Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs

2008-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:34:18PM +0100, Maarten Vanneste wrote: >Dear all, > >I have just updated my cygwin settings, something I do on a weekly >basis. This typically goes without any trouble. Now I have noticed >that there was a substantial update on X11. After the update, the >nedit editor fai

The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz

2008-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
Yesterday, Yaakov released a new version of X for Cygwin, rectifying a long-standing problem in the Cygwin distribution. He was amazingly diligent in making sure that his upgrade did not break the Cygwin distribution. His new packages are laid out in a more sensical fashion and attempt to rigorou

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: clamav-0.94.1-1

2008-11-12 Thread Reini Urban
The cygwin clamav packages (Clam AntiVirus - GPL anti-virus toolkit) has been updated to 0.94.1-1 Changes: Cygwin packaging fix in libclamav-devel, thanks to Yaakov. One new feature,"Malware Statistics Gathering." Malware Statistics Gathering is an optional feature that has been added to freshclam

Re: The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz

2008-11-12 Thread Danilo Turina
Christopher Faylor wrote: Yesterday, Yaakov released a new version of X for Cygwin, rectifying a long-standing problem in the Cygwin distribution. He was amazingly diligent in making sure that his upgrade did not break the Cygwin distribution. His new packages are laid out in a more sensical fa

Re: The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Rousell
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Yesterday, Yaakov released a new version of X for Cygwin, rectifying a > long-standing problem in the Cygwin distribution. Very well done to Yaakov! -- MarkR PGP public key: http://www.signal100.com/markr/publickey Key fingerprint: 2F64 8EC1 771C 3895 A230 3BE1 2501

Emacs not working correctly under the new cygwin server.

2008-11-12 Thread ycollet
Hello, I've have updated my cygwin install and since the installation of the new Xwindows server, emacs doesn't work anymore. It starts correctly, but some fonts seems to be missing. The menu bar is displayed correctly, but inside the buffer, everything is displayed as small rectangles. I th

Using POSIX_SHM

2008-11-12 Thread John Emmas
A project I'm working on is available for both Linux and Windows. The Linux version uses a preprocessor directive called USE_POSIX_SHM which (I think) configures it to use POSIX's shared memory model. The project can also be built for Windows in which case, USE_POSX_SHM isn't defined. I just wo

Re: Using POSIX_SHM

2008-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 12 09:36, John Emmas wrote: > A project I'm working on is available for both Linux and Windows. The > Linux > version uses a preprocessor directive called USE_POSIX_SHM which (I think) > configures it to use POSIX's shared memory model. The project can also be > built for Windows in which

Re: The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz *amended*

2008-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:17:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Yesterday, Yaakov released a new version of X for Cygwin, rectifying a >long-standing problem in the Cygwin distribution. > >He was amazingly diligent in making sure that his upgrade did not break >the Cygwin distribution. His ne

HELP ... Get me out of here !!!

2008-11-12 Thread Paul McFerrin
Folks: In the past several years, I have both subscribed and unsubscribed to "cygwin@cygwin.com" mailing list without any problems. For this last cycle, the incoming mail from cygwin users after an unsubscribed action has been greatly reduced. However today, I have received 27 mail messages

Re: HELP ... Get me out of here !!!

2008-11-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Paul McFerrin wrote: Folks: In the past several years, I have both subscribed and unsubscribed to "cygwin@cygwin.com" mailing list without any problems. For this last cycle, the incoming mail from cygwin users after an unsubscribed action has been greatly reduced. However today, I have recei

Re: Using POSIX_SHM

2008-11-12 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" Sent: 12 November 2008 10:15 Subject: Re: Using POSIX_SHM Not yet. POSIX shared memory isn't available in the current Cygwin release 1.5.25. It will be available in the next major version 1.7.0. It doesn't exactly look like we will be able

nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs

2008-11-12 Thread Maarten Vanneste
Dear all, I have just updated my cygwin settings, something I do on a weekly basis. This typically goes without any trouble. Now I have noticed that there was a substantial update on X11. After the update, the nedit editor fails to operate, returning the following error message: X Error of failed

Re: The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz

2008-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:26:36PM +0100, Danilo Turina wrote: >In addition, if I have well understood that Yaakov is the new >maintainer for Cygwin/X, let me make you notice that at >http://cygwin.com/who.html , at the moment, I read: > >Cygwin/X is currently in need of a maintainer. Yes, I know.

1.5.25: setuid(uid) takes 5 sec on Windows XP SP2 for a domain user

2008-11-12 Thread M. Peeters
Hello, I'm installing courier-imap 4.4.1 + courier-authlib 0.61.0 on Cygwin 1.5.25. Everything goes fine, except that I noticed that LOGIN command in IMAP server takes 5 sec when logging in as a domain user AND when domain server *IS NOT* available, whereas it is instantaneous when logging as a lo

Re: sshd on vista error "initgroups: Permission denied" (cygwin-1.7)

2008-11-12 Thread Herb Maeder
On 10 Nov 2008 15:48:15 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 8 07:44, Herb Maeder wrote: > > Running sshd (openssh 5.1p1-d57 or 5.1p1-7) on cygwin-1.7 and vista > > results in the following error: > > > > % ssh localhost pwd > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > > initgro

Re: cygwin 1.5.25-15: cwrsync 2.1.3 "hangs" when 80 mb of 100 gb data network folder is to be transmitted

2008-11-12 Thread Herb Maeder
On 11 Nov 2008 12:22:42 EST, Linus Hicks wrote: > > So the question is what is wrong? I can't beleive that rsync can't handle > > with such a big volume of data when it is necessary to transmit only a > > small part of it. > > > > Any ideas and suggestions would be very much appreciated. > > Thi

Re: cygwin 1.5.25-15: cwrsync 2.1.3 "hangs" when 80 mb of 100 gb data network folder is to be transmitted

2008-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:53:30PM -0800, Herb Maeder wrote: >On 11 Nov 2008 12:22:42 EST, Linus Hicks wrote: >> > So the question is what is wrong? I can't beleive that rsync can't handle >> > with such a big volume of data when it is necessary to transmit only a >> > small part of it. >> > >> >