Re: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 8 21:47, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn > > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Phil Betts > > > The selection model used by rxvt is standard throughout the > > X11 world. > > > > It's insane. > > I'm with you 1000% on this one Korny, [etc]

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2005-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 8 19:58, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Feb 8 07:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Recent remarks ("I have an idea about how to fix the race but it would > >>introduce a destabilizing change that I'd rather not chance before 1.5.13 > >>is > >>released") sugg

Re: bug in setup.exe?

2005-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 8 18:18, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Eric, > > Please make sure your mailer honors the Reply-To: field. I set it for a > reason. Thanks. > > I've also reformatted your top-posted message. Top-posting is rather > annoying -- if you can possibly avoid it, please do. > [...] and then ther

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-09 Thread Phil Betts
On Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:25 PM Dave Korn wrote: > It's insane. > > Unless you have the precision muscular control skills of a world-class > gymnast, a mouse always moves at least a little bit when you press down on the > button. Which is one reason why I prefer a trackball - moving an

RE: cygwin1.dll crash

2005-02-09 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Lannoye Xavier > Sent: 09 February 2005 07:54 > hi again > > the problem is solved > > (blushing...) > > I rebooted my computer, and now everything works fine again > > thanks for your time;-/ Heh, that was going to be

Re: strange cp behavior with (coreutils 5.2.1)

2005-02-09 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jane Doe on 2/8/2005 8:15 PM: > $ net use shiva /u:shiva\\administrator > $ cp //shiva/c\$/cvsmq/eqgame.h . > cp: cannot open `//shiva/c$/cvsmq/eqgame.h.exe' for > reading: No such file or directory > > I think this used to work when

Re: Can't cd into directory

2005-02-09 Thread Jonathan Arnold
[ !! Please do not email me directly !! ] acidblue wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> acidblue wrote: acidblue wrote on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:18 AM: I'm using the following syntax: cd '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings' I get a " No such file o

RE: cygwin digest format

2005-02-09 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gorden Jemwa > Sent: 09 February 2005 07:54 > To: cygwin [ X-post to -talk list; I think we should TITTTL if the discussion becomes any prolonged. ] > Could the digest format be changed into a single message format > containing all t

RE: Couldn't create signal pipe - User permission problem? (IIS6/Win2003)

2005-02-09 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of andy > Sent: 08 February 2005 16:01 > Subject: Couldn't create signal pipe - User permission > problem? (IIS6/Win2003) > When I try to execute the binary it exists with the error > message shown below: > > 3 [main] ? 1148 cygheap_u

Re: Help with deleting Cygwin shortcuts

2005-02-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Ivan Lenev wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure that I have full access since I'm the only user, and I > > don't see a "Security/Permissions" Tab in the properties of any of my > > files. I'm running WinXP Home, and no file sharing. > > XP Home sucks, get a boo

20050208 snapshot = yay! (Was: Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1)

2005-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
Rolf Campbell wrote: This test does fail (in the same way) on non-hyperthreaded machines (Win2000Pro on a PIII). But, this is a regression from 1.5.12 (that test runs fine on the non-HT machine with 1.5.12. There was (maybe still is) a problem with running "make -j" without the max task counte

Building Perl modules

2005-02-09 Thread Alejandro Calbazana
Hello, Sorry if this has already been asked in the list, but search is temp. disabled. Has anyone been able to build Perl modules (in this case HTML::Parser) under cygwin? gcc is handing back failed header file references, but the include path correct. I am a bit puzzled. A snippet of the er

Bug in python's tempfile : returning wrong object type

2005-02-09 Thread Nick Burch
With cygwin distributed python (2.4, dec 4 2004), there's a bug in tempfile. import tempfile fo = tempfile.TemporaryFile() type(fo) This should return , but is currently returning This also seems broken on python 2.3.4 Thanks Nick -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

snapshots are breaking shred

2005-02-09 Thread ericblake
With coreutils 5.3.0-2 and various snapshots, I am seeing regressions in shred(1)caused by cygwin changes: 1.5.12: $ echo a > a $ shred --remove a $ echo $? 0 $ ls $ 20050131: $ echo a > a $ shred --remove a shred: .: fsync failed: Permission denied shred: .: fsync failed: Permission denied $ ec

Re: [PATCH] Re: perl winpid?

