RE: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output

I have searched the archive for the keywords 'less ansi', but the only information I got back were the mails that we sent about this subject. I also do not understand what a discussion about slashes and backslashes in POSIX and Win32 paths has to do with ANSI escape sequences in formatted visual

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lynx-2.8.4-5

I've updated the version of lynx to 2.8.4-5. This version is identical to 2.8.4-4 but now linked against openssl-0.9.7. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. The, run setup

Paasword validation in Windows Domain ?

Hello, I want to know if it is possible using the Cygwin tools to validate a user/password against the domain a computer is in. I would like to setup web service on the intranet, which can only be used by certain persons. Since I a have no interest in creating and maintaining a user database, it

Re: Paasword validation in Windows Domain ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I want to know if it is possible using the Cygwin tools > to validate a user/password against the domain > a computer is in. > > I would like to setup web service on the intranet, > which can only be used by certain persons. Since > I a have no interest in crea

Re: BSOD on cygwin

Im not sure what happened, but my problem went away. I do not have VPN or an antivirus program running - I turned those off due to some problems with other software earlier. No firewall software either - I have an external DLink firewall. For the record, here's what I did that seemed to fix things:

dlopen() and libtool problems

Hi All, Im trying to compile guile-1.4.1 on my windows98+cygwin box. Ive installed all the latest libtool and auto-make utils. I run ./configure and get the following message (among others) "checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output: failed" configure does find dlopen(), though. When I tr

Re: BSOD on cygwin

> It's also weird that your mount table has root (/) down three times. Twice > as . and once as C:/downloads/cygwin. True, this is strange. the "." mount entries are "binmode,cygdrive" and the c:/downloads/cygwin is only "binmode", but is not a cygdrive. Is there an fstab equivalent in cygwin tha

RE: BSOD on cygwin

the mount tables are in the registry. if your going to change them then do it using the mount command. (man mount and mount --help shoudl give plenty of usage info) > -Original Message- > From: Bhiksha Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 13 January 2003 14:19 > To: Elfyn McBratney > Sub

Re: inetutils ftpd fcntl(F_SETOWN) failure message suppression patch

Corinna, [I began to reply to this post on Friday, but I got distracted by attempting to port vsFTPd to Cygwin. This turned out to be a good use of my time. BTW, I never knew about vsFTPd. I wish I did about a month ago...] On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:20:38PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On

Cygwin vsFTPd porting issues

In my (seemingly) never ending search for a firewall friendly, Cygwin ftpd server, I finally stumbled across vsFTPd. By "firewall friendly," I mean being able to specifying the range of passive ports used during data transfers. Although, vsFTPd does not use autoconf, the code is well factored --

Re: Cygwin vsFTPd porting issues

Hi Jason, On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:36:24AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > 160 37333219 [main] vsftpd 2232 fixup_mmaps_after_fork: ReadProcessMemory failed >for MAP_PRIVATE address 0xB4, Win32 error 299 > > I will try to dig deeper to determine why ReadProcessMemory() is failing > wi

Newbe getting errors from CYGWIN dll

Dear cgywin: Just installed latest everything from your site. I am trying to use the latest gcc to compile a small program of my own. When I do I get: (X) The procedure entry point putc_unlocked could not be located in the dynamic link libruary cygwin1.dll Can you please give me some advice

sshd does not run

Dear cygwin, When I first tried to run sshd as NT service, it does not run and Windows reports no error code returned. When I try to run it manually from the command prompt, i.e. /usr/sbin/sshd, it says sshd_config not found. When I installed a default sshd_config in the /etc (that is where ss

Bug in g++: Testcase exits with segmentation fault

The testcase attached to this mail compiled with g++ 2.95.3-10 or g++ 3.2 20020927 under Cygwin 1.3.18 exits with segmentation fault. It seems to be an error in g++ as the testcase doesn't work under Linux either. Can anyone help or do I have to report this error to the GCC website? BTW I found tw

Re: Paasword validation in Windows Domain ?

