Re: Unison 2.43.3 fails to synchronize execute permission bit

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Ms. Alex Hankins by7eth29fh-at-snkmail.com |cygwin| <1c3mq4a...@sneakemail.com> wrote: > On Nov 3, 2015 9:43 AM, "Andrew Schulman" ... wrote: >> >> Thanks for reporting this. I haven't had time to look at it yet, but I >> will when I can. My guess is that the only

Re: setup problem: only ash comes as /bin/sh

[...] > > scripts, since the only shell I install is bash, and the only /bin/sh > installed by > > setup is ash. > > Could this be fixed somehow? > > How exactly? Ash is a part of the 'Base' category, a minimal Cygwin > installation. This means that postinstall scripts et al expect a 'Base' [...]

setup problem: only ash comes as /bin/sh

I reinstalled my w9x box and cygwin also. As the subject mentions, this is already annoying: every time I reinstall cygwin, I must remember to set a /bin/sh, and re-run all /etc/postinstall scripts, since the only shell I install is bash, and the only /bin/sh installed by setup is ash. Could this

Re: File/Directory Permissions and Security

That works. Figured out why the windows ACL administration was all messed up too. Thanks! :) L "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 01:20:08AM -0400, L. Li wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I

Re: Python and PIL and rebase, oh my! (update)

Chuck, > Similar to my message of 9-May-2002, but updated with regards to [...] LONGING, for the same 'bout gtk2 suite. Especially now, when tml advertises http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~s01397ms/cygwin/ where it's quite a patch suite, nice organized with win32/cyg-xfree86 backends. Except a minim

Re: gtk on cygwin [was: Re: Python and PIL and rebase, oh my! (update)]

Chuck, [...] > I have no idea why you replied personally to me. [...] Apologies for the annoyance. SLao -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

gtk2 on cygwin ( --with-gdktarget=win32, only )

(After my -- much too enthusiastic ? -- intrusion over a thread in this mail list, and an appropriate meeting of the meannes (SIC!), here it is.) Actually, the patches for having this done are present around since some time, some at http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/ some others at http://web.sfc.

Re: gtk2 on cygwin ( --with-gdktarget=win32, only )

Gerrit, [...] > I do always this before the build: > $ autoreconf --install --force --verbose [...] A good trick (autotools method ?) to keep in mind. Anyway, having the stuff working after over 2 months digging, now I turned to test some apps :)) (which, by the way, are just a few -- most of gtk2

RE: cygwin as a replacement for explorer.exe

Ralf, [...] > > > If you're asking whether you can replace the Explorer desktop, > taskbar, > > > and window manager with Cygwin tools/programs, I'm not sure if it's > > > possible > > > > This is one of the goals of the KDE/cygwin project. [...] I think you and Igor gave a too complicated answer.

Re: compile gtk2 applications on cygwin?

Franz, [...] > So far I tried with your gtk build (at least I found some message of > you stating that this is from you) from http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/. [...] You should be aware also, that Gerrit said he does a autoreconf --install --force --verbose before building. That remains vali

ntea dilemma

I have cygwin (DLL version: 1.3.11, DLL epoch: 19, Snapshot date: 20020504-18:26:37) installed on a FAT32 (win98) partition, originally installed under win98. I also installed XP Pro on another partition (NTFS). To avoid installing cygwin on XP, I created HKLM entries, so I can use cygwin tools f

Re: ntea dilemma

Elfyn [...] > also worthwhile to check for the file "EA DATA .SF" (don't know that I h > ave > that name exactly but it is close) at the root of the FAT(32) partition. [...] The filename was a hint I was looking for. Another hint would be the moment this file is created, and any particular condi

Re: ntea dilemma

Wow, It took me one half of hour to send my previous reply (job stress:) so I addressed the quotes of the wrong person. My apologies Larry, SLao -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: ntea dilemma

