problems in Perl process management

2005-05-10 Thread Sonam Chauhan
Hello - I'd appreciate help with problems doing process management in Cygwin/Perl. I have a Perl application that creates child processes - I need it to kill processes that exceed a certain timeout. I am trying to use the Proc::ProcessTable and Proc::Killfam CPAN modules for this. I ran into t

RE: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not

2005-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Charles D. Russell >Sent: 10 May 2005 04:58 >> [etc] Did your ash script go wrong and rename all those files with actual >> asterisks on the end ? > The * in the listing just indicates that the file is executable (an ls > option that I use by default). Hey,

Re: postgresql and sockets

2005-05-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 9 20:45, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > I turned off all non-system apps except for cygserver and postgresql and > still the same. > > How can I provide more debug info? Is it possible to check which processes > access or modify the socket file? No more debugging necessary. I found the cause

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lilypond-2.4.6-1

2005-05-10 Thread Bertalan Fodor
A new version of lilypond will be available on the mirrors soon. This is the latest stable release of LilyPond, the GNU Music Typesetter. Enjoy. Bert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http

Re: problems in Perl process management

2005-05-10 Thread Jurgen Defurne
I also would like to know if it is possible. However, it could be that it has nothing to do with Cygwin. I have a Perl script which forks several children and monitors their output. If a child fails, then it has no use to run all forked processes further and I kill them with the perl 'kill' comma

Re: Bug in the /dev/ttySx handling code?

2005-05-10 Thread Martin Koegler
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:35:26PM +0200, Martin Koegler wrote: > At least, I understand, why stty -F /dev/ttyS0 under cygwin return 0 baud: > tcgetattr returns 0 baud, if DTR is not set, which is different to the > behaviour of Linux. > > I would like to track the problem down, but as the use of

Re: problems in Perl process management

2005-05-10 Thread Steven Hartland
that's by design if u want to kill an entire tree u can do so with process explorer a free download from www.sysinternals.com. Steve - Original Message - From: "Jurgen Defurne" I also would like to know if it is possible. However, it could be that it has nothing to do with Cygwin. I h

SIGSEGV address with SA_SIGINFO

2005-05-10 Thread Marcus Crestani
Hi, I am trying obtain the address caused by a SIGSEGV inside a signal handler, but it seems that the siginfo_t struct isn't set correctly. The value I get from si->si_addr differs from the address where the segfault actually occurred. void fault_handler (int sn, siginfo_t * si, void *ctx) {

RE: Help !!! - Problem running Cygwin in Remote Desktop session with non-admin privileges

2005-05-10 Thread Moghe, Jayant
I want to download Cygwin 1.5.16. Please let me know which mirror site hosts this version. Thanks. Best regards, Jayant Moghe === Texas Instruments (I) Pvt. Ltd. Bagmane Tech Park, CV Raman Nagar, Byrasandra Bangalore - India 560 093 Office Phone: - +91- 80 - 25048295 [EMAIL

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Angelo Graziosi on 5/9/2005 1:50 PM: > > WHY an "xterm setup" if, as I wrote, the problems are present in standard > bash shell, i.e. that launched with cygwin.bat. Chris apologized for misreading your email and misleading this conversat

RE: Building GCC-4.0-20050430

2005-05-10 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Anh Vo wrote: > I successfully built it for three languages Ada, C, C++ with > configured as --enable-languages=ada,c,c++ > --enable-threads=gnat. A number of Ada Conformance Assessment > Test Suite (ACATS) failed. Further testing reveals that the > Ada runtime tasking support was not included

Re: Static destructors not running

2005-05-10 Thread William M. (Mike) Miller
On 5/9/05, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Original Message > >From: William M. (Mike) Miller > > The output "In dtor." is missing. > > That's because stdout is already closed by the time your dtor runs. I > stepped right into it, it does the printf call but somewhere down in the

system shared memory version mismatch detected woes

2005-05-10 Thread Rob Light
I've recently updated my cygwin install (1.5.16-1) and now I'm getting this error message a lot: C:\Cygwin\bin\ssh.exe (3672): *** system shared memory version mismatch detected - 0x75BE0074/0x75BE0080. This problem is probably due to using incompatible versions of the cygwin DLL. Search for cygw

