Re: where the %^$ is dirname() and basename()

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:37:03PM -0800, Robert Bercik wrote: >Cygwin must have these functions somewhere, but for the life of me i >can't find the libs or headers. Anybody know where dirname() or >basename() are located? Let me say it again: There is no mystery here. If you get a linker error

Re: DEBUG build of cygwin

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:25:45PM -0800, Vishal Jain wrote: >When I try to set the breakpoint to seteuid() or fopen, and run the >program, it does not stop at that function. Try setting the breakpoint on the first line number of the function rather than on the function itself. Also for complete

Re: Having problems

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:38:59PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Nicholas Marsh wrote: > >> Having problems getting off the list. I have tried the automated system >> but it says that I'm not on the list. Please help, thanks! >> >> nick marsh >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> -- >>

Re: RXVT Problem with buffering of application output.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 07:22:09PM -0800, Ayamico Hamasaki wrote: >However, I do not buy the solution that the only alternative is to >change the native app's buffering. There are thousands (or may be >millions) of these applications written by 3rd parties out there. I do >not have the source cod

Re: RXVT Problem with buffering of application output.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:18:31PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >FYI, you could try writing a Cygwin wrapper program that would capture the >output of a Windows process and print it out using Cygwin functions. >This program should be able to recognize Cygwin ttys. You've just described rxvt...

Re: DEBUG build of cygwin

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:15:36PM -0800, Vishal Jain wrote: >Is there a single place in a config file where I can specify CFLAGS? >Where do I have to change it? Just type "make CFLAGS=-g", as I said. Or modify the Makefile. Or, more generally "grep is your friend". If you'd typed "grep CFLAGS

Re: cygwin commands sometime hang on dual-processor (WinNT-SP5)

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:58:33PM +0100, Henrik Wist wrote: >This didn't change even over lunchtime, so I killed it. >For what it's worth, my cygcheck -c -v -s is attached. Can maybe >Christopher comment on the message from July last year? Messages from eight or nine months ago rarely have any b

Re: Graphical debugger over gdb (ddd/insight failed to build)

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 08:35:50AM -0600, Fred Kulack wrote: >What's the favorite graphical debugger that you use with cygwin? Is >there a binary distribution for it anywhere or a source distribution >that is 'more stable' for cygwin? > >I downloaded and tried to compile the source for both ddd an

Re: RXVT Problem with buffering of application output.

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:31:13PM +, John Vincent wrote: >I suspect the problem is that there are two ways to read and write in >DOS/Windows. The problem is that pipes are not considered to be "tty" devices and so the MSVCRT layer changes the default output buffering. cgf -- Please use the

Re: tar and gzip

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:04:12PM +0100, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: >I wrote a small script in Python, but it requires two programs to run >correctly: tar.exe and gzip.exe. Both are in CygWin package. And >that's my question: can I bundle both programs and cygwin1.dll with my >script? Script is fre

Re: tar and gzip

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:14:40PM +0100, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > Maybe you could explain your thinking here. You understand about >the GPL, right? How do you intend to comply with it? > >I understand it, but it doesn't make things more clear. Hm

Re: tar and gzip

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 08:04:46PM +0100, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >| All that you have to do is comply with the GPL. Simply put, that >| means that you have to distribute the sources for cygwin1.dll, >| tar.exe, and gzip.exe with your program. > >I th

Re: DEBUG build of cygwin

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:20:35PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:03:50PM -0800, Vishal Jain wrote: >> Hi, Just typing make CFLAGS=-g does not help. It still adds -O2. >> Removing -O2 from the top level makefile also does not help. Vishal > >make CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=-g E

Re: Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:32:45AM +0100, Luc Hermitte wrote: >May be our PID numbers consumption is going very fast because we have >some "resident" programs like anti-viruses, firewalls, etc. But the >problem still remains: there is a limit that stop us from using cygwin >to accomplish more or le

Re: cygwin binary of lftp 2.6.5?

