RE: file not working on executables?

;s necessary. Any program that doesn't open all files, except text files, with "rb", is a counterexample to this. Again, I 100% share the notion that text mounts should not be necessary. But when even such basic apps as tar get this wrong, I simply don't see how anybody can r

RE: Spaces in Environment Variables

> Here's a new one to add to that: Windows XP x64 uses *two* > program files > directories: > > C:\Program Files > C:\Program Files (x86) > Oh God, they didn't. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

RE: 1.5.18 ( 0.132/4/2 ) - read() - blocks ( serial programming )

lps!!! "POSIX-Brand Breakfast Cereal: Eases The Pain*" -- Gary R. Van Sickle * When eaten as part of this nutritious breakfast. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.c

RE: Path processing bug

Cgf wrote: [snip] > I think it's a pretty hard problem and I really don't care > about POSIX ??? This must be a typo, or you wouldn't be here. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cyg

RE: building device drivers

kly would expect them to cause more problems than they solved, but who knows, you might get lucky. > So that being said, why can't the cygwin libraries be linked > statically? > An entirely separate issue, and completely unrelated to writing Windows drivers. It would do you no

OT: Krazy USB Kameras (RE: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix)

d device anyway). You should see if there is a firmware upgrade available for it. Then again, I know firsthand that Microsoft had USB Mass Storage pretty wildly wrong as late as the release of XP SP...2 I think, maybe 1, so who knows, could be MS's fault. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubsc

RE: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

around all your crazy malloc'd stacks? Seriously Chris, how is it that you can come up with all these wild... Schemes... and yet you can't just admit you've taken a wrong turn at Albequerque and do things in a sane way? Whatever, I'm with Faylor. Good luck, and good night nur

RE: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

> From: "Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >In the post you're replying to, I listed the legitimate reasons for > >wanting to do it. Here they are again: > > > >- If you're writing a task switcher. > > And what's the difference between a task swi

RE: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

of things are > "legitimate"? No, just an old country programmer who can recognize the "wrong problem+wrong solution=disaster" situation when he sees it. > Do you actually realise that not all computer languages can > be implemented with a model of one stack? >

RE: RFE: removing symbolic link / windows shortcut duality

ld not scan the drive for all links and update > them, for that would be absurd. A slightly less absurd notion would be for Cygwin to keep a list of all links and update them. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

s own stack. > This ain't the Good Old Days, and you're not writing a task switcher, which is the only legitimate reason to be doing what you're trying to do. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

at cygstart and Luc Hermitte's cyg-wrapper.sh > (http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/) > Thanks for that link Morche; I probably knew about this but never tried it. Should come in pretty handy. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

RE: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

ng with > spaces"' | awk -F'"' '{ print $2 }' > results in > /thing with spaces > > Ken I don't follow; why not just use sed and be done with it? Sed is good at regex, and regex is the best solution to this problem. Give to Caesar what is Cae

RE: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

en you do, be sure to publish a writeup in a prestegious journal so the rest of us can finally solve the mystery. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cyg

RE: Cygwin and NTFS Junction Points

pers." > > -- Frodak > Weren't we supposed to have ditched filesystems entirely by now, and be storing all of our ASCII text files with their completely-intractable combination of "\r\n"/"\n"/"\r" line endings in some sort of object-oriented database

RE: Mysterious g++ link problems

[snip] > > Looks like a clash between the two compilers. COMPILER FIGHT! ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.ht

RE: plz answer these questions about Cygwin

Don't know. That's not even a word! > I used to play the Concludion in my high-school marching band. I was never very good, and I never did figure out what all those left-hand buttons were for, but man oh man, did it ever get me the chicks! -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe i

1.5.17 ctime issue (Win2K)

he time is out by one hour. Can someone please verify my findings and confirm I'm not going mad or is this a known madness I can cure? Thanks Gary _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ http://www.dstinternational.com Notice: This e-mail and any attachme

RE: announce missed clamav

I thought it didn't matter, especially since it's in the HTML at the top of every archive page (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2005-06/) anyway. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

RE: stat file -- cygwin vs. Windows size?

t that would make too much sense, so I for one shall not hold my breath. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: More robust color terminal

