Re: OpenGL or no OpenGL

2007-02-12 Thread Holger Krull
Alan James Caruana schrieb: I found the features page ( http://x.cygwin.com/features.html ) which says that the Mesa 3D Graphics Library provides software-based OpenGL support, but one item of the To-Do list ( http://x.cygwin.com/devel/todo.html ) states that Indirect OpenGL rendering still

Re: svn on cygwin related problem.

2007-02-12 Thread Luca Cappa
Hello, I think I spotted a bug which happen on the subversion package provided for cygwin. I encountered the following problem while exporting the content of my Subversion repository. In the repository, I have a directory T which contains another file called X.exe and a directory called X. When

pthread_cond_timedwait

2007-02-12 Thread Ingvill.Grefstad
Hi, I have tried to use the pthread_cond_timedwait, but it doesn't seem to work properly. It returns immediately with a return value of 116 (ETIMEDOUT) even if I set the timeout period to e.g. 10 seconds. I have locked the mutex and initialized the condition variable before the invokation is

Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function

2007-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:00:38AM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote: Andrew Makhorin wrote: Hi, I detected a strange bug in the standard function gettimeofday. It *sometimes* reports the time which being expressed as the integer number of milliseconds is *less* than the time obtained *earlier* with

Re: Probllem with New GDB/Eclipse

2007-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:53:35AM +, Charles Tubbs wrote: Brian Dessent brian at dessent.net writes: Doyle Rhynard wrote: When others depend upon what you do, the old maximum for physicians should apply also: First, do no harm. My suggestion is to roll back That logic would only apply if

[ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me

2007-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
I'm not sure if it has reached the consciousness of the general Cygwin user base yet but I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of the fact that we will be ripping out support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me in the next version of Cygwin, which will be version 1.7.0. This has

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Chuck
Frodak wrote: Back up your stuff. This happened to me before days before ntfs.sys deleted itself. I then asked my boss for a new hard-drive and then did a fresh windows install. I had bizarre issues. Amongst what you described that happened for a while, the following occurred and

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Chuck
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Chuck wrote: At first I thought my recent problems with cygwin were limited to the occasional ls command listing nothing. Run it again an it works (usually). Now the problems are getting worse. I tried to rm a file that I own and it didn't fully delete it. It corrupted

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Chuck
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: snip HD scan shows no errors. snip I'm beginning to think I need to remove and reinstall every cygwin package, but I'm not certain that will fix it either. I've already reinstalled both coreutils and

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated:lftp-3.5.9-1

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
lftp ftp.microsoft.com lftp: host name resolve timeout I'm not able to reproduce this problem: $ lftp ftp.microsoft.com lftp ftp.microsoft.com:~ ls dr-xr-xr-x 1 ownergroup 0 Jan 25 11:03 bussys dr-xr-xr-x 1 ownergroup 0 Jan 25 11:18 deskapps dr-xr-xr-x

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Chuck wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Chuck wrote: At first I thought my recent problems with cygwin were limited to the occasional ls command listing nothing. Run it again an it works (usually). Now the problems are getting worse. I tried to rm a file that I own and it didn't fully delete it. It

tar --exclude not working

2007-02-12 Thread Mohankumar Periasami
Experts, I'm using tar (GNU tar) 1.16.1 and have an archive with the following entries. Files/report1.html Files/report2.html Files/report3.html Files/report4.html D:/Bkp/sol/ D:/Bkp/sol/test1.pl D:/Bkp/sol/test2.pl D:/Bkp/sol/test3.pl Whenever, I try to exclude files starting with D:/ its not

Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function

2007-02-12 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Carlo Florendo wrote: Windows could be accurate up to 15 ms or perhaps a little bit more. However, it is very difficult to achieve less than 15 ms or microsecond accuracy with windows due to the limitation on the OS itself. Our extensive tests on windows clocks and

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Chuck
Andrew DeFaria wrote: which makes me think that maybe its the writing to stdout that's failing. At this point I'd suggest SpinRite: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm Haven't tried spinrite yet but I did do a thorough check of the drive using Tuneup Utilities. That's the one that requires

Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function

2007-02-12 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Andrew Makhorin wrote: I detected a strange bug in the standard function gettimeofday. It *sometimes* reports the time which being expressed as the integer number of milliseconds is *less* than the time obtained *earlier* with the same function. ...how often is often? Also what version of

