setitimer/SIGVTALRM error form cygwin shell.

Hello I am trying to simulate a tick timer under cygwin but it does not work : with the following code : /* Initialise timer structure */ interval.it_interval.tv_sec = 1; interval.it_interval.tv_usec = 0; interval.it_value.tv_sec = 1; interval.it_value.tv_usec = 0; /* Initialise vir

mips-tx49-elf-gcc

Hi, Can anyone provide hints on patch for mips-tx49? Regards, Rajesh. On Mon, 30 Dec 2003 Rajesh Misra wrote : Hi, I'm currently developing some application on TOSHIBA's tx49. I'm using cygwin as my development tool. But I couldnt find the patch for the tx49 cross compiler. Can please some

Re: Burning cygwin distribution CDs

Laurynas Biveinis wrote: > Ross Smith II wrote: >>> From: Laurynas Biveinis >>> >>> I want to burn CDs with full cygwin distribution with sources and >>> so on. I've downloaded everything from >>> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/sources.redhat/cygwin/release, but it >>> takes almost 1 GB. How should I

setitimer failure

hello. I really have to know if the setitimer() primitive works well using cywgin dll I am currently using NT5.0 (2000) I call setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &interval, NULL) and it returns -1 with bad argument as errno . I do not understand why, because my arguments seemes to be ok to me ! Any help ver

Re: Burning cygwin distribution CDs

However this is not exactly what I need - I have to burn all the 1GB stuff to CDs. Why? You do realize that that includes multiple versions of just about every package? Yes, I do. In fact, if I was creating such CD for my own usage, I would get away with 100 mb or so. But in this case I have

Re: Burning cygwin distribution CDs

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 22:08, Laurynas Biveinis wrote: > >>However > >>this is not exactly what I need - I have to burn all the 1GB stuff to > >>CDs. > > > > > > Why? You do realize that that includes multiple versions of just about every > > package? > > Yes, I do. In fact, if I was creating suc

Re: setitimer failure

Doesn't setitimer require two struct's as it's last two arguments? Have you checked the setitimer(2) manpage to make sure your using the function correctly? Although it's not included with cygwin you can find it on google. Perhaps you could send along the source of the file your trying to get wor

gcc -print-search-dirs madness!

Perhaps a gcc guru will take pity on me and explain what's going on here? I know, theoretically, the answer is in the source code somewhere, but since I've never read gcc source code before, I'd probably just end up horribly confused. Below, gcc-search-dirs.sh is a script which calls "gcc -print-s

Re: Burning cygwin distribution CDs

Laurynas Biveinis wrote: >>> However >>> this is not exactly what I need - I have to burn all the 1GB stuff >>> to CDs. >> >> >> Why? You do realize that that includes multiple versions of just >> about every package? > > Yes, I do. In fact, if I was creating such CD for my own usage, I > would get

RE: Burning cygwin distribution CDs

> From: Max Bowsher > Laurynas Biveinis wrote: > >>> However > >>> this is not exactly what I need - I have to burn all the 1GB stuff > >>> to CDs. > >> > >> Why? You do realize that that includes multiple versions of just > >> about every package? > > > > Yes, I do. In fact, if I was creating such

Re: setitimer/SIGVTALRM error form cygwin shell.

Cygwin supports ITIMER_REAL only. Sergey Okhapkin Somerset, NJ - Original Message - From: "gilles BOURGEOIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 3:27 AM Subject: setitimer/SIGVTALRM error form cygwin shell. > Hello > I am trying to simulate a tick

Difficulties to download Cygwin when no Windows machine is available...

Cygwin is marvelous. Thank you for maintaining it. It's so powerful to convince our customers to migrate to open-source software and finally OS... I just have to face a problem: I wish to download the entire CygWin distribution in order to give it to my customers on CDs (a way to promote your p

RE: Difficulties to download Cygwin when no Windows machine is available...

have a look at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html there are a few that offer rsync but the only one i can remember off hand is archive.progeny.com > -Original Message- > From: Brent Frère [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 30 December 2002 12:21 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Difficulties

Re: Difficulties to download Cygwin when no Windows machine is available...