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:45:14AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I want to know if it is possible using the Cygwin tools > to validate a user/password against the domain > a computer is in. Yes, that's exactly what happens when you telnet or ssh, providing a password. Cygwin provi

RE: sshd does not run

have you read the README at /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-3.5p1-2.README ? have you run ssh-host-config ? (doesnt sound like it.) > -Original Message- > From: Ahmad Khayyat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 13 January 2003 15:36 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: sshd does not run > > > De

Re: BSOD on cygwin

Sounds to me like the problem was that you installed Cygwin over an existing Cygwin installation, the existing DLL was locked in place by running Cygwin processes, and that you didn't immediately reboot after exiting setup so that the new DLL could be put in place. I believe setup warns you of po

ping on cygwin?

Hi! I found that the Windows %SYSTEM32/ping.exe does not provide return codes and has some other drawbacks. Looking hard I couldn't locate a /bin/ping in the cygwin distribution. Didn't I look enough? Or is it really not there? Why? Maybe you know some other (besides cygwin and MS builtin) 'pi

Re: Newbe getting errors from CYGWIN dll

Ben Clewett wrote: > Dear cgywin: > > Just installed latest everything from your site. > > I am trying to use the latest gcc to compile a small program of my > own. When I do I get: > > (X) The procedure entry point putc_unlocked could not be located in > the dynamic link libruary cygwin1.dll

RE: ping on cygwin?

See the FAQ entry: What packages should I download? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC13 This will direct you to http://cygwin.com/packages/ which can be used for the general inquiry of 'Is XXX utility/file part of a Cygwin package?' Larry Original Message: - From: Tino Lang

Re: ping on cygwin?

Hi Larry! I found that the Windows %SYSTEM32/ping.exe does not provide return codes and has some other drawbacks. Looking hard I couldn't locate a /bin/ping in the cygwin distribution. Didn't I look enough? Or is it really not there? Why? Maybe you know some other (besides cygwin and MS built

Re: ping on cygwin?

Tino Lange wrote: Why? (Serious problems? Problems using raw sockets as non-Administrator? If not, maybe I can help porting this tool?) Maybe one of the readers here knows some other 'ping.exe' that is suitable for scripting? The MS one isn't :-( AFAIK the "usual" ping.c compiles and works we

RE: Paasword validation in Windows Domain ?

It should be noted that this does not work if running on W98, it must be on XP or NT (someone please correct me if I'm wrong here). David Habermann -Original Message- From: Pierre A. Humblet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

Re: Paasword validation in Windows Domain ?

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:26:42AM -0500, Habermann, David (DA) wrote: > It should be noted that this does not work if running on W98, it must be on XP or NT >(someone please correct me if I'm wrong here). Correct. The URL below also explains how to do it on win98 > See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-u

Re: ping on cygwin?

Again I have to direct you to the FAQ: Why isn't package available in Cygwin? (Or, why is your package so out of date?) This is the most likely answer as to *why* there is no /bin/ping already. Generally, there is no mystery surrounding these kinds o

fcntl() bug? if called second times!

Hello, I try to comiple an run the distcc package - but I get errors while running. I figured out, tha the problems are the fcntl() calls - perhaps ther is a bug in cygwin? The following code runs differently in cygwin and linux. If I want ro lock the whole file twice, but still the same process,

binutils ld update with auto-import from dll's ?`

Hi all, in december 2002 Charles Wilson and I had supplied an ld patch for the auto-import from dll functionality. For the kde-cygwin project we would like to use this new stuff in the near future for the next qt3 release. General there are two way to solve this: Because we don't like to releas

Can't connect to Sun 5.8 via scp ... but ssh works fine?

Hello, I'm having difficulty getting scp to work, I'm trying to connect to a Sun 5.8 server from my Windows 200 server. SSH work fine but when trying to copy a file from my Windoze 2000 box to the Sun 5.8 server, this error is displayed: Admin@W2K ~ $ scp test.pl [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Can't connect to Sun 5.8 via scp ... but ssh works fine?