Larry, [...] > to a file in that FAT(32) partition. Just run "chmod +rw " for > > some and the "EA DATA .SF" should appear if you're running with > "ntea" > enabled. Make sure that "ntea" is set *before* the Cygwin DLL is loaded > > (before any Cygwin processes start). [...] no, it does no

Re: Compiling GLib 1.2.10 on latest cygwin

[...] > > I don't think that sounds like the right solution. > > Probably, but I reverted it after compiling libglib.a. [...] There's also a patch in mc's source tree that addresses this package. That applies to glib source, as it should :) Sorry for the late answer, SLao -- +++ GMX - Mail, M

Re: cygwin apache https fork error - need rebase cmd info

Gosh, this problem starts looking like postgresql's cygipc one :)) If it only was _that_ easy to fix ... SLao -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscri

Re: Apache + PHP

[...] > If you have all of your required dll's then your next step should be > rebasing your dll's: [...] I could say that rebasing never worked here 100 %. For the 1.3.17-1 cygwin and 1.3.24-5 apache & co. versions, I couldn't get a clean working server on w9x (okok, I know, NT is the recommended

Re: Glib2

[...] > Anyway, thanks for bringing up this issue; it appears that the current > libtool is not quite ready for absolutely every possible use that people > want...Looks like there are a few things I need to do over Christmas > break... :-) [...] Anyway, your post should find it's place somewher

Re: tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh83.exe

[...] > If that is NOT what you are suggestion -- e.g. that only tclsh83 should > be renamed -- why? Why is tclsh83 special? [...] [cough, ough!] Yes, yes, why?! Why is it the one and only cygwin app (except the specific applications, e.g. cygcheck, cygpath) that cannot do a "$ /bin/tclsh83.exe

Re: tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh83.exe

Chuck, I do consider this thread is closed, but, [...] > > ftp://ftp.nanotech.wisc.edu/pub/khan/tcl/tcltk-8.3.4-cygwin/ > > [...] [...] > > But that tk is X-based, isn't it? There is no way that the default [...] just for the records: it's not. SLao -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more ht

Re: Setup hangs repetedly

s linked clusters. I have had virtually no problem with setup since I started scanning my hard drives more frequently and eliminating said clusters. Just an idea to look at. Regards, L Anderson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Wget ignores robot.txt entry

Using the latest of things Cygwin, I downloaded some stuff with wget from to peruse off-line and noticed a problem I can't explain: The file has the entries: User-agent: * Disallow: /snapshots/ Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /cgi2-bin/ so wget

Re: Wget ignores robot.txt entry

t;. Wget supports this method of robot exclusion in addition to the usual /robots.txt exclusion. " Perhaps there is a counterpart to the above, i.e., that's being involked and someone from Redhat could check into and rule this out. Thanks (and still puzzled)! Lowell Anderson Rand

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

> The Midnight Commander visual shell has been updated to version > 4.6.0-1. This is major upgrade and the result of more then > one and a half year of bugfixing and code cleanup. [...] Thanks, and, of course another item on the wishlist (although it could be already done): Please, use included s

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

[...] > No, thanks! :) But a have a surprise for you - the -a switch works now > with both ncurses and slang :) I don't remember the name exactly, but > some time ago (4.5.55 time) I was contacted by a Cygwin user who requested > > the -a option. I forwarded his request to the MC developers list

Re: .profile and xterm

> Just starting to play with cygwin. I edited my > .profile to do some nice aliases, setting PATH and > bashprompt... > but I realize that as soon as I start a terminal using > xterm (I am using exceed as my Xserver, but shouldn't > matter) all the alias are gone (such as ls=ls > --color=auto, whi

Re: Problems using WIN32 api

" on each of them to see which is such an interface. On my 1.3.x cygwin here, for your libuser32.a case, I have "$ nm /lib/w32api/libuser32.a | grep __imp | wc -l 582 " [...] > - is someone interested in a glib/gtk+ cygwin package >(not a native Win32 one)? [...] It

Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge

[...] > > It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop > > filesystem "plug-ins" which could be generalized for stuff like NFS, > > EXTFS, etc. > > > > Didn't someone say they had a free month? Perfect project. :-) > Actually, I'd already been thinking about it - I thin

