Re: mingw path/mount handling code (Was: Re: Practical method for automatic Cygwin install?)

On Dec 9 07:48, Brian Dessent wrote: > The way I see it, in a perfect world, this library would be BSD/MIT > licensed, or at the very least LGPL, so that "foreign" programs by 3PPs > could use it unencumbered, so that they can function better with Cygwin. > > However, winsup/utils/path.cc is unde

Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars

On Dec 8 23:50, Brian Dessent wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > > Windows strips trailing spaces and dots (unless the file name > > > consists only of spaces). You need a managed mount to > > > preserve those; otherwise "foo ", "foo.", "foo. . . . ", "foo", > > > and a bunch of other

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On Dec 8 16:08, David Rothenberger wrote: > -- > Problem 1: > -- > With the 20051207 snapshot, I'm getting > recreate_mmaps_after_fork_failed errors from XEmacs.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.6-1

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:40:49 -0500 (EST), wrote: >On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, zzapper wrote: Hi, >From out of no-where I am now getting the listing of the prototypes of all my >scripts when I launch a new shell and more worryingly the tab completion of file names has stopped working eg ls fred? -- z

Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

Pierre A. Humblet wrote: I still don't understand how the .exe got to appear... What I observe here is that if a.exe exists, then ln -s a b produces b.exe ==> a.exe (weird to me) However ln -s a.exe b produces b ==>a.exe So that explains how sendmail.exe appears when exim.exe exists, but doesn'

Re: gnuplot dependency in octave

Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > How about having a gnuplot-nox package like debian, which satisfies > the dependancy, and having gnuplot-x-drivers available separately? > It could be referenced in the README easily enough, and wouldn't be > too hard to find.. Currently not only /usr/sb

Re: 'uptime' command producing incorrect uptime

On Dec 10 17:50, Steve Thompson wrote: > It also appears to > be wrong for uniprocessor hosts that have been up for more than 49.7 days > because of the 32-bit value returned by GetTickCount(); my own system > reported an uptime of 16 days after being up for 66 days. It's using GetTickCount only

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot(was: Emacs and 'alarm clock')

On Dec 11 22:44, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > > The problems described in > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00441.html > > are absent if one uses the snapshot 2005.10.24 12:04:00. > > Those problems appear at least from the snapshot 2005.11.17 and are > present also with the last sna

Before Firewall

Good Morning I'm before a firewall and I can access the internet . In The Windows I configured the proxy address , the port (3128) , my login and password . I can access without problems . But I dont know how I must configure the Cygwin for access the internet too . I used to us

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot(was: Emacs and 'alarm clock')

> Corinna Vinschen writes: > Could the xemacs maintainer please have a look into that and break > this down into something which can be handled by a xemacs ignorant? I think the OP means emacs and not xemacs. But xemacs has problems with starting subprocesses as indicated in o http:

Re: 'uptime' command producing incorrect uptime

On Dec 10 22:23, Jack wrote: > Hi there, > > It appears to me that the uptime command is not producing the correct > uptime and, in fact, is running twice as fast as it should be. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ uptime > 22:03:00 up 98 days, 13:37, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > [EMAI

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot(was: Emacs and 'alarm clock')

On Dec 12 13:32, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > Could the xemacs maintainer please have a look into that and break > > this down into something which can be handled by a xemacs ignorant? > > I think the OP means emacs and not xemacs. But xemacs has problems

Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Krzysztof Duleba on 12/12/2005 3:35 AM: > > And ln -s -f a b produces b ==> a if a.exe doesn't exist yet. You are correct that the behavior of cygwin ln in the presence of symlinks has not been consistent in the past. I think the curren

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: findutils-4.2.27-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of findutils, 4.2.27-1, is available for experimental use. NEWS: = This is a new stable upstream release. This release depends on features that are not in cygwin-1.5.18-1, but which are in snapshot 20051210 or later. Therefore, thi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.6-1

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:28:04 -0800 (PST), wrote: >On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, zzapper wrote: > >> On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:55:51 -0800 (PST), wrote: >> >>> Fresh from the oven, an updated version of zsh (zsh-4.2.6-1) has been >>> freshly baked and should be at a mirror near you real soon. >>> >> Hi Peter, >

Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:49:52AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Dec 8 23:50, Brian Dessent wrote: >> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >> >> > > Windows strips trailing spaces and dots (unless the file name >> > > consists only of spaces). You need a managed mount to >> > > preserve those; ot

Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars

Christopher Faylor wrote: > but I don't think we should ever go down the path of blithely creating files > with special characters by default. Now, now... what better way to embrace WJM at its finest than for Cygwin to randomly and inexplicably litter stray "CON" or "you can't delete me . . . " f

Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars

On Dec 12 08:17, Brian Dessent wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > but I don't think we should ever go down the path of blithely creating files > > with special characters by default. > > Now, now... what better way to embrace WJM at its finest than for Cygwin > to randomly and inexplicably

Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:17:18AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>but I don't think we should ever go down the path of blithely creating >>files with special characters by default. > >Now, now... what better way to embrace WJM at its finest than for >Cygwin to randomly an

RE: Starting with Cygwin NFS Server

> > The doc you mentioned above is the README for the original > > nfs-server package. There is a cygwin-specific README for > > the nfs-server package as well, under: > > > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/nfs-server-2.3-3.README > > [snip] > > Thanks. > > Perhaps the foloowing question is off-topic.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: exim-4.60-1

I have updated Exim, the Mail Transfer Agent, to version 4.60. News - For changes to exim proper, see

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On 12/12/2005 2:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 8 16:08, David Rothenberger wrote: >> -- >> Problem 2: >> -- >> This is also with XEmacs. I normally start

Re: Before Firewall

Alexandre Pereira - Tracker Solutions wrote: Good Morning I'm before a firewall and I can access the internet . In The Windows I configured the proxy address , the port (3128) , my login and password . I can access without problems . But I dont know how I must configure the Cygwin

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On Dec 12 11:59, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 12/12/2005 2:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > But I can't reproduce this grep problem since I'm unable to start the > > above grep. The grep submenu is entirely greyed out when I look into > > it. > > I didn't mention the grep submenu. Here's a

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:00:39PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Dec 12 11:59, David Rothenberger wrote: >> On 12/12/2005 2:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > But I can't reproduce this grep problem since I'm unable to start the >> > above grep. The grep submenu is entirely greyed out when I

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On 12/12/2005 1:00 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 12 11:59, David Rothenberger wrote: >> On 12/12/2005 2:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> 3. XEmacs will prompt for a command. The prompt will already have >>"grep -n ". Just add (without quotes) "-i system /etc/passwd" and >>then pre

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot(was: Emacs and 'alarm clock')

Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > > I think the OP means emacs and not xemacs. > Yes, I mean EMACS and not XEmacs! I confirm that the problems described in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00441.html are absent with the snapshot 2005.10.24. Ciao, angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: ht

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot(was: Emacs and 'alarm clock')

>>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes: > You *did* read that I checked in a patch this morning which should solve > this, didn't you? > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00452.html Yup, xemacs can start subprocesses again with the 20051212 snapshot.

System Tray

Is there a library, or, even better, a command line utility, in cygwin to place an icon on the system tray? Would be a great way to do notifications, especially if it supported those tool tip popups. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://

Re: 'uptime' command producing incorrect uptime

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 10 17:50, Steve Thompson wrote: > > It also appears to > > be wrong for uniprocessor hosts that have been up for more than 49.7 days > > because of the 32-bit value returned by GetTickCount(); my own system > > reported an uptime of 16 days af

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot(was: Emacs and 'alarm clock')

With the snapshots 20051212 13:44:06 the problems described previously remain. They seem a little worst. Best regards, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Hi, With the 20051212 snapshot I am not seeing this problem. I'm still running tests, but at this point it looks good. I'm also still trying to see if it will hang. Peter On Dec 7, 2005, at 3:18 PM, Peter Rehley wrote: Hi, I've retried the problem I mentioned in t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.6-1

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, zzapper wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:28:04 -0800 (PST), wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, zzapper wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:55:51 -0800 (PST), wrote: Fresh from the oven, an updated version of zsh (zsh-4.2.6-1) has been freshly baked and should be at a mirror near you real

RE: System Tray

> From: Lst Recv > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 5:46 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: System Tray > > Is there a library, or, even better, a command line utility, > in cygwin to place an icon on the system tray? > > Would be a great way to do notifications, especi

Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

At 06:20 AM 12/12/2005 -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to Krzysztof Duleba on 12/12/2005 3:35 AM: >> >> And ln -s -f a b produces b ==> a if a.exe doesn't exist yet. > >You are correct that the behavior of cygwin ln in the presence of symlinks

Re: System Tray

Gary, could you post a few links to some of those libraries? Yes, that's exactly what I'd like to do. Why? It's a great way for unobtrusive, yet noticeable, notifications. My immediate goal is to script a little unit test runner in the background, which constantly runs, and loads a green or red