Re: [ITP] mingw-w64 Second try

2010-09-13 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/12/2010 10:24 PM, JonY wrote: On 9/13/2010 01:01, Charles Wilson wrote: On 9/11/2010 2:07 AM, JonY wrote: OK, new files are up, same links. Err...the pthread packages seem to be missing... Sorry about that, pthreads now uploaded. OK, all packages rebuild fine from souce. Also, now we

Re: setup.exe compilation fix

2010-09-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 11 16:23, Václav Haisman wrote: Hi. I just tried to compile setup.exe from source and run into a problem in propsheet.cc. The names like PropSheet_SetCurSel() are macros and already contain the `::' resulting into `' and compile error. The attached patch fixes it for me.

Re: [ITP] mingw-w64 Second try

2010-09-13 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/13/2010 6:52 AM, JonY wrote: OK, new headers tarballs up. Thanks for keeping an eye out. All packages are uploaded. Please wait 24 hours until they can propagate to the mirrors, then post announcements to cygwin-announce. Please look at the suggested templates here:

Re: [ITP] mingw-w64 Second try

2010-09-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 13 13:26, Charles Wilson wrote: On 9/13/2010 6:52 AM, JonY wrote: OK, new headers tarballs up. Thanks for keeping an eye out. All packages are uploaded. Please wait 24 hours until they can propagate to the mirrors, then post announcements to cygwin-announce. Chuck, can you please

Re: [ITP] mingw-w64 Second try

2010-09-13 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/13/2010 2:16 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Chuck, can you please update http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint, too? Done.

[RFU] maradns-1.4.04-1

2010-09-13 Thread Steven Monai
Please upload wget http://dev.monai.ca/cygwin/maradns/maradns-1.4.04-1.tar.bz2 \ http://dev.monai.ca/cygwin/maradns/maradns-1.4.04-1-src.tar.bz2 and leave maradns-1.4.03-2 available as the previous version. Thanks, -SM --

Up for new maintainer - base-files and base-passwd

2010-09-13 Thread John Morrison
It is with regrets that I give up the maintainership of the cygwin base-files and base-passwd packages. I've been unable to find sufficient time to do these packages justice a situation which is unlikely to improve at this time. The source for the packages is the package itself. I have a small

[ADMINISTRIVIA] mailing list problems

2010-09-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
Apologies to anyone who has tried to send email to the cygwin lists and gotten a local subject bounce. This was supposed to only kick in when a keyword in the subject matched a list of blocked keywords but the regex match was screwed up. So a few valid messages (like John Morrison's recent mail

Re: [ITP] mingw-w64 Second try

2010-09-13 Thread Andy Koppe
On 13 September 2010 18:26, Charles Wilson wrote: On 9/13/2010 6:52 AM, JonY wrote: OK, new headers tarballs up. Thanks for keeping an eye out. All packages are uploaded. A big round of applause for JonY, Chuck, and Yaakov for the huge amount of work they've put into this. Andy

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler.h fhandle ...

2010-09-13 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-09-13 11:17:36 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler.h fhandler_disk_file.cc fhandler_tty.cc mmap.cc mount.cc path.cc path.h Log message: *

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_process.cc

2010-09-13 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-09-13 13:02:20 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_process.cc Log message: * fhandler_process.cc (get_mem_values): Simplify code. Fix NtQueryVirtualMemory loop so

[ADMINISTRIVIA] mailing list problems

2010-09-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
Apologies to anyone who has tried to send email to the cygwin lists and gotten a local subject bounce. This was supposed to only kick in when a keyword in the subject matched a list of blocked keywords but the regex match was screwed up. So a few valid messages (like John Morrison's recent mail

Re: {lp,cb}Reserved2 under Windows 7 and file descriptors

2010-09-13 Thread Andy Koppe
On 13 September 2010 05:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 03:55:12PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 9/12/10 3:41 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: So this wasn't just an idea which went unimplemented waiting for tuits. It went unimplemented because I thought it was a bad

Re: Oddities with file deletion on CIFS drive

2010-09-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 12 15:08, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Sunday, September 12, 2010 2:21 PM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: Hi Corinna, I will give the snapshot a test. Here is the output of attrib: bu...@zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS/ZDESKTOP-608/20100912050101_ZDESKTOP/ZimbraBu

Re: Question marks in localized man pages

2010-09-13 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 12.09.2010 08:51, Ilya Basin wrote: AK On 11 September 2010 18:48, Ilya Basin wrote: AK On Saturday, September 11, 2010, Ilya Basin wrote: Hi. My default LANG is C.UTF-8. If I change it to ru.UTF-8, all non-ascii characters in man pages are displayed as question marks.

can't make setup.exe --untrusted-keys to work

2010-09-13 Thread Ilya Basin
I have a custom public key for my repo. This works: setup.exe --keep-untrusted-keys -K basinilya.pub Then I can see that something was added to the end of /etc/setup.rc extrakeys (public-key (dsa (p #00E03CE0...41FD#) ) ) Next time I invoke setup.exe like this: setup.exe