RE: Text entry to command line program

[...] > > Try something like: > > > > CYGWIN=notty sqlplus > > > > Is that saying notty for sqlplus and tty for everything else? [...] No, that's an interactive command line, it's not a setting of the CYGWIN variable (i.e. it's not CYGWIN="notty sqlplus"). The above actually launches sqlplus, s

Re: Changing jobs

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:17:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this mean you'll be getting out of the house some? Maybe some fresh air will help the termperament (so that now CGF wont' be synonymous with mean?) :^) I get out of the house plenty now. I have a

Re: rxvt & custom fonts

> Alec, > > Cygwin uses Windows' fonts. The only exception I know of is the TeX [...] A question about something I've been digging a long time. Are there any means to make those "Terminal" bitmapped Windows fonts to work with rxvt? If I passed "Fixedsys" or "System" to -fn option, it's ok, they

Re: Failed: Installing Postgresql under Cygwin on win98se

> Thanks for replying! > > >Is /usr/bin in your current path? > > yes, everything´s fine > > >Did you select the sh-utils/grep/sed/et > >al. packages when you installed cygwin? > > also yes. this in fact was my first idea, but sed itself seems to work... > > >...it looks like it needs pos

Re: Failed: Installing Postgresql under Cygwin on win98se

[...] > $ ls -l /bin/postgres > > gives me this: > > ?rw-r--r--0 0unknown 2706432 Jan 1 1970 /bin/postgres > > where "unknown" is my win-username (ok might be confusing..) > 1970 looks funny, but this ?rw-r--r-- makes me nervous... > and

Re: imapd on cygwin

> Andrew DeFaria wrote: [...] > > I can find no man page for gettimeofday in Cygwin! And I can't seem to > even call it properly: > > #include > #include > int main (void) { > struct timezone d; > printf ("Calling gettimeofday\n"); > gettimeofday (NULL, &d); > printf ("Returned from g

RE: Problems starting apache, DLL base address conflicts?

> Based upon Jason's pointers, I used the following command to rebase the > apache dll's, and now it seems to work, > [...] So this must lead to conclusion that the method of using of the "third party" ld.exe (the one with auto-import that Stipe recommends -- and actually works OTF -- in cygwin

rebase (a) solution (?)[was: Problems starting apache, DLL base address conflicts?]

Stipe, [...] > > Any hope to shorten this last method ?! > > Yep, do we (package contributors) have to rebase packages before > tarballing them, or what's the standard way to do it? [...] No, I didn't mean that. What I was thinking, was if rebase couldn't actually be included in cygwin distro, a

Re: GTK on CYGWIN

[...] > > CYGWIN is really a great thing. I want to use GTK natively on Windows, > not with XFree > > or another XServer. What is the easiest way to install GTK with CYGWI`N [...] > > BTW, this is XFree86 stuff and should be discussed on the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. > > > Gerrit > -- > =^..^=

Re: GTK on cygwin

[...] > >> > CYGWIN is really a great thing. I want to use GTK natively on > Windows, [...] > Just to add to the thread, I assume that if GTK+ can be built using mingw, > it should be pretty easy to build it for native cygwin. Have you tried > just building it with Cygwin's gcc? > > cgf [...] .

Re: GTK on CYGWIN

Gerrit, [...] > 1. A native port of GTK has nothing to do with Cywgin. ^^^ >If you ned help here ask Tor and use mingw or orther lists. [...] It has. To mention just the posix paths? :) [...] > 2. If you use GTK linked against cygwin1.dll it is XFree86 stuff.

Re: GTK on cygwin

Sorry for the thread inconsistency with my first reply. [this one's just to check reaching the right possition] SLao -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.co

Re: php compilation error = expat problem?

