Request for list links in left side navbar

2003-07-03 Thread Jim Kleckner
I would be grateful if you would add one or two links to the "Mailing lists" item in the left-side navbar that takes one directly to the cygwin mailing list page. Say for example: Mailing lists (cygwin, apps) where "Mailing lists" points to http://cygwin.com/lists.html (as it now does) and cygw

Source for upset package

2003-07-03 Thread Jim Kleckner
I see references to a package called upset to manage the creation of release areas. I looked searched vigorously on cygwin-apps and cygwin lists and looked through the site including the pointer to the CVS web link and didn't find it. Also downloaded and extracted the setup source and searched for

Re: Source for upset package

2003-07-06 Thread Jim Kleckner
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Jim Kleckner wrote: I see references to a package called upset to manage the creation of release areas. I looked searched vigorously on cygwin-apps and cygwin lists and looked through the site including the pointer to the CVS web link and didn't

Re: Source for upset package

2003-07-07 Thread Jim Kleckner
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: FYI, the cvsweb.cgi script produces a chooser box at the top of the page which allows you to select the CVS Root without hand-editing the URL. Igor Holy cow, I must have been still asleep that morning, sheesh! Thanks again - Jim -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: Available for test: cygwin-1.5.0-1

2003-07-24 Thread Jim Kleckner
It would be very nice to get Nigel Stephens select patch into a test release: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00254.html This was the one where the socket connect state was not being mainained across a fork. Or is this corrected in another way? Jim Christopher Faylor wrote: I've

Re: Available for test: cygwin-1.5.0-1

2003-07-24 Thread Jim Kleckner
I am really batting 0, apologies. I searched for Nigel rather than N. Stephens. Sheesh. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygw

Re: Rsync performance increase through buffering (cygwin/ssh solution?)

2002-12-12 Thread Jim Kleckner
Below is a description of a buffering speed improvement. The original message with complete patch for performance can be found here: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&selm=at1i0e%241tj3%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw This may explain the horrendous performance

Re: rsync windows -> unix still hanging :(

2002-12-30 Thread Jim Kleckner
Mike - Greger Cronquist and I have been using a patched rsync successfully. This was patched from two published patches, one for buffering which seems to cause severe performance problems under cygwin while only mild under Linux. The is for the hang documented elsewhere. Here are patch discussi

Re: rsync windows -> unix still hanging :(

2002-12-30 Thread Jim Kleckner
The msleep(100) call is not checked into version 1.156 of main.c. I would recommend trying this one-line patch to see if it helps. I haven't personally delved into the true meaning. I just checked my read-only CVS tree for rsync again. Here is the context diff for that file. Note that the msleep

Using gcc to build a DLL discovered and linked at runtime

2003-01-15 Thread Jim Kleckner
I'm using a program called TradeStation that allows specifying a path name to a DLL, specifying the signature of a function to call, and then loading/calling that function. The documentation is very sparse for how to do this and probably built in some way that depends in an obscure way on having

Re: Using gcc to build a DLL discovered and linked at runtime

2003-01-15 Thread Jim Kleckner
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: I assume the reason you're using the -mno-cygwin flag is because of Chris's comment. Clearly what you're trying to do won't work if you link against the Cygwin DLL. Using -mno-cygwin should remove cygwin1.dll from the equation but just substituting MSC

Re: RESOLVED: Using gcc to build a DLL discovered and linked at runtime

2003-01-16 Thread Jim Kleckner
are opened at runtime in a fashion similar to dlopen? If so, then some FAQ annotation would be in order here: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html Jim Jim Kleckner wrote: I'm using a program called TradeStation that allows specifying a path name to a DLL, specifying the signatu

Re: RESOLVED: Using gcc to build a DLL discovered and linked at runtime

2003-01-17 Thread Jim Kleckner
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:58:17AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> After carefully inspecting the symbols from generated dlls and dlls provided by

Consistent usage of "black on white" colors in terminal

2003-01-21 Thread Jim Kleckner
I promise that I have searched a whole bunch to find the answer to this question. I would be happy just to get pointers in the right direction to look. It appears that some programs use termcap and some use terminfo. I have mostly gotten my bash colors to display properly with black on white whi

