Re: mkdir -p and EROFS

2005-10-13 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there `real' environments that use a set-up like you describe, > with a writable file system mounted inside a read-only one? I vaguely recall doing this myself a while back, on a Solaris box. I made /usr read-only, but /usr/tmp was a writeable files

Re: mkdir -p and EROFS

2005-10-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes: >> The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to >> try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks >> when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory when >> the writable

Re: boost, boost_unit_test_framework

2005-10-13 Thread Mattias Brändström
Václav Haisman wrote: /usr/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s-1_33.a* /usr/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s.a* This is called 'versioned' layout. In my build scripts I would still like to be able to specify -lboost_date_time and not -lboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s. Is it the intention of the maintai

Re: mkdir -p and EROFS

2005-10-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >>IMHO, it is the kernel's job to provide an informative and, above all, >>compatible-with-most-others errno value, unless there is a very >>good reason. The small extra expense of an lstat call (*but only upon >>failure with errno == EROFS*) doesn

Re: Logger logs as user.notice

2005-10-13 Thread Jaime Saiz Santos
> ...and both changes are available in the 11-Oct-2005 snapshot from > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Thanks a lot for the quick response! Jaime __ Este mensaje, y en su caso, cualquier fichero anexo al mismo, puede contener informacion clasificada por su emisor como confiden

gcc, very high template-depth

2005-10-13 Thread Oliver Wienand
Hello, I try to compile polymake on cygwin. Compiling works fine as long as cc1plus does not occupy more memory than I have RAM (ca. 750 MB) on my machine. After this it gets of course really slow. I think the problem is, that polymake uses templates very heavy and compiles with --ftemplate

Re: mkdir -p and EROFS

2005-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 13 00:02, Paul Eggert wrote: > Christopher Faylor writes: > > I'm just wondering if there is some kind of official coreutils policy > > here. > > Not for coreutils itself, no. However, the GNU coding standards make > it clear that porting to systems like Cygwin is lower priority for the >

Re: ssh tunnel and permission denied

2005-10-13 Thread Leonard Bouchet
On 13 oct. 05, at 00:30, Brian Dessent wrote: Leonard Bouchet wrote: # Step 1: open the ssh tunnel $ ssh -fNL 139:myserver:139 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm surprised that this works. Normally if you try this on a windows machine the port forwarding setup will fail because the local SMB service on

Re: patch cygrunsrv for running native win32 applications

2005-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 12 23:23, Gunnar Thielebein wrote: > Hi, > > Is it also possible to patch the cygrunsrv service installer for running > native win32.exe? Means like if you run a windows command/app in bash is > executed there must be also a way to do it in cygrunsrv. > I know there are extra utilities for

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lilypond-2.6.4-1

2005-10-13 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Volker Zell writes: > lilypond-internals.info in /usr/share/info/lilypond doesn't seem to be > a valid info file. Hmm, that looks interesting. Thanks, Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.o

Re: handle_threadlist_exception: handle_threadlist_exception called with threadlist_ix -1

2005-10-13 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > I don't see how ignoring blocked signals would cause a SEGV however. > > Well... indirectly they do :) I hope you are not too annoyed already > because this time I really found the cause of the problem.

Re: ssh tunnel and permission denied

2005-10-13 Thread Leonard Bouchet
On 13 oct. 05, at 10:38, Leonard Bouchet wrote: I'm simply not sharing anything on the W98 box. Actually, according to netstat, the binding works because it listens to 127.0.0.1:139, while the windows' sharing service listens to my locally assigned ip address, for example 192.168.1.25:139.

