Re: Bug identified [was RE: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar"]

2005-07-29 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:16:42AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Dave, Some comments on your analysis. The latest perl uses auto-image-base and the base address should be different than default. It fails anyway. Perl uses its own malloc, rebuilding with the syst

RE: Bash behavior change 2.05b-17 vs 2.05b-16

2005-07-29 Thread Victor Atkinson
> According to Victor Atkinson on 7/25/2005 1:23 PM: >> I believe that it is Bash itself that is causing this behavior, and not some >> underlying Cygwin mechanism, for two reasons: First, the backslash format >> of the command works fine under zsh, tcsh, and csh. Second, backslashed >> paths wor

Please test: bash-3.0-10 and readline-5.0-4

2005-07-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have recently uploaded bash-3.0-10 and readline-5.0-4 for testing, and would appreciate any feedback of user experience before making them the current versions. To try the test versions, select the Exp radio button in the package chooser. Changes i

Re: Bug identified [was RE: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar"]

2005-07-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > At least we figured that perl crashes when it uses more than 384 MB RAM, > similar C programs don't crash. The fact that perl crashes is, IMO, a perl bug, which still needs to be fixed. Perl shouldn't *crash* (i.e., segfault). It could report an out

NOMACHINE NX client uses cygwin

2005-07-29 Thread Reid Thompson
as info.. uses cygwin and cygwin X http://www.nomachine.com/screenshots1.php WS-XP-4960: /C/Program Files/NX Client for Windows> $ find . . ./bin ./bin/cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll ./bin/cygjpeg-62.dll ./bin/cygminires.dll ./bin/cygpng12.dll ./bin/cygserver.exe ./bin/cygwin1.dll ./bin/cygXcomp.dll ./bin

Serial Port Problems

2005-07-29 Thread Michael McCarthy
Hi there, I have been experiencing some problems interfacing the serial ports on two seperate systems: a windows 2000 PC and a windows XP laptop. Basically, all I want to do is read some data from a device that is connected to the serial port. I am using some code (that works under linux) t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.8.7-3

2005-07-29 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Perl has been updated to 5.8.7-3 NEWS This is a bugfix release: - Test::Harness problem when running testsuites for modules from the command line where every second test breaks, this should work ok now. - Using the system malloc() now because the perl malloc()

Re: Bug identified [was RE: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar"]

2005-07-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 11:45:05AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:16:42AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> >>>Dave, >>> >>>Some comments on your analysis. >>> >>>The latest perl uses auto-image-base and the base address should be >>>differen

Re: Please test: bash-3.0-10 and readline-5.0-4

2005-07-29 Thread Frank Wein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake wrote: > + bash now recognizes c:\ as an absolute, not relative path, for the cd > builtin and for command execution BTW: I just wanted to mention that Mozilla configure still fails, the strange thing AFAIK here is that a test from command

Re: Please test: bash-3.0-10 and readline-5.0-4

2005-07-29 Thread Frank Wein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Wein wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >>> + bash now recognizes c:\ as an absolute, not relative path, for the cd >>> builtin and for command execution > > BTW: I just wanted to mention that Mozilla configure still fails, the > strange thing AFAIK here

different DLL....

2005-07-29 Thread Jason FU
I just checked by dll's by "md5sum /bin/*.dll". I really wonder why the MD5's of all files are not the same since they're of the same "ages". Thanks. Jason 217d403d20d82abe32c42b9a73407aca */bin/cygGraphicsMagick++-0.dll 5e82782c2b071097406b059e114b0e07 */bin/cygGraphicsMagick-0.dll 8bbb42f0e

RE: different DLL....

2005-07-29 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Jason FU >Sent: 29 July 2005 16:15 > I just checked by dll's by "md5sum /bin/*.dll". I really wonder why the > MD5's of all files are not the same since they're of the same "ages". MD5 is the hash of a file, not the timestamp. RTFM! cheers, DaveK --

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.7-3

2005-07-29 Thread Eric Blake
> Perl has been updated to 5.8.7-3 > > - Using the system malloc() now because the perl malloc() >implementation caused perl to crash when more than 384 MB memory >is used Thanks - this appears to have fixed the crash I was seeing on Win98 where automake was dying with "Sign

Re: Please test: bash-3.0-10 and readline-5.0-4

2005-07-29 Thread Eric Blake
> Eric Blake wrote: > > + bash now recognizes c:\ as an absolute, not relative path, for the cd > > builtin and for command execution > > BTW: I just wanted to mention that Mozilla configure still fails, the > strange thing AFAIK here is that a test from command line (cygwin here, > but same resul

Re: Please test: bash-3.0-10 and readline-5.0-4

2005-07-29 Thread Frank Wein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake wrote: >> Eric Blake wrote: >>> + bash now recognizes c:\ as an absolute, not relative path, for the cd >>> builtin and for command execution >> BTW: I just wanted to mention that Mozilla configure still fails, the >> strange thing AFAIK her

Re: different DLL....

2005-07-29 Thread Jason FU
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > > Original Message > >From: Jason FU > >Sent: 29 July 2005 16:15 > > > I just checked by dll's by "md5sum /bin/*.dll". I really wonder why the > > MD5's of all files are not the same since they're of the same "ages". > > MD5 is the

Re: different DLL....

