Re: Text editor with shell integration
Hello,
Angelo Graziosi wrote:
lood HIDDEN please! wrote :
Please, read this: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR
Hum ... I missed that. I was used to less stupid mirrors (and a lot of spam...)
I have written cyg-wrapper.sh to answer this need.
http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/#Win32
Very interesting! (That script should be added to Cygwin, as new
package or to cygutils...)
Thanks.
Suppose I want a wrapper for:
runas.exe /user:pippo C:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat
to be started as
$ sudos su
I have tried this (in .bashrc):
=
SU_ARG=/Cygwin.bat
sudos() {
opt=''
if [ `expr $* : 'su\'` -gt 0 ] ; then
opt+=`cygpath -p -w $SU_ARG`
fi
cyg-wrapper.sh /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/runas.exe \
--slashed-opt --binary-opt=-user:pippo $opt
}
=
but... it does not work :(
What I am missing!?
You missed that my non-old function is bugged. And so did I :(
The last case (plain path) shall become:
# Plain path or options.
case $1 in
[-+]* ) # Option
if [ $slashed_opt = 1 ] ; then
param[${#param[*]}]=${1/-//}
else
param[${#param[*]}]=$1
fi
;;
Which can be used this way:
$ cyg-wrapper.sh /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/runas.exe --slashed-opt
--cyg-verbose=2 -user:pipo $@
However, a little bit more work is necessary.
The first argument to the function/alias shall be tested. If it is found in
$PATH, it shall be left unchanged, otherwise, it shall be translated as well.
Or just always translated with $(which $1) may be.
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Re: Text editor with shell integration
Hello, lood loodziek...@yahoo.com wrote : How could I integrate my text editor (e.g. Notepad++) to run it easily from Cygwin? I mean, something similiar to notepad ./file.ext this works, I just want to use Notepad++ instead of standard Windows editor (notepad++ ./file.ext or something like that). Where I can add this functionality? Thanks. I have written cyg-wrapper.sh to answer this need. http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/#Win32 The alias I give as example in the documentation is for gvim. If your editor does not have special parameters that must not be handled as pathnames that need translation, you can simply play with $(cygpath -l $@) as others have already told you. HTH, -- Luc Hermitte http://lh-vim.googlecode.com/ http://hermitte.free.fr/vim/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Can not start UltraEdit using cygwin path
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:49:12 -0600, lin q wrote:
Interesting enough, I have similar function for gvim,
vi ()
{
gvim $@
}
gvim is a Cygwin application.
I download gvim myself from vim web site and installed it, it is not
the one in cygwin package. This is the reason I think the application
does not have to be from cygwin package.
I'd be surprised to see your alias work with win32-gvim and cygwin
paths (symlinks, absolute cygwin paths, ...)
For this sole purpose, I'm maintaining a generic wrapper for win32
native applications we wish to start from cygwin (cyg-wrapper.sh, check
my signature)
NB: I've been reported a bug lately. It seems tied to a bug/regression
in cygpath 1.42 which seems to have forgotten a 0-terminal when called
with -wl.