Re: ssh tunnel and permission denied

2005-10-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Leonard Bouchet wrote: > Actually, according to netstat, the binding works because it listens to > 127.0.0.1:139, while the windows' sharing service listens to my locally > assigned ip address, for example 192.168.1.25:139. > > That's my guess after some additional researches. I still don't know

Re: ssh tunnel and permission denied

2005-10-13 Thread Léonard Bouchet
On 13 oct. 05, at 12:45, Brian Dessent wrote: But I guess that doesn't matter, since the net use succeeds and you can access Z: through explorer. What happens if you try mounting Z:/ instead of using /cygdrive? Thanks for your answer. I tried $ mount //myserver/user /test the command

mlockall() and cygwin

2005-10-13 Thread Mohamed Amjed Ben Salah
Hello, I have a programm that runs very well under Linux. In this program I use the function mlockall() and i have a problem to compile it and to run it under cygwin, because the function mlockall() is not implemented in the actual version. Have someone idee how to solve this problem? Regards Amje

Re: ssh tunnel and permission denied

2005-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 13 13:01, L?onard Bouchet wrote: > > On 13 oct. 05, at 12:45, Brian Dessent wrote: > > >But I guess that doesn't matter, since the net use succeeds and you can > >access Z: through explorer. What happens if you try mounting Z:/ > >instead of using /cygdrive? > > Thanks for your answer. I

Re: ssh tunnel and permission denied

2005-10-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Léonard Bouchet wrote: > Thanks for your answer. I tried > $ mount //myserver/user /test > the command worked as shown with > $ mount > \\myserver\user on /tmp type system (binmode) > ... > but I still have my 'permission denied' > $ cd /test > BASH:

Re: mlockall() and cygwin

2005-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 13 13:04, Mohamed Amjed Ben Salah wrote: > Hello, > I have a programm that runs very well under Linux. In > this program I use the function mlockall() and i have > a problem to compile it and to run it under cygwin, > because the function mlockall() is not implemented in > the actual version

Re: mlockall() and cygwin

2005-10-13 Thread Mohamed Amjed Ben Salah
--- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On Oct 13 13:04, Mohamed Amjed Ben Salah wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a programm that runs very well under Linux. > In > > this program I use the function mlockall() and i > have > > a problem to compile it and to run it under > cygwin, > > b

Re: ssh tunnel and permission denied

2005-10-13 Thread Leonard Bouchet
--- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit: > I'm not sure I understand your problem, but why don't you just use > `rsync -e ssh'? That's the first thing I tried, several days ago, I should have mentionned it! It doesn't work because I have trouble with special characters and european

RE: ssh tunnel and permission denied

2005-10-13 Thread Tevfik Karagülle
As of version 2.6.0, rsync uses ssh as default transport mechanism. Rsh is still supported by 'rsync -e rsh' syntax. Rgrds Tev > -Original Message- > From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13. oktober 2005 13:26 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: ssh tunnel and pe

Re: mlockall() and cygwin

2005-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 13 14:10, Mohamed Amjed Ben Salah wrote: > --- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > > mlockall will probably never be implemented since > > there's no support > > for it on user mode level in Win32. There's support > > for something like > > m

Re: mkdir -p and EROFS

2005-10-13 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 10/12/2005 3:24 PM: > Thanks for reporting this. It is indeed a bug in > coreutils/lib/mkdir-p.c. It can be triggered by other errors too. > This is hard to write a test case for, but I'd like to fix things. > Does the fol

Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv

2005-10-13 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > > I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am > > reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same > > issue. When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, > > the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows >

Re: patch cygrunsrv for running native win32 applications

2005-10-13 Thread Danilo Turina
Ooops... I use cygrunsrv to run Mercury32 (that, in addition to be a Win32 Applicatio, is not a console application) and it works. Is there maybe some counter-effect that I don't know? Ciao, Danilo Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 12 23:23, Gunnar Thielebein wrote: Hi, Is

Re: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

2005-10-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > The 'now-abandoned "install it all at once"' problem was unabandoned two > > setup releases ago (I believe), recent advice notwithstanding. Maybe > > the setup developers will correct me if I'm wrong but AFAIK, there is n

Re: ssh tunnel and permission denied

2005-10-13 Thread Leonard Bouchet
--- Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit: > That won't work if the share requires a password, which your original > post implied. What I meant was to "net use" the share as Z: (providing > the password) and then "mount z:/ /foo/bar". I can't test on the Win98 box right now, but the good