2005-07-29 Thread Mark Paulus
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:18:37 + (UTC), Jason FU wrote: >Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > >> >> Original Message >> >From: Jason FU >> >Sent: 29 July 2005 16:15 >> >> > I just checked by dll's by "md5sum /bin/*.dll". I really wonder why the >> > MD5's of all files are n

RE: different DLL....

2005-07-29 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Jason FU >Sent: 29 July 2005 17:19 > Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > >> >> Original Message >>> From: Jason FU >>> Sent: 29 July 2005 16:15 >> >>> I just checked by dll's by "md5sum /bin/*.dll". I really wonder why the >>> MD5's of all files are not the

Re: heap_chunk_in_mb default value (Was Re: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar")

2005-07-29 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 05:07:23PM -0700, Stephan Mueller wrote: > "Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > " > " On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > " > > > I've simplified the test case. It seems that Cygwin perl can't > " > > > handle too much memory. For instance: > " > > > > " > > > $ perl -e '$

Re: heap_chunk_in_mb default value (Was Re: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar")

2005-07-29 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: However code like the above does end up using twice the space; it's allocated once to store the result of the x operation and again when it's copied to $a. Really? I hope you're wrong. Avoiding copy operation while declaring a new variable with a value is a very

Python 2.4.1 locking bug test case simplified!

2005-07-29 Thread Doug Philips
$ python tbq.py each test group is testing 1000 items sem_init: Resource temporarily unavailable Exception in thread Thread-4: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/python.572/usr/lib/python2.4/threading.py", line 442, in __bootstrap self.run() File "/tmp/python.572/usr/lib/python2.

Quick question about your site.

2005-07-29 Thread Software Support HQ
Hi, I took a look at your site a couple of hours ago... and I want to tell you that I'd really love to trade links with you. I think your site has some really good stuff related to my site's topic of software support and would be a great resource for my visitors. In fact, I went ahead and added

RE: Serial Port Problems

2005-07-29 Thread H. Henning Schmidt
Hi there, I have been experiencing some problems interfacing the serial ports on two seperate systems: a windows 2000 PC and a windows XP laptop. Basically, all I want to do is read some data from a device that is connected to the serial port. I am using some code (that works under linux)

Re: heap_chunk_in_mb default value (Was Re: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar")

2005-07-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 05:07:23PM -0700, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > "Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > " > > " On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > > " > > > I've simplified the test case. It seems that Cygwin perl can't > > " > > > handl

Re: different DLL....

2005-07-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Mark Paulus wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:18:37 + (UTC), Jason FU wrote: > > >Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > > > >> Original Message > >> >From: Jason FU > >> >Sent: 29 July 2005 16:15 > >> > >> > I just checked by dll's by "md5sum /bin/*.dll". I really wonder

Re: NOMACHINE NX client uses cygwin

2005-07-29 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Reid Thompson wrote: I played with NX on both linux and Windows for a few months back. It's got it's pros (faster that, say, VNC), and it's cons (session handling sucks and can't re-connect from a different type of machine). But, buy and large, it's not all that relevent to

Re: NOMACHINE NX client uses cygwin

2005-07-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:29:32PM -0700, Peter A. Castro wrote: >On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Reid Thompson wrote: > >I played with NX on both linux and Windows for a few months back. It's >got it's pros (faster that, say, VNC), and it's cons (session handling >sucks and can't re-connect from a different

SysLogD for the naive?

2005-07-29 Thread Herb Martin
I added SysLogD as a service to my Cygwin server (because I wanted to support SpamD logging to it for SpamAssassin.) CYGWIN syslogd is started and running as a service. (And SpamD stopped emitting a warning about unable to find syslogd when it starts.) /var/log/sylogd.log was created at that time

Re: different DLL....

2005-07-29 Thread Jason FU
Igor Pechtchanski cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Mark Paulus wrote: > Ugh, I hope that's not true... [Checks] Yep, md5sum defaults to binary > (as it should). The OP probably used some weird non-binary-mode way of > transferring the files (e.g., FTP in text mode). So the differ

Re: different DLL....

2005-07-29 Thread Jason FU
Igor Pechtchanski cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > Ugh, I hope that's not true... [Checks] Yep, md5sum defaults to binary > (as it should). The OP probably used some weird non-binary-mode way of > transferring the files (e.g., FTP in text mode). So the different md5sums > are legit, and are an indicat

Re: heap_chunk_in_mb default value (Was Re: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar")

2005-07-29 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: However code like the above does end up using twice the space; it's allocated once to store the result of the x operation and again when it's copied to $a. D'oh! I forgot that this was an assignment, not an initialization. I feel properly chastised. :-) How come th

Re: different DLL....

2005-07-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Jason FU wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > > Ugh, I hope that's not true... [Checks] Yep, md5sum defaults to binary > > (as it should). The OP probably used some weird non-binary-mode way of > > transferring the files (e.g., FTP in text mode). So the diffe

Re: NOMACHINE NX client uses cygwin

2005-07-29 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:29:32PM -0700, Peter A. Castro wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Reid Thompson wrote: I played with NX on both linux and Windows for a few months back. It's got it's pros (faster that, say, VNC), and it's cons (session handli

Re: different DLL....

2005-07-29 Thread Jason FU
Igor Pechtchanski cs.nyu.edu> writes: > Yes, running setup, selecting the "Keep" strategy, then switching to the > "Up-to-date" view and choosing to reinstall the packages that contain > corrupt DLLs is probably the best option at the moment. > Igor > P.S. You say you used ncftp's "auto" mo