Re: Passing file descriptors over a socket

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Korn
Charles Wilson wrote: > If not, what sort of "not" is it? (a) possible, but nobody has had the > time or inclination to implement (b) not possible on win32 (c) possible, > but REALLY hard -- case (a) on steroids. Well, there's going to be DuplicateHandle involved in it, to copy the underlying o

Re: windres cannot read \"

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:01:04PM +0900, Hirofumi Katayama wrote: >> The windres program cannot read escape sequence \". >> Is it a bug, isn't it? > > If Microsoft allows it and we don't then, yes. > Please send a simple testcase to the binutils mailing list and we

Re: [OT] Re: Want to use tor with wget.

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Korn
Hongyi Zhao wrote: > Good, thanks a lot, I've got it. You didn't get this bit: >> [ We're offtopic here since it's not a cygwin-specific issue anymore, so I've >> set a follow-up to the cygwin-talk list in case you have further questions or >> replies. ] Possibly your mailer is configured i

Re: [OT] Re: Want to use tor with wget.

2009-10-13 Thread Hongyi Zhao
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:09:32 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >[ We're offtopic here since it's not a cygwin-specific issue anymore, so I've >set a follow-up to the cygwin-talk list in case you have further questions or >replies. ] > >hongyi.zhao wrote: >> On Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 13:44, dave.korn.

Passing file descriptors over a socket

2009-10-13 Thread Charles Wilson
I was trying to build libassuan (one of the prerequisites for GnuPG2), and ran in to this problem on the test: fdpassing[4844.4] DBG: -> OK Pleased to meet you fdpassing[4844.4] DBG: <- # descriptor 4 is in flight fdpassing[4844.4] DBG: <- INPUT FD fdpassing[4844]: no pending file descriptors! fdp

Re: windres cannot read \"

2009-10-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:01:04PM +0900, Hirofumi Katayama wrote: >The windres program cannot read escape sequence \". >Is it a bug, isn't it? If Microsoft allows it and we don't then, yes. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/fa

windres cannot read \"

2009-10-13 Thread Hirofumi Katayama
The windres program cannot read escape sequence \". Is it a bug, isn't it? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

RE: sshd / VC builds / Fatal Error C1902

2009-10-13 Thread Egerton, Jim
Thanks for the suggestion. The path is the same with bash from Windows and bash from a ssh session. I think this problem has come up before and it was related to the sshd impersonation. As others have noted, a work around is to ssh in as the same user sshd runs under, but that makes things

Re: Where can I find a cygwin package for Tcl/Tk 8.5.4 or newer?

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Korn
paul.hermeneutic@ wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 14:46, Dave Korn Please trim quotes, *particularly* the email addresses and list footers. >> Larry W. Virden wrote: >>> which was released in 2002. Are there other cygwin download sites which >>> would have a Tcl 8.5.4 or newer (the latest rel

Re: Where can I find a cygwin package for Tcl/Tk 8.5.4 or newer?

2009-10-13 Thread paul . hermeneutic
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 14:46, Dave Korn wrote: > Larry W. Virden wrote: >> The tcltk package that I find on the cygwin mirror sites is Tcl 8.4.1, >> which was released in 2002. Are there other cygwin download sites which >> would have a Tcl 8.5.4 or newer (the latest release is 8.5.7, which was >

Re: X keyboard not working after re-install

2009-10-13 Thread Richard Engelkemeir
Jon, Thanks! I'm back up and running Richard Jon TURNEY wrote: 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 --m

[OT] Re: Want to use tor with wget.

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Korn
[ We're offtopic here since it's not a cygwin-specific issue anymore, so I've set a follow-up to the cygwin-talk list in case you have further questions or replies. ] hongyi.zhao wrote: > On Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 13:44, dave.korn.cygwin wrote: >> Hongyi Zhao wrote: > I want to use wget to

Re: Where can I find a cygwin package for Tcl/Tk 8.5.4 or newer?

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Korn
Larry W. Virden wrote: > The tcltk package that I find on the cygwin mirror sites is Tcl 8.4.1, > which was released in 2002. Are there other cygwin download sites which > would have a Tcl 8.5.4 or newer (the latest release is 8.5.7, which was > released in April, 2009)? > http://sourceware.org

Re: 1.7.0: find is crashing w/ assertion error

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Korn
Brad Walker wrote: > I am running version 1.7 of Cygwin on my Windows 2003 box. It runs > really well except for a problem that I see quite often. > > When executing find I get the following error: > > $ find . -name cpfls.exe > ./cpfcmdbin_cxc_4/debug/cpfls.exe > ./cpfcmdbin_cxc_4/bin/cpfls.exe

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

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Korn
Fergus wrote: > icon in the taskbar. Of course, it being a work machine, I cannot > disable McAfee in order to research any links between strange Cygwin > behaviours and it. Do you possibly still have enough freedom to set an exclude filter on the cygwin directory tree? McAfee is notorious fo

Re: How to deny directory-access for one dedicated user

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/10/13 Matthias Meyer: >> But nevertheless, user Backup can access the directory as well as the files > > Does user "Backup" have Administrator privileges? No, user "Backup User" has the "Backup/Restore" privilege. These are well-known reserved names in the NT security