> Both rxvt and the cmd.exe window only support 16 colors. Welcome to 1983. I at least hope they include those horrid CGA colors. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentat

RE: stat file -- cygwin vs. Windows size?

solution here is to open the file in binary mode and handle the various EOL chachter combinations in the SpamAssasin code. Which, yeah, is unfortunately reinventing a wheel which should have been "permanently reinvented" in the last century. But hey, it's only the first few years of

RE: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB

hesied almost two thousand years ago!: "But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first." - Matthew 19:30 Aaaaahhhh! It's the rapture! Quick, get the CR/LF thing solved before God comes! -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

RE: Cygwin and firewalls

gt; Not if you're careful. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: POSIX devices

not implement the /dev directory. > Actually it has for a while now. > I'm afraid there is no cygwin command to find out the order > of devices plugged to the system although I'd be glad if > someone corrects me and says that there is. > You're correct here tho

RE: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

e fork() concept was a good idea, indeed how they ever even thought it up ("Oh my, wouldn't it be nice if I could magically duplicate the entire state of my app in a new process, even though there has never been a reason to do so?"), so my life's goal is to eliminate fork() enti

RE: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

sh != bash" issues? Hence: - I still say /bin/sh == bash is the way to go. QED. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sickle > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 6:14 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.c

RE: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

ONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh. > > FWIW, I did find that the configure scripts I tested ran > faster under ash than under bash, but only by 4% to 8%. > > Regards > Thorsten Dahlheimer Wait... So everybody's *always* been using bash during configures? -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsub

RE: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

conclusion we must jump to is that, at least on a machine as awesome as mine, the shell used as /bin/sh is not a bottleneck. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sickle > Sent: Friday, Jun

RE: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

Configuring wxWindows from cvs, on a 3.4GHz P4: Sh = Ash: real3m55.351s user5m8.610s sys 1m53.240s Sh = Bash: real3m41.850s user5m6.220s sys 1m53.426s Looks like the time has come. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PRO

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

Roy Wiseman wrote: > I agree that Symantec are a bit of satanic corporation, Wow, I've never heard it put so correctly and succinctly. Perhaps the new Pope can help us all out and exorcise Symantec, McAffe, and Google Desktop Search. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Recently updated tar 1.13.25-6: executable wrongly located

le that gets put in the real /usr/bin FWIW. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: nedit 5.4 and 5.5 - locale not supported problem

[snip] > > Thank you for answer Gary :-) > The nedit 5.3 is probably not from cygwin distribution, but I > don't know from where I downloaded it a few years ago. > Probably at that time the nedit was not yet distributed as a > cygwin package. Well, from your cygcheck

RE: nedit 5.4 and 5.5 - locale not supported problem

uses the newlib C library (which doesn't support them). Are 5.3 and 5.4+ linked differently? See what "cygcheck nedit.exe" says. I don't know why you'd get different results with the older version, since again locales weren't ever supported. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: pthreads, cygwin and pthread_mutex_lock not blocking

27;m the child [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ahh, what a good nap << waits for CR >> which I believe indicates the problem you reported is still present in that snapshot. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: Size of CygWin Display Font

ucida Console-bold-14"' part sets the font and its size. > Many thanks in advance. > > Cheers, > Mohammad Khadhrawi > -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

he link I sent -- clicking on links is even > easier than > >running the sample code). > > Yes. You're right. I should have clicked on the link rather > than assuming. I had a knee jerk reaction to what I thought > was a company expecting cygwin tech support. I was

RE: slow windows foreground operation after installing cygwin-1.5.17-1

ating it), you are starving the rest of the system for RAM, and then you start hitting your pagefile. == slow. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Mutt-1.4.2.1i-1

> -Original Message- > From: hermitte[snip] > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Mutt-1.4.2.1i-1 > > Hello. > > "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have updated the version of mutt on cygwin.com to 1.4.2.1i-1. > &g

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Mutt-1.4.2.1i-1

l#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at the above URL. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Mutt Maintainer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Auto-[ANNOUNCEMENT] busted again?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:31 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Auto-[ANNOUNCEMENT] busted again? > > On May 25 03:15, Gary R. Van Sickle wro

RE: Auto-[ANNOUNCEMENT] busted again?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:08 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Auto-[ANNOUNCEMENT] busted again? > > On May 25 00:59, Gary R. Van Sickle wro

Auto-[ANNOUNCEMENT] busted again?

