porting gcc-3.2.3 to cygwin

For a project i need to use gcc-3.2.3 under cygwin and also as a cross compiler to make cygwin programs on a linux computer but it seems that when i'm compiling stuff with this gcc, there are problem accessing the file system under cygwin. for example if i stat a directory and check if it is a d

RE: Would like to release 1.5.10 soon -- please try latest snapsh ot: Win95, "make" fixes

Many thanks, It has settled the various problems experienced here with Win95. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00404.html Regards Alistair > -Original Message- > Sent: 22 March 2004 19:20 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Would like to release 1.5.10 soon -- ple

RE: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation: "The Rational Rose Files"

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher M. Balz > Sent: 23 March 2004 06:39 > I didn't suspect Rational Rose since I've run Cygwin fine > when it was my previous Cygwin installation and when Rose had > already been installed. > Apparently however, from your

Re: How do you fstat an open directory?

On Mar 22 21:30, Mark Blackburn wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ ./testcase.exe > inode of d:17489383932880356520 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ ls -id d > 3659174697343209 d/ [...] > Notice that the inodes don't match from ls -id and from my test program. > Am I doing something wrong? No, it's a b

Re: suid bit on executables?

On Mar 22 19:49, Richard Troy wrote: > A little over a year ago, I poked my nose under the tent to inquire about > this once more and in the interrim there had been a new cygserver and a > new ssh daemon, and I was very happy with the advance, but still things > were short of the SUID bit being hon

RE: setup changes my mounts

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Larry Hall > Sent: 23 March 2004 04:51 > this isn't "fixable". PTC ;-) FWIW, I found the code for this in > do_install_thread() in install.cc. The code reads: > > > create_mount ("/", get_root_dir (), istext, issystem); > cre

sshd debugging

I have sshd up and running as a service. I can ssh into the box if I type a password, but I do have a public-key/private-key installed that it doesn't seem to recognize. (If you want to recommend a solution to this problem, please do - it's the real problem). When I have this problem on linux

Re: sshd debugging

On Mar 23 07:16, David Corbin wrote: > I have sshd up and running as a service. I can ssh into the box if I type a > password, but I do have a public-key/private-key installed that it doesn't > seem to recognize. (If you want to recommend a solution to this problem, > please do - it's the real

RE: sshd debugging

My advice is to setup the daemon like cygrunsrv ... -a -ddd, this will turn on the debugging and You will see the results either in /var/log/sshd.log or within the Eventviewer. >From what you tell, I would judge that some permissions of the affected user are >wrong. Check the home dir, rwxr-x

launching a remote webbrowser with cygwin

This is my first post to cygwin and I would like to say, great product. Background: With all the recent Microsoft virii and code leaks we are slowly blocking Windows based pcs from accessing the Internet. What we are doing is placing a box running a Linux terminal server client beside every Win

RE: setup changes my mounts

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Larry Hall > > Sent: 23 March 2004 04:51 > > > this isn't "fixable". PTC ;-) FWIW, I found the code for this in > > do_install_thread() in install.cc. The code reads: > > > > > > create_mo

Re: How can I list all the software that have been insatlled to cygwin?

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > At 11:48 PM 3/22/2004, you wrote: > >I tested rpm -q -a,and nothing was found. > > > >Mostly I compile the source code with make. > > > >So how can I found those installed apps(like add/remove in windows)? > > 'rpm' only keeps track of packages installed vi

Re: How can I list all the software that have been insatlled to cygwin?

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > > > At 11:48 PM 3/22/2004, you wrote: > > >I tested rpm -q -a,and nothing was found. > > > > > >Mostly I compile the source code with make. Upon re-reading the OP's message, I'd like to clarify that the metho

Re: suid bit on executables?

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 22 19:49, Richard Troy wrote: > > A little over a year ago, I poked my nose under the tent to inquire about > > this once more and in the interrim there had been a new cygserver and a > > new ssh daemon, and I was very happy with the advance, b

Re: launching a remote webbrowser with cygwin

* Chris Bullock (2004-03-23 15:14 +0100) > Background: > With all the recent Microsoft virii and code leaks we are slowly blocking > Windows based pcs from accessing the Internet. What we are doing is placing > a box running a Linux terminal server client beside every Windows box that > needs t

How to upgrate rpm from 4.1 to 4.2?

> Cygwin comes with rpm 4.1 version. How can I upgrate it to 4.2? > > Thanks > Bella -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: suid bit on executables?

