snapshots revisited

2011-03-09 Thread EXCOFFIER Denis
the installation; is it a problem?) I'd also suggest (like somebody in this list) that the snapshot page contains a link to the FAQ section dealing with snapshot installation. Also that you replace GMT by UT in this snapshot page. About the snapshot 20110309 wrt 20110308, one can se

perl 5.12?

2011-03-09 Thread Ken Brown
I'm wondering whether there are any plans to release perl 5.12 in the near future. I'm asking because it would be helpful for biber (http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/), which I'm building for texlive 2011. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/9/2011 4:34 PM, Panos Katergiathis wrote: Hello again. Here follows a complete report of the problem. Thank you for providing these details. rsync -e 'ssh -p 22 -l root' -z --delete-excluded --verbose --recursive --delete --update --exclude-from=exclude.rs root@:xms/home /cygdrive/e/

Re: Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-09 Thread Panos Katergiathis
Hello again. Here follows a complete report of the problem. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate with Service Pack 1. I am using Cygwin's latest (to this date) edition. I have only installed rsync / openssh / openssl packages besides the base system. Cygwin is installed on its default location (c:\cygwin

Re: 1.7.8: write fails with EAGAIN

2011-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:46:43PM +0100, Robert Wruck wrote: >>> I replaced the cygwin1.dll with cygwin1-20110309.dll and now a single >>> write() with 78 MB never returns but seems to write repeatedly to the >>> pipe (file was 5GB when I hit Ctrl-C). > &g

Re: Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/9/2011 3:12 PM, Panos Katergiathis wrote: Thank you for your polite reply. The issue at hand is of a more generic nature and (if Google is any witness) is rather old. I am referring to the well known problem of cygwin (at least, when rsync is used) not properly handling NTFS permissions, thu

Re: ssh 5.8p1 vs 5.5 on VPN (5.5 works, 5.6, 5.8 don't)

2011-03-09 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: > I had a problem with ssh 5.6 or 5.8 connecting across a VPN.  I solved > it by going back to ssh 5.5. > > But I don't understand the reason why 5.8 or 5.6 do not work.  Here's the > story: > > Actors: >  - laptop with cygwin 1.7 and openssh

Re: Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-09 Thread Panos Katergiathis
Thank you for your polite reply. The issue at hand is of a more generic nature and (if Google is any witness) is rather old. I am referring to the well known problem of cygwin (at least, when rsync is used) not properly handling NTFS permissions, thus resulting in folders and files that are no

Re: 1.7.8: write fails with EAGAIN

2011-03-09 Thread Robert Wruck
I replaced the cygwin1.dll with cygwin1-20110309.dll and now a single write() with 78 MB never returns but seems to write repeatedly to the pipe (file was 5GB when I hit Ctrl-C). Just terminating the loop after write_overlapped_fallback is not enough. When the size to write exceeds

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2011-03-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 09.03.2011 10:26, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Mar 9 08:25, Andy Koppe wrote: On 8 March 2011 15:03, Andy Koppe wrote: On Mar 8 13:49, David Sastre wrote: 2011/3/8, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: FWIW, I'd prefer to keep the unsetting of TEMP/TMP in ~/.bashrc (i.e. based on user preference) vs.

Re: 1.7.8: write fails with EAGAIN

2011-03-09 Thread Robert Wruck
I replaced the cygwin1.dll with cygwin1-20110309.dll and now a single write() with 78 MB never returns but seems to write repeatedly to the pipe (file was 5GB when I hit Ctrl-C). ... you don't want to keep_looping after calling write_overlapped_fallback ... -- Problem reports:

Re: 1.7.8: write fails with EAGAIN

2011-03-09 Thread Robert Wruck
d the cygwin1.dll with cygwin1-20110309.dll and now a single write() with 78 MB never returns but seems to write repeatedly to the pipe (file was 5GB when I hit Ctrl-C). -Robert -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentat

Re: 1.7.8: write fails with EAGAIN

2011-03-09 Thread Robert Wruck
Surprisingly, this returns FALSE / nbytes = 0 / GetLastError = ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE on WinXP if the number of bytes exceeds some maximum and the handle refers to a pipe. Since you don't know what kind of handle you're writing to in write_overlapped, it seems reasonable to do the write in chunks.