RE: system shared memory version mismatch detected woes

2005-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Rob Light >Sent: 10 May 2005 14:45 > I've recently updated my cygwin install (1.5.16-1) and > now I'm getting this error message a lot: > > C:\Cygwin\bin\ssh.exe (3672): *** system shared memory > version mismatch detected > - 0x75BE0074/0x75BE0080. > This problem

Packaging errors with tetex-3.00-3

2005-05-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi tetex-base: tetex-doc: tetex-extra: tetex-tiny: /usr/doc/ instead of /usr/share/doc tetex-bin: bogus /usr/lib/libkpathsea.la~ /usr/share/man/mf.1 instead of /usr/share/man/man1/mf.1 Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Error during upgrade/X11 install

2005-05-10 Thread David Balažic
Hi! I had a base cygwin installation* on WinXP-pro-SP2. Then I downloaded the latest setup.exe, selected xorg-x11-base and clicked NEXT... During install I got an error dialog : sh.exe - Unable To Locate Component This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found. Re-instal

Re: Help with error in vi and man

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:20:55AM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: >On 5/7/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 06:27:59PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: >> >On 5/7/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:59:22PM -0600,

GDB win-32 port developmer needed

2005-05-10 Thread Clax Clinton
Is there anyone with knowledge about the win32 debug interface, perhaps some gdb-on-cygwin maintainer that is interested in doing some work on a similiar (but comercial) project? Then please answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] regads, Clax -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

RE: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not

2005-05-10 Thread Ross Boulet
> >> [etc] Did your ash script go wrong and rename all > those files with > actual > >> asterisks on the end ? > > > The * in the listing just indicates that the file is > executable (an ls > > option that I use by default). > > > Hey, just wondered. It happened to me once > > I'm won

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 10 06:56, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Angelo Graziosi on 5/9/2005 1:50 PM: > > > > WHY an "xterm setup" if, as I wrote, the problems are present in standard > > bash shell, i.e. that launched with cygwin.bat. > > Chris apologized for misreading your email and misleading this > convers

Re: Fixing strace and cygcheck so that they work with mount -X

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:19:14PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: >On 9-May-2005 19:22, David Rothenberger wrote: > >> On 5/8/2005 7:26 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>> On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 08:21:26PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> Ultimately, I just have to make strace and cygcheck

RE: Experiencing problems with OpenGL

2005-05-10 Thread André Bleau
Julian Moorsm wrote: Hi everybody, ? Hi Julian, Welcome to the Cygwin list. First and foremost I have to say that I am so happy with the concept of Cygwin and to the Cygwin volunteers ?Keep up with the good work. It is so much appreciated?. I am having a little problem with compiling an OpenGL sour

Re: JNI and cygwin.

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:31:22PM -0700, Venkatesh Gopal wrote: >I assume that the cygwin/JNI combination has still not been fixed in >the latest version. I need to make use of the cygwin libraries to get >TERMinal support. Any workarounds? Any other libraries supporting >curses and TERMinal op

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 06:56:10AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >Now my question - why can't cygwin have sane defaults for the tty, so that >this question doesn't continue to pop up? Because we hate everyone and want them to suffer? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

RE: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not

2005-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Ross b >Sent: 10 May 2005 16:17 > > I'm wondering if something else happened in the renaming > script. Is it possible there is a space (or some other > non-printable character) as the first character of the file > names? The output on a couple of messages leads m

Re: Bug in the /dev/ttySx handling code?

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:16:56PM +0200, Martin Koegler wrote: >On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:35:26PM +0200, Martin Koegler wrote: >>At least, I understand, why stty -F /dev/ttyS0 under cygwin return 0 >>baud: tcgetattr returns 0 baud, if DTR is not set, which is different >>to the behaviour of Linux

Re: Static destructors not running

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:06:36AM -0400, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: >On 5/9/05, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Original Message >> >From: William M. (Mike) Miller >> > The output "In dtor." is missing. >> >> That's because stdout is already closed by the time your dtor runs

Re: problems in Perl process management

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:12:05PM +0200, Jurgen Defurne wrote: >I also would like to know if it is possible. > >However, it could be that it has nothing to do with Cygwin. I have >a Perl script which forks several children and monitors their output. > >If a child fails, then it has no use to run a