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Chuck
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Have you checked if you can do similar operations with DOS commands? I believe what you're seeing here is a hardware (probably disk) problem. Years ago I had a failing disk pick off files randomly for a while until the whole thing finally went. Is there a way

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Have you checked if you can do similar operations with DOS commands? I believe what you're seeing here is a hardware (probably disk) problem. Years ago I had a failing disk pick off files randomly for a while until the whole thing finally went. Is

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Chuck wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: which makes me think that maybe its the writing to stdout that's failing. At this point I'd suggest SpinRite: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm Haven't tried spinrite yet but I did do a thorough check of the drive using Tuneup Utilities. That's the one

cygwin-1.5.24-2: cygpath -w --long-name scrambles non-existing filename

2007-02-12 Thread Bernhard Leiner
Hi, I experience a problem that has already been reported (and solved) several months before: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00861.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00878.html My output: $ cygpath -v cygpath (cygwin) 1.42 Compiled on Jan 31 2007 $ cygpath -w -l

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Andrew DeFaria wrote: I have no idea what this Daemon tools thing is. Hooks into the file system. Gee that's beginning to sound like a root-kit! Last I checked, it is a program to allow you to mount CD images as real drives. Since it is supposed to make them look real enough to even fool

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 2/12/07, Matthew Woehlke wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: I have no idea what this Daemon tools thing is. Hooks into the file system. Gee that's beginning to sound like a root-kit! Last I checked, it is a program to allow you to mount CD images as real drives. Since it is supposed to make

Re: cygwin-1.5.24-2: cygpath -w --long-name scrambles non-existing filename

2007-02-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 12 17:45, Bernhard Leiner wrote: Hi, I experience a problem that has already been reported (and solved) several months before: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00861.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00878.html My output: $ cygpath -v cygpath (cygwin)

POSIX-Windows conversion for vars other than PATH, etc?

2007-02-12 Thread Matthew Woehlke
...is there a way to tell Cygwin that variables other than PATH, etc (i.e. arbitrary, user-specified variables) should be converted from POSIX format to Windows format when spawning a non-POSIX application? If not, would it be acceptable to add such a feature if I were to submit a patch for

Re: POSIX-Windows conversion for vars other than PATH, etc?

2007-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:38:59AM -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote: ...is there a way to tell Cygwin that variables other than PATH, etc (i.e. arbitrary, user-specified variables) should be converted from POSIX format to Windows format when spawning a non-POSIX application? If not, would it be

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Chuck
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Have you checked if you can do similar operations with DOS commands? I believe what you're seeing here is a hardware (probably disk) problem. Years ago I had a failing disk pick off files randomly for a while until the whole

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Chuck
Matthew Woehlke wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: I have no idea what this Daemon tools thing is. Hooks into the file system. Gee that's beginning to sound like a root-kit! Last I checked, it is a program to allow you to mount CD images as real drives. Since it is supposed to make them look real

Re: POSIX-Windows conversion for vars other than PATH, etc?

2007-02-12 Thread hermitte
Hello, Matthew Woehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...is there a way to tell Cygwin that variables other than PATH, etc (i.e. arbitrary, user-specified variables) should be converted from POSIX format to Windows format when spawning a non-POSIX application? There is an option in cyg-wrapper.sh

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Chuck
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: I am not used the latest / greatest DaemonTools however since I am under the impression that it has become adware if you don't buy it. -Jason It includes adware. You can unselect it in the installer. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function

2007-02-12 Thread Cary Jamison
Andrew Makhorin wrote: Hi, I detected a strange bug in the standard function gettimeofday. It *sometimes* reports the time which being expressed as the integer number of milliseconds is *less* than the time obtained *earlier* with the same function. The expression 100 * tv.tv_sec +

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: snip HD scan shows no errors. snip I'm beginning to think I need to remove and reinstall every cygwin package, but I'm not certain that will fix it either. I've already reinstalled both

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Chuck wrote: I'd buy into the HD-getting-ready-to-fail argument more if I saw weirdness on Windows too, but I don't. At least not yet. Plus scans of the HD with both Tuneup Utilities and Windows itself are not turning anything up. WAG but have you looked at the event log? -- Andrew DeFaria

Re: Using a DLL built with cygwin in VC++

2007-02-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Papasha wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use a DLL created with cygwin in my VC++ project. First of all, have you read the Cygwin FAQ (specifically, *all* the questions in the Programming FAQ? Read the caveats about linking Cygwin DLLs into VC++ programs. Specifically, Q 16. After you have

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Chuck wrote: $ cd /cygdrive $ ls $ ls -a . .. c g h k s $ ls -a $ ls -a Hmm. Can't replicate this on my system. Nor can I replicate your other report, about corrupted ls output. You should definitely report a problem in the format described by http://cygwin.com/problems.html.

