Re: Cygwin 1.7.5 fork() bug

2010-05-17 Thread Huang Bambo
2010/5/17 Christopher Faylor : > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:09:55AM +0800, Huang Bambo wrote: >>fork() may translate a wrong encoded path name to CreateProcessW in somecase. >> >>My cygwin version: >> >>$ uname -a >>CYGWIN_NT-5.1 bambo-notebook 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-12 19:07 i686 Cygwin >> >>Thi

Re: Problem with sunrpc

2010-05-17 Thread jeanherve . queau
>On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 05:07 +0530, Zahir Koradia wrote: >> Hi, >> This message might be specifically for Sam Robb but am sending to the >> whole list as others may be able to help. I installed the binaries and >> downloaded the source of sunrpc while installing cygwin. I intended to >> use the fun

Write to screen

2010-05-17 Thread Luis Vital
Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to write directly to a position on the screen. I am using the text version of cygwin and I compile my program with GCC. Thanks in advance, Luis Vital -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: Write to screen

2010-05-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17/05/2010 12:49, Luis Vital wrote: > I would like to know if it is possible to write directly to a position on > the screen. > I am using the text version of cygwin and I compile my program with GCC. Sure, you can use the ncurses library to fully control text-mode output: http://tldp.org/H

Re: 1.7.5 ssh no longer functions after upgrade from 1.5

2010-05-17 Thread Scott D Friedemann
On 5/14/10 1:44 PM, Matthias Meyer wrote: Yes! Optionally install openssh again. Than call ssh-host-config as well as ssh-user-config. Recognize any library error. The dependency management during cygwin installation isn't very well. My installation was missing one or two necessary cyg-libraries.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1

2010-05-17 Thread Andy Koppe
On Friday, May 14, 2010, Ken Brown wrote: > I tried Ctrl+Alt+Shift+5 in emacs under X11, and it seems to work fine, i.e., > it is recognized as C-M-%.  I also tried it in an xterm window ('emacs -nw'), > and it fails there but in a different way than in mintty: emacs sees it as > C-%. I don't k

Re: NCurses

2010-05-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17/05/2010 15:50, Luis Vital wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I appologise for comming back to you but I am experiencing some problems > with NCurses under Cygwin. Hi Luis, Please keep the discussion on the list, for all the reasons described at http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE. > As they say

info -- not nearly as comprehensive as before

2010-05-17 Thread Rockefeller, Harry
What happened to info? Most of the compiler commands are absent. CVS is still there but svn is absent, etc. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygw

permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered windows 7 and cygwin

2010-05-17 Thread Bill Hoffman
Hi, I have new Windows 7 machine with cygwin. I am running into some odd permission problems. When I edit files with windows emacs in a cygwin folder (c:/cygwin/home/username), the files end up with the execute bit on something like this: -rwxrwxr-x If I run explorer on the directory, and

Re: permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered windows 7 and cygwin

2010-05-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17/05/2010 16:44, Bill Hoffman wrote: > "The permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered, which may cause some > entries to be ineffective." > Does anyone have any ideas how to avoid this issue? Does anyone have an > explanation as to what is going on here? Thanks in advance. http://cygwin.c

1.7 sshd - Alternative for cyg_server account?

2010-05-17 Thread Greg Fury
Excuse me for my lack of Windows security knowledge. I'm getting some pushback from our Windows admins while trying to implement sshd (1.7) on Windows server 2003. They are concerned about the cyg_server account being a local administrator. Saying it's another account that could be compromised,

Re: info -- not nearly as comprehensive as before

2010-05-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/17/2010 11:33 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote: What happened to info? Most of the compiler commands are absent. CVS is still there but svn is absent, etc. Not all packages provide info files. For example, 'cygcheck -l subversion' will show you that there is no info file for svn. On the o