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:12:37AM +0100, Huijing Zhou wrote: >Can someone please make a Cygwin binary of the latest lftp version? >The last one was 2.5.2, which has been quite a while now. I did try >several times to compile myself, but it never succeeded "out of the >box". Thanks

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 07:15:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >> I have made an attempt at documenting setup.exe here: >> >> >> >> Veteran setup.exe users, please read and comment. >> Thanks!

Re: Hate to say it, but...I've got the (dreadded) PID problem

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:46:00AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >...While fixing the permissions on my >installation (via a combination of `find -exec' and `chmod'), and when I say >while I mean pretty much straight away, I started getting tones of "Access >is denied" messages from find. If you n

Re: Hate to say it, but...I've got the (dreadded) PID problem

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 03:33:18AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:46:00AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> >...While fixing the permissions on my >> >installation (via a combination of `find -exec' and `chmod'), and when I >say >> >while I mean pretty much straight away

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:39:40AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >I put a several people's comments inline here. I see that you didn't add a link for the CVS wishlist README as I suggested. Was there some reason for that? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

Re: making X server a COM object..

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:49:21AM +0800, Chan Kar Heng wrote: >greetings. > >i'm rather curious of the amount of effort and things that >need to be done to create a COM object out of the >cygwin XFree server. >am rather curious about the size of the COM object too. > >it would be something like we

Re: System load question

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:30:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Does the loadavg work however ? No. cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be permanently blocked from mailing list

Re: cygcheck calling id.exe with nontsec

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 07:37:05PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >cygcheck calling id.exe with CYGWIN=nontsec has a problem... At the risk of sounding ungrateful, can I point you at http://cygwin.com/bugs.html? The fact that you are reporting a problem in cygcheck doesn't mean that the hints th

Re: COM port setup

Please check out the project web page for links to available information and ports: http://cygwin.com/ . If you don't see what you need there, then the cygwin mailing list is the best place to make observations or get questions answered. Information on the mailing list is available at the project

Re: COM port setup

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:12:50AM -0700, Martin Gainty wrote: >A quick heads up: >Standard Binaries wont run under cygwin- Cygwin is a Windows application. It doesn't run linux binaries. That is what you seem to be referring to as "standard". A "standard" binary for Windows would be a windows

Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB)

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:36:15PM -0500, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: >Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> FWIW: I am not a lawyer. > >And therefore, everything you have said may be safely ignored. > >Until this alleged GPL violator receives a "cease and desist" order >from an attorney,

Re: GPL violations et al

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:54:49PM -0500, Jim Drash wrote: >A simple reading of the GPL text maks it clear that if you make use of GPL >software you must provide the same to your "downstream" clients. Charles >Wilson is correct. > >"Cease and desist" letters are the initial legal step. However, al

Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB)

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:41:16PM -0500, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: >Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Just to be clear: Providing a simple link to the Cygwin sources is not >>adequate. > >So you keep saying. Is that a legal opinion on the meaning of

Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB)

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:28:09PM -0500, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: >Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>At 09:36 2003-03-25, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: >>>Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> FWIW: I am not a lawyer. >>> >>>And therefore, everything you have said may be

Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB)

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:20:29PM -0500, Robert Praetorius wrote: >I'd say that he ought to be prevailed upon to right a document on how >non-lawyers can help with GPL enforcement, but he probably has and I >just haven't found that link yet. I suspect that http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB)

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:06:57AM +0100, roland wrote: >ooops - what a thread :) >thanks - it was very interesting to see such different point of views. > >As a resumee, I basically mostly agree with Pat: > >>At issue here are people who distribute something for free along with >>Cygwin. They inc

Re: Determining the location of a cygwin installation

>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf >> Of John Dallaway >> Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2003 6:33 pm >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation >> >> I need to determine the location of an existing Cygwin net installation >> program

