Re: Problem [1.7] find ... | xargs ... in [1.7]: too fast for its own good?

2009-10-12 Thread Fergus
> I'm wondering if that's one of these dreaded BLODA problems > again... Can't go for 10 consecutive minutes without incurring the "Windows Explorer has stopped working" glitch. Excruciating. Maybe I shouldn't blame W7 for the weird Cygwin file mishandling. I recently observed that every t

Re: Want to use tor with wget.

2009-10-12 Thread Dave Korn
Hongyi Zhao wrote: > Hi all, > > Tor (http://www.torproject.org/) is a great free software. > > When I installed Tor on my winxp system, then I have a local socks > proxy server: 127.0.0.1:9050 > > Now, I want to use wget through this SOCKS proxy provided by Tor under > cygwin. I tried this

Want to use tor with wget.

2009-10-12 Thread Hongyi Zhao
Hi all, Tor (http://www.torproject.org/) is a great free software. When I installed Tor on my winxp system, then I have a local socks proxy server: 127.0.0.1:9050 Now, I want to use wget through this SOCKS proxy provided by Tor under cygwin. Any hints on this issue? Thanks in advance. Hongy

[Bug c/41692] -fno-leading-underscore ignored

2009-10-12 Thread davek at gcc dot gnu dot org
--- Comment #1 from davek at gcc dot gnu dot org 2009-10-13 05:04 --- It is not appropriate to add a mailing list as a Cc to a bugzilla entry, so I've removed that from the CC list. On the other hand, I have some good news for you; this has been fixed in SVN and will be working in the n

[Bug c/41692] New: -fno-leading-underscore ignored

2009-10-12 Thread adrian dot alexander dot may at gmail dot com
That sums it up really. On Linux everything is fine, but on Windows this flag is ignored. To reproduce, just compile void foo() {} with and without the flag, nm the resulting obj and see that the underscore is always there. This is a problem for me because I'm mixing nasm and c and hoping to build

Re: Problem [1.7] find ... | xargs ... in [1.7]: too fast for its own good?

2009-10-12 Thread Dave Korn
Fergus wrote: > presently I suspect the W7 platform*. > > (* Can't go for 10 consecutive minutes without incurring the "Windows > Explorer has stopped working" glitch. Excruciating. Does anybody know a > cure?) ;-) Upgrade to Windows 2000? It's definitely fixed in that version, anyway. c

Re: Problem [1.7] find ... | xargs ... in [1.7]: too fast for its own good?

2009-10-12 Thread Fergus
I tried this with the Cygwin release directory multiple times, with the release dir on a local drive as well as on a remote NFS drive. I can't reproduce this weird behaviour. I'm wondering if that's one of these dreaded BLODA problems again... Thank you very much indeed for trying this. The

sshd / VC builds / Fatal Error C1902

2009-10-12 Thread Egerton, Jim
There have a few threads on this subject over the years: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-01/msg00651.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-11/msg00473.html http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2007-January/012450.html The gist is that cl works from Windows, but dies with: Fatal Error C1

Re: Segfault under cygwin 1.7.62

2009-10-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Vin Shelton writes: > The new behavior is different, but the problem is not yet fixed. OK. It's possible that there remain problems in Cygwin, but the probability of an XEmacs bug is increasing. New backtraces would be useful, I think, unless Aidan has a guess offhand. > 4. But when I try t

Re: Segfault under cygwin 1.7.62

2009-10-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Vin Shelton wrote: > Do I need some additional cygwin changes other than the dll? It's worth a try; there have been recent changes to the system headers. Install the entire "-inst" package from the snapshot, then rebuild xemacs. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.h

Re: Problem [1.7] find ... | xargs ... in [1.7]: too fast for its own good?

2009-10-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 12 12:50, Fergus wrote: > Current Cygwin 1.7.0-62 > Windows 7 v.6.1.7600 > Attached: cygcheck output > > Operations of the style > find ... | xargs ... > seem orders of magnitude faster in [1.7] than they have been in [1.5], > which is just great. > > However I have been experiencing flakey

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.1-1

2009-10-12 Thread Andy Koppe
MinTTY is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user interface and minimalist design. Among its features are Unicode support and a graphical options dialog. Its terminal emulation is largely compatible with xterm, but it does not require an X server. MinTTY is based on code from PuTT

Re: Segfault under cygwin 1.7.62

2009-10-12 Thread Vin Shelton
upgrading to the > next Cygwin. The new behavior is different, but the problem is not yet fixed. Here's what happened: 1. Rather than building cygwin1.dll from CVS, I waited until Corinna had cut a new snapshot. I downloaded cygwin1-20091012.dll.bz2 and installed it. 'uname -a'

Re: Segfault under cygwin 1.7.62

2009-10-12 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/12 Aidan Kehoe: > > and how does it change unexpectedly in terms of POSIX/Cygwin operations? > > And, importantly, what's the locale setting? > > We’re testing our handling of the file name encoding; we want to make sure > we can create a file with this name when we force the file name en

Re: Segfault under cygwin 1.7.62

2009-10-12 Thread Aidan Kehoe
Ar an naoiú lá de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Andy Koppe: > What change exactly? What's the original filename here, > and how does it change unexpectedly in terms of POSIX/Cygwin operations? > And, importantly, what's the locale setting? We’re testing our handling of the file name

Re: Many Cygwin (mintty) windows - How to close all?