Andreas, [...] > > > I encountered problems concerning the installation of expat > (1.95.4-1). [...] > Could somebody please explain the occurence of the error when compiling > php > (even with reinstalled expat package)(used command: > ./configure --with-apxs --without-mysql --with-pgsql --with-e

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

[...] > # Secure addbug form > > AuthName "permission to add a bug" > AuthType Basic > AuthUserFile /etc/apache/addbug_users > Require valid-user > > > However that fails to work. [...] An "AllowOverride AuthConfig" directive, must also be placed. E.g. Options Indexes Fol

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

[...] > So, to summarize, it appears that Apache under Cygwin is able to deal > with web pages when paths are UNC paths of the form > / however the authentication module does > not like such paths and seems to fail silently. Personally I believe > that if the server can accept an UNC path t

Re: Cygwin logo

Brian Dessent wrote: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: Can anyone work an otter or a hippo into the logo? ;-) ;-) ;-) For what it's worth when I made this back in April I first had to make the basic logo . This

Curious about cygcheck -s' comment on vi

terol free or "Not found: elephants". :-) Just curious. Regards, L Anderson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Error on http://www.cygwin.com/contrib.html ?

ild instructions are included in the FAQ under "How do I build Cygwin on my own?". Regards L Anderson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Nominally, how long to build cygwin/bash debug versions?

2MB memory, lots disk space, and Windows 98SE. Thanks, L Anderson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: cygserver 1.20: How to start this daemon before PostgreSQL's postmaster in a script?

Maybe the best way to check cygserver's complete startup (i.e. the IPC functionality) would be to use the ipcs command. The following outputs are for cygserver service up and down status (I'm not sure the fact that I'm on XP makes any difference, though): $ ipcs -q Message Queues: T ID

Where is CYGREADLINE6.DLL?

o far, no brass ring. Thanks much L Anderson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Where is CYGREADLINE6.DLL?

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:39:00AM -0700, L Anderson wrote: I would greatly appreciate someone telling me the package that contains CYGREADLINE6.DLL. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cygreadline6.dll Doh! I knew that--the obvious sometimes

Inconsistency in find ... -name ...

a/test/examp001.pl ... whereas a couple of others didn't work, viz-a-viz: $ find /home/lowella -type f -name *.txt find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] $ find /home/lowella -type f -name *.c find: paths must precede expres

Re: ssh and SYSTEM

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:50:26PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I am running WinXP SP2 I installed openssh and followed the instructions at http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html on how to install. Nicholas Fong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is the person respon

Re: ssh and SYSTEM

Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, L Anderson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:50:26PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I am running WinXP SP2 I installed openssh and followed the instructions at http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html on how

Bad Link in Cygwin Mirrors Page

rces.redhat.com/cygwin/ or rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ works as does changing them all to: ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ Regards, L Anderson -- Uns

Re: Bad Link in Cygwin Mirrors Page--changed but why rsync dropped?

L Anderson wrote: On the Cygwin mirrors page "http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html";, under "North America: Palo Alto", the link locations are as follows: Now: "locations were as follows:" ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ http://mirrors

Wget incorrectly mirroring some web site directories and files.

When I use 'wget' to mirror some web sites, I notice a peculiar behavior I'm unable to find described in the mail archives or with google. To wit(using MSWindows directory notation): If a web site has something like the following stored on 'host': ... root\a\u.html root\

Re: Wget incorrectly mirroring some web site directories and files.

Brian Dessent wrote: L Anderson wrote: Is it a bug/feature in 'wget'; i.e., 'wget' handles the '\' not as a directory thingy but as part of the file name thus converting things like 'x\y' to 'x%5Cy' or is it caused by some other part of cygwin?

Is SEM_UNDO problem fixed (in v 1.5.11)?