On Mar 23 07:04, Richard Troy wrote: > I know > there's the SSHD code that could serve as an example, but it seems to me > that it's overkill for what I want [...] Nope. There's nothing simpler than utilizing an existing and working piece of code instead of creating another application with it's

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cURL 7.11.1-1

cURL has been updated to version 7.11.1-1. Along with a large number of bugfixes, the following changes=20 have been made since the previous Cygwin release: 7.11.1: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2004-03/0089.html o CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE added to offer POSTs larger than 2GB o CURL_VERSI

procps "Unknown HZ value" question

Does anyone know what to do (what argument to pass) so that procps doesn't display the "Unknown HZ value..." error message? -richard -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/

Problem with find on FAT drives

Hi! I just found a strange problem when using find on a FAT drive. I got: "find: .\tmp changed during execution of find" -- in bash shell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/d $ find .\\tmp -name *.test find: .\tmp changed during execution of find [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/d $ find ./tmp -name *.test

RE: setup changes my mounts

Hi All... I think that because setup can work correctly no matter what mode the mounts are set to, it should leave them alone. On all but the first install, it probably should not ask about the mount information nor change it. This would be consistent with not re-asking about the shortcuts and

sshd as a substitute for the suid bit on executables...

> From: Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: suid bit on executables? > > > On Mar 23 07:04, Richard Troy wrote: > > I know > > there's the SSHD code that could serve as an example, but it seems to > > me that it's overkill for what I want [...] > > Nope. There's nothing simpler t

1.5.7: csrss and bash consuming 100% of CPU

Hi, I believe this is an old problem, but I'm now experiencing it with a recent version of Cygwin. I haven't been able to determine what triggers this, but after what seems like a few minutes working with bash, I find that my CPU is at 100%, and that task manager identifies the culprits as csrss.

Re: sshd as a substitute for the suid bit on executables...

On Mar 23 08:22, Richard Troy wrote: > One additional challenge that has just occurred to me in my particular > scenario is that in ordinary useage on Unix, my program that runs under > the suid bit eventually launches a Java program that creates display > windows and attaches to the keyboard/mouse

1.5.7: UPDATE TO csrss and bash consuming 100% of CPU

Folks, I apologise - my first message, and I missed out some information. Included in the list of suspect processes eating up the CPU is xemacs-21.4.13.exe. I frequently use subversion (psvn.el) from within xemacs, which presumably spawns bash too. Perhaps that's significant? Thanks again, Graham

Re: porting gcc-3.2.3 to cygwin

At 03:08 AM 3/23/2004, you wrote: >For a project i need to use gcc-3.2.3 under cygwin and also as a cross compiler to >make cygwin programs on a linux computer > >but it seems that when i'm compiling stuff with this gcc, there are problem accessing >the file system under cygwin. >for example if i

Re: Minimal test case for Make crash bug

Dan Kegel wrote: (gdb) p alloc_sz $3 = 0 Bingo. That's the problem. I've checked in a fix for this and have uploaded a new snapshot. Can you confirm that it fixes the problem? Yep, fixes my little test case. I'll run more exhaustive tests tomorrow. It handled my real-world case well, but when I

unlink(2) or fopen(3) failing under cygwin

I forget. What's the command to dump the system config? Here's what `uname -a' says: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 eMachine64-3000 1.5.7(0.109/3/2) \ 2004-01-30 19:32 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin unlink(2) seems to be causing a subsequent fopen(3) to fail. Originally, it was the unlink call that failed, b

Re: unlink(2) or fopen(3) failing under cygwin

Blair P. Houghton houghton.net> writes: > > while(!unlink(...)) YAASA. STFU! Figures, the moment I post that to the world I realize that the ! looks hinky. Swot I get for not reading the man-page for unlink(2) in about 20 years, and blindly copying idioms I find in the common.h file of tr

RE: setup changes my mounts

Karl, If the mode of /usr/lib and /usr/bin is not the same as that of /, bad things will happen (i.e., the invariant that /usr/bin==/bin and /usr/lib==/lib will be broken). There should be no good reason to change that mode, even for power users. I'd be content with setup leaving them alone *onl

colons getting changed to semi-colons in PATH using cygwin make

Hello, I am having some trouble using cygwin make in that it is changing all my ":" to ";" in the path before it gets exported, so something that should read ";c:\progra~1;" reads ";c;\progra~1;" . This is causing trouble when trying to run a windows exe that needs several dirs in the path. So

Re: suid bit on executables?