Re: Consistent usage of "black on white" colors in terminal

2003-01-21 Thread Jim Kleckner
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Jim Kleckner (03-01-21 21:17 +0100) I have mostly gotten my bash colors to display properly with black on white which I find considerably more pleasing than white on black [...] Programs like info, man, and cpan, however, do not know about these switched default

Re: Consistent usage of "black on white" colors in terminal

2003-01-21 Thread Jim Kleckner
ve for the default windows terminal emulator and that it doesn't require X on Windows but works with it if present. Thanks! Jim Lapo Luchini wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Have a look at the man page and my .Xdefaults[1]... Thank you for the suggestion. I'm currently using the bare c

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-30 Thread Jim Kleckner
Max Bowsher wrote: William A. Hoffman wrote: [snip] 2. Failing that, it would be nice if the setup program had a button that set all the values to Keep. The problem is that if I want a new package X, I have to click 20 other packages to Keep, or risk an update of everything. There should be

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-30 Thread Jim Kleckner
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 09:54 PM 1/30/2003, Jim Kleckner wrote: [snip ] Thanks! While you have the code in hand, would it be possible to allow the setup window to be resized? I'm constantly wanting to see more lines at once... Have you been reading the email archive

rxvt dialog at shutdown suggests failure to exit due to ssh-agent?

2003-02-19 Thread Jim Kleckner
Consistently when I shutdown Win2K I get a dialog asking to end an rxvt process: End Program: rxvt0510 Windows cannot end this program. It may need more time to complete an operation. ... End Now/Cancel I launch rxvt via an rxvt.lnk that contains the following as the "Target": C

Re: rxvt dialog at shutdown suggests failure to exit due to ssh-agent?

2003-02-20 Thread Jim Kleckner
Thank you for the suggestion. David Starks-Browning wrote: On Wednesday 19 Feb 03, Jim Kleckner writes: [snip] If *all* shells source that line, then you have the problem that the first one to exit will kill ssh-agent, and maybe you don't want that. You could put something a bit

Most mirrors don't have md5.sum

2004-01-22 Thread Jim Kleckner
I noticed that the mirror site that I am using via rsync: rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ lost the md5.sum file some time ago (2-3 months?). An informal and incomplete check of sites from http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html indicates these sites have the md5.sum file: http://

Re: Most mirrors don't have md5.sum for setup.exe

2004-01-23 Thread Jim Kleckner
Brian Dessent wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: I noticed that the mirror site that I am using via rsync: rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ lost the md5.sum file some time ago (2-3 months?). *at the top level* An informal and incomplete check of sites from http://cygwin.com

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc 3.3.3-1, gcc-mingw-20030911-2 missing java headers

2003-10-03 Thread Jim Kleckner
Is it possible the java code simply wasn't configured to build? All of the java headers are missing. Christopher Faylor wrote: I've moved all of the latest gcc stuff out of "test" and into "current". This is the standard gcc 3.3.1 release from gcc.gnu.org + patches from Danny Smith and (to a vastl

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc 3.3.3-1, gcc-mingw-20030911-2 missing java headers

2003-10-03 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: ... I tried uncompressing, configuring, and "make" of gcc. Recompiling and installing 3.3.1-1 fails to install the headers. Subsequent uncompress, configure, recompile of 3.2-3 failed to compiler. To be clear, the install ofo 3.3.1-1 succeeds but it doesn't

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc 3.3.3-1, gcc-mingw-20030911-2 missing java headers

2003-10-04 Thread Jim Kleckner
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:07:54PM -0700, Jim Kleckner wrote: Is it possible the java code simply wasn't configured to build? All of the java headers are missing. Christopher Faylor wrote: I've moved all of the latest gcc stuff out of "test" and

Re: rysnc hangs when backing up multiple /cygdrive/* dirs

2005-12-06 Thread Jim Kleckner
H.S. wrote: ... I don't know why, but it is working now. I exluded the .lnk files and backup the d drive folder separately first. Then I included other directories to backed up. Now I am backing up only '/cygdrive/d/sukh /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings' and it seems tobe working great. Well

Re: 1.15.19 dlopen() dies with no dlerror()

2006-05-22 Thread Jim Kleckner
Michael McKerns wrote: Yes, yes... I've not given you enough information... $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 turro 1.5.19<0.150/4/2) 2006-01-20 13:38 i686 Cygwin Also the file I attached needs to inspect a .dll that is built with the procedure that I described in the first part of the message. So w

