coreutils-5.3.0-2

2005-02-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Updated to address packaging issues. /usr/lib/charset.alias and uptime(1) are removed. readlink(1) still conflicts with cygutils, so we will need a cygutils 1.2.5-2 soon. Also, this drop fixes pwd(1) by working around the broken nature of d_ino in

Cygwin-X shortcuts and installation to c:\Program Files\cygwin

2005-02-01 Thread Mike McCollister
I have installed cygwin, plus Cygwin-X, to c:\progra~1\cygwin. I have used it that way for years. However, I have noticed that when I try to run an X-Windows program using the pre-defined shortcuts in the start menu, such as xcalc or bitmap, that they will not run. When I look at the properties

Re: Cygwin-X shortcuts and installation to c:\Program Files\cygwin

2005-02-01 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Mike McCollister wrote: I have installed cygwin, plus Cygwin-X, to c:\progra~1\cygwin. I have used it that way for years. However, I have noticed that when I try to run an X-Windows program using the pre-defined shortcuts in the start menu, such as xcalc or bitmap, that they will not run.

Status of lost cut and paste issue?

2005-02-01 Thread Auz
Hi, I seem to be suffering this issue: http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com/msg13265.html / http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-12/msg00161.html I'm running XP on one side, Fedora Core 3 on the other. I'm launching cygwin/x (Release: 6.8.1.0-9) with

Re: Status of lost cut and paste issue?

2005-02-01 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Auz wrote: Hi, I seem to be suffering this issue: http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com/msg13265.html / http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-12/msg00161.html I'm running XP on one side, Fedora Core 3 on the other. I'm launching cygwin/x

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler.cc fhandl ...

2005-02-01 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-02-01 15:11:50 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler.cc fhandler.h fhandler_proc.cc fhandler_process.cc fhandler_socket.cc path.cc

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygthread.cc devices.c ...

2005-02-01 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-02-01 16:49:14 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog cygthread.cc devices.cc devices.h devices.in dtable.cc fhandler_proc.cc path.cc

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_proc.cc

2005-02-01 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-02-01 17:16:15 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_proc.cc Log message: * fhandler_proc.cc (format_proc_partitions): Remove PartitionType check since it

/dev/hda overwritten on local cygwin mirror

2005-02-01 Thread list-subscriber
Hello Cygwin Gurus, Before anyone starts flaming me, I'd like to say that the question I have does not concern any particular app in cygwin but the whole of cygwin (as in literally) on our local mirror...(If this is better discussed in cygwin-talk, please point it out.)

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron-3.0.1-19

2005-02-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated the version of cron on cygwin.com to 3.0.1-19. I removed the -18 version from the server since it was missing an important patch. Other than that, it's what has been promissed for -18: Thanks to Pierre Humblet for the following contribution: Small improvements to cron-config

where do I find these unresolved symbols

2005-02-01 Thread Mirko
Hello, I am porting a plasma simulation code from linux to cygwin (my windows box is 4x faster than the linux box I can get). During the linking phase I am getting an error message about unresolved symbols. I am a bit puzzled about some of them (tcl/tk, xpm) because I believe that I am

Re: /dev/hda overwritten on local cygwin mirror

2005-02-01 Thread Jani Tiainen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: Hello Cygwin Gurus, Our cygwin mirror is on a linux box running trustix secure linux version 2.0. I decided to upgrade to trustix secure linux 2.2 and as I was about to created a bootdisk for a network install, I inadvertently typed: [clipped very sad thing that

Fwd: Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This question came up on the coreutils list: Does cygwin provide any support for sparse files on NTFS volumes that support it? lseek() could be patched to use FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA when a seek jumps past the end of a file open for writing, but there

Re: where do I find these unresolved symbols

2005-02-01 Thread Tim Prince
At 04:07 AM 2/1/2005, Mirko wrote: During the linking phase I am getting an error message about unresolved symbols. I am a bit puzzled about some of them (tcl/tk, xpm) because I believe that I am pointing to the correct libraries (so much about my knowledge of pointing to libraries), and

Re: /dev/hda overwritten on local cygwin mirror

2005-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:20:54PM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: Hello Cygwin Gurus, Our cygwin mirror is on a linux box running trustix secure linux version 2.0. I decided to upgrade to trustix secure linux 2.2 and as I was about to created a bootdisk for a network

