Re: 1.7 installation failed (on network drive?)

2009-11-26 Thread Thomas Wolff
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: On Nov 25 18:30, Dave Korn wrote: Thomas Wolff wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Are you sure the share permissions are sufficient? In contrast to the 1.5 setup, the 1.7 setup tries to create files and directories with explicit ACLs. On the H:

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Lothar Brendel wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: Unfortunately the situatiuon with ``startxwin.bat'' is worse now: * ``checkX -t 12'' still doesn't wait (?!?) I can't reproduce this. Stupid me, sorry. When updating to pull in libustr1, run2 was

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/26/2009 2:30 AM, Lothar Brendel wrote: Errh, yes. Hence, to make Cygwin/X+xterm run out of the box (using the start menu shortcut), you have to install the CJK fonts. One more noob-question, sorry: Which font-package does provide the CJK fonts? I tried several ones but up to now in vain.

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog dtable.cc

2009-11-26 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-11-26 10:58:06 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog dtable.cc Log message: * dtable.cc (dtable::stdio_init): Use GetCurrentProcess() rather than hMainProc as process handle

Re: [Patch] override-able installation_root

2009-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 26 01:03, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, Please find attached a patch to allow for override-able installation_root. I actually wrote this patch for release 1.7.0-52 motivated by the thread I started [1.7] Alternative root directory. Sort of a regression.

Re: patch: sleep/nanosleep bug

2009-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 25 06:11, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/20/2009 7:15 AM: * signal.cc (nanosleep): Support 'infinite' sleep times. (sleep): Avoid uninitialized memory. Sorry but, while I agree with the basic idea, this seems like

Re: [Patch] override-able installation_root

2009-11-26 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Sorry, but no. We won't accept this patch. We have deliberately chosen to get away from the dependency to the Windows registry, and we really don't want to add it back again. Thank you for the response. Fair enough. But is it no to the idea of an overridable

Re: patch: sleep/nanosleep bug

2009-11-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 11/26/2009 4:21 AM: How about the following, then? Same changelog. Ping. Do you think we need it in 1.7.1? I suppose I can camp on it until after the release. It's not very likely that someone does 'sleep 50d',

Re: [Patch] override-able installation_root

2009-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 26 22:56, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Sorry, but no. We won't accept this patch. We have deliberately chosen to get away from the dependency to the Windows registry, and we really don't want to add it back again. Thank you for the response. Fair enough. But is

Re: patch: sleep/nanosleep bug

2009-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:21:21PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 25 06:11, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/20/2009 7:15 AM: * signal.cc (nanosleep): Support 'infinite' sleep times. (sleep): Avoid uninitialized memory.

Re: run: requires CYGWIN=tty?

2009-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 25 23:44, Charles Wilson wrote: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I came across this error with run when launched from the cmd prompt with an empty CYGWIN variable: 1 [main] xterm 1248 dtable::stdio_init: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout If I set CYGWIN=tty then this

Re: run: requires CYGWIN=tty?

2009-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 26 10:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: However, Chuck, can you please try the below patch to run.c instead? It makes the stdout and stderr handles already distinct in run: Index: src/run.c === RCS file:

Slowness in wait_sig: entering ReadFile loop and parse_options: glob (called func)

2009-11-26 Thread Leszek Świrski
I'm having some serious slowness issues with Cygwin (1.7) on my Windows 7 x64 machine. Background research told me to test things with strace, and I've noticed that every strace so far gives me major slowness on two consecutive lines, e.g.: $ strace ls [...] 512680 [main] ls 3404 time:

Re: run: requires CYGWIN=tty?

2009-11-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 26 10:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: However, Chuck, can you please try the below patch to run.c instead? It makes the stdout and stderr handles already distinct in run: I can't reproduce the problem with the original run (my xterm dumps core, for a different

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

2009-11-26 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 25.11.2009, 14:05 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com: Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-66. If this doesn't introduce any new regressions, this will (probably) be the last test release. Greetings, after having played with Cygwin 1.5

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

2009-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 26 15:38, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 25.11.2009, 14:05 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com: Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-66. If this doesn't introduce any new regressions, this will (probably) be the last test release.

tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

2009-11-26 Thread Reinier Post
Dear list, I've been using Cygwin daily for years and I'm very happy with it. But today it threw a nice puzzle at me. I must confess I became a list member just to report it. My Cygwin /usr/bin/tar hangs when unpacking an archive: curl

RE: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

2009-11-26 Thread Stephan Mueller
Reinier Post writes: curl ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/calcoo/calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar.gz | tar zxvf - hangs after printing the line calcoo-1.3.16/src/aux.c This happens on two different i386 systems, both running an up to date Cygwin on an up to date Windows XP with the

Re: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

2009-11-26 Thread Eliot Moss
I wonder if some process has created the file in question and still has it open. Then a call to create, and a call to unlink, will both fail. You might not see the file until the process closes it or dies ... Just a wondering ... The procexp tool from sysinternals.com might reveal an open file

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

2009-11-26 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 26.11.2009, 16:58 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com: This circumvents a few installation problems and decouples the Cygwin homedir by default from the Windows profile directory, which especially starting with Vista results in performance problems due to the

Re: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

2009-11-26 Thread Reinier Post
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:39:39PM -0500, Eliot Moss wrote: I wonder if some process has created the file in question and still has it open. Then a call to create, and a call to unlink, will both fail. But the call to open is failing (the fd returned is -1), which is why the unlink() is

Re: Defunct processes with 1.5.25-15; seemingly reproducible

2009-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:52:45PM -0500, Dave Steenburgh wrote: It is my understanding that this problem is not easily reproducible. Well, I've been reproducing it locally since last night. ?I'm going to try leaving every cygwin-related process as-is as long as necessary, in the hope of beating

Re: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

2009-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 01:20:50AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:39:39PM -0500, Eliot Moss wrote: I wonder if some process has created the file in question and still has it open. Then a call to create, and a call to unlink, will both fail. But the call to open is

[1.7] cvs over ssh hangs on completion

2009-11-26 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
I have cvs on a client machine connecting to a host over ssh. The cvs procedure finishes, but the connection does not terminate until I hit ctrl-c. The cvs process is then left running on the host. Regular ssh connections (ie interactive login) do not have this problem. The host machine is Cygwin

Re: [1.7] cvs over ssh hangs on completion

2009-11-26 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
Here is the tail end of an strace of the hanging cvs process. Jeremy cvs.strace.out Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Defunct processes with 1.5.25-15; seemingly reproducible

2009-11-26 Thread Dave Steenburgh
cgf wrote: Defunct processes are not necessarily indicative of a cygwin problem. This could easily be a problem with gnuplot. Given the sum of my own limited knowledge of the problem at hand (in summary: every program involved is in my local cygwin directory), I figured it was best to ask here

Re: Defunct processes with 1.5.25-15; seemingly reproducible

2009-11-26 Thread Huang Bambo
2009/11/27 Dave Steenburgh dave.steenbu...@gmail.com cgf wrote: Defunct processes are not necessarily indicative of a cygwin problem. This could easily be a problem with gnuplot. Given the sum of my own limited knowledge of the problem at hand (in summary: every program involved is in my

[1.7]/usr/lib/libcygwin.a(libcmain.o):(.text+0xa9): undefined reference to `_winm...@16'

2009-11-26 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello When linking gnuplot-tikz.lua.exe, which is part of gnuplot for a lua related terminal, the following error appeared gcc-4 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -L/usr/lib -o gnuplot-tikz.lua.exe -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpixman-1 -lglitz -lpng12 -lxcb-render-util -lXrender

R: [1.7]/usr/lib/libcygwin.a(libcmain.o):(.text+0xa9): undefined reference to `_winm...@16'

2009-11-26 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Ven 27/11/09, Tatsuro MATSUOKA ha scritto: Hello When linking gnuplot-tikz.lua.exe, which is part of gnuplot for a lua related terminal, the following error appeared     gcc-4  -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer  -L/usr/lib -o gnuplot-tikz.lua.exe   -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpangoft2-1.0

Re: Defunct processes with 1.5.25-15; seemingly reproducible

2009-11-26 Thread Paul McFerrin
A defunct process is not necesarily the real problem. All defunct process are processes that their parent has NOT done a wait(2) yet. Since these defunct processes have called exit(2), they must hang around until a wait(2) is completed so that the exit status can be returned to the parent.