"Once sent, your message will be reviewed by one of the cygwin-announce moderators and, once approved, will be automatically forwarded to the cygwin mailing list with an [ANNOUNCEMENT] prepended to the subject." This never happened with the latest mutt release AFACT. -- Gary R.

RE: I need some exim hand-holding

[snip] > From you debug output: > 204.127.134.146 in hosts_avoid_esmtp? yes (matched > "imailhost.worldnet.att.net") > not sending EHLO (host matches hosts_avoid_esmtp) > > If you don't send EHLO, the functionality is reduced. > > Pierre > I get the

RE: Updated: Mutt-1.4.2.1i-1

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Didier BRETIN > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 3:46 AM > To: The Cygwin Mailing List > Subject: Re: Updated: Mutt-1.4.2.1i-1 > > Hello Gary, > > Gary R. Van Sickle a

RE: I need some exim hand-holding

Never mind, I got ssmtp to work over SSL. ${EXIM_MAINTAINER} might want to check if what I was trying to do can actually be done on Cygwin though. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sick

RE: ssl on ssmtp

[snip] > > This one lives in libcrypto.a. The attached configure.in and > an autoconf solve the link error for me (don't know if it > actually works yet). Just tested it, works great. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscri

RE: ssl on ssmtp

reference to > > `_X509_free' > > > >I commented the line out and I got an executable > which I could > > install and run, > > I don't know what the right fix would be. > This one lives in libcrypto.a. The attached configure.in a

I need some exim hand-holding

ername and password munged, but I get the same results when I have my real UN & PW in (what I believe to be) the proper exim.conf locations. So is it a Cygwin problem, an exim problem, or a Gary problem? I'll let you guys know how the ssmtp+SSL thing goes. -- Gary R. Van Sickle exim.conf

RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

sabling it and even rebooting don't change anything, I > > still get "Permission Denied"s. Gat dang, and I was just > itching to > > put McAff... er, I mean, a certain virus scanner > manufacturer... back > > at the top of The List ;-). > >

RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5:01 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems > > On May 18 04:57, Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:31 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems > > "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote:

RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

y basic here, because configures > etc are working fine. > ...and, if I change the mv to a loop which keeps trying if there's a failure: while ! mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name; do echo "retrying move..."; done it will eventually work after a few ite

Mv after tar in a shell script problems

ther half it works fine. If I do it by hand, even after a "Permission denied", it works fine. This is with both the current DLL snapshot and 1.5.16-1, current coreutils. I must be missing something pretty basic here, because configures etc are working fine. -- Gary R. Van Sickle --

RE: Cygwin installing too much stuff

quot; column to "Keep") or installed (i.e. switch it to "Skip"). - "Next" away and let setup do its work. Make sure you don't screw things up though; if you accidentally turn off a package's prerequistes, you're likely to have a mysteriously broken installation. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: Please test latest snapshot

. Of course, this would require massive changes to ls, and would unnecessarily slow down and increase resource usage of the most common use case of ls, namely getting a simple directory listing of files on a local disk. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

RE: More: Recent increase in size

> -Original Message- > From: Igor Pechtchanski [snip] > > On Mon, 16 May 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fergus > > Tut-tu

RE: More: Recent increase in size

directories /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are created on startup?) > This I do: Those are just mount table entries. Memory usage won't change regardless of the number or size of files in the directory a Cygwin mount table entry points to. So there's no consequence there. -- Gary R. Van Sic

RE: Why has GCC 2.95.3 been removed from Cygwin instillation

.95.3 been removed from Cygwin ? > > I have tried to install it from GNU download but have been > unsucessful. > > I need 2.95.3 how/can I get it built ? > > Aaron > Because it's old and crusty. You almost certainly do not "need" 2.95.3; what i

Strangerous behavior in Cygwin (was: RE: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin)

[snip] Sorry, I just felt I needed make the obvious contraction in the subject line there. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

RE: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not

o " foo"). > > YOU ARE ADDING SPACES to the filename. Fix your script so > that there > > are no spaces between "` and `". > > _ > > > > Thought it was clever of me to make that little ` visible > to my old eyes. > > I alwa

