Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

2003-11-22 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:58:36AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > > > > > I would prefer to change PATH_MAX and MAXPATHLEN to an arbitrary big > > > value as, e. g. the same as on Linux, 4096, or even the biggest possible > > > plus one: 32768

Re: Chronic Cron - cyg.txt (0/1)

2003-11-22 Thread zzapper
>> >>Where should I have started looking for this info? > >/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README I mean how should I have known to even look in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ zzapper -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of

Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

2003-11-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 08:44:49PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:58:36AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > > > > I would prefer to change PATH_MAX and MAXPATHLEN to an arbitrary big > > > > value as, e. g. the same as

Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

2003-11-22 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 21:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > However, CYG_MAX_PATH is simply decoupling the win32 ANSI path limit > > from our internal path limit. If and when we don't have an effective > > internal limit anymore, sure it can go. > > Yup, that's what I meant. It doesn't hurt to check

Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000

2003-11-22 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Tim Ashman (2003-11-21 23:39 +0100) > Igor, > I have looked through /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README like you suggested. > The only problem is that the cygrunsrv file does not exist on my computer. > I've done a thorough search. Do you have any idea why this happened? Is it > common and what

Re: linking 3rd party DLLs to my code.

2003-11-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Suresh Venkatasubramanian wrote: > However I am able to link it. putting cg.dll in /usr/local/lib (say) and > compiling with > > gcc -mno-cygwin -L/usr/local/lib -lcg > > compiles with no complaints. > > However, cygcheck complains, saying that it cannot find the dll. > > When I place the dll

Re: 1.5.5 and perl 5.8.2-5: symlinks (.lnk) fail in perl

2003-11-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Reed, RW> Versions: crgwin dll 1.5.5 and perl 5.8.2-5 RW> When executing system() commands in perl, the system is unable to RW> recognize "shortcut" files, like: RW> system("my-program.exe.lnk") Have you tried: system("my-program")? -- Mit freundlichen GrĂ¼ssen Gerrit P. Haase m

Re: 1.5.5 and perl 5.8.2-5: bug with perl's system() cmd

2003-11-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Reed, RW> Versions: crgwin dll 1.5.5 and perl 5.8.2-5 RW> When executing system() commands in perl, the system fails to handle RW> escaped quotes properly. For example, the following is not parsed RW> properly: RW> system("rsync ... --rsh=\"ssh -l blah\" ... ") RW> ... Reed Does

RE: linking 3rd party DLLs to my code.

2003-11-22 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Brian Dessent > Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 2:39 PM > Suresh Venkatasubramanian wrote: > > > However I am able to link it. putting cg.dll in /usr/local/lib (say) and > > compiling with > > > > gcc -mno-cygwin -L/usr/local/lib -lcg === > > > > compiles with no compla

Timestamp not updating

2003-11-22 Thread Dr Christian Hicks
I have a recent version of Cygwin. I am having a problem with the timestamps not updating, when I save a file or touch files. Example: total 287 -rwxrwxr-x1 Administ None 416 Nov 22 13:50 #pcallc.p# drwxrwxr-x+ 2 Administ None 4096 Nov 22 10:32 . drwxrwxr-x+ 13 Administ No

Re: linking 3rd party DLLs to my code.

2003-11-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > > However I am able to link it. putting cg.dll in /usr/local/lib (say) and > > > compiling with > > > > > > gcc -mno-cygwin -L/usr/local/lib -lcg > === > > > > > > > compiles with no complaints. > > > > > > However, cygcheck complains, saying that

RE: Timestamp not updating

2003-11-22 Thread Dr Christian Hicks
I have just realised that after I have touched the files they show as being updated if I view the files with Windows Explorer. It is ls -alc and make that do not see the files as updated. Best regards, Chris Dr Christian Hicks Senior Lecturer, School of Mechanical & Systems Engineering, Stephenso

RE: linking 3rd party DLLs to my code

2003-11-22 Thread Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Thanks for the help - it does work now. I changed PATH inside my shell and that worked. I guess that if I wanted to run it from windows, I would change the windows PATH as well. Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Ph: 973 360 8951 (o) Member, Technical StaffWeb: http://www.research.att.com/~suresh/ A

RE: Can't Read /cygdrive/c in snapshots from 1108 on (unknown windows error 122)

