Directory c:\%USERPROFILE% created

2005-06-08 Thread Systemtechnik
Hello, i was wandering about strange folders created in the root directory of my Cygwin-Enhanced PCs and found out that everytime i start installer programs from within a cygwin shell, a folder called %USERPROFILE% is created in the base directory of the pc's harddisk. I found out that if i s

Subversion perl bindings - where do they live?

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew McClure
Hi, I have perl, swig, subversion and subversion-dev installed via cygwin. I am finding that I need to use some very simple subversion client capabilities from inside of a perl script. Looking around on google I see multiple references to subversion perl bindings existing as part of the su

Re: Login & Something diff since cygwin 1.5.15-1 release - could it be security changes that were made

2005-06-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:11 PM 6/8/2005, you wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> According to my tests you must have given the "Act as part of the operating >> system" privilege (SeTcbPrivilege) to your account. Only when I added this > >Funnny you mention that - after I sent the log(s) yesterday I was thinking >a

Re: PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT different for cygwin v.s. linux.

2005-06-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:59 PM 6/8/2005, you wrote: >I can't seem to build the cygwin1.dll so I could replace it (are there any >instructions on how to create an identical copy to the release? I didn't see >any on the FAQ, and ./configure;make generates a file 8x larger, Sounds OK to me. Try stripping it. >a

Multi Threaded programs deadlock doing simple I/O operations

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Pizzolato
There is a serious problem for multi threaded programs doing simple I/O operations in cygwin (open, dup, fdopen, fclose, and close). The attached 81 line test program clearly demonstrates the issue (by hanging and no longer consuming CPU or performing any I/O operations). I'm sure that anyone

Re: PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT different for cygwin v.s. linux.

2005-06-08 Thread Peter Rehley
On Jun 8, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Thomas E. Zerucha wrote: I have a problem similar to that of: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg01400.html I have an old system that I'm trying to port that uses pthreads, but doesn't set the attribute, and a non-owner thread will destroy the thread in a

RE: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-08 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I wrote: >> However, it was NTFS-specific and Cygwin went a different >> route (which has path length limitations, but I digress). Christopher Faylor wrote: > And, Joshua could I get a FAQ entry about this, too? This > has got to be at least the fifth time that someone has felt > compelled to mak

PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT different for cygwin v.s. linux.

2005-06-08 Thread Thomas E. Zerucha
I have a problem similar to that of: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg01400.html I have an old system that I'm trying to port that uses pthreads, but doesn't set the attribute, and a non-owner thread will destroy the thread in a deallocate routine, but this won't happen (it won't actu

Re: Problem with using stripped cygwin1.dll built from CVS

2005-06-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:36:56AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:49:20AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Jun 7 16:50, David Rothenberger wrote: >>> On 6/7/2005 4:28 PM, Brian Dessent wrote: >>> >Part of the new cygheap changes that cgf recently checked in, were a

Re: Subversion 1.2 for Cygwin?

2005-06-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Lawrence Bruhmuller wrote: Anyone know when this will be available under Cygwin? It was just very recently released. Most likely in roughly a week or so. Once my exams are over, I'll have some time to catch up with some things I've been ignoring recently. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: h

Subversion 1.2 for Cygwin?

2005-06-08 Thread Lawrence Bruhmuller
Anyone know when this will be available under Cygwin? It was just very recently released. Thanks, Lawrence -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: launch windows program from shell according to its extension

2005-06-08 Thread Peter Mutsaers
Larry Hall wrote: Sure. Use 'cygstart'. Just what I was looking for. Thanks for the hint. Regards, Peter Mutsaers -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

Re: Login & Something diff since cygwin 1.5.15-1 release - could it be security changes that were made

2005-06-08 Thread Brian Keener
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > According to my tests you must have given the "Act as part of the operating > system" privilege (SeTcbPrivilege) to your account. Only when I added this Funnny you mention that - after I sent the log(s) yesterday I was thinking about it and kept thinking in the back o

Re: pthreads, cygwin and pthread_mutex_lock not blocking

2005-06-08 Thread Peter Rehley
On Jun 8, 2005, at 7:42 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 7 10:22, Peter Rehley wrote: Any comments about this? On Jun 2, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Peter Rehley wrote: Here is a patch to thread.cc that allows _lock to process signals. The patch is against the 1.178 version of thread.cc found in