Re: 1.15.19 dlopen() dies with no dlerror()

2006-05-23 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: Michael McKerns wrote: Yes, yes... I've not given you enough information... ... See: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programming.dll-relocatable I'm seeing a similar problem with python and 1.5.19 and also tried the snap

Re: 1.15.19 dlopen() dies with no dlerror()

2006-05-23 Thread Jim Kleckner
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Michael McKerns wrote: Yes, yes... I've not given you enough information... ... See: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programming.dll-relocatable I'm seeing a similar pr

Re: 1.15.19 dlopen() dies with no dlerror()

2006-05-23 Thread Jim Kleckner
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Michael McKerns wrote: Yes, yes... I've not given you enough information... ... See: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programmin

Re: Cygwin G++ bug? - Python Extension module #including dies before initialization

2006-05-27 Thread Jim Kleckner
Max Bowsher wrote: Hi, I compiled a C++ Python Extension, and found that it caused the Python interpreter process to silently die (with a *zero* exitcode!) when it attempted to load the extension module. I traced the problem to the line: static ios_base::Init __ioinit; in . It seems that whe

Re: Cygwin G++ bug? - Python Extension module #including dies before initialization

2006-05-27 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: Could someone provide a pointer to the GDB change? The changelog is here: *http://tinyurl.com/rnhjw win32_nat.c is listed here: **http://tinyurl.com/rnhjw The key change diffs appear to be here: **http://tinyurl.com/z5vze * -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com

Re: Cygwin G++ bug? - Python Extension module #including dies before initialization

2006-05-27 Thread Jim Kleckner
Brian Dessent wrote: As you can see, this all is contingent upon a program like GDB using the Windows debug API. Without that, the entire issue is irrelevant, so I can't see how this possibly would apply to Python. Thanks for explaining how the Windows debug API is the one actually catching

Re: Cygwin G++ bug? - Python Extension module #including dies before initialization

2006-05-28 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: As you can see, this all is contingent upon a program like GDB using the Windows debug API. Without that, the entire issue is irrelevant, so I can't see how this possibly would apply to Python. Thanks for explaining how the Windows debug API i

Re: cygwin-gcc-fopen bug? (Purify)

2004-12-10 Thread Jim Kleckner
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jim Kleckner Sent: 10 December 2004 19:01 We used to use Purify to find these sorts of problems often just by running the program once. Unfortunately for us using cygwin, Purify appears to have moved toward a firm

Re: cygwin-gcc-fopen bug?

2004-12-10 Thread Jim Kleckner
Lester Ingber wrote: Jim: Hi. On Solaris9 I use leak and there are no leaks, and I see no errors at all. Valgrind implements an x86 interpreter and, among other things, checks use of uninitialized memory or referencing outside of allocated memory. Dave's conjecture was that the problem was of th

Re: Limitation in SCP?

2004-12-14 Thread Jim Kleckner
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 13 14:37, Bob Smart wrote: I've discovered that in some circumstances, scp seems to get tired early when transferring a largish file (around 200MB). It copies diligently for the first 20-40MB (exactly where it stops varies from run to run), then CPU usage drops to ze

gcc bounds checking, valgrind, purify

2004-12-17 Thread Jim Kleckner
Bill Priest wrote: Jim & All, I've successfully built and used cygwin 3.3.1 with Herman Ten Brugge's bounds checking patches. I've submitted the trivial changes required for cygwin back to Herman. You can google for Herman Ten Brugge and find a reference to the changes I made to get them to wo

Re: cygwin-gcc-fopen bug? (Purify)

2004-12-10 Thread Jim Kleckner
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Lester Ingber Sent: 10 December 2004 16:14 ... Your code has a bug: a stray pointer or array overwrite that is trashing some memory. The only reason you get away with it on Solaris is by sheer luck; either the stack or h

Re: cygwin-gcc-fopen bug? (Purify, valgrind)

2004-12-10 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: Dave Korn wrote: ... Maybe we should try and port the free open-source equivalent valgrind (http://valgrind.kde.org/) instead? I haven't ever looked at this, but it ought to be possible. I note that you can use (a special variant version of) valgrind to verify win32

ssh-agent and /tmp/ssh-* removal at logout

2005-02-23 Thread Jim Kleckner
ssh-agent leaves stale directories named /tmp/ssh- that contain the named pipe for authentication. These left over directories come about when you log out or shut down the computer without stopping ssh-agent either by running keychain to shut it down or sending it a SIGHUP to exit and clean up.

