Re: munmap bug test program

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 08:22:19AM +0800, peter garrone wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:06:11AM +0800, peter garrone wrote: > >> This test program highlights the recent munmap problem addressed by Corinna. > >> It works with the updated mmap, and with linux, fails on cygwin with the prior > >

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Hmmm... As I said it appears to work in the local case. Or are you > saying I should try to break that by playing with permissions? Are there > any examples of "smbntsec" issues? > > I mean I suspect that if I do something as small as remove read > permission for other on

Re: home directory not created in cygwin installation

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote: > > > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I > > followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I > > started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not s

RE: Files in /etc missing after new install [resolved]

Igor, I did as you suggested and reinstalled after changing the permissions on C:\Cygwin. I did set my Domain User to full control, authenticated users to Read & Execute, List Folder Contents and Read. After the installation the postinstall scripts seem to have run fine, the formerly missing files

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:11:40AM +0200, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > I've overwritten sh.exe with bash.exe Don't do that. > With this setting cygpath hangs in myPostinstall.sh: > > ROOT=$(cygpath -w /) > > It is interesting. > > Using sh it is ok. $ ROOT=$(cygpath -w /) $ echo $ROOT D:\cygwin WFM

awk bug in cygwin 1.5.5 under windows xp

awk fails when called from the cmd or cmdproxy shell. The shell does not interpret correctly the link to gawk. Apparently this observation was reported several times in the internet. Changing all "awk" to "gawk" in my scripts works fine, but a more elegant solution would be desirable. Karsten Fis

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

Corinna, is there an easy way to find out whether I still have a package installed that needs the openssl 0.9.6x compatibility package? I would love to get rid of this thing. Patrick There will be no 0.9.6j compatibility package anymore. The 0.9.6 package is only kept for backward compatibili

Re: Perl - trying to install libwin32

Charles schrieb: > Howdy, > I'm also seeing the same problem as Paul when trying to compile > libwin32-0.191 (patched) on cygwin. This is with both gcc 3.3.1 and gcc > 3.2 20020927 (prerelease) . > Any suggestions? Here's what "make" is giving me (with gcc 3.2): Try adding libkernel32.a (-L/

Re: munmap bug test program

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Thanks for clarifying. It was the first time I got a testcase for > something which works instead of for something which is broken. That > irritated me a bit :-) I'd suggested to Peter offline that he send in a test case, to be added to our

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

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:28:10AM +0200, Patrick Eisenacher wrote: > Corinna, > > is there an easy way to find out whether I still have a package > installed that needs the openssl 0.9.6x compatibility package? I would > love to get rid of this thing. The packages still using 0.9.6 so far are

Re: awk bug in cygwin 1.5.5 under windows xp

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:19:10AM +0200, Karsten Fischer wrote: > awk fails when called from the cmd or cmdproxy shell. The shell does not > interpret correctly the link to gawk. Apparently this observation was That's a problem of the shell, not of gawk. The installation procedure of gawk on Cyg

Re: munmap bug test program

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:56:08PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Thanks for clarifying. It was the first time I got a testcase for > > something which works instead of for something which is broken. That > > irritated me a bit :-) > >

Re: munmap bug test program

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 20:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:56:08PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > Thanks for clarifying. It was the first time I got a testcase for > > > something which works instead of for so

cygipc shutdown patch

Chuck, On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:31:02AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > * Automatic removal of /tmp/MultiFileXXX files on [normal] daemon > shutdown (MH) The attached patch expands "normal" above to include the following two cases: 1. SIGINT, SIGQUIT, and SIGTERM signals when running as a

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:11:40AM +0200, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > > I've overwritten sh.exe with bash.exe > Don't do that. Umm, aside from being unusual and drastic, why not? bash should be fully sh-compatible -- hey, it's used on Linux instea

Re: home directory not created in cygwin installation

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, John Morrison wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote: > > > > > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I > > > followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I > > >

Re: awk bug in cygwin 1.5.5 under windows xp

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:19:10AM +0200, Karsten Fischer wrote: > > awk fails when called from the cmd or cmdproxy shell. The shell does not > > interpret correctly the link to gawk. Apparently this observation was > > That's a problem of the shell, n

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

> From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:11:40AM +0200, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > > I've overwritten sh.exe with bash.exe > Don't do that. > > > With this setting cygpath hangs in myPostinstall.sh: > > > > ROOT=$(cygpath -w /) > > > > It is interesting. > > > > Using sh it is ok.

