New to CygWin

2005-02-02 Thread Cameron
Hi, I haven't quite installed it yet because I wanted to know if you can return to Windows afterwards. Thanks! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: /proc functionality; ls errors

2005-02-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 1 22:00, linda w wrote: > Cool - does that mean it was a bug and was fixed, or did it just > happen to disappear due to some other improvement? Either way... It was a bug which just didn't show up with ls from the old fileutils. > 'bout how long does it take till things go from CVS to a

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
This is newlib schtuff, so I CCd the newlib mailing list. On Feb 1 20:58, Erik Blake wrote: > Further coreutils-5.3.0 debugging turned up more POSIX bugs in cygwin: > > defines struct passwd with the pw_uid and pw_gid members as ints, > although POSIX requires uid_t and gid_t. > http://www.ope

Re: New to CygWin

2005-02-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 08:52, Cameron wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't quite installed it yet because I wanted to know if you can return > to > Windows afterwards. Who would ever want that? Or, wait, is that a serious question? I can't believe it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send m

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
This is newlib schtuff, so I CCd the newlib mailing list. [Resend because I forgot the CC] On Feb 1 20:58, Erik Blake wrote: > Further coreutils-5.3.0 debugging turned up more POSIX bugs in cygwin: > > defines struct passwd with the pw_uid and pw_gid members as ints, > although POSIX requires

WG: cp command - problem with sparse [sparse file suuport under NTFS (Win2k)]

2005-02-02 Thread RE
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: RE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Februar 2005 10:40 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: cp command - problem with sparse [sparse file suuport under NTFS (Win2k)] Hi Corinna, Eric Blake send me a mail with a reference to

scrollkeeper-0.3.14

2005-02-02 Thread Spufi Doo
Dear cygwin, I tried to install GNUCash a while ago, but failed dismally. I'm now trying to install the GNUcash docs so I can at least read and learn. A dependency of gnucash-docs-1.8.5 is scrollkeeper-0.3.14, but I'm getting the following error during make: Making all in templates make[3]: En

problem loading JNI Dll with IPC

2005-02-02 Thread Olivier Mesmeur
Hi, We have a problem using JNI and IPC under cygwin. We compile a DLL using gcc but without -mno-cygwin option because we need IPC functionalities. It's worked fine with previous version of cygwin (< 1.5.5), but now that we are using cygwin version 1.5.9, java crashs when we launch the DLL

Re: WG: cp command - problem with sparse [sparse file suuport under NTFS (Win2k)]

2005-02-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
[Please don't CC me, send everything just to the ML] On Feb 2 11:29, RE wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Eric Blake send me a mail with a reference to your post > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Well, I am not a programmer but I am looking for a solution for the > following. And I think that cp.exe from fileu

AW: WG: cp command - problem with sparse [sparse file support under NTFS (Win2k)]

2005-02-02 Thread RE
Hi Corinna, I am not sure whether this is a 128 k problem. I tested with a file that had 1 MB of data at the beginning and another 1 MB of data at the end. In between there were some 18 MB of zeroes (checked this with a hex-editor). I produced that file by using eMule for downloading random fil

pwck

2005-02-02 Thread Zbynek Vrtiska, Certicon a.s.
Hi, I would like to use command pwck. I found out, that in RedHat it should be in a package named shadow-utils. But I can´t find it anywhere in cygwin. Thanks for your help Zbynek -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

RE: pwck

2005-02-02 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Zbynek Vrtiska, Certicon a.s. > Sent: 02 February 2005 12:33 > Hi, > > I would like to use command pwck. I found out, that in RedHat > it should > be in a package named shadow-utils. But I can´t find it > anywhere in cygwin. Tr

Re: problem with proftpd

2005-02-02 Thread Jason Tishler
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:32:24AM +0100, le chapelain germain wrote: > germ (localhost[127.0.0.1]) - no such user 'ftp' Note the above. > [snip] > > What is the problem ? Did you forget to update your /etc/passwd with mkpasswd? What does the following indicate? $ fgrep ftp /etc/passwd

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated (in test): coreutils-5.3.0-2

2005-02-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A test release of coreutils 5.3.0 is available. This will probably be promoted to current in a couple of weeks, once any issues brought up in the cygwin mailing list have been answered. NEWS This is a new upstream release, and is designated unst

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated (in test): coreutils-5.3.0-2

2005-02-02 Thread Chris January
> Dates can be entered via integer counts of seconds since 1970 when > prefixed by `@'. For example, [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > represents > 1970-01-01 > 00:05:21 UTC. I think that example might be wrong... :) Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 2/2/2005 3:07 AM: > This is newlib schtuff, so I CCd the newlib mailing list. > [Resend because I forgot the CC] > > On Feb 1 20:58, Erik Blake wrote: Eric, not Erik. > > include/pwd.h is a newlib file. However, I

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 07:05, Eric Blake wrote: > > On Feb 1 20:58, Erik Blake wrote: > > Eric, not Erik. Hups. I'm wondering how that could happen. I didn't change the address manually. Weird. Sorry 'bout that, anyway. > > include/pwd.h is a newlib file. However, I was pretty happy that pw_uid > > and

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated (in test): coreutils-5.3.0-2

2005-02-02 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Chris January > Sent: 02 February 2005 13:59 > > Dates can be entered via integer counts of seconds > since 1970 when > > prefixed by `@'. For example, [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > represents > > 1970-01-01 > > 00:05:21 UTC. > >

FAQ? Can setup import a packet List or is there another way to simply clone an Installation?