Re: ssh-agent and /tmp/ssh-* removal at logout

2005-02-23 Thread Jim Kleckner
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 23 06:18, Jim Kleckner wrote: ssh-agent leaves stale directories named /tmp/ssh- that contain the named pipe for authentication. These left over directories come about when you log out or shut down the computer without stopping ssh-agent either by running

Re: ssh-agent and /tmp/ssh-* removal at logout

2005-02-23 Thread Jim Kleckner
Karl M wrote: From: Jim Kleckner Subject: ssh-agent and /tmp/ssh-* removal at logout Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 06:18:50 -0800 ssh-agent leaves stale directories named /tmp/ssh- that contain the named pipe for authentication. These left over directories come about when you log out or shut down the

clamwin installs incompatible copy of cygwin1.dll

2005-03-24 Thread Jim Kleckner
I had a user install clamwin and as discussed on the list here: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-09/msg00288.html it blithely installs cygwin1.dll regardless of any installation of cygwin. This predictably causes problems. Searching through the user guide and faq doesn't yield a suggesti

Re: clamwin installs incompatible copy of cygwin1.dll

2005-03-24 Thread Jim Kleckner
Larry Hall wrote: At 01:50 PM 3/24/2005, you wrote: I had a user install clamwin and as discussed on the list here: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-09/msg00288.html it blithely installs cygwin1.dll regardless of any installation of cygwin. This predictably causes problems. Searching t

Re: clamwin installs incompatible copy of cygwin1.dll

2005-03-24 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: This is helpful, thank you. Being curious and trying to be minimal about changes to the system in question, I tried removing and linking the dll in place. I first tried "ln -s /bin/cygwin1.dll" in the clamwin/bin directory and wasn't surprised that it didn

Re: clamwin installs incompatible copy of cygwin1.dll

2005-03-29 Thread Jim Kleckner
Larry Hall wrote: > At 10:20 PM 3/24/2005, Brian Dessent wrote: >> A symlink won't work, because it's Windows own loader that searches >> for and loads any .DLLs called for by an .exe. Windows does not >> understand symlinks as they are a Cygwin thing, so you can't >> symlink a DLL and expect it to

Re: clamwin installs incompatible copy of cygwin1.dll

2005-03-30 Thread Jim Kleckner
Christopher Faylor wrote: OTOH, perhaps I'm oversimplifying things, but it seems like this thread went on for quite a while after the simple "delete the nonstandard DLL" advice was given. I don't see how any advice is going to be useful if it isn't followed. I agree completely. All the more reaso

Re: clamwin installs incompatible copy of cygwin1.dll

2005-03-30 Thread Jim Kleckner
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 08:08:16AM -0800, Jim Kleckner wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: OTOH, perhaps I'm oversimplifying things, but it seems like this thread went on for quite a while after the simple "delete the nonstandard DLL" advice was given. I do

Re: clamwin installs incompatible copy of cygwin1.dll

2005-03-30 Thread Jim Kleckner
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 08:45:10AM -0800, Jim Kleckner wrote: So, if you're a Unix guy since 1978, that puts you in a unique category. You don't qualify as a FAQ. I don't quite understand this. I don't qualify to write FAQ entries or shouldn't

Re: clamwin installs incompatible copy of cygwin1.dll

2005-03-30 Thread Jim Kleckner
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:57:44AM -0800, Jim Kleckner wrote: Then strike the link text and limit it to the workaround of adding the bin to the system path. My text was a suggested starting point. i.e., a workaround. The solution that the DLL has to be in the system

STL std::random_shuffle behavior fails with lrand48

2004-07-30 Thread Jim Kleckner
Attached is a simple test case of std::random_shuffle() that gives different answers on cygwin and RH Linux. Note that the output looks like a simple circular rotation on cygwin but works correctly on RH 7.2. The problem appears to be the implementation of lrand48(). If you undefine: #undef _GL

