Re: Test and upload: ctags 5.7

2007-09-07 Thread Jari Aalto
http://tangentsoft.net/cygwin/ctags-5.7-1-src.tar.bz2 http://tangentsoft.net/cygwin/ctags-5.7-1.tar.bz2 Tar builds fine, but few observations: - move documentation in /usr/share/doc - /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ctags-5.7-1.README is missing You can grab template at

Xwin terminates when followed by xmodmap

2007-09-07 Thread Adri Pelders
To change the behaviour of some function keys I used the xmodmap function in my startxwin.sh When starting XWin with 3 screens (startxwin.sh 3), xwin terminates when defining the keys. When I start Xwin using only one screen (startxwin.sh 1) there is no problem en the function keys are well

Re: scroll

2007-09-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Reid Thompson wrote: you may prefer rxvt over xterm the options are pretty much the same Some of the options are (for scrolling - yes). Font-switching is different for instance. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --

Re: [patch] inline __getreent in newlib

2007-09-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: Done. I added the following comment to config.h to hopefully clarify the situation: /* The following provides an inline version of __getreent() for newlib, which will be used throughout the library whereever there is a _r version of a function that takes _REENT.

Re: [patch] inline __getreent in newlib

2007-09-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 04:19:12PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: Done. I added the following comment to config.h to hopefully clarify the situation: /* The following provides an inline version of __getreent() for newlib, which will be used throughout the library

RE: Installation problem with cygintl-8.dll

2007-09-07 Thread Dave Korn
On 07 September 2007 15:17, Rupert Young wrote: Hi, I downloaded the cygwin files onto a local directory on one machine, confirming that libintl8 was listed in the packages. I then moved, with a memory stick, the files to a PC without internet access and installed. But when I try to

cygwin/xemacs marking a buffer as read-only

2007-09-07 Thread Joseph Koenig
I am changing the subject here because this problem is cygwin/xemacs-specific only, so it has nothing to do with smb permissions because I can touch and edit the same file with nano and save properly. Same with vi. It's entirely xemacs. I've attached my config, per request.   -Original

Re: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave

2007-09-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: Right, so IOW, the SEH support does all the required unwinding for us. Ultimately I guess that's the only solution that's going to be both complete and correct. (The only other thing I could even imagine would be some kind of hideous .pdb abuse using the M$ official symbol

Installation problem with cygintl-8.dll

2007-09-07 Thread Rupert Young
Hi, I downloaded the cygwin files onto a local directory on one machine, confirming that libintl8 was listed in the packages. I then moved, with a memory stick, the files to a PC without internet access and installed. But when I try to start cygwin I get the error, Application failed to start

Re: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave

2007-09-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: You might argue that most people doing Win32 GUI stuff use MinGW, but a lot of them use Cygwin with -mno-cygwin which is MinGW with Cygwin build tools, a very convenient combination. And we can't offer a DW2 Cygwin gcc that uses SJLJ for -mno-cygwin as they are really

RE: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave

2007-09-07 Thread Dave Korn
On 07 September 2007 13:41, Brian Dessent wrote: Anthony Heading wrote: Even if you catch the exception before it plummets through the Windows API? Well sure, but that's not realistic. The entire windowing engine is based on callbacks so it's unavoidable that there will be foreign

RE: Help needed with Big List of Dodgy Apps

2007-09-07 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Jim Kleckner wrote: Dave Korn wrote: [...] I'm adding code to cygcheck to detect whether any of the software that has been known at some time to cause these kinds of problems are installed on the target system being cygchecked. [...] Do you think a tester for API sanity is possible? i.e.

Re: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave

2007-09-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Anthony Heading wrote: Even if you catch the exception before it plummets through the Windows API? Well sure, but that's not realistic. The entire windowing engine is based on callbacks so it's unavoidable that there will be foreign frames. It seems clear I am not understanding something

RE: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave

2007-09-07 Thread Dave Korn
On 07 September 2007 15:19, Brian Dessent wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Right, so IOW, the SEH support does all the required unwinding for us. Ultimately I guess that's the only solution that's going to be both complete and correct. (The only other thing I could even imagine would be some

Re: Latest mutt (1.4.2.2-1) does not work on (my) XP

2007-09-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 03:51:09AM -0300, Luiz Portella wrote: Hi, Saluton, -- Pedro Alves skribis je Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:28:42 -0700 I just downloaded the source and compiled it, *without changing anything*, and the resulting binary worked without problems. I have the same problem about

RE: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave

2007-09-07 Thread Dave Korn
On 07 September 2007 14:44, Brian Dessent wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Does anyone know how MSVC handles unwinding through API frames? MSVC implements C++ exception handling with SEH. And there is/was a GSoC project to port SEH to gcc, but I don't know if it went anywhere. Right, so IOW,

Webdav cadaver: script possible?

