Registry freedom

2002-02-15 Thread Doru Carastan
Hello everybody, I believe it is time to break free from using the registry. It doesn't allow for multiple versions to coexists, which creates a nightmare when it comes to packaging Cygwin with another product. I've been rebuilding cygwin1.dll for a while with a custom shared memory id and regi

My shutdown script - it works!

2002-02-15 Thread Paul McFerrin
I tried that shutdown script written by Chuck Messenger. It did not work well on my Win98 system. It hung the window and then I had trouble getting to shutdown the rest of the way because a had no working interactive window. My scheme really works by killing off process group leaders. The call

RE: Avail for test: tiff-3.5.7-1

2002-02-15 Thread Norman Vine
Charles Wilson writes: > >Any objections if I remove the 'test' status on this release? Has >anybody experienced a regression failure? (Has anybody even >tested it?) Seems to work fine for me a libGeotiff built with this seems fine also But I haven't done any 'rigorous testing' Cheers Nor

Re: offline installation

2002-02-15 Thread Dylan Cuthbert
Just run setup.exe and select "download from internet", then use the resulting files and directories to install from - burn it onto a CD, whatever. Your mail isn't very clear - if windows isn't connected to the internet how are you going to download the files in the first place? I think you mea

Re: Avail for test: tiff-3.5.7-1

2002-02-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Any objections if I remove the 'test' status on this release? Has anybody experienced a regression failure? (Has anybody even tested it?) --Chuck Charles Wilson wrote: > TEST RELEASE. PLEASE test to see that this DLL doesn't break your > existing tiff-dependent applications (without recompi

RE: gdb in xfree86: ^C

2002-02-15 Thread Heribert Dahms
Hi Pierre, It's been a long time since my last use of an xterm, but I remember that you can popup a menu with Ctrl/MB1 to send interrupt and a few other signals. Or perhaps an explicit kill command from another shell? Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -Original Message- > From: Pierr

Re: "Best" way to build a DLL?

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Tishler
Gerald, On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:52:28PM -0500, Gerald S. Williams wrote: > Presumably, the distutils package sets this automatically, ... Yes it does. Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

RE: "Best" way to build a DLL?

2002-02-15 Thread Gerald S. Williams
Thanks for the nudge. After seeing your mail, I poked around pyconfig.h and found the USE_DL_IMPORT define. Anyway, if you're linking to Cygwin Python, -DUSE_DL_IMPORT on the gcc line eliminates those informational "Warnings", at least from the Python library. Presumably, the distutils package se

Re: "Best" way to build a DLL?

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Tishler
Chuck, On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:52:47PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > Wrong. Those "warnings" are really just informational messages. The > python library exports *variables* as well as functions. Your DLL > probably only exports funtions. DATA exports are very very tricky; > there is a

Re: "Too many open files" problem

2002-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 01:13:44PM -0500, Benoit Rochefort wrote: >In facts, I goes all thru the mailing list archive, and all I found is >people asking help about that problem. > >Unfortunatly, I didn't see any of these mail where a reply was done. > >Is there at least someone else who have seen

Re: "Too many open files" problem

2002-02-15 Thread Benoit Rochefort
In facts, I goes all thru the mailing list archive, and all I found is people asking help about that problem. Unfortunatly, I didn't see any of these mail where a reply was done. Is there at least someone else who have seen that kind of problem so we can find what are the common point. That coul

correction to Cygwin FAQ: uninstall all

2002-02-15 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Friday 15 Feb 02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello. > > A small correction to the Cygwin FAQ, discovered when I wanted to do a > clean reinstall: > > In the answer to "How do I uninstall all of Cygwin?", the registry tree is > given as `Software\Red Hat, Inc.', but it appears that the regist

correction to Cygwin FAQ: uninstall all

2002-02-15 Thread szeil
Hello. A small correction to the Cygwin FAQ, discovered when I wanted to do a clean reinstall: In the answer to "How do I uninstall all of Cygwin?", the registry tree is given as `Software\Red Hat, Inc.', but it appears that the registry informaiton is now being stored under Software\Cygnus Solu

Re: cygwin Digest 15 Feb 2002 08:06:45 -0000 Issue 1759

2002-02-15 Thread Joshua Franklin
Ralf, Is this presentation public domain? So it could be used in classroom networking classes at a uni to help explain socket programming? I think it could be helpful to others, as well. I think there are a few professors who read the list. > I'm sorry, I doesn't know that. You can find a > vi

