[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: monotone-0.45-1

2009-09-13 Thread Lapo Luchini
Version 0.45-1 of monotone has been uploaded for Cygwin 1.7; please notice that due to missing dependencies monotone will remain at release 0.42-1 for Cygwin 1.5; you have to upgrade if you want to use the new versions. Please read carefully: http://cygwin.com/#beta-test monotone is a free distrib

Reading what should not!

2009-09-13 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Just a curiosity... (I have seen th following on Cygwin-1.7, but perhaps it happens also on 1.5) Suppose that there are two users: the administrator (root) and a simple user (pippo). Suppose that 'pippo' has a file 'foo.txt' with permissions: rw--- Why 'root' can read 'foo.txt'? For exam

Cygwin 1.7 message queues - permission denied error still exists

2009-09-13 Thread Philip Semanchuk
Hi all, I'm fooling around with POSIX IPC under Cygwin 1.7 beta and message queues still seem to be broken per the description in this thread: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00539.html That thread says that a fix is in "-29" [1]. I'm not sure what version I have, but I downloaded

Re: Cygwin 1.7 message queues - permission denied error still exists

2009-09-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:13:42PM -0400, Philip Semanchuk wrote: >Hi all, >I'm fooling around with POSIX IPC under Cygwin 1.7 beta and message >queues still seem to be broken per the description in this thread: >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00539.html > >That thread says that a fix

Re: Cygwin 1.7 message queues - permission denied error still exists

2009-09-13 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Sep 13, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:13:42PM -0400, Philip Semanchuk wrote: Hi all, I'm fooling around with POSIX IPC under Cygwin 1.7 beta and message queues still seem to be broken per the description in this thread: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygw

Re: Cygwin 1.7 message queues - permission denied error still exists

2009-09-13 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/9/13 Philip Semanchuk: > I also ran 'uname -srv' didn't contain anything > that looked like a relevant version number. uname -r normally does the job: $ uname -r 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) Unfortunately that doesn't contain the package release number used to differentiate the beta releases, which is

Re: Cygwin 1.7 message queues - permission denied error still exists

2009-09-13 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Sep 13, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/9/13 Philip Semanchuk: I also ran 'uname -srv' didn't contain anything that looked like a relevant version number. uname -r normally does the job: $ uname -r 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) Unfortunately that doesn't contain the package release number u

Re: Cygwin 1.7 message queues - permission denied error still exists

2009-09-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 01:25:01PM -0400, Philip Semanchuk wrote: >On Sep 13, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> FAQ: >>> >>> >>> - Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-61? >>> >>> A: The `uname -v' command prints "2009-09-11 01:25" > >Thanks Andy. Mine is dated 2009-08-20 10:5

subversion hangs on svn up using 1.6.4 & 1.6.5

2009-09-13 Thread John Bito
I'm not sure how to diagnose this problem, as svn up produces no output and svn admin recover says: svnadmin: Expected repository format '3' or '5'; found format '10' I imagine that the format 10 indicates that the repository is corrupt. Do you have any suggestions for repairing it? There's som

Re: Reading what should not!

2009-09-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/13/2009 10:04 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Just a curiosity... (I have seen th following on Cygwin-1.7, but perhaps it happens also on 1.5) Suppose that there are two users: the administrator (root) and a simple user (pippo). Suppose that 'pippo' has a file 'foo.txt' with permissions: rw---

Core dump on hello world.

2009-09-13 Thread Jerry DeLisle
I first noticed this when trying to build and run gfortran 4.5 for my development work on cygwin 1.7. This is on WinNT running in VirtualBox. With 4.5, I get no output at all. With gfortran distributed with Cygwin I get the following. Am I configured wrong? Regards, Jerry $ cat hello.f90

R: Core dump on hello world.

2009-09-13 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Lun 14/9/09, Jerry DeLisle ha scritto: > Da: Jerry DeLisle > Oggetto: Core dump on hello world. > A: cygwin@cygwin.com > Data: Lunedì 14 settembre 2009, 06:45 > I first noticed this when trying to > build and run gfortran 4.5 for my development work on cygwin > 1.7.  This is on WinNT running

Re: emacs installed but won't run

2009-09-13 Thread René Berber
Charles Blair wrote: >When I type "emacs", I get a new command prompt, with no other > messages. That's expected when a library is missing, you can make sure by running "emacs; echo $?" and getting error 53. More interesting is knowing which library is missing, run "cygcheck emacs". Install