hosting institution, country and city where the mirror is located: Artfiles New Media GmbH, Hamburg, Germany * Contact email address: mir...@artfiles.org * U

Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Marc Girod on 12/14/2009 7:11 AM: > It is trivial to get atomicity of publication in ClearCase (within one vob): > you rename a label type. That's a workaround, not a solution. Any VCS that requires an O(n) (n as the number of files bein

Re: Unable to read history on latest Cygwin

2009-12-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thorsten Kampe (Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:07:52 +0100) Please ignore, should have gone to the Zsh mailing list. Sorry. Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info

Merits of ClearCase (was: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application)

2009-12-14 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: > > In my opinion, the MVFS file system is a piece of trash. It has so many > corner cases that intentionally _break_ POSIX rules and thus get in the > way of normal assumptions about how file systems should work > Maybe. The question is: is it worth it? I believe it is. Eri

Re: home page problem

2009-12-14 Thread Dave Korn
Václav Haisman wrote: > On 14.12.2009 13:39, msahin itu.edu.tr wrote: >> I cannot get acces to cygwin home page from home. It says that "Access >> is forbiden". >> What should l do? > Wait. > > It is a scheduled outage: . The fact that that link

Unable to read history on latest Cygwin

2009-12-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hi, the new Cygwin 1.7 release is soon to be released. According to Cygwin Project Co-Leader Corinna Vinschen, Cygwin will drop "fake support" for emulating hardlinks on FAT32: "Hardlinks on FAT [...] have been faked in 1.5 by copying the file. The decision was made a couple of weeks back to d

Re: home page problem

2009-12-14 Thread Václav Haisman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14.12.2009 13:39, msa...@itu.edu.tr wrote: > I cannot get acces to cygwin home page from home. It says that "Access > is forbiden". > What should l do? Wait. It is a scheduled outage: . - -- VH --

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Empty/white-space output when display Chinese characters in GBK charset encoding?

2009-12-14 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/12/14 LiuYan 刘研: > > The only unexpected thing is the empty output of GBK-encoded chinese > characters when LANG is .UTF-8. > > I mean it should display something visible(malformed characters, squares or > whatever visible characters) regardless the LANG setting. > > echo -e "Chinese chara

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Empty/white-space output when display Chinese characters in GBK charset encoding?

2009-12-14 Thread LiuYan 刘研
The only unexpected thing is the empty output of GBK-encoded chinese characters when LANG is .UTF-8. I mean it should display something visible(malformed characters, squares or whatever visible characters) regardless the LANG setting. echo -e "Chinese characters in GBK encoding: [\xba\xba\xd

Re: [1.7] hard link error on FAT32 with zsh

2009-12-14 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Thorsten Kampe on 12/14/2009 5:22 AM: >> That's why. FAT32 does not support hardlinks. > > Well, then why don't I get this error with the latest 1.5 DLL? It's the > same thumb drive, the same installation... It _didn't_ work. In 1.5,

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-14 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Andrew DeFaria on 12/13/2009 6:52 PM: > MVFS is a good idea if used correctly IMHO. In my opinion, the MVFS file system is a piece of trash. It has so many corner cases that intentionally _break_ POSIX rules and thus get in the way of no

Re: Cygwin git - Configuration Problem? [was Re: BASH Shell - Configuration Problem?]

2009-12-14 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to David Antliff on 12/13/2009 9:46 PM: > For the record, core.autocrlf=true on Cygwin is an absolute PITA ;) I personally haven't ever taken time to notice whether that is the upstream default (if so, it is wrong, IMNSHO), because I have a

home page problem

2009-12-14 Thread msahin
I cannot get acces to cygwin home page from home. It says that "Access is forbiden". What should l do? Mehmet -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http:

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Empty/white-space output when display Chinese characters in GBK charset encoding?

2009-12-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 14 04:07, LiuYan ?? wrote: > > Hi Corinna: > I didn't set LANG environment variable, and the result of 'export' command > is: > ... > declare -x LANG="C.UTF-8" > ... > > And, if I change LANG to zh_CN.GBK, the cc-gbk.txt file can be displayed > correctly (act same behaviour like Cy

Re: [1.7] hard link error on FAT32 with zsh

2009-12-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 14 13:22, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:58:29 +0100) > > On Dec 11 21:36, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I was testing the latest 1.7 DLL snapshot (1.7.2s(0.218/5/3) 20091209 > > > 12:02:30) and the current 1.7 one (that you get from setup-1.7

run2.exe segfaults when GDI and X11 elements are present

2009-12-14 Thread Ken Brown
Here's a simple test case, run from an xterm window: $ cat test.xml http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="run2.xsd"> -e /bin/bash -d 127.0.0.1:0.0 $ run2 --debug test.xm

Re: [1.7] hard link error on FAT32 with zsh

2009-12-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:58:29 +0100) > On Dec 11 21:36, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was testing the latest 1.7 DLL snapshot (1.7.2s(0.218/5/3) 20091209 > > 12:02:30) and the current 1.7 one (that you get from setup-1.7.exe). I > > am starting zsh and get the following

New mirror

2009-12-14 Thread Andreas Worbs
Hello, here are the facts about our mirror: * URL of mirror: http://artfiles.org/cygwin.org * Hosting institution, country and city where the mirror is located: Artfiles New Media GmbH, Hamburg, Germany * Contact email address: mir...@artfiles.org * Update frequency: daily * IP: 80.252.110.38 *

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Empty/white-space output when display Chinese characters in GBK charset encoding?

2009-12-14 Thread LiuYan 刘研
Hi Corinna: I didn't set LANG environment variable, and the result of 'export' command is: ... declare -x LANG="C.UTF-8" ... And, if I change LANG to zh_CN.GBK, the cc-gbk.txt file can be displayed correctly (act same behaviour like Cygwin 1.5). Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote: > > On Dec 14 00:3

Re: ttyfier (was: Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application)

2009-12-14 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Koppe wrote: > But the DLL injection makes me wonder: is it possible to override > existing functions such as WriteConsole or ReadConsole? You'd need to inject a DLL that hotpatched the IAT live in memory, which is certainly possible, but a bit hacky. (I don't know whether the LD_PRELOAD

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Empty/white-space output when display Chinese characters in GBK charset encoding?

2009-12-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 14 00:39, LiuYan ?? wrote: > > Hi: > When Cygwin 1.7 displaying Chinese characters in GBK charset encoding, the > output are empty/white-spaces. I can't know whether or not there are > characters in it. Did you set LANG to something like "zh_CN.GBK"? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: [1.7] hard link error on FAT32 with zsh

2009-12-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 11 21:36, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Hi, > > I was testing the latest 1.7 DLL snapshot (1.7.2s(0.218/5/3) 20091209 > 12:02:30) and the current 1.7 one (that you get from setup-1.7.exe). I > am starting zsh and get the following error: "zsh: failed to create hard > link as lock file /home/th

Cygwin 1.7: Empty/white-space output when display Chinese characters in GBK charset encoding?

2009-12-14 Thread LiuYan 刘研
Hi: When Cygwin 1.7 displaying Chinese characters in GBK charset encoding, the output are empty/white-spaces. I can't know whether or not there are characters in it. Whey Cygwin 1.5 displaying Chinese characters in UTF-8 charset encoding, the output are malformed characters, so I can know the