Re: SIGSEGV address with SA_SIGINFO

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 02:03:50PM +0200, Marcus Crestani wrote: >I found in the archives that some "limited implementation of sigaction" was >done in 2004. What is the state of the SA_SIGINFO functionality in current >cygwin? "currently unimplemented" That's why it was a "limited implementati

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer]

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Blake
> > Now my question - why can't cygwin have sane defaults for the tty, so that > > this question doesn't continue to pop up? > > What's a sane setting? When I open a standard bash console window, this > simply doesn't happen. Is $TERM set to "cygwin"? That's the default > setting and, as noted,

stdout closed before static destructors run

2005-05-10 Thread William M. (Mike) Miller
I thought I should repost this under a more accurate title, since Dave Korm pointed out that I had misdiagnosed the problem in my original posting. I updated my installation last Friday. As a result, printf calls in destructors for static objects in C++ code no longer produce any output. Dave ki

RE: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer]

2005-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Eric Blake >Sent: 10 May 2005 16:47 > Actually, it would be nicer if $TERM of cygwin could treat [backspace] as > ^? [0x255] (ASCII delete) ITYM 0x7f cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygw

Re: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not

2005-05-10 Thread Charles D. Russell
Eric Blake wrote: What version of coreutils are you using? Attach the output of `cygcheck -svr' as described in cygwin.com/problems.html, then consider upgrading. __ I am attaching cygcheck in case you can find something obvious. However,I am reluctant to upgrade because the use

Re: Static destructors not running

2005-05-10 Thread William M. (Mike) Miller
On 5/10/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:06:36AM -0400, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: > >I'm still left with the problem of figuring out what changed to cause > >this result. Until I ran the "setup" application last Friday, I was > >seeing output fro

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: guile-1.6.7-1

2005-05-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
I have updated Guile to the new upstream version 1.6.7. This is a bugfix release, which fixes several problems with the garbage collector. Also available, in the test distribution, is a 1.7.2 CVS snapshot. Guile CVS has, amongst other things, gmp rationals and a new garbage collector, which is m

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tetex-3.0.0-3

2005-05-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
I have updated the tetex suite to version 3.0.0-3. This is a bugfix release. It fixes 3rd party linking to the libkpathsea dll, two configuration problems, and a packaging bug. Enjoy, Jan. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page.

RE: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer]

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Blake
> > Actually, it would be nicer if $TERM of cygwin could treat [backspace] as > > ^? [0x255] (ASCII delete) > > > ITYM 0x7f [/me blushes] yep - thanks for spotting my typo -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin

Re: Static destructors not running

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:54:45AM -0400, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: >On 5/10/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:06:36AM -0400, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: >> >I'm still left with the problem of figuring out what changed to cause >> >this result

Re: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Blake
> mv -v "$f" " ` echo $f | tr A-Z a-z ` " EVIL - you are moving "FOO" to " foo " (Windows strips trailing spaces, but not leading spaces, so it is really moving to " foo"). YOU ARE ADDING SPACES to the filename. Fix your script so that there are no spaces between "` and `". Also, as mention

RE: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not

2005-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Charles D. Russell >Sent: 10 May 2005 16:54 > __ > I am attaching cygcheck in case you can find something obvious. > However,I am reluctant to upgrade because the use of large static > fortran arrays with cygwin/g77 seems to be a fragile issue and my

RE: Help !!! - Problem running Cygwin in Remote Desktop session with non-admin privileges

2005-05-10 Thread Larry Hall
At 08:24 AM 5/10/2005, you wrote: >I want to download Cygwin 1.5.16. > >Please let me know which mirror site hosts this version. > >Thanks. Any mirror sites offered by 'setup.exe' are all considered to be active mirrors. If your favorite one doesn't have the update you want, please check to mak

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer]

2005-05-10 Thread David Rothenberger
On 5/10/2005 8:47 AM, Eric Blake wrote: I think I may have a culprit. When I run bash in a cmd window: $ [ctrl-v][backspace] ^H $ echo $TERM cygwin When I run it in an rxvt or xterm window: $ [ctrl-v][backspace] ^? $ echo $TERM xterm I get ^H in a cmd window, an rxvt window, and an xterm window. -

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer]

