Re: Repairing erroneous move of setup-200303 branch tag

2003-04-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Oh yes, the 2 page assertion failiure. I can't imagine why it doesn't work for you. It works for me, testing on a copy of the repository into my home dir *on sources.redhat.com*. You can't get any closer to reproducing the situation than that,

Re: Repairing erroneous move of setup-200303 branch tag

2003-04-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: Earnie Boyd wrote: Robert Collins wrote: No, I used: $ cvs -z4 tag -Fb setup-200303 in a setup-200303-troubleshooting working dir. Which intuitively says ...? This should not have updated the cvs repository. It would have been commits at a later date that would

Please, send an announcement for package 'par'

2003-04-03 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:31:49PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: I second par. I'm in favor of this, too. Ok, that makes three votes so far - I've uploaded it. Lapo, please, send an

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Rudiyanto Gunawan wrote: From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rudiyanto Gunawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Postinstall failure: file not found Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:27:15 -0500 (EST) What is the exact

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 07:13, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Rob, Max, Could we either release a snapshot with the postinstall logging changes in it (from HEAD), or backport postinstall logging into the release branch? I think it could really help the above poster. I could post my own compiled

swig-1.3.19-1: Ready for Upload

2003-04-03 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
A new version of the SWIG package (swig-1.3.19-1) is ready for upload from the following locations: Binary: http://home.ptd.net/~gwilliam/cygwin_swig/swig-1.3.19-1.tar.bz2 Source: http://home.ptd.net/~gwilliam/cygwin_swig/swig-1.3.19-1-src.tar.bz2 Or follow the links from:

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 07:45, Max Bowsher wrote: I'll kick off a HEAD snapshot in a couple of minutes. Just did that :-) 2.348 uploaded. Lol, so did I. Release is feature frozen. And I'll be tidying up the branch shortly. Thank you. Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 07:45, Max Bowsher wrote: I'll kick off a HEAD snapshot in a couple of minutes. Just did that :-) 2.348 uploaded. Lol, so did I. :-) Release is feature frozen. And I'll be tidying up the branch shortly. Thank you. No problem. Seems

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 08:25, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: Thank you. No problem. Seems the are 3 nearly identical release candidate snapshots. Unless I hear otherwise, I will replace all 3 with 2.340.2.4 once I've completed the tidyup. Ack. Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 4 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 07:45, Max Bowsher wrote: I'll kick off a HEAD snapshot in a couple of minutes. Just did that :-) 2.348 uploaded. Lol, so did I. Release is feature frozen. And I'll be tidying up the branch shortly. Thank you.

Erroneous move of setup-200303 branch tag now fully repaired

2003-04-03 Thread Max Bowsher
The setup-200303 branch tag has been restored to it's correct location. All changes from setup-200303-troubleshooting and setup-200303-uselessbranch are merged into setup-200303. Tomorrow I will erase setup-200303-uselessbranch from the repository. (For the interested: cvs admin -o

Re: keyboard non-US

2003-04-03 Thread competition
I've not received information what windows reports for itali keyboards and have not added it. what information you need? regards Max

Re: keyboard non-US

2003-04-03 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, competition wrote: I've not received information what windows reports for itali keyboards and have not added it. what information you need? Just get a program from http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/keyboard.tar.gz and run it. It should print the KeyboardType and

XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior

2003-04-03 Thread Derek Bennett
I have observed that highlighting with either xwipclip running or Xwin running with the -clipboard switch, vanishes directly after completing a selection. The copy to the X and Windows clipboards happens just fine. However, I would prefer the highlighting to remain until the next mouse click as it

Re: XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior

2003-04-03 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Derek, Yes, we know. This is not an easy problem, search the mailing list archives for more details. No one is working on this problem at the moment and we appreciate your offer to help. You might be interested in the XFIXES extension, which almost made it into the XFree86 4.3.0 release but

Re: What package is GLX OpenGL from?

2003-04-03 Thread Mark P. Esplin
A nice addition to cygwin setup.exe would be a search capability for packages and files like is in the KDE package manager KPackage. As the number of packages increases it becomes harder and harder to find what you are looking for. -Mark Esplin On Wednesday 02 April

Attn. Karl: multiwindow and rootless

2003-04-03 Thread Anton Vaaranmaa
Karl, I accidentally deleted your messages so I write to the list instead. You mentioned that you have trouble with rootless and multiwindow. IIRC the trick is that you can't use both at the same time. Multiwindow is sort of rootless so you probably want to use that instead of rootless. Then

Duplicate Keystrokes - Again!

