Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] new setup.exe released

2004-04-30 Thread Dan Muller
Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 01:19 PM 4/25/2004, you wrote: > >>--=-8TWRmjubKsXaYwWmfrs7 >>Content-Type: text/plain >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> >>A new setup.exe has been released. Download it from the usual place >>(http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe) >> ... >>WAR

Is This Impossible?

2004-04-30 Thread Tennis Smith
Hi, I have the need to remotely access Windows via an expect app (on Unix) and run various DOS commands and possibly start/stop Windows applications too. Based on earlier conversations on this mailer, it doesn't look like it can be done by telnetting into the Cygwin telnet daemon and issuing com

Re: 20040422 snapshot and filenames ending with . (was: Re: errors using DB_File perl module under 20040422 snapshot)

2004-04-30 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
y > > Would it help to try multiple snapshots and see where this broke? I > already had the 20040416 and 20040420 ones and they both fail (but > 1.5.9 is ok)? I was really hoping for a "already fixed in CVS" > response :), is there anything I can do to help track this down?

RE: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-30 Thread Alejandro López-Valencia
[Lots of idiocy deleted. I will not answer to kindergarten frolics.] Mr. Korn, You couldn't take a hint to move the argument to a private conversation and rather chose to make another fine display of your poor attempts at being sarcastic, efforts that, for as long as I have being a witness, e

Re: Line breaks in bash

2004-04-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: -Original Message- From: Andrew DeFaria Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:18 PM To: cygwincygwincom Subject: Re: Line breaks in bash When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get confused

Building the latest GLib and Pango sources on Cygwin

2004-04-30 Thread Roger Leigh
I'm working on fixing up the current version of Glib (part of GTK+/GNOME) to build on Cygwin. I've taken the current CVS and some older patches and reworked them. These have now been incorporated, and it is now possible to check out and build Glib on Cygwin. An "autotooled" copy of the source is

RE: mkpasswd -p option now adds username

2004-04-30 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Estey, Debora J > Sent: 30 April 2004 14:43 > Hi, > > I have just down loaded the latest cygwin (1.5.9-1). > I have a script to add users to the password file, the first > time they > bring up cygwin. > The script is using the -p

Re: mkpasswd -p option now adds username

2004-04-30 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:42 AM 4/30/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > > I have just down loaded the latest cygwin (1.5.9-1). > I have a script to add users to the password file, the first time they >bring up cygwin. > The script is using the -p option of the mkpasswd to add their home to the >passwd file. This > did work fine

RE: Nessus Performance on Cygwin

2004-04-30 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Abhijit . > Sent: 30 April 2004 15:06 > Hi, > > I have ported Nessus (a network security scanner on Unix) to > Cygwin, Can I have a copy of your patches please? > and I was running some performance tests on it. > Here are some ob

Nessus Performance on Cygwin

2004-04-30 Thread Abhijit .
Hi, I have ported Nessus (a network security scanner on Unix) to Cygwin, and I was running some performance tests on it. Here are some observations about the Cygwin port performance: The performance gap between the Linux and Cygwin versions is large - the Cygwin port takes at least 10 times longer

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.3.3-2

2004-04-30 Thread Jason Tishler
New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.3.3-2. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following are the notable changes since the previous release: o all known 64-bit I/O issues are resolved o Berkeley DB module is built against Ber

RE: signal issue

2004-04-30 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of crenouli > Sent: 30 April 2004 14:28 > I try to kill a process under cygwin. The main process need > to kill one its > child process. The child process is playing a music using : > system("cat phrase3.wav > /dev/dsp "); > > The m

Some hard/softlink issues on NTFS

2004-04-30 Thread A . Alper Atici
The following fun happens on NTFS of a local XP-Pro SP1 with ntsec, Cygwin 1.5.9: $ id uid=1003(ati) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),513(nobody),544(Administrators),545(Users) $ ll -d ../`basename $PWD` drwxr-xr-x+ 2 ati root0 Apr 30 15:38 ../t $ touch aa $ ll total 0 -rw-r--r--

mkpasswd -p option now adds username

2004-04-30 Thread Estey, Debora J
Hi, I have just down loaded the latest cygwin (1.5.9-1). I have a script to add users to the password file, the first time they bring up cygwin. The script is using the -p option of the mkpasswd to add their home to the passwd file. This did work fine but, in the latest cygwin, the users id i

signal issue

2004-04-30 Thread crenouli
I try to kill a process under cygwin. The main process need to kill one its child process. The child process is playing a music using : system("cat phrase3.wav > /dev/dsp "); The main process code is (pidChild is correst) : kill(SIGKILL, pidChild); I tried with SIGUSR2 (with a function as

RE: g++ 3.4.0 cygwin, codegen SSE & alignement issues

2004-04-30 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of tbp > Sent: 30 April 2004 12:59 > PS: Excuse my ignorance, but is there a way to keep a local copy of > cygwin1.dll without getting caught by the > cygwin-system-consistency police? Yep, just make sure it's stashed away safely in

RE: cygX11-6.dll not found

2004-04-30 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Tor Erik Sønvisen > Sent: 30 April 2004 12:32 > Have a problem when trying to run Xemacs directly from > /Cygewin/bin without > opening cygwin first. I get the error message: "cygX11-6.dll > can't be found. > You have to re-install t

Re: g++ 3.4.0 cygwin, codegen SSE & alignement issues

2004-04-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 30 13:59, tbp wrote: > Ross Ridge wrote: > >Try reversing this patch: > > > > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/gcc/config/i386/cygming.h.diff?cvsroot=gcc&r1=1.7&r2=1.8 > Patched gcc 3.4 + patched cygwin1.dll = success. Thanks a lot. > > So, i have to ask 2 annoying questio

Re: g++ 3.4.0 cygwin, codegen SSE & alignement issues

2004-04-30 Thread tbp
Ross Ridge wrote: Try reversing this patch: http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/gcc/config/i386/cygming.h.diff?cvsroot=gcc&r1=1.7&r2=1.8 Patched gcc 3.4 + patched cygwin1.dll = success. Thanks a lot. So, i have to ask 2 annoying questions: a) is Brian Ford patch to threadfunc_fe gonna make

Fw: cygX11-6.dll not found

2004-04-30 Thread Tor Erik Sønvisen
Hi. Have a problem when trying to run Xemacs directly from /Cygewin/bin without opening cygwin first. I get the error message: "cygX11-6.dll can't be found. You have to re-install the package." But I checked and this file exists in the directory /usr/X11R6/bin. I tried changing the permissions of

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-30 Thread Frank Slootweg
Thanks all for your responses. Barry, you have given me a workaround and enabled me to find a second workaround! If people still want to try to find a better solution, I have 'attached' instructions on how to (try to) reproduce the problem. Barry Buchbinder wrote: [deleted] > It is a fact

Re: g++ 3.4.0 cygwin, codegen SSE & alignement issues

2004-04-30 Thread Ross Ridge
> After uselessly poking at binutil sources for a couple of hours, may i > ask you to share your gcc kludge? Try reversing this patch: http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/gcc/config/i386/cygming.h.diff?cvsroot=gcc&r1=1.7&r2=1.8 Ross

re: problem with cygwin emacs and revert-buffer

2004-04-30 Thread Neil McCurdy
Hi Eric -- I just fought the same problem and was dismayed to find that you were the only one on google to encounter this. I was forced to resolve it myself. It turns out that the issue is with how emacs handles filesystems that are mounted as textmode. I originally thought (as you found) t