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Richard Troy wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 22 19:49, Richard Troy wrote: > > > A little over a year ago, I poked my nose under the tent to inquire about > > > this once more and in the interrim there had been a new cygserver and a > > > new s

Re: How to upgrate rpm from 4.1 to 4.2?

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Pikovsky Bella-BBP006 wrote: > Cygwin comes with rpm 4.1 version. How can I upgrate it to 4.2? > Thanks >Bella Umm, wait until Dario Alcocer (ther current maintainer) releases 4.2, or build it yourself (and, perhaps, volunteer to maintain it if Dario agrees)... Ig

RE: colons getting changed to semi-colons in PATH using cygwin ma ke

Read http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq_4.html#SEC94 and consider the effects of DOS-style paths with MAKE_MODE=UNIX. -Original Message- From: Ken Lehman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:10 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: colons getting changed to semi-

Re: colons getting changed to semi-colons in PATH using cygwin make

At 12:09 PM 3/23/2004, you wrote: >Hello, > I am having some trouble using cygwin make in that it is changing all my >":" to ";" in the path before it gets exported, so something that should >read ";c:\progra~1;" reads ";c;\progra~1;" . This is causing trouble when >trying to run a windows exe

Postgresql stopped working

I've got the latest cygwin (updated yesterday) on XP Pro, and I installed PostgreSQL 7.4.1 about 2 weeks ago as a service. It was running nicely, but then it stopped over the weekend. When I logged into XP as the user postgres to troubleshoot it, I found that XP had expired my old password. Now

Re: 1.5.7: csrss and bash consuming 100% of CPU

At 11:15 AM 3/23/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > >I believe this is an old problem, but I'm now experiencing it with a >recent version of Cygwin. I haven't been able to determine what >triggers this, but after what seems like a few minutes working with >bash, I find that my CPU is at 100%, and that task m

RE: setup changes my mounts

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Karl M > Sent: 23 March 2004 15:52 > On > all but the first install, it probably should not ask about > the mount information nor change it. This would be consistent > with not re-asking about the shortcuts and such. But it *d

Re: suid bit on executables?

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > FYI, Cygwin implements /dev/conin and /dev/conout, so, perhaps, the > approach suggested in > would be helpful (or something along those lines). Thanks, Igor, I'll look into that in a minute...

Re: suid bit on executables?

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:11:38PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >OTOH, once cygserver is in place, we'll have a working "su" (which is >exactly what you want, right?). I just want to clarify that cygserver.exe is in place and functional right now. It just doesn't support "su" or "suid"... yet.

Re: suid bit on executables?

> Richard, > > FYI, Cygwin implements /dev/conin and /dev/conout, so, perhaps, the > approach suggested in > would be helpful (or something along those lines). Hi Igor, I tried man and apropos, and found nothing for conin or conout, but if I u

RE: setup changes my mounts

Hi Igor... That sounds fine to me. The warning would be most effective if setup checks the mounts and only issues a warning if they are inconsistant, as opposed to a blanket warning. (Even if it is a warm fuzzy blanket warning :>). Thanks, ...Karl From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: suid bit on executables?

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Richard Troy wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > FYI, Cygwin implements /dev/conin and /dev/conout, so, perhaps, the > > approach suggested in > > would be helpful (or something along those lines). >

Re: suid bit on executables?

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:11:38PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >OTOH, once cygserver is in place, we'll have a working "su" (which is > >exactly what you want, right?). > > I just want to clarify that cygserver.exe is in place and functional r

Re: com/sun/jini/example/launcher/StartService

George Hester wrote: I thought I could use UNIX notation in Cygwin but I see I cannot. oops. Wrong again. Cygwin is not a tool that magically wanders over all your installed applications (e.g. Office) and somehow makes them "Unix-aware". Applications compiled against cygwin libraries can use P

Re: SDL on Cygwin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wrote: | Well, it doesn't give a choice as I said, it uses the -mno-cygwin flag | by default when building in Cygwin. I believe the libSDLmain.a is their | way of avoiding the [EMAIL PROTECTED] issue, but it shouldn't be necessary | with the current

RE: unlink(2) or fopen(3) failing under cygwin

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Blair P.Houghton > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 5:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: unlink(2) or fopen(3) failing under cygwin > > > I forget. What's the command to dump the system config? > >

RE: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation: "The Rational Rose Files"

> From: Dave Korn > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher M. Balz > > Sent: 23 March 2004 06:39 > > Apparently however, from your comments, it looks as if the > > MKS system makes breaks the Cygwin installation. Is there a > > way (or a place I could look to find out) where I could > > p

Re: suid bit on executables?