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Re: Starting gvim from Windows
Hello, * On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:38:19AM -0500, Neil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use X. I just use RXVT windows on top of the Windows Desktop. I don't use Cygwin's version of Gvim. I use the Windows version. To use Gvim from Cygwin, I have a small script (attached) that converts Cygwin paths to Windows paths and then launches Gvim. (In case you wish to not convert arguments that are not paths, check at cyg-wrapper.sh that I'm maintaining, see my signature) With this setup, I can use a single version of Gvim from both Windows and Cygwin. I've tried this in the past. The problem I found was that Windows VIM required a different vimrc syntax then the Unix VIM. I was hoping to avoid keeping two copies of my growing and changing vimrc file. I have only one .vimrc that is use for windows, Linux and Solaris. Actually, - under windows I have a _vimrc files that sources vimrc_core.vim plus a _vimrc_win for windows specific settings (fonts, mappings to open URL in the default browser, ...) - under *nix, I have a .vimrc that also sources vimrc_core.vim plus a _vimrc_nix for *nix specific settings (key rebindings (that will be updated soon thanks to feddback from vim-ml), ...) I've never used cygwin-version of vim, but it should not be any different. -- Luc Hermitte http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/ -- 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: Permission denied on Windows XP
* On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:59:16AM +, Donald Hyun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry Hall lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin.com writes: [...] fork: Permission denied make[1]: fork: Permission denied make[1]: vfork: Permission denied make[1]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/d/Phevos/df/hardwl/modules/hwlgpm/srce' make: *** [d:/Phevos/df/hardwl/modules/hwlgpm] Error 2 --- I have tested on cygwin 1.3.5, cygwin 1.5.9, and cygwin 1.5.12, but it's not solved. After robooting windows XP, the script seems to work well. But during running the same message happens. I don't want to format my note-pc. Is there any good idea? Are you using Agnitum Outpost Firewall ? Is so find another firewall that does not leak ressources. HTH, -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: Not what I expected at first startup :0
Hello, * On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 04:08:19PM +0100, Nemes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly I would to ask if it is normal for cygwin to startup and just show a cmd.exe black window as the access to the install?? Yes it is. Also what is the, irc application, is it, virc, XChat BitchX or something? Right now allo I no is it's called, irc :) lol I have recompiled irssi latelly. Otherwise, I remember there are some packages for IRC, but i do not know which program it is. As you can probably tell, I am new to both linux and cygwin, and I though cygwin would be a good place to start. It is a good place. To start, I don't know. I use it because I liked the shell and other tools I discovered on Solaris, and it is the only way to have a proper port of Mutt. I have had some limited experience with linux via SuSE aand Slackware, so I am not a complete newbie, but the starting up of cygwin was totaly not what I expected, so it has left me a little stuck on were to go next. You can continue with Windows for the GUI stuff, and begin to learn how to use the console. Actually learning how to use linux does not make any sens to me. GNU/Linux is an OS where we can find many GNU tools plus many different programs. I was kind of hoping for a graphical ide so I could start to learn from a familair surrounding you no? I could edit files that needed to be edited in a familar way, start applications graphicaly untill I got used to working the shell cmd line. vim is great. Some prefer emacs... Other prefer more flashy programs... -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: cygwin implementation of fork() eating all resourses?
* On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 08:42:56AM +0400, Artem Gluhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After 5 minutes running this script i got a windwows XP error: not enough system resourses. You have Agnitum Outpost, haven't you ? If so, uninstall it and choose another firewall. HTH, -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: ls -l | less shows escape chars
Hello, * On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:06:16AM -0400, geneSmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, my less man page is totally messed up. All other man pages seem to work. I have export PAGER='less -R' in my .bashrc HTH, -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: Bug: cygpath -w . returns .\ instead of .
Hello, * On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:42:46PM -0700, Trevor Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now in cygwin this may cause problems elsewhere, such as in the following trivial script: #-- #!/bin/sh BASEDIR=`cygpath -w .` FILE=$BASEDIR/out.txt touch $FILE #-- use -m instead of -w I'm using the latest cygwin v1.5.10-3 on NT2k. Don't know cygpath version...sorry. cygpath -v -- Luc Hermitte http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/ -- 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: find the path for cygwin root from windows script
Hello, * On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:12:00AM +0200, bertrand marquis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need to be able to find where cygwin is install from a .bat script under windows to run cygwin programs. Does anyone has a solution to do that automaticaly ? cygpath -m / However, this solution requires that cygwin directories are visible from your $PATH. In other words, you won't really need to know where they are installed. -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: mutt and ssmtp on Cygwin on Windows Server 2003 'child exited 127'
* On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:16:11AM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I remember correctly (I have not played with mutt for quite a while), mutt can connect directly to a IMAP or POP server. So might you be able to eliminate the use of ssmtp and have mutt send mail directly to the place that ssmtp sends it? IMAP and POP3 protocols are meant to import emails. SMTP is meant to export (/send) them. I do use mutt with ssmtp to send messages like this one and I read my email directly on an IMAP server. Unfortunatelly, I can't help much. I use XP and every thing is working fine. ssmtp is used to send the emails to a local STMP server (Hamster), which then relays my messages to the SMTP servers of my ISP. The only times I get the error Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.). Could not send the message. is when Hamster is not running -- as ssmtp can't reach the SMTP server it must send the messages to. But I'm not sure it is of any help here. -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: How to start windows version gvim for cygwin correctly?