Brent Frère wrote: > Cygwin is marvelous. Thank you for maintaining it. It's so powerful to > convince our customers to migrate to open-source software and finally > OS... > > I just have to face a problem: I wish to download the entire CygWin > distribution in order to give it to my customers on C

gpg on cygwin error

Hello, I have installed the cygwin gpg package, and have tried to import the KEYS from Apache as follows: $ gpg --import KEYS gpg: fatal: //.gnupg: cant't create dircetory: No such file or directory secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/16384 This from the dir with Apache downloa

Problem with Cygwin DLL 1.3.18-1 and CVS and SSH

Hello, i have an every time updated Cygwin installation. Last day's i updated my installtion and get the Cygwin DLL 1.3.18-1. I make every date an CVS update to an repository and have no errors. But with the new DLL i get this error: E:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe: *** can't create title mutex, Win32 e

Re: gpg on cygwin error

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed the cygwin gpg package, and have tried to import the > KEYS from Apache as follows: > > $ gpg --import KEYS > gpg: fatal: //.gnupg: cant't create dircetory: No such file or > directory secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/16384 >

Re: gpg on cygwin error

At 08:09 AM 12/30/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello, > >I have installed the cygwin gpg package, and have tried to import the KEYS >from Apache as follows: > >$ gpg --import KEYS >gpg: fatal: //.gnupg: cant't create dircetory: No such file or directory >secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 block

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: upx-1.24-1

I have uploaded version 1.24-1 of the "Ultimate Packager for eXecutables". UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no mem

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expect-20021218-1, gdb-20021218-1,tcltk-20021218-1

Chris, The final form of my (forthcoming) Cygwin Python _tkinter patch is dependent on the disposition of the following two issues: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 06:33:18PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > Anyway, it'd be nice(tm) if the tcltk binary package included the tk > header files under /usr/incl

Re: tar wildcard problem

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Wai-Yip Tung (wtung) wrote: > I got some problem using tar. > > * wildcard in -T doesn't work. If I include *.txt in the file list I got > > tar: *.txt: Cannot stat: No such file or directory > > However using *.txt in command line do work. Putting exact file name or > direc

Re: Hard links broken?

On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 10:13:48PM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > Yes, NTFS, on XP. Er, no! That's the problem! I'd never bothered > checking (it's a single user laptop, used mostly for mutt/vim [and > Cygwin])), but the c: drive is FAT32 while the d: drive is NTFS (the > install disks give

pthread support ... broken in the past .. fixed now?

I am porting the omniORB CORBA-framework to cygwin. It makes heavy use of pthreads, I do not see a way to work around that ... so I need pthreads working in cygwin. I have found a number of messages in the the mailing-list archives referring to some major problems with pthreads under cygwin. Thes

Req Help: sshd error: Read from socket failed: Connection aborted

Hello, If anyone could offer assistance, I would appreciate it. I am unable to login to sshd after installation. I am running cygwin 1.3.18-1 on Windows XP. I installed sshd by running the ssh-host-config script and choosing not to enable privilege separation. sshd is installed as a service and

Re: Req Help: sshd error: Read from socket failed: Connection aborted

Min Kim wrote: > Hello, > > If anyone could offer assistance, I would appreciate it. > > I am unable to login to sshd after installation. > > I am running cygwin 1.3.18-1 on Windows XP. I installed sshd by > running the ssh-host-config script and choosing not to enable > privilege separation. ss

ps2epsi problem

Hello, I'm having trouble using ps2epsi on a PS file that is one page in a multipage PDF file. Works fine if I use ps2epsi on a PS of the whole document, but that creates a single EPS with material from all the pages piled on top of each other. If I use the -sOutputFile=SomeName%d.epsi, it gener

RE: tar wildcard problem

I tried everything but non seems to work. This is my tar command: tar -T filename.txt -X xfilename.txt -cvWf $TAR_FILE And here is my exclude file xfilename.txt: ./*.bak '*.bak' "*.bak" *.bak file.txt file.bak I have a workaround that does work. EXCLUDE_OPT=`cat exclude_opt.txt` tar -T fi

serial port read failure

Hi There, I've been compiling a simple application in both linux and cygwin. I hacked it from a GNU readline library application example: fileman.c I added serial port device access (/dev/ttyS0) to this program via both stream i/o (fopen, putc, etc) and low level i/o (open, read, etc) both ver

Re: trying to complibe glib 2.0.7

Success with glib-2.0.7. Just 8 days after the glib folks released the new stable version, glib-2.2.0. Sigh. Anyway, here's the scoop for glib-2.0.7. First, you need libtool-devel-20021227-1. (Then you have to hack it, because there is one tiny pre-existing bug that I didn't fix; I'll relea

