RE: pthread_cond_wait does not relock mutex on release

2002-04-17 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Labhard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:01 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: pthread_cond_wait does not relock mutex on release > > > Don't no if anyone else has noticed this: the > pthread_cond_wait when signal

Re: An deeper and not before asked question about setup.exe

2002-04-17 Thread Max Bowsher
> >My question is this: _Why_ is it necessary to create mirror-named directories to > >allow the downloading from multiple mirrors? > >I have no doubt it was done for a reason, but I would very much like to know > >that reason. > If you're interested in discussing the design of setup in this area

Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for completion?

2002-04-17 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Tuesday 16 Apr 02, Chris Metcalf writes: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Chet Ramey wrote: > > Readline has a set of characters it uses as word > > delimiters for completion, and the calling application can modify that > > set to its tastes. Bash includes `:' as a word break character, which > > makes

True Static Linking

2002-04-17 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Tuesday 16 Apr 02, Westley Weimer writes: > I am using gcc under cygwin and I would like to ship hello.exe to a friend > who does not have cygwin1.dll on his computer. > ... > (1) Is there a "-static" switch that statically links in cygwin1.dll? Read the FAQ entry "Can I build a Cygwin program

Re: fetchmail still corrupts files ?

2002-04-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Marc schrieb: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:45:22PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> It's certainly possible that mutt is the guilty party, as it's rather >> aggregiously Unix-text-files-only-please oriented. > no , it's not ! i've already posted that *fetchmail* has a *known bug* > when deali

Re: An deeper and not before asked question about setup.exe

2002-04-17 Thread Michael A Chase
From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 08:55 Subject: Re: An deeper and not before asked question about setup.exe > Michael A Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's a newer version of clean_setup.pl at > > http://home.ix.netcom.com/~

Re: cygwin randomly pauses under Win2k

2002-04-17 Thread Mark Paulus
Great! I set up a strace on the 'doit script', and the very act of running strace seems to make everything behave as expected. But, I can't run this thing all the time, as strace generates a small quantity of output. Oh well, I'll keep monitoring it for a while and see what comes out.

Re: cygwin randomly pauses under Win2k

2002-04-17 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Yep. That's the occasional detriment of strace. It hides the problem you're looking to track. I wouldn't dismiss it's potential as a solution for your problem so quickly though. strace with a much larger disk and a top-of-the- line processor is a clear win! ;-) Sorry it wasn't more help to yo

Re: [feature request] completion of paths with Windows drive letters

2002-04-17 Thread Chris Metcalf
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Lapo Luchini wrote: > Chris Metcalf wrote: > > Repeat-By: > > "ls c:/win" should expand to your Windows directory on cygwin. > > Maybe I'm completely wrong but I always tought "ls d:/" was just an hack > and "real use" would suppose "ls /cygdrive/d/", as havnig colons

Re: fetchmail still corrupts files ?

2002-04-17 Thread Jason Tishler
Gerrit, On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:02:33PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > Shame on me for sitting on this patch for so long... > > Wow, you have patched it already;) Yeah, but I should have submitted the patch upstream by now... > Do you want contribute fetchmail to the Cygwin Dist My inte

Re: [feature request] completion of paths with Windows drive letters

2002-04-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Chris Metcalf wrote: >Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: >Machine: i686 >OS: cygwin >Compiler: i686-pc-cygwin-gcc >Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash.exe' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' >-DCONF_OSTYPE='cygwin' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-cygwin' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL

Re: fetchmail-5.9.11-2 now uploaded (was: Re: fetchmail still corruptsfiles ?)

2002-04-17 Thread Jason Tishler
Gerrit, On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:09:02PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > I would be pleased to hear if it works on W2K without corrupting > binary attachments (or was it even corrupting text attachments?). Initially, I thought that it had to do with binary attachments. After reading the fetchm

Re: setup.exe does not always install cygwin1.dll?

2002-04-17 Thread Jeroen W. Pluimers \(All I'M\)
"Jon Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:021201c1e616$4ce639b0$ad01a8c0@jj... > > Am I doing something wrong? > Yes. Good to know that (big sigh of relief ). > > If yes: what? > You're not downloading the new "release" directory. From setup.ini: > : install: release/cygwin/cygw

Re: cygwin randomly pauses under Win2k

2002-04-17 Thread Mark Paulus
Ah yes. My instructor for our Advanced Unix course was always fond of stating: "It is perfectly acceptable to smother your performance problems with hardware." On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:59:10 -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >Yep. That's the occasional detriment of strace. It hides

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: enscript-1.6.3-2

2002-04-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
enscript-1.6.3-2 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. `Enscript' converts ASCII files to PostScript. This is a bugfix release: Now a default enscript.cfg file is included in /etc as /etc/enscript.cfg.default . Please copy/move it to /etc/enscript.cfg and mo

Re: setup.exe does not always install cygwin1.dll?

2002-04-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:59:20PM +0200, Jeroen W. Pluimers (All I'M) wrote: >> Try: >> wget -m -np >ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/ > >I just did (took quite some time, even on ADSL ) and it now installs >more, but still things were missing (for instance cygpcre.

