[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.3.11-2

2011-01-12 Thread Peter A. Castro
An fixed version of zsh (zsh-4.3.11-2) has been released and should be at a mirror near you real soon. Due to an error in building, the package (zsh-4.3.11-1) contained incorrect directory and file permissions that cause the completion and macro systems to fail when initialized. A correctly buil

Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS)

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 01:50, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > Hi > > an interresting registry entry would be : > > /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/International/LocaleName > > in france, under vista, it's fr-FR which is easy to translate to > fr_FR.UTF-8... > > how about to integrate something li

Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS)

2011-01-12 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 12.01.2011 10:59, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > On Jan 12 01:50, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> an interresting registry entry would be : >> >> /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/International/LocaleName >> >> in france, under vista, it's fr-FR which is easy to translate to

Re: 1.7.7 on Windows 7: can't write to removable disk

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 15:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 11 15:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 10 10:40, to...@datasupporten.se wrote: > > > Hello. > > > I'm trying to write a disk image to a compact flash card with dd, but I > > > get the error: > > > "dd: writing to /dev/sdj: Permission denied" >

Re: Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 02:07, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > Corinna, > > I would like to write you in private, but your email address bounce. > could you send me your personnal address, please. I rather like to keep Cygwin stuff on the list. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send

Re: 1.7.7 on Windows 7: can't write to removable disk

2011-01-12 Thread Tomas Åkesson
Tuesday the 11 January 2011 15.55.50 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 11 15:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 10 10:40, to...@datasupporten.se wrote: > > > Hello. > > > I'm trying to write a disk image to a compact flash card with dd, but I > > > get the error: > > > "dd: writing to /dev/sdj:

Re: Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 07:58, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/11/2011 02:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I can not reproduce the effect, at least not on W7, but apparently it > > happens on some systems. So, given that the directory size is > > irrelevant for all practical purposes anyway, and given that there's

Re: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 11:33, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > From: Eric Blake > > From here, Corinna probably has better insights into how to patch > > cygwin1.dll to work around your broken file system (it isn't NTFS, even > > though it claims to be, because NTFS has max filenamelength of 255 and > > a > > lot more

Re: Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 11:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 11 07:58, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 01/11/2011 02:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > I can not reproduce the effect, at least not on W7, but apparently it > > > happens on some systems. So, given that the directory size is > > > irrelevant for all

Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS)

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 11:07, Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 12.01.2011 10:59, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > > On Jan 12 01:50, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > >> > >> Hi > >> > >> an interresting registry entry would be : > >> > >> /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/International/LocaleName > >> > >> in fr

Re: Adding madvise function in cygwin with a #define

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 20:12, jdzstz - gmail dot com wrote: > I have read cygwin "posix_madvise" code, that is in "mmap.cc" file and > "madvise" linux code and posix especification: > * CYGWIN => mmap.cc file: > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/winsup/cygwin/mmap.cc?cvsroot=src > * LINU

Re: Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error

2011-01-12 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 12/01/2011 11:11, Corinna Vinschen a écrit : > > On Jan 12 02:07, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: >> >> I would like to write you in private, but your email address bounce. >> could you send me your personnal address, please. > > I rather like to keep Cygwin stuff on the list. well, its windows relat

Re: Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 12:24, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > Le 12/01/2011 11:11, Corinna Vinschen a écrit : > > > > On Jan 12 02:07, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > >> > >> I would like to write you in private, but your email address bounce. > >> could you send me your personnal address, please. > > > > I rather like

Re: Adding madvise function in cygwin with a #define

2011-01-12 Thread jdzstz - gmail dot com
I have readed again the Linux man page http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/madvise.2.html and perhaps the first text is outdated. At the beginning of man page it says that: "This call does not influence the semantics of the application (except in the case of MADV_DONTNEED), but m

Re: Adding madvise function in cygwin with a #define

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 13:03, jdzstz - gmail dot com wrote: > Maybe an implementation option could be: > > 1) Standard advices that only has a influence in application > performance, can be executed as current posix_madvise, checking only > the parameters and doing nothing => MADV_NORMAL, MADV_SEQUENTIAL, > M

Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS)

2011-01-12 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 12.01.2011 11:55, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: >> export LANG="$(locale -uU)"# (or -sU for system default locale) > > It's just another way to express the same. Backticks are not obsolete. > The backtick style is exactly as much POSIX as the $() style. See > http://pubs.opengroup.org/online

RE: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied

2011-01-12 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Corinna Vinschen > See the User's Guide here: > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table > > Try to mount the Q: drive with the "ihash' option, for instance: > > $ cat >> /etc/fstab.c/knellis << EOF > Q: /qnx stone_age_old_samba binary,ihash 0 0 > EOF > $ mount -a > >

Re: Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error

2011-01-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/12/2011 03:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On second thought, let's take a step back. > > Actually, directories can change all the time. Why on earth is tar > checking the st_size member of a directory at all? That's a bug IMO. > No application should do that. I understand that a chan

Re: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 08:09, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > From: Corinna Vinschen > > See the User's Guide here: > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table > > > > Try to mount the Q: drive with the "ihash' option, for instance: > > > > $ cat >> /etc/fstab.c/knellis << EOF > > Q: /qnx stone_ag

Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS)

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 14:54, Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 12.01.2011 11:55, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > > >> export LANG="$(locale -uU)"# (or -sU for system default locale) > > > > It's just another way to express the same. Backticks are not obsolete. > > The backtick style is exactly as much POSIX as th

Re: Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 08:01, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/12/2011 03:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > On second thought, let's take a step back. > > > > Actually, directories can change all the time. Why on earth is tar > > checking the st_size member of a directory at all? That's a bug IMO. > > No appl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: varnish-2.1.4-5

2011-01-12 Thread jdzstz - gmail dot com
Version 2.1.4-5 of "varnish" has been uploaded. Varnish cache software has been released successfully in Cygwin environment. Varnish is a web accelerator written with performance and flexibility in mind. It's modern architecture gives it a significantly better performance than many of it's compet

RE: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied

2011-01-12 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
> From: Corinna Vinschen > Erm... you have to use the /qnx path, rather than /cygdrive/q: Okay, that worked! BTW, I tried the following... Q: /cygdrive/q stone_age_old_samba binary,ihash 0 0 ...but that didn't work; not sure why, but I suspect you know, and that's why you proposed /qnx. > No id

Re: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied

2011-01-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/12/2011 10:17 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > Thanx for your help! I can live with /qnx although it'd be > nicer for /cygdrive/q to work so I don't have to change > my scripts. (Untested idea): You could change your /cygdrive mount point to /cygdrive-real via another fstab entry, then create a

Re: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 10:25, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/12/2011 10:17 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > Thanx for your help! I can live with /qnx although it'd be > > nicer for /cygdrive/q to work so I don't have to change > > my scripts. > > (Untested idea): You could change your /cygdrive mount point to > /cygd

Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS)

2011-01-12 Thread cornwarecjp
> The official way to set the locale is to use the locale(1) tool, see the > User's Guide http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#locale > > export LANG=`locale -u` setenv LANG `locale -u` > export LANG=`locale -s` setenv LANG `locale -s` > > or better > > export LANG=`lo

1.7.7 - OpenSSH Fatal Error 1114

2011-01-12 Thread Tony Shadwick
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-12/msg00164.html I'm not on your mailing list, my apologies. Just wanted to let you know that I downloaded cygwin1-20101229.dll.bz2, and replaced c:/cygwin/bin/cygwin1.dll with it. The error changed from "could not load u" to this: 1 [main] sshd 8136 C:\cygw

Using Local Folder

2011-01-12 Thread Trollope, David
Hi Folks, I've been toying with setting up a central repository of the cygwin packages we need in our environment so that folks don't have to pound the internet and directly download from cygwin.com all the time. I've done this by downloading the packages using setup.exe and then on secondary

Re: Install still fails on win7 (and no tips after 2.5 months?)