Heads up: *possible* bug in cygwin

Charles Wilson wrote: Then, configure, make. It passes all tests but one, and I *think* that one is actually a bug in cygwin's malloc routine. But I am NOT sure about that. test results: == string-test: FAIL dies in this test: g_string_sprintf (string2, "

1.3.18-1: "can't create title mutex"

While running a big recursive make under Cygwin 1.3.18-1 on an SMP system, I am getting occasional failures like these: C:\cygwin\bin\cygpath.exe: *** can't create title mutex, Win32 error 6 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** can't create title mutex, Win32 error 6 I am appending the output from "cygc

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expect-20021218-1, gdb-20021218-1, tcltk-20021218-1

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:20:03AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: >The final form of my (forthcoming) Cygwin Python _tkinter patch is >dependent on the disposition of the following two issues: > >On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 06:33:18PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>Anyway, it'd be nice(tm) if the tcltk bi

Cygwin home dir=/cygwin/c (not /home/)

Hello, I have just installed the latest Cygwin release on one PC. It is up and running OK, except that all local users login into /cygdrive/c instead of /home/. The length of PATH in DOS is 97 characters, and in cygwin 148 characters: Path=C:\WINNT\System32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\Prog

RE: Cygwin home dir=/cygwin/c (not /home/)

Original Message: - >From: a12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:01:34 +0100 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Cygwin home dir=/cygwin/c (not /home/) > > >Hello, > >I have just installed the latest Cygwin release on one PC. >It is up and running OK, except that all local

Re: tar wildcard problem

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:34:37AM -0800, Wai-Yip Tung (wtung) wrote: >I tried everything but non seems to work. This is my tar command: > > tar -T filename.txt -X xfilename.txt -cvWf $TAR_FILE > >And here is my exclude file xfilename.txt: >./*.bak >'*.bak' >"*.bak" >*.bak >file.txt >file.bak Hav

Question about colors in "Window" and "Full Screen" modes

I'm using Windows XP Professional SP1 with all updates. I also have this problem with plain "Command Prompt", though I run all applications on Cygwin. The colors in "Window" mode may be unreadable, while in "Full Screen" mode they look like on a Linux console (much brighter). Is there any way to

2 copies of perl includes?

I was searching for a perl module. "Locate" turned up 2 copies in: /lib/perl/5.6.1 and /lib/perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi There are 469 identical objects between the two directories, 75 extra objects in "cygwin-multi", with only the parent's "pod" directory missing from the cygwin-multi dir. Pe

Re: 2 copies of perl includes?

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, linda w (cyg) wrote: > I was searching for a perl module. "Locate" turned up 2 copies in: > /lib/perl/5.6.1 and /lib/perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi That's a non-standard location, I think. greg@6505 ~ $ perl -v This is perl, v5.8.0 built for cygwin-multi-64int ... greg@6505 ~

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expect-20021218-1, gdb-20021218-1, tcltk-20021218-1

Christopher Faylor wrote: How have you managed to build cygwin in the past? The rationale for the name difference has been made clear before. It is to make it clear that these libraries are for modified cygwin versions of tcl/tk. I'm not really willing to arbitrarily change the convention now.

Re: rsync windows -> unix still hanging :(

Mike - Greger Cronquist and I have been using a patched rsync successfully. This was patched from two published patches, one for buffering which seems to cause severe performance problems under cygwin while only mild under Linux. The is for the hang documented elsewhere. Here are patch discussi

Re: rsync windows -> unix still hanging :(

Hi Jim, Thanks for writing back! I'm not really an rsync developer, but I'd be happy to forward anything you suggest on to that list. One question, though. In his email, Steve seems to suggest that a patch (much like this one) has already been added to the rsync CVS tree, but that it did not w

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expect-20021218-1, gdb-20021218-1, tcltk-20021218-1

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:59:38PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>How have you managed to build cygwin in the past? The rationale for >>the name difference has been made clear before. It is to make it clear >>that these libraries are for modified cygwin versions of tcl/

RE: 2 copies of perl includes?