RE: Setup's download directory structure

2002-04-17 Thread Lynn Wilson
I'm unhappy with the new structure as well. I also wrote a perl script (similar to clean_setup.pl) that plows through the download and removes earlier copies of things in order to save disk space. That is the ONLY reason I'm unhappy with the new structure. I'd be REALLY happy if setup.exe had a

RE: Setup's download directory structure

2002-04-17 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 02:34 PM 4/17/2002, Lynn Wilson wrote: >I'm unhappy with the new structure as well. I also wrote a perl script >(similar to clean_setup.pl) that plows through the download and removes >earlier copies of things in order to save disk space. > >That is the ONLY reason I'm unhappy with the new str

Re: cygwin randomly pauses under Win2k

2002-04-17 Thread Marc Chantreux
is strace/ltrace available on cygwin ??? :) I've just run the setup.exe but i don't find it ! not more on the web :( Marc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

Re: Setup's download directory structure

2002-04-17 Thread Michael A Chase
From: "Lynn Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:34 Subject: RE: Setup's download directory structure > I'm unhappy with the new structure as well. I also wrote a perl script > (similar to clean_setup.pl) that plows through the download and remo

Re: where is strace?

2002-04-17 Thread Michael A Chase
From: "Marc Chantreux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:55 Subject: Re: cygwin randomly pauses under Win2k > is strace/ltrace available on cygwin ??? :) > > I've just run the setup.exe but i don't find it ! > not more on the web :( Please change th

Re: cygwin randomly pauses under Win2k

2002-04-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Marc, Yes. % strace --version trace V1.0, Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Red Hat Inc., Feb 25 2002 % strace --help Usage: strace [OPTIONS] -b, --buffer-size=SIZE set size of output file buffer -d, --no-delta don't display the delta-t microsecond timestamp -f, --trace-childr

Re: where is strace?

2002-04-17 Thread Marc Chantreux
Hi Michael, >Please change the Subject when you change the topic. > yes .. sorry .. >http://cygwin.com/ "setup.exe Package Listing" > thanks for this good link Regards Marc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.h

Re: setup.exe does not always install cygwin1.dll?

2002-04-17 Thread Jeroen W. Pluimers \(All I'M\)
"Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > >Adding the --retr-symlinks option to wget helps though. > You realize that you're attempting to do things the hard way, right? If > you use setup everything should just work. Bypassing se

Re: FW: Can you offer enscript.cfg file for cygwin?

2002-04-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Xiangjiang, http://62.138.63.18/cywgin/enscript/enscript.cfg Sorry, I saw it to late, a new release was already uploaded. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http:

Make Error

2002-04-17 Thread brad . boyd
Hi All, Im trying to install icewm build 1.0.9 for Xfree86 Im getting the following error and would appreciate any help in finding a solution. Thank You. -- make[1]: Enteri

Re: Make Error

2002-04-17 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 08:02 PM 4/17/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi All, Im trying to install icewm build 1.0.9 for Xfree86 >Im getting the following error and would appreciate any help in finding a >solution. >Thank You. Wrong list. See http://cygwin.com/lists.html. Larry Hall

will bash honor the suid bit or not?

2002-04-17 Thread Richard Troy
Hi All, I've got an application I'm trying to port from Unix to cygwin on Windows NT/2000 using NTFS. The application consists of an executable and a few configuration files. To work correctly, the executable and configuration files need to be owned by any ole user which is _not_ the user who w

Re: will bash honor the suid bit or not?

2002-04-17 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:56 PM 4/17/2002, Richard Troy wrote: >Hi All, > >I've got an application I'm trying to port from Unix to cygwin on Windows >NT/2000 using NTFS. > >The application consists of an executable and a few configuration files. >To work correctly, the executable and configuration files need to be o

Re: pthread_cond_wait does not relock mutex on release

2002-04-17 Thread Michael Labhard
Robert and Gerald: Both quite right.  Although adding the SAFE_PRINTF made no difference in the output, checking a condition value in a loop made all the difference.   Putting a printf in the loop revealed to my surprise that "spurious wakeups" were occurring thousands of times per se

Re: will bash honor the suid bit or not?

2002-04-17 Thread Richard Troy
Thank you for your reply, Larry. You're right when you say that the requirement to give these permissions would defeat the whole purpose. In short, the purpose of the application itself is security-related. The information contained in the config. files is sensitive. The user needs to have the b

Re: FW: Can you offer enscript.cfg file for cygwin?

2002-04-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Xiangjiang, > It is better, though I still could not make it print out > anything Enscript uses 'lpr' from the cygutils package for printing to PRN. Printing under Cygwin was discussed a lot of times on this list and there is a really good reason why 'lpr' is in the cygutils package incl

Re: will bash honor the suid bit or not?

2002-04-17 Thread Sam Edge
> And you were right to guess that I already set ntsec in CYGWIN - it was my > first move. That, and to put the definition in the systems env. vars, so > other users who log in without Administrator privilege can't change it. I also set the CYGWIN environment in the "system variables" section of

RE: pthread_cond_wait does not relock mutex on release

2002-04-17 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Labhard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: pthread_cond_wait does not relock mutex on release > > > Robert and Gerald: > > Both quite right.  Although adding the SA