RE: pwd vs $PWD, bash, cygwin vs Linux

; testing, is this > thing on? Am I invisible all of a sudden? Do you guys hear that tapping? ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: h

RE: pwd vs $PWD, bash, cygwin vs Linux

; John > You could replace the /bin/sh.exe executable with a copy of bash.exe, but that would be at the "everywhere, all the time" level. That used to be a regularly suggested workaround for similar problems back in the proverbial day, but it's been ages since I've done tha

RE: Best antivirus for cygwin? - was Norton antivirus and the Trojans

ses problems for not only Cygwin but other programs is the feature they all have where they scan files as they're being written and/or read from disk. With any AV I use, I *always* turn these off and always turn the incoming-email scanning on. I can't recall ever having an AV-related

RE: Trojan associated with rsync and wget

better. I've had similarly bad experiences in the past with it, though I've been using its latest incarnation at home for quite a while now and it hasn't caused me any problems that I know of. Yet. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#

RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

;t say I never did nothin for ya. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:16 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of > setup.

RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

> -Original Message- > From: Brian Ford > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 5:45 PM > To: Gary R. Van Sickle > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of > setup.exe when setup.ini is absent > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, 20:58:44 -05

RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

trolls do not get focus and can't > be opperated in the normal manner. As I hopefully addressed in my response to you, to the best of my knowledge nobody is working on this. As to the question of "can", the answer there is a most resounding "yes". There's plenty t

RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

believe that the level of activity will increase by any appreciable extent in the forseeable future. I know it may come as small comfort, but it used to be worse. If you are able to, I am certain that any effort you can lend to the development of setup will be appreciated. -- Gary R. Van Sick

RE: Can cygwin create a ramdisk which is a cygwin filesystem?

ve to go through some contortions to make things look Unixy, which slows them down, but those are mainly related to permissions and such. Unless you're actually having some sort of showstopping disk speed problems, I'd just stick to normal NTFS partitions and not worry about a few percent

RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

> setup.exe when setup.ini is absent > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 07:06:43PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 08:58:44PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> >[snip] > >> > > >> >Ahem. As one of the many people r

RE: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken

rough the FIFO. Further, the > echo command hangs, and will not terminate with ^C. A 'ps' > shows an 'O' for this stuck shell. You have to do a kill -9 > on the shell to terminate it. FIFOs are not fully implemented in Cygwin yet, but thank you for the test case.

RE: mkstemp bug

> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 10:19:56AM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: > >> * Gary R. Van Sickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2005-04-28 21:01:07 -0500]: > >> > >> [snip] > >>> > So when I say "fifos just barely work" you felt the need to >

RE: mkstemp bug

> > * Gary R. Van Sickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2005-04-28 21:01:07 -0500]: > > > > [snip] > >> > So when I say "fifos just barely work" you felt the need to > >> inform me > >> > that they don't work? And that advance

RE: mkstemp bug

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:01:07PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >[snip] > >>>So when I say "fifos just barely work" you felt the need > to inform me > >>>that they don't work? And that advances the discussion > how, exactly? >

RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 08:58:44PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >[snip] > > > >Ahem. As one of the many people responsible for setup, I take issue > >with the accusation that it is either "simple" or "elegant". > > > >;-) &g

RE: mkstemp bug

. > I think such a test case is useful for development and debugging. > Dude, you are just *asking* for one heck of a zinger! ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docume

RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

[snip] Ahem. As one of the many people responsible for setup, I take issue with the accusation that it is either "simple" or "elegant". ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygw

RE: [PATCH] Fix newly exposed bug [was RE: RFC: Fix partial NaN-parsing problem [was RE: sscanf problem]]

ft, I don't have the final > version). And we haven't even mentioned the lack of INF > support yet :) > > However I'm on UK time, so it won't be happening today! > > > cheers, > DaveK You should switch to UTC. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sick

RE: $PATHEXT not sufficient to run script from BASH without specifying extension on Windows XP?

missing to be able to run a script from bash # > without specifying the extension? > # > > PATHEXT is a Windows NT/etc deal. Bash doesn't use it, and AFAICT Bash won't do what you're looking for. I don't quite get the issue here though; if you're doing thi