Re: How to deny directory-access for one dedicated user

2009-10-13 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/13 Matthias Meyer: > But nevertheless, user Backup can access the directory as well as the files Does user "Backup" have Administrator privileges? In that case you've got no chance. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/fa

Re: How to deny directory-access for one dedicated user

2009-10-13 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Matthias Meyer <> wrote: > Hello, > > I run cygwin on Windows (XP as well as Vista) with NTFS. > > I want to deny access to a directory for one dedicated user. > I tried it with: > $ setfacl -m u:backup:0 /cygdrive/c/test > $ getfacl /cygdrive/c/test > # file: /cyg

1.7.0: find is crashing w/ assertion error

2009-10-13 Thread Brad Walker
I am running version 1.7 of Cygwin on my Windows 2003 box. It runs really well except for a problem that I see quite often. When executing find I get the following error: $ find . -name cpfls.exe ./cpfcmdbin_cxc_4/debug/cpfls.exe ./cpfcmdbin_cxc_4/bin/cpfls.exe assertion "ent->fts_info == FTS_NSO

Re: How to deny directory-access for one dedicated user

2009-10-13 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Matthias Meyer <> wrote: > Hello, > > I run cygwin on Windows (XP as well as Vista) with NTFS. > > I want to deny access to a directory for one dedicated user. > I tried it with: > $ setfacl -m u:backup:0 /cygdrive/c/test > $ getfacl /cygdrive/c/test > # file: /cyg

How to deny directory-access for one dedicated user

2009-10-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hello, I run cygwin on Windows (XP as well as Vista) with NTFS. I want to deny access to a directory for one dedicated user. I tried it with: $ setfacl -m u:backup:0 /cygdrive/c/test $ getfacl /cygdrive/c/test # file: /cygdrive/c/test # owner: meyer # group: Kein user::rwx user:Backup:--- group::

Re: Problem with XP Pro at work.

2009-10-13 Thread René Berber
J. David Boyd wrote: [snip] > Then, my cygwin Xserver can't be started. (I didn't realize that the > cygwin installer wrote anything to my profile. Hardware settings, > maybe?). It didn't, the X server creates a lock file on Cygwin's /tmp directory, it prevents other users from starting it, and

Where can I find a cygwin package for Tcl/Tk 8.5.4 or newer?

2009-10-13 Thread Larry W. Virden
The tcltk package that I find on the cygwin mirror sites is Tcl 8.4.1, which was released in 2002. Are there other cygwin download sites which would have a Tcl 8.5.4 or newer (the latest release is 8.5.7, which was released in April, 2009)? -- Tcl - It's the real thing. http://wiki.tcl.tk/ ht

Re: Problem with XP Pro at work.

2009-10-13 Thread paul . hermeneutic
If the Exchange server has POP3 or IMAP enabled, you should be able to do email from an email client that runs on Cygwin. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:49, J. David Boyd wrote: > > This is killing me, and I need some help trying to find out what is > happening. > > I'm using XP pro at work, and I'v

Re: Want to use tor with wget.

2009-10-13 Thread hongyi . zhao
On Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 13:44, dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com wrote: > 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 w

Problem with XP Pro at work.

2009-10-13 Thread J. David Boyd
This is killing me, and I need some help trying to find out what is happening. I'm using XP pro at work, and I've installed Cygwin on my computer (Lenovo laptop). Lately, when I reboot, the computer gets as far as "Applying computer settings", and sits there. For hours. Tech Support takes it,

md5sum failures on some files in the repository

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Stanley
The following files in the cygwin repository have persistent md5sum errors: release-2/binutils/binutils-2.19.51-1-src.tar.bz2 release-2/GNOME/libgnomeui2/setup.hint release-2/GNOME/libgnome2/setup.hint release-2/GNOME/libgtkhtml2/setup.hint setup-2.bz2.sig setup-2.ini.sig setup.bz2.sig setup.ini.s

RE: sshd / VC builds / Fatal Error C1902

2009-10-13 Thread Stephen Bennett
> The gist is that cl works from Windows, but dies with: > > Fatal Error C1902: Program database manager mismatch; please check your > installation. > > when invoked from a ssh session using a different account than the account > sshd is running under. My first reaction to that would be to c

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

2009-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 13 07:33, Fergus wrote: >> > 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 mis

Re: Segfault under cygwin 1.7.62

2009-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 13 05:20, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > 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,

Re: error rxvt/run - couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout

2009-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 13 01:39, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: > I just got a new laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit edition and installed > Cygwin. I usually set up an icon to invoke the following command: > C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin rxvt -sr -sl 1000 -e /bin/bash > --login -I > > It runs fine in Window

error rxvt/run - couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout

2009-10-13 Thread Paul J. Ghosh
I just got a new laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit edition and installed Cygwin. I usually set up an icon to invoke the following command: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin rxvt -sr -sl 1000 -e /bin/bash --login -I It runs fine in Windows XP Professional but on Windows 7 a DOS cmd conso