Re: Problem with using stripped cygwin1.dll built from CVS

2005-06-08 Thread Max Kaehn
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:36, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I understand the problem. It's a binutils bug that I'm investigating. > Either gas or ld is marking NOLOAD sections as "read only" and that is > causing windows to actually load them into memory. This may or may not be related, but I've not

Re: launch windows program from shell according to its extension

2005-06-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > zzapper wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:59:27 -0400 (EDT), wrote: > > > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > # csn > > > > # description : launch most recent file (head) > > > > # set -x > > > > cygstart $(l\s -t * | head -1) & > > > > > > Make that 'cygstart "$

gdb threading troubles

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Pizzolato
The attached example test program runs to completion when run directly, but spins infinitely when run under gdb. I'm compiling with: gcc -g -O0 mutexttest.c -o mutexttest running under: cygwin1.5.17-1 gdb 20041228-3 #include #include #include #include pthread_mutex_t l

Re: launch windows program from shell according to its extension

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew DeFaria
zzapper wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:59:27 -0400 (EDT), wrote: #!/bin/bash # csn # description : launch most recent file (head) # set -x cygstart $(l\s -t * | head -1) & Make that 'cygstart "$(/bin/ls -t | head -1)"' (add quotes, otherwise filenames with spaces will not work). Slightly im

Re: cygwin.bat fails with "WFMO failed waiting for cygthread 'WnetGetResourceInformation'

2005-06-08 Thread Tim Hart
On Jun 7 19:06, Tim Hart wrote: >> having the same home directory path. I can use a few pattern matching tools >> to filter out the appropriate domain users and modify /etc/passwd >> accordingly. Obviously mkpasswd needs to be updated in order to produce >> correct home directory entries (possibly

Re: launch windows program from shell according to its extension

2005-06-08 Thread Lev Bishop
On 08/06/05, zzapper wrote: > Slightly improved to ignore directories (and assuming that Windows files > always have an extension) > cygstart "$(/bin/ls -t *.* | head -1)" why not cygstart "$(/bin/ls -t . | head -1)" ? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

Re: launch windows program from shell according to its extension

2005-06-08 Thread zzapper
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:59:27 -0400 (EDT), wrote: >> >> #!/bin/bash >> # csn >> # description : launch most recent file (head) >> # set -x >> cygstart $(l\s -t * | head -1) & > >Make that 'cygstart "$(/bin/ls -t | head -1)"' (add quotes, otherwise >filenames with spaces will not work). Slightly i

Re: launch windows program from shell according to its extension

2005-06-08 Thread Warren Young
zzapper wrote: explorer $XPATH This reminds me: another useful command when jumping between the GUI and the command line, is "explorer ." That opens an Explorer window in the current working directory. Just as some things are easier on the command line, others are easier from the G

Re: launch windows program from shell according to its extension

2005-06-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, zzapper wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 09:23:53 -0400, wrote: > > >At 03:45 AM 6/8/2005, you wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>I have largely replaced usage of windows explorer with a cygwin shell. > >>One thing is cumbersome however: when I encounter, say, a .doc file in > >>a directo

Re: launch windows program from shell according to its extension

2005-06-08 Thread zzapper
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 09:23:53 -0400, wrote: >At 03:45 AM 6/8/2005, you wrote: >>Hello, >> >>I have largely replaced usage of windows explorer with a cygwin shell. One >>thing >>is cumbersome however: when I encounter, say, a .doc file in a directory, it >>would be nice that I could "launch" this

Error piping data through a cygwin command using rsh (write system call fails)

2005-06-08 Thread Johnny B. Goode
We're using a windows 2000 based server running cygwin as a development environment for porting our AIX-based software to the Windows platform. When we extract the compiled programs, we connect to the cygwin server using rsh, passing a file list as input, returning a gzip'ed CPIO archive as ou

Re: pthreads, cygwin and pthread_mutex_lock not blocking

2005-06-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 7 10:22, Peter Rehley wrote: > Any comments about this? > > On Jun 2, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Peter Rehley wrote: > > >Here is a patch to thread.cc that allows _lock to process signals. > >The patch is against the 1.178 version of thread.cc found in cvs. Thanks for the patch, but it's big e