RE: mkstemp bug

hat advances the > discussion how, exactly? > > cgf > And your pathological touchiness serves what purpose exactly? Take your meds already. Christ. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

RE: Cygwin with Gcc-3.2?

the standard Unixoid qualifier to that: "easy once you've done it." -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

[OT] RE: Multi-threaded application using STL crashes

ou're not. If you want to access STL objects from multiple threads, you have to make sure to take care of the synchronization yourself. The best thing to do would be to create a wrapper object that threadsafe-ifies the underlying object. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: ReMOVE ME FROM YR MAILING LIST FOR THE LAST TIME FUK OFF

hat nobody can "subscribe" nor "unsubscribe" to a newsgroup other than the person operating the newsreader? I swear to God, if computers were lawnmowers, everyone would have overgrown lawns and no fingers. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.

RE: Spice on cygwin?

rkely spice, but I've gotten gnucap to work fine, though IIRC it needs an ".exe" added to one of it's config files. Why in the [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$ don't people just use the autotools and be done with it? -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygw

RE: ReMOVE ME FROM YR MAILING LIST FOR THE LAST TIME FUK OFF

iled his idiotic complaint... > Ah, yeah, clearly the guy has 1337 enough skillz to set up email forwarding. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: FDA-conform validation - any hints?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:15 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: FDA-conform validation - any hints? > > Original Message > >From: Gary R

RE: FDA-conform validation - any hints?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan Schormann > Jim and Gary, > > thanks for your hints. Maybe I'm unnecessarily nervous. > > I'm still working on a good definition for "enough" > tes

RE: floppy disk being accessed but shouldn't

ot;seek home" > is performed? cygcheck has always done this, any other tools > changed to do this? > > -- > Ken Shaffer > This has been fixed. .14 is old already, try .15 (the latest). -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

RE: FDA-conform validation - any hints?

atisfying outcome, so ... > > Has anyone ever tried this before? > Do you have any hints? > > Thanks all! > Jan. > What Jim said, and also the FDA tends to be more concerned with test processes and results. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: htt

RE: cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapshot?

Starts for me. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:24 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapsho

RE: GCC header libraries ... ?

is there > something within the Cygwin installer or docs that tells me > what libraries are installed with what package, etc? In this particular instance, I think the issue you're running into is that Cygwin uses newlib instead of glibc (the GNU C library used on Linux). Glibc t

RE: rxvt with libW11 bug: doubled KP_Subtract and KP_Add

numpad-{+,-} under Windows, and can fairly easily be separated out in the message loop. If nobody beats me to it I might perhaps take a look. SteveO, how active are you in maintaining rxvt these days? If I get a patch together can we get it deployed in short order (weeks, not months)? -- Gary R

RE: rxvt with libW11 bug: doubled KP_Subtract and KP_Add

sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg00618.html > > Is there a chance to see it fixed in a forecoming release of > the rxvt package ? > > Regards, > > Pierre I thought this went away ages ago, but I just checked and whadda ya know, it's still there. It must have retr

RE: compile in cygwin (can't create configure file)

you Brian Dessent. Dude, you just sent a half-megabyte email to all of Cygwin-land. That isn't going to make you any friends with folks on dialup. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

RE: apparent bug: incorrect file position after write()

. O_BINARY is probably not so portable so I'll > steer clear of that. > > Cheers for the help. > O_BINARY is POSIX. Use it. Do this if you have to: #ifndef O_BINARY #define O_BINARY 0 -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

RE: setup package format v. rpm, reasoning?

s did not come from Red Hat. They came > from Cygnus. That's what the "Cyg" stands for. And here all along I thought it had something to do with cigarettes. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

r to it though is this: contrary to most Unix-heads' beliefs, the world did not stop on the date that Unix was invented. Progress (dare I say, "innovation"?) has in fact occurred since the first line of C code was written, the last VT-100 terminal was thrown in the trash, and the

RE: hyperthreading fix, try #1

Um... I say Gold Star for this explanation alone, which somehow is completely free from any hint of sarcasm, "WJM"ness, and passive aggression. Bad day Chris? ;-) Oh, and double-gold stars to any and all who coughed up the dough. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Messag

RE: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP

eavor to answer this? thanks, > > JeffH > Cygwin1.dll. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

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