Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-10-10 Thread tednolan
In message you write: >This might the way the pkgIndex.tcl file for this particular extension >has been implemented, but like Jan says, that is not the Tcl way. > >Here is a sample that illustrates the more acceptable procedure: > ># Tcl package index file, version 1.0 > >if {![package vsatisfies

Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-10-09 Thread tednolan
In message <20141009162906.ga25...@calimero.vinschen.de>you write: > >Any other idea what *might* be broken if we remove CWD from the >DLL search path? > > >Corinna > I'm pretty sure I've got some programs loading Tcl extensions that cd into the directory with the extension dlls, load the extensio

Re: ezmlm problems with yahoo/AT&T senders

2014-06-30 Thread tednolan
In message <53b16935.4040...@cygwin.com>you write: >On 06/30/2014 08:05 AM, tednolan wrote: >been obvious to you but your email to the list on this topic usurped >a thread on a totally different subject. > ><https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-06/msg00443.html> > >We

ezmlm problems with yahoo/AT&T senders

2014-06-30 Thread tednolan
I've tried reporting this several different ways, apparently into a black hole, so I'll try it here on the front list. I preiodically get messages from ezmlm to the effect Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the cygwin#cygwin.com mailing list. Messages to you fr

Re: Cygwin on Max OS X ?

2014-06-05 Thread tednolan
In message you write: >I have an iMac 27 64-bit words running OS X Mavericks. > >Can I install Cygwin on my iMac? > >I know it's not necessary, but I thought it might be helpful >for working on system porting/compatibility problems. > >Dick McCullough Only in the sense that your can run a Windows

Re: How to set big font for xterm in cygwin/X

2014-06-04 Thread tednolan
In message <92c60106-8a54-434b-a470-744b8e4d4...@gmail.com>you write: >Now I can use cygwin/X to run gtk3-demo, but my eyes is bad and xterm font = >in cygwin/X is very small, how can I set to bigger font for xterm? Thanks a= > lot.= > Well, if you hold down the ctrl key and hit the right mouse bu

Has anyone built Linux Firefox on cygwin?

2014-05-12 Thread tednolan
I would like to have a "native" X11 cygwin Firefox. Has anyone been able to build this? As I recall, it was a bear to build even under Linux, and when I started trying to do it under cygwin a few months ago I went down a rathole somewhere and never did get anything working before I had to move on

Re: Wow, just hit RCS bug

2014-04-16 Thread tednolan
In message you write: >RCS does a great job for smaller projects when I don't need the >overhead of any of the popular larger systems. It has saved me many >times when I'm working on a short document or a set of scripts on my >desktop machine. > >I'd miss it if it were removed simply due to the l

Re: Wow, just hit RCS bug

2014-04-16 Thread tednolan
In message <87bnw12nuu.fsf@Rainer.invalid>you write: >tedno...@bellsouth.net writes: >> Just for the record, the suggested env var fix >> >> RCS_MEM_LIMIT=0 >> >> to "force stdio" does not work for me, but the > >That was never suggested as a fix, but to show that the problem occurs >with files muc

Wow, just hit RCS bug

2014-04-16 Thread tednolan
I just hit the worst Cygwin bug I've encountered, the RCS bug which silently corrupts text files > 256K. That's the last thing I expect from a version control system! After some moments of panic, I was able to retrieve a good copy from backups, but have lost my revision history. Anyway, I immedi

Re: libtool: link: object name conflicts in archive

2014-04-16 Thread tednolan
In message <20140416080331.gn3...@calimero.vinschen.de>you write: >--KC+fneiph5CALyUl >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> ../../libtool: line 1117: lib: command not found > >This is *so* wrong. That's very likely a p

Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?

2014-01-31 Thread tednolan
In message <52ec4727.2000...@gmail.com>you write: >On 1/31/2014 5:03 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jan 31 22:40, Frank Fesevur wrote: >>> 2014-01-31 Corinna Vinschen: Is anybody here who's using /etc/passwd and/or group files of more than 16K in size? >>> The new way to store th

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread tednolan
In message you write: > >Windows Explorer readily shows drives H: and Z:. That looks like they >"are reall y mounted" to me, but I wouldn't know what constitutes a >rigorous test or even w hat the definition of "really mounted" actually >is. > My experience with cygwin is that if I can open a DOS

Re: fork() + file descriptor bug in 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:54

2014-01-17 Thread tednolan
In message <52d98e1d.8010...@redhat.com>you write: > >No. You have to fix things _in the parent, before the fork()_ for >everything to be hunky-dory. The easiest way to do that is to >fflush(NULL) before fork()ing. > You learn something new every day. Usually just after you needed to know it.

Re: fork() + file descriptor bug in 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:54

2014-01-16 Thread tednolan
In message <20140116085026.ga26...@calimero.vinschen.de>you write: > >Can you change your testcase another bit, please? Enable your >`ftell' printf, but rather than printing the result of ftell, >print the result of lseek: > > fprintf(stderr, "(%s) (%s) %d %ld\n", infile, >outfile, i, lse

Re: fork() + file descriptor bug in 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:54

2014-01-15 Thread tednolan
In message <20140115163354.ga30...@calimero.vinschen.de>you write: >--ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Jan 15 10:28, tedno...@bellsouth.net wrote: >> In message <52d63ce2.9060...@lysator.liu.se>

Re: fork() + file descriptor bug in 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:54

2014-01-15 Thread tednolan
In message <52d63ce2.9060...@lysator.liu.se>you write: >On 2014-01-15 05:53, Lord Laraby wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Ted Nolan wrote: >>> In message <52d55d96.8070...@redhat.com> you write: Your program may be violating POSIX, which would trigger undefined behavio >r.

Re: fork() + file descriptor bug in 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:54

2014-01-14 Thread tednolan
In message <52d55d96.8070...@redhat.com>you write: > >Your program may be violating POSIX, which would trigger undefined behavior. > >Quoting POSIX: > pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2_chap02.html#tag_15_05 > [long quote elided] Yikes! That's pretty impenatrable. And if it s

fork() + file descriptor bug in 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:54

2014-01-13 Thread tednolan
Hello, I'm running: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 prog5 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:54 x86_64 Cygwin gcc (GCC) 4.8.2 on a 64 bit Win7 system. I have just run into an odd bug, which I have boiled down into the program below (which started as a mod to tiff2ps). If you compile this program: