Obtaining Windows 7 behavior on Windows 8

2013-10-13 Thread Eliot Moss
ht/reasonable thing to do simply to set my XLaunch short cut to run with admin rights? Getting the groups, permissions, and privileges sorted out after what Windows Easy Transfer left me with has been driving me a little crazy ... Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: A ream of questions

2013-12-27 Thread Eliot Moss
this helps. Not sure what you were expecting, but it sounds a little different from what cygwin is aiming to deliver. However, maybe what cygwin does is what you want/need, even if you don't clearly realize it yet ... Regards -- Eliot Moss (Sent first version to Andre only ... sorry, Andre!) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: A ream of questions

2013-12-27 Thread Eliot Moss
for giving terse/reminder help on bash's own commands. For other things, use the "man" command, for example, "man ls" will give you the man page for ls, etc. Hope this helps. Not sure what you were expecting, but it sounds a little different from what cygwin is aim

Re: Ok, then

2013-12-31 Thread Eliot Moss
er cygwin more or less the way they work on Unix. In hope that this will be of some use ... Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Ok, then

2013-12-31 Thread Eliot Moss
My suggestion would be to take a look at some of the many books that try to introduce Unix and bash to new users and see how they have approached a good / logical order of presentation. cygwin itself is perhaps more directed at experienced users -- or in any case, it is making no particular attem

Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from

2014-02-19 Thread Eliot Moss
... Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Setup Path

2014-02-20 Thread Eliot Moss
(bash, the Bourne-again shell, is the default shell brought up in a cygwin terminal window.) Best wishes -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from

2014-02-20 Thread Eliot Moss
the current directory is searched or not ... Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: bash adds dot to $PATH (was: Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from)

2014-03-06 Thread Eliot Moss
If it is of any use, the versions I have installed, bash/sh 4.1.10(4), have the same length and differ in two byte positions, by one bit in each case. These differences may just reflect the different name or a slightly different time at which the .exe was constructed as part of a build process.

Re: mkdir working in command line but not working in csh script

2014-03-21 Thread Eliot Moss
s like mkdir -p, not mkdir. (Cygwin follows Posix standards on this, on purpose; it does not aim to mimic cmd.exe!) If you are talking about bash or csh as your command line, then I do not have further suggestions without seeing more details. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports:

Re: No I/O redirection under GDB

2014-04-04 Thread Eliot Moss
nedocs/gdb/Input_002fOutput.html#Input_002fOutput ). If you want *gdb's* input and output redirected, I would think you want to invoke gdb with I/O redirection on the command line, as in: gdb foo < infile > outfile Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.ht

Re: Cygwin's writev() non-standard behavior

2014-04-23 Thread Eliot Moss
ed a 0 and said writev should just return 0 in that case, but they didn't ... Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http:

Re: GIT

2014-04-26 Thread Eliot Moss
Another suggestion w.r.t. git. While I realize the I am perhaps (probably) losing some of the touted strengths of git, I tend to use it as a front-end (client side) to subversion repos. Therefore I tend to use a simple subversion-like workflow. It's one way to get started with git. You could "b

Re: using cygwin inetd to start a script on a server to run a java application

2014-06-06 Thread Eliot Moss
://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/rmi/inetd/launch-service.html#2 I see that you wrote nowait. I suggest changing it to wait. I am copying this reply to the cygwin list for the archives. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

Re: Fwd: using cygwin inetd to start a script on a server to run a java application

2014-06-09 Thread Eliot Moss
On 6/9/2014 10:41 AM, annie s wrote: Hi Eliot, I really appreciate your time looking at this... " ftp stream tcp nowait annie/usr/sbin/ftpd ftpd example-serverstreamtcpwaitcyg_server /nms/bin/test/testtest " fyi example server is set to wait (and ftp is set to

Re: TeX WYSIWG Editor

2014-07-07 Thread Eliot Moss
for going over and adjusting edits made by others, etc. For figures we tended to use Adobe Illustrator. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: TeX WYSIWG Editor

2014-07-07 Thread Eliot Moss
PS: Lyx was the first "hit" when I Googled "tex wysiwyg". :-) EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Issue with cygwin svn and files with unicode characters

2014-07-21 Thread Eliot Moss
nned preventing me from updating my repository? Perhaps you can tell us how you have your locale set up in cygwin. I think it *might* affect things, though you *are* talking about file names (paths), as opposed to their contents. The locale is affected by things like the LANG environment variable, etc.