Re: patch cygrunsrv for running native win32 applications

2005-10-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:10:09PM +0200, Danilo Turina wrote: >Ooops... > >I use cygrunsrv to run Mercury32 (that, in addition to be a Win32 >Applicatio, is not a console application) and it works. > >Is there maybe some counter-effect that I don't know? Nothing serious. Every so often it will

Re: mlockall() and cygwin

2005-10-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 02:33:27PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Oct 13 14:10, Mohamed Amjed Ben Salah wrote: >> --- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a > >http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > >> > mlockall will probably never be implemented since >> > there's no support >> > for it

Re: patch cygrunsrv for running native win32 applications

2005-10-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Danilo Turina wrote: > Ooops... > > I use cygrunsrv to run Mercury32 (that, in addition to be a Win32 > Applicatio, is not a console application) and it works. > > Is there maybe some counter-effect that I don't know? cygrunsrv should have no problems spawning a Windows app.

Re: patch cygrunsrv for running native win32 applications

2005-10-13 Thread Antony Baxter
>>Is there maybe some counter-effect that I don't know? > >Nothing serious. Every so often it will issue a >pop-up dialog that says. > >"Look, behind you! It's a fiddler crab!" > > [OK] > >And, then when you look behind you there will be no >fiddler crab. > >You still have to pre

Re: patch cygrunsrv for running native win32 applications

2005-10-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:49:00PM +0100, Antony Baxter wrote: >>>Is there maybe some counter-effect that I don't know? >> >>Nothing serious. Every so often it will issue a pop-up dialog that >>says. >> >>"Look, behind you! It's a fiddler crab!" >> >>[OK] >> >>And, then when you look behind you th

Re: patch cygrunsrv for running native win32 applications

2005-10-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Antony Baxter wrote: > >>Is there maybe some counter-effect that I don't know? > > > >Nothing serious. Every so often it will issue a > >pop-up dialog that says. > > > >"Look, behind you! It's a fiddler crab!" > > > > [OK] > > > >And, then when you look behin

Re: gcc, very high template-depth

2005-10-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/13/2005, Oliver Wienand wrote: I think the problem is, that polymake uses templates very heavy and compiles with --ftemplate-depth-200. I think you're right. The 'gcc' man pages says this about --ftemplate-depth: -ftemplate-depth-n Set the maximum instantiation depth

security concerns / production environment

2005-10-13 Thread ABi DaR
Greetings, Are there any known issues about running "cygwin SSHD" service in a production environment? Is there any concern I should be aware of or has anyone run into problems running it on a production server with ColdFusion running on it. Thank you for your time. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: security concerns / production environment

2005-10-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
ABi DaR wrote: Greetings, Are there any known issues about running "cygwin SSHD" service in a production environment? Is there any concern I should be aware of or has anyone run into problems running it on a production server with ColdFusion running on it. What kind of issues? Just how

SSH failing to make connection

2005-10-13 Thread Daryl Spartz
I'm trying to ssh from cygwin to another system running AIX. The connection fails. They seem to be at different levels, but are they not backward compatible? cygwin: $ ssh -V OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8 05 Jul 2005 AIX: $ ssh -V OpenSSH_3.7p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0.9.7b 10 Apr 2003

Re: SSH failing to make connection

2005-10-13 Thread Chris Taylor
Daryl Spartz wrote: I'm trying to ssh from cygwin to another system running AIX. The connection fails. They seem to be at different levels, but are they not backward compatible? They ought to be - but you should also really only use version 2 - much, much more secure. cygwin: $ ssh -V OpenS

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Peter J. Stieber on 10/9/2005 7:59 PM: PS It's attached. I added the -t command to the g++ command so PS the loader would list the files it was processing when it breaks. PS The name of the object file in the last line should be PS SimpleInterpolationTable.o, but it gets trunc

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Brian Dessent
"Peter J. Stieber" wrote: > Sorry in advance for the stupid questions, but... > > I downloaded the binutils source package, and extracted the source. When > I ran > > ./configure --help > > I didn't see a --enable-debug option or anything I though was > equivalent. Am I missing something? Norm