2011-01-12 Thread Larry Esmonde
After getting the fatal "cyggcc_s-1.dll is missing" error and finding the thread below, I started digging into the Cygwin installation on my Windows 7 Enterprise box. I resolved to try again and did an uninstall and then tried to clean up the c:\cygwin directory, but one of the subdirectories wou

Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS)

2011-01-12 Thread Andy Koppe
On 12 January 2011 17:47, cornwarecjp wrote: >> The official way to set the locale is to use the locale(1) tool, see the >> User's Guide http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#locale >> >>   export LANG=`locale -u`       setenv LANG `locale -u` >>   export LANG=`locale -s`       setenv LA

/proc/meminfo capped at 4GB

2011-01-12 Thread Daniel Colascione
I recently upgraded my main workstation to 16GB of memory. Although native Windows tools display the expected values, the figures in Cygwin's /proc/meminfo seem capped at 4GB. Is this behavior by design? Is it just due to WOW64? e.g., Mem: 4294967295 0 4294967295 Swap: 4227117056

Re: /proc/meminfo capped at 4GB

2011-01-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:51:05PM -0800, Daniel Colascione wrote: >I recently upgraded my main workstation to 16GB of memory. Although >native Windows tools display the expected values, the figures in >Cygwin's /proc/meminfo seem capped at 4GB. Is this behavior by design? >Is it just due to WOW64?

Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS)

2011-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 18:47, cornware...@lavabit.com wrote: > > The official way to set the locale is to use the locale(1) tool, see the > > User's Guide http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#locale > > > > export LANG=`locale -u` setenv LANG `locale -u` > > export LANG=`locale -s` s

Re: Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error

2011-01-12 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 12/01/2011 12:52, Corinna Vinschen a écrit : >> well, its windows related, but can't be posted on a public ml... > > Why? answer me and you'll see :-) Regards, Cyrille Lefevre -- mailto:cyrille.lefevre-li...@laposte.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: CPAN::Reporter with metabase on cygwin

2011-01-12 Thread Reini Urban
2011/1/11 Rafael Kitover: > I've configured CPAN::Reporter and Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase as > per http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/QuickStart > > But sometimes I see this really weird error message: > > (./Build test exited with 0) > CPAN::Reporter: Test result is 'pass', All tests succes

Re: bzip2 update please

2011-01-12 Thread Reini Urban
2011/1/12 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) : > On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 12:43 +0100, Reini Urban wrote: >> Dear bzip2 maintainer (Charles), >> 1.0.6 is required against the CVE-2010-0405 decompression attack. >> >> Did Yaakov overlook this? Normally he's the one bugging first. >> clamav had a configure check for thi

Re: Using Local Folder

2011-01-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/12/2011 3:14 PM, Trollope, David wrote: Hi Folks, I've been toying with setting up a central repository of the cygwin packages we need in our environment so that folks don't have to pound the internet and directly download from cygwin.com all the time. I've done this by downloading the pac

Re: Using Local Folder

2011-01-12 Thread Reini Urban
2011/1/12 Larry Hall (Cygwin): > On 1/12/2011 3:14 PM, Trollope, David wrote: >> I've been toying with setting up a central repository of the cygwin >> packages we need in our environment so that folks don't have to pound >> the internet and directly download from cygwin.com all the time. >> >> I'v

Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS

2011-01-12 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 11/01/2011 20:20, cornware...@lavabit.com a écrit : > Can you please tell me and others how to make an internationalized > application in Cygwin that behaves as described in the first paragraph? > I couldn't find an answer to this in the FAQ, the User's Guide, the > mailing lists or Google. Hi,

Re: Using Local Folder

2011-01-12 Thread Trollope, David
Reini, You are genius! (And so is who ever wrote setup to select "Install" for "All" on the Category page) I did not realize that on the Category page you could click on each category or All to apply the same action to all the sub elements. Clicking to set All to Install (so that all the packa