Re: Caveats for removing /cygdrive prefix?

2014-07-22 Thread Eliot Moss
if doing a directory list on /cygdrive was a hard-coded operation, to preserve this functionality. Well, I just put in a cygwin symlink of /c to /cygdrive/c and so on for each drive I care about. Maybe that would work for you ... Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

Re: Replicate packages from 32-bit machine on 64-bit machine

2014-08-17 Thread Eliot Moss
emory space for the programs when they are running. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: odd segfault with my c program using cygwin 1.7

2009-12-02 Thread Eliot Moss
Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/2 jeffunit: When compiled with gcc cal.c -o cal and run with cal 2009 I get a segmentation fault. When I uncomment line 62, the program runs successfully. It's the line after that that has the bug: it's writing to index 432 of a 432-element array. I disagree -- I u

Re: 1.7 fork errors in Win7

2009-12-02 Thread Eliot Moss
that certain metadata does not cause problems. Do read up on how to use rebase and peflags! They need to be called from ash, not bash, since otherwise soe of the dll's will be open. Also, I have found the need to drop one or two specific files from the list of *all* so, dll, and exe files t

Re: 1.7 fork errors in Win7

2009-12-02 Thread Eliot Moss
Luis P Caamano wrote: Thanks Eliot, I'll try that later tonight and I'll report back. I'm also getting this kind of error from gvim (that I built myself to add python to it): 2 [main] vim 7580 C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\vim.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap \\?\C:\cygwin\lib\gtk-2.0\2.1

Re: Problem with bash script running under NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM

2009-12-02 Thread Eliot Moss
et is: hyperquest_v2.sql /usr/bin/gzip -f ./hyperquest_v2.sql 2>> error.log usr/bin/gzip: No such file or directory Could it be that the current working directory (.) in this scenario is not the one you think it is? It may be some random place that the scheduled task is using ... Maybe ec

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes

2009-12-04 Thread Eliot Moss
larly the base and -o values, and be sure the check the output. Also, you have to do all this under ash, etc., and build a list of files first with find (or just list particular directories' files). I found there ae one or two files I had to exclude because rebase halts on them. Best wishes

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes REDUX

2009-12-05 Thread Eliot Moss
Ok, I was wrong about ash (not) using cygwin1.dll. Running ldd on rebase and peflags reveals that they use it too, which pretty much says that they are cygwin apps. However, it also shows that the preferred load address, on my system anyway, for cygwin1.dll is 0x6100. That explains the start

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes REDUX

2009-12-05 Thread Eliot Moss
Is BitDefender on the BLODA list? It may be wedging itself in, between cygwin and Windows, redoing various Windows system calls -- but in a way that defeats cygwin ... Cheers -- EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentat

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes REDUX

2009-12-05 Thread Eliot Moss
Sounds good. If you're starting from 0x3500 you might be able to go from the end of cygwin1.dll upward. You could also try ldd on BitDefender and see if ti tell you anything about the dlls it loads and where they typically want to go Best -- EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.c

Re: Manually installing a packages not in the cygwin repositories

2009-12-10 Thread Eliot Moss
hread/thread/ce0d9d91cc716973 Given the changes in the new release, I think you will have to *rebuild* other packages, not simply install them ... HTH -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Manually installing a packages not in the cygwin repositories

2009-12-10 Thread Eliot Moss
On 12/10/2009 10:15 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:26:43AM -0500, Eliot Moss wrote: On 12/9/2009 8:51 PM, gialloporpora wrote: Dear all, I am trying to install M2 using new cygwin setup 1.7Beta, since it doesn't supports the new beta, I have received an error me

Suggested patch for cygwin perl 5.10

2009-12-15 Thread Eliot Moss
after each update. The file in question is: /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin/Cwd.pm Best wishes -- Eliot Moss == J. Eliot B. Moss, Professor http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mosswww Director, Arch. and Lang.

UTF-related question

2009-12-15 Thread Eliot Moss
Following the guidelines related to cygwin 1.7, I have generally been using LANG=en_US.UTF-8. But I found that if I do "man " to get a man page, and then search (I have man's "more" program set to "less") for a string having a dash in it, say to search for -a in the rsync man page to find the desc

Re: Suggested patch for cygwin perl 5.10

2009-12-15 Thread Eliot Moss
Sorry I got it backwards; thanks for the tip, and for looking into it. Yes, I am sure Cwd is tricky to get right! The first change is cygwin-specific, so might be less controversial. Not so certain about the other one -- might need to be conditioned on cygwin. I don't know much about perl, really,

rsync hang on large file in a set

2009-12-16 Thread Eliot Moss
le ago of busy looping in buffer transfer (and I do have -z on, might that impact?) struck me as possibly related. I am not sure how to debug this when it happens, so if there are steps I can take upon such a hang to get you better info, do enlighten me!

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.10.1-2

2009-12-20 Thread Eliot Moss
Thanks -- the CWD change works well with svk. I did notice one oddity, probably to so with something else: The first time I ran svk after installing, it mumbled some complaint about HASH (from the SVK::XD module) and rewrote my .svk/config file (which tracks all my checkouts). Fortunately, if le

Re: Questions about gnu debug

2009-12-24 Thread Eliot Moss
distinctions help.Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: putty isn't displaying correctly with 1.7

2009-12-25 Thread Eliot Moss
formatting tool behind it) likes to generate these for hyphens. In the past, we had LANG=C and it had no choice; now with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 or LANG=C.UTF-8 it generates them. While it is somewhat brain-damaged to do so, I found the "fix" to be to set LANG=C .... YMMV -- Eliot Moss -- Problem

Re: 1.7.1: /usrb/bin/tail.exe

2010-01-20 Thread Eliot Moss
WJFFM on Windows 7. I wonder about your LANG or DOS vs Unix end-of-line settings Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Question about a loose thread from setup

2010-01-25 Thread Eliot Moss
nloading in one invocation of setup and installing as a separate step. Best wishes -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Windows 7

2010-01-28 Thread Eliot Moss
have already tried it ... Best wishes -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: About SystemC installation in Cygwin

2010-02-10 Thread Eliot Moss
set as the line termination mode for cygwin. In my experience, moving between cygwin and Unix is facilitated by Unix-style end-of-line (NL, also called LF, only, no CR character) as opposed to DOS CR-NL end-of-line. Maybe you need more packages installed too, such as autoconf? Best wishes -- Eliot M

Re: htlatex

2010-02-12 Thread Eliot Moss
sive and works smoothly ... Best wishes -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: setup.exe - a small feature request

2010-02-18 Thread Eliot Moss
t is probably not desirable.) I think the answer is to install and use mingw. In any case, this kind of makes sense, since most things compiler *under* cygwin want the cygwin libraries ... but setup.exe needs to run *before* cygwin is installed ... Best wishes -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports:

Re: setup.exe - a small feature request

2010-02-18 Thread Eliot Moss
I think the answer is to install and use mingw. In any case, this kind of makes sense, since most things compiler *under* cygwin want the cygwin libraries ... but setup.exe needs to run *before* cygwin is installed ... No, the answer is to use gcc-3. It should be fairly obvious that setup can't

cygwin + rsync issue under Windows 7 x64

2010-02-23 Thread Eliot Moss
have to do with not being able to push data through socket pairs or detect presence of more data, etc. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info

Re: cygwin + rsync issue under Windows 7 x64: follow up

2010-02-25 Thread Eliot Moss
n. Again, what further information do you want? Corinna, IIRC, I still have that particular BLODA installed that you wanted me to have to test about the previous issue with socketpair, fixed back in November .... Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.10.1-3

2010-03-01 Thread Eliot Moss
It is fine that you removed the patch. Since svk is no longer maintained, I switched to use git instead and am quite happy with it. Glad you've made changes to make rebasing less necessary! Thanks -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

Re: recvfrom + MSG_PEEK = broken?

2010-03-22 Thread Eliot Moss
it does, could this explain the rsync spinning problem that gets fixed (for me anyway) by not using socketpair? Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html U

Re: recvfrom + MSG_PEEK = broken?

2010-03-22 Thread Eliot Moss
s is unreliable. Could be -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: recvfrom + MSG_PEEK = broken?

2010-03-22 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/22/2010 1:54 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 22 13:40, Eliot Moss wrote: On 3/22/2010 1:37 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:01:00PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 22 10:56, Charles Wilson wrote: On 3/22/2010 7:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 22

Re: "svn --version" halts in 1.7.2-2

2010-03-26 Thread Eliot Moss
My Windows 7 system hands on svn --version also, but produces no messages to /var/log/messages. I tried uninstalling libsasl2-devel but doing so had no effect. Regard -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: "svn --version" halts in 1.7.2-2

2010-03-26 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/26/2010 10:12 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: On 3/26/2010 5:57 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: My Windows 7 system hands on svn --version also, but produces no messages to /var/log/messages. I tried uninstalling libsasl2-devel but doing so had no effect. Regard -- Eliot Moss What happens if you

Re: "svn --version" halts in 1.7.2-2

2010-03-26 Thread Eliot Moss
Is there anything in /usr/lib/sasl2.disabled other than DLLs? Here a directory listing: $ ls -l /usr/lib/sasl2.disabled/ total 324 -rwxr-xr-x 1 Eliot root 15872 Oct 13 2004 cyganonymous-2.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 Eliot root 17920 Oct 13 2004 cygcrammd5-2.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 Eliot root 45056 Oct 13 2004

Re: "svn --version" halts in 1.7.2-2

2010-03-26 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/26/2010 11:20 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: On 3/26/2010 8:03 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: I think the .la files are causing the problems. I believe they come from libsasl2-devel. You said you removed that package, but maybe something went wrong. Perhaps ... so I changed the directory name

rsync.exe without socket pairs

2010-04-01 Thread Eliot Moss
this file for a particular requester, but he thought others might appreciate a more public posting, so here it is. Of course we all hope the underlying bug will be found and fixed eventually, but this workaround has helped me and some others for the time being ... Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem

Re: rsync.exe without socket pairs

2010-04-01 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/1/2010 11:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 1 11:05, Eliot Moss wrote: http://www.cs.umass.edu/~moss/rsync.exe This solves the spin/hang issue that I was seeing with certain large files transferring via ssh from my Windows 7 64-bit laptop. [...] Of course we all hope the underlying

Re: gitk won't start after upgrade

2010-04-04 Thread Eliot Moss
s to me that this is really tcl/tk or something, that I am not familiar with how to code ... Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: gitk won't start after upgrade

2010-04-05 Thread Eliot Moss
cygwin-specific fix this time? -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

rsync hang fixed

2010-04-06 Thread Eliot Moss
Just wanted to report that I reverted to using socketpairs with rsync and the latest cygwin release, and have not experienced the "hangs" I was getting previously. So, seems fixed! Thanks! -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Terminal windows

2010-05-19 Thread Eliot Moss
for example. But it sounds to me as if you are new to Unix-like commands, which makes me wonder why you're using cygwin in the first place ... (Not meaning to be rude; just wondering if maybe there's a better ay to get at what you really want.) Regards -- Eliot MOss -- Prob

Re: Native 64 bit.

2010-05-26 Thread Eliot Moss
On 5/26/2010 4:40 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: Memory access. Linking in other 64 bit dlls. Ok ... so why is 64-bit mingw not suitable? -- Eliot -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.h

bash can't fork cvs, but gdb and ash can

2008-12-11 Thread Eliot Moss
se monthly Microsoft updates. Thanks for nay help you can offer -- Eliot Moss, Computer Science, UMass Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Dec 11 21:49:07 2008 Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Path: . C:\cygwin\home\Eliot\bin C:\

Re: bash can't fork cvs, but gdb and ash can

2008-12-12 Thread Eliot Moss
I'd like to add that I did look at dlls loaded: (a) of bash, when it was complaining that it could not fork; (b) of cvs, when forked under gdb or ash. I did this with listdlls, and I did not notice any clash. I can gather and post that information if it would be useful. Best wishes --

Plans for release of 1.7?

2009-10-26 Thread Eliot Moss
now have a better estimate on when 1.7.1 will be released, or if you would recommend for/against going ahead and using the latest available 1.7.0. Thanks for all the good work! Eliot Moss PS: Random comment: Concerning LaTeX, I ended up switching to MiKTeX, which is more actively maintained, can

Re: Plans for release of 1.7?

2009-10-26 Thread Eliot Moss
Given Andrew Schulman's experience, I think I'll just go ahead an upgrade to 1.7. Like him, I don't really run servers, etc. Best wishes -- Eliot -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.

ash "gotcha", other 1.7 upgrade wrinles

2009-10-26 Thread Eliot Moss
rebasing and a perl fix that I have to keep doing so that svk will work (Cwd does the wrong thing for cygwin). Hope there's something useful to you here ... Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

dash but no ash solved

2009-10-27 Thread Eliot Moss
s was all the result of my trying to install 1.7 directly on top of an existing 1.5 install. Also, since I had done a separate trial-use install of 1.7 before, which I had erased, setup-1.7 may have been confused about what was already installed ... Best wishes -- Eliot Moss -- Problem re

cygwin 1.7.0-63 problems with X programs

2009-11-07 Thread Eliot Moss
.xinitrc has a blank line before the initial bash prompt, that wasn't present before For the moment it looks wiser for me to revert to 62. I was trying to get past an rsync problem, that I may report in another email if I can't resolve it ... Thanks -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports:

Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 under 1.7.0-62 and 63

2009-11-07 Thread Eliot Moss
) [sender=3.0.6] Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 under 1.7.0-62 and 63

2009-11-07 Thread Eliot Moss
Steven Monai wrote: Eliot Moss wrote: I am getting this output when trying to rsync to any of several systems. I have RSYNC_RSH set to use ssh, and the ssh commands work just fine. This smells like some kind of non-matching library issue to me ... rsync: Failed to dup/close: Bad file

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 under 1.7.0-62 and 63

2009-11-08 Thread Eliot Moss
Tried two more things ... - rsync in the opposite direction fails in the same way - adding --protocol=29 (to match the remote end) did not change the behavor Unfortunately no other version of rsync is available with cygwin 1.7.x, so I can't simply install an earlier version. I think I'll need

Re: X-Server does not start

2009-11-08 Thread Eliot Moss
essages from the last couple of days you will see some of this. Best wishes -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 under 1.7.0-62 and 63

2009-11-08 Thread Eliot Moss
Eliot Moss wrote: Tried two more things ... - rsync in the opposite direction fails in the same way - adding --protocol=29 (to match the remote end) did not change the behavor Unfortunately no other version of rsync is available with cygwin 1.7.x, so I can't simply install an ea

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 under 1.7.0-62 and 63

2009-11-08 Thread Eliot Moss
Eliot Moss wrote: Eliot Moss wrote: Tried two more things ... - rsync in the opposite direction fails in the same way - adding --protocol=29 (to match the remote end) did not change the behavor Unfortunately no other version of rsync is available with cygwin 1.7.x, so I can't s

Get cygwin X startup window console in notification area?

2009-11-10 Thread Eliot Moss
Dear cygcin community -- Here's a little thing that's been bugging me a long time but that I've not been able to figure out. I start X under cygwin using a Windows shortcut to C;\cygwin\bin\bash.exe where I have edited the target to add -login -c "/usr/bin/startx -- -unixkill -clipboard -multimo

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 [and 3.0.5] under 1.7.0-62 and 63 [and 64]

2009-11-12 Thread Eliot Moss
Eliot Moss wrote: I am getting this output when trying to rsync to any of several systems. I have RSYNC_RSH set to use ssh, and the ssh commands work just fine. This smells like some kind of non-matching library issue to me ... rsync: Failed to dup/close: Bad file descriptor (9) rsync error

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 [and 3.0.5] under 1.7.0-62 and 63 [and 64]

2009-11-12 Thread Eliot Moss
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 12 10:31, Eliot Moss wrote: I think that Corinna (et al.?) thought this was more likely to be a problem in rsync introduce by its relatively recent revision from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. Me? No, I never said that. Just my possibly mistaken impression then. In any case

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 [and 3.0.5] under 1.7.0-62 and 63 [and 64]

2009-11-13 Thread Eliot Moss
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 12 17:23, Eliot Moss wrote: I went ahead and wrote a little program that narrows down the rsync problem to a dup2 call. The program: creates two pipes (for talking to a child process), forks the child, and the child tries to dup2 the pipe fds to its stdin and

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 [and 3.0.5] under 1.7.0-62 and 63 [and 64]

2009-11-13 Thread Eliot Moss
Oh, and in terms of BLODA, my antivirus is Symantec with on-access scan OFF. I've not seen other issues with it. I do have Windows Defender -- perhaps it causes the popups. I'm not entirely clear how I can turn it off. It was not previously a problem ... Cheers -- E -- Problem reports: htt

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 [and 3.0.5] under 1.7.0-62 and 63 [and 64]

2009-11-13 Thread Eliot Moss
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 12 17:23, Eliot Moss wrote: 41 320784 [main] a_test 5244 fhandler_socket::dup: here 57 320841 [main] a_test 5244 fhandler_base::dup: in fhandler_base dup 39 320880 [main] a_test 5244 fhandler_base::dup: dup() failed, handle 35C, Win32 error 6 37

Re: emacs 23.1.1 macro behavior and name completion

2009-11-13 Thread Eliot Moss
TF-8 and LANG=en_US.UTF8 ... Ken is probably right, but this is easy to check. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

What about adding support for sigcontext

2009-11-17 Thread Eliot Moss
can help me figure that out or if you have a particular opinion about this ... Regards -- Eliot Moss == J. Eliot B. Moss, Professor http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mosswww Director, Arch. and Lang. I

Re: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) ps (cygwin) 1.11 - how do I display the arguments to the processes?