Re: Problem with using stripped cygwin1.dll built from CVS

2005-06-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:49:20AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jun 7 16:50, David Rothenberger wrote: >> On 6/7/2005 4:28 PM, Brian Dessent wrote: >> >Part of the new cygheap changes that cgf recently checked in, were a >> >number of changes/tweaks to the linker script. It's possible that

Re: launch windows program from shell according to its extension

2005-06-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:45 AM 6/8/2005, you wrote: >Hello, > >I have largely replaced usage of windows explorer with a cygwin shell. One >thing >is cumbersome however: when I encounter, say, a .doc file in a directory, it >would be nice that I could "launch" this file with the program associated under >windows. > >

Re: cygwin 1.5.17-1: apache and rebaseall

2005-06-08 Thread Joel Denny
> Sorry, but given the issues with Cygwin's Apache (as alluded to by Brian > above), I'm not very motivated to spend my limited free time chasing > down this problem. No problem. I'm already getting a lot more than I paid for. Joel Denny -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

Re: YA GPL Violation (was Re: Rebase dlls not from cygwin)

2005-06-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 7 08:02, Jason Tishler wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:47:13AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:06:29PM +0200, Hermann Klocker wrote: > > > I try to run Dakota 3.3 (from > > > http://endo.sandia.gov/DAKOTA/licensing/release/Dakota_3_3.cygwin.tar.gz) > > AFAIC

Re: cygwin 1.5.17-1: apache and rebaseall

2005-06-08 Thread Jason Tishler
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:25:25PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Joel Denny wrote: > > In trying to figure out why no one responded on this, I looked back > > through the mailing list to see if I missed something. I decided > > maybe it was the fact that I didn't mention running apache using > > c

Re: Login & Something diff since cygwin 1.5.15-1 release - could it be security changes that were made

2005-06-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 7 16:13, Brian Keener wrote: > I have attached the log (log14.out). Just in case I did this for 1.5.17 as > well just in case it would be helpful (log17.out). I didn't expect that but actually the log from 1.5.17 was more informative than the 1.5.14 one. Thanks for sending it. Apparentl

Re: launch windows program from shell according to its extension

2005-06-08 Thread Cliff Hones
Peter Mutsaers wrote: > Hello, > > I have largely replaced usage of windows explorer with a cygwin shell. One > thing > is cumbersome however: when I encounter, say, a .doc file in a directory, it > would be nice that I could "launch" this file with the program associated > under > windows. > >

Re: launch windows program from shell according to its extension

2005-06-08 Thread Brian Dessent
Peter Mutsaers wrote: > Is this possible, for example via a utility program kind of "launch file.doc"? Ensure that you have the cygutils package, then "cygstart file.doc". Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

Re: Problem with using stripped cygwin1.dll built from CVS

2005-06-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 7 16:50, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 6/7/2005 4:28 PM, Brian Dessent wrote: > >Part of the new cygheap changes that cgf recently checked in, were a > >number of changes/tweaks to the linker script. It's possible that your > >checkout happened in the middle of those changes, or you didn'

Re: cygwin.bat fails with "WFMO failed waiting for cygthread 'WnetGetResourceInformation'

2005-06-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 7 19:06, Tim Hart wrote: > having the same home directory path. I can use a few pattern matching tools > to filter out the appropriate domain users and modify /etc/passwd > accordingly. Obviously mkpasswd needs to be updated in order to produce > correct home directory entries (possibly a u

launch windows program from shell according to its extension

2005-06-08 Thread Peter Mutsaers
Hello, I have largely replaced usage of windows explorer with a cygwin shell. One thing is cumbersome however: when I encounter, say, a .doc file in a directory, it would be nice that I could "launch" this file with the program associated under windows. Is this possible, for example via a utility

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-08 Thread Carlo Florendo
Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Not that I know of. We're discussing to convert Cygwin's path handling to use Unicode for a while now, but it will take time. Don't expect this any time soon. I've been off of the developer l

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-08 Thread Chris January
Jaeho Shin wrote: I'm having problem with accessing files that have Unicode in their filenames. 1. I use Windows XP Korean version (so the codepage must be 949?). 2. I use iTunes to listen to my music. 3. Files in iTunes Library have filenames in the following format: "{Artist}/{Album}/{Track

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>Not that I know of. We're discussing to convert Cygwin's path >>handling to use Unicode for a while now, but it will take time. >>Don't expect this any time soon. > > > I've been off of the developer list for a while now, and