Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-11 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 10.08.2010, 23:00 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:51:38PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 10.08.2010, 19:54 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor: I wanted to let everyone know that I'm aware of the fact that make-3.82 has been released. However, given the number of

Re: Missing APPDATA var in env of ssh sessions?

2010-08-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 11 00:23, Charles Wilson wrote: > Can ssh (or is it cygwin1.dll?) ensure that the user's APPDATA variable > is populated, since it appears to be a pretty important var for Windows > Vista+? The child process started by sshd inherits its minimal environment from its sshd server parent proces

Re: Cygwin DLL 1.7.5-1 would not interfere with Symantec anti virus?

2010-08-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 10 21:26, lala_23...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hello. One of the issues fixed under the New Cygwin DLL 1.7.5-1 > release is the memory leak. Does this mean that we wont have any > problems ruuning anti virus software like Symantec anymore? What is "the" memory leak? What has a memory leak to do

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-08-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 10 21:53, John Carey wrote: > On Aug 10 13:44 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > chdir ("/"); > > h = CreateFile ("foobar", ...); > > if (h == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) printf ("%lu\n", GetLastError()); > > Thanks for the test case for the CreateFile() problem; I used it to > create the fo

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-08-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Al Slater! > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > On 10/08/2010 09:57, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, John Carey! >> >>> After a call to SetCurrentDirectory(), I have seen occasional (< 5%) >>> failures of CreatePipe() with code ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE. I have also seen

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-08-11 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 8/10/10 10:44 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:53:46PM +, John Carey wrote: >> Thanks for the test case for the CreateFile() problem; I used it to >> create the following test, in which Windows 7 CreateFile() fails with >> ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE even when using a stoc

Re: Incomplete installation of subversion

2010-08-11 Thread Andy Koppe
On 10 August 2010 12:59, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 10 August 2010 12:41, David Balažic wrote: >> I have a reasonably up to date cygwin installation (did an update a >> week ago or so). >> Today I run the latest setup (v2.708). In Pending I saw a few libX >> packages and minttty 0.8.1. >> >> Then I sel

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-08-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 11 04:05, Daniel Colascione wrote: > On 8/10/10 10:44 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:53:46PM +, John Carey wrote: > >> Thanks for the test case for the CreateFile() problem; I used it to > >> create the following test, in which Windows 7 CreateFile() fails w

Re: Missing APPDATA var in env of ssh sessions?

2010-08-11 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/11/2010 4:01 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 11 00:23, Charles Wilson wrote: >> Can ssh (or is it cygwin1.dll?) ensure that the user's APPDATA variable >> is populated, since it appears to be a pretty important var for Windows >> Vista+? > > In `man sshd' see the LOGIN PROCESS and SSHRC s

Re: Missing APPDATA var in env of ssh sessions?

2010-08-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 11 08:08, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 8/11/2010 4:01 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 11 00:23, Charles Wilson wrote: > >> Can ssh (or is it cygwin1.dll?) ensure that the user's APPDATA variable > >> is populated, since it appears to be a pretty important var for Windows > >> Vista+? >

Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud

2010-08-11 Thread Dave Cottlehuber
On 7/15/2010 11:44 AM, Ernest Mueller wrote: Michael, did you ever find a fix for this? I had to give up on cygwin on the Amazon 64-bit and instead cobbled together freesshd and random freewares. Larry or others - what's the "right way" to report this as a bug? I think work

Re: Vertical split in GNU screen

2010-08-11 Thread f...@neotek.fr
Thanks a lot for your quick answer! I will be pleased if you could post the version of Screen with vsplit patch as a test release because i didn't try to compile for cygwin yet! I will try it and give my feedback! I'm on winxp sp3! Rgds, Florent.. 2010/8/6 Andrew Schulman : >> Hi, i'm new with ma

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:32:13AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: >Am 10.08.2010, 23:00 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor: > >> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:51:38PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: >>> Am 10.08.2010, 19:54 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor: >>> I wanted to let everyone know that I'm awa

OpenSSH: 5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8

2010-08-11 Thread Carsten . Porzler
Dear Cygwin community, unfortunately we got on some of our Windows 2003 servers this error message while logging on by using OpenSSH 5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8 This error message occurs after the server has been rebooted. If log on once at the Win

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-08-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 04:05:32AM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: >On 8/10/10 10:44 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:53:46PM +, John Carey wrote: >>> Thanks for the test case for the CreateFile() problem; I used it to >>> create the following test, in which Windows 7

Postinstall script errors

2010-08-11 Thread Jeremy Ramer
I recently upgraded from cygwin 1.5 to 1.7. At the end of the install there were errors with some of the postinstall scripts. From the setup.full.log: 2010/08/11 08:39:53 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/bash.sh ln: creating symbolic link `/dev/stdin': File exis