Re: [PATCH] Trivial pthread testsuite fixes

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:23:31PM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> >> > Brian, >> > >> > Your patch may get more attention from the cygwin-patches mailing list >as >> > per . >> > >> >> Yes, but it is by subscription only

Re: Possible GPL Violation

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:35:33AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >>I am sending you this e-mail because I was given your URL in passing, >>and found that you are distributing Cygwin amongst other Cygwin-linked >>utilities , but there is no URL >>for the correspo

Re: Possible GPL Violation

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:07:17AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >Perhaps a http://cygwin.com/goldstars/ web page is in order ;-) No, I'm only >kidding... Hmmm cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Do

Gold star for Joshua and a suggestion for setup documentation

(anyone sick of the "gold star" stuff yet?) I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installment is really wonderful. It is just what we needed. It is so good that I would like to suggest that maybe it should sub

Re: Possible GPL Violation

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:17:47PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >While I agree, doesn't it make more sense to contact people off-list >first? If this was [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something I'd understand, but really >other than us being fellow Cygwin users what does it have to do with >the cyg

Re: Gold star for Joshua and a suggestion for setup documentation

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:23:43PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:09:25AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the >> cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installme

Re: Gold star for Joshua and a suggestion for setup documentation

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:36:38AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> (anyone sick of the "gold star" stuff yet?) > >No! ;-) > >> I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the >> cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installment is >> really wonderful. It is

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:15:30PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >> > While I can't totally empathize since I've never had high Internet bills, >> > until recently I was on US dialup (that's 53Kb down at best). >> >> I've been around since it was 2400 bps ;-) - believe me; that is slow. >

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:59:19PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >>2. Having a complex GUI app like Mozilla ported to Cygwin could >>prove to be a stick in which to measure and compare the over >>all efficiency and performance of Cygwin. If the "native" >>Mozilla and th

Re: RPM-4.1 port to cygwin available

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:54:36AM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Shankar Unni wrote: >> Yann Crausaz wrote: >> > The version of setup.exe I propose must be a bit old, isn't it ? If there's >> > a real interest, I'm OK to care about the latest version, but will poeple >

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:11:35PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >***Groan***! Oh, no! Now look what you've done! >Next thing you know, we'll be having a contest for the best Cygwin >documentation poem! With the winner being awarded "gold stars" by cgf! >;-) Let the games begin. If it's cygw

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:22:22PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> >> > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > >> > [snip] >> > &g

Re: RPM-4.1 port to cygwin available

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:05:36PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >But, them as writes the code, gets to choose. So this ^^^ is just a >bunch of babbling. And since you're not a lawyer, it's been established that we don't have to pay any attention to you anyway. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: ht

Re: RPM-4.1 port to cygwin available

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:12:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:05:36PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>But, them as writes the code, gets to choose. So this ^^^ is just a >>bunch of babbling. > >And since you're not a lawyer, it's

Re: RPM-4.1 port to cygwin available

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:33:49PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>>And since you're not a lawyer, it's been established that we don't have >>>to pay any attention to you anyway. >> >>I know Chuck would get this but ot

Re: RPM-4.1 port to cygwin available

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:43:18AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Actually, now I'm distraught. I used to think you were just mean but >now you've turned my whole world upside-down with this humorous jab. >I'm crushed. I'm attempting to rebuild my crumbled world though. >Since I found out you'r

Re: __gxx_personality_v0 bug??