Hello, * On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:30:15PM -0700, Peng Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for you script. I don't change $HOME, $VIM, $VIMRUNTIME in cygwin, because I'm afraid there are some potential conflicts. Do I have to worry about that. Nope. I don't think so. In the properties of my Windows XP system, HOME is set to c:\Users\Luc I've patched /etc/profile to make cygwin think it is in fact /cygdrive/f/Users/Luc Neither VIM nor VIMRUNTIME are set. I'm currently using gvim to edit this response. gvim has been launched thanks to cyg-wrapper, and it expands $HOME, $VIM and $VIMRUNTIME into: f:\Users\Luc f:\Program Files\Edition\vim f:\Program Files\Edition\vim\vim62 The _vimrc used is the one from $VIM (I do not have to say anything to vim), and the viminfo is $HOME/.viminfo because of set viminfo=%,'50,\100,:100,n~/.viminfo in my _vimrc. BTW, what's the best place to store cyg-wrapper.sh . I store it to /usr/bin. Is /bin better? Wherever you want. Personnally, I prefer $HOME/bin. Thus the day I reinstall cygwin or use it on another computer, I don't forget all the little scripts I use. If I had to choose between cygwin directories, I would use /usr/local/bin as I install non-cygwin-standard stuff into /usr/local/ -- understand, the stuff I've compiled like mutt, a colored version of abook, irssi, w3m, librairies, ... HTH, -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: How to start windows version gvim for cygwin correctly?
Hello,
[I've set a reply-to to vim's mailing list and your email address; you
may need to be registered to post on this mailing-list]
Just a little note first, I use the win32 version of vim since the
version 5.8 (the beta version 6.3a is very recent) and cygwin. So far, I
have no problems.
My $HOME directory for windows (XP) and for Cygwin is set to
f:\users\Luc (or the cygwin's equivalent). I do not wanted it to be
function of how I launch gVim.
* On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 04:30:46PM -0700, Peng Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/cygdrive/d/Program\ Files/vim/vim61/gvim.exe
When enter the above command in cygwin, gvim window popup. But it
seems that gvim doesn't load D:\Program Files\vim\_vimrc.
Do you have a _vimrc in your $HOME ? This file is searched according to
what is said there:
:h .vimrc
This should help you find your _vimrc.
otherwise, you can add
call confirm('.vimrc in '.expand('%:p:h'), 'Ok', 1)
in every _vimrc, .vimrc, _exrc you can find on your system to be sure
which one you are using.
In addition, it creates a file _viminfo in my home directory versus
using the default _viminfo in D:\Program Files\vim\
This is a safe setting IMHO.
Do you have any idea about make gvim use the default _viminfo file
without writing a new file in my cygwin home directory?
Once you have found where your _vimrc is stored, set the option viminfo
accordingly to your wishes.
:h 'viminfo'
HTH
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Re: How to start windows version gvim for cygwin correctly?
* On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 07:46:04PM -0700, Peng Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I can not change the directory Programs Files to other names. Is there anyway to include blank in the alias command? I made cyg-wrapper.sh [1] to launch gVim-win32 (at first) from cygwin, but it should not solve your problem which is probably specific to vim. Unless Are your environment variables ($HOME, $VIM, $VIMRUNTIME) different within cygwin and windows ? If so, fix this. [1] http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/#Win32 -- Luc Hermitte -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Scripts for calling Internet Explorer,Explorer,Word,Access,Excel from Cygwin
Hello,
* On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 01:40:16PM +0100, zzapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With help from this NG have created the following scripts, I think
they are very useful especially wexp. (Paths to various apps on your
PC may vary of course). Excepting wexp all require a filename as
parameter eg wmdb test.mdb
[...]
#!/bin/sh
# wexp
# description : Launch Windows Explorer with correct Windows path
XPATH=$(cygpath -w ${PWD});
echo $XPATH
explorer $XPATH
#!/bin/sh
# wpdf
# description : Launch Acrobat Reader with correct Windows path
XPATH=`cygpath -w ${1}`;
echo $XPATH
C:/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ 6.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe $XPATH
These kinds of solutions are imperfect -- cygstart's solution as well.
- They do not handle multiple files
- wpdf *.pdf
- cygstart *.pdf
- They do no handle some special option, like '/e' for explorer
- They do not handle some binary options like -c /e/ with gvim
Hence the script cyg-wrapper.sh (check my signature).