Re: malloc-bzero and /proc/pid/statm reading bug

2010-09-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 12 20:38, Marco Atzeri wrote: on the ngspice development list one of the developer find a likely cygwin bug, see description an test case --- Dom 12/9/10, Robert Larice ha scritto: Hello All,   I need some help with a cygwin Problem.   Trying to find a bug reported for

Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Al
Hello, I run Cygwin on a double core machine with Vista. I estimate that 1 of 20 of my compilations break and need to be repeated. One weak point is the compression of man pages. Others report that they don't use Cygwin because of instablilities, especially in the server context. What are the

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/13/2010 9:19 AM, Al wrote: Hello, I run Cygwin on a double core machine with Vista. I estimate that 1 of 20 of my compilations break and need to be repeated. One weak point is the compression of man pages. Others report that they don't use Cygwin because of instablilities, especially in

Re: {lp,cb}Reserved2 under Windows 7 and file descriptors

2010-09-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 07:11:06AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: Fair enough. Would a standalone utility implementing this hack be welcome though? Yes. That would help alleviate my concerns about dropping this into Cygwin itself. If we don't see strange problems after a few months of use, I might be

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Al
Hello Larry, What are the reasons? Will this be better with Windows 7? Can Cygwin become server stable? You'll need to be more specific about the issues you're encountering and your configuration.  See http://cygwin.com/problems.html. I am not asking this to debug my own setup. I am rather

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Al oss.el...@googlemail.com was heard to say: I am not asking this to debug my own setup. I am rather ask for an overall estimation of Cygwins current and future usability and stability. These two things are related. Remember that Cygwin is an open source project, and that it does not

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread mike marchywka
On 9/13/10, Markus Hoenicka markus.hoenicka xxx.duh wrote: Al oss.el...@xxx.xxx was heard to say: I am not asking this to debug my own setup. I am rather ask for an overall estimation of Cygwins current and future usability and stability. These two things are related. Remember that Cygwin

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Al
These two things are related. Remember that Cygwin is an open source Sure it is related, but that doesn't answer my question. Who would keep counters of stable or instable setups? These number are exceptionally hard to come by. Even if this list is now flooded with my setup works and mine

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/13/2010 11:57 AM, Al wrote: These two things are related. Remember that Cygwin is an open source Sure it is related, but that doesn't answer my question. Who would keep counters of stable or instable setups? These number are exceptionally hard to come by. Even if this list is now

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Al oss.el...@googlemail.com was heard to say: No that is not the way to go. I think there are people which run Cygwin on more than 1 machine, so they have a personal estimation and experience. Yes, and this is where the Cygwin archives come in handy. If there are users running Cygwin on

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 05:57:08PM +0200, Al wrote: These two things are related. Remember that Cygwin is an open source Sure it is related, but that doesn't answer my question. Who would keep counters of stable or instable setups? These number are exceptionally hard to come by. Even if this

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Al
You seem to be approaching this problem as if people will say Ah! Stability issues! Right.  Well, ok, here's what you need to know. It's not me thinking in the bug - solution pattern here. I don't ask for a solution. If you think that asking a group of strangers for help with a nebulously

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Ramiro Polla
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Al oss.el...@googlemail.com wrote: Others report that they don't use Cygwin because of instablilities, especially in the server context. I've also been having instabilities in my server context (Windows Server 2008 R2), but I have a few more concrete details:

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Dave Korn
On 13/09/2010 17:35, Christopher Faylor wrote: You seem to be approaching this problem as if people will say Ah! Stability issues! Right. Well, ok, here's what you need to know. If we knew of stability issues they would be fixed. Well, I know of one, but haven't had time to fix it yet,

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 03:52:55PM -0300, Ramiro Polla wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Al oss.el...@googlemail.com wrote: Others report that they don't use Cygwin because of instablilities, especially in the server context. I've also been having instabilities in my server context

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:34:42PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 13/09/2010 17:35, Christopher Faylor wrote: You seem to be approaching this problem as if people will say Ah! Stability issues! Right. Well, ok, here's what you need to know. If we knew of stability issues they would be fixed.

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Tim Prince
On 9/13/2010 12:34 PM, Dave Korn wrote: Even when I submit make check-c make check-fortran and make check-c++ in separate windows, occasionally an instance of expect will hang and fail to time out, so has to be killed to complete the check. More often than not, it's possible to complete the

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Dave Korn
On 13/09/2010 20:23, Christopher Faylor wrote: You've included a patch here but, FYI, I have no idea why. FTR only. It might be useful to others following the list. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

RE: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-09-13 Thread John Carey
On Sep 11 03:30, Corinna Vinschen: On Sep 11 00:12, John Carey wrote: The proof-of-concept code follows (and is also attached). It includes an analysis of what is going on--to the extent that I know what is going on, of course. Please let me know what you think. First of all, I'm

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Al
It depends on what is meant by become.  If it means will there be a concerted effort to harden Cygwin for a server then the answer is likely not unless someone pays for it. That points back to paying Red Hat for support. I think you use the term support in the wrong field. It is the