Re: STL std::random_shuffle behavior fails with lrand48 (workaround)

2004-08-02 Thread Jim Kleckner
Arturus Magi wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Version of cygwin is current (see attached file for all version stamps) gcc 3.3.1-3 gcc-g++ 3.3.1-3 version of gcc/g++ on Linux is 2.96. The test program is attached as is cygcheck output. To run it just type (note that

Re: STL std::random_shuffle behavior fails with lrand48

2004-08-03 Thread Jim Kleckner
Arturus Magi wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Version of cygwin is current (see attached file for all version stamps) gcc 3.3.1-3 gcc-g++ 3.3.1-3 version of gcc/g++ on Linux is 2.96. The test program is attached as is cygcheck output. To run it just type (note that

Re: RSync Stalling issue

2005-09-08 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jonathan wrote: When backing up data off the desktop box ( debian <- windows ) the rsync will often stall. Note that if you can get the client to "push" the data to the server rather than having the server "pull" it, then there seems to be no hang problem. But firewalls often get in the way o

Re: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

2005-10-12 Thread Jim Kleckner
Matt England wrote: > I find cygwin's setup.exe extremely difficult to understand, and over the years I've used it, I have found it somewhat buggy (unless the "bugs" I find are really just "features" that I don't understand). The biggest question: why do myself and everyone else in my softwar

Infinite loop in Numeric-24.2-1 for eigenvalues

2006-08-09 Thread Jim Kleckner
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: The following package has been added to the Cygwin net release: *** Numeric-24.2-1 Numerical Python provides a fast, compact, multidimensional array language facility as a Python module. This package requires python-2.4.x and is listed under the Python category.

Re: Infinite loop in Numeric-24.2-1 for eigenvalues (Workaround)

2006-08-09 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: This patch mentions: # Optionally, you can run # python setup.py config first. This fixes a bug in LinearAlgebra on Cygwin (and possibly # other platforms). but "python setup.py config" fails to compile with the message: unable to execute _configtest.ex

Re: keychain doesn't properly cache ssh key

2006-08-11 Thread Jim Kleckner
René Berber wrote: Keychain seems to be missing the equivalent of "eval `ssh-agent -s`" (if using bash). I use this bash function to start keychain to work around that issue. function kc() { #Keychain invocation keychain ~/.ssh/id_rsa if [ -e ~/.ssh-agent-`hostname` ] ; then

Re: 1.5.21-1 DLL Loading Problem (binutils?)

2006-08-12 Thread Jim Kleckner
Martin wrote: --- Rob Hatcherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... I had a similar problem with dynamically loaded modules (extensions) in TCL. I traced my problem to the upgrade of binutils 20050610-1 to binutils 20060709-1. When I rolled it back, everthing was fine. However, I'm still running 1

Re: Will cygwin produced *.exe run w/o cygwin installed?

2006-10-05 Thread Jim Kleckner
Gene Smith wrote: I have built a cross compiler for arm under cygwin from gnu sources and cygwin's gcc. I now have a bunch of .exe's that run fine under cygwin. Is it possible to use these on a system without cygwin installed. Right now I don't have a system w/o cygwin so can't test. See cyg

cygwin.com DNS not resolving?

2006-12-29 Thread Jim Kleckner
I'm not seeing name resolution on cygwin.com from several different ISPs? Anyone else see this or know what is going on? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FA

Cygwin anti-spam techniques

2007-01-25 Thread Jim Kleckner
The presence of a little bit of spam on this list reminds me how little normally gets through. I know it might be considered a little OT, but do you have a pointer to what techniques are used these days? Thanks - Jim -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem rep

Re: [ping] SWIG maintainer

2007-04-13 Thread Jim Kleckner
Yep. The "const char *" declarations are missing with the current swig version so Python 2.5 doesn't work without modifications. It would be great to update SWIG now that Python is. Brian Hassink wrote: A friendly ping to the SWIG package maintainer... The current package is based on SWIG 1.

Re: cygwin and svn on Windows Vista

2007-04-18 Thread Jim Kleckner
Benoit Miller wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 21 00:54, Andy Wu wrote: When I try to do a checkout or export from a svn repository, I get the following error message: svn checkout svn+ssh://[path]/[to]/[repository] 11 [main] svn 1472 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed, 0x317

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-22 Thread Jim Kleckner
Brian Dessent wrote: "Michael D. Adams" wrote: he workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So for example this sequence works: set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% setup.exe Then /bin/sh is actually created, the pro

Approximate timetable for next cygwin version?