BTW, until now, I was using $COMSPEC /c start to launch a win32
application i did not want to be attached to the current shell. It no
longer works (probably since the last time I patched XP).
I can not rely on cygstart as it accept only a limited number of
characters on its command line -- unless it has been fixed since the
version 1.0
And $cmd2execute 0 ; disown never worked.
Does anybody got an idea how to fix that ?
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Re: Problem: fork: permission denied, after intensive use of scripts
Hello, * On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 12:30:52PM +0200, Michael Gorbunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed a problem in cygwin when run on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. After running scripts with a big number of command repeated in a long cycle, at some point I cannot start anything and receive messages like fort: permission denied. It looks like PIDs that were used once cannot be reused. Does anyone know the solution? I know a firewall that causes such problems : Agnitum Outpost Firewall. If you are using this firewall, don't look anywhere else. It's its fault. -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: Problem when compiling c++ using gcc
Hello, * On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:46:34AM -0500, Feng Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used the following command to compile the c++ file: gcc -o ping ping.cc Use g++ and not gcc to compile C++ code. Or at least, add the arguments that tell gcc that it is compiling C++ code. I got the following messages: agent.h: No such file or directory tcltc.h: No such file or directory packet.h: No such file or directory How can I link these header files in NS directories? Where are they installed ? Let's say there is an $NS2/include directory = g++ -I$NS2/include -o ping ping.cpp Anyway, these questions are not relative to cygwin, but to GCC and other *nix command-line compilers. = - man gcc - find a tutorial about makefiles, compiling under unices, etc... HTH, -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: GVIM
Hello, * On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:44:33PM -0500, Crescioli, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I took your bash shell vi-gvim converter and re-wrote it [...] alias vi C:/vim/vim62/gvim.exe You will need to convert the path of the files (and only the files) sent to gvim, like /etc/Muttrc for instance. I wrote cyg-wrapper.sh for this purpose. http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/#Win32 HTH, -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: Converting Dos Slashes to Unix Slashes
Hello, * On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 07:23:24PM +, zzapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From man cygpath Look at this generically useful script [...] # description : Launch Explorer with correct Windows path [...] You may also check cyg-wrapper.sh (Vim tip #381 BTW) which does several other useful things. http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/#Win32 -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: memory leaks in fork(?)
Hello, * On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:25:20PM +0600, Mike Jastrebtsoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While fulfilling of any building procedure under cygwin via make, configure(utils, that widely use spawning of other processes) appears memory leak, that leads to termination of building process: fork: permission denied or sometimes to system reboot. [...] I saw similar messages in maillist archive, but I haven't reveal concrete solutions for these items. What to do? Wait for next release of cygwin? If you are using Agnitum Outpost Firewall ... try uninstall it a use another firewall. On this new machine, (where XP has been reinstalled from scratch), I'm no longer using AOF, but Kerio. Since then, I don't need to reboot every two days or every half-make-configure. So far, the hyppothesis of a ressource leak in AOF seems accurate. HTH. -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: Mutt + Cygwin on the go
Hello. * On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 12:35:01PM +0200, Miki Tebeka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've written a little page on my experience with cygwin + mutt + laptops (reading/sending mail offline). I'd be glad to hear any comments. http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~tebeka/Geek/HowTo/mutt-cygwin.html Your page contains interresting materials. However, I'm not very fond of the text/* and application/* mailcap entries -- I'm a litlle bit paranoid, and using w3m which is great to answer to HTML posts. text/html; w3m %s; needsterminal; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html text/html; w3m -dump %s; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html (don't forget in the muttrc: alternative_order text/enriched text/plain text ) And BTW, I have no problem with cygstart with pdf and rtf documents. Merry Christmas to all! -- Luc Hermitte http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/ -- 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: Solved: Windows 2k crash while processing big bash script