Igor, one of us is confused! ...NOT referring to Cygwin, but Unix in general: 'su' requires the caller to either already be root, or have the password of the account they want to "become". In contrast, there's no checking of passwords at all when a program is launched that has the suid bit set: I

Definitely no sshd on FAT32?

Hi, I've been going through the archives and elsewhere, but just want to verify that I'm not missing anything. Is it definitely *not* possible to run sshd with cygwin installed on FAT32? I set CYGWIN to just "tty" when installing the service with ssh-host-config, since according to the Cygwin

Re: suid bit on executables?

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Richard Troy wrote: > > Richard, > > > > FYI, Cygwin implements /dev/conin and /dev/conout, so, perhaps, the > > approach suggested in > > would be helpful (or something along those lines). > > Hi Igor, > > I tried man and ap

Re: Broken package selection for a full install

Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 16:35, Daniel F. Dickinson wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Daniel, If you're willing to temporarily rename the existing installation root (and the registry keys) and reinstall from scratch, please post the /var/log/setup.log and /var/log/setup.log.full

Re: Definitely no sshd on FAT32?

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Ian Brandt wrote: > Hi, > > I've been going through the archives and elsewhere, but just want to > verify that I'm not missing anything. Is it definitely *not* possible to > run sshd with cygwin installed on FAT32? It is, but it won't be as secure. See below. > I set CYGWI

lstat on FAT - Was: Problem with find on FAT drives

Hi! I just found a strange problem when using find on a FAT drive. I got: "find: .\tmp changed during execution of find" OK, I analyzed the problem a bit and found that lstat can give different inode numbers on fat, see the attached testcase. To test this you have to have a directory called tmp in

RE: Broken package selection for a full install

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Daniel F. Dickinson > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 2:41 PM > To: Cygwin > Subject: Re: Broken package selection for a full install > > Robert Collins wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 16:35, Daniel F.

license for X-startup-scripts package

I'm looking for the license under which the X-startup-scripts package is released. The file named COPYING is 1 byte long in usr/X11R6/share/doc/X-startup-scripts-1.0.2/COPYING, and in the source tarball X-startup-scripts-1.0.2-1-src.tar.bz2:X-startup-scripts-1.0.2.tar.bz2:COPYING. I haven't

Scriptroute; Config error: nothing defines res_search

Hi, I've been trying to install 'scriptroute' which is sort of a scripting environment for network measurements. It's intended for Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X, and I'm trying to install it on cygwin. But I'm getting the following configuration error: -

Re: suid bit on executables?

Hi Igor, Interesting dialogue, but you seem to be mising one CRITICAL point, which I apparently didn't make clear: It is absolutely unacceptible to have the user of the software in question know any password other than the one for their own account or otherwise have access to privileges they're n

Re: Definitely no sshd on FAT32?

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: It is, but it won't be as secure. See below. > FYI, "ntsec" is only ignored for the *disk* volumes, but it is used for a bunch of other NT-enabled features that have nothing to do with disks (e.g., user context switching). However, "ntsec" is on by default now, so you a

Re: sshd as a substitute for the suid bit on executables...

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 23 08:22, Richard Troy wrote: > > One additional challenge that has just occurred to me in my particular > > scenario is that in ordinary useage on Unix, my program that runs under > > the suid bit eventually launches a Java program that crea

Re: Scriptroute; Config error: nothing defines res_search

"C.N." wrote: > checking for library containing res_search... no > configure: error: nothing defines res_search Try installing the minires package. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: suid bit on executables? (doc alert)

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:38:36PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >However, the above document is strangely silent on the topic of >conin/conout... PGA! cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Just updated Cygwin and can't make with g++ command not found

How do I correct this? I am a novice at this. Warren -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Just updated Cygwin and can't make with g++ command not found

At 03:50 PM 3/23/2004, you wrote: >How do I correct this? I am a novice at this. Install it! If that's not the problem, visit: >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 89

Re: lstat on FAT - Was: Problem with find on FAT drives

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Volker Quetschke wrote: > Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:45:41 -0500 > From: Volker Quetschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [cygwin] lstat on FAT - Was: Problem with find on FAT drives > > > Hi! > > > > I just found a strange problem when using find on a

RE: g77 (new), Windows XP Professional, CALL System(Command, Status), directory.

