problem with GNU screen solved

I just wanted to pass this along... I was having problems with screen a couple months ago. I would get an error saying "chown tty: No such file or directory" and then it would fail (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-06/msg00222.html). Paul Hebble was kind enough to write me off-list with a fi

Re: "Couldn't allocate heap" - tried rebasing

On 11/22/2011 8:08 PM, Jon Clugston wrote: Actually, I just noticed this remark: "In summary, current Windows implementations make it impossible to implement a perfectly reliable fork, and occasional fork failures are inevitable." in winsup/doc/overview2.sgml in the source tree. Does that mea

Re: "Couldn't allocate heap" - tried rebasing

Jesse Ziser writes: > >>> I've tried all the standard solutions I could find suggested on the net, > >>> including the following: The phrase "suggested on the net" raised a red flag for me. Are you following the explicit instructions in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rebase*README ? I.e., stop all Cygwin

Re: "Couldn't allocate heap" - tried rebasing

> > Actually, I just noticed this remark: > > "In summary, current Windows implementations make it > impossible to implement a perfectly reliable fork, and occasional > fork failures are inevitable." > > in winsup/doc/overview2.sgml in the source tree.  Does that mean that, even > with the improvem

Re: "Couldn't allocate heap" - tried rebasing

On 11/22/2011 9:21 PM, Jesse Ziser wrote: On 11/15/2011 11:33 AM, Jesse Ziser wrote: Tried the new version of rebase. Did not fix the problem. Tried rebase -s -i. No asterisks, so presumably no collisions. Tried uninstalling Sophos. Did not fix the problem. Tried the 2011-11-08 snapshot. Seem

Re: "Couldn't allocate heap" - tried rebasing

On 11/15/2011 11:33 AM, Jesse Ziser wrote: On 11/11/2011 12:29 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/11/2011 10:58 AM, Jesse Ziser wrote: Hello, Since attempting to upgrade from Cygwin 1.5 to 1.7, I'm having the problem that attempting to run various programs results in a slew of errors like the followin

mintty mouse (was: Re: XWin.exe causes Windows apps. to freeze)

[moved from cygwin-xfree list, as this thread has got off-topic there] On 22 November 2011 05:47, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 22/11/2011 12:27 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> On 21 November 2011 23:45, Ryan Johnson wrote: >>> >>> On 21/11/2011 4:25 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 20

Re: Please include 'file' in the base category.

Corinna Vinschen skrev 2011-11-22 19:41: > On Nov 22 15:11, Peter Rosin wrote: >> So, please add 'file' to the Cygwin 'base' category, moving us one small >> step closer to the POSIX heaven. > > Heaven is (almost) here. The file package is in Base now. Great, thanks! Cheers, Peter -- Problem

Re: 1.7.9-1 Exec SSH hangs on windows 7 and 2008 server

On Nov 17 12:23, Pierre-Yves Lafonta wrote: > Hello, > > I use cygwin sshd daemon 5.9p1-1 to send them ssh exec command. > Here my problem: > > nb=106496; rm testfile; for i in ` seq 1 $nb` ; do echo 1 >>testfile;done > ssh user@host cat < testfile > outputfile > > Work as expected on different

Re: Please include 'file' in the base category.

On Nov 22 15:11, Peter Rosin wrote: > Hi! > > I'm following up on an issue discussed on the Libtool list [1]. Basically, > Libtool requires 'file' to be installed and breaks if it is not, and > correctly so since 'file' is part of the POSIX base since issue 7 [2, at > the bottom]. > > The fact th

Please include 'file' in the base category.

Hi! I'm following up on an issue discussed on the Libtool list [1]. Basically, Libtool requires 'file' to be installed and breaks if it is not, and correctly so since 'file' is part of the POSIX base since issue 7 [2, at the bottom]. The fact that the Libtool package in Cygwin requires 'file' is