Re: libgc bug when using Gnu C nested functions

2012-08-03 Thread Glyn
> Years ago I became maintainer of libgc only in order to get w3m > working. And unfortunately I have not kept it current with the > upstream libgc. Several newer versions back it was causing w3m to > throw errors in my dev environment so I didn't proceed at that time. > I'll either attempt to up

A+ interpreter

2012-08-03 Thread Tom Szczesny
FYI - A port of the A+ interpreter to Cygwin is available at https://github.com/tavmem/aplus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot

2012-08-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:02:28PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >On 8/3/2012 12:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:41:19PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:05:10PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/2/2012 3:34 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >

Re: kbhit() in a native app run from CYGWIN console does not work?

2012-08-03 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 8/3/2012 3:33 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a native Windows app that is run from bash (which is in turn run > in a standard Cygwin terminal window, mintty). The application's code uses > kbhit() to check whether input is available from the user -- but it

kbhit() in a native app run from CYGWIN console does not work?

2012-08-03 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hi All, I have a native Windows app that is run from bash (which is in turn run in a standard Cygwin terminal window, mintty). The application's code uses kbhit() to check whether input is available from the user -- but it looks like kbhit() never indicates any input (when keys are getting presse

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Marcin Kielar wrote: > 2012-08-03 18:23, Christopher Faylor: > >> I've uploaded a snapshot which should fix this issue. > > > Confirmed to be working on snapshot 20120803: > > 1. Ctrl+C breaks ping loop - OK > 2. Ctrl+C breaks

Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot

2012-08-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/3/2012 12:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:41:19PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:05:10PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/2/2012 3:34 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:14:50PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Christophe

Cygstart bug: doesn't keep command line arguments intact

2012-08-03 Thread John Wiersba
Calling  /c/program\ files/microsoft\ office/office12/winword.exe "a b c.doc" works.  Calling cygstart /c/program\ files/microsoft\ office/office12/winword.exe "a b c.doc" tries to open a.doc, b.doc, and c.doc. I couldn't find this reported in the mailing list archives. -- Problem

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Marcin Kielar
2012-08-03 18:23, Christopher Faylor: I've uploaded a snapshot which should fix this issue. Confirmed to be working on snapshot 20120803: 1. Ctrl+C breaks ping loop - OK 2. Ctrl+C breaks Java process started through a `bat` file - OK It's likely that we will now hear from

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/03/2012 12:23 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:32:09PM +0200, Marcin Kielar wrote: Steps to reproduce: 1. Start cygwin using cygwin.bat 2. Run `ping -t google.com` 3. Try breaking it with Ctrl+C Expected behaviur: The ping breaks execution and the command prompt i

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:32:09PM +0200, Marcin Kielar wrote: >Steps to reproduce: > >1. Start cygwin using cygwin.bat >2. Run `ping -t google.com` >3. Try breaking it with Ctrl+C > >Expected behaviur: >The ping breaks execution and the command prompt is shown and available I've uploaded a snapsh

Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot

2012-08-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:41:19PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:05:10PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >>On 8/2/2012 3:34 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:14:50PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: >Just to be clear: Is t

Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden

2012-08-03 Thread Soumya Roy
Hi Andrey ! I get what you mean I definitely must have made a mistake while trying to fix the problem, the analogy of what I was doing is like that of black box testing, I try to fix in some way but I don't really "know" what is going on inside and I just check the result...;-) Howver as it tu

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:07:39PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 3 09:57, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>This thread has it all. Affronted user, useless pile on, and now we >>start to drift away from the actual subject. >> >>It's a little early here for popcorn but I'm tempted anyway. > >I'

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 09:57, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 03:51:30PM +0200, marco atzeri wrote: > [...] > >a "windows console terminal" is cmd.exe, IMHO. > >There are no other console in windows as standard installation. No, no, three times no. Cmd.exe is just a console application usi

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 09:57:16AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 03:51:30PM +0200, marco atzeri wrote: >>On 8/3/2012 3:43 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:32:09PM +0200, Marcin Kielar wro

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:51 AM, marco atzeri wrote: > On 8/3/2012 3:43 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:32:09PM +0200, Marcin Kielar wrote: Steps to reproduce: 1. Start cygwin using cygwin.b

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread K Stahl
OK, I've found my example on how to resolve this issue: Create a bash shell script and do the following: #!/bin/bash # Change the following to suit your application needs. java -cp path.to.main.line & function finalize() { echo 'Terminating Application' kill 0 } trap finalize SIGINT

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 03:51:30PM +0200, marco atzeri wrote: >On 8/3/2012 3:43 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:32:09PM +0200, Marcin Kielar wrote: Steps to reproduce: 1. Start cygwin using cygwin.bat

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:57:28AM -0400, Roger K. Wells wrote: >On 08/03/2012 08:48 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Roger K. Wells >> >> Getting a PID & using kill just takes too long. >> -END Original Message- >> >> pkill from the procps package might mi

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread marco atzeri
On 8/3/2012 3:43 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:32:09PM +0200, Marcin Kielar wrote: Steps to reproduce: 1. Start cygwin using cygwin.bat 2. Run `ping -t google.com` 3. Try breaking it with Ctrl+C Expected behaviur: T

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:32:09PM +0200, Marcin Kielar wrote: >>Steps to reproduce: >> >>1. Start cygwin using cygwin.bat >>2. Run `ping -t google.com` >>3. Try breaking it with Ctrl+C >> >>Expected behaviur: >>The ping breaks execution a

Re: how to update

2012-08-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/2/2012 6:10 PM, J.V. wrote: I want cygwin to silently run the package manager and update my system everytime I login. I have over 100 vm's that I use for various things and it is quite the hassle to update every component in the system on each launch so am looking for solutions or ideas on

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/03/2012 08:48 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: -Original Message- From: Roger K. Wells Getting a PID & using kill just takes too long. -END Original Message- pkill from the procps package might mitigate the pain. --Ken Nellis that too is a work around. The point here is what is

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/02/2012 07:03 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 8/2/2012 4:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:32:09PM +0200, Marcin Kielar wrote: Steps to reproduce: 1. Start cygwin using cygwin.bat 2. Run `ping -t google.com` 3. Try breaking it with Ctrl+C Expected behaviur: The

RE: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
-Original Message- From: Roger K. Wells Getting a PID & using kill just takes too long. -END Original Message- pkill from the procps package might mitigate the pain. --Ken Nellis

Re: Seteuid "operation not permitted" error when using LSA for sshd

2012-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 2 18:39, David Koppenhofer wrote: > > Why did you install cyglsa64 from the old snapshot? The changes to > > cyglsa are supposed to be in the Cygwin 1.7.16 package anyway. > > Because I was grasping for straws, and didn't know the fix was in the current > package. > > > > > I rebooted t

Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot

2012-08-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > Thanks. I think I see the problem but I won't be able to get to it tonight. Based on that information, I went back to the July 29th snapshot and it is holding up good so far. I checked my logs and I had the snapshot from July 25th installed before going

Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot

2012-08-03 Thread Filipp Gunbin
Ken Brown writes: > On 8/2/2012 12:28 PM, Filipp Gunbin wrote: >> Ken Brown writes: >> >> ... >>> Unfortunately, I'm finding that emacs is unstable: The emacs window >>> (running under X) simply disappears after 12-24 hours. This may not >>> have anything to do with the most recent changes. I h