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:14:41AM -0800, Kirk wrote: > Hello, > I'm having difficulty getting scp to work, I'm trying to connect to a Sun > 5.8 server from my Windows 200 server. SSH work fine but when trying to > copy a file from my Windoze 2000 box to the Sun 5.8 server, this error is > display

RE: Can't connect to Sun 5.8 via scp ... but ssh works fine?

But scp works when using it with every other Linux server that I've tested. It looks to me more like something with the Sun OS? Perhaps I need to add an environment variable on my account on the Sun server? Kirk >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Be

Re: ping on cygwin?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again! Again I have to direct you to the FAQ: Why isn't package available in Cygwin? (Or, why is your package so out of date?) Thanks! I read it once again and hence I like to (try to) contribute - see below. it's ver

Re: Setting up cvs on Windows 2000

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > Unless something has changed that escaped my attention, what > > has repeatedly been stated here (though no time very recently) > > is that Cygwin CVS does not support the "pserver" access > > mode. The recommendation has been to use the "external" >

setup doen't run on windows 98

Hi, I tried to run the setup program and I got this message: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. and the execution ends doing nothing. I tried to run it in an IBM thinkpad transnote, 64MB RAM, pentiumIII. What could be the problem? enrique ___

Re: fcntl() bug? if called second times!

Hello, Cygwin doesn't support advisory file locking. It implements file locking via the Win32 api LockFile*. Find out more here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/lockfile.asp And more specifically this part: [...] Locking a portion of a file for shared

Re: Setting up cvs on Windows 2000

For what its worth (perhaps nothing) based on other comments about this working sometimes... I got cygwin CVS working using the pserver protocol with no heroic efforts. Not having used CVS before, I could have done something heroic and didn't even know it, but I doubt it. 8-). 1) I set the CVSRO

Re: Paasword validation in Windows Domain ?

Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Cygwin provides a function: cygwin_logon_user (user_pwd_entry, cleartext_password); See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SETUID As indicated before, the user needs to be in passwd. Has anybody tried this from Perl? -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

Re: dlopen() and libtool problems

Bhiksha Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Im trying to compile guile-1.4.1 on my windows98+cygwin box. > Ive installed all the latest libtool and auto-make utils. You are aware that guile-1.6 is included in Cygwin? If you really need 1.4, you may want to look at the 1.6 source package for clues.

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

Sergey Okhapkin wrote: net start init chkconfig rsync on chkconfig rsync off bluescreen... Win2000. I have no rsync installed. I set system environment variable CYGWIN to "nontsec", restarted init service and the problem went away... I've seen this occasionally as well, but it doesn't stop the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl-0.9.7-1, openssl-devel-0.9.7-1

Just for the records: This release seems to fix a problem with sshd which others and me have reported for the first time half a year ago. At least for me ;) it is gone. For more detail see: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg01745.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg01591.html Fran

Re: binutils ld update with auto-import from dll's ?`

Ralf Habacker wrote: Hi all, in december 2002 Charles Wilson and I had supplied an ld patch for the auto-import from dll functionality. For the kde-cygwin project we would like to use this new stuff in the near future for the next qt3 release. patience. cgf is the maintainer for binutils on c

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

Dan, It seems most likely from this that the problem is in your file system. When's the last time you ran CHKDSK? I seem to recall other reports that were for some reason associated with accessing Cygwin's /etc. I cannot explain this other than perhaps as simple coincidence. I'm not familiar w

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:39:31AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Dan, > > It seems most likely from this that the problem is in your file system. > When's the last time you ran CHKDSK? I seem to recall other reports that > were for some reason associated with accessing Cygwin's /etc. I cannot

Re: dlopen() and libtool problems

Hi, I found a post on the gnu archives: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/texmacs-dev/2002-11/msg00121.html which stated specifically that guile 1.6.0 is not compatible with TeXmacs (which I want to install). The page says to use guile-1.4.1 The message was posted in Nov 2002, so I assumed the inf