Re: Fwd: Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:48:56AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: This question came up on the coreutils list: Does cygwin provide any support for sparse files on NTFS volumes that support it? lseek() could be patched to use FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA when a seek jumps past the end of a file open for

Re: Fwd: Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 1 06:48, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This question came up on the coreutils list: Does cygwin provide any support for sparse files on NTFS volumes that support it? lseek() could be patched to use FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA when a seek jumps past the

RE: /dev/hda overwritten on local cygwin mirror

2005-02-01 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 01 February 2005 14:57 On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:20:54PM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote: list-subscriber kirjoitti: Hello Cygwin Gurus, Our cygwin mirror is on a linux box running trustix secure linux

Problems creating -mno-cygwin DLLs with libtool.

2005-02-01 Thread Vladius
I have problems compiling DLLs with -mno-cygwin flag, using libtool. Command is: libtool --mode=link --tag=CXX g++ -rpath /Projects/Tests/libtool -mno-cygwin -no-undefined -o libcommon.la common.lo Output: rm -fr .libs/libcommon.a .libs/libcommon.la .libs/libcommon.lai g++ -shared -nostdlib

RE: /dev/hda overwritten on local cygwin mirror

2005-02-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 01 February 2005 14:57 On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:20:54PM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote: list-subscriber kirjoitti: Hello Cygwin Gurus, Our cygwin mirror is on a

Re: Problems creating -mno-cygwin DLLs with libtool.

2005-02-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Vladius wrote: I have problems compiling DLLs with -mno-cygwin flag, using libtool. Command is: libtool --mode=link --tag=CXX g++ -rpath /Projects/Tests/libtool -mno-cygwin -no-undefined -o libcommon.la common.lo Output: rm -fr .libs/libcommon.a .libs/libcommon.la .libs/libcommon.lai g++ -shared

RE: Problems creating -mno-cygwin DLLs with libtool.

2005-02-01 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Max Bowsher Sent: 01 February 2005 15:35 Vladius wrote: As U can see... it automatically passes -lcygwin flag to the linker(g++). When cygcheck'ing resulting DLL it lists cygwin DLL as one of its dependencies. I heard

Problems creating -mno-cygwin DLLs with libtool HACK.

2005-02-01 Thread Vladius
Vladius wrote: I have problems compiling DLLs with -mno-cygwin flag, using libtool. Command is: libtool --mode=link --tag=CXX g++ -rpath /Projects/Tests/libtool -mno-cygwin -no-undefined -o libcommon.la common.lo Output: rm -fr .libs/libcommon.a .libs/libcommon.la .libs/libcommon.lai g++

Re: Problems creating -mno-cygwin DLLs with libtool.

2005-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:56:17PM -, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Max Bowsher Sent: 01 February 2005 15:35 Vladius wrote: As U can see... it automatically passes -lcygwin flag to the linker(g++). When cygcheck'ing resulting DLL it

RE: Problems creating -mno-cygwin DLLs with libtool HACK.

2005-02-01 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: Vladius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have found a solution to hack this issue. 1.Goto usr/autotool/devel/bin/ 2.Open libtool file with a text editor(vim). 3.Search for postdeps initialisation. (postdeps= string) 4.Remove -lcygwin initialisation literal

RE: Problems creating -mno-cygwin DLLs with libtool.

2005-02-01 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 01 February 2005 17:27 Has it been established that the cygwin version of libtool is *supposed* to handle mingw? I'd be rather surprised if that was a goal. Nope, I just assumed that it could be made to

Re: Problems creating -mno-cygwin DLLs with libtool.

2005-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:15:50PM -, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 01 February 2005 17:27 Has it been established that the cygwin version of libtool is *supposed* to handle mingw? I'd be rather surprised if that was

Re: slow handling of large sets of files?

2005-02-01 Thread Ken Sheldon
I too have been seeing a problem with very slow file access in large directories. Specifically, On a Cygwin/Win2k box, I have a mirror of an FTP site. The site has 2.5 million files spread between 100 directories. (20,000 - 30,000 files per directory) I have previously run this number of

Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP

2005-02-01 Thread Jeff . Hodges
On Jan 31 12:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There's a patch in current Cygwin CVS which should solve the icon problem. Super. Tho, will fixing the icon problem also fix the behavior dichotomy between Explorer and Open/Save dialogs (which I noted in my

Re: slow handling of large sets of files?