"Too many open files" problem

2002-02-15 Thread Benoit Rochefort
Yes I searched the archive the best I can. Is there an easy way to search for exact match in the mailing list database, if so please tell me how. Because when I looked at "too many open files", there were a lot lot lot of mail unrelated to this (it seems that the program looks at text were the 4

Re: Question

2002-02-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Cesar, The quoting is irrelevant in this case. An ISO 8601 date string (even a full-precision one including seconds) does not include characters special to the shell. I have tried this and it seems to work on my system, with one exception: Some old directories are included even if they do not

CVS as pserver & modules file is not supported

2002-02-15 Thread Phil Dempster
I have drafted a basic HOWTO on :pserver: with Cygwin. It is currently awaiting verification before finding its way into the CVS docs. I personally recommend following Chuck's advice (which he's supplied repeatedly to various flavours of the same question). If, however, anyone wants to try my p

PROBLEM CREATING INCREMENTAL BACKUP

2002-02-15 Thread Cesar Escobar Maya
> Hi everybody, I´ve a question about incremental backups using tar: > > If I run tar in linux like: > > % tar cfv file.tar -N ´2002-01-01´ * > It stores only the files modified after that date. > > But in CygWin the same command stores all files without verify the date of > Hi everybody, I´ve a

RE: cvs -- carriage return problems with cygwin 1.3.9 and interaction with setup's text file default

2002-02-15 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:08 AM 2/15/2002, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > particularly > > pointing out that some of the programs in the cygwin release will only work > > in DOS text mode if they were ever installed in DOS Text mode and wrote any > > files. It would also be helpful if there was a better explanation t

Re: Origin of gcc sources

2002-02-15 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:56 AM 2/15/2002, Ildar Mulyukov wrote: >Hello, guys! >Could you please clarify what's the origin of gcc-2.95.3-5 is? >Is it gcc CVS? Or what? I found that it strongly differs from gcc-2.95.3 release from >GNU... The basis is GNU gcc-2.95.3 with added patches that haven't made it into

Re: od

2002-02-15 Thread Mark Himsley
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:06:27 GMT you wrote: >I created at test file with 4 characters in it: > > HTTP > >Then, I run od -bcx and I get: > >110 124 124 120 012 000 > H T T P \n \0 >5448 5054 000a That is correct in this little-endian platform, see http://info.astrian.net/jargon/ter

offline installation

2002-02-15 Thread Jens Haug
Hi, I'd like to install Cygwin, but I don't have internet access from my Windows System. Ok, I'll be honest, I don't *want* to have any network connection when running windows. So I'd like to install Cygwin offline. I was looking for information on which Files I have to download, where to place

od

2002-02-15 Thread David
Hi, I created at test file with 4 characters in it: HTTP Then, I run od -bcx and I get: 110 124 124 120 012 000 H T T P \n \0 5448 5054 000a You can see that the hex values in the last line are reversed. I think they should be 4854 5450 000a. Has anyone else noticed this?

RE: possible worm in cygwin

2002-02-15 Thread Ebrey, Carl
You might find the following URLs useful: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00730.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00721.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00690.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00681.html >From what I can se

Compiling of xinetd under cygwin (contrib)

2002-02-15 Thread dmitry . frolov
Hello all, I am trying to build xinetd 2.3.3 so it could be possible to use it under cygwin as it is a more secure inetd replacement. After succesfully building and configuring it I encountered errors which I am not able to debug myself. I have also searched cygwin mailing list which did not br

possible worm in cygwin

2002-02-15 Thread Chris Faulkner
Hello I've searched around for more about this but only found a message on comp.security.ssh which said it might be a false alarm but was not conclusive. Whilst doing a Full SystemScan, I got a message from Norton Antivirus "The file D:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll is infected with the Backdoor.EggHea

Origin of gcc sources

2002-02-15 Thread Ildar Mulyukov
Hello, guys! Could you please clarify what's the origin of gcc-2.95.3-5 is? Is it gcc CVS? Or what? I found that it strongly differs from gcc-2.95.3 release from GNU... Thank you in advance, Ildar Mulyukov -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Problem compiling a multicast program

2002-02-15 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello everybody! I tried to compile a program which uses setsockopt(... IP_MULTICAST_LOOP ...). Works fine with Linux and AIX. Compilation on Win32 works, but if running I get a error from this line - address invalid. Seeing that there are several include files having IP_MULTICAST_LOOP defined a