2007-07-06 Thread Jim Kleckner
Corinna Vinschen wrote: You'll have to live with the behaviour in 1.5.24 then for some time. There won't be any bug fixing to 1.5.24 anymore. The next version will be a major, major, MAJOR update with lots of changes, not only in socket code. Just curious when you think the new version will be

sshd and vista / business

2007-08-27 Thread Jim Kleckner
I've had various luck with getting sshd working with Vista. Today, it was working for a while and then after some patch updates stopped. Nothing seems to want to get it working again. I verified passwd and groups are identical to the output of mkpasswd and mkgroup. I verified that all directori

Re: sshd and vista / business

2007-08-27 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: I've had various luck with getting sshd working with Vista. Today, it was working for a while and then after some patch updates stopped. Nothing seems to want to get it working again. The event log says this: sshd: PID 2532: fatal: recv_rexec_state: ssh_msg

Re: sshd and vista / business

2007-08-27 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: I've had various luck with getting sshd working with Vista. Today, it was working for a while and then after some patch updates stopped. Nothing seems to want to get it working again. The event log says this: sshd: PID 2532: fatal: recv_rexec_state: ssh_msg_recv f

Full reinstall now fails with Vista STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION during postinstall

2007-08-28 Thread Jim Kleckner
In trying to figure out what was going on with Vista Business, I removed all of cygwin and reinstalled, first as me with administrator privileges and then with "run as administrator". In all cases, the postinstall scripts all fail with lines like: 6 [unknown (0x890)] bash 3248 _cygtls::hand

Re: Full reinstall now fails with Vista STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION during postinstall

2007-08-29 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: In trying to figure out what was going on with Vista Business, I removed all of cygwin and reinstalled, first as me with administrator privileges and then with "run as administrator". In all cases, the postinstall scripts all fail with lines like: I've given

Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2007-08-31 Thread Jim Kleckner
I get an exception running a Python example that uses threads that I downloaded from the net (ASPN): http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/82965 This may just be another case of "threading doesn't work well". I'm including the test case. It fails with cygwin Python with a dia

Re: Full reinstall now fails with Vista STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION during postinstall

2007-08-31 Thread Jim Kleckner
Dave Korn wrote: On 29 August 2007 01:05, Jim Kleckner wrote: It could be a NOD32 issue, to judge by the trouble it's been causing elsewhere today: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00824.html [and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00800.html ] Looks like you'd n

Re: 1.5.24: sshd immediately disconnects upon receiving a connection

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jeremy K. Truax wrote: So as I said in the last message for this thread, I was able to get sshd fully working by uninstalling the antivirus. In case anyone else is using NOD32 for antivirus (www.eset.com), it has a special service called IMON (Internet monitor) that seems to be pretty picky on w

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: I get an exception running a Python example that uses threads that I downloaded from the net (ASPN): http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/82965 Would some kind soul try the example and let me know that it does/doesn't work for you? Setting debug

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Kleckner
Steve Holden wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: I get an exception running a Python example that uses threads that I downloaded from the net (ASPN): http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/82965 Would some kind soul try the example and let me know that it does

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2007-09-06 Thread Jim Kleckner
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Steve Holden wrote: Running the example on the above Python system I just see the command prompt return with no program output whatsoever: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Projects/Python $ /usr/bin/python test03.py

Re: Help needed with Big List of Dodgy Apps

2007-09-06 Thread Jim Kleckner
Dave Korn wrote: These sorts of problems (cpu usage pegged at 100%, or mysterious hangs or fork failures) are often caused by buggy versions of antivirus, antispyware, personal firewall, or other similar security or system-related software that hooks into every running process and - because

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2007-09-06 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Steve Holden wrote: Running the example on the above Python system I just see the command prompt return with no program output whatsoever: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Projects/Python

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2007-09-06 Thread Jim Kleckner
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:01:25PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Running it with idle does give the exception dialog. I can't seem to grab hold of anything to get a traceback. Suggestions? Thanks for providing a testcase. Shou

