IPv6 help (Re: inetutils, r* commands)

2010-03-15 Thread Charles Wilson
There are two questions, below...so skip to those if you don't need the background. I've been trying to deal with the various issues that have cropped up in inetutils since its last release, and since 1.7.1 was released. It seems that most of the issues are related to the IPv6 support in c

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-15 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/03/14 12:02 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > We are not going to be installing an https server in the hopes that it > will defeat misguided setup.exe blocking for the same reason that we > won't be adopting a new versioning scheme - neither is a guarantee. > > I don't mind trying to figure

Re: 1.7.1: Incomplete install

2010-03-15 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Roe, Kevin L. wrote: > So a complete uninstall (by deleting the directory and removing registry > references) followed by a complete install fixed all my problems except one: > > My rxvt shortcut results in a prompt that has not read my .bashrc file. So I > hacked the /etc/profile file to inclu

Re: 1.7.1: Incomplete install

2010-03-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/15/2010 6:37 PM, Roe, Kevin L. wrote: So a complete uninstall (by deleting the directory and removing registry references) followed by a complete install fixed all my problems except one: My rxvt shortcut results in a prompt that has not read my .bashrc file. So I hacked the /etc/profile

RE: 1.7.1: Incomplete install

2010-03-15 Thread Roe, Kevin L.
So a complete uninstall (by deleting the directory and removing registry references) followed by a complete install fixed all my problems except one: My rxvt shortcut results in a prompt that has not read my .bashrc file. So I hacked the /etc/profile file to include the line: . "//.bashrc" Th

Re: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT?

2010-03-15 Thread Dave Korn
On 15/03/2010 17:23, Bernd Prager wrote: > Has anybody gotten Eclipse C++ CDT to run with Cygwin 1.7.? Yes, I have! You need to use the very latest versions of everything, because the fixes for 1.7 have only just gone in. It's a cleaner solution than creating fake 1.5 mountpoints to trick it

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:25:39AM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: >On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 cgf wrote: >>I wasn't always mean. I just got that way after the 63rd repeat "Why >>don't you just" suggestion. > >I had a friend who ran a corner shop. One of his favourite lines was >"I'm sick of telling people t

Re: Assembly language exit() syscall does not return correct value

2010-03-15 Thread Dave Korn
On 15/03/2010 16:56, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:23:39PM +, Brandon Chase wrote: >> The following program is supposed to return a value of 222 when echo $? >> run, but I get 127 every time, no matter what I change. I have looked >> around but cannot seem to find out

Re: 1.7.1: Incomplete install

2010-03-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/15/2010 4:03 PM, Roe, Kevin L. wrote: What I did: I selected the option "reinstall" at the highest level. I did this because I have the impression that that is the best way to ensure that the previous installation settings are ignored an everything in the current install package is install

1.7.1: Incomplete install

2010-03-15 Thread Roe, Kevin L.
I am in the process of installing 1.7.1 on my computer that already had 1.5.25. I have had many issues with the installation, and I've resolved several of them at this point. However, I believe most of them point back to a basic underlying problem: I am convinced that cygwin did an incomplete

Re: allow executing a path in backslash notation

2010-03-15 Thread Ilguiz Latypov
> This has been changed deliberately, otherwise > the execp functions have a potential security problem. If you omit the > NNF flag, the function returns the original path unchanged, instead of > NULL. I see that my conjecture about the root cause of the observed inconsistency was incorrect. B

Re: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT?

2010-03-15 Thread Bernd Prager
On 3/15/2010 1:44 PM, Danilo Turina wrote: On 15/03/2010 18.23, Bernd Prager wrote: Has anybody gotten Eclipse C++ CDT to run with Cygwin 1.7.? Yes, it works for me. I have the latest version of Eclipse Galileo (3.5.2?) and I've Cygwin 1.7 up to date. Notice, anyway, that I don't heavily us

RE: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT?

2010-03-15 Thread Don Porges
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Nahor Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 1:54 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT? On 2010-03-15 10:23, Bernd Prager wrote: > Has anybody gotten Eclipse C++ CDT to run with

Re: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT?

2010-03-15 Thread Nahor
On 2010-03-15 10:23, Bernd Prager wrote: Has anybody gotten Eclipse C++ CDT to run with Cygwin 1.7.? My Eclipse does not recognize Cygwin being installed and I cannot use the Cygwin gcc tool chain. The CDT looks for Cygwin in the registry. But Cygwin 1.7 doesn't use the registry anymore. It w

RE: return value of mkshortcut on Windows 7

2010-03-15 Thread David Byron
On March 10, 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: > David Byron: > > mkshortcut is returning 8 when I expect it to return 0. > > Yep, known issue. > > > I'd love a hand getting mkshortcut to return 0 in this case. > > Index: src/mkshortcut/mkshortcut.c >

Re: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT?