Tab completion list takes enormously long time to generate from empty string

Greetings. When I press tab in bash without having typed anything at all (which is somewhat abusive but it easily happens), bash works for 15 minutes, going through $PATH looking for executables (and in the end producing nothing) on a 2x450 MHz PIII. Is that normal? My $PATH contains the usual

Re: binutils ld update with auto-import from dll's ?`

Ralf Habacker wrote: Hi all, in december 2002 Charles Wilson and I had supplied an ld patch for the auto-import from dll functionality. For the kde-cygwin project we would like to use this new stuff in the near future for the next qt3 release. patience. cgf is the maintainer for binutils on c

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

Pierre, Do you think the handle to /etc that each (is it each or all?) cygwin process retains is an ingredient in triggering this symptom? Why would that be and why would it happen to but a few of the many Cygwin users? Randall Schulz At 10:33 2003-01-13, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: On Mon, Jan

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

Randall, Randall R Schulz wrote: Dan, It seems most likely from this that the problem is in your file system. When's the last time you ran CHKDSK? I seem to recall other reports that were for some reason associated with accessing Cygwin's /etc. I cannot explain this other than perhaps as simp

Re: binutils ld update with auto-import from dll's ?`

Ralf Habacker wrote: Hi all, in december 2002 Charles Wilson and I had supplied an ld patch for the auto-import from dll functionality. For the kde-cygwin project we would like to use this new stuff in the near future for the next qt3 release. patience. cgf is the maintainer for binutils on c

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:59:16AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Pierre, > > Do you think the handle to /etc that each (is it each or all?) cygwin > process retains is an ingredient in triggering this symptom? AFAICT the handle is opened when starting cygwin and is inherited by child process

Re: binutils ld update with auto-import from dll's ?`

Ralf Habacker wrote: Hi all, in december 2002 Charles Wilson and I had supplied an ld patch for the auto-import from dll functionality. For the kde-cygwin project we would like to use this new stuff in the near future for the next qt3 release. patience. cgf is the maintainer for binutils on c

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

Pierre, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: AFAICT the handle is opened when starting cygwin and is inherited by child processes. It is used in a WaitForSingleObject call. The purpose is to rescan /etc/{passwd,goup} after changes. It's unlikely to be a coincidence, given the previous e-mails! That's extre

Re: /dev/tty read is broken!

John E. A. Wrote: > However if I run the program full speed, or step through the fgetc() on > cygwin without previously typing a character into minicom, then the fgetc() > call hangs. I'm not familiar with the winsup/cygwin/fhandler_serial code, but if I was going to debug this (which sounds like

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

Dan, Sorry. I'm obviously confused. (Did a Windows 98 user report a similar problem recently?) But surely in a fully protected OS such as 2K, a user-level DLL such as Cygwin cannot either directly or indirectly cause a blue-screen. Well, I suppose "cause" is open to interpretation, especially

Re: javac on cygwin

Christopher Faylor wrote: I remember speculating at one point about creating wrappers to the win32 functions like CreateFile, MoveFile, etc. which would understand cygwin paths. You could theoretically modify an .exe to load cygwin1.dll and use the wrapper functions. Or you could use some of W

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

Don't know if this will help, but I went through 3 machines running init and rsync (nt, 2000 and XP) and all of them , at one time or another, I could trigger the blue screen by something as innocuous as : ( with rsync on) Stop init, rm /etc/rc.d/rsync, exit shell, BSOD. I think it odd that I

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

Oh, and all of the 3 test boxes were completely different hardware (nt on a Boxx tech machine, 2k on an IBM workstation, and XP on a dell laptop). - Original Message - From: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, J

Re: javac on cygwin

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:26:28AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I remember speculating at one point about creating wrappers to the >>win32 functions like CreateFile, MoveFile, etc. which would understand >>cygwin paths. You could theoretically modify an .exe to load >>c

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Re: binutils ld update with auto-import from dll's ?`

[sorry for the duplicates; mailserver was fubared. It's fixed now.] --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Cygwin vsFTPd porting issues

Corinna, On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:55:17PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:36:24AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > > 160 37333219 [main] vsftpd 2232 fixup_mmaps_after_fork: ReadProcessMemory failed >for MAP_PRIVATE address 0xB4, Win32 error 299 > > > > I wi

SSH start in .bat ?

