Re: [Fwd: unison and cygwin on windows xp SP2]

2004-12-15 Thread Bob Byrnes
> any new development on the pipe frontier? I haven't had as much time to work on this as I would have hoped, due to a confluence of short-term deadlines at work and elsewhere. But some of these projects are now done, so I have hope for an improved rate of progress. My plan is still to use one of

Re: Piping problems with bk and ssh under Win XP SP2

2004-11-29 Thread Bob Byrnes
> With my current installation (Win XP SP2, Cygwin 1.5.12) it looks like I > cannot use BitKeeper via ssh since there is a piping problem with SP2 > and Cygwin. Could you please provide more details? Exactly what is going wrong, and what makes you think it is due to a "piping problem"? -- Bob

RE: scp exits often with -1

2004-11-19 Thread Bob Byrnes
I spent a little time looking at these straces and scp -v output. I still don't understand what's going on, but it seems to be unrelated to the recent pipe changes. I say that because those changes only affected select for writes on pipes, and the problem seems to be on the read side. It looks lik

Re: scp exits often with -1

2004-11-18 Thread Bob Byrnes
> If this is a problem with the new pipe code then maybe Bob Byrnes could > offer some insight. Offhand, I can't think of any way that the new pipe stuff could cause this behavior, but I'll add this to my list of (potential) pipe-related things to investigate and think about. We

RE: if construct doesn't work in makefile

2004-11-11 Thread Bob Byrnes
> > if test [-dc:/tools]; then ... > > ... in fact test seems to be happy with no spaces around the square > brackets. I think it may be only if you want to use the implicit form > of test that the brackets need to be separated with spaces from the test > inside them, so that bash spots them as

Re: pipe data form windows program to cygwin program

2004-10-28 Thread Bob Byrnes
> | Are you *sure* that you have closed *all* of the write handles to the pipe? > | If any write handles remain open, then EOF won't be delivered to the > | read side of the pipe. > > i think i did, but even if i didn't the fact that the program exit > normally will close all open handles under wi

Re: pipe data form windows program to cygwin program

2004-10-27 Thread Bob Byrnes
> I'm writing a program which need to send data to a cygwin program using > a pipe on the stdin (actually data to compress using gzip). > > All is working well but at the end of the program when i close the pipe > it seems that gzip doesn't see that the pipe has been closed and so it > stay open.

RE: Bizarre behaviour of "make --win32"

2004-09-15 Thread Bob Byrnes
On Sep 15, 1:18pm, Dave Korn" wrote: -- Subject: RE: Bizarre behaviour of "make --win32" > > The only thing that has been going wrong here is that when make invokes > the command through execvp it runs in the same unix-y environment that make > is running in itself, which defies the purpose of th

Re: Bizarre behaviour of "make --win32"

2004-09-14 Thread Bob Byrnes
On Sep 14, 4:01pm, Dave Korn wrote: -- Subject: Bizarre behaviour of "make --win32" > > It appears to be using sh.exe, regardless of the --win32 flag. But if I > add stdout redirection to the command in question, it uses cmd.exe. > -- End of excerpt from "Dave Korn" On non-Cygwin, UNIX platform

Re: 1.5.11-1: sftp performance problem

2004-09-13 Thread Bob Byrnes
... On Sep 4, 11:51pm, Christopher Faylor wrote: -- Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.11-1 > > Changes since 1.5.10-3: > > ... > > - Fix some problems with rsync hangs on Windows NT class systems. (Bob Byrnes) > -- End of excerpt from Christopher Faylor Here are some w

Re: rsync + xp sp2 failing

2004-09-09 Thread Bob Byrnes
On Sep 9, 9:36am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel) wrote: -- Subject: rsync + xp sp2 failing > > Failed to dup/close : Socket operation on non-socket > rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14)@ > /home/lapo/package/tmp/rsync-2.6.2/pipe.c(73) > -- End of excerpt from Joel The rsync code in pipe.c looks l

Re: win95 pipe problems -- report + testcase + patch

2004-09-09 Thread Bob Byrnes
This patch looks right to me. create_selectable_pipe is the only place where CreateNamedPipe is used, so it should completely fix the problem. Sorry I missed this ... I don't have a win95 system to use for testing. -- Bob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Proble

Cygwin deadlocks due to broken select() when writing to pipes

2003-10-30 Thread Bob Byrnes
e file descriptors. Were any other approaches considered and rejected while this code was being developed, or was the problem not recognized at the time? -- Bob Byrnese-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Curl Corporation phone: 617-761-1200 1 Cambridge Center, 10th Flo