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2007-09-06 Thread Jim Kleckner
Brian Dessent wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Running it with idle does give the exception dialog. I can't seem to grab hold of anything to get a traceback. Suggestions? Thanks for providing a testcase. Should be fixed in CVS: <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2007-q3/

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2007-09-06 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Running it with idle does give the exception dialog. I can't seem to grab hold of anything to get a traceback. Suggestions? Thanks for providing a testcase. Should be fixed in CVS: <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2007-09-06 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: I tried running /lib/python2.5/test/test_thread.py and it hangs at the line below: *** Changing thread stack size *** caught expected ValueError setting stack_size(4096) successfully set stack_size(262144) successfully set stack_size(1048576) successfully set stack_size(0

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2007-09-10 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: I tried running /lib/python2.5/test/test_thread.py and it hangs at the line below: *** Changing thread stack size *** caught expected ValueError setting stack_size(4096) successfully set stack_size(262144) successfully set stack_size(1048576

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2007-09-10 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: I tried running /lib/python2.5/test/test_thread.py and it hangs at the line below: *** Changing thread stack size *** caught expected ValueError setting stack_size(4096) successfully set stack_size(262144) successfully set stack_size(1048576

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2007-09-10 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: I tried running /lib/python2.5/test/test_thread.py and it hangs at the line below: *** Changing thread stack size *** caught expected ValueError setting stack_size(4096) successfully set stack_size(262144) successfully set stack_size(1048576

Re: screen reattach not working under ssh?

2007-10-09 Thread Jim Kleckner
Damjan Lango wrote: I'm still having problems with reattaching screen under ssh sessions. Does it work to anybody at all? ssh + screen + vista anyone? sigh :( I have had some success using vista 64 bit. Not frequently used, though. Jim -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2008-01-25 Thread Jim Kleckner
Brian Dessent wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Running it with idle does give the exception dialog. I can't seem to grab hold of anything to get a traceback. Suggestions? Thanks for providing a testcase. Should be fixed in CVS: <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2007-q3/msg00

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2008-01-27 Thread Jim Kleckner
Dave Korn wrote: On 26 January 2008 02:27, Jim Kleckner wrote: Thanks for providing a testcase. Should be fixed in CVS: <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2007-q3/msg00013.html> I have a python application that works fine on Linux and Mac but fails with Cygwin. I tried

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2008-02-11 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 26 January 2008 02:27, Jim Kleckner wrote: ... The two testcases I found in those threads (attached) both WJFFM under cygwin 1.5.25-7 but fail under 1.5.23-2. If you can reproduce that and your program still fails, it's probably a diff

Re: Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2008-02-13 Thread Jim Kleckner
Thanks for running this. René Berber wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: [snip] Would someone mind trying the following to see if you get the same behavior? cd /usr/lib/python2.5/test python testall.py Observe that it hangs at "creating task 1". Yes. After a while of being idle threads go

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-4.2.4-1 - A command-line driven interactive function plotting utility.

2009-03-25 Thread Jim Kleckner
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi A new version of 'gnuplot' has been uploaded to a server near you. [snip] Would you mind to consider including the patch documented here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.applications/17023 and here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-06/msg00102.html

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-4.2.4-1 - A command-line driven interactive function plotting utility.

2009-03-25 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi A new version of 'gnuplot' has been uploaded to a server near you. [snip] Would you mind to consider including the patch documented here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.applications/17023 and here: http://cygwin.com/ml/c

File permissions not rx for group in /bin

2008-08-17 Thread Jim Kleckner
I've read through the various permission documents to find the explanation and tried Google without figuring this one out. Hopefully it is very simple. I have an old cygwin install that I was upgrading to the latest 1.5. I find that the files in /bin are mode 700 rather than 750 on my other ins

Re: File permissions not rx for group in /bin

2008-08-17 Thread Jim Kleckner
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: I've read through the various permission documents to find the explanation and tried Google without figuring this one out. Hopefully it is very simple. I have an old cygwin install that I was upgrading to the latest 1.5. I find that the fil

Re: File permissions not rx for group in /bin

2008-08-18 Thread Jim Kleckner
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 17 23:07, Jim Kleckner wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: I've read through the various permission documents to find the explanation and tried Google without figuring this one out. Hopefully it is very simple. I have a