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:09:52AM -0600, Mark E. Odegard wrote: >Attached are source code and make file for a probable bug in the gcc >loader or library. The explanation and temporary fix is in the >lnstest.txt file. Hope this helps. Use g++ to link C++ programs. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Two GPL clarifications

I've talked to Red Hat's lawyers. 1) The interpretation that just providing a link to the sources is adequate is incorrect so we are correct in advising people that they need to provide sources for the binaries that they provide. This is so much of a "well, duh" that I felt embarrassed asking the

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:58:50PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: >I can't prove a fact, that forking is the most anonying problem and there were >some initial work from some people (I remember Chris Faylor, Chris January and >other) to identify the problems and to implement a new

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:04:01AM -, Chris January wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:58:50PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: >>>I can't prove a fact, that forking is the most anonying problem and >>>there were some initial work from some people (I remember Chris

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Win32, the original state of the memory is treated as genuin state for >each process. Therefore child processes don't inherit the changes from >their parent processes but instead they begin with a fresh unchanged memory >as it w

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:13:36AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Win32, the original state of the memory is treated as genuin state for >>each process. Therefore child processes don't inherit the

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:33:23PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: >>I don't have the code anymore > >It's a pity, because everbody else has to start from scratch and >couldn't take a deeper look and perhaps find the problem. And the reason you wanted thousands of people to know this is...? If you ha

Re: bash bug report? Minor border case:

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 12:42:03PM -0800, linda w (cyg) wrote: >Agreed. Perhaps the naming should be a bit more evident. Or, perhaps you should school yourself to do some research before you start blindly sending email. At the very least you could do some research before responding to valid obse

Re: CVS Tags for 1.3.22

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 08:14:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I couldn't find any CVS tags to build Cygwin 1.3.22 from source; the best >I could find was the branch "dontuse-21" which doesn't seem to be correct. There are no tags for public use. >Furthermore, is there some documentation abo

Re: bash bug report? Minor border case:

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 05:39:50PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>>Nothing more intelligent that a self documenting name. :-) >> >>app means 'application packaging problems'. Gerrit > >*LOL* Bravo, Gerrit! Chris, is this one a candidate for the OLOC

Re: CVS Tags for 1.3.22

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 05:52:59PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I couldn't find any CVS tags to build Cygwin 1.3.22 from source; the best >> I could find was the branch "dontuse-21" which doesn't seem to be correct. >> Is there some documentation

Re: CVS Tags for 1.3.22 [FAQ alert]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 05:59:53PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> The only branches that are actively being worked on are my branch and >> the trunk. There is nothing happening on any other branch. >> cgf > >Does

Re: How hard would this be?

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 02:30:00PM +0200, neuron wrote: >Hey > >I have a little problem, I love linux, use it at home all the time, >but until (only a matter of time right ;) the norwegian gov switched >to linux on their desktop computers, I also have to use windows >(unfortunatly). Now I have a s

Re: 1.3.22: (gcc) problem using gettimeofday with -mno-cygwin

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:36:40AM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: >Rob Siklos wrote: >>Hello, >> >>I am trying to compile the following trivial program: >> >> >>#include >>#include >> >>int main() >>{ >> struct timeval tv; >> gettimeofday(&tv, NULL) ; >> printf("%ld %ld\n", tv.tv_sec, tv.tv_u

Re: bash bug report? Minor border case:

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 02:05:25PM -0800, Michael Pierce wrote: >I wish the developers would try to remember, not everyone is a >developer, in fact most are just users, cut some slack! Step 1: Person posts to wrong list. Step 2: Person is apprised of that fact by cygwin mailing list notable. Ste

Re: What to backup in cygwin installation

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:42:12AM +0200, Andrew Markebo wrote: >/ "Thomas V. Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >| Can anyone suggest to me a good backup practice (ie what to bakcup) for >| Cygwin? > >c:\cygwin (or where you installed it) and the keys that are put into >the registry.. If you can'

Re: Big Brother is Real

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:24:15AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Thorsten, > >At 07:50 2003-04-01, you wrote: >>* Randall R Schulz (03-04-01 17:29 +0100) >>> At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. ... wi

Re: Big Brother is Real

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:05:51AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: >>I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. >>You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to allow this move. >> >>Sorry. > >Yes, master. How shall I punish myself? Ju

Re: Big Brother is Real

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:40:03AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Chris, > >At 09:19 2003-04-01, you wrote: >>On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:05:51AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >>>At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're too v