2003-04-03 Thread Duncan Cragg
Hello - I've just arrived at this list, so hope I don't break protocol in any way!! I have a problem which can be summarised as 'it's the same as the following past postings': http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8q=+site:www.cygwin.com+xfree86+duplicate+keystrokes The discussions

Re: What package is GLX OpenGL from?

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Mark, As always, patches are thoughtfully considered (eventually). However, this may not be as easy as you think, since the package tarballs themselves aren't downloaded until they are selected by the user in setup. So, that external search page at http://cygwin.com/packages/ is there for a

Re: making X server a COM object..

2003-04-03 Thread Biju G C
Chan Kar Heng, WindowMaker, openbox, fvwm2 works fine in with weirdx and wierdx.net only problem I am facing is, Unable to do XForwarding from wierdmind and unable to contact author. Pl. try to contact them at Jcraft at [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] they may be

Re: making X server a COM object..

2003-04-03 Thread Chan Kar Heng
I think you should describe exactly why you want to put XFree86 in a COM object, for what purpose, what you would use it for etc. I presume you mean you want to make it an ActiveX control, is this true? actually yes, thanks for the more correct term.. an ActiveX control. :) as described in

Re: making X server a COM object..

2003-04-03 Thread Chan Kar Heng
KH, What is am saying is that COM, by itself, is something you have to sit down with for a few months before you even realize if what you are suggesting is possible. No amount of pointers from other people are going to help. Similarly, X is something that you have to sit down with for a few

Re: making X server a COM object..

2003-04-03 Thread Chan Kar Heng
WindowMaker, openbox, fvwm2 works fine in with weirdx and wierdx.net i c... thanks... i tried icewm.. some of the things didn't work out. only problem I am facing is, Unable to do XForwarding from wierdmind and unable to contact author. -- wow.. big problem... Pl. try to contact them at

Re: Multiwindow: way cool!

2003-04-03 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jim, Thanks. MultiWindow mode was created by Kensuke Matsuzaki. He has a donations page if you can spare a few bucks in gratitude: http://peppermint.jp/donation.html There is also a link to his donations page on the Cygwin/XFree86 Donations page: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/donations.html

RE: XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew Braverman
The one other thing that I notice that I think is related to this is that in some applications (the one I see it in is ddd when compiled with lesstif), the selection does not even hold long enough to select it. If I click and drag (while still holding down the mouse button) the selection

Re: XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior

2003-04-03 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Andrew, This issue has been beat to death in the mailing list archives since xwinclip was first released. It is not possible to fix xwinclip without a server extension or without modifying the server code directly to support an integrated clipboard system. Search the archives if you are

Re: Multiwindow: way cool!

2003-04-03 Thread E
Just wondering, is multiwindow considered stable now? If so, I missed the posting that says so. Thanks. E.

Need some help on running the server on cygwin, and clients on FreeBSD.

2003-04-03 Thread Constantine
Hello! I am trying to run the X server on my cygwin machine, and the clients on my FreeBSD 4.7 box. As of today, to start the session I need to: 1. type startx 2. type xhost + 192.168.0.18 3. right-click, exit. 4. open ssh session, set display to 192.168.0.1, and run startkde. I do believe that

Re: Need some help on running the server on cygwin, and clients onFreeBSD.

2003-04-03 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Constantine, You are accidentally trying to combine the steps of the two independent connection methods: 1) telnet 2) ssh Since you have ssh setup, I suggest that you use ssh to tunnel your X connections, with the following command line: ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] You shouldn't need to run

Re: Attn. Karl: multiwindow and rootless

2003-04-03 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Anton, You hit the nail on the head (your description is correct). Thanks for helping out, Harold Anton Vaaranmaa wrote: Karl, I accidentally deleted your messages so I write to the list instead. You mentioned that you have trouble with rootless and multiwindow. IIRC the trick is that you

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog external.cc

2003-04-03 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-03 08:18:43 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog external.cc Log message: * external.cc (check_ntsec): Return general ntsec state on NULL filename. Check

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog

2003-04-03 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-03 14:05:30 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog Log message: * fhandler_console.cc (CONVERT_LIMIT): Use a size for the 21st century. Patches:

src/winsup/mingw ChangeLog include/_mingw.h in ...

2003-04-03 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Branch: mingw-std-ns-branch Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-04 05:14:12 Modified files: winsup/mingw : ChangeLog winsup/mingw/include: _mingw.h time.h Log message: * include/_mingw.h:[__cplusplus]

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygthread.cc

2003-04-03 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-04 05:58:07 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygthread.cc Log message: * cygthread.cc (operator new): Be more defensive when messing with threads that are marked

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygthread.cc external. ...