Unable to run even simple batch scripts any more

2007-02-12 Thread Dennis Simpson
Three of us updated to latest windows cygwin last week, and none can run even simple .sh scripts any more. Prior version was 6 months ago. test 1: y.sh #!/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/bash.exe cd ../working pwd results: $ ./y.sh : No such file or directorying(note: directorying should be

Re: Download Cygwin???

2007-02-12 Thread Robert Pendell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian D wrote: Hi, ...I live in Fox, Alaska. High-speed internet is not an option at this point. Trying to install Cygwin via the usual setup.exe method fails because my internet connection likes to have problems far too many times during

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-12 Thread Dennis Simpson
One co-worker downloaded the latest Windows cygwin last week. His ls command now consistently does not return anything, regardless of what directory he is in. This is in addition to not being able to run shell scripts any more, either. The other two of us that upgraded last week to the

Re: Unable to run even simple batch scripts any more

2007-02-12 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Dennis Simpson wrote: Three of us updated to latest windows cygwin last week, and none can run even simple .sh scripts any more. Prior version was 6 months ago. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-12/msg00026.html Next time RTFRA. Oh, and STFLA; this particular horse died a *lng*

Re: pasting into an ssh connection painfully slow... sometimes

2007-02-12 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 2/8/07, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 2/8/07, Lev Bishop wrote: On 2/8/07, Lev Bishop wrote: When I get some time I'll redo those patches against the latest cygwin version. In the meantime, if netscreen provides a sysctl net.inet.tcp.ackonpush or some way to disable delayed acks,

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Dennis Simpson wrote: One co-worker downloaded the latest Windows cygwin last week. His ls command now consistently does not return anything, regardless of what directory he is in. This is in addition to not being able to run shell scripts any more, either. For the problem with running

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Chuck
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: snip HD scan shows no errors. snip I'm beginning to think I need to remove and reinstall every cygwin package, but I'm not certain that will fix it either. I've

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Chuck
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Chuck wrote: I'd buy into the HD-getting-ready-to-fail argument more if I saw weirdness on Windows too, but I don't. At least not yet. Plus scans of the HD with both Tuneup Utilities and Windows itself are not turning anything up. WAG but have you looked at the event

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-12 Thread Chuck
Dennis Simpson wrote: One co-worker downloaded the latest Windows cygwin last week. His ls command now consistently does not return anything, regardless of what directory he is in. This is in addition to not being able to run shell scripts any more, either. The other two of us that

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

2007-02-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: snip HD scan shows no errors. snip I'm beginning to think I need to remove and reinstall every cygwin package, but I'm not certain that will fix it

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:04:57PM -0500, Chuck wrote: Dennis Simpson wrote: One co-worker downloaded the latest Windows cygwin last week. His ls command now consistently does not return anything, regardless of what directory he is in. This is in addition to not being able to run shell

Re: Unable to run even simple batch scripts any more

2007-02-12 Thread Eric Backus
Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net writes: Dennis Simpson wrote: Three of us updated to latest windows cygwin last week, and none can run even simple .sh scripts any more. Prior version was 6 months ago. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-12/msg00026.html Next

Re: Unable to run even simple batch scripts any more

2007-02-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Eric Backus wrote: Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net writes: Dennis Simpson wrote: Three of us updated to latest windows cygwin last week, and none can run even simple .sh scripts any more. Prior version was 6 months ago.

where to find archives?

2007-02-12 Thread Mohankumar Periasami
Could you plz let me know where can I find the cygwin tar package archives (say 1.15.x)? Regards, Mohankumar -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: where to find archives?

2007-02-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Mohankumar Periasami wrote: Could you plz let me know where can I find the cygwin tar package archives (say 1.15.x)? The only versions that are officially supported are the current and previous version. But if you look on the mirrors there are often older versions as well. I just took a look

EOL for Windows 95/86/Me

2007-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
I'm not sure if it has reached the consciousness of the general Cygwin user base yet but I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of the fact that we will be ripping out support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me in the next version of Cygwin, which will be version 1.7.0. This has