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:48:49PM +0200, Al wrote: It depends on what is meant by become. ?If it means will there be a concerted effort to harden Cygwin for a server then the answer is likely not unless someone pays for it. That points back to paying Red Hat for support. I think you use

RE: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-09-13 Thread John Carey
On Sep 13 12:47, John Carey wrote: On Sep 11 03:30, Corinna Vinschen: Can't we find Cwd by scanning the .data segment of ntdll.h for the address we inferred from the Params.CurrentDirectoryName.Buffer value? Nice; that might work. But there would need to be some kind of rule to pick a

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Al
Can't really parse that, especially given that I'm a developer and you're obviously not. lol Al -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

RE: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-09-13 Thread John Carey
On Sep 13, John Carey wrote: It's not one of those, or even the subroutine that those share. I don't know how they relate. ... (incorrect quotation omitted) My apologies for using the wrong quotation format. Sorry! -- John -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Deletion race in NtSetFileInformation ? (Directory not empty error in rm -r -f)

2010-09-13 Thread Earl Chew
I have a Makefile which performs rm -f -r as part of a clean target. On Win7 with 1.7.5-1 this can fail with: rm -f -r win32 rm: cannot remove directory `win32': Directory not empty I tried 1.7.7-1 but the problem still seems to be there. Doing a little digging, I find that /bin/rm calls

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-x86_64 cross toolchain

2010-09-13 Thread JonY
The mingw64-x86_64 cross toolchain set has been uploaded to the Cygwin mirrors. It is used to build 64bit Windows applications and programs. As with all software releases, it may contain bugs, please report bugs to mingw-w64-public [at] lists.sourceforge.net. ***

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-x86_64-gcc-4.5.1-1

2010-09-13 Thread JonY
Version 4.5.1-1 of mingw64-x86_64-gcc has been uploaded. mingw64-x86_64-gcc contains GCC sources used by the 64bit target toolchain. See mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core, mingw64-x86_64-gcc-objc, mingw64-x86_64-gcc-ada, mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++ and mingw64-x86_64-gcc-fortran for binaries.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-x86_64-binutils-2.20.51-1

2010-09-13 Thread JonY
Version 2.20.51-1 of mingw64-x86_64-binutils has been uploaded. mingw64-x86_64-binutils provides binutils support for the 64bit target toolchain. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-x86_64-runtime-20100809-1

2010-09-13 Thread JonY
Version 20100809-1 of mingw64-x86_64-runtime has been uploaded. mingw64-x86_64-runtime provides library to interface with Windows. This package is specifically for the 64bit target toolchain. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-x86_64-headers-1.0b_svn3433-1

2010-09-13 Thread JonY
Version 1.0b_svn3433-1 of mingw64-x86_64-headers has been uploaded. mingw64-x86_64-headers contains headers for Windows development. This package is specifically for the 64bit target toolchain. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-x86_64-pthreads-20100619-1

2010-09-13 Thread JonY
Version 20100619-1 of mingw64-x86_64-pthreads has been uploaded. mingw64-x86_64-pthreads provides 64bit pthreads support. It is used by GCC for OpenMP. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-x86_64-gcc-4.5.1-1

2010-09-13 Thread Andy Koppe
On 14 September 2010 03:13, JonY wrote: Version 4.5.1-1 of mingw64-x86_64-gcc has been uploaded. mingw64-x86_64-gcc contains GCC sources used by the 64bit target toolchain. See mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core, mingw64-x86_64-gcc-objc, mingw64-x86_64-gcc-ada, mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++ and

New package: mingw64-x86_64 cross toolchain

2010-09-13 Thread JonY
The mingw64-x86_64 cross toolchain set has been uploaded to the Cygwin mirrors. It is used to build 64bit Windows applications and programs. As with all software releases, it may contain bugs, please report bugs to mingw-w64-public [at] lists.sourceforge.net. ***

New package: mingw64-x86_64-binutils-2.20.51-1

2010-09-13 Thread JonY
Version 2.20.51-1 of mingw64-x86_64-binutils has been uploaded. mingw64-x86_64-binutils provides binutils support for the 64bit target toolchain. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the

New package: mingw64-x86_64-runtime-20100809-1

2010-09-13 Thread JonY
Version 20100809-1 of mingw64-x86_64-runtime has been uploaded. mingw64-x86_64-runtime provides library to interface with Windows. This package is specifically for the 64bit target toolchain. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the

New package: mingw64-x86_64-headers-1.0b_svn3433-1

2010-09-13 Thread JonY
Version 1.0b_svn3433-1 of mingw64-x86_64-headers has been uploaded. mingw64-x86_64-headers contains headers for Windows development. This package is specifically for the 64bit target toolchain. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the

New package: mingw64-x86_64-pthreads-20100619-1

2010-09-13 Thread JonY
Version 20100619-1 of mingw64-x86_64-pthreads has been uploaded. mingw64-x86_64-pthreads provides 64bit pthreads support. It is used by GCC for OpenMP. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the