2007-09-07 Thread Richard Ivarson
Hi, with the ugly sounding but nice Cygwin tool cadaver (a command line Webdav client, like ftp) I would like to automatically download some files from the Webdav server to my local drive. However, in contrast to for example lftp, I don't see a way how to do the few commands automatically.

Re: Help needed with Big List of Dodgy Apps

2007-09-07 Thread Robert Kiesling
Jim Kleckner wrote: Dave Korn wrote: [...] I'm adding code to cygcheck to detect whether any of the software that has been known at some time to cause these kinds of problems are installed on the target system being cygchecked. [...] Do you think a tester for API sanity is

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood *Revisited*

2007-09-07 Thread Jonathan Hurd
Sorry to bring back this old thread back. Is there anyone that can explain a fix for this problem. I've only been using rsync/cygwin/on ssh for about 3 weeks, so please explain in dummy terms. It's the exact same problem mentioned here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-04/msg00792.html

Re: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave

2007-09-07 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2007-09-07 13:37Z, Dave Korn wrote: Does anyone know how MSVC handles unwinding through API frames? With SEH: http://www.howzatt.demon.co.uk/articles/oct04.html http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0197/Exception/Exception.aspx -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave

2007-09-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: Does anyone know how MSVC handles unwinding through API frames? MSVC implements C++ exception handling with SEH. And there is/was a GSoC project to port SEH to gcc, but I don't know if it went anywhere. Brian -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave

2007-09-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: IIRC every MS win32 API dll (user32, kernel32, gdi32 etc.) does absolutely masses of FPO, so we're probably no-go there. Hey! Here's the first documented case of Vista doing something useful: FPO was enabled for all Windows binaries in NT 3.51, but was turned off for

Re: Latest mutt (1.4.2.2-1) does not work on (my) XP

2007-09-07 Thread Luiz Portella
-- Christopher Faylor skribis: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00658.html Ja! Now it is working fine! Thanks a lot, -- Luiz Portella Edite seu livro: http://www.pentuvio.com/eldoni.php -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

opendir() system call

2007-09-07 Thread digant goyal
hi, I wanted to ask if system calls of unix like opendir(),readir() work in cygwin.I tried them in a simple program but it didn't work.The stack dump was- Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=610DE9A1 eax= ebx=

Re: cygwin compliation crash when uninstalling the old version of bash

2007-09-07 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-0820 06:07:47, Eric Blake wrote: According to wei on 8/19/2007 3:09 PM: It's a popup box from setup.exe. I also attached the cygcheck.out in the email And what did the popup say? Nothing in your cygcheck output is jumping out at me as unusual, but without knowing what the crash

Re: Latest mutt (1.4.2.2-1) does not work on (my) XP

2007-09-07 Thread Luiz Portella
Hi, Saluton, -- Pedro Alves skribis je Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:28:42 -0700 I just downloaded the source and compiled it, *without changing anything*, and the resulting binary worked without problems. I have the same problem about lastest mutt on XP. I get the source, and at

RE: opendir() system call

2007-09-07 Thread Dave Korn
On 07 September 2007 15:41, digant goyal wrote: I wanted to ask if system calls of unix like opendir(),readir() work in cygwin. Yes, they work fine, that's the whole point of cygwin. I tried them in a simple program but it didn't work. Most likely a bug in your code. The stack

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.3.4-1

2007-09-07 Thread Rodrigo Medina
zzapper wrote: I'm getting the following errors (this is actually for 4.3.2 which I tried withot success to roll back to) 3 [main] zsh 5904 C:\cygwin\bin\zsh.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap C:\cygwin\lib\zsh\4.3.2\zsh\complete.dll to same address as parent(0x35) != 0x39 I've

Re: 1.5.24: sshd immediately disconnects upon receiving a connection

2007-09-07 Thread Jeremy K . Truax
So going off what Jim noticed about the faulty install of cygwin on Vista, I was able to install cygwin correctly while in Safe Mode with Networking. I installed the sshd service in Safe mode as well but you cannot start it up until you reboot back into full mode. But then it seems to work just

Re: Help needed with Big List of Dodgy Apps

2007-09-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:55:26AM -0400, Robert Kiesling wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Dave Korn wrote: [...] I'm adding code to cygcheck to detect whether any of the software that has been known at some time to cause these kinds of problems are installed on the target system being

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood *Revisited*

2007-09-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:57:13AM -0500, Jonathan Hurd wrote: Sorry to bring back this old thread back. Is there anyone that can explain a fix for this problem. I've only been using rsync/cygwin/on ssh for about 3 weeks, so please explain in dummy terms. It's easy to explain - There is no

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mutt-1.4.2.2-2

2007-09-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of 'mutt' available for installation. Mutt is a text mode mail user agent. This version uses the shared version of libiconv which reduces the size of mutt.exe dramatically. More importantly, it fixes the problems that were reported with FAT32 filesystems:

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood *Revisited*

2007-09-07 Thread Jonathan Hurd
It just doesn't make sense how this can work perfectly for about 2 weeks, and then out of nowhere all sync's start to hang with transfer over a certain amount. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:57:13AM -0500, Jonathan Hurd wrote: Sorry to bring back this old thread back.