2010-03-15 Thread Danilo Turina
On 15/03/2010 18.23, Bernd Prager wrote: Has anybody gotten Eclipse C++ CDT to run with Cygwin 1.7.? Yes, it works for me. I have the latest version of Eclipse Galileo (3.5.2?) and I've Cygwin 1.7 up to date. Notice, anyway, that I don't heavily use it (e.g. I compile only one file at time

RE: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT?

2010-03-15 Thread Don Porges
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Don Porges Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 1:37 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT? -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygw

RE: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT?

2010-03-15 Thread Don Porges
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Bernd Prager Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 1:23 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT? Has anybody gotten Eclipse C++ CDT to run with Cygwin 1.7.? My Eclipse does not reco

cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT?

2010-03-15 Thread Bernd Prager
Has anybody gotten Eclipse C++ CDT to run with Cygwin 1.7.? My Eclipse does not recognize Cygwin being installed and I cannot use the Cygwin gcc tool chain. I am certain I have all required packages installed: $ cat /etc/setup/installed.db | grep -P '^gcc\s+|^gcc-core\s+|^gcc-g\+\+\s+|^gcc-min

Re: Assembly language exit() syscall does not return correct value

2010-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:23:39PM +, Brandon Chase wrote: > >The following program is supposed to return a value of 222 when echo $? >run, but I get 127 every time, no matter what I change. I have looked >around but cannot seem to find out if this is an error or a >cygwin-specific value. >

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Concurrency Issue with Shared State Initialization

2010-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:01:04AM +0100, Schmidt, Oliver wrote: >Hi Christopher, > >> Also, one big thing is missing here: cygcheck output [...] >> Please send that ASAP. > >Please find attached the requested information. However I had to edit >it - as carefully as possible - to omit hints on the

Assembly language exit() syscall does not return correct value

2010-03-15 Thread Brandon Chase
The following program is supposed to return a value of 222 when echo $? run, but I get 127 every time, no matter what I change. I have looked around but cannot seem to find out if this is an error or a cygwin-specific value. -- #PURPOSE:

Re: can not see mounted fs via ssh

2010-03-15 Thread rray_1
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 15 11:36, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/15/2010 11:26 AM, rra...@comcast.net wrote: what am i missing i am sure you can see that i am very new to cygwin where to find documentation on this is appreciated Presuming that you're trying to us

Re: can not see mounted fs via ssh

2010-03-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 15 11:36, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 3/15/2010 11:26 AM, rra...@comcast.net wrote: > >what am i missing > >i am sure you can see that i am very new to cygwin > >where to find documentation on this is appreciated > > Presuming that you're trying to use pubkey authentication, read the >

Re: can not see mounted fs via ssh

2010-03-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 15 10:26, rra...@comcast.net wrote: > using cygwin 1.7.1 > in a terminal running on the windows machine > [...] > $ ll /cygdrive/ > total 0 > drwxrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators SYSTEM 0 2010-03-14 10:21 c > drwxr-xr-x 1 rray Domain Users 0 2010-03-11 14:34 e > drwxr-xr-x 1 rray

Re: can not see mounted fs via ssh

2010-03-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/15/2010 11:26 AM, rra...@comcast.net wrote: what am i missing i am sure you can see that i am very new to cygwin where to find documentation on this is appreciated Presuming that you're trying to use pubkey authentication, read the sections having to do with switching user context in the U

can not see mounted fs via ssh

2010-03-15 Thread rray_1
using cygwin 1.7.1 in a terminal running on the windows machine $ mount C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user) E: on /cygdrive/e type nwfs (binary,

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Concurrency Issue with Shared State Initialization

2010-03-15 Thread Schmidt, Oliver
Hi Corinna, > Are you absolutely sure that you can rule out BLODA effects? I found and read http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda. I can _NOT_ rule out those effects at all. In the opposite I know that I run such software and I have sporadic file access problems (as described) th

1.7.1: problems installing GD-2.44

2010-03-15 Thread Schorschi
Hi there, i would appreciate some help with my gd installation ... running cygwin 1.7.1 on winxp prof sp3. The cygwin gd package is of version 2.0.36RC1-10. Trying to install the perl gd package - doesn't work. I attach the console log at the end. I am not sure, if this is a cygwin problem - s

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Concurrency Issue with Shared State Initialization

2010-03-15 Thread Schmidt, Oliver
Hi Christopher, > Is echo being run under a bash shell? From the command prompt? In a > .bat file? Repeatedly in a loop? I experienced it in the same scenario described in my original report: A non-Cygwin shell calling a non-Cygwin 'gnumake -j' processing Makefiles with rules calling Cygwin p

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-15 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 cgf wrote: > I wasn't always mean. I just got that way after the 63rd repeat "Why > don't you just" suggestion. I had a friend who ran a corner shop. One of his favourite lines was "I'm sick of telling people that there's no demand for that." I bought most of his