Re: ITP checkbashisms -- Check for bashisms in /bin/sh scripts

2012-02-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 2/4/2012 3:55 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: checkbashisms script has been included in Debian since 200x (don't know exatly; its git log starts in 2007). It's part of the devsripts in Debian. To check build: tar -xf check*.bz2 ./check*.sh --color --verbose all We're not debian, and don't

Re: realpath: cygutils or coreutils?

2012-02-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/30/2012 8:50 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: While you're at it, what about ascii(1)? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-10/msg00113.html Nobody ever responded to my comments at the end of that thread, so it kinda went into limbo. Given two +1 votes (your own and Christian Franke's)

Re: Bug in csih

2012-02-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/16/2012 5:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Chuck? Ping? How's this? (BTW, we do similar stuff in csih_create_privileged_user() but I didn't address that). Index: cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh === RCS file:

Re: realpath: cygutils or coreutils?

2012-02-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/30/2012 7:01 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 1/30/2012 3:32 PM, Eric Blake wrote: In particular, it is much more powerful than the realpath(1) currently offered by cygutils. Should I build my next coreutils package with realpath included, and wait to upload it until we can coordinate a build

Re: ITP checkbashisms -- Check for bashisms in /bin/sh scripts

2012-02-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 14:41 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: We're not debian, and don't explicitly exclude the use of bashism in *ALL* [/usr]/bin/*.sh scripts. Even debian doesn't disallow bashisms i *usr*/bin/ scripts -- and as /bin == /usr/bin on cygwin, we can't realy distinguish between

CFA: support Windows 8 in /usr/lib/csih/winProductName.exe

2012-02-05 Thread Charles Wilson
Call for assistance: can somebody with access to Windows 8 provide an appropriate tested patch so that winProductName can recognize Windows 8 (various flavors, including Windows Server 8)? Getting the System Version http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724429%28v=vs.85%29.aspx has not

src/winsup/doc ChangeLog new-features.sgml

2012-02-05 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2012-02-05 16:26:48 Modified files: winsup/doc : ChangeLog new-features.sgml Log message: * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.10): Fix typo. Patches:

Re: Windows 7 x64 - Postinstall script errors - Cygwin V 1.7.9-1

2012-02-05 Thread Mark Geisert
Robert Miles writes: How do you switch to the new startup.exe? Every time I try to use the Cygwin startup.exe, it tells me it has found a new file that might not be compatible with the startup.exe I'm using, but does not give enough useful information on how to switch to a newer version.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.10-1

2012-02-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released 1.7.10-1. It introduces a couple of new APIs and some changes which are supposed to reduce fork problems. And lots of other stuff. Just read on. for a start, here are the most distinct changes from old behaviour: - 1.7.10 drops support for

Re: Cygwin User's Guide, typos

2012-02-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 4 19:38, Denis Excoffier wrote: It remains now: hirarchial portabilty I fixed them yesterday, just forgot to reply. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --

cygwin-1.7.10-1 and sshd

2012-02-05 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
It rather looks like sshd puts tty as a value in the CYGWIN environment variable. Anyway -- It's tiring to see the warning about having tty as a value in the CYGWIN environment variable when I ssh to a cygwin host running 1.7.10-1. Windows accounts I'm ssh'ing to do not set the CYGWIN

Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 and sshd

2012-02-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 5 11:49, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: It rather looks like sshd puts tty as a value in the CYGWIN environment variable. Anyway -- It's tiring to see the warning about having tty as a value in the CYGWIN environment variable when I ssh to a cygwin host running 1.7.10-1. Windows accounts

Re: 'screen' dies when ssh session to cygwin disconnected

2012-02-05 Thread David Rothenberger
On 2/5/2012 12:45 AM, Ilya Dogolazky wrote: STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 1. Open a command line window in Windows (the standard one or rxvt: I tried both: no difference), then either detach from the session or not (I tried both: no difference) 2. Connect to the Windows machine from a linux

Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 and sshd

2012-02-05 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
This happens whenever one ssh's from a Linux box to a Windows XP box with Cygwin on it. On login one gets the warning about CYGWIN having the value tty in it. The users on the windows systems don't have CYGWIN set on any of their profiles, .login's .cshrcs's etc. etc. BUT,

extremely rarely fork errors: who occuppies the space?

2012-02-05 Thread Heiko Elger
Hello, our current system is the following (cygwin installation is nearly up to date). $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 PCFX163 1.7.10s(0.259/5/3) 20120111 22:39:26 i686 Cygwin some systems uses a newer snapshot: uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 PCFX061 1.7.10s(0.259/5/3) 20120202 16:59:00 i686

[bug #35213] problems with pager on Cygwin build

2012-02-05 Thread marco atzeri
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #35213 (project octave): solved dependency on cygwin less package. Please close the bug ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35213 ___ Message

[bug #35213] problems with pager on Cygwin build

2012-02-05 Thread Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso
Update of bug #35213 (project octave): Status:None = Fixed Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Reply to this item at:

Updated: cygwin-1.7.10-1

2012-02-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released 1.7.10-1. It introduces a couple of new APIs and some changes which are supposed to reduce fork problems. And lots of other stuff. Just read on. for a start, here are the most distinct changes from old behaviour: - 1.7.10 drops support for