mount never fails ... sorta

2006-06-11 Thread Richard Foulk
Give mount(1) nonexistent hosts or directories and it will complain, but it still populates the mount table as if it succeeded. It also always returns zero, for success or failure. Richard -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.co

rxvt usage issues under windows xp

2006-06-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I've switched time ago from the standard cygwin.bat (cmd.exe) window, to rxvt. It's miles away from the m$ command line, but I still have some issue. First of all, here is my launch command taken from the web with some tweaks: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -bg black -fg white -si +sk -sw -sr -s

Re: RPM's (was Re: unix 'at' command implementation)

2006-06-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Linda Walsh wrote: >> Eric Blake wrote: I have cygwin install but I can not find the implementation of Unix 'at' command. >>> Because no one has ported an open source version of it >>> to cygwin yet. >>> >> >>Some packages might be more e

Re: RPM's (was Re: unix 'at' command implementation)

2006-06-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Max Bowsher wrote I've entertained fantasies of making integrating dpkg into setup.exe, and making Cygwin packages be in .deb format I'll certainly love .deb packages, surely apt support. Cygwin is command-line, so it would be nice to ssh remotely in a machine, run apt-get update && apt-get up

Re: mount never fails ... sorta

2006-06-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Richard Foulk wrote: Give mount(1) nonexistent hosts or directories and it will complain, but it still populates the mount table as if it succeeded. It also always returns zero, for success or failure. Cygwin's mount is a different bird than on Unix. It really is just a mapping table of POSI

Re: RPM's (was Re: unix 'at' command implementation)

2006-06-11 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Linda Walsh wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > > I have cygwin install but I can not find the > > > implementation of Unix 'at' command. > > > > > Because no one has ported an open source version of it > > to cygwin yet. > > > >Some packages might be more easily ported if

Re: rxvt usage issues under windows xp

2006-06-11 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, gabriele.mailing wrote: > Hello, > I've switched time ago from the standard cygwin.bat (cmd.exe) window, to > rxvt. It's miles away from the m$ command line, but I still have some > issue. > > First of all, here is my launch command taken from the web with some > tweaks: C:\cy

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: swig-1.3.29-1

2006-06-11 Thread Max Bowsher
SWIG, the Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator, is a tool for easing the interfacing of C/C++ libraries to scripting languages. Its package in the Cygwin net distribution has been updated to version 1.3.29-2. This is a Cygwin-local bugfix release, to fix the omission of the file /usr/share/

Re: RPM's (was Re: unix 'at' command implementation)

2006-06-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:38:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Max Bowsher wrote >>I've entertained fantasies of making integrating dpkg into setup.exe, >>and making Cygwin packages be in .deb format > >I'll certainly love .deb packages, surely apt support. Cygwin is >command-line, so it woul

Re: RPM's (was Re: unix 'at' command implementation)

2006-06-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 02:04:11PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: >Technically, nothing prevents you from shipping a Cygwin package (which is >just a .tar.bz2) that contains only the Cygwin binary RPM and the >postinstall script that invokes "rpm" to unpack that binary RPM (as long >as that package a

Re: mount never fails ... sorta

2006-06-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 02:34:53AM -1000, Richard Foulk wrote: >Give mount(1) nonexistent hosts or directories and it will complain, >but it still populates the mount table as if it succeeded. > >It also always returns zero, for success or failure. Correct. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: gpg-agent: only one trouble before succesfull building

2006-06-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Renè, thank you for your suggestions. I built pth-2.0.6. It worked fine, but I had to add "-I/usr/local/include ". if you try by hand the correct command it will work: gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o gpg-connect-agent.exe gpg-connect-agent.o no-libgcrypt.o ../jnlib/libjnlib.a ../common/libcommon.a ../gl/li

Cygwin Dimmension

2006-06-11 Thread Christopher Molnar
Can anyone tell me how to increase the dimensions of the cygwin window? I would like it to come up as a full screen window. Thanks, -Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cy

Re: RPM's require to much knowledge of setup to port easily

2006-06-11 Thread Linda Walsh
Igor Peshansky wrote: Do you mean that you used Cygwin's rpm package to produce that RPM? yes. I'm sure there's some good reason for converting all packages to yet another installer, but I'm not sure I know what they are. One side effect, though -- it can put a damper on porting programs