2003-04-03 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Branch: cgf-dev-branch Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-04 05:58:29 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog cygthread.cc external.cc cygwin/include/cygwin: version.h cygwin/include/sys:

src/winsup/cygwin cygthread.cc

2003-04-03 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-04 06:03:52 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : cygthread.cc Log message: add comments Patches:

Re: cygwin_internal(CW_CHECK_NTSEC, filename) patch

2003-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:29:29PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: this might return true on Win9X if a user has defined CYGWIN=ntsec and checks a file mounted on an NT class machine. You need to add wincap.has_security(). Also, it's sometimes useful to know the value of allow_ntsec alone.

Re: cygwin_internal(CW_CHECK_NTSEC, filename) patch

2003-04-03 Thread Jason Tishler
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:19:16AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:29:29PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: this might return true on Win9X if a user has defined CYGWIN=ntsec and checks a file mounted on an NT class machine. You need to add wincap.has_security().

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

2003-04-03 Thread Thomas Pfaff
Brian Ford wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Thomas Pfaff wrote: Brian Ford wrote: It is failing with: Assertion failed: (awoken == NUMTHREADS - canceledThreads), file /home/ford/downloads/cygwin/winsup/testsuite/winsup.api/pthread/condvar9.c, line 229 A simple debug shows: pthread/condvar9.c: awoken 8

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-2.7.10-3

2003-04-03 Thread Henry S. Thompson
trace-output.gz Description: strace rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-2.7.10-3

2003-04-03 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Sorry, somehow my prose got lost from that admittedly obscure posting :-( Since the first rxvt 2.7.10 update, I've lost functionality in the following odd way -- my rxvt shortcut, with property C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/bash --login -i no longer works -- it launches the window and hangs

Re: rebase error

2003-04-03 Thread Jason Tishler
Dale, Please keep you replies on-list. On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:10:24PM -0800, dale henderson wrote: thanks for the reply. You are welcome. Here is more info. Still not sure. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND 505149 1

RE: Problem in tcsh

2003-04-03 Thread Soumitra Pal
Hi Corinna, [EMAIL PROTECTED] id uid=544(a0756997) gid=1005(mmp) Urgh. What's that bad trick? Your /etc/passwd is broken. Please regenerate it and don't fake your name is the admins group. Run under your own account's SID. I have reverted back to original /etc/passwd. But with no

Re: Problem in tcsh

2003-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:11:10PM +0530, Soumitra Pal wrote: a0756997:*:1005:1005:Soumitra Kumar Pal:/cygdrive/h:/bin/tcsh Your SID is missing. Use mkpasswd to get the full entry (and then tweak home and shell fields). Which Cygwin version, btw? Did you try with 1.3.22? Corinna -- Corinna

Re: cygwin license

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:33:19PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 20:21 2003-04-02, you wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Good answer. You've earned the star. Wow. Praise from Caesar. I'm in heaven. And, as in the days of Rome, during the conquering hero's triumphal parade a slave would ride

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, Chuck, Thanks for the clarification. I have no idea what was up with the MIME encoding or whatever it was that glitched. At 20:16 2003-04-02, you wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Since there were no attachments, I placed the text embedded in the message into a file named cygwin.terminfo and

backward-kill-line doesn't work after upgrading to cygwin-1.3.22-1

2003-04-03 Thread Akrishna3
The backward-kill-line (\C-x\C-? or \C-x-BS) doesn't work in the shell after upgrading to cygwin-1.3.22-1. __ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Steve Coleman
Randall R Schulz wrote: I think we have to work with the legal system, not try to subvert it. Microsoft has a right to set the licensing terms it wants. We have a right to tell them to go to hell. Currently however, and as you note, the power relationship is highly skewed. It ain't easy to

RE: Problem in tcsh

2003-04-03 Thread Soumitra Pal
Corinna, I did whatever you said. Current passwd is the following. SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: admin777$:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-A0756997\admin777$,S-1-5-21-2871814 75-2026387952-1084442421-500:/home/admin777$:/bin/bash

RE: Problem in tcsh

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 06:55 2003-04-03, Soumitra Pal wrote: Corinna, I did whatever you said. Current passwd is the following. ... But still the problem is not solved. Mine is latest cygwin. Thanks and regards, Soumitra. Soumitra, No one seems to have asked you about your readline options. I know next to nothing