2005-02-01 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:28 PM 2/1/2005, you wrote: I too have been seeing a problem with very slow file access in large directories. Specifically, On a Cygwin/Win2k box, I have a mirror of an FTP site. The site has 2.5 million files spread between 100 directories. (20,000 - 30,000 files per directory) I have

Re: slow handling of large sets of files?

2005-02-01 Thread Ken Sheldon
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 14:51 -0500, Larry Hall wrote: At 02:28 PM 2/1/2005, you wrote: I too have been seeing a problem with very slow file access in large directories. Specifically, On a Cygwin/Win2k box, I have a mirror of an FTP site. The site has 2.5 million files spread between 100

Re: Problems creating -mno-cygwin DLLs with libtool HACK.

2005-02-01 Thread Vladius
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: Vladius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have found a solution to hack this issue. 1.Goto usr/autotool/devel/bin/ 2.Open libtool file with a text editor(vim). 3.Search for postdeps initialisation. (postdeps= string) 4.Remove -lcygwin

Re: slow handling of large sets of files?

2005-02-01 Thread Brian Bruns
On Tuesday, February 01, 2005 3:22 PM [EST], Ken Sheldon wrote: More information: Not only Cygwin apps incur this large performance penalty. Something similar happens with the cmd.exe prompt command DIR, with the windows file explorer, or with IIS (FTP server). This only seems to happen in

Re: Problems creating -mno-cygwin DLLs with libtool HACK (Sorry, Wrong Patch attached : FIXED).

2005-02-01 Thread Vladius
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: Vladius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have found a solution to hack this issue. 1.Goto usr/autotool/devel/bin/ 2.Open libtool file with a text editor(vim). 3.Search for postdeps initialisation. (postdeps= string) 4.Remove -lcygwin

Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP

2005-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:43:04AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 31 12:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There's a patch in current Cygwin CVS which should solve the icon problem. Super. Tho, will fixing the icon problem also fix the behavior dichotomy

several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-01 Thread ericblake
Further coreutils-5.3.0 debugging turned up more POSIX bugs in cygwin: pwd.h defines struct passwd with the pw_uid and pw_gid members as ints, although POSIX requires uid_t and gid_t. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/dirent.h.html sys/time.h defines utimes with non-const

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:58:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: readdir() populates the dirent.d_ino member with a hashed filename, regardless of whether the file is located on NTFS and actually has an inode. This means that readdir() and stat()'s idea of inode are different, and this breaks

How can an MSVC app tell it's running in a Cygwin rxvt window?

2005-02-01 Thread Stefan Vorkoetter
We have an application which can run in a command-line driven mode. For Windows, the app is compiled with MSVC. However, some of our users (including some people in-house) like to use it from within a Cygwin shell. It works fine in a bash running in a Windows console window, but not when running

Re: Hyperthreading problem: remote access

2005-02-01 Thread Joris van der Sande
Larry Hall wrote: Chris has already answered that question earlier in the discussion. He needs physical access to the machine to resolve this problem. Remote access isn't enough. Forgive my ignorance, but I read the archives back to 1 jan 2004 but found no explanation why remote access doesn't

Re: How can an MSVC app tell it's running in a Cygwin rxvt window?

2005-02-01 Thread Stefan Vorkoetter
I just want to add that the app must still be able to distinguish between having had its stdin redirected or not. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Freezing problem installing cygwin - solution

2005-02-01 Thread Danny
Hi all, I have just spent a couple of days trying to install cygwin on my windows 2003 server, it would freeze about 85% and come up with an error about being unable to open a log file, well after sifting through the mailing list I found nothing about this fault. I was beginning to give

Re: Hyperthreading problem: remote access

2005-02-01 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Joris van der Sande wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Chris has already answered that question earlier in the discussion. He needs physical access to the machine to resolve this problem. Remote access isn't enough. Forgive my ignorance, but I read the archives back to 1

Re: Hyperthreading problem: remote access

2005-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:01:11PM +0100, Joris van der Sande wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Chris has already answered that question earlier in the discussion. He needs physical access to the machine to resolve this problem. Remote access isn't enough. Forgive my ignorance, but I read the archives

Re: slow handling of large sets of files?

