Re: [RFU] mintty-0.5.4-1

2009-11-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 21 06:55, Andy Koppe wrote: For Cygwin 1.7 only: wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.5.3-1.tar.bz2 wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.5.3-1-src.tar.bz2 ^

Re: [RFU] mintty-0.5.4-1

2009-11-21 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/11/21 Corinna Vinschen: On Nov 21 06:55, Andy Koppe wrote: For Cygwin 1.7 only: wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.5.3-1.tar.bz2 wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.5.3-1-src.tar.bz2                                                 ^                        

cygdrop - new tool for cygutils

2009-11-21 Thread Christian Franke
The cygdrop tool allows to start a program with a restricted access token. It uses the new restricted token feature of Cygwin = 1.7.0-63. It is an enhanced version of: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-patches/2009-q4/msg00098.html Inclusion into cygutils was already discussed here:

RFU: w32api-3.14-1

2009-11-21 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Please upload w32api-3.14-1: --- wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://emergedesktop.org/cygwin/w32api-3.14-1.tar.bz2 \ http://emergedesktop.org/cygwin/w32api-3.14-1-src.tar.bz2 --- Thank you, Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org

Re: RFU: w32api-3.14-1

2009-11-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Chris Sutcliffe wrote: Please upload w32api-3.14-1 Done. -- Chuck

Re: Updated terminfo and termcap definitions [Was: Re: 1.7.1 release date? (termcap)]

2009-11-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: This is a heads-up concerning changes to terminfo/termcap defintions. As discussed on cygwin-developers, here's a stab at providing /etc/termcap via terminfo: http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/terminfo-5.7_20091114-10.dist Updated versions: cygwin-1.5

Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe: allow -p option to specify categories as well as packages

2009-11-21 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 12:57:05PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 06:05:27PM +, Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Why not add a new option entirely or some sort of different syntax for categories like Net: or something? I

[RFU][1.7] lzip-1.8-2

2009-11-21 Thread JonY
Hi, This fixes up the packaging conflict with Cygwin 1.5. These are for Cygwin 1.7, so delete the -1 for Cygwin 1.7. Cygwin 1.5 will continue using the -1 package. http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/setup.hint http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/lzip-1.8-2.tar.bz2

Re: [ITP] talkfilters-3.8.1-1

2009-11-21 Thread JonY
On 11/16/2009 22:12, JonY wrote: On 11/13/2009 19:32, JonY wrote: On 11/11/2009 03:30, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 10/11/2009 03:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You didn't say in which stable Linux distro this package is available. Without that info, your package needs five votes from other

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog globals.cc syscalls.cc

2009-11-21 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-11-21 12:44:13 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog globals.cc syscalls.cc Log message: * globals.cc (ro_u_dll): New R/O unicode string. * syscalls.cc

Re: [Patch] Allow to disable root privileges with CYGWIN=noroot

2009-11-21 Thread Christian Franke
Christian Franke wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: I've no objections to incorporating this/these utilities into cygutils. Take a look at http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cygutils/HOW-TO-CONTRIBUTE?rev=1.11cvsroot=cygwin-apps to see how best to integrate the tool(s) into cygutils. I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {ncurses/libncurses9/libncurses-devel/ncurses-demo}-5.7-15

2009-11-21 Thread Eric Backus
Charles Wilson cygwin at cwilson.fastmail.fm writes: Charles Wilson wrote: Eric Backus wrote: $ tput sgr0 Segmentation fault (core dumped) this is wrong The seg fault didn't happen with the previous version. Should be fixed in ncurses-5.7-16. Yes, it is fixed.

Re: vim setup (getting cygvim and winvim happy together)

2009-11-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Gary Johnson wrote: You could do that, or you could add the full path to the vim directory to your PATH. --- This is a very circuitous story -- with different effects developing over the years. Things might be different under cygwin 1.7, but I went through various kludges to get vim to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {ncurses/libncurses9/libncurses-devel/ncurses-demo}-5.7-16

2009-11-21 Thread Charles Wilson
ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus. It is often used instead of termcap. This is a bug fix release, and an update to latest upstream. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-1 ]] CHANGES since 5.7-15

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

2009-11-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 21 12:03, Huang Bambo wrote: Sorry for my bad expression. I mean the fd duplicated by fork() will not be close Thanks for the testcase but can you still please send the output of the test application I sent in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00651.html and you also didn't answer