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 7:12 AM > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Lars Steinke wrote: > > > >On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Lars Steinke wrote: > > > > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> call system('cmd.exe /c cls') > > >> > > >>

Re: Definitely no sshd on FAT32?

On Mar 23 15:36, Ian Brandt wrote: > Looks like it's already set to no in the installed config. From man > sshd_config it looks like StrictModes applies to checks of the home > directory and files for the user logging in. I had tried installing the > service with '-t' option to sshd, but appar

Re: procps "Unknown HZ value" question

Richard Duran wrote: Does anyone know what to do (what argument to pass) so that procps doesn't display the "Unknown HZ value..." error message? Disabeling hyperthreading or - in case you're on a real multiprocessor system - using the /NUMPROC=1 switch for booting up windows might have the d

Re: lstat on FAT - Was: Problem with find on FAT drives

Hi Kaz, I just found a strange problem when using find on a FAT drive. I got: "find: .\tmp changed during execution of find" OK, I analyzed the problem a bit and found that lstat can give different inode numbers on fat, see the attached testcase. Structurally, FAT does not have inodes or hard link

Re: suid bit on executables?

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Richard Troy wrote: > Hi Igor, > > Interesting dialogue, but you seem to be mising one CRITICAL point, which > I apparently didn't make clear: It is absolutely unacceptible to have the > user of the software in question know any password other than the one for > their own acco

Re: procps "Unknown HZ value" question

Richard Duran wrote: Does anyone know what to do (what argument to pass) so that procps doesn't display the "Unknown HZ value..." error message? You didn't provide any information about your system, but I'm guessing the --replace-win9x-with-win2k option will do it :) Mark Blackburn -- If it's not

Re: Just updated Cygwin and can't make with g++ command not found

Hi Larry, Well doesn't the installer install everything when you select "all"? When I first installed Cygwin last October I had no such problem. I assumed it would be installed again. Am reinstalling. Thanks, Warren At 04:05 PM 3/23/2004 -0500, you wrote: At 03:50 PM 3/23/2004, you wrote: >How d

Re: Definitely no sshd on FAT32?

Corinna Vinschen wrote: The following checks are performed on the key file in the following order: - Not Windows NT? Yes -> Don't check permissions. I'm running Windows 2000, so this shouldn't catch. - "ntea" switched on? Yes -> Check permissions. (Not applicable on FAT32) I don't have it set, a

RE: cron will not execute commands

Steve, Please send all replies to the Cygwin mailing list. This will help because more people will be able to see your problem and may be able to help to come up with a solution. Also, it may help other people reading and searching this list if they have this problem or a similar problem. F

Re: Apache obatined in Cygwin Setup is FOREIGN

Mittagspause..haben sie Spass! ~Martin~ - Original Message - From: "Thorsten Kampe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Apache obatined in Cygwin Setup is FOREIGN > * George Hester (2004-03-20 05:49 +0100) > > [whatever] > > A

compilation of tar leads to system error

ok, I've compiled tar (tar-1.13.25-5) with gcc-3.3.1-2, and get: "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc022). Click on OK to terminate the application." I would have used gcc-3.3.1-3, but cc1.exe shows the same behavior... I looked at the archive, saw this was an issue in the pa

Re: How do you fstat an open directory?

Corinna Vinschen wrote: [...] No, it's a bug in Cygwin's fstat implementation which happens to go wrong for directories. Thanks for catching this. Corinna Has this been fixed? If so a snapshot would be real handy... Mark Blackburn -- If it's not POSIX... it's CRAP! -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: Broken package selection for a full install

Morris Walton wrote: My renaming the installation root and registry keys as per Igors suggestion, you have removed all trace of your package selections. Thanks. I think I figured out what was wrong. I selected Install on the root of the package tree, then used the view radio buttons (to see what

Re: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin

CP> I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction here, CP> though I'm not even sure this is possible. CP> CP> I currently use cygwin in WinXP to display X session from an AIX CP> machine. This works very well. The software on the AIX box can CP> call a word processor (Uniplex) on the A

GNU Make performance question

I am writing a document on the performance of gnu make and various makefiles and came across something I can't explain. To measure the speed of gnu make $(subst...) versus sed I wrote this simple makefile: p1000 := ...<1000 character string with periodic semicolons>... # This simple assignmen

Re: How do you fstat an open directory?