2005-05-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 10 15:47, Eric Blake wrote: > /etc/profile (actually etc/defaults/etc/profile) needs to be updated like so, > to match the current default behavior of the cygwin terminal settings: > > --- /etc/defaults/etc/profile.orig 2005-03-25 08:50:00.003125000 -0700 > +++ /etc/defaults/etc/profi

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer]

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
[responding to no one in particular] On Cygwin when you hit Backspace you get a ^H. Cygwin has been doing this for many years and it is duly recorded in terminfo and termcap that way. Changing this would require updating terminfo and termcap not just on cygwin but on every system which has a cygw

cygwin and gmail problems? Remote host said: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

2005-05-10 Thread Matt Wilkie
Hi All, gmail doesn't seem to like messages from the cygwin mailing list today. Did anybody else get a notice like this? -matt -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10 May 2005 16:48:06 - Subject: ezmlm warning To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! T

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer]

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Blake
> I get ^H in a cmd window, an rxvt window, and an xterm window. > Hmm, it's been more than 1.5 years since I got cygwin working how I like it, so I don't remember exactly what I did, but these lines in /etc/profile are helpful: # Consistent BackSpace and Delete Configuration: # http://www.i

Re: cygwin and gmail problems? Remote host said: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 10:04:23AM -0700, Matt Wilkie wrote: >gmail doesn't seem to like messages from the cygwin mailing list >today. Did anybody else get a notice like this? This is not an issue for the cygwin mailing list and it is actually unlikely to be an issue for sourceware.org. It seems

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer]

2005-05-10 Thread Warren Young
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Can anybody tell me what the `stty erase' setting is good for in /etc/profile? I'm using tcsh, so I'm not bothered by this stuff... This is fine as long are you're within your shell, or another program that is tolerant of the two different ways of saying 'backspace'. If y

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer]

2005-05-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 10 11:18, Warren Young wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >Can anybody tell me what the `stty erase' setting is good for in > >/etc/profile? I'm using tcsh, so I'm not bothered by this stuff... > > This is fine as long are you're within your shell, or another program > that is tolerant

Re: Static destructors not running

2005-05-10 Thread William M. (Mike) Miller
On 5/10/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:54:45AM -0400, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: > >Yes, the output does appear when I call exit instead of returning > >from main(). Unfortunately, that's not an option. For one thing, > >this is shared code tha

RE: Building GCC-4.0-20050430

2005-05-10 Thread Anh Vo
There is a bug preventing from using MinGW/MSYS to build it successfully. Of course, this bug has reported by folks at MinGW. I am in agreement that Ada compiler is not complete if run-time tasking is not supported. Is there any plan to support it in the future? AV >>> "Williams, Gerald S (Je

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer]

2005-05-10 Thread John Morrison
On Tue, May 10, 2005 6:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen said: > On May 10 11:18, Warren Young wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> >Can anybody tell me what the `stty erase' setting is good for in >> >/etc/profile? I'm using tcsh, so I'm not bothered by this stuff... >> >> This is fine as long are you'r

Today I "overinstalled" Cygwin!

2005-05-10 Thread Marco Lechner
see attached screenshot: Cygwin Setup at 146% !! marco<>-- 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/

Windows XP 5.1.2600/Rsync freezes and does not copy any files

2005-05-10 Thread David Secret
I was trying to tunnel a file transfer via SSH from a Windows XP 5.1.2600 machine to a Windows 2003 machine, it seemed SSH was freezing but after further testing rsync seems completely incapable of operation. Doing a simple: $ ls /tmp/a a.txt b.txt c.txt cd /tmp rsync -r -v a b cmd= machin

Re: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not

2005-05-10 Thread Charles D. Russell
Eric Blake wrote: mv -v "$f" " ` echo $f | tr A-Z a-z ` " EVIL - you are moving "FOO" to " foo " (Windows strips trailing spaces, but not leading spaces, so it is really moving to " foo"). YOU ARE ADDING SPACES to the filename. Fix your script so that there are no spaces between "` and `". __

memory for large fortran arrays: problem fixed

2005-05-10 Thread Charles D. Russell
The following seems important enough to fortran users to be indexed by an appropriate subject header. I am reluctant to upgrade because the use of large static fortran arrays with cygwin/g77 seems to be a fragile issue and my current installation is now working (but only with -mno-cygwin). ++

Re: cygwin and gmail problems? Remote host said: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

