Re: {lp,cb}Reserved2 under Windows 7 and file descriptors

2010-09-12 Thread Andy Koppe
On 13 September 2010 05:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 03:55:12PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: >>On 9/12/10 3:41 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> So this wasn't just an idea which went unimplemented waiting for tuits. >>> It went unimplemented because I thought it was a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: flexdll-0.25-1

2010-09-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** flexdll-0.25-1 FlexDLL is an implementation of the dlopen() APIs which creates DLLs whose symbols can be resolved at runtime. It will be required for an upcoming OCaml release with dynamic module support. This release is a

Re: {lp,cb}Reserved2 under Windows 7 and file descriptors

2010-09-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 03:55:12PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: >On 9/12/10 3:41 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> So this wasn't just an idea which went unimplemented waiting for tuits. >> It went unimplemented because I thought it was a bad idea. > >It is a lie, but it's also a distinction with

setup.exe crashing on package downloads

2010-09-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! I've eventually resolved it, but I think i'll share it anyway. Got rather strange crashes today, while trying to install python... tried everything I could think about, FS rights, disk check... no dice. Already installed packages upgraded fine, python/libsqlite/libffi - crash on do

Re: 1.7.x:ld linker error with *.o files

2010-09-12 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2010-09-12 22:19Z, matthew caswell wrote: > > $ nasm -f aout mckern_start.asm -o mcks.o ^^^ Try -f win32 or -f gnuwin32 http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-07/msg00259.html > $ gcc -c mckern.c -o mckern.o > > But when I run the linker with my link.ld file: > $ ld -T

Re: {lp,cb}Reserved2 under Windows 7 and file descriptors

2010-09-12 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 9/12/10 3:41 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > So this wasn't just an idea which went unimplemented waiting for tuits. > It went unimplemented because I thought it was a bad idea. It is a lie, but it's also a distinction without a difference. What kind of misbehavior could we expect to be caused

Re: {lp,cb}Reserved2 under Windows 7 and file descriptors

2010-09-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:29:56PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >On 14 July 2010 23:38, Daniel Colascione wrote: >>there is a very long-standing issue with Cygwin pty devices: while >>Cygwin programs report true from isatty() when called on a Cygwin PTY, >>MSVCRT applications do *not*. From their poin

1.7.x:ld linker error with *.o files

2010-09-12 Thread matthew caswell
I'm trying to compile a very basic kernel.  The source contains 2 files: mckern.c mckern_start.asm These compile into *.o files fine. Here's how (in case it helps solve the problem): $ nasm -f aout mckern_start.asm -o mcks.o $ gcc -c mckern.c -o mckern.o But when I run the linker with my link.ld

Re: Oddities with file deletion on CIFS drive

2010-09-12 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Sunday, September 12, 2010 2:21 PM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: Hi Corinna, I will give the snapshot a test. Here is the output of attrib: bu...@zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS/ZDESKTOP-608/20100912050101_ZDESKTOP/ZimbraBu ild/templates $ attrib BUILD_ISYNC_template AR Z:

Re: {lp,cb}Reserved2 under Windows 7 and file descriptors

2010-09-12 Thread Andy Koppe
On 12 September 2010 22:39, Daniel Colascione wrote: > On 9/12/10 2:29 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> This does appear to work! Proof-of-concept code attached, along with a >> couple of tests. Running in mintty: > > Awesome. Thanks for doing this work. I believe the Cygwin developers had > concerns about

Re: {lp,cb}Reserved2 under Windows 7 and file descriptors

2010-09-12 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 9/12/10 2:29 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > This does appear to work! Proof-of-concept code attached, along with a > couple of tests. Running in mintty: Awesome. Thanks for doing this work. I believe the Cygwin developers had concerns about this change inadvertently breaking some applications. Have yo

Re: {lp,cb}Reserved2 under Windows 7 and file descriptors

2010-09-12 Thread Andy Koppe
On 14 July 2010 23:38, Daniel Colascione wrote: > there is a very long-standing issue with Cygwin pty devices: > while Cygwin programs report true from isatty() when called on a Cygwin PTY, > MSVCRT applications do *not*. From their point of view, Cygwin ptys are not > ttys, which has led to all so

Re: Oddities with file deletion on CIFS drive

2010-09-12 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Sunday, September 12, 2010 1:43 PM +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 11 12:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 10 10:48, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > --On Friday, September 10, 2010 7:09 PM +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >> Let me know if there is anything else I can provide. > > > >

malloc-bzero and /proc/pid/statm reading bug

2010-09-12 Thread Marco Atzeri
s, >      the thing can't be read ... } > > Thanks, >   Robert Larice I checked and both 1.7.7 and the latest 20100912 show the issue. Are we assuming something wrong and missing something else or is it a bzero bug ? Marco // (compile "make CFLAGS='-Wall -O

Re: Oddities with file deletion on CIFS drive

2010-09-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 11 12:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 10 10:48, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > --On Friday, September 10, 2010 7:09 PM +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > >>Let me know if there is anything else I can provide. > > > > > >I'm not sure. I don't think so. The problem is that the unlin