At 08:32 PM 3/23/2004, you wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>[...] >>No, it's a bug in Cygwin's fstat implementation which happens to go >>wrong for directories. Thanks for catching this. >>Corinna >Has this been fixed? If so a snapshot would be real handy... Yes, it's been fixed and is in CVS.

Re: Just updated Cygwin and can't make with g++ command not found

At 05:36 PM 3/23/2004, you wrote: >Hi Larry, > >Well doesn't the installer install everything when you select "all"? >When I first installed Cygwin last October I had no such problem. If you're saying that you selected all packages for install now, then yes, it should install everything. If you

Re: sshd debugging

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 07:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 23 07:16, David Corbin wrote: > > I have sshd up and running as a service. I can ssh into the box if I > > type a password, but I do have a public-key/private-key installed that it > > doesn't seem to recognize. (If you want to reco

Re: GNU Make performance question

At 10:09 PM 3/23/2004, you wrote: >I am writing a document on the performance of gnu make and various >makefiles and came across something I can't explain. > >To measure the speed of gnu make $(subst...) versus sed I wrote this >simple makefile: > > p1000 := ...<1000 character string with periodic

Re: How can I list all the software that have been insatlled to cygwin?

on my own? cygwin dose not know?It is so bad >: - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "hhw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 10:27 PM Subject: Re: How can I list all the software that have been insatlled to cygwin

Re: How can I list all the software that have been insatlled to cygwin?

Why would you expect Cygwin to be able to magically keep track of something it hasn't installed? Linux doesn't. 'rpm' doesn't either. So what makes you think that Cygwin would or should? Larry At 10:55 PM 3/23/2004, you wrote: >on my own? cygwin dose not know?It is so bad >: > > >- Orig

Re: sshd debugging

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, David Corbin wrote: > On Tuesday 23 March 2004 07:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 23 07:16, David Corbin wrote: > > > I have sshd up and running as a service. I can ssh into the box if I > > > type a password, but I do have a public-key/private-key installed that it >

Re: How can I list all the software that have been insatlled to cygwin?

When I do "make install ",cygwin does not record something about my install infomation like windows's register? - Original Message - From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "hhw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:00 PM Subject: Re: How can I

what is the meaning of " mkdir linux-build"?

I found these commands: $> tar -xvzf libosip-0.X.X.tar.gz $> mkdir linux-build $> cd linux-build $> ../libosip-0.X.X/configure $> make $> make install Can you tell me why he "mkdir linux-build" and "cd linux-build"? Why not he directly "cd libosip-0.X.X" and "./configure".

Re: How can I list all the software that have been insatlled to cygwin?

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:56:01PM +0800, hhw wrote: >When I do "make install ",cygwin does not record something about my >install infomation like windows's register? Correct. It doesn't work that way. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: what is the meaning of " mkdir linux-build"?

* hhw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-24 00:01]: > > > I found these commands: > $> tar -xvzf libosip-0.X.X.tar.gz > $> mkdir linux-build > $> cd linux-build > $> ../libosip-0.X.X/configure > $> make > $> make install > > > Can you tell me why he "mkdir linux-build" and "cd linux-bui

Re: what is the meaning of " mkdir linux-build"?

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:59:01PM +0800, hhw wrote: > I found these commands: > $> tar -xvzf libosip-0.X.X.tar.gz > $> mkdir linux-build > $> cd linux-build > $> ../libosip-0.X.X/configure > $> make > $> make install > >Can you tell me why he "mkdir linux-build" and "cd linux-build"? Why >

Re: unlink(2) or fopen(3) failing under cygwin

Hannu E K Nevalainen telia.com> writes: > > Does anyone know of any reason an fopen on the > > just-unlinked file would fail under Cygwin? > > IIRC this has been up earlier; unlink() isn't atomic. Hence the loop. I'm sure I've even had to do this to this exact file before (but I'm putting the

Re: launching a remote webbrowser with cygwin

Wrong list. All questions about X on Cygwin should be directed to . Redirecting... Igor On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Chris Bullock wrote: > This is my first post to cygwin and I would like to say, great product. > > Background: > With all the recent Microsoft virii and code leaks we are slowly

Re: license for X-startup-scripts package

We have a mailing list for cygwin-x. Redirecting there. On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:02:23PM -0500, Dick Repasky wrote: >I'm looking for the license under which the X-startup-scripts package is >released. The file named COPYING is 1 byte long in >usr/X11R6/share/doc/X-startup-scripts-1.0.2/COPYI