[SILVERY GOLDSTAR] Re: getent services enumeration glitch

2015-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 23:43, Mark Geisert wrote: > Buchbinder, Barry writes: > > Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 18, 2015 7:24 AM > > >On Aug 18 09:40, Mark Geisert wrote: > > >Congratulations! You found a 13 years old bug in Cygwin's getservent > > >implementation, which returned the po

Re: how to make sure subprocesses die?

2015-08-19 Thread Noel Grandin
On 2015-08-18 04:31 PM, Warren Young wrote: Works for me. Disagree? Provide a replicable, simple test case to show it. -- Ah, sorry, I didn't mean to imply I thought it was a bug, I'm sure it's something we're doing, I was just wondering if anyone had any hints about debugging. This is t

Re: [SILVERY GOLDSTAR] Re: getent services enumeration glitch

2015-08-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Aug 18 23:43, Mark Geisert wrote: > > Buchbinder, Barry writes: > > > Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 18, 2015 7:24 AM > > > >On Aug 18 09:40, Mark Geisert wrote: > > > >Congratulations! You found a 13 years old bug in Cygwin's getservent > > > >implementation, which ret

Typo in Cygwin/X User Guide

2015-08-19 Thread Ken Brown
The documentation for the compose key at http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-i18n.html#using-i18n-compose says to start the X server with the -xkboption option. This results in (EE) Fatal server error: (EE) Unrecognized option: -xkboption The correct option is -xkboptions. Ken -- Problem repo

Re: Typo in Cygwin/X User Guide

2015-08-19 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 19/08/2015 15:00, Ken Brown wrote: The documentation for the compose key at http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-i18n.html#using-i18n-compose says to start the X server with the -xkboption option. This results in (EE) Fatal server error: (EE) Unrecognized option: -xkboption The correct option

Re: X11 Fails to load on WindowsXP normal user

2015-08-19 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 19/08/2015 00:04, L. D. James wrote: I installed Cygwin on Windows XP with X11. I tested it and it works as expected. Then I logged in as a normal user (not administrator). I get the following error when trying to X11: A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Cannot open log

Re: X11 Fails to load on WindowsXP normal user

2015-08-19 Thread L. D. James
On 08/19/2015 11:35 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 19/08/2015 00:04, L. D. James wrote: I installed Cygwin on Windows XP with X11. I tested it and it works as expected. Then I logged in as a normal user (not administrator). I get the following error when trying to X11: A fatal error has occurred a

Re: [SILVERY GOLDSTAR] Re: getent services enumeration glitch

2015-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 08:22, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > On Aug 18 23:43, Mark Geisert wrote: > > > Buchbinder, Barry writes: > > > > Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 18, 2015 7:24 AM > > > > >On Aug 18 09:40, Mark Geisert wrote: > > > > >Congratulations! You found a 13 years old bug in Cy

Re: [SILVERY GOLDSTAR] Re: getent services enumeration glitch

2015-08-19 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andrew Schulman! >> On Aug 18 23:43, Mark Geisert wrote: >> > Buchbinder, Barry writes: >> > > Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 18, 2015 7:24 AM >> > > >On Aug 18 09:40, Mark Geisert wrote: >> > > >Congratulations! You found a 13 years old bug in Cygwin's getserven

Re: how to make sure subprocesses die?

2015-08-19 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 19, 2015, at 3:09 AM, Noel Grandin wrote: > > On 2015-08-18 04:31 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> Works for me. >> >> Disagree? Provide a replicable, simple test case to show it. > > This is the main LibreOffice build, and it's a multi-million line codebase, > so shrinking the problem is my

Re: Problems with ssh connection

2015-08-19 Thread Jarek C .
On 2015-08-17 21:39, yaro...@hotmail.com wrote: I have Cygwin installed on a couple of servers in a domain environment. Of all machines regular user accounts can ssh to only one box. Once installed I configured Cygwin using the following in a .bat file. c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -c "chmod +

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.1.5

2015-08-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.1.5 with the following changes: * Guard Shift-Ctrl-0 detection (#233) to avoid interference with keyboard switchers (#472). * Basic fixes for displaying child process list on exit confirmation (#448). The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/ It also links to th

Re: Loss of X Windows Output With Windows 7, XWin 1.17.2.0 and VirtuaWin 4.4

2015-08-19 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 19, 2015, at 3:26 PM, ha...@hgac.com wrote: > > I updated XWin a last week to 1.17.2.0 from the previous release, I think. > That’s when the problem appeared. How did you rule out VirtuaWin as the source of the problem? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

A Perl script to visually show Cygwin setup dependencies

2015-08-19 Thread SundaraRaman R
https://github.com/digital-carver/cygdepparser When you try to uninstall stuff from Cygwin, it might present you with a list of other packages which claim to depend on what you're uninstalling. If you're trying to uninstall a bunch of packages, it can get pretty confusing as to what depends on wh