SIGPOLL and named pipes

2008-08-24 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Hi, I don't get SIGPOLL on Cygwin in a software that runs fine on Linux and Solaris. Is there a known issue concerning SIGPOLL and named pipes. The setup code looks like this: Input = open(optarg,O_RDONLY); if (Input == -1) error("could not open input file %s: %s\n",optarg,strerror(errno

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2

2008-08-24 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2 This release includes a patch, combined with perl-5.10.0-5, which allows the linking of Gtk2-Perl modules without further intervention. cygport

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygport-0.3.13-1

2008-08-24 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** cygport-0.3.13-1 This is the latest release of the cygport package building tool. Please note that this version of cygport is meant solely for Cygwin 1.5. The next release fr

race on pipe causing read to erroneously return 0?

2008-08-24 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Is it possible that there is somewhere a race condition in the cygwin.dll that causes the reader on a named pipe getting a return value of 0 from read, although another process has already opened the named pipe for writing. In consequence, in my application I see sporadic occurrences of SIGPIPE, w

Re: SIGPOLL and named pipes

2008-08-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 01:47:56PM +0200, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: >I don't get SIGPOLL on Cygwin in a software that runs fine on Linux and >Solaris. Is there a known issue concerning SIGPOLL and named pipes. SIGPOLL (aka SIGIO) is not implemented in Cygwin. >Additionally, there seem to be a bu

Re: Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2

2008-08-24 Thread Reini Urban
2008/8/24 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports): > This release includes a patch, combined with perl-5.10.0-5, which allows > the linking of Gtk2-Perl modules without further intervention. cygport > will soon require this release for gtk2-perl.cygclass. Did you look into the root cause for this headache, libtoo

bash -c '$COMSPEC' # worked sometime b4 cygwin 1.5.24-2

2008-08-24 Thread Tom Rodman
Greetings: ~ $ date;cygcheck -c cygwin Sun Aug 24 11:37:36 CDT 2008 Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygwin 1.5.25-15 OK ~ $ "$COMSPEC" -bash: D:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe: command not found ~ $ ls -l "$COMSPEC" -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 A

Re: SIGPOLL and named pipes

2008-08-24 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 01:47:56PM +0200, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: >> I don't get SIGPOLL on Cygwin in a software that runs fine on Linux and >> Solaris. Is there a known issue concerning SIGPOLL and named pipes. > > SIGPOLL (aka SIGIO) is not implemented in Cygwin. >

Re: SIGPOLL and named pipes

2008-08-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 07:29:59PM +0200, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: >OK, thanks for the information. Do you know when 1.7 is planned to be >released? Yes, but I'm not telling. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: SIGPOLL and named pipes

2008-08-24 Thread Steve Thompson
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 07:29:59PM +0200, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: OK, thanks for the information. Do you know when 1.7 is planned to be released? Yes, but I'm not telling. CGF,YABM! -Steve ---

Re: Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2

2008-08-24 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Reini Urban wrote: > Did you look into the root cause for this headache, libtool? The gtk2-perl hack had nothing to do with libtool, it had to do with the unique case of linking one Perl module against another. I was referring to the EU::Liblist::K

Re: bash -c '$COMSPEC' # worked sometime b4 cygwin 1.5.24-2

2008-08-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tom Rodman wrote: Greetings: ~ $ date;cygcheck -c cygwin Sun Aug 24 11:37:36 CDT 2008 Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygwin 1.5.25-15 OK ~ $ "$COMSPEC" -bash: D:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe: command not found ~ $ ls -l "$COMSPE

RE: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

2008-08-24 Thread Jay
> Apparently my understanding of FAT is wrong then. > Brian FAT stores Unicode on disk, if necessary, as part of the "long name" support. That is, if a name happens to be 8.3, both in length and character set "etc.", it occupies just one "normal" directory entry. If a name is not 8.3, either

Re: Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2

2008-08-24 Thread Reini Urban
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: Did you look into the root cause for this headache, libtool? The gtk2-perl hack had nothing to do with libtool, it had to do with the unique case of linking one Perl module against another. I was referring to the EU::Liblist::Kid patch we disc

Re: Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2

2008-08-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Reini Urban wrote: > Sure. Fixing libtool of course. > Mixing static and dynamic libs should be possible. I think you're missing the point of why libtool disallows it: not because it won't work in a specific instance, but because it is not portable. There is no fix for the fact that on some syst

Re: Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2

2008-08-24 Thread Reini Urban
2008/8/24 Brian Dessent: > Reini Urban wrote: > >> Sure. Fixing libtool of course. >> Mixing static and dynamic libs should be possible. > > I think you're missing the point of why libtool disallows it: not > because it won't work in a specific instance, but because it is not > portable. There is

Re: man: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

2008-08-24 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > With 1.7, there is no such issue; make manifypods builds OOTB. So any > such workaround would have to be caught in the cygport postinstall > stage, maybe in __prepman(). But I'm not sure that it would be at all > nece

End of support for 9x

2008-08-24 Thread Trans-Mit Support
Re:- Note that the official support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me will be discontinued with the > next major version (1.7.0) of Cygwin. Its bad enough having to use windows, but having to upgrade to XP or VISTA is just out of the question. Looks like I won't be using any new versi

Re: End of support for 9x

2008-08-24 Thread Derek Schrock
You're missing the best version of Windows that ever exist, Windows 2000. On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Trans-Mit Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Re:- >> >> Note that the official support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me >> will be discontinued with the > >> next major version (1