Thanks for the datapoint Greg... On my system, the copies can be accessed by /usr/lib, as well, since 'mount', on cygwin, returns (among other things): C:\root\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) C:\root\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\root\lib on /

Re: setitimer failure

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:11:50AM +0100, gilles BOURGEOIS wrote: >hello. >I really have to know if the setitimer() primitive works well using cywgin >dll >I am currently using NT5.0 (2000) >I call setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &interval, NULL) and it returns -1 with bad >argument as errno . >I do not

Re: 2 copies of perl includes?

linda w (cyg) wrote: > Thanks for the datapoint Greg... > > On my system, the copies can be accessed by /usr/lib, as well, since > 'mount', on cygwin, returns (among other things): > > C:\root\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type > system (binmode) > C:\root\bin on /usr/bin typ

Re: rsync windows -> unix still hanging :(

The msleep(100) call is not checked into version 1.156 of main.c. I would recommend trying this one-line patch to see if it helps. I haven't personally delved into the true meaning. I just checked my read-only CVS tree for rsync again. Here is the context diff for that file. Note that the msleep

RE: 2 copies of perl includes?

> -Original Message- > From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > 5.8? Is that available in cygwin-x86? I don't recall it being an > > option on recent downloads, but I may have missed it. I do > have it on > > my gnunix systems though. > > As a test version. It will show in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expect-20021218-1, gdb-20021218-1, tcltk-20021218-1

Christopher Faylor wrote: If you want to change this policy, lobby in the insight mailing list. The insight developers were the people who made the decision to munge the library names. However, the people who made the decision are now long gone so maybe there will be no resistance to eliminatin

Perl pathname parsing, File::Spec, proposed fix

Does anyone see a problem with the following proposed change in the Perl lib dir? It seems the Win32 handles both forward and backward slashes and no special module for Cygwin is needed. Linda --- File/Spec.pm2001-08-21 17:16:14.0 -0700 +++ File/Spec.pm2002-12-30 18:08:

Curses library and Python

Is anyone out there using the Python curses library or do you know of a good tutorial for it? I've got a SCO server and I need to create some terminal programs in cygwin to show some very computer handicapped people what I'm talking about. I plan to use python to create some standard terminal scr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expect-20021218-1, gdb-20021218-1, tcltk-20021218-1

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 09:05:29PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>then inspect the Makefiles and suggest patches in the insight mailing >>list. As I said, I'm just doing a "make install" to install tclt/k. > >I missed where you said you were doing a simple "make install". I >thought you were mun

Re: Sorting environment

A number of years back there was a discussion on this mailing list regarding sorting of the environment, and there was some suggestion that it might or might not be necessary. There may have also been some later discussion as to what e

Re: rsync windows -> unix still hanging :(

> The msleep(100) call is not checked into version 1.156 of main.c. > > I would recommend trying this one-line patch to see if it helps. > I haven't personally delved into the true meaning. I just checked > my read-only CVS tree for rsync again. Here is the context diff for > that file. Note

Re: Heads up: *possible* bug in cygwin

If somebody with a debuggable cygwin kernel could look into this, I'd appreciate it. I'll try to follow up on my own, but it takes FOREVER to do a 'cvs update' on the cygwin source tree over a 28.8k modem... Sigh. Finally built a debuggable cygwin from current CVS. Here's the stacktrace fr

Cygwin dll security

Hi, our company is looking at using Cygwin on our NT/2000 servers. However our security review team has expressed doubts over the fact that Cygwin is said to be insecure in a multi user environment. I was just wondering what experienced Cygwin users think about this issue and if it is an issue

Re: cygwin dll security

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:26:39PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >our company is looking at using Cygwin on our NT/2000 servers. However >our security review team has expressed doubts over the fact that Cygwin >is said to be insecure in a multi user environment. I was just >wondering what exper

Re: Heads up: *possible* bug in cygwin

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:18:55PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > >>If somebody with a debuggable cygwin kernel could look into this, I'd >>appreciate it. I'll try to follow up on my own, but it takes FOREVER to >>do a 'cvs update' on the cygwin source tree over a 28.8k modem... > >Sigh. Finall

RE: Req Help: sshd error: Read from socket failed: Connection aborted

Max, You're a genius. I did have Viruscan 7 installed but not the firewall. Everything works perfectly now with it uninstalled. I guess I'll have to go with Norton Antivirus. There isn't by chance a workaround for the McAfee Viruscan problem, is there? I did a search in the mailing list for "McAf