Re: 1.7.8: write fails with EAGAIN

2011-03-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/9/2011 1:24 PM, Robert Wruck wrote: Hi, Hang on, you are saying that a *blocking* write(2) to a pipe returns with EAGAIN? Are you sure? It would be quite a surprise if git would actually do that. EAGAIN is only an expected error for non-blocking I/O, so applications which use blocking I/O

Re: 1.7.8: write fails with EAGAIN

2011-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 07:24:11PM +0100, Robert Wruck wrote: >On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 11:39:51AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote >>Hang on, you are saying that a *blocking* write(2) to a pipe returns >>with EAGAIN? Are you sure? It would be quite a surprise if git would >>actually do that. EAGAIN

Re: 1.7.8: write fails with EAGAIN

2011-03-09 Thread Robert Wruck
Hi, Hang on, you are saying that a *blocking* write(2) to a pipe returns with EAGAIN? Are you sure? It would be quite a surprise if git would actually do that. EAGAIN is only an expected error for non-blocking I/O, so applications which use blocking I/O usually only test for EINTR. I checke

Please try the latest snapshot [Re: 1.7.8: write fails with EAGAIN]

2011-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 11:38:49AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 10:37:08AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 11:39:51AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>On Mar 5 21:12, Robert Wruck wrote: Hi, recently, I found that cygwin-git

Re: Re: Debugging help for fork failure: resource temporarily unavailable

2011-03-09 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 2:59 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 5 17:15, Ryan Johnson wrote: Might it be possible to do an LD_PRELOAD of some sort which hooks into fork() at the critical moment and prints the differences between /proc/$parent/maps and /proc/$child/maps? The code doesn't even need to be efficient; i

Re: Debugging help for fork failure: resource temporarily unavailable

2011-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 11:22:57AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Just an idea. Somebody still would have to do it(*). I've been musing about some ways to make dll handling more robust. Maybe I'll poke at it for 1.7.10. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Bug? LLVM builds fail on 1.7.8 (fenv.h)

2011-03-09 Thread Magnus Reftel
Hi all, it seems that the fenv.h introduction may have caused some problems. LLVM fails to build now, and fit seems to me that it could be because #define _GLIBCXX_HAVE_FENV_H 1 is missing in /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/include/c++/i686-pc-cygwin/bits/c++config.h For the analysis, please se

Re: Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/9/2011 10:38 AM, Panos Katergiathis wrote: Hello all I am getting all too tired with rsync messing up permissions as i backup my linux servers to my windows 7 machine. So, a simple question: if i use a fat32 partition for storing these backups, can i hope that i will stop seeing various "pe

Re: ssh ... PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

2011-03-09 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar  7 14:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Mar  7 08:18, Mirko Vukovic wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > > On Mar  2 15:06, Mirko Vukovic wrote: >> > >> So, to summarize, >> > >> >> > >> - from work

Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-09 Thread Panos Katergiathis
Hello all I am getting all too tired with rsync messing up permissions as i backup my linux servers to my windows 7 machine. So, a simple question: if i use a fat32 partition for storing these backups, can i hope that i will stop seeing various "permission denied" errors? Kind Regards -- Problem

Re: Perl: Operation "bool": no method found

2011-03-09 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/8/2011 8:42 PM, Rafael Kitover wrote: On 3/8/2011 2:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: I'm trying to build biber (http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/) for Cygwin. It is written in Perl. The documentation says to start by running `perl Build.PL' in order to make sure that I have all the required m

Re: if [ -w branching: how to spot a locked USB stick

2011-03-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 9 12:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 9 11:11, Fergus wrote: > > >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2007-q3/msg00035.html > > > > Thanks, Corinna, amazingly helpful and prompt (and concise) as usual. > > However: here is an excerpt from a DOS command prompt: > > > > Q:\home\user>dir

Re: if [ -w branching: how to spot a locked USB stick

2011-03-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 9 11:11, Fergus wrote: > >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2007-q3/msg00035.html > > Thanks, Corinna, amazingly helpful and prompt (and concise) as usual. > However: here is an excerpt from a DOS command prompt: > > Q:\home\user>dir /ar /s /b > Q:\home\user\sc\l\gn > Q:\home\user\sc\d\