2003-11-22 Thread D. N. Knisely
As is indicated in the strace messages (and I thought I made clear, but I guess I didn't), I was using the 1119 snapshot. Worse yet, I get the same result with the newer 1121 snapshot. Any idea what I should try? I tried rebooting in case something was hanging around in memory from the old DLL,

Re: Chronic Cron - cyg.txt (0/1)

2003-11-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:07 AM 11/22/2003, zzapper you wrote: >>> >>>Where should I have started looking for this info? >> >>/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README > >I mean how should I have known to even look in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ Oh. In that case, you should have been looking at the FAQ. There you'd find the en

Attention: NEW wm-messenger!

2003-11-22 Thread Admin
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Attention: NEW wm-messenger!

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: file-4.06-1

2003-11-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of file to 4.06-1. This version is an update to the official version 4.06. If you do have problems with this version of insight it would probably be best to send them to the insight mailing list at "insight at sources dot redhat dot com". Then the insight maintainers ca

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dllwrap path problem when Building ApacheToolBox (ATB) under Cygwin?

2003-11-22 Thread Jason Boerner
Has anyone been able to get Apachetoolbox (1.5.69) under Cygwin? Mod_ssl seem to bomb out due to environment problems, but I am stuck in troubleshooting why. It has something to do with dllwrap. ATB1.5.69 apache_1.3.29 mm-1.3.0 mod_ssl-2.8.16-1.3.29 The errors I get are: <=== src/modules gcc -c

Re: Can't Read /cygdrive/c in snapshots from 1108 on (unknown windows error 122)

2003-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 12:03:31PM -0600, D. N. Knisely wrote: >As is indicated in the strace messages (and I thought I made clear, but I >guess I didn't), I was using the 1119 snapshot. Which brings us back to http://cygwin.com/problems.html . Since I have no way of knowing what you're running,

Permissions problem on Win2K?

2003-11-22 Thread Mark Boulding
I have successfully downloaded and installed cygwin on a Win2000 machine. However when I run cygwin it is unable to create a home directory for me, and also unable to write any of the personalization files. Cygwin tries to create a subdirectory /cygdrive/z to store this information, but "mkdir"

inetd desktop interaction w/o console?

2003-11-22 Thread Brian Ford
I know this has been discussed lots before, but I just spent the last few hours googling, archive searching, trying run.exe, etc. without finding a solid answer. What are the known issues around allowing Cygwin's inetd to interact with the desktop, but without showing the console window? It would

Re: Timestamp not updating

2003-11-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:17 AM 11/22/2003, Dr Christian Hicks you wrote: >I have a recent version of Cygwin. I am having >a problem with the timestamps not updating, when >I save a file or touch files. > >Example: >total 287 >-rwxrwxr-x1 Administ None 416 Nov 22 13:50 #pcallc.p# >drwxrwxr-x+ 2 Adminis

Re: Permissions problem on Win2K?

2003-11-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:43 PM 11/22/2003, Mark Boulding you wrote: >I have successfully downloaded and installed cygwin on a Win2000 machine. However >when I run cygwin it is unable to create a home directory for me, and also unable to >write any of the personalization files. Cygwin tries to create a subdirectory

RE: Timestamp not updating

2003-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Dr Christian Hicks wrote: > I have just realised that after I have touched the files they > show as being updated if I view the files with Windows Explorer. > It is ls -alc and make that do not see the files as updated. > > Best regards, > Chris The following is from "ls --he

Re: inetd desktop interaction w/o console?

2003-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > I know this has been discussed lots before, but I just spent the last few > hours googling, archive searching, trying run.exe, etc. without finding a > solid answer. > > What are the known issues around allowing Cygwin's inetd to interact with > the desktop

Re: inetd desktop interaction w/o console?

2003-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > > > I know this has been discussed lots before, but I just spent the last few > > hours googling, archive searching, trying run.exe, etc. without finding a > > solid answer. > > > > What are the known issues a

Re: Cwd::cwd() bug??? on Cygwin

2003-11-22 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 11/21/2003 4:03 PM, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: package MyModule; use Module; use base 'Module'; use Cwd; If you moved that above the use Module line then when Module.pm was compiled it would know Cwd::cwd was a function. Sorry I could not see wood fo