Hi, I am calling semop to increment or decrement an IPC semaphore with SEM_UNDO. Then I abort the process using Ctrl+C and check the semaphore status. I expect the effect of the semop to be undone at that point, but it is not. It is either a bug or I am doing something wrong. I see that the prob

Mirror, Mirroring, Download, Downloading Cygwin Release Using rsync

From time to time, as even now, someone asks a question on how to download Cygwin for installing, locally, on any number of machines, burning a CD/DVD, etc. The canonical answer seems to be to use Cygwin's Setup. If "Setup" doesn't run on your system of choice (e.g. FreeBSD, GNU/Linux...), th

Re: Mirror, Mirroring, Download, Downloading Cygwin Release Using rsync

Brian Dessent wrote: L Anderson wrote: I use rsync to maintain a local Cygwin release mirror so I can use Setup to locally install anything from Cygwin release on a number of PCs on my network. I do too but without the script part. I just have a line in my crontab: 00 10,22 * * * rsync -rlt

Re: Mirror, Mirroring, Download, Downloading Cygwin Release Using rsync

Brian Dessent wrote: L Anderson wrote: Initially I used --exclude but decided it was safer to ask for what I want rather than for everything but what I don't want. If a subdirectory that I don't want is added to the mirror, it gets downloaded until I discover it and change the --

Re: Problem with 'cvs login'

Meritorious Service (GLAFMS) to none other than cg(PR)f aka cfprg aka cfPaulReveref aka The dead of night no less! (Even still, I can hear the clopety clop of the keyboard as night settles over the "puter".) Sincerely, thanks cg(PR)f for all you do. Regards, L Anderson -- Unsubscrib

Re: Dia & gtk 2 & cygwin

> Hello Steve, > > > > The prerequisites for dia are: > [...] And yet another very usefull one: http://cygnome2.sourceforge.net/howto/2.4.2/dia-0.93-cygwin.patch [...] > > > Any idea on how to get these to work so I can run Dia on Windows XP? > > Just install all of these packages via setu

Re: Dia & gtk 2 & cygwin

Gerrit, [...] > > Actually it is: > > http://cygnome2.sourceforge.net/howto/dia-0.93-cygwin.patch > [...] Oops! Sorry, I didn't check the link, just copy'n'pasted it from the patches page. SLao P.S. (As an add-on to my previous N.B.) My gtk2 build is using your glib/atk/pango packages, whic

Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

em binmode However, mount -p | sed -nr '2s/([^ ].*) +\S+ +\S+/\1/p' does the trick. Regards, L Anderson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/do

Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

L Anderson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:36:16PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:23:00AM -0700, Linda W wrote: Is there a way to find out in a bash script the cygdrive prefix? I thought something simple like mount -p|tail -1|cut

Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:47:52PM -0700, L Anderson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:36:16PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:23:00AM -0700, Linda W wrote: Is there a way to find out in a bash script the

Re: Founstone Labs (now part of McAfee) violates GPL or not?

s.php?group_id=78332 for source and later versions than found on foundstone. L Anderson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

I'm seeing very similar bad behavior from cygwin+git on win7 x64 as well as winxp x86. This bug is not confined to 64 bit platforms. This bug is new in 1.7.x--I have cygwin 1.5 installs on both of these machines that do not exhibit this failure. The problem seems to be rooted in cygwin's openssh p

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

From this thread I gather that little or no progress has been made on addressing the root cause of this issue. It still seems to be broken with the latest 1.7 series packages. What is the proper method for getting this bug in front of the guys who maintain the openssh package? The cygwin website s

Re: Bash doesn't launch the applications directly.

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:11:30PM -0500, Dave Steenburgh wrote: Well, now I understand why I occasionally see more instances of bash in the task manager than I was expecting. However, now I have to ask why the shim doesn't appear [plainly] with ps: 4540 1

Can't compile Screen: Undefined reference to __imp__ospeed

Hi, all. I'm trying to compile GNU Screen under Cygwin. Right now, I'm failing to compile an unmodified package, but my goal is to compile with 256 color support. I downloaded the package via the Cygwin installer and ran cygport screen-4.0.3-1.cygport almostall At compile, I get the followin

Re: Can't compile Screen: Undefined reference to __imp__ospeed

> I'm guessing that you need libncurses-devel. Yep. That's what I was missing. > If it compiles cleanly and is of > interest then I can certainly package a new release with it. Unfortunately, I can't get it to compile cleanly when I add --enable-colors256 to the cygconf line. The output from

