Re: autoconf and exeext behavior

2005-12-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Keith Moore on 12/16/2005 4:12 PM: > > That said, another possible solution would be to > rip out the lines mentioned above, and replace all > occurances of "exeext" with "EXEEXT" (the variable > set by the autoconf-generated magic). Tha

Re: recreate_mmaps_after_fork_failed errors post-11-30 snapshot

2005-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:45:59PM -0600, Van Sickle, Gary wrote: >In both cases tar *is* executed and works fine. Due to the Van Sickle >Exclusion Principle (a bug and a debugging tool capable of providing >insight into that bug cannot occupy the same hardware at the same >time), not running unde

STDOUT of non cygwin command lost (in automated ssh session)

2005-12-17 Thread Tom Rodman
background (why plink is used): We have a wrapper script that runs plink to start a localhost ssh session w/password authentication. This wrapper script is designed to run a command after the ssh login. (We also have a similar cygwin expect script.) The benefit- network drives are writable

Re: STDOUT of non cygwin command lost (in automated ssh session)

2005-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 01:52:17PM -0600, Tom Rodman wrote: >background (why plink is used): > >We have a wrapper script that runs plink to start a localhost ssh >session w/password authentication. This wrapper script is designed to >run a command after the ssh login. (We also have a similar cygw

File permissions and ownership changes between Unix and Cygwin

2005-12-17 Thread surendar jeyadev
I have been successful in using 'mkisofs' and 'cdrecord' (from Joerg Schilling)to burn CDs using Cygwin. One thing that is strange is the change in file permissions and ownership. I used 'chown' to (recursively) change the entire filesystem to be burned onto the CD so that the owner was 'SYSTEM'

Re: File permissions and ownership changes between Unix and Cygwin

2005-12-17 Thread Brian Dessent
surendar jeyadev wrote: > I understand that this is something to do with > 'mkisofs', > but I was wondering if there is a Cygwin trick that I > am missing. I would like burn disks so that they have > the right permissions and ownerships when used on a > Unix/Linux machine. In particualar, I want '

Re: File permissions and ownership changes between Unix and Cygwin

2005-12-17 Thread surendar jeyadev
Brian, --- Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > surendar jeyadev wrote: > As far as I understand it, the basic ISO9660 format > does not have any > fields to store file attributes such as owner or > permissions. So on > mounting such a disc, Windows and/or Cygwin will > have to synthesize