Re: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave

2007-09-07 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
I just want to clarify... Can you give a dump of these two commands: echo $PATH gcc -v from a cygwin command line... I suspect the reason all along is that the REAL minGW is trying to ignore cygwin all together, but in the process, cygwin is seeing a 'gcc' binary earlier in its PATH so it uses

Ctrl-C will not kill a process started from cygwin shell

2007-09-07 Thread Alex Worden
Hi, I'm sorry if this is an obvious question but I searched and couldn't find an obvious answer and wasn't sure what to search for... It seems that some processes I start from a cygwin shell start in the foreground - whereas if I start them from a cmd shell they start in the background. (I know

Re: Help needed with Big List of Dodgy Apps

2007-09-07 Thread Robert Kiesling
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:55:26AM -0400, Robert Kiesling wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: Dave Korn wrote: [...] I'm adding code to cygcheck to detect whether any of the software that has been known at some time to cause these kinds of problems are installed on the target system

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood *Revisited*

2007-09-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jonathan Hurd wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:57:13AM -0500, Jonathan Hurd wrote: Sorry to bring back this old thread back. Is there anyone that can explain a fix for this problem. I've only been using rsync/cygwin/on ssh for about 3 weeks, so please explain in

Re: Ctrl-C will not kill a process started from cygwin shell

2007-09-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Alex Worden wrote: Hi, I'm sorry if this is an obvious question but I searched and couldn't find an obvious answer and wasn't sure what to search for... It seems that some processes I start from a cygwin shell start in the foreground - whereas if I start them from a cmd shell they start in the

Re: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave

2007-09-07 Thread Ross Ridge
Dave Korn wrote: Right, so IOW, the SEH support does all the required unwinding for us. Ultimately I guess that's the only solution that's going to be both complete and correct. Well, that is essentially the solution MinGW is using now with SJLJ exceptions. MSVCRT's longjmp() is implemented

Re: Help needed with Big List of Dodgy Apps

2007-09-07 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Robert Kiesling wrote: ? I don't know what this means but Windows has the equivalent of SIGSEGV. The signal is non-catchable by UNIX apps. That ability would be useful when malloc goes whizzing off into the video RAM, but the issue is almost always a bug somewhere else in the app. That is

Re: Help needed with Big List of Dodgy Apps

2007-09-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 04:17:30PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote: Robert Kiesling wrote: ? I don't know what this means but Windows has the equivalent of SIGSEGV. The signal is non-catchable by UNIX apps. That ability would be useful when malloc goes whizzing off into the video RAM, but the

Re: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave

2007-09-07 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello Brian This is Tatsuro Matsuoka replying. Here I meant to add that of course we have discussed deprecating -mno-cygwin and offering a real MinGW cross in its place, which would have its own back-end, and thus could have a different exception handling model. But by the time you've done all

what about (mutt) Maildir on Cygwin

2007-09-07 Thread Luiz Portella
Hi, I have problems with mutt and maildir on Cygwin: http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg31457.html As soon as a new mail arrived in the main folder (inbox), I could not even close mutt properly. It always gives me the error rename file or folder does not exist (error=2) in the

Re: what about (mutt) Maildir on Cygwin

2007-09-07 Thread Luiz Portella
Saluton, I find http://www.geocities.com/win32mutt/patches.html with http://www.geocities.com/win32mutt/patches/mutt-1.4.uen.win32.1.zip date 2002-07-03, for Mutt-1.4i. Who have it with the latest mutt? mutt-1.4.2.2-2 I get the patch, I guess make, make install, ... How I use it? :) Luiz --

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.3.4-1

2007-09-07 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, zzapper wrote: An updated version of zsh (zsh-4.3.4-1) has been released and should be at a mirror near you real soon. Peter, (you may have already got this) I'm getting the following errors (this is actually for 4.3.2 which I tried withot success to roll back to) 3

Updated: mutt-1.4.2.2-2

2007-09-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of 'mutt' available for installation. Mutt is a text mode mail user agent. This version uses the shared version of libiconv which reduces the size of mutt.exe dramatically. More importantly, it fixes the problems that were reported with FAT32 filesystems: