Re: one or more not ready for prime time( cygwin1.7, win7, linda7).

2009/11/20 Linda Walsh: > Some things are obviously not cygwin related.  But sometimes it seems > like cygwin isn't able to see files that I can see there with > explorer. We'd of course need concrete examples for this. > It should be running as 'me' when it's started by me!  But I don't > know

Re: one or more not ready for prime time( cygwin1.7, win7, linda7).

Linda -- Concerning some of your X problems, in addition to setting LANG, there were a couple of lines about C.UTF-8 missing in the X config files that caused exactly the output you mentioned. When I performed the patch to those config files then it worked. LANG=C is a workaround, but the patch is

Re: Re: Cygwin 1.7 on win 2008 wierd behaviour with .sys files

I have a directory to rsync with a.sys.exe and a.sys in the same fodler. rsync says it copied the file file a.sys to dest. But only a.sys.exe appears on the other side. I agree that foo and foo.exe should be treated the same way. But is there a merit in using this assumption in context of cp or rsy

Cygwin build of gfortran has been updated

See the wiki: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries This binary was built with Cygwin-1.7 running on WinNT in VirtualBox on a Linux host. It is provided as a courtesy to expand the gfortran test base and provide users the latest bug fixes and features. Comments and bug reports welcome.

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

On 11/19/2009 10:49 PM, Pete Brunet wrote: --- Pete Brunet wrote: I've been trying to build OpenJDK for several weeks now and have never been able to get to the end of the build because of random failures. Last night I had a hunch to turn off one of the cores in BIOS and after doing that the pro

one or more not ready for prime time( cygwin1.7, win7, linda7).

Close...very close, but I keep running into unexplained flakiness. like I change something in the file system or registry, and it changes back. Some things are obviously not cygwin related. But sometimes it seems like cygwin isn't able to see files that I can see there with explorer. Things li

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

This problem went away by disabling Norton 360. --- Pete Brunet wrote: > I've been trying to build OpenJDK for several weeks now and have never > been able to get to the end of the build because of random failures. > Last night I had a hunch to turn off one of the cores in BIOS and after > doing t

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

I think there maybe some bug with new "socket duplication" function. While I use ssh to connect remote cygwin, with previous version of cygwin, after type exit command, shell will close and sshd will close the connection forwardly but with 65 version connection will not close by sshd untile I type

Re: [1.7] su (goldstar)

On 11/19/2009 05:40 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:26:53PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Sometimes no is exactly the right answer. It's a fun way of answering a Yes/No question and I've done it countless times myself. The recipient of the "No" *usually* finds more expl

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:30:39PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 11/19/2009 06:26 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >> I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-65. >>> >>> Is anyone else having problems not finding this

Re: [1.7] su (goldstar)

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:26:53PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >On 11/19/2009 02:52 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Hey, you know, this is goldstar worthy. You really reminded me of the >> right way to handle this type of question. Seriously. >> >> It's always best to provide more details than ju

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

On 11/19/2009 06:26 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-65. Is anyone else having problems not finding this release? I've tried several different mirror and they all state -64 is the current

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >> I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-65. > > Is anyone else having problems not finding this release?  I've tried > several different mirror and they all state -64 is the current > release. I noticed this earlier today, b

"date" reports wrong timezone

I have a recent install of CYGWIN running under Windows XP on a powermac (under Paralllels). The time on Windows is set correctly, but date returns the wrong date (and the wrong times on files). It reports times in GMT. I want to change the timezone to PDT (pacific daylight time). By exp

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

> I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-65. Is anyone else having problems not finding this release? I've tried several different mirror and they all state -64 is the current release. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/

Re: [1.7] su (goldstar)

On 11/19/2009 02:52 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Hey, you know, this is goldstar worthy. You really reminded me of the right way to handle this type of question. Seriously. It's always best to provide more details than just "No". I forgot that. Thanks for (indirectly) reminding me. Sometimes

Re: [1.7] su

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 cgf wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:15:17PM +0100, lemke...@t-online.de wrote: Is su supposed to work? No. Ok. Michael -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/do

Re: [1.7] su (goldstar)

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:46:14PM -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: >On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, <> wrote: >> Is su supposed to work? ?When I try from an unprivileged account >> I get: > >I did the work of visiting the cygwin home page to read the 1.7 FAQ >and user guide. > >Here you are told

Re: [1.7] su

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, <> wrote: > Is su supposed to work?  When I try from an unprivileged account > I get: I did the work of visiting the cygwin home page to read the 1.7 FAQ and user guide. Here you are told that it doesn't work. http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su

Re: [1.7] su

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:15:17PM +0100, lemke...@t-online.de wrote: >Is su supposed to work? No. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

Re: [1.7] su

On 11/19/2009 02:15 PM, lemke...@t-online.de wrote: Is su supposed to work? In a word - No. -- Andrew DeFaria If a mime is arrested do they tell him he has the right to talk? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com

[1.7] su

Is su supposed to work? When I try from an unprivileged account I get: michael> su addmini Password: su: /bin/bash: Permission denied michael> procps -ef UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD michael 7580 1 0 Nov28 tty0 00:00:11 /usr/bin/rxvt -sb -sl 1024 -geom mich

