Re: Usage of _exit(0) closes fd's of parent process

2010-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 01:48:51AM -0400, tmhik...@gmail.com wrote: >Hi. I'm having an unusual problem in a program I'm trying to get >working in cygwin. My program fork()'s a child process to do a >hostname lookup, establishes a tcp connection in the parent, then has >the child _exit(0) itself.

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

2010-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 05:09:55AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 11/04/2010 04:21, Paul Bibbings wrote: > >> For >> instance, if I click on the view button and select `Not installed', >> suppose I select a package that I don't have - for example (I'm trying >> this now), aspell-dev 0.60.5-1. Then,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Re: Updated: binutils-2.20.51-2

2010-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
A correction: The new version of binutils is binutils-2.20.51-2, not binutils-2.19-51-2. The -2 part is correct. It reflects a botched -1 upload. setup.exe will install the right version. The typo was only in the announcement. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Usage of _exit(0) closes fd's of parent process

2010-04-10 Thread tmhikaru
Hi. I'm having an unusual problem in a program I'm trying to get working in cygwin. My program fork()'s a child process to do a hostname lookup, establishes a tcp connection in the parent, then has the child _exit(0) itself. For some reason I don't understand, _exit is not just closing the

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

2010-04-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 11/04/2010 04:21, Paul Bibbings wrote: > For > instance, if I click on the view button and select `Not installed', > suppose I select a package that I don't have - for example (I'm trying > this now), aspell-dev 0.60.5-1. Then, suppose I merely cycle through > the Views and come back to `Not

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

2010-04-10 Thread Paul Bibbings
Norton Allen writes: > On 4/9/2010 5:56 AM, Paul Bibbings wrote: >> If by "add a right-click context menu to the spinner" you intend to >> retain the current problematic behaviour of the spinner but add the >> context menu by way of avoiding the noted problems of cycling through >> `uninstall', t

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

2010-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:09:32PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> That should not cause Cygwin to send a null character. >> I think it should probably just send the default \177 character. > >Makes sense given the botched design, but of course it does mean that >the user's b

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

2010-04-10 Thread Norton Allen
On 4/9/2010 5:56 AM, Paul Bibbings wrote: > If by "add a right-click context menu to the spinner" you intend to > retain the current problematic behaviour of the spinner but add the > context menu by way of avoiding the noted problems of cycling through > `uninstall', then I would, as a user, see t

Re: Xcompose like input for UTF-8 ?

2010-04-10 Thread Rurik Christiansen
On 10/04/2010 12:11 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > On 05.04.2010 09:46, Rurik Christiansen wrote: >> On 5/04/2010 5:59 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >>> Rurik Christiansen wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to have something similar to Xcompose for utf8 input ? >>> You can have actual Xco

Re: 1.7.4: Building Xalan-C results in a unusable library

2010-04-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10/04/2010 20:21, Reto Schneider wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> Ah, the message is confusing. It is not cygxalan-c111.dll that cannot be >> found, but a library to which it is linked that cannot be found, preventing >> cygxalan-c111.dll from being loaded by Xalan.exe. > > First: I'm really sor

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-2

2010-04-10 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. Pheraps there was some problem in uploading... It seem that the new package is on the mirrors (at least on mirrors.kernel.org), but not in setup.ini. This happens since a few hours. No problems with the

Setup displays wrong version

2010-04-10 Thread NightStrike
When you run setup on a clean system, there's an alert that warns you if this is your first time installing cygwin. It says "This is the first time you've installed cygwin 1.7.1." I'm guessing this version number should either say 1.7, or should be otherwise handled differently. -- Problem repor

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

2010-04-10 Thread Andy Koppe
Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'm not 100% sure that this is the right fix but the new snapshot at > least works around the problem. Thanks. > The problem is that screen explicitly sets VERASE to 0.  I believe that > it does that to mean "there is really no erase character since I'm > handling that

Re: 1.7.4: Building Xalan-C results in a unusable library

2010-04-10 Thread Reto Schneider
Dave Korn wrote: > Ah, the message is confusing. It is not cygxalan-c111.dll that cannot be > found, but a library to which it is linked that cannot be found, preventing > cygxalan-c111.dll from being loaded by Xalan.exe. First: I'm really sorry for not telling you that I solved the problem in

Re: 1.7.4: Building Xalan-C results in a unusable library

2010-04-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10/04/2010 11:36, Reto Schneider wrote: > I'm doing the following steps: So, I quickly checked out the sources and tried your build recipe, realised I needed to install xerces-devel, did so, finished the build and installed. > Now the strange part: > > $ /usr/local/bin/Xalan.exe > /usr/loc