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 20 14:04, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/20/09, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:19:57PM -0500, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/20/09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And given POSIX, if so, it would be an application bug if the application doesn't care by itself to use

Re: [1.7] .exe append weirdness

2009-11-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 21 10:46, JonY wrote: Hi, I'm using a win64 target cross compiler under Cygwin. I noticed all the stripped dlls will eventually end with .exe. I am on 32bit Windows XP sp3, Cygwin 1.7.0-64. (Upgrading to -65 causes system shared memory version mismatch detected for all Cygwin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: bash-completion-1.1-2

2009-11-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash-completion, 1.1-2, is now available for cygwin 1.7; the only difference from the cygwin 1.5 version is updated package layout. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Changes since the prior release are attached. For more

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: diffstat-1.51-1

2009-11-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of diffstat, 1.51-1, is available for those testing cygwin 1.7, leaving 1.50-1 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. From the CHANGES file, the upstream changes since 1.50 are: 07-Nov-2009

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-21 Thread mike marchywka
On 11/21/09, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: On Nov 20 14:04, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/20/09, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:19:57PM -0500, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/20/09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And given POSIX, if so, it would be an

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 21 08:16, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/21/09, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: On Nov 20 14:04, mike marchywka wrote: The OS is the only place you can when the threads are in different processes unknown to each other. Or, can two different processes share the same

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

2009-11-21 Thread Huang Bambo
2009/11/21 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com: On Nov 21 12:03, Huang Bambo wrote: Sorry for my bad expression. I mean the fd duplicated by fork() will not be close Thanks for the testcase but can you still please send the output of the test application I sent in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.4-1

2009-11-21 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

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:16:29AM -0500, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/21/09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: No, never. If there is a concurrency problem with the envionment, it's between threads of the same process. In that case, we can make getenv, setenv and friends thread-safe, but it's still

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-21 Thread mike marchywka
On 11/21/09, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:16:29AM -0500, mike marchywka wrote: On 11/21/09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: No, never. If there is a concurrency problem with the envionment, it's between threads of the same process. In

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-21 Thread Dave Korn
mike marchywka wrote: No, read my posts. I contributed an observation that suggests the windoze variables don't handle concurrent updates well. Two threads needn't come from same process. This is where your misunderstanding comes in. If they aren't from the same process, they cannot be

Re: vim setup (getting cygvim and winvim happy together)

2009-11-21 Thread Josh Stone
Linda Walsh wrote: gvim won't daemonize under cygwin from it's shell. How about: alias gvim='cygstart /path/to/win/gvim' Josh -- View this message in context:

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-21 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: If they aren't from the same process, they cannot be updating the same copy of the environment, since each process has its own http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682653(VS.85).aspx MSDN reference: hopefully this should clear up the details about how environment

Newer setup-1.7 keeps causing an incomplete download

2009-11-21 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Today I upgraded my setup-1.7 executable to the newer version. With that I hoped to also update the 1.7 branch I have out. Instead it keeps causing an incomplete download error. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in

Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-21 Thread mike marchywka
On 11/21/09, Dave Korn cyg...@googlemail.com wrote: mike marchywka wrote: No, read my posts. I contributed an observation that suggests the windoze variables don't handle concurrent updates well. Two threads needn't come from same process. This is where your misunderstanding comes in. If

[OT] Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-21 Thread Dave Korn
mike marchywka wrote: On XP, go to control panel-System-Advanced -Envireonment Variables. These do no appear to be process specific. These are what I was talking about where I saw garbage, Since registry accesses are atomic and serialized, whatever you saw there must reflect exactly the

Re: [OT] Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 06:54:37PM +, Dave Korn wrote: mike marchywka wrote: On XP, go to control panel-System-Advanced -Envireonment Variables. These do no appear to be process specific. These are what I was talking about where I saw garbage, Since registry accesses are atomic and

Re: [OT] Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

2009-11-21 Thread mike marchywka
On 11/21/09, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 06:54:37PM +, Dave Korn wrote: mike marchywka wrote: On XP, go to control panel-System-Advanced -Envireonment Variables. These do no appear to be process specific. These are what I was

WTF proposed acronym

2009-11-21 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
CGF said: Yes, please take it to the talk list. In the meantime, I'm going to try teaching my dog to play the piano. cgf Using a little poetic license, and realizing that CGF never does anything with the expectation of failure implied above: Meanwhile, I'll teach my dog to play the piano ==