2005-02-02 Thread Erhard Schwenk
Hello, Maybe this is a FAQ, but I read around some time on cygwin.com and Google and did not find a single Hint to achieve this. Maybe also I am just looking for the wrong keywords. So here is my Problem: I have a cygwin Installation on Machine A which runs fine and has a large number of p

path/version mismatch between packages perl and perl-libwin32

2005-02-02 Thread Jochen . Schwarze
Hi all, the packages perl and perl-libwin32 seem to use incompatible paths. perl-libwin32 v0.191-1 (current version) installs to /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/cygwin-thread-multi-64int perl v5.8.6-4 (current version) searches in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin (among others) When you try

Re: FAQ? Can setup import a packet List or is there another way to simply clone an Installation?

2005-02-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Erhard Schwenk wrote: > I have a cygwin Installation on Machine A which runs fine and has a large > number of packets selected in setup.exe. > > Now I want to install cygwin on Machine B as well with an identical package > list. Unluckily, there is no "import package selection" Button in setup

Re: problem with proftpd

2005-02-02 Thread le chapelain germain
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:32:24AM +0100, le chapelain germain wrote: > > germ (localhost[127.0.0.1]) - no such user 'ftp' > > Note the above. > > > [snip] > > > > What is the problem ? > > Did you forget to update your /etc/passwd with mkpasswd? What does the > following indicate? > >

Re: problem loading JNI Dll with IPC

2005-02-02 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:48 AM 2/2/2005, you wrote: >Hi, > >We have a problem using JNI and IPC under cygwin. > >We compile a DLL using gcc but without -mno-cygwin option because we >need IPC functionalities. > >It's worked fine with previous version of cygwin (< 1.5.5), but now that >we are using cygwin version

Help about serial programming: manipulating DTR

2005-02-02 Thread llandre
Hi all, I'm trying to manipulate the DTR signal of the serial port. As an example I used this code snippet: http://lists.exploits.org/upsdev/Feb2004/00013.html. I can open the com1, I can send and receive data but the ioctl I use to read the status of the signals returns -1: int status; i

Re: path/version mismatch between packages perl and perl-libwin32

2005-02-02 Thread Reini Urban
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: the packages perl and perl-libwin32 seem to use incompatible paths. We know. perl-libwin32 cannot be used with perl-5.8.6. You have to install it by yourself via CPAN or wait for the official package update. perl-win32-gui will be seperate. For the simple Win32 FFI modu

Re: cp command - problem with sparse [sparse file support under NTFS (Win2k)]

2005-02-02 Thread Eric Blake
RE yahoo.de> writes: > > I am not sure whether this is a 128 k problem. I tested with a file that > had 1 MB of data at the beginning and another 1 MB of data at the end. In > between there were some 18 MB of zeroes (checked this with a hex-editor). I did the following test on Win2000 SP4, usi

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:20:01PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Feb 2 07:05, Eric Blake wrote: >> > On Feb 1 20:58, Erik Blake wrote: >> >> Eric, not Erik. > >Hups. I'm wondering how that could happen. I didn't change the >address manually. Weird. Sorry 'bout that, anyway. > >> > inclu

Re: /proc functionality; ls errors

2005-02-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:28:04AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Feb 1 22:00, linda w wrote: >> Cool - does that mean it was a bug and was fixed, or did it just >> happen to disappear due to some other improvement? Either way... > >It was a bug which just didn't show up with ls from the old

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-02-02 Thread Daniel B.
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: ... Accidentally, and without the knowledge or consent of the user. Bull. It is not installed by default. The user must select it, thus that's his consent. Not quite. Try clicking on the root installer node to specify to install everything. You get

Re: /proc functionality; ls errors

2005-02-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 12:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:28:04AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Did you read http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC104 lately? Otherwise, > >as Brian wrote, try a snapshot. > > I thought that section was designed for punishment, not information. >

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 12:20, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:20:01PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > #if defined (__CYGWIN__) && !defined (__CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__) > > #define __pw_uid_t int > > #endif > > #ifndef __pw_uid_t > > #define __pw_uid_t uid_t; > > #endif > > > > str

Re: cp command - problem with sparse [sparse file support under NTFS (Win2k)]