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package:plotutils-2.4.1

2005-10-13 Thread James R. Phillips
INFO The gnu plotutils package (plotutils-2.4.1) is now available for cygwin. This plotting utilities package includes release 4.1 of GNU libplot: a thread-safe function library for exporting two-dimensional vector graphics. Additional contents of the plotutils package: 1. libxmi. This is

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:39:13PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >"Peter J. Stieber" wrote: > >> Sorry in advance for the stupid questions, but... >> >> I downloaded the binutils source package, and extracted the source. When >> I ran >> >> ./configure --help >> >> I didn't see a --enable-debug op

Segmentation fault, postmaster

2005-10-13 Thread Nick Adami
I'm trying to get the latest snap shot to fix this problem: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00420.html But all available snapshots from Sept and Oct cause cygwin1.dll compatibility errors. Can I still get the Aug. 9th snapshot. Or what else can I do? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: h

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Peter J. Stieber PS>> Sorry in advance for the stupid questions, but... PS>> PS>> I downloaded the binutils source package, and PS>> extracted the source. When PS>> I ran PS>> PS>> ./configure --help PS>> PS>> I didn't see a --enable-debug option or anything PS>> I though was equivalent. Am I

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Pete Stieber PS>>> Do I also need to build a debug version of the cygwin DLL? BD = Brian Dessent BD>>It would help, since otherwise backtraces will only have raw BD>> addresses. Note that the cygwin configure script[*] has a BD>> --enable-debugging switch, but this is for enabling lots of BD

Re: Segmentation fault, postmaster

2005-10-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Nick Adami wrote: I'm trying to get the latest snap shot to fix this problem: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00420.html But all available snapshots from Sept and Oct cause cygwin1.dll compatibility errors. Can I still get the Aug. 9th snapshot. Or what else can I do? What do you mean

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Peter J. Stieber PS>>> Sorry in advance for the stupid questions, but... PS>>> PS>>> I downloaded the binutils source package, and PS>>> extracted the source. When PS>>> I ran PS>>> PS>>> ./configure --help PS>>> PS>>> I didn't see a --enable-debug option or anything PS>>> I though was equiva

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
1. I built the binutils code from the source. 2. I renamed /usr/bin/ld.exe to /usr/bin/ld-old.exe. 3. I copies ld-new.exe to /usr/bin. The debug session that starts when ld crashes repeats Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. over and over. It never seems to stop. Was copying l

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:35:06PM -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote: >PS = Pete Stieber >PS>>> Do I also need to build a debug version of the cygwin DLL? > >BD = Brian Dessent >BD>>It would help, since otherwise backtraces will only have raw >BD>> addresses. Note that the cygwin configure script[*] ha

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:33:46PM -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote: >1. I built the binutils code from the source. >2. I renamed /usr/bin/ld.exe to /usr/bin/ld-old.exe. >3. I copies ld-new.exe to /usr/bin. > >The debug session that starts when ld crashes repeats > >Program received signal SIGSEGV, Se

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
OK. This time gdb seemed to attach to the broken ld process, but the back trace still doesn't have symbols... GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-12-28-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to chan

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
CGF> It is useless. You probaby have to continue CGF> after ld has been attached to see where the CGF> SEGV really is coming from. Thanks. Here is the result... GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-12-28-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU

Re: Security advisory: uw-imap - 3 attachments

2005-10-13 Thread Christian Weinberger
> uw-imap (whose maintainer, AFAICS, has yet to respond to reply to > Corinna's message) is vulnerable to remote overflow of a buffer in the > IMAP server leading to execution of arbitrary code. > > The only solution is to upgrade to 2004g (current Cygwin release is > 2002e!). I built 2004g and

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
One last post before calling it a night. I built a debug version of the cygwin DLL as well and installed it. Here is the latest gdb session: Attaching to program `/bin/ld.exe', process 304 [Switching to thread 304.0x990] (gdb) bt #0 0x7c901231 in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg () from /cygdrive/c/W