Hello gurus, For the time being I start SSH manually: open DOS window C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat ssh -T -L 5901:derqjzp:5900 -C -N isoft@derqjzp I have tried to include the ssh command above in cygwin.bat but obviously bash does not read it. How do I make bash to read the ssh command in cygwin.bat ?

RE: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output

Well, as it turns out, the email archives aren't your friend. They are your enemy! Chris Faylor was kind enough to poin this out to me: But seriously, I'm guessing it was fat fingers on my part, unless someone's written a new shuffle routine

Re: ping on cygwin?

Sounds like you practiced due diligence. So my 'standard' speech wasn't necessary. I do recommend that folks do mention the steps they've taken to research the problem and solution themselves when they post. It helps us here on the list to not recommend an avenue which has already been investiga

ncftp opening in text mode?

I doubt 'ncftp' can actually be reading the files in textmode, or else every binary transfer would be broken, but does anyone find another explanation? (notice that the FTP server is Windows based, but it wuold be crazy to convert received files... moreover index.html already has windows-line-e

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

Pierre A. Humblet wrote: AFAICT the handle is opened when starting cygwin and is inherited by child processes. It is used in a WaitForSingleObject call. The purpose is to rescan /etc/{passwd,goup} after changes. It's unlikely to be a coincidence, given the previous e-mails! That seems to be it!

RE: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output

> If this one doesn't move before you get there, this should help. If it > seems unrelated to your plight, "search the archives!" ;-) Just use > google or gmane instead of cygwin.com! ;-) Catch 22 here. Assuming the relevant search terms are perldoc less , neither Google nor Gman

Re: SSH start in .bat ?

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, a12 wrote: > Hello gurus, > > For the time being I start SSH manually: > open DOS window > C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat > ssh -T -L 5901:derqjzp:5900 -C -N isoft@derqjzp > > > I have tried to include the ssh command above in cygwin.bat but > obviously bash does not read it. > How do

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl-0.9.7-1, openssl-devel-0.9.7-1

Hi all! Frank-Michael Moser wrote: > Just for the records: > This release seems to fix a problem with sshd which others and me have > reported for the first time half a year ago. At least for me ;) it is gone. Juhu! Great! Fantastic! My problem (reported 16.11.2002) - no one could help me with

Building a DLL with libtool on cygwin

I work on a package called Babel, and someone else ported it to cygwin a while ago. I am in the process of trying to make a new release of Babel. When I tried out the new release on cygwin, I a link error I don't know what to do about. I tried searching for relevant information using google, bu

Re: Building a DLL with libtool on cygwin

Tom Epperly wrote: > I work on a package called Babel, and someone else ported it to > cygwin a > while ago. I am in the process of trying to make a new release of > Babel. > When I tried out the new release on cygwin, I a link error I don't > know > what to do about. I tried searching for relevant

Re: SSH start in .bat ?

Igor, Thank you for your quick reply. It works perfectly. Now I would like to incorporate a start of vncviewer.exe after the bash command into the same .bat file. I have tried: C: chdir C:\Program Files\RealVNC vncviewer.exe chdir C:\cygwin\bin bash --login -c "ssh -T -L 5901:derqjzp:5900 -C -N

Re: SSH start in .bat ?