Hello, * On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:52:49AM +0300, -TifsSoft- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YES!!! It's all because of Agnitum Outpost Firewall 2 Pro. All goes fine when outpost is uninstalled. Thanks you very much, you are really make my life easy :) By the way, thanks to all who help me solve this. BTW, if someone finds out a way to solve this without uninstalling outpost, I'm interrested. I've tried shutdown the corresponding service, to not start it after reboot and some other things like that, but I didn't have any luck: impossible to compile mutt on the firewalled machine. P.S. I think it's will be a good idea to store information about trouble with outpost firewall at FAQ or Known problems... Unless someone experiment the same problem but with another configuration, it is good idea. Regards, -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: win2k resource exhaustion problem - no Cygwin programs will run
Hello, * On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:41:41PM -0700, james pentland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a bash script which apparently causes an exhaustion of system resources. which resources i am unclear about - it does not seem to be memory. [...] ./yawfu-sh: line 7: /usr/bin/sed: Permission denied It looks like a problem several people are experimenting. Lately, someone exposed a link between this problem and Agnitum Outpost (a firewall) that seems to forget to free some resources. This sounds plausible, from my point of view, as I also have Outpost and I'm experimenting this problem. [BTW, Rampage was evoked as a possible workaround, but it had no positive effect on my system.] HTH, -- Luc Hermitte -- 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: Win2k and cygwin memory leak
* On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:42:57PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [You weren't responding to Brian message, but mine.] It has already been acknowledged several times over that it is not a problem of Cygwin's rather a problem of Windows. I think we all agree to that. But unfortunatelly, so far, only Cygwin seems affected by that problem. Funny I don't see the problem. (Anybody else?) May be I was mistaken and I was thinhing to another problem, but I'm definitively not the only person who have notice a problem when running cygwin. Check the threads around: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/threads.html#01510 (about fork and ressources unavailable and jamming cygwin in 10 minutes) Why are you playing dumb and denying some of us see the problem only with cygwin ? BTW, I respond to a remark from Christopher. Yes, probably other programs are affected by this bug from Windows (/some of its functions). But I haven't noticed any clear indication in this direction. However I have no doubt there is a problem the 100th time I run my bash-wrapper (that launches gVim), or when I try to compile GNU program like mutt -- I need to reboot three times and delete lines already executed if I want to have mutt-1.5 with some specific patches. So far, cygwin is the ultimate developer for this bug. I guess cygwin is using a library not always correctly implemented. Isn't there any workaround cygwin could use ? is a typical question for many of us. Your asking for workarounds to another party's code. Personally I would rather Cygwin folks focus more on functionality and genuine Cygwin problems than fixing somebody else's problem. I'm asking a workaround to another party code used by cygwin. If I know that a particular function (from a third) is buggy/non portable, I won't use it in my code, or at least, I'll try to be sure I use it under the best conditions. Unfortunatelly, it seems nobody knows which third party function is buggy in that particular case. What else do you want? Personnally, I hope, as the question will be raised again and again, that an expertise will emerge. Just knowing why there is a problem will be a big step ahead -- ie: which library/service pack/... is faulty. And what are you doing to help identify the problem (seeing as YOU are seeing the problem, YOU have the code and others have no clue what you are doing exactly that might even cause your problem)? I'm doing approximatelly: tar xvf mutt-1.5.1.tar.gz | gzip -cd - cd mutt-1.5.1 ./configure make But what will be more interresting is: what is installed on the system/how the system was installed. Because if some people are not seeing the problem, it means THERE IS a solution. This time, someone told us about a freeware that collects forgotten memory. Who forgot the memory? Right Windows - not Cygwin. Did I said the contrary ? I can also play dumb: do you call buggy functions in your code ? Is THAT the memory intensive process that you are running every 5 minutes?!? Again, others do not have the problems that you have. I run Cygwin processes on Windows 2000 Servers and they stay up for months (Unfortunately sometimes one still needs to reboot servers for service packs, security fixes, etc). I'm not Brian. My intentive process is named bash, and I don't run it every 5 minutes. BTW, if this program is an effective workaround, I think this will merit a topic in the FAQ. You speak as if everybody is experiencing this problem - we aren't! If ten people are experiencing the problem, it worths fix it. Because what the ten people will first think is: damn! cygwin is buggy and cannnot fork anymore. You and I know it's untrue. The unfortunate new user of Cygwin won't. Could we say that cygwin relies on a faulty library