2005-02-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 17:18, Eric Blake wrote: > > I am not sure whether this is a 128 k problem. I tested with a file that > > had 1 MB of data at the beginning and another 1 MB of data at the end. In > > between there were some 18 MB of zeroes (checked this with a hex-editor). > > I did the following test

Re: Help about serial programming: manipulating DTR

2005-02-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 17:34, llandre wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to manipulate the DTR signal of the serial port. > As an example I used this code snippet: > http://lists.exploits.org/upsdev/Feb2004/00013.html. > I can open the com1, I can send and receive data but the ioctl I use > to read the status of

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:49:42PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Feb 2 12:20, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:20:01PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > #if defined (__CYGWIN__) && !defined (__CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__) >> > #define __pw_uid_t int >> > #endif >> > #i

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-02-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:43:40PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: >Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >>... >>>Accidentally, and without the knowledge or consent of the user. >> >> >>Bull. It is not installed by default. The user must select it, thus >>that's his consent. > >Not quite. > >

[DEAD THREAD] Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-02-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Daniel B. wrote: > [snip] The thread is dead. Long live the thread! Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:49:42PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Feb 2 12:20, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:20:01PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > #if defined (__CYGWIN__) && !defined (__CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPE

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:20:08PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:49:42PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >On Feb 2 12:20, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:20:01PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wr

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 13:13, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:49:42PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Feb 2 12:20, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:20:01PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > #if defined (__CYGWIN__) && !defined (__CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__)

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:30:43PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Feb 2 13:13, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:49:42PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >On Feb 2 12:20, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:20:01PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >

RE: Cant install Cygwin

2005-02-02 Thread Adam Heinz
Hello JJ, I recently had the same issue. I am building a repository on an intranet server from which all employees will install Cygwin. A few days ago, I downloaded an older version of a package that I already had installed, then poked around in setup.ini to see how Cygwin managed which packages

Re: Hyperthreading problem: remote access

2005-02-02 Thread Joris van der Sande
Christopher Faylor wrote: However, here is one of the times I repeated that I don't want to do this over the internet: [...] Fixing this problem will be difficult. Dealing with race conditions like this always is difficult. Indeed, as an embedded software designer I know this first hand. I don't

RE: New to CygWin

2005-02-02 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
At Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:53 AM, Cameron wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't quite installed it yet because I wanted to know if you can > return to Windows afterwards. Cygwin runs on top of Windows so Windows is never gone -- you can use both simultaneously. See also http://sources.redhat.com/cyg

Wrong results from isfinite with gcc 3.4.1

2005-02-02 Thread William M. (Mike) Miller
There was a thread about this problem a few months ago (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00128.html). The OP at that time was referred to the newlib mailing list, but I can't find anything on the topic there. I've recently run into this problem as well, and may have some new inf

Re: Wrong results from isfinite with gcc 3.4.1

2005-02-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:56:43PM -0500, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: >There was a thread about this problem a few months ago >(http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00128.html). The >OP at that time was referred to the newlib mailing list, but I >can't find anything on the topic t

Has anyone recently tried to compile rssh?

2005-02-02 Thread John M Lauck
Has anyone recently tried to compile rssh? Any luck with the newer cygwin dll and packages? John M. Lauck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Has anyone recently tried to compile rssh?

2005-02-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:28:07PM -0500, John M Lauck wrote: >Has anyone recently tried to compile rssh? Any luck with the newer >cygwin dll and packages? I think the newer one works good. The older one was real crap. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Wrong results from isfinite with gcc 3.4.1

2005-02-02 Thread William M. (Mike) Miller
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:56:43PM -0500, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: There was a thread about this problem a few months ago (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00128.html). The OP at that time was referred to the newlib mailing list, but I can't find a

Re: Has anyone recently tried to compile rssh?

2005-02-02 Thread John M Lauck
I tried to compile rssh and I get errors about wordexp(). I thought wordexp() was included in the newest version of cygwin. John M. Lauck Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:28:07PM -0500, John M Lauck wrote: Has anyone recently tried to compile rssh? Any luck with the newer c

Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to RE on 2/2/2005 9:27 AM: > Hi Eric, > > Sorry about not mentioning the version. That was really stupid of me. > > I have installed the fileutils-4.1-8-bin.exe package. > > The version of cp.exe is 4.1.1253.32350. > > I am using Win2k S

snapshot bug - pathchk still broken

2005-02-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With the 20050131 snapshot and new CYGWIN=traverse option, trying to stat elements in an inaccessible directory now fails, but with with an unexpected errno (ENOENT=2 instead of EACCES=13). When CYGWIN=notraverse, the elements within the inaccessible

Re: /dev/hda overwritten on local cygwin mirror

2005-02-02 Thread Carlo Florendo
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 01 February 2005 14:57 On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:20:54PM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote: list-subscriber kirjoitti: Hello Cygwin Gu