2005-05-10 Thread Jim Drash
> gmail doesn't seem to like messages from the cygwin mailing list > today. Did anybody else get a notice like this? > gmail has no problems with cygwin mail at all. I read you post and am writing this reply using gmail right now -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Permissions problem mounting NFS shares from Cygwin sshd

2005-05-10 Thread Chip Olson
For reasons too complicated to explain, I need to configure a Windows 2000 machine to mount NFS shares from a Cygwin sshd session. The NFS mounting part of this is taken care of by Windows Services for Unix, and I have User Name Mapping set up so that my Windows user account mounts as its Unix cou

Re: Static destructors not running

2005-05-10 Thread William M. (Mike) Miller
On 5/10/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Previous to 1.5.16, static destructors were always called via a > gcc "atexit" mechanism. This meant that there were scenarios where > destructors would not be called at all so I made cygwin's exit call > the destructors explicitly. I j

Re: Static destructors not running

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:27:02PM -0400, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: >On 5/10/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Previous to 1.5.16, static destructors were always called via a >> gcc "atexit" mechanism. This meant that there were scenarios where >> destructors would not be

Re: postgresql and sockets

2005-05-10 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > No more debugging necessary. I found the cause of the problem. At one > point the file attributes were not correctly stored for socket files and > when postgres touches the socket file (which it does every 5 minutes), > the correct file attributes got lost. Especially

Re: Today I "overinstalled" Cygwin!

2005-05-10 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:02 PM 5/10/2005, you wrote: >see attached screenshot: > >Cygwin Setup at 146% !! > Congratulations! You're certainly a Cygwin over-achiever! ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washingto

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer]

2005-05-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 10 18:53, John Morrison wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 6:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen said: > > Can we stop this discussion and just do it right in /etc/profile by > > just not setting it? > > Humm, sorry I've just started reading this thread, does the > /etc/skel/.inputrc have any (appologies fo

Re: Static destructors not running

2005-05-10 Thread William M. (Mike) Miller
On 5/10/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:27:02PM -0400, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: > >On 5/10/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Previous to 1.5.16, static destructors were always called via a > >> gcc "atexit" mechanism. This

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-10 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have not changed anything in configuration (I have not "touched" any thing in " /etc/profile " etc.) Until some days ago all worked fine. With some upgrades or i do not know "what" the BACKSPACE does not work correctly in answering at command like rm -i: it works as a LEFT arrow key. This happ

Re: Help with error in vi and man

2005-05-10 Thread Trevor Osatchuk
On 5/10/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:20:55AM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: > >On 5/7/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 06:27:59PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: > >> >On 5/7/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL

Problem with ls and EACCESS

2005-05-10 Thread Mark Paulus
I have been trying out the ext2 read/write IFS driver for WinXP, and it seems to work nicely. However, I have noticed this one issue. In /, I have a couple of symbolic links to kernels. When I look at them in a windows command prompt, I see the link as a file: 08/12/2004 05:45 AM

Re: Help with error in vi and man

2005-05-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 10 10:41, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: > One thing that I am still curious is /lib/terminfo. This is a sym > link to a nonexistant directory. Is this an error in the install? It > doesn't seem to affect my current install but I wonder if it breaks > something that I don't currently use. Try `

Re: memory for large fortran arrays: problem fixed

2005-05-10 Thread Mark Hadfield
Charles D. Russell wrote: The following seems important enough to fortran users > to be indexed by an appropriate subject header. I am reluctant to upgrade because the use of large static fortran arrays with cygwin/g77 seems to be a fragile issue and my current installation is now working (but

Re: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not

2005-05-10 Thread Ross Smith
Charles D. Russell wrote: Eric Blake wrote: mv -v "$f" " ` echo $f | tr A-Z a-z ` " EVIL - you are moving "FOO" to " foo " (Windows strips trailing spaces, but not leading spaces, so it is really moving to " foo"). YOU ARE ADDING SPACES to the filename. Fix your script so that there are no sp

Re: Permissions problem mounting NFS shares from Cygwin sshd

2005-05-10 Thread Chip Olson
Quoth Larry Hall: >At 03:03 PM 5/10/2005, you wrote: > > > > I read in the archives that logging in with public-key authentication > can cause problems like this, and indeed, if I log in via ssh with -o > PubKeyAuthentication=no, the mount works fine (and reports my user's

Can we download teTeX 3.00-3?