Re: Problem in tcsh

2003-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:25:51PM +0530, Soumitra Pal wrote: a0756997:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1009:1005:U-A0756997\a0756997,S-1-5-21-2871814 75-2026387952-1084442421-1009:/cygdrive/h:/bin/tcsh But still the problem is not solved. Mine is latest cygwin. I changed user and group membership as

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

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Thomas Pfaff wrote: I tried on XP and i was not able to reproduce. Can you dig a little deeper ? Sure. Two questions though. First, any pointers on where or how to start? I just thought you might have some specific questions that would lead us to the problem more

Re: glui.h compilation prb

2003-04-03 Thread -=]Shromilder[=-
you're my hero =) -- Your problem is caused by gcc 3 stricker friend declaration checking; you should stick with gcc 2 (g++ 2) until the opengl package is updated. Use: g++-2 -o glui glui.C -lglui -lglut32 -lglu32 -lopengl32

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Tim Prince
On Thursday 03 April 2003 06:54, Steve Coleman wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: I think we have to work with the legal system, not try to subvert it. Microsoft has a right to set the licensing terms it wants. We have a right to tell them to go to hell. Currently however, and as you note,

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Tim, At 07:28 2003-04-03, you wrote: ... Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, but it seems Microsoft would rather lose out to linux and HPUX than let their customers run cygwin. It may be they don't understand how many customers depend on cygwin, which

Re: setup.exe final pre-release..

2003-04-03 Thread Alan Dobkin
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote: Indeed, and here it is: http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.2.10.2.1.exe I haven't experienced any setup crashes, but I have a question about it's behavior when used with the local directory option. Each time I run it against a

Re: trying to compile emacs under cygwin

2003-04-03 Thread Joe Buehler
Robert Mecklenburg wrote: I'm trying to compile emacs under cygwin to debug the hanging problems I'm experiencing and I've run into a minor wall. Running emacs-21.2.install yields the error: Just a heads up: I am debugging a hang problem in Cygwin that emacs seems to trigger. It might be the

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Steve Coleman wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: I think we have to work with the legal system, not try to subvert it. Microsoft has a right to set the licensing terms it wants. We have a right to tell them to go to hell. Currently however, and as you note, the power relationship is highly

Ever needed a CVS-only shell?

2003-04-03 Thread Lapo Luchini
Today I finally solved one of the problems that I have since a long time: how to let people access CVS via SSH but not give them shell access. It was *much* easier than expected, but real strange for a person that uses Windows a lot: it wouldn't certainly permit to have a .BAT as a shell...

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Tim Prince wrote: Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, but it seems Microsoft would rather lose out to linux and HPUX than let their customers run cygwin. It may be they don't understand how many customers depend on cygwin, which is their fault too, since

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

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Brian Ford wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Thomas Pfaff wrote: I tried on XP and i was not able to reproduce. Can you dig a little deeper ? Sure. Two questions though. First, any pointers on where or how to start? I just thought you might have some specific questions

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Tim Prince wrote: Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, but it seems Microsoft would rather lose out to linux and HPUX than let their customers run cygwin. It may be they don't understand how many customers

Remaking and running a single testsuite test?

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Ford
Is there an easy way, short of running the whole testsuite again? I am having a problem figuring it out. Thanks. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: bug with setup.exe: saw tetex-beta even though I did not selectprev

2003-04-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thi is by design. We have a single namespace for all packages, even if they don't have [curr] elements. In fact prev only elements get promoted to curr. Ah, I didn't know that. That's unfortunate, in this case. The old tetex-beta and texmf* packages

Re: Cygwin Python regression testers wanted

2003-04-03 Thread Jason Tishler
Skip. Please post instead of sending private email. On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:17:40AM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote: I won't really be able to add anything to what you already know, since my Windows box runs Win2k, however, I'll work my way through the process just to stay in sync. I do have

Re: Cygwin Python regression testers wanted

2003-04-03 Thread Jason Tishler
Jimmy, Please post instead of sending private email. On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:48:24AM -0800, Jimmy Retzlaff wrote: I'm not at all experienced with Cygwin Python (I use win32 Python and have cygwin around for various utilities), but I have an XP Pro system and thought I'd give it a shot. I

RE: Cygwin Python regression testers wanted

2003-04-03 Thread Jimmy Retzlaff
Jason Tishler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please post instead of sending private email. OK On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:48:24AM -0800, Jimmy Retzlaff wrote: Python 2.2.2 (#1, Mar 9 2003, 08:18:26) [GCC 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)] on cygwin The output is attached. ... 172 tests OK. 1 test

