POSIX names for drive letters

Hi, I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin file-system name space. The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps `//./C/'). The reasons for this mapping are: * POSIX allows pa

RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

Hi there, On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > ... The main trick is (or at least used to be) getting your delete, > home, end, etc keys working right, and I can send you my magical > .initrc to take care of that post-haste. Please cc me on that one, huh? Or better, post it to the

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

--On 24 August 2006 10:39 -0700 Eric Hanchrow wrote: Igor> FWIW, my main gripe with Console is that it doesn't Igor> understand line wrapping, so cutting and pasting a line that Igor> wraps multiple times results in multiple lines. Yup. And as far as I know, there's no way to tell

Re: POSIX names for drive letters

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Schwarz, Konrad on 8/25/2006 1:57 AM: > Hi, > > I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an > alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin > file-system name space. > > The proposed mappi

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

Owen Rees wrote: > -snip- > In the context of copying and pasting in a window, I find rxvt far > superior to Console because of the way it handles long lines (as well > copying/pasting the way X does without requiring that X be running). As the author of Console, I'd like to know how does rxvt han

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Owen Rees wrote: > --On 24 August 2006 10:39 -0700 Eric Hanchrow wrote: > > > Igor> FWIW, my main gripe with Console is that it doesn't > > Igor> understand line wrapping, so cutting and pasting a line that > > Igor> wraps multiple times results in multiple lines.

Re: no message or dialog when a DLL is missing

Thanks for the information. I will not submit a patch because I suspect the current behavior is prefered by the majority: having a dialog pop-up in the middle of scripts is much more catastrophic is most case than having a return code, for unattended processing. So I expect the patch to be bad

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

--On Friday, August 25, 2006 14:25:00 +0200 Marko Bozikovic wrote: As the author of Console, I'd like to know how does rxvt handle long lines when copying. I might be able to improve Console :-) The trouble with having chosen "Console" as the name of your project is that Microsoft refers to t

Good bye, Cygwinners

Hi all. I am no longer working with Windows, so I have no free resources (including time) to maintain my Cygwin packages. The list (I hope that it is complete) of my packages follows: docbook-xml412 docbook-xml42 docbook-xml43 docbook-xml44 docbook-xsl hexedit ioperm stunnel xmlto If there is an

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

Owen Rees wrote: > --On Friday, August 25, 2006 14:25:00 +0200 Marko Bozikovic wrote: > >> As the author of Console, I'd like to know how does rxvt handle long >> lines >> when copying. I might be able to improve Console :-) > > The trouble with having chosen "Console" as the name of your project

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: m4-1.4.6-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of m4, 1.4.6-1, is available, replacing 1.4.5-1 as current. NEWS This is a new upstream release. From the NEWS file, the changes since 1.4.5 are listed below. See also /usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.6/. You must rebuild from source if you

cygserver blocking on semctl(SETVAL) call

[Slightly modified from version previously sent on cygwin-developers, who suggest this is a better forum for discussion] I've discovered what I believe to be a internal deadlock issue in cygserver. I have a piece of code: void SemaphoreManager::setValue(semid_t id, int x) const { se

Re: POSIX names for drive letters

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:13:34AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Schwarz, Konrad on 8/25/2006 1:57 AM: >>I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an >>alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin >>file-system name space. >> >>The proposed

Re: POSIX names for drive letters

Schwarz, Konrad wrote: Hi, I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin file-system name space. The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps `//./C/'). The reasons for this mappin

1.5.20 and 1.5.21 break XEmacs UTF-8 support

cygcheck.out Description: output of \"cygcheck -s -v -r\" -- 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/

1.5.20 and 1.5.21 break XEmacs UTF-8 support (error description)

Hi, First of all, sorry that there are two posts. The latest two updates of cygwin.dll make XEmacs crash when loading its support for UTF-8. How to reproduce? Start XEmacs (console or x11 does not matter), press M-x, type "eval-expr" + RETURN, then type "(require 'un-define)" + RETURN (this is s

Re: 1.5.20 and 1.5.21 break XEmacs UTF-8 support

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Windows XP network lockup, when using rsync

Hi all, I have installed the latest version of Cygwin to a WinXP machine (with 10/100 Mbps builtin Ethernet) and to an older Win2000 machine (with 10 Mbps CardBus i/f) and am working on the rsync source to add Win32 native backup/restore of the security info. *Every* time that I run rsync, bot

Re: Windows XP network lockup, when using rsync

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:15:16PM +0100, Howard Thomson wrote: >I have installed the latest version of Cygwin to a WinXP machine (with >10/100 Mbps builtin Ethernet) and to an older Win2000 machine (with 10 >Mbps CardBus i/f) and am working on the rsync source to add Win32 >native backup/restore o

Re: ssh startup failure

Auteria Wallace Winzer Jr. wrote: Originally my Windows filesystem was FAT32 before I converted to NTFS. I re-installed Cygwin 1.5.21-1. After configuring sshd and starting the service I get the following error within /var/log/OpenSSH-sshd.log: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /var/log/OpenSSH-sshd.log

Re: cygserver blocking on semctl(SETVAL) call

On 08/25/2006, Ethan Tira-Thompson wrote: Thanks for taking a look -- I'm afraid I'm stumped. (doesn't help gdb only reports '??' for all function calls when I attach to a process, so I can't tell what any of my code is doing. And yes, I do have -g enabled) You will likely get better resul

Re: Windows XP network lockup, when using rsync

Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > >*Every* time that I run rsync, both the Cygwin default 2.6.6 version > >and my 2.6.9cvs patched version, rsync failes to complete a transfer > >from WinXP to Win2000 and reports that the other end disconnected. > > > >With 100% success rate, WinXP i

RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

> From: G.W. Haywood > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 4:53 AM > Subject: RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window? > > Hi there, > > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > ... The main trick is (or at least used to be) getting > your delete, > > home, end, etc keys worki

Re: chmod, chown doesn't work with 1.5.21-1 (FAQ alert)

On 8/24/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: FWIW, I was going to suggest that you look at the relevant FAQ entry (), but then I realized that the entry is horribly out of date, and doesn't mention filesystem types at all (the only place they are mention

Does gcc on cygwin support thread local storage with __declspec(thread)?

Dear Readers: Recently I am trying to compile mozilla on cygwin, the gcc gives me such warnings: ../../../dist/include/nspr/md/_winnt.h:507: warning: `thread' attribute directiv e ignored Does this mean it does not support TLS? then how to use Thread-local storage on cygwin? Best Regards An