This really isn't a correct mailing list for this question, but, since it's been asked here before, and will, undoubtedly, be asked here again, I will pretend it's about "the interaction of windows programs and Cygwin programs" and answer it: At a command (DOS) prompt, type "help start". As an al

Re: Cygwin vsFTPd porting issues

Hi Jason, On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:21:11PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > Replacing MAP_PRIVATE with MAP_SHARED worked around the mmap()/fork() > problem. Is this a reasonable accommodation? Or, should I try to get > MAP_PRIVATE to work? It's not the way to go, unfortunately. I guess it's act

RE: Tab completion list takes enormously long time to generate from empty string

> -Original Message- > From: Magnus Holmgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 7:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Tab completion list takes enormously long time to generate from > empty string > > > Greetings. > > When I press tab in bash without having

RE: Tab completion list takes enormously long time to generate from empty string

Don't forget to check out the available documentation when looking for optimizations. For instance, you will find worthwhile information in the output of 'mount --help' with supporting prose in the Cygwin User's Guide: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MOUNT I expect this informa

RE: Tab completion list takes enormously long time to generate from empty string

Mangus, At 16:12 2003-01-13, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Magnus Holmgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 7:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Tab completion list takes enormously long time to generate from empty string > > > Greet

RE: binutils ld update with auto-import from dll's ?`

> patience. cgf is the maintainer for binutils on cygwin, but I'm sure he > has his hands full getting ready for the imminent 1.3.19 cygwin kernel > release. > > BTW, Danny reported a problem with Fabrizio Gennari's "create an export > section for .exe's" patch and relocatable linking. Danny sent

GCC bug with strftime

Hi All, It's been about eight months since I last posted to this list - hope everyone is doing well... I recently discovered a bug in strftime(). I downloaded a very recent copy of cygwin and tried again, but it's still there. So, I'd like to report it. I sent mail to the gcc-bugs list but nobod

Re: GCC bug with strftime

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 05:46:20PM -0800, Richard Troy wrote: >I recently discovered a bug in strftime(). I downloaded a very recent copy >of cygwin and tried again, but it's still there. So, I'd like to report >it. I sent mail to the gcc-bugs list but nobody there seems to care, Why *would* anyon

RE: Tab completion list takes enormously long time to generate from empty string

At 01:12 AM 1/14/2003 +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: A second option might even be to disallow tab completion of commands without entering a prefix. /Magnus "shopt -s no_empty_cmd_completion" will do exactly that. Jeremy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug

current state of credential hopping?

Hi All, One of the long-time known problems (limitations) with cygwin has been the lack of the ability to switch user identities, such as is done with the suid bit, and su utility. I know that as of last April, there was some talk of using the cygserver as a partial answer (with shared memory as

Re: GCC bug with strftime

> >I recently discovered a bug in strftime(). I downloaded a very recent copy > >of cygwin and tried again, but it's still there. So, I'd like to report > >it. I sent mail to the gcc-bugs list but nobody there seems to care, > > Why *would* anyone in gcc care about a library problem? I believe th

Re: GCC bug with strftime

> > of cygwin and tried again, but it's still there. So, I'd like to report > > it. I sent mail to the gcc-bugs list but nobody there seems to care, so I > > thought I'd mention it here. > > > > The problem is that this call fails to return an hour: > > > > strftime(IT,key,"%m/%d/%y %l:%M %p", br

Re: GCC bug with strftime

Richard Troy writes: > > I recently discovered a bug in strftime(). I downloaded a very recent copy > of cygwin and tried again, but it's still there. So, I'd like to report > it. I sent mail to the gcc-bugs list but nobody there seems to care, so I > thought I'd mention it here. > > The problem

Re: current state of credential hopping?

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Richard Troy wrote: > Hi All, > > One of the long-time known problems (limitations) with cygwin has been the > lack of the ability to switch user identities, such as is done with the > suid bit, and su utility. I know that as of last April, there was some > talk of using the c

Re: Bug in g++: Testcase exits with segmentation fault

When a program crashes crashes on cygwin - also crashes in the same way on a platform other then cygwin - its quite obviously not a cygwin problem and therefore the original author of said software should be contacted. In this case you do indeed have to report this error to the gcc website. Given

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Bugs in Rsync?

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> "Bhiksha" == Bhiksha Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bhiksha> Hi, Bhiksha> I found a post on the gnu archives: Bhiksha> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/texmacs-dev/2002-11/msg00121.html Bhiksha> which stated specifically that guile 1.6.0 is not compatible with Bhiksha>

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