Re: Cygwin Dimmension

2006-06-11 Thread Brett Serkez
Can anyone tell me how to increase the dimensions of the cygwin window? I would like it to come up as a full screen window. This is more of a Windows question. Right click on the top of the window and look in the properties. Brett -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

Re: RPM's (was Re: unix 'at' command implementation)

2006-06-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christopher Faylor wrote That's precisely why people think about integrating something like rpm or deb into the packaging system. May be someone has found the right way: cyg-apt. It is in an early stage, does not handle 'in-use' file substitution, but for simple update-upgrade, it works. I'm no

Re: rxvt usage issues under windows xp

2006-06-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Igor, thank you for your reply. Igor Peshansky wrote export CYGWIN="codepage:oem tty binmode title" set CYGWIN in the global system environment instead. Ok, I've set it in the main windows environment. Now from CDM.EXE prompt, CYGWIN is already set. export TERM="rxvt-cygwin-native"

Re: RPM's require to much knowledge of setup to port easily

2006-06-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:49:30PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >Igor Peshansky wrote: >>Do you mean that you used Cygwin's rpm package to produce that RPM? >yes. > > >>> I'm sure there's some good reason for converting all >>>packages to yet another installer, but I'm not sure I know >>>what they a

Re: RPM's (was Re: unix 'at' command implementation)

2006-06-11 Thread Richard Foulk
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setup.exe

2006-06-11 Thread Richard Foulk
Cygwin-X is a liberating tool. Is there a way to use setup.exe remotely, via X, so it fits into the larger scheme of things? Or is there some other tool that does the same thing via X or command line? Thanks Richard -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem re

Re: mount never fails ... sorta

2006-06-11 Thread Richard Foulk
> Richard Foulk wrote: > > Give mount(1) nonexistent hosts or directories and it will complain, > > but it still populates the mount table as if it succeeded. > > > > It also always returns zero, for success or failure. > > Cygwin's mount is a different bird than on Unix. It really is just a map

Re: mount never fails ... sorta

2006-06-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Richard Foulk wrote: Richard Foulk wrote: Give mount(1) nonexistent hosts or directories and it will complain, but it still populates the mount table as if it succeeded. It also always returns zero, for success or failure. Cygwin's mount is a different bird than on Unix. It really is just a m

Re: rxvt usage issues under windows xp

2006-06-11 Thread Charles Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now mc is correctly displayed, but pstree -p is not drawen correctly (nor it was before) !!! pstree will not work (except in -A mode) on rxvt, unless pstree is completely rewritten. See (2) in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-03/msg00556.html -- Chuck --

Re: Cygwin1.dll 1.5.19: race condition & deadlock with fifos

2006-06-11 Thread Brian Dessent
Barry Kelly wrote: > This code, without a delay, causes a deadlock and both active spawned > bash processes (the forked one reading from the fifo and the > backgrounded one) need to be killed explicitly: > > ---8<--- > ~/test-fifo$ rm fifo > ~/test-fifo$ mkfifo fifo > ~/test-fifo$ ((echo foo >fif

1.5.19-4: BUG: Using tellg() skips characters on files with DOS line endings

2006-06-11 Thread Yuriy Solodkyy
Hi, I've got the following bug that only reproduces itself under Cygwin environment. Using basic_istream::tellg() on files with DOS line endings results in skipping characters from the input. Attached program tellg-bug.cpp tries to reproduce the behavior using a test file test.txt. Commenting o

Re: Cygwin1.dll 1.5.19: race condition & deadlock with fifos

2006-06-11 Thread Barry Kelly
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:23:22 -0700, you wrote: > Barry Kelly wrote: > > > This code, without a delay, causes a deadlock and both active spawned > > bash processes (the forked one reading from the fifo and the > > backgrounded one) need to be killed explicitly: > > > > ---8<--- > > ~/test-fifo$ r

Re: Cygwin1.dll 1.5.19: race condition & deadlock with fifos

2006-06-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Barry Kelly wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:23:22 -0700, you wrote: Barry Kelly wrote: This code, without a delay, causes a deadlock and both active spawned bash processes (the forked one reading from the fifo and the backgrounded one) need to be killed explicitly: ---8<--- ~/test-fifo$ rm fif

static library in linux and Cygwin

2006-06-11 Thread cxf
Hello,everyone: I compile the static library in cygwin just like in linux,but when I link my program with the Library, it did not find the function included in the library. Are there any difference between linux and cygwin when using and compiling the static library. -- Unsubscribe info