Re: bash/fork problem on Win server 2003 with terminal serve

2005-04-15 Thread Lionel B
"Lionel B" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I seem to have hit the same issue as described in: > > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00919.html > > [...] > > I've attach cygcheck output for the machine where Cygwin is installed (again > I cannot run > cygcheck on the

Re: 1.5.14-1: child died

2005-04-15 Thread Oliver Vecernik
> Anyway, it could also be a permissions problem: maybe because its a > restricted user, the child process is in some way prevented from accessing > the object created by the parent and it can't notify it. But that's just > guesswork. I think your next most informative option might be to use >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: swig-1.3.24-1

2005-04-15 Thread Max Bowsher
SWIG, the Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator, a tool for easing the interfacing of C/C++ libraries to scripting languages, has been updated in the Cygwin net distribution to version 1.3.24-1. This version has already been present a TEST release for almost 8 weeks now. SWIG has undergone m

Latest snapshot has problems on remote FAT drives

2005-04-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've upgraded to the 20050413 snapshot, and have a WinXP machine connected to a Win98 box on a home network. This used to work in 1.5.12, but now the snapshot has problems creating files and directories, and calling utimes on directories: $ uname -a

RE: 1.5.14-1: child died

2005-04-15 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Oliver Vecernik >Sent: 15 April 2005 09:57 >> Anyway, it could also be a permissions problem: maybe because its a >> restricted user, the child process is in some way prevented from >> accessing the object created by the parent and it can't notify it. But >> that

Re: Building a common cygwin enviroment for network distribution

2005-04-15 Thread Jason Pearce
I've looked around the Cygwin site for information on installation that doesn't use the supplied setup.exe, and I've found a lot of "you on your own" so I'm hoping to get some help here. Thanks! What so wrong with setup.exe? I am doing a similar cygwin roll out at my work site and I use setup.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-5.3.0-5

2005-04-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 5.3.0-5, is available. NEWS This is a minor patch release. The overall 5.3.0 series was designated unstable by the upstream author (compared to the stable 5.2.1), because it introduces some POSIX-compliance fixes for

Re: 1.5.14-1: child died

2005-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 14 11:40, Oliver Vecernik wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure what happened, but if I start Cygwin for a certain > restricted user I receive the following message: > > 9 [main] bash 3624 fork_parent: child 2756 died waiting for > longjmp before initialization > bash: fork: Bad file descrip

Re: bash/fork problem on Win server 2003 with terminal serve

2005-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 14 14:55, Lionel B wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to have hit the same issue as described in: > > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00919.html Please test the latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding

Re: Running Cygwin on Windows 2003 Server via remote desktop

2005-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 14 10:49, Nathan Potter wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having this problem as well. Specifically, I'm getting the following > errors for non-privileged users logging in via Remote Desktop to Windows > Server 2003: > > When I click on the Cygwin Icon: > > 2 [main] bash 6544 fork_parent: child

1.5.14 non-admin account problems

2005-04-15 Thread Michael Haas
For the past couple of days I have been trying to get non-admin accounts working under cygwin. Whenever I try to start cygwin after logging into windows with a non-admin account or try to ssh using a non-admin account I get the following errors: Last login: Fri Apr 15 09:43:31 2005 from sms-m

Re: bash/fork problem on Win server 2003 with terminal serve

2005-04-15 Thread Lionel B
"Corinna Vinschen" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Apr 14 14:55, Lionel B wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I seem to have hit the same issue as described in: > > > > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00919.html > > Please test the latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Th

Re: Installation problems

2005-04-15 Thread George Sohos
Brian Dessent dessent.net> writes: [...] > The version number is displayed when you run setup, on the first page of > the wizard. But, as long as you are using a recent version you should > be fine, as setup.exe does not change that often. 2.457.2.2 [...] > > It could be that for some reason

cron.hourly

2005-04-15 Thread Totte Karlsson
Hi, I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I 'naively' created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a script in there. I had hoped that cron would execute the script once every hour but it does not work. How do I get the folders /etc/cron.hourly, etc/cron.daily etc/cron.weekly corre

RE: cron.hourly

2005-04-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Totte Karlsson wrote: > Hi, > I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I > 'naively' created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a > script in there. I had hoped that cron would execute the > script once every hour but it does not work. > > How do I get the folders /etc/cron.hourly,

RE: cron.hourly

2005-04-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Totte Karlsson wrote: > Hi, > I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I > 'naively' created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a > script in there. I had hoped that cron would execute the > script once every hour but it does not work. > > How do I get the folders /etc/cron.hourly,

RE: cron.hourly

2005-04-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Reid Thompson wrote: > Totte Karlsson wrote: >> Hi, >> I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I 'naively' >> created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a script in there. I >> had hoped that cron would execute the script once every hour but it >> does not work. >> >> How do I get

Re: Symlinks don't work in python???

2005-04-15 Thread Steve Ward
Jason, RE: Sorry, but I cannot reproduce the above problem with the latest snapshot: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 gelpdevjt022 1.5.15s(0.126/4/2) 20050408 16:35:04 ... $ python -V Python 2.4 $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx1 jtishler Do

Re: Losing track of processes?

2005-04-15 Thread Shaffer, Kenneth
"Christopher Faylor" wrote: >>> > If you're not using the -17 (test) version of bash, try that. >>> >>> Wow! Much better! My scripts are still churning after 4 hours. >>> When will this be part of an offical cygwin drop? >>Well, it's already "official" > > FWIW, I've removed -17 from test status

Re: Slow shell script execution on Cygwin

2005-04-15 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Robert_=D6gren?=
Brian Dessent wrote: My questions for you: 1. Do these numbers seem reasonable? Yes, unfortunately. Heavy fork()-exec() based scripts just take forever. Ok. 2. Is there anything (apart from cross-compiling on Linux :) ) that can be done to increase script execution speed? You can try mounting your

Possible to create an X application not linked to cygwin1.dll?

2005-04-15 Thread Stone, Tim
Greetings, I have ported an X application to cygwin/gcc. It runs well under the X server xwin. When I compile, I link up with libX11. Then I end up my app being linked to cygwin1.dll since libX11 depends on cygwin1.dll. I need to distribute this application, but I cannot make it open source. Th

build failure for expat-1.95.8-1 cygwin src pkg

2005-04-15 Thread somian-cyg
When I ran ./expat-1.95.8-1.sh prep the resulting directory tree was not patched. Manually patched after extracting the patch from the cygwin -src tarball. The build fails with the preprocessor error: #error memmove does not exist on this platform, nor is a substitute available in lib/

Re: Symlinks don't work in python???

2005-04-15 Thread Jason Tishler
Steve, On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:54:37PM -0400, Steve Ward wrote: > Can you try my failing experiment (symlink bar.py to file foo.py in > same directory)? I was able reproduce your problem on my way out of work today. > It seems using a different name for the symlink may cause the > trouble...

Re: Possible to create an X application not linked to cygwin1.dll?

2005-04-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 08:39:31PM -0400, Stone, Tim wrote: >I have ported an X application to cygwin/gcc. It runs well under >the X server xwin. > >When I compile, I link up with libX11. > >Then I end up my app being linked to cygwin1.dll since libX11 >depends on cygwin1.dll. > >I need to distri

1.5.12-1: poll bug (Windows 2000)

2005-04-15 Thread Tony Jaa
Cygwin v1.5.12-1/Windows 2000 Cygwin poll() uses POLLPRI as the flag for detecting exceptions, POLLPRI must be explicitly set (otherwise socket exceptions aren't reported), and POLLERR is only used when select() returns -1 but there was no WSAENOTCONN. However, the Unix man page for poll() says PO