RE: home directory not created in cygwin installation

Sent: 01 October 2003 14:27 From: Igor Pechtchanski > This is thin ice... On one hand, we want to make things work pretty > seamlessly. On the other, we don't want to limit the more advanced users > by not letting them change the home directory on the fly (anyone doing > that, anyway?). One "sol

What are the correct permissions for cygwin and how do I set them ?

Hi, I'm using w2k. Today I've been migrated to a new domain so now I do have new sids. Of course the permissions of my files are now wrong. How do I correct them ? Whome they should belong to ? I've renewed /etc/passwd and /etc/groups using mkgroup -d >/etc/group mkpasswd -d >/etc/passwd but t

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > [snip] > I've done attempts at debugging this, but time has been a huge limitation so > far. IIUC I need to mess around with setup.ini and that particular package. > I need to read up on how this is supposed to work; has not happened

RE: home directory not created in cygwin installation

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > Sent: 01 October 2003 14:27 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > This is thin ice... On one hand, we want to make things work pretty > > seamlessly. On the other, we don't want to limit the more advanced users > > by not letting them change the home directory on

Re: Future of OpenGL package

Andre Bleau wrote: >Brian Ford wrote: > >>Andre Bleau wrote: >> >>>Brian Ford wrote: >>> > >1.2 and 1.3 defines & prototypes are already there in >/usr/include/w32api/GL/glext.h > Yes, I know. That statement started this thread. They (1.3+) are not available in /usr/include/GL/gl.h which is now

Re: What are the correct permissions for cygwin and how do I set them ?

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Olaf Föllinger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using w2k. Today I've been migrated to a new domain so now I do have > new sids. > > Of course the permissions of my files are now wrong. How do I correct > them ? Whome they should belong to ? I've renewed /etc/passwd and > /etc/groups using

Re: Problem with SETFACL and shortcuts?

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:30:14 +0200, "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Chuck, would it make sense to change the symlink to an absolute one? Probably. I'll put it on my todo list...but I'm a bit swamped right now. I won't be updating anything for at least a week. -- Chuck -- Charl

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

> From: Igor Pechtchanski > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > FWIW, if you're able to reproduce the hang, I'd be very interested in > seeing the results of the experiments outlined in the above message on > your machine... Maybe you could glean something from the

Re: cygipc shutdown patch

Jason Tishler wrote: The attached patch expands "normal" above to include the following two cases: 1. SIGINT, SIGQUIT, and SIGTERM signals when running as a process 2. SERVICE_CONTROL_SHUTDOWN requests when running as a service Now ipc-daemon2 will clean up after itself during system shutd

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > > FWIW, if you're able to reproduce the hang, I'd be very interested in > > seeing the results of the experiments outlined in the a

Re: Future of OpenGL package (Earnie, please read this)

Andre Bleau wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >>Andre Bleau wrote: >> >>>Even, with 1.4 headers, you would sill need to jump through hoops to use >>>1.4 functionality. You will still need to load the functions dynamicaly >>>before using them. You wouldn't be able to simply call the functions as >

Re: ln and mkshortcut inconsistent in handling of .exe extension

At 05:15 PM 9/30/2003, Matt Swift you wrote: >>> "L" == Larry wrote: > >L> If you want/need a Windows-style shortcut with all the >L> semantics that implies, use 'mkshortuct'. Is that the point >L> you were missing? > >I am not asking for "all the semantics", just the ones that are >d

RE: home directory not created in cygwin installation

Sent: 01 October 2003 16:16 From: Igor Pechtchanski > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > > Furthermore could $HOME be defaulted to \home\'current_user' if not > > explicitly set? >It already is, except it's "/home/$USER", not "\home\$USER" (read up on >POSIX vs Win32 paths in Cygwin if you

Re: cygipc shutdown patch

Chuck, On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:50:45AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > Jason Tishler wrote: > >The attached patch expands "normal" above to include the following > >two cases: > > > >[snip] > > Thanks for the patch. You are quite welcome. > I will include it in the next release which should b

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:18:37AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:11:40AM +0200, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > > > I've overwritten sh.exe with bash.exe > > Don't do that. > Umm, aside from being unusual and drastic,

RE: problem of cron in cygwin xp, final solution!