Re: Big Brother is Real

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:14:23AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: >>I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. >>You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to allow this move. > >Maybe a gold star would help persuade me to stay... Ok

Re: cygwin license

I've forwarded this request to our sales organization. On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:37:21AM +0400, Dmitri Dmitrienko wrote: >Hello people developing Cygwin. > >I'm deeply impressed with all things you made with GNU tools when ported >them into Win32 platform. >We're interested in including some cert

Re: cygwin license

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:30:31AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >[ To CGF: In partial fulfillment of my assigned penance for suggesting >I would cease to use Cygwin in favor of Linux because of my fear of MS >spy-ware. ] Good answer. You've earned the star. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: stdio_init: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 05:32:18PM -0400, Christian wrote: > >> > >> >I've RDFM and STFW, but there aren't solutions. >> >> Really? >> >> > >I'm now convinced that "more" doesn't means better.. I searched: > >http://www.googl

Re: 1.3.20 : getpgid returns pid != -1 when specified pid no longer exists

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:20:56PM -0800, gavin bowlby wrote: >Thanks for your suggestion. Sorry I didn't upgrade before reporting >this problem. I still see the same problem with 1.3.22. Ok. In that event, please provide a simple test case. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: 1.3.20 : getpgid returns pid != -1 when specified pid no longer exists

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:43:16PM -0800, gavin bowlby wrote: >>Ok. In that event, please provide a simple test case. > >Here's a short program to recreate this problem: > >("main.c") >= >int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { > > int pid, sid, rc;

Re: Bug in cygwin bash?

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:10:00PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >That tyrant CGF, who won't let me leave, uses Linux to build Cygwin. Is >that irony or hypocrisy? (Right, right. It's "pragmatism.") I'm still detecting a certain wistful quality in your email when you mention linux, Randall. Tha

coreutils (formerly fileutils, sh-utils, textutils) maintainer?

Does anyone want to take on the maintainership for the new coreutils package? This package is the accumulation of fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils. I've made some minor modifications to fileutils that dimly tried to handle .exe files on cp but it never worked right. I'd gladly give up maintain

Re: cygwin license

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:33:19PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >At 20:21 2003-04-02, you wrote: >>Randall R Schulz wrote: >> Good answer. You've earned the star. >>> >>>Wow. Praise from Caesar. I'm in heaven. >> >>And, as in the days of Rome, during the conquering hero's triumphal >>parade

Re: CVS winsup/testsuite/winsup.api/pthread/condvar9.c failure

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:22:08AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >IIRC, the testsuite uses new-cygwin1.dll, not cygwin1.dll... Hence no >conflict. See winsup/testsuite/cygrun.c. Actually, lately, it is using cygwin0.dll rather than new-cygwin1.dll. FYI, cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: Big Brother is Real

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:28:14AM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: >Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, Wow. I had no idea I was so powerful. I think I need a raise. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: h

Re: Big Brother is Real

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:37:19AM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: >Can someone elaborate on exactly which APIs have changed incompatibly >(in 64-bit Windows)? > >I'm only mildly familiar with the 64-bit story, but my understanding is >that the the 64-bit APIs are basically the same as 32-bit (with t

Re: Big Brother is Real

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:47:39PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:37:26PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I think the only problem is that Cygwin probably just needs to be debugged >> to see what's going on. If someone wants to send me

Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: >Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what >he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and everything I >do know, it appears to me that API changes are always made with >backwards compatibili

Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:16:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: >>Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what >>he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and e

Re: Bug in GUI App WinMain Arguements

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:08:46PM -0600, BB wrote: >I added a call to GetCommadLine() to see what it returns. It correctly >quotes the directory with spaces in it, so the caller of WinMain() should >easily be able to handle it. Win95 does too. Sounds like a really simple patch then. Looking for

Re: How to access a Linux partition

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:57:35PM -0700, Martin wrote: >Andrew et. al: >I especially like the work done at http://jcifs.samba.org/ for SMB >access to all drives Linux ,NTFS or remote The only quandary is I >wanted to stay with C for Raw Speed h... Hmm... If you are looking for network access

Re: how to build the latest ctags for cygiwn?