2005-02-01 Thread Brian Dessent
Ken Sheldon wrote: Not only Cygwin apps incur this large performance penalty. Something similar happens with the cmd.exe prompt command DIR, with the windows file explorer, or with IIS (FTP server). This only seems to happen in the directory structures created by my CygWin scripts (using

Re: slow handling of large sets of files?

2005-02-01 Thread Brian Bruns
On Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:53 PM [EST], Brian Dessent wrote: Ken Sheldon wrote: Not only Cygwin apps incur this large performance penalty. Something similar happens with the cmd.exe prompt command DIR, with the windows file explorer, or with IIS (FTP server). This only seems to happen

problem with proftpd

2005-02-01 Thread le chapelain germain
I cannot log on my ftp server. In the ftp client I get : ==8==8== Response: 220 ProFTPD 1.2.10 Server (ProFTPD Default Installation) [127.0.0.1] Command:USER anonymous Response: 331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete email address as your

Cant install Cygwin

2005-02-01 Thread Dumb Dumber
Dear All, I installed Cygwin on Windows Xp SP2. During install to select some packages like; apache postgresql and download from net. I installed cygwin to D:\cygwin. There was no error until installation finish but when I run cygwin.bat. It shown propmt but can't run any command. bash-2.05b$

Re: Cant install Cygwin

2005-02-01 Thread Base64
Maybe somehow the base packages were deselected or something , so what i would do is uninstall cygwin completely, then run setup.exe again and let it do a default install. Then after installation is complete run setup.exe again to add more packages. Its a good idea to save setup.exe because it

Re: Problems creating -mno-cygwin DLLs with libtool.

2005-02-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: Has it been established that the cygwin version of libtool is *supposed* to handle mingw? I'd be rather surprised if that was a goal. DING! We HAVE a winner! The installed libtool has been configured -- by virtue of the fact that I ran the build in a cygwin environment

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 2/1/2005 2:51 PM: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:58:03PM +, Eric Blake wrote: readdir() populates the dirent.d_ino member with a hashed filename, This is not going to be fixed. It's a longstanding problem.

Re: Problems creating -mno-cygwin DLLs with libtool.

2005-02-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: OTOH, I never have understood why tools insist on including such things as -lcygwin or -lc on a linker command line. There's a good reason for libtool to do so, but it escapes me at the moment. Trust Me(tm). Innate

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:50:06PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: According to Christopher Faylor on 2/1/2005 2:51 PM: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:58:03PM +, Eric Blake wrote: readdir() populates the dirent.d_ino member with a hashed filename, This is not going to be fixed. It's a longstanding

Re: Problems creating -mno-cygwin DLLs with libtool.

2005-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:02:18PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: OTOH, I never have understood why tools insist on including such things as -lcygwin or -lc on a linker command line. There's a good reason for libtool to do so,

Re: Cant install Cygwin

2005-02-01 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:34 PM 2/1/2005, you wrote: Maybe somehow the base packages were deselected or something , so what i would do is uninstall cygwin completely, then run setup.exe again and let it do a default install. Then after installation is complete run setup.exe again to add more packages. Ah, that's

Re: /proc functionality; ls errors

2005-02-01 Thread linda w
Cool - does that mean it was a bug and was fixed, or did it just happen to disappear due to some other improvement? Either way... 'bout how long does it take till things go from CVS to a release, these days. I've tried twice to build from CVS, but never seem to have gotten a full build to run

Re: /proc functionality; ls errors

2005-02-01 Thread Brian Dessent
linda w wrote: Cool - does that mean it was a bug and was fixed, or did it just happen to disappear due to some other improvement? Either way... I think that the functionality did not exist before, and Corinna added it. So, not a bug, just things that weren't implemented yet. I suspect

Re: problems interrupting cygcheck -c on 20050104 snapshot

2005-02-01 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:00:16PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:40:26PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:05:13PM -0500, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:36:02PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes

errors during setup

2005-02-01 Thread Arthur Arapetian
HI! I got errors during installation and ssh setup. One error repeated itself several times during the final phase of the instalation. entry point _fopen64 link could not be located in cygwin1.dll the other message appeared during the ssh setup. entry point _getreent could not be located

Re: errors during setup

2005-02-01 Thread Brian Dessent
Arthur Arapetian wrote: I got errors during installation and ssh setup. One error repeated itself several times during the final phase of the instalation. entry point _fopen64 link could not be located in cygwin1.dll the other message appeared during the ssh setup. entry point