> > Maybe such things should be added to Mark Harig's "cron_diagnose.sh"? > > > To make the life easier for the other followers: > > 1. Need to set the mode of cygwin1.dll > > > > $ chmod +x /bin/cygwin1.dll This is a more general problem than a problem with cron's many files. A sanity check f

Re: ln and mkshortcut inconsistent in handling of .exe extension

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:15:48PM -0400, Matt Swift wrote: >That's only part of the stated goals of 'ln'. When CYGWIN contains >"winsymlinks" (or more accurately, does not contain "nowinsymlinks" >since "winsymlinks" is the stated default), symbolic links are supposed >to function both as Cygwin

Re: setvbuf / [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.5-1

Hi, I have downloaded the latest (I think?) version of cygwin, but my problem still persists. uname -a reports: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 jj 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin. The 0.94 does not look quite right to me is this correct? If so, which ftp site would contain a 1.xx? Tha

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

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:28:10AM +0200, Patrick Eisenacher wrote: > > Corinna, > > > > is there an easy way to find out whether I still have a package > > installed that needs the openssl 0.9.6x compatibility package? I would > > love to get rid of t

Re: setvbuf / [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.5-1

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:49:08AM -0700, Jan Jaeger wrote: >I have downloaded the latest (I think?) version of cygwin, but my >problem still persists. uname -a reports: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 jj >1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin. The 0.94 >does not look quite right to me is th

Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

Aome comments/suggestions/GRFE's (Grovelling Request for Enhancements :-)): 1) Remember a user's previous choices. (~/.cygwinsetuprc would be 1 possibility). 1a) allow flags to disable some diaglogs: [no|auto]virusprompt # default on proxy :|useIE|none|direct

Re: setvbuf / [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.5-1

The attached test case does should display test2 wait five seconds and then display test3, instead on my system it issues test2 and test3 simultanuously. Thanks, jj --- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:49:08AM -0700, Jan Jaeger > wrote: > >I have downloade

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

Brian Dessent wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Hmmm... As I said it appears to work in the local case. Or are you saying I should try to break that by playing with permissions? Are there any examples of "smbntsec" issues? I mean I suspect that if I do something as small as remove read permission

Re: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

Linda, Have you tried a setup snapshot? . More below. On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Linda W. wrote: > Aome comments/suggestions/GRFE's (Grovelling Request for Enhancements :-)): > > 1) Remember a user's previous choices. (~/.cygwinsetuprc would be 1 > possibility

dd command is not working properly

Hello: I´m trying to obtain an info-image from a flash card, so from Win98 I´ve right installed the USB flash reader, and if I insert a FAT(16/32) file system flash, I can read them without problem from Win and from Cygwin. The problem here is that I want to obtain the data-image from a propietary

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

> From: Igor Pechtchanski > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > > > > > FWIW, if you're able to reproduce the hang, I'd be very interested in > > > seeing the

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > > > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > > > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > > > > > > > > FWIW

Setup disabling of nonexistent virus scanners

Hello, all - I have noticed recently that Cygwin setup will prompt to disable a virus scanner on my machine. This is odd, because I do not have a virus scanner running. After looking in the code (setup/AntiVirus.cc from CVS, v2.5 Tue Jul 29 14:14:06 2003 UTC), and after looking in the log, I must

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Geoff Cheshire wrote: > FWIW -- I ran your script changes and myPostinstall.sh does hang (as > before). This happens to both by work and home machines (both > Win2k). I have 3 bash instances just sitting there. If I kill them, > setup can continue. > > HTH, > Geoff Geoff,

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

> From: Igor Pechtchanski > Linda, > > Have you tried a setup snapshot? . > More below. Note that 2.415 - the latest snapshot - is the same you get by hitting "Install Now" at http://cygwin.com > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Linda W. wrote: > > > Aome comments/sugges

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > Linda, > > > > Have you tried a setup snapshot? . > > More below. > > Note that 2.415 - the latest snapshot - > is the same you get by hitting "Install Now" at htt

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

$ tail setup.log.full 2003/10/01 12:21:31 xpm-nox 2003/10/01 12:21:31 zip 2003/10/01 12:21:31 zsh 2003/10/01 12:21:32 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/myPostinst all3.sh 2003/10/01 12:21:35 mbox note: Nothing needed to be installed + cygpath -w / + strace -o postinstall.strace bash

Re: home directory not created in cygwin installation

My computer runs Windows 2000 Professional. I verified $USER is correct from cygwin but $HOME was not set during installation (I don't know why). I also noticed that the file /etc/profile does not seem to have the lines to set HOME (comparing to other people's profile). Now I have to set HOM

Re: home directory not created in cygwin installation

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:08:39 -0400, Ji-Wei Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > My computer runs Windows 2000 Professional. I verified $USER is correct > from cygwin but $HOME was not set during installation (I don't know > why). I also noticed that the file /etc/profile does not seem to have the

Please Help - Problems installing cygwin...