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {ncurses/libncurses9/libncurses-devel/ncurses-demo}-5.7-6

2009-11-21 Thread Charles Wilson
ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus. It is often used instead of termcap. This is a routine update and a packaging refinement. It is specific to cygwin-1.5. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] CHANGES since 5.7-5

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

2009-11-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 21 23:43, Huang Bambo wrote: $ gcc-3 -mno-cygwin -g -o dup-sock dup-sock.c -lws2_32 -lntdll and output are: $ ./dup-sock.exe Inherit: 1 dwServiceFlags1: 00020066 dwServiceFlags2: dwServiceFlags3: dwServiceFlags4: dwProviderFlags: 0008 ProviderId:

Mismatch [1.5] [1.7]: lzip-1.8-1

2009-11-21 Thread Fergus Daly
Two messages sent from the usual home address in the past 24 hourse using Thunderbird have failed to arrive at cygwin at, with no reason for their pushback autodespatched by your postmaster. Interesting: either I have unwittingly changed my TB setup, or (now using AVG) its OK to send accolade

Re: Mismatch [1.5] [1.7]: lzip-1.8-1

2009-11-21 Thread Dave Korn
Fergus Daly wrote: In setup.ini timestamp 1258779760 install: release/lzip/lzip-1.8-1.tar.bz2 101110 bca3c8d04c4fc90d576b264aaa0a08b7 source: release/lzip/lzip-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2 68215 305bd012b1137907eb41972111d36def In setup-2.ini timestamp 1258809078 install:

Thank You

2009-11-21 Thread PCWizard
Dear Developers and Supporters, I just finished installing the latest version of Cygwin on my Visduh 64 bit laptop and it runs flawlessly! All my questions were answered by the User Manual and the FAQ's!!! Excellent Work! THANK YOU!!! pcwiz... No trees were harmed in the creation of this

Re: Cron on Windows 7 as a Service Does Not Execute Jobs

2009-11-21 Thread Szatmary Janos
Pierre, sshd, exim and cron all work correctly under Cygwin 1.7.0 and Windows 7 32-bit. CYGWIN_NT-6.1 host 1.7.0(0.218/5/3) 2009-11-19 10:07 i686 Cygwin Regards, John On Nov 20, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Janos Szatmary wrote: This is CYGWIN_NT-6.1 host 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin

Cannot run SSH

2009-11-21 Thread baykusderki
Hello, In the past I have managed to install Cygwin and SSH on multiple computers. All of them are running fine and serving SSH just fine. So I am not that new to installing this stuff. At the moment I am trying to run SSH on my Windows7 64. I know it is not tested and maybe not supposed to

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

2009-11-21 Thread Huang Bambo
And there's another quesiton: The handle of chile process( created by fork ) seems never been closed bye parent process. Is it need to be closed? 2009/11/22 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com: On Nov 21 23:43, Huang Bambo wrote: $ gcc-3 -mno-cygwin -g -o dup-sock dup-sock.c -lws2_32

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: w32api-3.14-1

2009-11-21 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
I've made a new version of the w32api available for download. A list of what has changed can be found at the end of this email To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygutils-1.4.1-1

2009-11-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Cygutils is a collection of useful(?) tools for the cygwin platform. This is a feature enhancement release. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-1 ]] This release is taken from the cygwin-1.7-specific development branch (cygutils-1.4.1 will no longer compile on legacy versions of cygwin; it requires

Re: Mismatch [1.5] [1.7]: lzip-1.8-1

2009-11-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:09:38PM +, Dave Korn wrote: Fergus Daly wrote: In setup.ini timestamp 1258779760 install: release/lzip/lzip-1.8-1.tar.bz2 101110 bca3c8d04c4fc90d576b264aaa0a08b7 source: release/lzip/lzip-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2 68215 305bd012b1137907eb41972111d36def In

Re: Cannot run SSH

2009-11-21 Thread Huang Bambo
run /usr/sbin/sshd directly and check if it can start. 2009/11/22 baykusderki baykusde...@gmail.com: Hello, In the past I have managed to install Cygwin and SSH on multiple computers. All of them are running fine and serving SSH just fine. So I am not that new to installing this stuff. At