Re: if [ -w branching: how to spot a locked USB stick

2011-03-09 Thread Fergus
I meant to say ~> # ... but gn shows up as drwx not d-wx NOT SO GOOD dr-x Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygw

Re: if [ -w branching: how to spot a locked USB stick

2011-03-09 Thread Fergus
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2007-q3/msg00035.html Thanks, Corinna, amazingly helpful and prompt (and concise) as usual. However: here is an excerpt from a DOS command prompt: Q:\home\user>dir /ar /s /b Q:\home\user\sc\l\gn Q:\home\user\sc\d\amy.d In other words, under $HOME, there is o

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2011-03-09 Thread Andy Koppe
On 9 March 2011 10:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar  9 09:46, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 9 March 2011 09:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > On Mar  9 08:25, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> >> On Mar  8 13:49, David Sastre wrote: >> >> >>> if TMP/TEMP has to be unset, or set to /tmp per default, or any >> >>

Re: if [ -w branching: how to spot a locked USB stick

2011-03-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 9 10:02, Fergus wrote: > In 2007: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00313.html > > It turned out to be a Windows issue, not bash or Cygwin: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00324.html > > Corinna dug into the issue: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00335.html > > I

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2011-03-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 9 09:46, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 9 March 2011 09:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar  9 08:25, Andy Koppe wrote: > >> >> On Mar  8 13:49, David Sastre wrote: > >> >>> if TMP/TEMP has to be unset, or set to /tmp per default, or any > >> >>> other default > >> >>> decided here, that is some

Re: Debugging help for fork failure: resource temporarily unavailable

2011-03-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 5 17:15, Ryan Johnson wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hitting the oh-so-delightful fork failures when trying to > compile a cross-compiler toolchain, which is a pain because one fork > failure makes crosstool-ng start over. I've rebased, I've been over > the BLODA (Windows Defender slipped in eve

Re: if [ -w branching: how to spot a locked USB stick

2011-03-09 Thread Fergus
In 2007: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00313.html It turned out to be a Windows issue, not bash or Cygwin: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00324.html Corinna dug into the issue: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00335.html I'm sorry, I don't have a lockable USB stick to han

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2011-03-09 Thread Andy Koppe
On 9 March 2011 09:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar  9 08:25, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> On Mar  8 13:49, David Sastre wrote: >> >>> if TMP/TEMP has to be unset, or set to /tmp per default, or any >> >>> other default >> >>> decided here, that is something to be done in /etc/profile, IMHO. >> >> O

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2011-03-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 9 08:25, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 8 March 2011 15:03, Andy Koppe wrote: > >> On Mar  8 13:49, David Sastre wrote: > >>> 2011/3/8, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > >>> > FWIW, I'd prefer to keep the unsetting of TEMP/TMP in ~/.bashrc (i.e. > >>> > based on user preference) vs. /etc/profile, since I ha

Re: New Cygwin release

2011-03-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 9 08:51, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 9 March 2011 02:54, Karl M wrote: > > > >> From: BBuchbinder > >> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:49:29 -0500 > >> Subject: RE: New Cygwin release > >> > >> Karl M sent the following at Tuesday, March 08, 2011 4:57 PM > >> >Is another Cygwin release planned for afte

Re: New Cygwin release

2011-03-09 Thread Andy Koppe
On 9 March 2011 02:54, Karl M wrote: > >> From: BBuchbinder >> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:49:29 -0500 >> Subject: RE: New Cygwin release >> >> Karl M sent the following at Tuesday, March 08, 2011 4:57 PM >> >Is another Cygwin release planned for after the current round of bug >> >fixes settles down a

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2011-03-09 Thread Andy Koppe
On 8 March 2011 15:03, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On Mar  8 13:49, David Sastre wrote: >>> 2011/3/8, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >>> > FWIW, I'd prefer to keep the unsetting of TEMP/TMP in ~/.bashrc (i.e. >>> > based on user preference) vs. /etc/profile, since I have multiple >>> > accounts on one of my machi