I just installed cygwin and none of the post-install scripts work after install. I've tried having the cygwin\bin directory at both the front and the end of the path. After installing cygwin, I found the following details: 1) First time running the shell, threw me to "/usr/bin" when I did a pw

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

> Hannu, > > Can you reproduce the hang under strace? If so, try to make a copy of the > hanging script (and the one it calls) and pare them down to one or two > commands (they should still reproduce the hang, though). Once you have > that, please attach the strace output from the simple script.

Re: Please Help - Problems installing cygwin...

Just an update. I tried it again, downloading packages again this time. So far, the latest version of cygwin has only worked on one Win2K system for me, it has failed on three others. On the other three, I am logging into a system that is part of a domain. I ruled out "PATH" being a problem

Re: Please Help - Problems installing cygwin...

Brian, The main issue is what should be done *before* setup runs, rather than after everything is installed. If you manually create c:\cygwin and give it the correct permissions (*not* inherited, owned by Administrators, full permissions to owner, read/execute by everyone else), you should be abl

Re: munmap bug test program

>On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:06:11AM +0800, peter garrone wrote: >> This test program highlights the recent munmap problem addressed by Corinna. >> It works with the updated mmap, and with linux, fails on cygwin with the prior mmap. > >What "updated" mmap are you talking about, your's or the one in

Re: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > ... > > The last "Create Start Menu"-thing doesn't remember its setting. (Unless it > > looks at the Start Menu contents?) > > I thought it did... At least, if I uncheck the "Create Desktop Icon" box, > it won't be checked next time I run setup... That's not my experien

'dig', 'nslookup' etc?

What package would I need to get tools such as dig, nslookup, and friends? And how would I determine that in the future without having to bother the list? -- monique -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docume

Re: 'dig', 'nslookup' etc?

- Original Message - From: "Monique Y. Herman" > What package would I need to get tools such as dig, nslookup, and > friends? AFAIK, those tools are not available in cygwin. > And how would I determine that in the future without having to bother > the list? Go to http://cygwin.com/pac

Re: Please Help - Problems installing cygwin...

Brian, All suggestions for improvement, as well as Cygwin-related comments and questions, should go to the Cygwin list. Please avoid sending personal e-mail unless specifically requested. FWIW, the (volunteer) FAQ and User's Guide maintainers read this list. It would help them immensely if you

re: problems installing cygwin

Yu, Please send all Cygwin-related questions and comments to the Cygwin list, and not by personal e-mail unless specifically requested. This will utilize the cumulative expertise of the list, rather than that of any one person. It also ensures that the question and the answers end up in the list

Re: home directory not created in cygwin installation

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:27:25AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, John Morrison wrote: > > > Igor, think there's anything /etc/profile could do about this? > > > > J. > > John, > > This is thin ice... On one hand, we want to make things work pretty > seamlessly. On the ot

Re: 'dig', 'nslookup' etc?

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:49:04 -0800, Carlo Florendo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > - Original Message - > From: "Monique Y. Herman" > >> What package would I need to get tools such as dig, nslookup, and >> friends? > > AFAIK, those tools are not available in cygwin. Well, that's a bumme

Re: 'dig', 'nslookup' etc?

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:49:04 -0800, Carlo Florendo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > > > From: "Monique Y. Herman" > > > >> What package would I need to get tools such as dig, nslookup, and > >> friends? > > > > AFAIK, those tools are not available in c

Is multithreaded profiling on cygwin possible?

Firstly, apologies for repeated postings to the gmane cygwin newsgroup, I thought they were bounced. If I profile my multi-threaded application, it appears that only the main thread is profiled. On linux, it is possible to save and set the virtual timer upon creation of each thread, and thereb

Re: setvbuf / [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.5-1

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:11:39AM -0700, Jan Jaeger wrote: >The attached test case does should display test2 wait five seconds and >then display test3, instead on my system it issues test2 and test3 >simultanuously. Thanks for the test case. I've checked in an ugly hack to work around the proble

Re: 'dig', 'nslookup' etc?

"Monique Y. Herman" wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:49:04 -0800, Carlo Florendo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Monique Y. Herman" > > > >> What package would I need to get tools such as dig, nslookup, and > >> friends? > > > > AFAIK, those tools are n

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

I get the same hang...I downloaded the latest setup, this morning, took all the standard sets and added a few Xfree items (like Xicons). I come home after having had to "go over the hill" (santa cruz to silliputty valley), I find cygwin_setup stuck at 99% complete: Running... No package /etc/pos