Re: bug with setup.exe: saw tetex-beta even though I did not select prev

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thi is by design. We have a single namespace for all packages, even if they don't have [curr] elements. In fact prev only elements get promoted to curr. Ah, I didn't know that. That's unfortunate, in

su questions

2003-04-03 Thread Rodrigo Serra
Hello, I try to use su command and every time the command asks password and fail. :( My questions is su commands works? I need especial permissions to run su?, I try SYSTEM account whit the same result. The group wheel is needed? Thank -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: su questions

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Rodrigo Serra wrote: Hello, I try to use su command and every time the command asks password and fail. :( My questions is su commands works? I need especial permissions to run su?, I try SYSTEM account whit the same result. The group wheel is needed? Thank

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

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Thomas Pfaff wrote: I tried on XP and i was not able to reproduce. Can you dig a little deeper ? More info. It is the first cancel that is failing: cancel thread 2 awoken 1 thread 1 awoken 2 thread 2 awoken 3 thread 3 awoken 4 thread 4 cancel thread 7 awoken 5 thread 5

Re: Ever needed a CVS-only shell?

2003-04-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Lapo Luchini wrote: Today I finally solved one of the problems that I have since a long time: how to let people access CVS via SSH but not give them shell access. It was *much* easier than expected, but real strange for a person that uses Windows a lot: it wouldn't certainly permit to have a

RE: su questions

2003-04-03 Thread Rodrigo Serra
Igor, thak a lot ... A have new problem. :( I try to use sshd and whe run ssh localhost whit rsa authentication the output of the command is: $ ssh localhost Last login: Thu Apr 3 15:20:24 2003 from s1.rmserra.com.ar Fanfare!!! You are successfully logged in to this server!!! Connection to

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Stephan Mueller
Can someone elaborate on exactly which APIs have changed incompatibly (in 64-bit Windows)? I'm only mildly familiar with the 64-bit story, but my understanding is that the the 64-bit APIs are basically the same as 32-bit (with the natural widening of types) but given that the 64-bit API is 'new'

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Note that the below was a general statement about API changes, not even referring to XP64 specifically. I do not use the newest Windows, and don't have enough expertise to reason about the specific API changes. These changes do happen (otherwise Cygwin wouldn't have to be ported to the newer

Problem: SCP and umask ?!

2003-04-03 Thread Duncan Rubinger
Hi all, I'm slightly new to this list and would like to say hello at first. Unfortunately I've a question too. I'm using WINSCP2 or scp to copy my files on my Bitvise WinSSHD using cygwin bash for the environment. When I log in to my account normally, everything is OK ... I've changed th umask

Should C/C++ compilers be smart enough to catch this???

2003-04-03 Thread Fred Ma
Hello, I just spent a great number of hours chasing down a bug that showed itself on g++ on cygwin, but not on g++ on solaris2.5.8. What did it turn out to be? I had a class member function that returned an object, according to the prototype. Also according to the function definition. But,

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Rolf, Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2003 um 23:03 schriebst du: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Rolf, Am Dienstag, 1. April 2003 um 18:13 schriebst du: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Rolf schrieb: So, is this a cygwin perl problem? Or has the stock perl decided to only work with magic ENV variables? I

Re: Problem: SCP and umask ?!

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Duncan Rubinger wrote: Hi all, I'm slightly new to this list and would like to say hello at first. Unfortunately I've a question too. I'm using WINSCP2 or scp to copy my files on my Bitvise WinSSHD using cygwin bash for the environment. When I log in to my account

Re: Should C/C++ compilers be smart enough to catch this???

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Fred Ma wrote: Hello, I just spent a great number of hours chasing down a bug that showed itself on g++ on cygwin, but not on g++ on solaris2.5.8. What did it turn out to be? I had a class member function that returned an object, according to the prototype. Also

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-03 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Rolf, TEST.PL: 1:#!/bin/perl 2:$/ = \r\n; 3: 4:open( LOG, in ) || 5: die Could not open log.\n; 6:binmode LOG, :crlf; 7: 8:$in = LOG; 9:print $in; Ok, so you get the same results as me. They are both wrong. The script should only print the first line. I just

Re: Should C/C++ compilers be smart enough to catch this???