2005-02-09 Thread Reini Urban
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes schrieb: How does this look? patch looks ok to me. Or as seperate Proc::Cygwin package, which could be maintained at CPAN and go to vendor_perl within gerrit's perl package? Proc::Cygwin::Win32ProcessID($pid) Proc::Cygwin::CygwinProcessID($winpid) I'd rather not create a

Re: AT&T ksh93

2005-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Glenn, On Feb 7 13:36, Glenn Fowler wrote: > Rather than waste time arguing about cygwin correctness, we added > section 2 system call intercepts to our base library to get cygwin to > act like unix. The library intercepts keep windows from contaminating > our mainline source and scripts. For d

Re: Building Perl modules

2005-02-09 Thread Olaf Föllinger
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:30:37PM -0500, Alejandro Calbazana wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry if this has already been asked in the list, but search is temp. > disabled. > > Has anyone been able to build Perl modules (in this case HTML::Parser) > under cygwin? gcc is handing back failed header file

Re: Building Perl modules

2005-02-09 Thread Alejandro Calbazana
Hmm... Unfortunately, my attempt to build w/ CPAN returns similar results. But, it looks like there might be some hope if you are able to build ok. Thanks, Al Olaf Föllinger wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:30:37PM -0500, Alejandro Calbazana wrote: Hello, Sorry if this has already been asked in

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-09 Thread Dave \"I do not speak for AT&T!\" Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Phil Betts > Sent: 09 February 2005 10:43 [ Um, I know this thread is supposed to be TITTTL'd, so I'm not going to discuss the subject of the thread, but I do need to correct a minor misrepresentation: ] > > And don't tell me... >

Re: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave "I do not speak for AT&T!" Korn wrote: I wouldn't dream of telling the great Dave K anything! ksh saved my sanity back in the days when it was just csh or sh. I'm not that guy. No relation whatsoever. (Boy, did he ever ruin the experience of googling one's own name for _me_ !) The only solut

Re: 20050208 snapshot = yay! (Was: Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1)

2005-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:27:34PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: >Rolf Campbell wrote: >>This test does fail (in the same way) on non-hyperthreaded machines >>(Win2000Pro on a PIII). But, this is a regression from 1.5.12 (that >>test runs fine on the non-HT machine with 1.5.12. There was (maybe

Re: snapshots are breaking shred

2005-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 17:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With coreutils 5.3.0-2 and various snapshots, I am seeing regressions in > shred(1)caused by cygwin changes: > [...] > $ echo a > a > $ shred --remove a > shred: a: error truncating > [...] > 20050206 introduced Corinna's changes to ftruncate, which migh

Re: Re: Building Perl modules

2005-02-09 Thread Olaf Föllinger
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 01:17:00PM -0500, Alejandro Calbazana wrote: > Hmm... Unfortunately, my attempt to build w/ CPAN returns similar results. > > But, it looks like there might be some hope if you are able to build ok. > > Thanks, > > Al > > > Olaf Föllinger wrote: > > >On Wed, Feb 09, 20

Re: Bug in python's tempfile : returning wrong object type

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Herborth
Nick Burch wrote: With cygwin distributed python (2.4, dec 4 2004), there's a bug in tempfile. import tempfile fo = tempfile.TemporaryFile() type(fo) This should return , but is currently returning This also seems broken on python 2.3.4 This isn't a Cygwin problem or feature. The Windows-nati

20050208 hyperthreading bug is back ?

2005-02-09 Thread CV
Summary: I reported before that the 20050206 snapshot appeared to fix the hyperthreading bug for me. Now it seems that the next snapshot 20050208 broke it again. Test Case: -- Command: find z | while read f; do chown username "$f"; done; and a longer version of the test case

Re: 20050208 hyperthreading bug is back ?

2005-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
CV wrote: Summary: I reported before that the 20050206 snapshot appeared to fix the hyperthreading bug for me. Now it seems that the next snapshot 20050208 broke it again. Result: --- after 700 to 1000 files bash hangs with the following error message: 2 [exiting thread] bash 3328

Re: Building Perl modules

2005-02-09 Thread Alejandro Calbazana
That's what puzzles me... All the files gcc claims are missing exist in my include path '/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/CORE'. This path does exist on my install. $ pwd /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/CORE $ ls -lrt | grep EXTERN.h -rwxrwxrwx 1 acalbaza mkgroup-l-d1751 Jan 27 06:46 EXTERN.h* -rwxrwx

Re: AT&T ksh93

2005-02-09 Thread Glenn Fowler
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:01:58 +0100 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Glenn, > On Feb 7 13:36, Glenn Fowler wrote: > > I believe previous ksh93 vs. cygwin issues mentioned on this list have > > been addressed in this release. > > > > I won't be the cygwin ksh93 maintainer, but I can supply cygwin > > pac

more ctime bugs

2005-02-09 Thread ericblake
Corinna, since you've been fixing so many ctime bugs lately to match SUSv3 and POSIX, could you also fix open(2) when O_TRUNC is set, and write(2) and link(2) in general, to touch ctime? I guess this all stems from the fact that the Microsoft documentation for Windows file systems calls out the

OPENGL package maintainer?