Re: perl errors after a while on windows 7 / 2k8 r2

- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:28:27PM -, Steven Hartland wrote: After a while of running one of our perl scripts errors with the following on windows 7 / 2k8 r2 3 [sig] perl 8296 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't creat

Re: GNU Prolog compiles without a hitch

On 11/19/2009 12:30 PM, Terrence Brannon wrote: Gnu Prolog (http://www.gprolog.org) compiles flawlessly on Cygwin. It is also ISO compliant. Clearly there is less activity, support and extra libraries for Gnu Prolog, but it is a solid product with fairly nice libraries and a dedicated developme

Re: unzip failure in 1.5 and 1.6 building OpenJDK

Thanks to Christopher for mentioning the BLODA earlier today. The problem went away by disabling Norton 360. --- Pete Brunet wrote: > I'm encountering unzip failures attempting to build the OpenJDK. I've > tried with both 1.6 and 1.7. > > This happened on 1.6: > > ( cd c:/OpenJDK/jdk7/build/wind

GNU Prolog compiles without a hitch

Gnu Prolog (http://www.gprolog.org) compiles flawlessly on Cygwin. It is also ISO compliant. Clearly there is less activity, support and extra libraries for Gnu Prolog, but it is a solid product with fairly nice libraries and a dedicated development team. Would it be acceptable to create a Cygwi

Re: perl errors after a while on windows 7 / 2k8 r2

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:28:27PM -, Steven Hartland wrote: >After a while of running one of our perl scripts errors with >the following on windows 7 / 2k8 r2 > >3 [sig] perl 8296 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't create >signal pipe, Win32 error 1 > >This is with cygwin:- >C

Re: SWI Prolog will not fix their software for Cygwin

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > Terrence Brannon wrote: >> Subject: >> [Bug 429] term.h on Cygwin not existent. no warning during configure >> From: >> bugzilla-dae...@gollem.science.uva.nl > > term.h is provided by ncurses, and is located in /usr/include/ncurses/. >  So,

Re: [1.7] Setup won't create local package directory?

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:26:00AM +, Jason Spiro wrote: >Mark J. Reed gmail.com> writes: > >> >> On "Cygwin Setup - Select Local Package Directory", it says "The >> directory will be created if it does not already exist." But if I >> type in the name of a new folder (whose parent folder exi

Re: Issuing commands at the command prompt

On Nov 19 14:21, Fergus wrote: > It is sometimes convenient to issue Cygwin commands at the Windows > command prompt, without all the accompanying paraphernalia of formal > setup, installation, mounting, etc. There are lots of examples (cat, > diff, grep, md5sum, find, cmp, joe). As well as being c

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.5] Updated: task-1.8.4-1

The task package provides a command line todo list manager. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.2 20080827 (beta) 2 ]] This is a new upstream version of task. CHANGES since task-1.8.2-1 == This is a bug fix release. Please consult the ChangeLog file in the documentation for detaile

Issuing commands at the command prompt

It is sometimes convenient to issue Cygwin commands at the Windows command prompt, without all the accompanying paraphernalia of formal setup, installation, mounting, etc. There are lots of examples (cat, diff, grep, md5sum, find, cmp, joe). As well as being convenient, it is easy, as long as a

RE: New package: lzip-1.8-1

JonY sent the following at Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:18 AM > >> JonY sent the following at Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:36 AM >>> >>> Version 1.8-1 of "lzip" has been uploaded. >>> >>> lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm with a >>> user interface similar to gzip or

Re: 1.5.25-15: pthread_join deadlocks

On Nov 19 12:29, Ryan Johnson wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hitting a deadlock with cygwin pthreads when joining on a > short-lived thread -- for me the second such thread creation will > almost never return. It looks *exactly* like a problem that others > noticed as far back as early 2005 [0], and fr

1.5.25-15: pthread_join deadlocks

Hi all, I'm hitting a deadlock with cygwin pthreads when joining on a short-lived thread -- for me the second such thread creation will almost never return. It looks *exactly* like a problem that others noticed as far back as early 2005 [0], and from the output of strace on the test case (be

Re: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) ps (cygwin) 1.11 - how do I display the arguments to the processes?

Hi Larry, If you want a more dirty-cheap solution, without installing anything, you could also try something like this in a bash shell: for i in /proc/[0-9]* ; do echo -n "${i#/proc/}: " ; cat -v $i/cmdline ; echo ; done | sed -e 's/\^@/ /g' -- ___ Julio Costa -- Problem reports:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-65. Changes in relation to 1.7.0-64: - New Linux-compatible entry points get_nprocs, get_nprocs_conf, get_avphys_pages, and get_phys_pages. New accompanying header file sys/sysinfo.h. - Improv

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated setup-1.7.exe (2.656)

I just uploaded another new setup-1.7.exe (2.656) to http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe, which contains a couple of changes and bug fixes, for instance: - Create the local package dir if it doesn't exist. - Create directories with access rights which are more friendly to native Windows processes.

Re: Cygwin 1.7 on win 2008 wierd behaviour with .sys files

On Nov 19 12:14, Hrishikesh Date wrote: > I installed cygwin beta on win2008 R2 machine. > Having a strange problem when copying files with 2 DOTs on > > $ touch a.sys.exe > $ cp a.sys.exe a.sys > cp: cannot create regular file `a.sys': File exists > > I double checked and there is no file named