Re: Cannot run SSH

2009-11-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Huang Bambo on 11/21/2009 8:29 PM: run /usr/sbin/sshd directly and check if it can start. 2009/11/22 baykusderki baykusderki AT gmail.com: 121 lines of email, with only one line of new

Re: Cannot run SSH

2009-11-21 Thread baykusderki
On 11/21/2009 9:29 PM, Huang Bambo wrote: run /usr/sbin/sshd directly and check if it can start. Hi This is what I get $ /usr/sbin/sshd /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. And this is what I have $ ls -al /var drwxr-xr-x+ 1 masayeni Administrators0

Re: Mismatch [1.5] [1.7]: lzip-1.8-1

2009-11-21 Thread JonY
On 11/22/2009 11:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:09:38PM +, Dave Korn wrote: Fergus Daly wrote: In setup.ini timestamp 1258779760 install: release/lzip/lzip-1.8-1.tar.bz2 101110 bca3c8d04c4fc90d576b264aaa0a08b7 source: release/lzip/lzip-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2 68215

Re: Mismatch [1.5] [1.7]: lzip-1.8-1

2009-11-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to JonY on 11/21/2009 9:12 PM: But one really should be -1 and the other -2 for just this reason. Ok, should I release a -2 at the same time for both 1.5 and 1.7, or a -2 just for 1.5 should do? Release a single -2 for just one of

Re: Mismatch [1.5] [1.7]: lzip-1.8-1

2009-11-21 Thread JonY
On 11/22/2009 12:17, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to JonY on 11/21/2009 9:12 PM: But one really should be -1 and the other -2 for just this reason. Ok, should I release a -2 at the same time for both 1.5 and 1.7, or a -2 just for 1.5 should do?

Re: Cannot run SSH

2009-11-21 Thread Ken Jackson
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:43:51 -0600 baykusderki wrote: On 11/21/2009 9:29 PM, Huang Bambo wrote: run /usr/sbin/sshd directly and check if it can start. Hi This is what I get $ /usr/sbin/sshd /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. OK, try this: chown

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.4-1

2009-11-21 Thread Chip Panarchy
Hi Very glad to hear of this latest release! Just a quick recommendation for Vista users: Checkout the glass feature in the transparency selection screen, it's awesome! :D Keep up the great work, Panarchy On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Andy Koppe andy.ko...@gmail.com wrote: Mintty is a

Re: Cannot run SSH

2009-11-21 Thread baykusderki
OK, try this: chown root:root /var/empty Although, mine is owned by SYSTEM, so if that doesn't work, try: chown SYSTEM:root /var/empty I tried both and got errors. it complained that there was no such user or group named root. So i tried chown SYSTEM /var/empty and it did not work. The

Re: Cannot run SSH

2009-11-21 Thread Ken Jackson
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:48:39 -0600 baykusderki wrote: OK, try this: chown root:root /var/empty Although, mine is owned by SYSTEM, so if that doesn't work, try: chown SYSTEM:root /var/empty I tried both and got errors. it complained that there was no such user or group named

Re: Cannot run SSH

2009-11-21 Thread baykusderki
On 11/22/2009 12:00 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: Is SYSTEM in /etc/passwd? If not, I think that's a problem. Even if it's there, maybe it's wrong. I would try the mkpasswd command to recreate your passwd file (and might as well mkgroup to recreate the /etc/group file). They both write to stdout

[1.7] Updated: bash-completion-1.1-2

2009-11-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash-completion, 1.1-2, is now available for cygwin 1.7; the only difference from the cygwin 1.5 version is updated package layout. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Changes since the prior release are attached. For more

[1.7] Updated: diffstat-1.51-1

2009-11-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of diffstat, 1.51-1, is available for those testing cygwin 1.7, leaving 1.50-1 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. From the CHANGES file, the upstream changes since 1.50 are: 07-Nov-2009

Updated: w32api-3.14-1

2009-11-21 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
I've made a new version of the w32api available for download. A list of what has changed can be found at the end of this email To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and

[1.7] Updated: cygutils-1.4.1-1

2009-11-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Cygutils is a collection of useful(?) tools for the cygwin platform. This is a feature enhancement release. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-1 ]] This release is taken from the cygwin-1.7-specific development branch (cygutils-1.4.1 will no longer compile on legacy versions of cygwin; it requires