2005-02-09 Thread Denis Roegel
Hi, I have tried unsuccessfully to reach André Bleau who is/was the OpenGL package maintainer. Does anybody know how I can reach him or whom I should send my problems with the OpenGL package? Thanks, Denis -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Building Perl modules

2005-02-09 Thread linda w
If the current cygwin version of perl is 5.8.6, will the 5.8.5 directory be used? If I print out @INC from my cygwin perl, I don't see 5.8.5 or 5.8.6 in the include path: > perl -v This is perl, v5.8.6 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int > perl -e 'for(@INC) {print $_; print "\n";}' /usr/lib/perl5/

Stable and Unstable Install Trees

2005-02-09 Thread Phillips, James R
Has anyone experimented with methods for creating more than one useable installation of cygwin on a single workstation? I'm thinking of one install tree that is regarded as stable or production; another as unstable, where software development is happening. Sorry if this has been discussed befor

Re: Stable and Unstable Install Trees

2005-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:58:27PM -0700, Phillips, James R wrote: >Has anyone experimented with methods for creating more than one useable >installation of cygwin on a single workstation? I'm thinking of one >install tree that is regarded as stable or production; another as >unstable, where softw

Re: 20050208 hyperthreading bug is back ?

2005-02-09 Thread CV
Rolf Campbell gmail.com> writes: > CV wrote: > > after 700 to 1000 files bash hangs with the following error message: > > 2 [exiting thread] bash 3328 cygthread::stub: erroneous thread > > activation, name is NULL > > And it appears I spoke too early before. I too, still see a problem: >

Re: 20050208 hyperthreading bug is back ?

2005-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
CV wrote: Rolf Campbell gmail.com> writes: CV wrote: after 700 to 1000 files bash hangs with the following error message: 2 [exiting thread] bash 3328 cygthread::stub: erroneous thread activation, name is NULL And it appears I spoke too early before. I too, still see a problem: 1424 [exit

Re: 20050208 hyperthreading bug is back ?

2005-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 08:47:12PM +, CV wrote: >Summary: > >I reported before that the 20050206 snapshot appeared to fix >the hyperthreading bug for me. > >Now it seems that the next snapshot 20050208 broke it again. Yes, you're right. It's back. I see it myself. How wonderfully bi

Re: error (lilypond)

2005-02-09 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Sean Tou writes: > This may be obvious, but I've been having problems with lilypond. I'm > a Windows XP user. During the installation, an error message popped up > that had the following contents: > > grep.exe - Unable To Locate Component > This application has failed to start because cygintl-1.dl

Re: error (lilypond)

2005-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:01:52AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >Sean Tou writes: >>This may be obvious, but I've been having problems with lilypond. I'm >>a Windows XP user. During the installation, an error message popped up >>that had the following contents: >> >>grep.exe - Unable To Locate

Re: Building Perl modules

2005-02-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Olaf Föllinger wrote: A snippet of the errors: gcc -c -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -DUSEIMPORTLIB -O3 -DVERSION=\"3.45\" -DXS_VERSION=\"3.45\" "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/CORE" -DMARKED_SECTION Parser.c Parser.xs:18:20: EXTERN.h: No such file or d

Re: Building Perl modules

2005-02-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
linda w wrote: If the current cygwin version of perl is 5.8.6, will the 5.8.5 directory be used? If I print out @INC from my cygwin perl, I don't see 5.8.5 or 5.8.6 in the include path: The naming scheme has changed, I use only the major numbers since 5.8.6 and for upcoming releases. > perl -v Thi

Re: Building Perl modules

2005-02-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Alejandro Calbazana wrote: That's what puzzles me... All the files gcc claims are missing exist in my include path '/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/CORE'. This path does exist on my install. $ pwd /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/CORE $ ls -lrt | grep EXTERN.h -rwxrwxrwx 1 acalbaza mkgroup-l-d1751 Jan

Re: perl & Win32 lib support

2005-02-09 Thread linda w
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: What exactly is giving the error, and what error are you getting? I had an IsWinNT is undefined error message 2 days ago, but I removed some old-seeming directories (since I have 5.8.6 installed, I thought I'd try deleting older versioned directories, though I have no

Re: Building Perl modules

2005-02-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: linda w wrote: > perl -V This is perl, v5.8.6 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int > perl -e 'for(@INC) {print $_; print "\n";}' /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/li

Re: perl & Win32 lib support

2005-02-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
linda w wrote: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: What exactly is giving the error, and what error are you getting? I had an IsWinNT is undefined error message 2 days ago, but I removed some old-seeming directories (since I have 5.8.6 installed, I thought I'd try deleting older versioned directories,

scponly for chrooted sftp server in cygwin

2005-02-09 Thread Chad Neufeld
Hi, I am attempting to setup and sftp server on a windows XP pro machine. I have the latest cygwin and openssh files from cygwin.com. I downloaded the scponly source files and am now attempting to compile them. I get the following error message: $ make gcc -g -O2 -I. -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D

Re: OPENGL package maintainer?

2005-02-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:38 PM 2/9/2005, you wrote: >Hi, > >I have tried unsuccessfully to reach André Bleau who is/was >the OpenGL package maintainer. Does anybody know how I can >reach him or whom I should send my problems with the OpenGL >package? This list is generally the preferred way to discuss Cygwin issues

[Fwd: Re: bug in setup.exe?]

2005-02-09 Thread linda w
: [It depends on what email client you use to read with -- if one is using a GUI, the top of the message is displayed first. This forces "scrolling" (or turning) to the last page of an email -- reading it in reverse order...how lame is that? Even if you use a tty mode email interfa