Re: Can't compile Screen: Undefined reference to __imp__ospeed

Thanks for looking at this, Andrew. I might have messed something up, but after extracting your build, I still don't get 256 colors within a Screen terminal. I'm using a Perl script, available at http://www.frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/data/256colors2.pl, to test whether my terminal is giving me 2

Re: Can't compile Screen: Undefined reference to __imp__ospeed

Andrew Schulman writes: > TERM=screen-256color screen > > gives 256 colors, at least in Cygwin 1.5. Can you confirm this? Yes. Beautiful, Andrew. You said you needed text for the release announcement. I'm not sure what it's supposed to look like, but you can use this, if it works: screen-

Re: Can't compile Screen: Undefined reference to __imp__ospeed

Andrew Schulman writes: > I'm curious: where do you use this? Well, I'll admit to some degree that it's yak shaving (http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gsb2000-02-11.html), but the use case for me is running Screen locally and having multiple terminals open remotely, with

cygwin-developer

Hi. I have a problem that I'll have tryed to get allong with for several days. I have searched the mailing list archive, nothing found. I hope to get an answer now. I am trying to install a CFD-program called OpenFoam (OF) with Cygwin, The problem I have incountered are that OF requires a remote s

Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object"

...but the git from github.com works fine. I installed Cygwin's version of git, and get this: $ git clone https://github.com/nerdfever/pic32mx-bmf Cloning into 'pic32mx-bmf'... remote: Counting objects: 12, done. remote: Total 12 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) error: failed to

Re: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object"

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > ... > > This looks suspiciously like a bug in the remote filesystem. Link > succeeded, so there are two links to the same file in the directory. > Unlinking link 1 succeeds, so there's still one link to the file in the > directory, but l

RE: FW: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object"

ave -- Forwarded message -- From: Jason Pyeron Date: Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 12:21 PM Subject: RE: FW: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object" To: Dave L ... The fix as is, is a sledge hammer with many side effects. A better way to inclu

Why does CYGWIN double the backslash in execvp()?

Hello, Here's code that (if BUG is defined) does not work because it looks like Cygwin doubles the backslash in args[2] when that gets passed to CMD. If I add a trailing period (#undef BUG), the preceding backslash does not get doubled, the command runs as it is supposed to. Why there's an additi

Re: Why does CYGWIN double the backslash in execvp()?

Hi, Yesterday I asked about the double slash, but my question has got no attention (despite some other activity on the list). I deem the behavior as a bug. To make things more evident (that it's a bug) one can replace "DIR" with "ECHO" in the code I posted, and compare the outputs with and withou

Re: Why does CYGWIN double the backslash in execvp()?

Thank you for your response. It may sound plausible but: > you tell Cygwin that you want posix semantics I can't remember seeing that posix semantics require a C library call to modify arguments in the way the shell does; since when cygwin a shell? > split arg 2 into two args: "DIR" and "C:\\"

Re: Why does CYGWIN double the backslash in execvp()?

> What I think happens is that since you > specify a full posix path to cmd, you get posix semantics and none of > the Windows compatibilty crap kicks in. that may be, if your very own suggestion to split the last arg in two worked just fine with the full posix path, i.e. while this set of argumen

Re: freopen/fread/popen bug

> I think that would create an unacceptable performance penalty for the child > process. The child process would not be affected at all! FILE* will be unbuffered only in your application, yet "cat" will read from a file descriptor "1" (and may or may not apply any buffering on top of it, such as

Re: freopen/fread/popen bug

> Thanks (and thanks to Corinna and Eric) for correcting my misconceptions. You're welcome. I only wanted to follow up that (I don't know what the heck happened to my head, but) when I was referring to file descriptors, I was consistently and mistakenly using "1" where "0" should have been used:

Re: sed 4.2.1-1 locks files on windows

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 21 11:58, cygwin@munub.e4ward.com wrote: see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9368783/cygwin-bash-sed-locks-my-files When I change files in cygwin bash with the sed command, the file gets locked. Reproduce: Open cmd and cd to non-user directory

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin.