2009-10-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 10 09:08, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > =20 > I tried "kill -9 -1" and it worked (bash builtin)=2C but "/bin/kill -9 -1" > segfaulted. In both cases=2C I was running elevated on Vista with > CYGWIN_NT-6.0 Coyote 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) 2009-10-03 14:33 i686 Cygwin > =20 I applied a patch to kill in

RE: Cygwin support for large files

2009-10-12 Thread Rocco Scappatura
Hi again! > > >>> The limitation is in the version of ZIP provided in the cygwin- > 1.5 > > >> > > >>may be > > >>> distrbution. ZIP64 support was added in zip-3.0: > > > > > > I sit possible to get from somewhere zip-3.0 for cygwin? > > > > Using setup, insta

RE: Cygwin support for large files

2009-10-12 Thread Rocco Scappatura
Thanks Charles, > Rocco Scappatura wrote: > >>> The limitation is in the version of ZIP provided in the cygwin-1.5 > >> > >>may be > >>> distrbution. ZIP64 support was added in zip-3.0: > > > > I sit possible to get from somewhere zip-3.0 for cygwin? > > Usin

Re: Cygwin support for large files

2009-10-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Rocco Scappatura wrote: >>> The limitation is in the version of ZIP provided in the cygwin-1.5 >> >>may be >>> distrbution. ZIP64 support was added in zip-3.0: > > I sit possible to get from somewhere zip-3.0 for cygwin? Using setup, install the current versi

RE: Cygwin support for large files

2009-10-12 Thread Rocco Scappatura
Hello, > > The limitation is in the version of ZIP provided in the cygwin-1.5 > >may be > > distrbution. ZIP64 support was added in zip-3.0: I sit possible to get from somewhere zip-3.0 for cygwin? rocsca -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

RE: Cygwin support for large files

2009-10-12 Thread Rocco Scappatura
Thanks Markus, > > I fear that it is the kernel (cygwin engine) that can't manage file > > greater than 4GB. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_file_format#Technical_information > > The above entry would rather suggest it is a limitation of zip itself. I know that this is no the right pl

Re: Cygwin support for large files

2009-10-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: > The limitation is in the version of ZIP provided in the cygwin-1.5 may be > distrbution. ZIP64 support was added in zip-3.0: -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Document

Re: Cygwin support for large files

2009-10-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Rocco Scappatura wrote: > I fear that it is the kernel (cygwin engine) that can't manage file > greater than 4GB. Cygwin has supported large files since version 1.5.0 (although depending on context, applications themselves might make unwarranted assumptions that break large file support, like assu

Re: Cygwin support for large files

2009-10-12 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Quoting Rocco Scappatura : I fear that it is the kernel (cygwin engine) that can't manage file greater than 4GB. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_file_format#Technical_information The above entry would rather suggest it is a limitation of zip itself. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka mar

Cygwin support for large files

2009-10-12 Thread Rocco Scappatura
Hello, I'm using cygwin. I'm using SSH service to connect to the cygwin machine and to do some shell activities. When I've tried to zip some files on this machine I get: $ zip -r "E:/tmp-backup/wslogdb_12102009_042901_log.zip" "G:/Backup/" adding: Backup/ (stored 0%) adding: Backup/master_db_

Re: hardlink giving out .lnk?

2009-10-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 12 11:51, Julio Costa wrote: > Something strange... at least to me. > STC: > > /tmp$ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PT00062412 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) 2009-10-03 14:33 i686 Cygwin > /tmp$ ls -l /dev/log > srw-rw-rw- 1 SYSTEM root 53 Oct 9 23:12 /dev/log > /tmp$ ln /dev/log log > /tmp$ ls -l > total 1 >

Problem [1.7] find ... | xargs ... in [1.7]: too fast for its own good?

2009-10-12 Thread Fergus
Current Cygwin 1.7.0-62 Windows 7 v.6.1.7600 Attached: cygcheck output Operations of the style find ... | xargs ... seem orders of magnitude faster in [1.7] than they have been in [1.5], which is just great. However I have been experiencing flakey and inconsistent behaviours with bad conseque

Re: X keyboard not working after re-install

2009-10-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 11/10/2009 21:12, Dr. Richard Engelkemeir wrote: I ran ccygwin setup to download developer tools for ncurses. It also downloaded uninstalled and re-installed several other packages. I did this while I had cygwin with XWin --multiwindow running and both xterm(s) and emacs (X) running. I got a m

hardlink giving out .lnk?

2009-10-12 Thread Julio Costa
Something strange... at least to me. STC: /tmp$ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PT00062412 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) 2009-10-03 14:33 i686 Cygwin /tmp$ ls -l /dev/log srw-rw-rw- 1 SYSTEM root 53 Oct 9 23:12 /dev/log /tmp$ ln /dev/log log /tmp$ ls -l total 1 srw-rw-rw- 2 SYSTEM root 53 Oct 9 23:12 log.lnk HUH? .l

Re: Segfault under cygwin 1.7.62

2009-10-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Andy Koppe writes: > Meanwhile, Corinna has implemented support for the latter on > cygwin-cvs, so that mad filename works fine now: > > $ touch > $'ï\202\201Ð\201Ð\201Ð\201ï\203\22002ABFxi-string)g)Àâw\001\200ÑH\001Â\200\t' > $ ls > ï??Ð?Ð?Ð?ï??02ABFxi-string)g)Àâw??ÑH?Â?? > $ ls --quot

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: brltty 4.1-1

2009-10-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Version 4.1-1 of "brltty" has been uploaded. It is a background process (daemon) providing access to the Windows Console for a blind person using a refreshable braille display. -- brltty-4.1-1 -- 2009-10-11 --- New upstream version. If you have questions or comments, please sen