2009-11-18 Thread Eliot Moss
for ps, I don't see any which displays the arguments. From the ps man page: Due to the limitations of simulating a POSIX environment under Windows, there is little information to give. I suspect that you're out of luck on this ... Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://

Re: one or more not ready for prime time( cygwin1.7, win7, linda7).

2009-11-19 Thread Eliot Moss
is better :-) Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin bash regexp matching doesn't treat "\b" properly

2009-11-24 Thread Eliot Moss
aces, like this: [ -z "${LIST##* ${DESIRED} *}" ] && { ... } This uses simple bash globbing stuff that seems to work everywhere. It's an idiom I've become accustomed to :-) ... Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

2009-11-25 Thread Eliot Moss
Maybe I'm being impatient (entirely possible), but I'm not seeing this yet ... Best wishes -- Eliot -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

Re: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

2009-11-26 Thread Eliot Moss
handle ... Best wishes -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

2009-11-27 Thread Eliot Moss
For my part, I can confirm that file names aux and aux.c work fine when created by touch or by > from bash ... in cygwin 1.7.0-65 under Windows 7. Best wishes -- EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {terminfo/terminfo-extra/termcap}-5.7_20091114-3

2009-11-28 Thread Eliot Moss
out of my hands as an xterm user ... Best wishes -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {terminfo/terminfo-extra/termcap}-5.7_20091114-3

2009-11-28 Thread Eliot Moss
Charles Wilson wrote: Eliot Moss wrote: The new termcap causes my xterm to segmentation fault. When I back out just the termcap line of this update in cygwin setup, xterm fires up fine. Sigh. I think I know what the problem is. The fix is simple, but... Some of the terminfo entries require

My original report of xterm breaking with the new termcap

2009-11-30 Thread Eliot Moss
w one (5.7_20091114-12). terminfo0 is 5.5_2006104-11. Has something changed in a way that requires xterm to be rebuilt to work? As you point out, it should probably use terminfo instead, but that is kind of out of my hands as an xterm user ... Best wishes -- Eliot Moss --- End Message --- -- Problem re

Re: top and free fail as of 21 Aug

2014-08-23 Thread Eliot Moss
out 32 bit.) So I suspect something else is going on. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: ffs problem in windows64

2014-09-23 Thread Eliot Moss
l = 0x8000; int i = ffs((int)l); return 0; } $ gcc -O0 -g3 x.c $ ./a.exe Segmentation fault (...) WJFFM in 32 bit cygwin. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: rsync and Cygwin..

2014-09-23 Thread Eliot Moss
, then yes, it will copy it (again, in this case). That's just how rsync works. What were you hoping for? Maybe there's another tool that will do it ... Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documen

Re: rsync and Cygwin..

2014-09-23 Thread Eliot Moss
move it. The one thing this does not really work for is files that are intentionally empty ... Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-24 Thread Eliot Moss
s). I think given this information you can dig up more. I don't know where the documentation is on the bash completion package, off the top of my head. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-25 Thread Eliot Moss
On 9/25/2014 4:36 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote: Eliot Moss cs.umass.edu> writes: On 9/24/2014 6:19 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote: Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: Paul.Domaskis wrote: Can anyone suggest how the bash-completion man page is acccessed, and what M-/ means? From googling, the me

Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

2014-10-01 Thread Eliot Moss
You could write my solution as: echo -n `cygpath -aw foo`>/dev/clipboard though the ` (backtick) notation is deprecated these days and $(...) is described as preferred. But for many little things like these I write bash functions (or aliases, when they work, which they don't here). The echo so

Re: Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-16 Thread Eliot Moss
ival mintty-starting hash-bang bash script. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-16 Thread Eliot Moss
flashing so quickly (in case there's a message displayed there). You posted this same question this morning ... And I answered it about 20 minutes later. Why are you posting again? You risk annoying the list subscribers ... Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports:

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