developped by Microsoft? And that nobody has identified the faulty library? You could - but that would be a guess. And it is not Cygwin developers responsibility to figure out which library that is. We don't feel the same. When I program a() that uses b(). If b() is buggy under certain condition, i usually try to find/program b'() that will ensure that my a() will always work as expected. That's _my_ responsability to use 3rd party code/library/API that works correclty. May be there is a b'() in that case, may be not. I don't know yet. In a month or two, I'll try to remember how gdb works and check this out -- I'll probably need assitance from people not having the problem as I'm not able to compile big program. By the mean, time I have some open-source stuff I've developped to fix before unhappy users ask for refund. And by an hour or two, i'll check if RAMpage is of any help. With this, and all other open source software, I suggest that if you are unhappy with the product then return it and demand a fully refund :-) ! Good luck! -- Luc Hermitte -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem
Re: ORB
Hello, * On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 05:07:50PM +0200, Vaillant Etienne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a ORB for an application under Cygwin. I know Mico and Omniorb but are there other ? TAO may be -- based on the C++ library ACE. I am not sure if it has been ported for Cygwin, but it is available on many different systems -- unices, Windows, etc. HTH, -- Luc Hermitte -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
Hello, * On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:37:52PM -0800, Mike W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny you should mention that... often noted but not yet answered... [list of similar issues on the ML] And you can also add another recent link: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00946.html to your list ;-( Just to remind that I also have this problem, my system beeing a proffessional XP box (upgraded from Me). And that i have noticed that this have repercutions on some native programs which are not able (then) to work correctly. Now, thanks to you Mike, I know that this seems linked to a limitation with PID numbers. Regarding Corina's remark, I speak for myself but I am quite certain others will agree: I'd be pleased to know what is terribly wrong with my system. 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 less critical things like recompiling some programs. Regards, -- Luc Hermitte -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
fork: permission denied (again)
Hello,
I'm running into a very annoying problem.
When I try to compile mutt-1.5.x under cygwin, happens a time when
./configure isn't able to execute any command anymore and prints me a:
{the_command}: fork: permission denied for its remaining tasks.
After that, the console/bash (the famous bash -i --login, or something
like that) becomes very limited ; actually, the error occurs even when I
open a new console and sometimes within some native win32 programs that
can't acces some ressources.
The only way I have found to free the ressources beeing to reboot. :-(
To be more precise, I think the problem does not come from ./configure,
but from any shell script I use ; sometimes it happens after a long day
of starting vim sessions (I use a shell script for that), or while
make is running.
I know (thanks to google) that this is a common issue, not knew at all.
But unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any valuable information
on how to fix it.
I have tried to use gcc-2.95.5 with cygwin-1.20-1, with no improvements.
I had hope when I saw the changes made with cygwin-1.21-1, tried to use
it with gcc-3.2, and again: fork: permission denied.
Does anybody has a clue ? a link ? a workaround that I can use ?
I guess the solution lies within fork() implementation and how bash uses
it ... but I can't tell more.
Note: I use a Windows XP machine -- monthes ago, I was able to recompile
mutt-1.4 under Windows Me.
Thanks in advance.
--
Luc Hermitte
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Re: Does Mutt work now?
* On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 09:25:57AM +0800, Greg Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought there was a native Win32 port of mutt, but was that just someone talking about the cygwin version? The native win32 version of mutt is not usable with the native win32 version of Vim. Personnaly, I had to recompile mutt (for cygwin) to work with WindowsMe (another Win 9x ersatz) and Vim-win32. In case you are interrested in the compilation options (for ./configure) I used, you can have a look at my web site. But so far, I have troubles with some attachements that crashes my Mutt 1.4. I guess I must upgrade to the version 1.5. -- Luc Hermitte http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: NT wrappers
Hello, * On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:45:28PM -0600, Robert Citek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a script called write that allows me to use WordPad from within Cygwin: #!/bin/bash [ $1 = ] exec /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/write [ ! -f $1 ] touch $1 exec /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/write $(cygpath -w $1 ) Why is modifying such a script to accept additional command-line arguments not germaine to this list? Lately, I have released a wrapper for Win32 native (command-line) tools. It can not guess arguments you don't know, but will enable you to specify as many arguments you wish to specify. And it also converts all the pathnames given and it follows symbolic links. I'm not sure it is the kind of thing you are looking for. So, just in case, you will found cyg-wrapper.sh on my web site. Regards, -- Luc Hermitte http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