NCurses and Cygwin

2010-05-17 Thread Luis Vital
Hi, I just installed NCurses under Cygwin. Looking at the file list after the instalation I see that I have: /usr/include/curses.h /usr/include/ncurses.h etc. and /usr/include/ncurses/curses.h /usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h etc. If I compile using #include I got errors but if I compile using

Re: NCurses and Cygwin

2010-05-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17/05/2010 19:06, Luis Vital wrote: > I just installed NCurses under Cygwin. > Looking at the file list after the instalation I see that I have: > > /usr/include/curses.h > /usr/include/ncurses.h > etc. The real question is how these got there. They aren't part of any Cygwin package. They

Re: NCurses and Cygwin

2010-05-17 Thread Steven Collins
Perhaps the examples are assuming you are controlling the include path via a -I switch to the compiler, thus avoiding any direct reference in the source code that would imply knowledge of your installation? gcc -I /usr/include/ncurses ... On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:06, Luis Vital <> wrote: > Hi,

Re: NCurses and Cygwin

2010-05-17 Thread Vincent Rivière
Steven Collins wrote: Perhaps the examples are assuming you are controlling the include path via a -I switch to the compiler, thus avoiding any direct reference in the source code that would imply knowledge of your installation? In older ncurses versions, ncurses.h was in /usr/include. But now

Re: strftime %b is broken on ja_JP locale

2010-05-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 15 11:39, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote: > >>> On Fri, 14 May 2010 21:27:16 +0200 > >>> Corinna Vinschen said: > > >> It should return "5\u6708" in Japanese and "5\uc6d4" in > >> Korea. MSDN in Japanese describes so. It, however, returns "5" > >> in both locales. > > > > Can you please tell us the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libtasn1/libtasn13/libtasn1-devel}-2.6-1: Tiny ASN.1 library

2010-05-17 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libtasn1/libtasn13/libtasn1-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release libtasn1 NEWS: === * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6 (2010-04-20) [stable] - Fix build failure on platforms without support for GNU LD version s

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libidn/libidn11/libidn-devel}-1.18-1: International Domain Name library

2010-05-17 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libidn/libidn11/libidn-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release libidn NEWS: === * Version 1.18 (released 2010-02-15) [stable] ** libidn: Put forgotten symbols under old namespace. Reverts one unnecessary change in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {gd/libgd2/libgd-devel}-2.0.36RC1-11: An open source code library for the dynamic creation of images.

2010-05-17 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'gd/libgd2/libgd-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Fixed bug for the treatment of fontconfig libraries CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailin

Re: timezone setting ?

2010-05-17 Thread J. David Boyd
Rurik Christiansen writes: > HI, > > Where is the system's timezone defined ? (or what is the customary way > to set it ?) > > Cheers, db...@flm25lve9f / $ echo $TZ EST5EDT -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documenta

Re: 1.7 sshd - Alternative for cyg_server account?

2010-05-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 5/17/2010 12:21 PM, Greg Fury wrote: Excuse me for my lack of Windows security knowledge. I'm getting some pushback from our Windows admins while trying to implement sshd (1.7) on Windows server 2003. They are concerned about the cyg_server account being a local administrator. Saying it's a

1.7.5 cannot bg mintty

2010-05-17 Thread cy . 20 . superconductor
I sometimes forget to append a & when opening a new mintty from an existing mintty. With rxvt this was never a problem, just ^Z and bg in the parent terminal (my shell is bash 3.2.49-23). This doesn't seem to work for mintty (0.6.2-1) though - although it seems that the job has has been put in

Script questions

2010-05-17 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! For the work I do, building and running the Arduino programs first from code retreived from SVN and then building it, I am using Cygwin. Building prior releases worked without complications. I now find out that the latest ones are using Ant from the Apache project group to build each. Here'

Re: Script questions

2010-05-17 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 05/17/2010 10:35 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: > Hello! > For the work I do, building and running the Arduino programs first > from code retreived from SVN and then building it, I am using Cygwin. > Building prior releases worked without complications. > > I now find out that the latest ones are usin