2003-04-03 Thread rrmalloy
Won't -Wreturn suffice? Rich. On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Fred Ma wrote: Hello, I just spent a great number of hours chasing down a bug that showed itself on g++ on cygwin, but not on g++ on solaris2.5.8. What did it turn out to be? I had a class member function that returned an

Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- From: Stephan Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 10:37:19 -0800 Subject: RE: Big Brother is Real Can someone elaborate on exactly which APIs have changed incompatibly (in 64-bit Windows)? I'm only mildly familiar with the 64-bit

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

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Ford
Yet more detail below. It is definately a thread cancel failure. thread 1 wait thread 2 wait thread 3 wait thread 4 wait cancel 2 thread 1 run thread 1 awoken 1 thread 2 run thread 2 awoken 2 thread 3 run thread 3 awoken 3 thread 4 run thread 4 awoken 4 thread 5 wait thread 6 wait thread 7 wait

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Rolf, So, I've recieved confirmation that this problem is only with cygwin perl, and not with GNU/Linux perl (5.8). So, please file a bugreport, perlbug is included in the dist. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Rudiyanto Gunawan
I am hoping that someone could help me. Yesterday (4/2/03), I tried to update my cygwin, which I installed last year. However, at the end of the update, the postinstall script failed. The error messages implied that the postinstallation files that were supposed to be inside /etc/postinstall, did

Re: Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- From: Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 07:34:20 -0800 Subject: Re: Big Brother is Real Tim, At 07:28 2003-04-03, you wrote: ... Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, but it seems

Re: Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 12:22 2003-04-03, Timothy C Prince wrote: ... We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company. -- Lily Tomlin __ They may care. I doubt their chances of overtaking linux-ia64 or making back their investment in XP64 this year are

Any progress on named pipes in Cygwin

2003-04-03 Thread Cary Lewis
I had seen a posting that it was hoped that named pipes would be soon available in Cygwin. Has there been any progress? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

2003-04-03 Thread Charles Wilson
Randall R Schulz wrote: Can I trouble you to explain why your termcap replaces something so different in the existing /etc/termcap file: cygwin:\ :xn@:op=\E[39;49m:Km=\E[M:te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:tc=linux: I understand that this entry incrementally modifies the linux entry. Your

Re: Postinstall failure: file not found

2003-04-03 Thread Rudiyanto Gunawan
From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rudiyanto Gunawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Postinstall failure: file not found Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:27:15 -0500 (EST) What is the exact message you're getting? What are the packages

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chuck, I was meaning to write this up earlier, but work keeps getting in the way. When I used your new termcap entry, less (when it's displaying output piped to it via its standard input but not when it is given a file name argument) tells me WARNING: terminal is not fully functional. Here's

Installing CVS built cygwin?

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Ford
Elaborating on my previous question: How do you developers manage to test run Cygwin versions and then revert? Obvioulsy, for things like the new 64 bit support, just swapping cygwin1.dll is not sufficient. I thought I would try the following: install into a temp dir in temp dir do: find .

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-03 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Rolf, So, I've recieved confirmation that this problem is only with cygwin perl, and not with GNU/Linux perl (5.8). So, please file a bugreport, perlbug is included in the dist. Gerrit Which ports is perlbug for? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: setup.exe final pre-release..

2003-04-03 Thread Robert Collins
Alan Dobkin wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote: Indeed, and here it is: http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.2.10.2.1.exe I haven't experienced any setup crashes, but I have a question about it's behavior when used with the local directory option. Each time I

Re: Problem: SCP and umask ?!

2003-04-03 Thread Duncan Rubinger
Hi, I've changed th umask in the profile file to 000 for private reasons and this works fine directly under bash! But if I copy some files using any scp application, the files will be created with 644 as umask! Each file gets rw-r--r-- ! Don't know why IP Two questions: IP 1) are you sure

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

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:22:08AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: IIRC, the testsuite uses new-cygwin1.dll, not cygwin1.dll... Hence no conflict. See winsup/testsuite/cygrun.c. Actually, lately, it is using cygwin0.dll rather than new-cygwin1.dll. FYI, cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:28:14AM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, Wow. I had no idea I was so powerful. I think I need a raise. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:37:19AM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: Can someone elaborate on exactly which APIs have changed incompatibly (in 64-bit Windows)? I'm only mildly familiar with the 64-bit story, but my understanding is that the the 64-bit APIs are basically the same as 32-bit (with the

Re: setup.exe final pre-release..

2003-04-03 Thread Alan Dobkin
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote: Alan Dobkin wrote: Each time I run it against a local mirror, it checks the MD5 sum of every package in the mirror. This is a time-consuming process and, unless the window remains in the foreground the entire time, it seems to hang.

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