Re: OpenSSH: 5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8

2010-08-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/11/2010 10:14 AM, carsten.porz...@spb.de wrote: Dear Cygwin community, unfortunately we got on some of our Windows 2003 servers this error message while logging on by using OpenSSH 5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8 This error message occurs after t

Cannot run psql under Cygwin

2010-08-11 Thread Clement, Sebastien
When I try to run psql (eg. psql -U myusername -d mydb) from Cygwin, it freezes. When I run it from the DOS console, it works fine. Here are the versions on my system: Windows XP Pro 2002, Service Pack 3 Cygwin: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 W-QUE-A103212 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-12 19:07 i686 Cygwin PostgreSQL:

Re: Cannot run psql under Cygwin

2010-08-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/11/2010 11:57 AM, Clement, Sebastien wrote: When I try to run psql (eg. psql -U myusername -d mydb) from Cygwin, it freezes. When I run it from the DOS console, it works fine. In that case, you need to run Cygwin's bash from a console (i.e. use 'cygwin.bat' as provided by 'setup.exe') and

vi and vim

2010-08-11 Thread Dave Robison
Hello, At the risk of bringing down a cascade of derision, is there any way to use vi instead of vim in cygwin? I really prefer vi, but I can't seem to find a binary for it which isn't linked to one iteration or another of vim. If not, c'est la vie. Thanks for your time, Dave -- Probl

Re: Cannot run psql under Cygwin

2010-08-11 Thread Clement, Sebastien
Okay, many thanks Larry. I forgot to mention I was using the MinTTY console. It works when I use the regular Cygwin console. I found that: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-10/msg00330.html Sébastien -- On 8/11/2010 11:57 AM, Clement, Sebastien wrote: When I try to run psql (eg. psql

Re: vi and vim

2010-08-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/11/2010 12:22 PM, Dave Robison wrote: Hello, At the risk of bringing down a cascade of derision, is there any way to use vi instead of vim in cygwin? I really prefer vi, but I can't seem to find a binary for it which isn't linked to one iteration or another of vim. If not, c'est la vie.

Re: Cannot run psql under Cygwin

2010-08-11 Thread Steve Holden
This is running in a mintty console on a fairly recent (updated four days ago) Cygwin load and the standard Windows PostgreSQL server: shol...@lifeboy ~/Projects/PytDj/Pyteach/templates/training $ psql -h localhost -p 5432 -U django PyTeach Password for user django: Welcome to psql 8.2.11 (server

tar permission errors when copying directories to a server

2010-08-11 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, I use tar to backup my files to a server using a command >tar cf - . --exclude-from=./.backup-exclude | (cd "$dest_dir"; tar xvf -) > > "$log_file" After finally upgrading to 1.7, I started getting the following errors: tar: ./dir-name1: Cannot change mode to rwx-w--w-: Permission

RE: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-08-11 Thread John Carey
On Aug 11 01:49 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 10 21:53, John Carey wrote: > > Now, where is Windows stuffing the extra copy of the directory handle? > > In those reference-counted heap-allocated directory objects. Stepping > > through the machine code under Windows 7 I see SetCurrentDirectory()

Re: Incomplete installation of subversion

2010-08-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andy Koppe! > Setup.exe 2.712 with a fix for this and a few additional tweaks to the > "Unmet dependencies" page has been uploaded to http://cygwin.com. Can't download it - server not sending file size, causing download to abort. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 12.08.20

Re: Incomplete installation of subversion

2010-08-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/11/2010 4:51 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Andy Koppe! Setup.exe 2.712 with a fix for this and a few additional tweaks to the "Unmet dependencies" page has been uploaded to http://cygwin.com. Can't download it - server not sending file size, causing download to abort. Works fine f

abnormal exit codes

2010-08-11 Thread Stephen Dewey
Hi, I am trying to install Cygwin (latest version, 1.7.5-1) on a Windows XP Professional computer, and I keep getting errors that certain scripts exited with abnormal codes. Specifically: Package: libglade2.0_0 libglade2.0.sh exit code 2 Package: mined mined.sh exit code 1 Package: No package l

CygWin Security & Performance Issues

2010-08-11 Thread David Law
Hello List, about 18 months ago we recommended cygwin as a unix-like environment for a Windows 2003 Server to our Admin. This was turned down on the grounds that it did not satisfy the security requirements of our organisation. (unfortunately I don't know the details as I wasn't involved in the

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-08-11 Thread Andy Koppe
On 11 August 2010 20:55, John Carey wrote: > On Aug 11 01:49 Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> there's no Win32-safe way to set a new >> directory handle as cwd in Vista and later anymore.  Since there's no >> official API to set the cwd using a directory handle, there's no way to >> set the Win32 cwd to