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffutils-2.9-1

2010-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of 'diffutils' (http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/) available for installation. This is the most recent version of diffutils from ftp.gnu.org . I've included a snippet from the diffutils NEWS after the unsubscribe info. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE IN

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

2010-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:36:07PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:16:26PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 05:00:30PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >>>The issue only affects the specific case of 'screen' running in the >>>console without 'tty' in t

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

2010-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:16:26PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 05:00:30PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >>The issue only affects the specific case of 'screen' running in the >>console without 'tty' in the CYGWIN settings: the backspace key sends >>^@ instead of what's set i

Re: abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741795

2010-04-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 09/04/2010 14:52, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > I have two versions of cygwin setup on my computer. One is > cygwin-legacy, the other is a install of the latest cygwin software. > > Both "bash.exe --version" and "cp --version" when run from the latest > cygwin return the above exit code and pr

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

2010-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 05:00:30PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >Christopher Faylor: >>>Workarounds: Add 'set CYGWIN=tty' to Cygwin.bat (or wherever you're >>>starting your session from), or use one of the other terminals. >>If setting CYGWIN=tty affects the setting of the backspace key for ptys >>then

Re: 1.7.4: Building Xalan-C results in a unusable library

2010-04-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10/04/2010 11:36, Reto Schneider wrote: >> make DESTDIR=/.. install (just "make install" would result in a failing >> "mkdir -p //usr/local/lib" > call) Heh. That's a very common minor bug in automake-based makefiles that has no consequences on Linux, but fails nastily on Windows. The POS

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

2010-04-10 Thread Andy Koppe
Christopher Faylor: >>Workarounds: Add 'set CYGWIN=tty' to Cygwin.bat (or wherever you're >>starting your session from), or use one of the other terminals. > > If setting CYGWIN=tty affects the setting of the backspace key for ptys > then that's a bug in Cygwin.  You really should *not* be setting

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bison-2.4.2-1

2010-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of 'bison' available for download. This updates the package to the latest version available from ftp.gnu.org. I've included the relevant portions of the Bison NEWS file at the end of this message. For a brief description of this package, see http://cygwin.com/packages/ .

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: byacc-20100216-1

2010-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of 'byacc' available for installation. This is the most recent version of byacc available from Thomas Dickey's "fork" of the codebase which includes many fixes and modernizations. A list of new features gleaned from the ChangeLog is included after the unsubscribe info.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-2

2010-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This is a refresh against the current CVS. A partial list of changes is included after the unsubscribe info. This list comes from three binutils NEWS files. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to uns

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: less-436-1

2010-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of less available for installation. This is the most recent version of less available from greenwoodsoftware.com. The description of what's new from the last release is below. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygw

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

2010-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:31:36AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >Workarounds: Add 'set CYGWIN=tty' to Cygwin.bat (or wherever you're >starting your session from), or use one of the other terminals. If setting CYGWIN=tty affects the setting of the backspace key for ptys then that's a bug in Cygwin. Yo

DBD-DB2-1.78 driver for Perl V5.10 under CYGWIN 1.7.4

2010-04-10 Thread ERIC HO
Just wondering if anyone has successfully installed DBD-DB2-1.78 driver for Perl V5.10 under CYGWIN 1.7.4 successfully. Please let me know the changes required to install it. Thanks. Regards, Eric -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com

Re: Problem with SSH log on through passwordless public key using the LSA security method on a Windows Server 2008 Standard machine

2010-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 11:09, Kent Larsson wrote: > Hi again, > > Has anyone got any idea on how to solve this? Do you know of *any* > Windows 2008 Server Standard Cygwin installation which is used as an > SSH-server where the users are able to login using a passwordless > public key? I'm beginning to suspect

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2010-04-10 Thread Bryan Karsh
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Re: man pages showing special characters

2010-04-10 Thread Andy Koppe
On 8 April 2010 21:56, Paul Bibbings: >> What font are you using, and what do you get instead of the '-'? > > Well, certainly the font affects the problem.  I had this set to > `Courier'.  However, changing this to `Courier New' solves this for me > and everything renders as I would expect.  For th

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

2010-04-10 Thread Andy Koppe
Al G.: > using GNU screen (4.00.03) and trying to backspace by > hitting the backspace key results in nothing happening. The cursor > doesn't move, the character isn't erased and the command remains the > same (if you hit Enter whatever your typo was gets the usual error). Uh oh, this is most like

Re: Problem with SSH log on through passwordless public key using the LSA security method on a Windows Server 2008 Standard machine

2010-04-10 Thread Kent Larsson
Hi again, Has anyone got any idea on how to solve this? Do you know of *any* Windows 2008 Server Standard Cygwin installation which is used as an SSH-server where the users are able to login using a passwordless public key? I'm beginning to suspect that it's just not possible with this kind of Win