I just upgraded this morning and can confirm emacs is also very sluggish for me also. I'm running windows xp pro 2002 sp 3, if that is any help. Let me know if you need any more information and/or help testing, best regards, stephen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin.

Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: > Which packages got upgraded? You can check this by looking at > /var/log/setup.log. unfortunately, a lot of packages were upgraded, as it is some while since I last did an upgrade :( fyi I put the log here: http://whelk.landamore.com/setup.log.gz best regards

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin (attn: glib and gvim maintainer)

Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: > Fortunately for emacs users, the problem doesn't seem to occur with > emacs-24. (Can anyone else confirm this?) Hi Ken, So I just upgraded to emacs-24 (24.0.96.1), and while it is certainly better, I wouldn't say it's fixed. Try opening a text file (I have a ~

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: > Never mind. I'm not up to this task. But if you're willing to > facilitate the bisection by doing the builds, I'll be glad to test them > on my XP system, at least as far as emacs is concerned. And I'm sure > there are gvim users who would do the same. ok so

Why Cygwin tries to pull in winsock2.h when compiling a Linux application?

Hi, I am using Cygwin 1.7.11 i686 on Windows 7 PC. I am trying to compile a Linux C++ application on Cygwin. When I use the ./configure command, Cygwin shows the following error messages: checking winsock2.h usability... no checking winsock2.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: pres

Setup shows ? instead of size for some packages

ip Libs? boost: Boost C++ libraries (source) Skip X11 ? cairo: Cross-dev. vec. grap. lib.(source) 1.0-2 Keep Misc? clear 1.2.0-1 Keep Misc? d Skip Gnome ? dbus-glib: Freedsktp msg bus sys. (source) Skip Devel,L.? eventlog: Structured event logg

gdb dies debugging fortran program

esn't consistently die in the same place--it seems to be related to where the breakpoint is set. However, it seems to more consistently die just after line 11 where the GOTO 20 is. My system is XP Pro SP3 with Cygwin DLL version 1.7.16 Is this a bug in gdb or am I doing something wrong

Re: gdb dies debugging fortran program

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:59:35PM -0700, L Anderson wrote: I trying to use gdb to debug a fortran program compiled with gfortran but gdb inconsistently dies in the process. I have written a small fortran program that exhibits the problem. The test program is

Re: gdb dies debugging fortran program

L Anderson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:59:35PM -0700, L Anderson wrote: I trying to use gdb to debug a fortran program compiled with gfortran but gdb inconsistently dies in the process. I have written a small fortran program that exhibits the problem. The test

getfacl seems to list wrong permissions for Group

In directory /cygwin/bin of my cygwin installation, $ ls -l //yields: [snip] -rwxr-xr-x 1 lowella Administrators 73742 Nov 14 2010 zsyncmake.exe and $ ls -ln //yields [snip] -rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 544 73742 Nov 14 2010 zsyncmake.exe and $ stat -c '%A %a %n' * //yields: [snip]

Re: /etc/profile

Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: I'll just reiterate what Daniel said again: We can't make things like cmd or notepad stop working. That would be a disaster. Yes, and nobody proposed otherwise. I wasn't really following the discussion, and don't really want to check stuff out i

Re: default terminal (was: Re: "can't create master tty" errors)

Andy Koppe wrote: On 31 May 2010 17:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't remember responding to the original message so, if I didn't, I apologize. No worries. Thanks, as always, for your amazing support of mintty. I wonder if it's time to just make it the default for the cygwin terminal, k

Re: default terminal (was: Re: "can't create master tty" errors)

Andy Koppe wrote: On 31 May 2010 22:40, L Anderson wrote: I really like mintty. However, even though it has the option to 'copy on select' it requires a right click and paste to insert selected text into the window. Middle-click pastes by default, and you can change the right-click

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