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:46:03PM -0800, maxiangjiang wrote: >ctags version is 15 months old. Why not posted the latest one? Shear cantankerousness. cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: how to build the latest ctags for cygiwn?

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:53:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:46:03PM -0800, maxiangjiang wrote: >>ctags version is 15 months old. Why not posted the latest one? > >Shear cantankerousness. Sheer cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

Re: nano and TERM

On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 06:42:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >(I know http://www.nano-editor.org supply a zipped version of nano claimed >to be "for Windows" but since on un-zipping the provision, it turns out to >include cygwin1.dll, Sigh. I've sent them excruciatingly polite email. I exp

Re: 1.3.22: TMPDIR Initialization

This is not a bug report mailing list. See: http://cygwin.com/lists.html Please use the cygwin mailing list for this type of thing. I've redirected replies there. On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:16:03PM -0800, Mark Moore wrote: >TWIMC: > > > >I recently did a fresh install of Cygwin on a fresh insta

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:33:46PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: >"Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote ... >> >> On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 01:26:50PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >> >$ uname -svr >> >CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.0(0.86/3/2) 2003-06-02 00:4

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:03:34PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:25:18PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >>> I threw together a horrible C program to ask Windows whether a file was >>> sparse. .exe and .dll files made with a 1.5.0 Cygwin are. I haven't >

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:56:05PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: >But nevertheless send me an email in case you find out more about >since when typical unix/linux FSs support holes inside files ! Traditional UNIX has done this for at least 10 years. And, since I'm sufficiently trustworthy, I don't

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 11:04:08AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Chris, > >At 10:44 2003-06-05, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:56:05PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: >>>But nevertheless send me an email in case you find out more about >>>

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:29:51PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:03:34PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >>>Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>>On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:25:18PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >>>>>

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:41:18PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >2) In all other details (including restricted characters in filenames), > Cygwin uses the underlying filesystem's conventions. If we go out of > our way to be compatible with Linux in this aspect, why not also > support "aux

Re: SEGV in conv_path_list_buf_size with xemacs-21.5-b13 and cygwin-1.3.22-1

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:25:56PM -0500, Pete McCann wrote: >int __stdcall stat_worker (const char *name, struct __stat64 *buf, int nofollow, > path_conv *pc = NULL) __attribute__ ((regparm (3))); > >So, nofollow and pc should have both been 0 coming in (although I see >p

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:48:29PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>There has been very little actual data provided here > >Here is some data, using the program from >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00321.html THANK YOU. Gold star for Pier

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:29:28AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> I did the same here and I've added the block count which shows how much >> blocks has been wasted by being a sparse file: >> >> 188 -rwxr-xr-x1 corinna root 191765 Jun 6 09:55 ./ftp/ftp.exe >> Spar

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:07:14AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:29:28AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >>Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> I did the same here and I've added the block count which shows how much >>> blocks has been wasted by b

Re: Question about "rexec"

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:45:48PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >(Wonder why this isn't on by default like ntsec...?) For the obvious reason... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: htt

Re: qmail cygwin port successfull

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:25:28PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am successfully ported qmail-1.03 and it seems to work good. >I've replaced flock() with fcntl() such as somebody did from one japan site. >Problem with spooling (absent mkfifo() and UNIX named pipe implementation >under Cygwin)

Re: qmail port successfull

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 06:56:04AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>Note about qmail distribution: >>>http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html > > >>You are right, of course, it need to get him (professor Dan Bernstein) >>approval. > >To cgf: >Yes, I must forget about sharing Win32 binaries. That's a r

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