[ANN] Re: cyg-wrapper.sh
* On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 05:12:56PM -0700, Matt Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --cyg-PWD-clear : to unset PWD --cyg-PWD-convert : to convert PWD to its DOS (short) form. I was considering to handle other environment variables, but I didn't see any good candidate -- ie. environment variables specific to bash or cygwin that win32 native applications may also use. SHELL. The solution was to clear the SHELL env var, since I didn't want emacs using my cygwin shell. It is possible to alias emacs to: alias emacs='(unset SHELL; cygwrapper.sh path-to-emacs ...)' HOME is also probably a good idea to convert into DOS form. That's odd. $HOME correctly appear with Vim. Any way, --cyg-PWD-clear and --cyg-PWD-convert have been replaced with: --cyg-env-clear=ENV-VARS and --cyg-env-convert=ENV-VARS. So, you can write now: alias prog='cyg-wrapper.sh path-to-prog --cyg-env-convert=PWD,SHELL --cyg-env-convert=HOME' However, I have a bug: --cyg-env-convert=HOMEPATH works fine, --cyg-env-clear=PWD works fine too, but --cyg-env-convert=HOMEPATH does not have any consequences... As well as (unset HOMEPATH;gvim). I guess that HOMEPATH got a special traitment from cygwin or bash. Does list of directories needs to be converted also ? I know PATH appears correctly converted from Vim. Is is the same with the other tools, or is it Vim, as I suspect, that opers the convertion ? -- Luc Hermitte http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
[ANN] Re: cyg-wrapper.sh
Hello Matt, * On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:38:02AM -0700, Matt Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luc, you might consider adding an option to unset the PWD environment variable (or convert it to a Windows path). That's done. I haven't done any test with perforce, so, let me know. The two new options are: --cyg-PWD-clear : to unset PWD --cyg-PWD-convert : to convert PWD to its DOS (short) form. I was considering to handle other environment variables, but I didn't see any good candidate -- ie. environment variables specific to bash or cygwin that win32 native applications may also use. -- Luc Hermitte -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
[ANN] Re: cyg-wrapper.sh
* On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:13:44AM +, Soren A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luc posted on my urging; please check out his site and this script which is a useful and good piece of hackery. Thanks :-) [2] This form has been privileged because of the MsWindows 9x series. Hmmm. If you mean that people who run Win9x are more likely to be running old DOS programs that use 8.3, then ok; otherwise there's no difference between NT-derived and 9x-type Windows in this respect -- that I know of. No. This is a scripting problem I had on MsWindows Me, and I don't remember any similar issue on Windows NT -- more tests should be done to be sure. The problem comes from pathnames having spaces. If we want to run: appl c:/Program Files/foo.txt ~/bar.txt The parameters should be requoted before (/while ?) running xargs. I haven't spent enough time to find to something that works. -- Luc Hermitte -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
[ANN] cyg-wrapper.sh
Hello, cyg-wrapper v2.2 has been uploaded on my web site: http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/#Win32 http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/cyg-wrapper.sh cyg-wrapper is a shell script that helps to run, from cygwin, command-line applications that have been compiled for windows only ; ie: applications un-aware and independant of the cygwin layer.[1] cyg-wrapper converts pathname arguments, passed to win32 programs, from the written form (unix/dos/windows ; relative or absolute) to the DOS (short [2] ; and absolute) form that win32 command-line programs understand. It extends what cygpath do, to every pathname arguments, and resolves the symbolic links. A typical way of use is for instance: alias gvim='cyg-wrapper.sh C:/Progra~1/Edition/vim/vim61/gvim.exe -binary-opt=-c,--cmd,-T,-t,--servername,--remote-send,--remote-expr --fork=1' that defines the alias 'gvim' which: - calls the win32 version of Gvim, - converts every pathname argument (identified as beeing those that do not begin with '+' or '-', and that do not directly follow '-c', '--cmd', '-T', ...) - forks immediately ; which replaces the disabled '-f' option of the win32 version of gvim. Note: the latest version of cyg-wrapper requires cygUtils and more precisally realpath. An older but slower version is also available on my web site. Feedback appreciated. [1] BTW, Is there a canonical expression to designate such applications ? I tend to use native win32 applications/programs, but I'm not sure it is really correct in English. [2] This form has been privileged because of the MsWindows 9x series. -- Luc Hermitte -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