2005-05-10 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Jan, Have you read ? Can we download 3.00-3 suite or we have to wait for 3.00-4? WHY in teTeX 3.00-2 the directory .texmf is created in the $HOME directory of the user who installed the packages of teTeX? The others users? angelo. -- Unsub

how to kill windows process from bash shell?

2005-05-10 Thread David Fong
Hi, I need some help. I have one windows process (WinXP) that is running from one cygwin window. The process is hanging and I want to kill the process from another cygwin window. There is a separate spawned process from my program C:\windows\system32\dwwin.exe and it has a process number display

Re: how to kill windows process from bash shell?

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:07:40PM -0700, David Fong wrote: >Hi, >I need some help. >I have one windows process (WinXP) that is running >from one cygwin window. > >The process is hanging and I want to kill the process >from another cygwin window. >There is a separate spawned process from my progr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autossh-1.3-2

2005-05-10 Thread Schulman . Andrew
A new version of the autossh package is available in the Cygwin distribution. autossh is a program to start an instance of ssh and monitor it, restarting it if it should die or stop passing traffic. Changes in version 1.3-2: * Clarify the documentation for running autossh as an NT system servic

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: unison2.10.2-2.10.2-2

2005-05-10 Thread Schulman . Andrew
A new version of the unison2.10.2 package is available in the Cygwin distribution. Unison is a file synchronizer for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and

RE: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not

2005-05-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Smith > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:33 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not > > Charles D. Russell wrote: > > Eric Blake wrote: > > > >> mv -v "$f

Re: cygwin and gmail problems? Remote host said: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

2005-05-10 Thread Matt Wilkie
Okay, thanks for the responses. -matt -- 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: how to kill windows process from bash shell?

2005-05-10 Thread John R Larsen
In my installation the path is "/usr/bin/kill" Do a "which kill" to find the path. On 10 May 2005 at 18:18, Christopher Faylor wrote: Date sent: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:18:49 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cygwin@cygwin.com

Re: how to kill windows process from bash shell?

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 10:18:15PM -0400, John R Larsen wrote: >In my installation the path is "/usr/bin/kill" Do a "which kill" to >find the path. Um, no. /bin/kill will work just fine in a standard cygwin installation. It's less typing. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#uns

RE: problems in Perl process management

2005-05-10 Thread Sonam Chauhan
Hello to Reini Urban and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes if you're seeing this. Reine, Yitzchak - Back in Feb, you had a discussion: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-02/msg00224.html Do you think the issue below is related to it? Also, at that time Yitzchak had proposed a patch - do you

Re: problems in Perl process management

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:19:14PM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote: >Hi Christopher - >your response to Jurgen had mentioned: >> ActiveState perl is a windows program. You can't send cygwin (aka unix) >> signals to a windows proram. >This should be possible if the ActiPerl Windows executable was execu

Re: problems in Perl process management

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:22:49PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:19:14PM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote: >>Hi Christopher - >>your response to Jurgen had mentioned: >>> ActiveState perl is a windows program. You can't send cygwin (aka unix) >>> signals to a windows pror

RE: Help !!! - Problem running Cygwin in Remote Desktop session with non-admin privileges

2005-05-10 Thread Moghe, Jayant
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Re: base-files patch (atn: Eric Blake)

2005-05-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Eric Blake wrote: > According to John Morrison on 5/8/2005 1:52 AM: > > On Fri, March 25, 2005 8:26 pm, Eric Blake said: > > > >>True enough. And that points out another bug - echo "$0" may fail if $0 > >>starts with -, it should be echo -- "$0". Isn't portable shell > >>prog

RE: problems in Perl process management

2005-05-10 Thread Sonam Chauhan
Christopher - > Yes, if you send a "kill -9" to a pid that shows up in ps but is > associated with a non-cygwin process, it should work. So what me and Jurgen were discussing works, and you were wrong. Thanks for revisiting your point after your earlier rudeness. Regards, Sonam Chauhan -- El

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 06:56:10AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > >Now my question - why can't cygwin have sane defaults for the tty, so that > >this question doesn't continue to pop up? > > Because we hate everyone and want them to suffer? Hmm, BWHEAW